Chapter 77: Soul Summoning Technique Level 3

Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Soul Summoning Technique Level 3

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[The Empty Tomb has automatically used your Soul Summoning Technique (Level 2), obtaining Bone Dog (Level 1) x300. Soul Summoning Technique proficiency +150 points.]

[Your Soul Summoning Technique has successfully been upgraded! Please choose an upgrade path.]

[1. Death Speech: 15% chance to summon a special Undead (one with intelligence, a lingering attachment, or a backstory).]

[2. Balance of the Dead: Decrease your Soul Summoning success rate by 20% in exchange for a 1% chance to directly summon High Tier Undead (Vampires, Corpse Witches, or Death Knights) on the battlefield.]

[3. Soul Summoning Elite +1: Undead created through Soul Summoning will start directly at Level 2.]

Gu Su had just finished giving instructions on everything related to deploying the Corroding Mycelium. He hadn’t even had a chance to wave for the White Crow and the Skeleton to depart when a system notification suddenly chimed in his ear.

This sudden notification made Gu Su freeze on the spot, a clear flicker of surprise in his eyes.

He was well aware that after placing enough Kobold corpses, the Empty Tomb would automatically summon three hundred Bone Dogs. This was something he had long anticipated.

But he never imagined that his Soul Summoning Technique would upgrade at this exact moment, simultaneously unlocking three brand-new upgrade paths. The surprise caught him completely off guard.

Gu Su’s gaze swept across the three upgrade options that had appeared before him. Without the slightest hesitation, he made his choice in a single glance.

’For me, not choosing Balance of the Dead right now would be downright disrespectful to High Tier Undead.’

As for the other two options, Death Speech seemed special. It offered a 15% chance to summon a special Undead with intelligence, a lingering attachment, or a backstory. But in Gu Su’s eyes, it was, to put it bluntly, just summoning a background prop with a script.

It was like comparing two Skeletons: one was an indistinguishable Ordinary Skeleton that only knew how to obey commands, while the other was a special Skeleton with a name and a backstory.

They seemed different, but their practical uses weren’t far apart.

A special Skeleton with a name could perhaps be assigned tasks requiring simple judgment, like being sent to the Yin Soul Shop to act as a background salesperson who didn’t need to interact much—just for show, to watch over the goods.

Or maybe in the future, when the Graveyard Demon leveled up and unlocked more functions, it could fill basic roles like cannoneers or common laborers.

Fundamentally, however, the basic strength of these special Undead was identical to that of ordinary ones. They wouldn’t possess any unique Special Talents, nor would they have combat power exceeding that of their common counterparts.

At most, they were a little smarter than ordinary Undead, able to understand complete sentences, which just made commanding them more convenient and seamless.

For a boss like Gu Su, one might even try to find some consolation in it.

’At least with this choice, I wouldn’t have to curse the Undead for being so rigid, only knowing how to follow orders and often failing to do the job right.’

But compared to Balance of the Dead, all of that was useless.

Choosing Death Speech would, at best, grant him more Undead that could understand speech and were easy to command, which would indeed save a lot of trouble.

But now, the choice was between background props of mediocre utility and the chance to summon High Tier Undead.

Gu Su was crystal clear in his mind: without a doubt, High Tier Undead were the priority.

Even with only a 1% chance, and even if it meant lowering his normal Soul Summoning success rate by 20%, it was worth the risk. The boost in combat power from a High Tier Undead was something ordinary Undead could never match.

Not to mention, Gu Su had heard about the Soul Summoning Technique of Undead Mages.

The success rate could be increased later, but once it surpassed 100%, it didn’t make much of a difference.

After all, a corpse could only be used for Soul Summoning once. It wasn’t as if a 150% success rate would let you summon one and a half Undead from a single body.

Therefore, the drawback of Balance of the Dead wasn’t actually that significant.

As for the third option, Soul Summoning Elite +1, it was even more unremarkable.

Its effect was straightforward: Undead created through Soul Summoning would start directly at Level 2, making them slightly stronger than a normal Level 1 Undead.

Under normal circumstances, this might have been a decent choice. But placed next to Balance of the Dead and Death Speech, it became completely unremarkable. There was simply no comparison.

A Level 2 ordinary Undead could never compare to even the slightest chance of summoning a High Tier Undead.

Without a shred of hesitation, Gu Su immediately selected Balance of the Dead and completed the upgrade for his Soul Summoning Technique.

The moment the upgrade notification faded, he immediately turned his head, his gaze falling toward the Withered Wood Forest.

He could vaguely sense a dense wave of Undead Qi emanating from the Withered Wood Forest. Clearly, the three hundred Bone Dogs had been successfully summoned and were about to make their appearance.

Sure enough, in the next second, a multitude of white, bony forms scrambled out from the depths of the Withered Wood Forest. They were a densely packed, imposing wave, and in the blink of an eye, they had flooded the entire clearing of the Graveyard Demon.

These were all newly summoned Bone Dogs. They were about the size of a normal Labrador retriever, their bodies assembled from pristine white bones. Their limbs were slender yet brimming with power, and their mouths were filled with sharp fangs that glinted with a cold light.

Their movements were swift, their demeanor sharp, and their reaction speed clearly surpassed that of ordinary Undead. A single glance was enough to tell they were far more aggressive than an ordinary Skeleton.

Gu Su’s gaze slowly swept across the three hundred Bone Dogs before him. After a rough confirmation of their numbers and condition, he asked, "Where is the Bone Dog Boss? And the Minions?"

He remembered clearly that summoning three hundred Bone Dogs would also produce one Boss and four Minions. This was one of the reasons he had prioritized choosing Bone Dogs in the first place.

With a Boss to command them, the Bone Dogs could fight in a coordinated manner.

Scarcely had Gu Su’s voice faded when a Bone Dog immediately stepped out from the pack.

The most unique thing about this Bone Dog was its eyes. Two flames burned within its sockets—one a deep blue, the other a fiery red. The intertwining red and blue made it highly distinct, and one could see at a glance that it was different from the ordinary Bone Dogs.

However, unlike Crow’s Caw, it did not possess the ability to speak. It could only lower its head slightly toward Gu Su and emit a hoarse, obscure sound from its throat—the KAKA-KAKA of grinding Bone Joints that an ordinary person would never understand.

Fortunately, Gu Su had mastered Basic Language (Level 2) and could easily communicate with any intelligent Undead. As a Boss, this Bone Dog was one such intelligent being. Even a simple sound like grinding Bone Joints was something Gu Su could understand.

"My lord, I am Odd-Eyes, the Boss of these Bone Dogs."

[Odd-Eyes (Level 1, Summoned Creature, Undead Boss): Experience (0/200), Attack 3, Defense 1, Life 25, Talent: See Through Invisibility.]

Just one look at Odd-Eyes’s stats told Gu Su that this was a master of patrol and defense. No matter who tried to sneak in, it would be difficult for them to escape those eyes.