Chapter 218: Synthesis Undead Summoning Technique

"Start!"

To confirm whether his guess was correct, Su Hao planned to use the skeleton staff and the skill Summon Skeleton Warrior for synthesis.

If the new skill after synthesis can freely summon skeleton warriors and skeleton mages, then Su Hao's undead army will become more diverse in the future.

If the new skill after synthesis can only summon a more special and stronger skeleton warrior, then Su Hao's undead army will have stronger individual combat capability in the future.

The specifics will become roughly clear through this synthesis.

"Synthesis!"

After forming a plan in his mind, Su Hao immediately used the Synthesis Heart and began today's synthesis.

The next moment.

Su Hao's skeleton staff was enveloped by a mass of golden light, shrinking to a soybean-sized speck of light that drilled into the center of his forehead.

At the same time, Su Hao felt that the white rune belonging to the Summon Skeleton Warrior skill deep in his soul was also wrapped in a golden light, merging with the skeleton staff that flew into his brow to form a golden light sphere.

As time passed, the golden light sphere in Su Hao's mind grew brighter and brighter, eventually bursting out with blinding golden light.

After the synthesis golden light dissipated, the skill rune in Su Hao's soul underwent a great change.

Originally, the skill rune for the Summon Skeleton Warrior skill looked like a stalwart skeleton.

But after synthesis, the skeleton's appearance did not change; however, beside it appeared another skeleton holding a staff, of size one.

That is to say, the rune of this new skill consists of two skeletons, one tall and one small holding a staff.

"Thus it seems, the new skill after synthesis is developing toward diversity."

From the skill rune, Su Hao could basically confirm that this new skill can summon two different kinds of undead creatures.

Afterwards, Su Hao stopped thinking further; just look at the skill details to know the specifics.

【Skeleton Summoning Technique】

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect 1—Wangling Hai: Undead creatures summoned by this skill have no numerical limit, no time limit, and possess the two extra skills Bone Spur and Blood Shield.

Effect 2—Summon Skeleton Warrior: Consume mental power, from a white bone medium, summon a skeleton warrior.

The higher the Supernatural Grade of the white bone medium used, the stronger and more numerous the summoned skeleton warriors.

Effect 3—Summon Skeleton Mage: Consume mental power, from a white bone medium, summon a skeleton mage capable of using undead magic.

The higher the Supernatural Grade of the white bone medium used, the stronger and more numerous the summoned skeleton mages, and the higher the rank of undead magic they can use.

……

"As expected, being able to summon two different undead creatures is quite good."

After reading the skill details, Su Hao nodded in satisfaction.

Although this synthesis result will slightly weaken the individual combat power of the undead creatures.

But for an army, this is not a bad thing.

A single troop type, no matter how strong individually, cannot form a strong army.

Only with multiple different troop types, cooperating according to their positions, can an army exert its strongest combat power.

For example, let the melee-responsible skeleton warriors take the front.

Skeleton mages in the rear cast long-range large-scale destructive magic, or add various buffs to the front-line melee skeleton warriors.

Even if the skeleton mages and skeleton warriors have slightly weaker individual combat power, with such cooperation they can easily defeat opponents stronger than themselves.

Moreover, the undead creatures summoned by the Skeleton Summoning Technique will also have a clear strength distinction according to the white bone medium used.

For example, the skeleton mage summoned using First Rank white bone essence can only use relatively basic undead magic, with not too great power.

The Supernatural Grade would be only First or Second Rank; in short, it is impossible to reach Third Tier.

But using a Third Tier Pale White Bone Pearl to summon the skeleton mage, the Supernatural Grade can at least reach Third Tier, and the undead magic usable is of higher rank.

Moreover, due to the Pale White Bone Pearl being a Supernatural Grade item, the summoned skeleton mage is likely to also possess some unique skills like the skeleton warrior, such as Wither.

Similarly, using other high-rank white bone media, the summoned undead creatures will also undergo corresponding positive changes.

This means that, even in terms of individual combat power, such as the Pale White Skeleton Warrior, cannot compete with the Violent Magic Ox.

But among Third Tier Supernatural beings, the comprehensive ability of the Pale White Skeleton Warrior is not poor either.

