Chapter 25 | Overtime Necromancy: My Legion Never Sleeps

After obtaining the Dragon Tomb fragment, Chen Xu headed straight back to his dormitory.

Military academy dormitories were usually for two people, but since Chen Xu had passed the Dragon Seed assessment, he could apply for a high-grade single room. In addition to daily living, these rooms featured a built-in small-scale training space where students could test skills and other transcendent powers.

Following the navigation, he teleported all the way to the dormitory building.

Military academy dormitories had no human wardens; they were managed directly through Fuxi's intervention.

The method for entering and exiting the dormitory was similar to the institute, requiring a scan of the Soul-Inducing Token at the scanner.

Since it was Chen Xu's first time, the scanner projected several notices into the air after the scan was complete.

【Freshman Chen Xu, Building D, Room 3】

【Military Academy Accommodation Regulations】

【1. Please do not attempt excessively dangerous transcendent power experiments inside the dormitory, such as evil god rituals, high-level formations, or elemental core fusions.】

【2. Please do not use observation-type items to peer into other people's rooms.】

【3. Please do not engage in large-scale multiplayer interactive activities within the dormitory. This behavior has previously polluted Fuxi's AI analysis sources. Remember this!】

【4. Please do not engage in large-scale multiplayer interactive activities within the dormitory. This behavior has previously polluted Fuxi's AI analysis sources. Remember this!】

【5. Please do not engage in large-scale multiplayer interactive activities within the dormitory. This behavior has previously polluted Fuxi's AI analysis sources. Remember this!】

The first two rules were understandable, but rules three through five were identical. This made Chen Xu curious about just how wild the seniors had played to make the school grit its teeth like this.

Once inside his room, Chen Xu impatiently took out the Dragon Tomb fragment.

【Dungeon space fragment, fragment affixes (Dragon Tomb, Sealing): Can be synthesized with other space fragments or fused into a dungeon.】

Besides the Dragon Tomb affix, the fragment also had a Sealing affix. According to Liu Qi, the institute primarily studied this Sealing affix.

As dungeon clears increased, various strange dungeon items became more common. Some high-level items would emit their own special energy radiation, permanently altering the surrounding environment. Consequently, Daxia needed a type of space with sealing properties to store them.

After years of effort, the academy's researchers had used the Dragon Tomb fragment as a basis to create small-scale storage containers with sealing capabilities.

But for Chen Xu, fusing the fragment would expand his Necrotic Space, and an expanded Necrotic Space would allow him to unlock new functions.

Having experience from the first time, he was now quite familiar with the process. He wrapped his mental strength around the Dragon Tomb fragment and connected it to his Necrotic Space.

【Necrotic Space has fused with a dungeon space fragment. The space has expanded. New region obtained: Runic Stone Pillars】

【Dragon Tomb and Blood-Soaked Swamp have merged to generate a new region: Dragonfall Swamp】

【Runic Stone Pillars: A forest of stone pillars carved with sealing runes. It was once a treasure trove for a certain collector.】

【Dragonfall Swamp: Originally a peaceful dragon burial ground, a great being forcibly relocated it into a swamp soaked in bearmen blood. Nourished by the blood, the dragon bones seem to have undergone a marvelous change. The dragon corpses within can be used as materials to summon an 【Undead Bone Dragon】. Current dragon corpses: 9.】

As the Necrotic Space changed, Chen Xu's mental strength underwent a transformation as well.

At this moment, Chen Xu's mind went blank, and even his consciousness seemed to stall. His body, which had been sitting on the bed, slumped down.

Waves of powerful energy surged continuously from the Necrotic Space through the mental strength link.

Chen Xu's soul was like a reef in the ocean, constantly enduring the battering of mental strength, wave after wave.

Every time his soul core was struck, it would first weaken and then grow stronger. As one aspect waned, the other waxed, and Chen Xu's mental strength increased very slowly.

It was unclear how much time had passed before Chen Xu finally woke up on the bed, regaining control over his body.

He went to the washstand, turned on the faucet, and splashed his face with water to clear his head.

After inquiring with the Fuxi sub-unit, he learned that it was already the next day.

Chen Xu quickly opened his professional panel to see if there were any records.

【Class: Necrotic Lord (transcendent)】

【Level: 9】

【Talent: 996 (Whenever you work or cultivate continuously, you receive an additional proportional bonus. The longer the continuous duration, the higher the bonus ratio.)】

【Attributes】

【Health: 130】

【Strength: 10】

【Agility: 10】

【Spirit: epic-tier】

【Skills: Raise Skeleton, Weaken Curse, Bone Armor, Necrotic Space, Lord's Covenant】

【Raise Skeleton (Level 28): Summon a skeleton. If a corpse is consumed for the summoning, receive additional bonuses based on the corpse's quality. Current enhancements: Cold Enhancement, Aura of Cold.】

【Skeleton Hero: Bone Guard One (Level 19)】

【Skeleton Hero: Bone Guard Two (Level 15)】

【Weaken Curse (Level 1): Curses creatures within an area, reducing all their attributes.】

【Bone Armor (Level 1): Summon a set of bone armor that can resist damage.】

【Necrotic Space (Unique) (Fused: Ancient Battlefield, Dragonfall Swamp, Runic Stone Pillars): The innate space of a Necromancer. Having fused with space fragments, its growth is no longer limited by the Necromancer themselves. Sufficient space fragments have been fused; the space has been promoted to a small world.】

【Lord's Covenant (Exclusive): All damage taken by the Necrotic Lord is shared equally among all summons.】

His mental strength had actually soared directly to the epic-tier. One must know that the attributes of the current top-tier class users in Daxia were only at the legendary-tier. Chen Xu, a newcomer who had just changed classes, had reached a realm that took others over a decade to achieve.

However, as he cleared his head, Chen Xu felt a sharp, intermittent pain in his brain.

He tried summoning skeleton soldiers and Bone Guard Two from the Necrotic Space, and he tested the teleportation ability of the Necrotic Space. Everything could be released normally.

The pain did not affect the skill casting, but the persistent throbbing made Chen Xu a bit irritable.

"Who was it that Director Wen mentioned yesterday? Zhang... Zhang Jingping?"

After recalling the name, he had the Fuxi sub-unit find Zhang Jingping's course information.

Zhang Jingping was a senior researcher at the academy's Institute of Mental Strength and Soul. He primarily taught three courses.

They were 《Understanding Mental Strength》, 《Soul Analysis》, and 《Introductory Mental Strength Application》.

The current mainstream teaching method in Daxia was online courses. Because students had different classes, they would be pulled from the school to clear new dungeons as they were discovered. In-person teaching was inconvenient for maintaining a uniform pace, so only online lectures were used.

Students would watch the courses in their spare time. After finishing a course, they would gain the qualification for offline clarification. With that qualification, students could then book a session with the professor for an offline explanation, further deepening their understanding of the knowledge.

Having the Fuxi sub-unit project the course onto the television in his dormitory, Chen Xu lay directly on the sofa. He rubbed his head while watching the online lecture.