Chapter 277: Advancing to Archmage Necromancer (1/2)

Chapter 277: Advancing to Archmage Necromancer

The eastern section of Ossen city was where the business organizations gathered and associations were established. Aside from all sorts of shops, the Magic Association, Swordsman Association, Archer Association, Thief Association, and Mercenary Association were all located in the eastern part of the city.

These large and small guilds were extremely influential and spanned the entire Profound Continent. They were in every single country and were accredited organizations for all professions. As long as any mage or swordsman was accredited by the association, they would be able to receive an appropriate rank that was recognized by any country on the Profound Continent.

The Magic Association’s building was like a tall tower. It looked like a magic tower from afar. Unlike the Swordsman Association and Mercenary Association buildings, it’s entrance was not filled with endless people. Instead, very few people entered, causing the Magic Association’s entrance to appear rather deserted.

Mages were the most mysterious group of people on the Profound Continent. In terms of numbers, they were naturally unable to compare to the vast number of swordsmen and knights. That was why there appeared to be so few mages that came to the Magic Association to be tested.

Since Phoebe was too tired right now and had yet to wake up. Han Shuo arrived at the Magic Association by himself after daylight broke, after putting her on the bed properly. Right now, Han Shuo had the mental strength of a grand magus, but was still an archmage in name. Furthermore, Han Shuo had fully assimilated Clarendon’s soul and could now proficiently use all the necromancy spells that the latter had known after several days of endless practice in the cemetery of death.

However, aside from the magic abilities that Clarendon possessed, he’d also gained the knowledge of two new spells, “Plague” and “Soul Shock”, from the book entitled “Necromancy Magic” that he had found in the Cemetery of Death. “Plague” was similar to “Corpse Reanimation”. It was a most notorious, as well as the most feared, large-scale killing magic. The spell “Plague” had made a great contribution as to why necromancers were so feared.

“Plague” was a pure destructive magic. The scale of this magic was not large, but what was terrifying was that it had the ability to spread quickly. As long as one person was affected by “Plague” within a town or city, unless they were immediately burnt to death and buried, the spell would follow the person wherever they went, infecting more and more people and cause them to die as their bodies rotted.

As long as a village, city, or even an empire did not quickly deal with it, the place might become a hellhole. If coupled with the spell “Corpse Reanimation”, an archmage necromancer, who was at the archmage level, would be able to reanimate all of those people who had succumbed to “Plague”, creating a terrifying zombie army out of nowhere.

Han Shuo did not plan to practice “Plague” yet, since this spell was truly too terrifying. Once “Plague” was casted, even Han Shuo himself would find it hard to control. This sort of pure destructive magic was a nightmare for any country. There was no question about him being the public enemy of the entire continent if he were to cast such a spell, so he decided not to practice it after careful consideration.

“Soul Shock” was a spell that directly affected the soul. Archmage necromancers had a higher understanding of the soul, and could use their own mental strength to attack the opponent’s soul as a kind of surprise attack.

Normally, a mage’s mental strength was far stronger than that of a swordsman or a knight. In face of this sort of direct attack on the soul, they were still able to defend a bit with their mental strength, but swordsmen and knights had much weaker mental strength compared to mages, so they would be at a huge disadvantage in face of this sort of attack on the soul.

Han Shuo was currently practicing “Soul Shock”, but since Clarendon’s memories did not have any experience in using this spell, it was impossible for him to quickly grasp it. Spells of the archmagus level were far deeper and difficult to understand than spells of the previous levels. Even if one knew the incantation, it was still very difficult to cast it correctly. Only when their recognition and understanding of the soul reached a very high level would they be able to cat it. Although Han Shuo had yet to reach this realm, it would not be able to stop him from advancing to the archmage level.

“Excuse me, did you come to advance your level?” A young woman, wearing a sky blue one-piece, asked with a smile after Han Shuo walked into the Magic Association.

Han Shuo nodded, then said with a smile, “That’s right, I plan on advancing to a necromancer archmage, so where should I start?”

“First, you need to provide proof that you are indeed an adept mage. Then you have to pay a thousand gold coins as a testing fee. Regardless of whether you succeeding or not, this fee will belong to the Magic Association. Do you accept?” This girl replied politely with a kind smile, while looking at Han Shuo with a bit of shock. There were not many mages that practiced necromancy. It surprised her that such a young man had the confidence to advance to the rank of archmage.

A thousand gold coins. It seems that this Magic Association is very profitable! Han Shuo momentarily blanked, then asked directly, “No problem, when can we start?”

“Give me your certificate and the gold coins, I can only tell you after going upstairs and asking about it!” The young woman replied with a smile.