Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

Chapter 770 - 497: Massive Resources, Ghost Special Ops, Undead War Machines!

Many Professionals at this stage can purchase or trade for their Profession-specific equipment from their Profession’s association.

This type of Profession-specific equipment offers much stronger bonuses to Profession-specific skills compared to general equipment like the Radiant Mage set.

A single piece of equipment might not make a significant difference, but a full set of eight pieces can create a large gap between two Professionals who originally had similar combat power.

This was a point Master Sandro and Instructor Su Xinyan had emphasized to Fang Zhou many times.

After all, Undead Mage was undoubtedly a Rare Profession, not only within the Human Alliance on Blue Star but even in the entire Mythical World.

Obtaining exclusive equipment for an Undead Mage was next to impossible.

Buy it in the Mythical World? It’s too expensive, it’s challenging to find suitable pieces, and you might not even be able to find any at all.

The vast majority of Profession-specific equipment exists in a seller’s market, leaving buyers in a dire situation.

To avoid being at the mercy of others, one had to learn how to forge the equipment themself. Certain techniques, especially core ones, had to be kept in his own hands.

Fang Zhou planned to practice on the six-piece Radiant Mage set he was wearing to see the true power of Dragon Forging.

...

After collecting the spoils, Fang Zhou led the team out of the Breeding Area.

The entire Mage’s Tomb had one last place yet to be visited: the Alchemy Laboratory.

Half an hour later, Yan Yan deciphered the Runes on the Magic Gate of the Alchemy Laboratory and walked inside.

It was a scene of decay.

The Skeleton Mage might have once been a high-level Alchemist. To him, the importance of the Alchemy Laboratory was surely no less than that of the Research Room or the Carved Rune Workshop.

Everything had been neatly arranged, with alchemy materials placed where they should be, and vessels and containers all labeled, categorized, and orderly.

However, time had eroded everything.

Yan Yan’s heart was about to break!

He was a Mid Level Alchemist with very ordinary Talent. In his entire life, he had never seen such a large Alchemy Laboratory, nor had he ever encountered so many alchemy materials or such fine alchemy vessels.

And the result? After a thousand years, the alchemy materials had all basically degraded.

The alchemy vessels were either shattered or corroded, and the entire Alchemy Laboratory’s value had decreased by at least nine-tenths.

A thousand-year-old Dragon Egg was no better than a chicken egg, and the thousand-year-old magic acid had long since evaporated completely.

Fang Zhou also frowned, then gently shook his head.

This was surprisingly the only place without guards.

Presumably, the Skeleton Mage was afraid the guards might accidentally damage these valuable alchemy vessels and materials. That makes sense. An Alchemy Laboratory is essentially akin to the physics and chemistry labs of old on Blue Star. With so many precise and valuable instruments, who would dare touch anything casually? Moreover, for the Skeleton Mage, this was probably the most important place aside from the main tomb chamber. He certainly wouldn’t have allowed others to enter casually.

A thousand years had passed, and the Skeleton Mage and his followers and Servants had all fallen into a deep slumber.

Time had eroded and destroyed everything, reducing it to this state.

It wasn’t entirely without value, though.

Although a thousand years had passed and the alchemy materials had long since degraded to the point where it was hard to tell what they were, they were still alchemy materials and held some value.

I can’t identify them, but the research instructors at Sea City Military Academy might be able to.

It took about twenty minutes to gather all the expired materials from the various bottles and jars, piling them up in an area as large as a pool table.

There was quite a lot indeed.

Alchemy materials are generally quite valuable. This much, all added up, would likely be worth at least tens of thousands of Magic Stones, possibly even over 100,000.

Unfortunately, it was all ruined.

There was nothing else worth seeing in the Alchemy Laboratory. Fang Zhou had the Undead Summoned Creatures and the members of the Flame Medal clean up the spoils, then turned and left.

Although this Mage’s Tomb of the Naraku Civilization had been cleared, the Frost Power and Death Power here still lingered; ordinary people definitely couldn’t stay for long.

Otherwise, the aftereffects would be more severe than staying in a plague outbreak area. Only the Undead were unafraid.

Servant Area.

Storage Area.

Breeding Area.

Research Room.

Carved Rune Workshop.

Alchemy Laboratory.

And most importantly, the main tomb chamber.

Fang Zhou mentally estimated that the ancient Carved Golems he couldn’t use, the outdated production lines in the Carved Rune Workshop, the worn-out items in the Alchemy Laboratory, and all the various Array Patterns throughout the Mage’s Tomb... if he packaged it all together and sold it to the Beast Fighting City Military, it should be worth at least 50,000 Magic Stones.

This was Fang Zhou’s single largest gain of Magic Stones to date.

Coupled with the priceless undead knowledge and various Undead Attribute resources he had acquired, the haul from this Mage’s Tomb had set him up to soar.

He likely wouldn’t have to worry about resources again until he broke through his bottleneck and advanced to Silver.

...

In the Research Room, the doors were flung open. One by one, books flew out from inside, tracing beautiful arcs through the air before landing on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, the pile was as high as a person, yet it was surprisingly orderly, with each book placed flat.

"All sorted?"

Fang Zhou glanced over and saw they were just ordinary books, without any magical protection and made of non-magical materials.

These books were all yellowed but decently preserved, with no insect damage or rot.

They were mostly biographies, travelogues by famous people, and other such miscellanea—more suited for a scholar than a Mage.

"All sorted, Lieutenant Fang Zhou! I’ve moved all the good stuff into the room. The rest is out here—it’s all useless!" Yan Yan replied, poking his head out.

"What good stuff?" Fang Zhou asked with keen interest.