Building the Strongest Undead Empire from Scratch

Chapter 340: Shadow Specter

Alex arrived at the restaurant and found Ruby. Alex was still holding the high-level magic book the Vice President had given her.

"Looks like I'll be staying here for a few more days."

She couldn't imagine having to return to Yellowrock City to return the book after she had finished learning all the spells. It was too much of a hassle. She might as well stay here for a few more days and leave after she had mastered high-level earth magic.

"Alex, are we leaving?" Ruby asked, looking up at her.

"Let's stay a few more days," Alex said, explaining her reasoning. She planned to return directly to Hurricane City from Yellowrock City. After all, the Eldoria Continent was her main focus.

They found an inn and went in to rest.

...

[Night retreats, dawn arrives.]

Early the next morning, a mage apprentice found Alex.

"Respected Magus, your mage tower is complete. It was previously occupied by a fallen Magus. You started the renovations before you left, and it's now ready for you to move in," the apprentice said respectfully.

Alex nodded. She hadn't expected the Vice President to be so thoughtful.

The interior of the mage tower was engraved with many magic circles, which could greatly enhance the gathering of elemental energy. It was an excellent place for mages to cultivate and meditate. Moreover, the environment was quiet and undisturbed, and it could save her expenses.

Soon, Alex took Ruby to her mage tower. It was a little different from the Vice President's mage tower that she had seen before.

This mage tower was smaller in scale and weaker in gathering elemental energy. The exterior was very ordinary. It was thick at the bottom and narrow at the top, forming a slender cone that looked like a straight ivory tusk.

Arriving at the bottom of the tower, Alex gathered her magic energy on a crystal, unlocking the door and entering.

The interior was a different world. The rooms, excavated using spatial magic, didn't feel cramped at all. There were five floors in total.

The facilities inside were all very complete, and there was a dedicated person to deliver meals at fixed times every day.

At the same time, mages with mage towers could also take on apprentices and teach them.

Of course, Alex didn't have that in mind. She was just a passerby in the Mage Guild.

She went to the window, opened the magic book, and began her boring and tedious study.

Meanwhile, in the undead imperial capital.

After a few days of research and development, Sophie and Xiao Hui had actually managed to create a special building to strengthen the undead.

Both of their faces were filled with joy. Their hard work with the artisans over the past few days had paid off.

"Great! Should we find some undead to test it out?" Xiao Hui asked Sophie.

"Sure."

Soon, they summoned a few hundred specters for the experiment.

In front of them was a blue magic circle emitting magical waves. It was filled with various energy enchantment stones and tiny runes.

Standing beside them were liches, necromancers, and even a clone of the Death Spirit. Setting up this magic circle required a lot of summoning magic and the liches' ability to ignite soulfire.

As the magic circle activated, a raging blue flame ignited in front of them and the undead.

The only way to make these low-level undead useful and prevent them from becoming cannon fodder was to reduce their numbers, fuse them together, and create a new type of undead with a higher life limit.

They had gotten this idea from the bone pile that Alex had created.

Soon, the specters, following their orders, entered the magic circle and were instantly engulfed in blue flames.

Their soul bodies then began to shrink and compress, finally merging completely with the soulfire burning within them.

Hundreds of soulfires floated quietly in the huge magic circle. As a blue light shot out from the center of the magic circle, all the soulfires converged towards the center.

When the blue light in the center of the magic circle disappeared, a dense ball of soulfire formed. It slowly unfolded, finally taking on its original form.

Its appearance was not much different from the original specter. It was still an inconspicuous pale blue ethereal form. But now, it emanated the aura of a Monarch level undead.

Seeing this, Xiao Hui and Sophie were overjoyed. This meant that their fusion experiment was a success.

The specter had broken through the original level cap of Commanding level and reached Monarch level!

Xiao Hui immediately stepped forward excitedly and opened the system interface to check its information.

[Shadow Specter]

[Race: Undead]

[Loyalty: 100% (Never Betray)]

[Life Tier: Monarch]

[Level: 1 (Can be leveled up by killing enemies)]

[......]

[Life Limit: King level]

"Its life limit has reached King level! Doesn't that mean that as long as we fuse enough specters, we can create a King level specter?"

Xiao Hui was very happy that their hard work over the past few days had paid off.

However, fusing a King level specter would probably require tens of thousands of ordinary specters.

"Yes, specters are ethereal to begin with, and with the liches' help, it's relatively easy to fuse them. I think the hardest part is fusing the corpse-type undead," Sophie said. She had done a lot of research on the undead in the past few days and knew a little more.

She had divided Alex's undead into three categories: skeleton-type, ethereal-type, and corpse-type.

The first two were represented by the bone dragon and specters, while the latter included zombies, ghouls, zombie titans, and so on. The hardest to fuse were the corpse-type undead.

However, among the corpse-type undead, only the zombie had a relatively low level cap. The other types mostly had very high level caps and basically didn't need to be fused.

These three types were all natural undead summoned by Alex. Then there were the transformed undead like the death angel, and the fused undead like the bone pile and the Shadow Specter.

Based on this, Sophie further divided them into three categories: summoned, transformed, and fused.

When she discussed this with the artisans, they all agreed with her classification method.

"It's really troublesome to fuse corpse-type undead. I think ethereal-type is the easiest, but it's a shame there's only one type of specter," Xiao Hui said. When it came to corpse-type undead, she didn't know where to begin.

Although the ghost dragon was also an ethereal-type undead, its life limit was already very high, so there was obviously no need to fuse it.

Of course, the higher the life limit, the more difficult it was to fuse.

"Forget it, we'll think about that later. Let's focus on fusing all the specters first."

"Okay."