If one could raise the Supernatural Grade of the Skeleton Summoning Technique to Fourth or Fifth Rank.

Then using Fourth or Fifth Rank white bone medium, perhaps one could summon Fourth or even Fifth Rank undead creatures, which would be quite spectacular! However, thinking about this now is a bit premature; even if Su Hao raises the skill to Fifth Rank and has the corresponding white bone medium.

It's likely that draining his mental power and consuming all his Crimson Essence Blood would still be unable to summon a Fifth Rank undead creature.

A powerful undead army relying only on two different undead creatures is obviously insufficient.

Afterwards, Su Hao also obtained a Skeleton Warhorse Soul, preparing for a second synthesis.

But just then, Su Hao's hand movement paused slightly.

After a brief contemplation, he again took two corpses of Undead Knights, refined them, and obtained two new Skeleton Warhorse Souls.

In order to further enhance the effect of the Skeleton Summoning Technique, Su Hao plans to first synthesize the Skeleton Warhorse.

Perhaps doing so will make the summoned Skeleton Warhorse stronger.

As always, once Su Hao makes a decision, he hesitates not; he immediately proceeded to synthesize these three Skeleton Warhorse Souls.

As time passed, encountering blinding golden light, from the synthesis light sphere burst forth a completely white skeleton warhorse model with green flames burning all over its body, appearing before Su Hao's eyes.

Through appraisal results, it shows that this skeleton warhorse's Supernatural Grade is still only Third Tier, named Ghost Fire Skeleton Warhorse.

Its general function is similar to the original Skeleton Warhorse Soul, but the effect is greatly enhanced.

The Ghost Fire Skeleton Warhorse is faster, grants additional bonuses to the rider's physique and mental power, and can cause all the rider's attacks to carry a ghost fire effect.

After roughly glancing at this warhorse's abilities, Su Hao then used synthesis once more.

This synthesis's target is precisely the Skeleton Summoning Technique, and this green-flame-burning skeleton warhorse.

However, this synthesis result was somewhat beyond Su Hao's expectation.

After synthesis, the skill rune indeed matched his expectation; beside the skeleton warrior and skeleton mage, a skeleton warhorse rune was added.

But this time, besides adding the skeleton warhorse rune to the skill rune, the original skeleton warriors and mages each gained a green flame on their bodies.

Furthermore, a skeleton warhorse icon also appeared on their foreheads.

Obviously, this synthesis also produced other changes.

【Undead Summoning Technique】 Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect 1—Wangling Hai: (omitted) Effect 2—Summon Skeleton Warrior: By consuming mental power, summon skeleton warriors from the undead medium.

All attacks of the skeleton warrior carry a ghost fire effect, (the rest omitted).

Ghost fire: a flame targeting souls; once it lands on a body, it ignites the inner soul, burning for a period.

Effect 3—Summon Skeleton Mage: (omitted)

Effect 4—Summon Skeleton Warhorse: By consuming mental power, summon a skeleton warhorse from white bone and the undead medium.

The skeleton warhorse provides a boost to the rider's physique and mental power.

The higher the rank of the medium used, the stronger and more numerous the summoned skeleton warhorses become.

Furthermore, undead creatures summoned by this skill can be killed by consuming the energy in energy crystals or death energy, using the undead medium to destroy the temporarily summoned skeleton warhorse.

Skeleton warhorses summoned by this method must not exceed the supernatural grade of the undead creature used.

……

What the hell? Can it really be like this?

Looking at the content displayed on the skill details interface, Su Hao couldn't help but widen his eyes.

After synthesizing the ghost fire skeleton warhorse, the skeleton summoning technique became the undead summoning technique.

Previously, the skeleton summoning technique could only summon by consuming mental power from the white bone medium.

Now, as long as the medium is related to the undead, it can be used for summoning, greatly reducing the restrictions.

Although Su Hao can continuously extract pale bone pearls from pale bone claws, white bone medium is not in short supply.

But when linked with the fourth effect, the importance of this change becomes evident.

After synthesizing the ghost fire skeleton warhorse, the undead summoning technique gained a new effect.

It allows, like summoning skeleton warriors and mages, to permanently summon skeleton warhorses of varying strength according to different summoning media.

Moreover, any skeleton warrior or mage summoned by the undead summoning technique possesses the skill to summon a skeleton warhorse.

