Chapter 2: Divine Fusion, F-Grade Becomes God-level

【Name: Zhou Chu】

【Bound Soul Profession: Necromancer (F-Grade)】

【Level: 1 (0/100)】

【Blood Value: 100】

【Soul Power Value: 300】

【Strength: 10】

【Constitution: 10】

【Soul Power: 30】

【Agility: 10】

【Equipment: None】

【Life Soul Artifact: Dead Man's Coffin (D-Grade, non-evolvable): Deposit one D-Grade quality Contract Material available for contracting into the Contract Pool.】

【Skill: Dead Man's Contract LV1 (Normal Difficulty) (Current proficiency 0/100, +1 proficiency per use, max LV5): Can cast a Contract Curse on one Contract Material not exceeding D-Grade to contract one D-Grade Undead Servant to fight for you. Consumes 10 points of Soul Power Value.】

An F-Grade Soul Profession is extremely pathetic.

Even with a D-Grade Life Soul Artifact, it is not much stronger; it is simply too weak!

Zhou Chu could not bear to look any longer and decisively used 【Divine Fusion】 on himself.

【Fusion successful! Necromancer F-Grade → God-level!】

【Obtained exclusive talent—God-level Comprehension!】

【Obtained exclusive talent—Touch of the Dead!】

【God-level Comprehension activated! The cap for your skill "Dead Man's Contract (Normal Difficulty)" has been raised to God-level!】

【The cap for your Life Soul Artifact "Dead Man's Coffin (D-Grade)" has been raised to God-level!】

It succeeded!

Zhou Chu was overjoyed and checked his current attribute panel again.

【Name: Zhou Chu】

【Bound Soul Profession: Necromancer (God-level)】

【Level: 1 (0/100)】

【Blood Value: 100】

【Soul Power Value: 3000】

【Strength: 10】

【Constitution: 10】

【Soul Power: 300】

【Agility: 10】

【Equipment: None】

【Life Soul Artifact—Dead Man's Coffin (D-Grade, evolvable, can evolve up to God-level): Can automatically collect D-Grade quality Contract Materials, while depositing one D-Grade quality Contract Material available for contracting into the Contract Pool every minute. (Evolving to the next tier requires consuming 100 Soul Fragments)】

【Exclusive talent—God-level Comprehension: Learned skills are not subject to any restrictions, and their caps are automatically raised to God-level!】

【Exclusive talent—Touch of the Dead: Every time a contracted servant attacks, it can increase the skill proficiency of all currently upgradable skills by 1 point, and 1 Soul Fragment can be obtained for every monster killed.】

【Skill: Dead Man's Contract LV1 (Normal Difficulty)】

Zhou Chu was stunned on the spot by the formidable God-level attributes.

In terms of attributes, except for Strength, Constitution, and Agility which remained unchanged, his Soul Power was actually as high as 300.

Even the Life Soul Artifact had changed from previously non-evolvable to evolvable.

And it had gained an additional attribute that could automatically collect D-Grade Contract Materials.

The evolution cap had even reached God-level!

At the same time, it had changed from only producing one material to producing one every minute.

In other words, in a situation where his Soul Power Value was exhausted, Zhou Chu could contract at most 300 D-Grade servants.

Obviously, this Necromancer is a Soul Profession that relies primarily on Soul Power.

The key is that this Soul Profession has no attack or defense skills in the early stages and can only rely on contracting undead creatures to fight.

However, as the cap for the Normal Difficulty skill Dead Man's Contract breaks through to God-level, its power will surely be quite terrifying.

Skills can be divided into five tiers: Normal, Fine, Epic, Legendary, and Immortal.

Each skill's level is divided into 1-5 levels.

When proficiency reaches a certain amount, the skill level will be improved.

However, the most troublesome thing is skill proficiency.

The level of skill proficiency largely determines the strength of the skill's effect.

Therefore, if they want to increase their skill level faster, Soul Professionals must improve their skill proficiency as much as possible.

To improve skill proficiency, besides constantly using skills daily, one can also improve it by spending huge sums of money to purchase Skill Proficiency Potions.

As a special type of Alchemist item, Skill Proficiency Potions are extremely rare and generally hard to see on the market.

The price is even ridiculously high.

Take a bottle of potion that can instantly increase skill proficiency by 100 points; ten million per bottle is considered cheap.

Therefore, the few that are scattered on the market are bought at high prices by wealthy and powerful large guilds early on.

And most of them are controlled by relevant national institutions.

Generally speaking, the vast majority of Soul Professionals have basically no chance with such things.

It is worth mentioning that the materials Alchemists use to make Skill Proficiency Potions are precisely Soul Fragments.

The market price of a single Soul Fragment is usually as high as 10,000 yuan.

Only by hunting monsters of A-Grade or higher is it possible to obtain Soul Fragments.

The production rate is extremely low.

However, no matter how precious a Skill Proficiency Potion is, one bottle can only affect one skill.

Yet, Zhou Chu's talent, Touch of the Necromancer, is rather invincible.

