Chapter 277
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.
With the level of development of Han Shuo’s brain, his speed in gathering and releasing mental strength was ten times that of normal mages. Last time in the Babylon Academy of Magic and Forces testing, Han Shuo had understood that when other people tested their mental strength, the magic stone would glow slowly, but because Han Shuo’s brain was different from normal people’s, the speed at which he gathered mental strength was extremely quick. Thus, he pretty much instantly caused the magic stone to glow at the brightest luminosity.
During the test with the magic stone today, Han Shuo intentionally released his mental strength slowly, and didn’t completely release his mental strength of a grand magus in order to avoid unnecessary trouble. Therefore, he didn’t pass with any surprise.
“No need to stand in the boundary. Us necromancers don’t need to be that troublesome!” Han Shuo smiled lightly, then properly chanted out a necromancy spell. An evil knight, in pitch black armor, riding a warhorse with both eyes spurting fire and carrying a huge bone stick appeared on the ground out of nowhere.
It was a publicly acknowledged fact that evil knights could only be summoned by archmage necromancers. When Han Shuo’s evil knight appeared, it basically proved his level as an archmage. This was even more convincing than other powerful spells.
“God, you actually became an archmage from a magic apprentice in less than two years. This is too unbelievable! Oh yes, why did Dean Emma allow you to leave the Babylon Academy of Magic and Force? Her necromancy major shouldn’t have an archmage necromancer yet. She should’ve tried to keep you,” The moment Ares saw the evil knight appear, he knew that there was no need to say anything more. Han Shuo truly did possess the power of a necromancy archmage.