By consuming the corresponding energy, a skeleton warhorse can be summoned from the undead medium.

Skeleton warhorses summoned by this method are not permanent; they exist only temporarily, and their supernatural grade does not exceed that of the undead creature using the skill.

Nevertheless, this effect still pleases Su Hao greatly, at least reducing his workload considerably.

After all, summoning tens of thousands of undead creatures is also a tiresome task.

Now undead creatures can summon skeleton warhorses themselves; even if only temporary, Su Hao no longer needs to summon a warhorse for each skeleton warrior and mage.

It is precisely because of this effect that the change in summoning medium becomes very important.

The definition of undead medium is very broad; items like white bone essence and pale bone pearl, which are white bone media, belong to higher-grade undead media.

The most common undead medium is the corpse of a supernatural species.

Whether living beings or undead, the corpses left after death can be considered an undead medium.

White bone essence and pale bone pearl, these white bone media, are hard to find; aren't the bodies of supernatural species also hard to find? On a large battlefield, even a random clash can leave many corpses.

Moreover, with the Death Tombstone, one can automatically convert enemy corpses within range by consuming energy or death energy, and also enhance the combat power of undead creatures.

Thus, as long as the opponent does not have the strength to crush our forces, over time Su Hao's undead army will only grow stronger and more numerous.

Even if the opponent holds an advantage, once the battle drags on, the victorious side could be Su Hao's army.

Even if the opponent holds an advantage, once the battle drags on, the victorious side could be Su Hao's army.

Of course, there is still an important prerequisite: sufficient energy crystals or death energy are needed.

Just mentioning this makes Su Hao feel uneasy.

Really stuck on energy crystals……

On Su Hao's territory, basically everything requires energy crystals, yet their quantity is very limited.

Even if trade with Divine Summer is established, yielding tens of thousands of energy crystals each month, this amount is still insufficient.

However, to expand the scale of undead creatures, large amounts of energy crystals or death energy are required.

As for how to obtain death energy, Su Hao has no clue.

After much thought to no avail, Su Hao could only entrust this matter to Ling Xue'er, asking her to look for information related to death energy or supernatural items.

After finishing that, Su Hao continued with today's unfinished synthesis.

The remaining two synthesis opportunities, Su Hao still intends to use them for synthesizing the undead summoning technique.

For him, the most pressing matter now is to maximize the number of undead within his territory.

Only then can the Death Tombstone receive more energy feedback, prompting the Night and Death Goddess to expend more divine power, and the tombstone's effective range will also expand.

Thus, Su Hao can better campaign in the Dark Forest.

To give the Death Tombstone more energy feedback, besides increasing undead numbers, the undead creatures' own strength also affects it.

The stronger the undead creatures, the more energy they naturally feedback.

To strengthen the summoned undead creatures, there are only two methods.

One is to use a better summoning medium; the other is to continue synthesizing the undead summoning technique.

Coincidentally, Su Hao still has materials related to the bone dragon; if synthesized, he could summon a bone dragon, whose combat power needs no further explanation.

Su Hao no longer pondered; he first synthesized the skulls of three bone dragons, then used today's final synthesis opportunity to combine the resulting skull with the undead summoning technique.

As time passed, the synthesis light ball burst into blinding golden light; the skill within the symbol soul, the rune, underwent another major change.

First of all, on the basis of the existing foundation, there was additionally a rune shaped like a bone dragon.

This ancient dragon-patterned rune looks extremely sturdy in build, with green flames coiling around its body.

Moreover, the original portion of the rune also underwent a noticeable change.

On the skeleton warrior's head grew two dragon horns, its hands turned into dragon claws, and a tail made of white bone sprouted behind its buttocks.

The skeleton mage's head likewise sprouted a pair of dragon horns, only slightly smaller, and a cluster of ghost‑green flame appeared at its throat.

On the skeleton warhorse's head appeared two sharp dragon horns, a sharp bone spur grew on each limb joint, and all four hooves turned into dragon claws.

Clearly, the necromancy summoning technique performed after synthesizing the black dragon skull further enhanced several of its original effects.

Immediately, Su Hao's thoughts shifted slightly, and he opened the detailed description of this new skill after the synthesis.

(End of chapter)