It can be effective for all currently upgradeable skills.

With Touch of the Necromancer, the difficult problem of skill proficiency has been perfectly solved.

It can even absolutely achieve rapid improvement.

What is even more exciting is that killing a monster also yields a Soul Fragment.

In other words, regardless of the grade of the monster Zhou Chu kills, he can obtain a Soul Fragment.

To put it bluntly, even if Zhou Chu does nothing in the future, he could become a business tycoon just by selling Soul Fragments.

But becoming a business tycoon is not Zhou Chu's ambition.

In this world, financial power is certainly very important.

However, strength can determine everything.

Therefore, Zhou Chu's primary goal is to participate in the College Entrance Exam and enter the empire's top institution, Shenxia University.

And tomorrow morning is the most important mock exam before the College Entrance Exam—the Novice Dungeon.

To board the high-speed train that is Shenxia University, the prerequisite is to clear the Novice Dungeon and obtain the qualification for the College Entrance Exam.

Otherwise, everything is just empty talk!

Thinking of this, Zhou Chu did not intend to go home; after eating something nearby, he headed straight for a nearby Training Center.

As far as the current situation is concerned, increasing skill proficiency can only be achieved through the Training Center.

The level of proficiency determines whether one can clear tomorrow's Novice Dungeon.

At this moment, there is less than a day left until tomorrow's exam.

Time is already very tight.

Walking on the road, Zhou Chu took out that random Skill Scroll and used it directly.

【You have learned the skill—Swiftness (Normal Difficulty)】.

【Swiftness (Normal Difficulty): Increases the attack speed of contract servants by 10%.】

【God-level Comprehension activated! The cap for your skill "Swiftness (Normal Difficulty)" has been raised to God-level!】

An hour later, after comparing prices at three different places, Zhou Chu finally found a Training Center with relatively cheap prices.

From his meager savings of over 100,000 yuan, he took 5,000 yuan to temporarily buy 1 hour of training time to experience it first.

5,000 yuan for an hour—it would be a lie to say it isn't expensive.

This made Zhou Chu's already empty pockets even more strained.

Since he has become a Soul Professional, burning money is unavoidable.

Moreover, early-stage investment is crucial.

At this critical juncture, one cannot care about money.

Every Training Room in the Training Center is independent.

Zhou Chu specifically chose a triple room, which is more cost-effective than a single or double room.

A triple room is relatively more spacious.

Inside, besides three Training Dummies, there were also a few chairs and a table placed there.

On the table were free tea and small snacks.

There is no help for it; the conditions of cheap Training Centers certainly cannot compare to the expensive ones.

But everything that should be there is there, as long as it doesn't hinder the grinding of skill proficiency.

1 hour should be enough to train the proficiency of two Normal Difficulty skills to LV5.

Zhou Chu then cast his consciousness into his Life Soul Artifact.

He saw that in a pitch-black space with an area of only 10 square meters, a wooden coffin was lying quietly.

Through Soul Power, he could feel that a ready-made Contract Material was lying inside.

Zhou Chu directly activated the Dead Man's Contract toward the wooden coffin in front of him.

A moment later, following the sound of wood rubbing, the coffin lid was pushed open bit by bit.

A Corpse crawled out of the earthen coffin and stood unsteadily in front of Zhou Chu.

【Corpse】 (D-Grade)

【Blood Value: 30】

【Soul Power Value: 10】

【Attack Power: 3】

【Strength: 3】

【Constitution: 2】

【Soul Power: 1】

【Agility: 1】

【Skill: None】

【Attack Speed: 1 time/every 2 seconds (-0.2 seconds)】

【Current Effect: Swiftness LV1】

Zhou Chu looked at this frail contract creature, and the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch a few times.

It looked shabby, had extremely low combat power, and didn't even have a weapon.

It could truly be called the cream of the crop among trash.

Even a level 1 novice Soul Professional could finish it off with a single strike.

Furthermore, its attack speed was absolutely abysmal.

It attacked once every 2 seconds.

Even with the bonus from Swiftness, it only improved by 0.2 seconds.

It was almost negligible.

If calculated at this speed, it would only take 3 minutes to level a level 1 skill to level 2.

"Go attack the Training Stake!"

Time was precious, so Zhou Chu immediately issued an attack command to the Corpse.

The Corpse limped over to the Training Dummy, raised an arm, and swung it.

Thud!

【Dead Man's Contract (LV1 Normal Difficulty) proficiency +1】

【Swiftness (LV1 Normal Difficulty) proficiency +1】

As the Corpse continuously struck the Training Dummy, the proficiency of the two Normal Difficulty skills was increasing at a rate of one point every 1.8 seconds.

One minute later, Zhou Chu summoned another Corpse.

After it became two, the proficiency was farmed even faster.

In less than three minutes, both skills had leveled up to LV2.

【Your Dead Man's Contract (LV1 Normal Difficulty) proficiency has reached 100, successfully upgraded to LV2.】

【Swiftness (LV1 Normal Difficulty) proficiency has reached 100, successfully upgraded to LV2.】