More than a dozen skeleton soldiers were neatly arranged in a row, motionless. Only the soul fire that kept beating in their eyes proved that they were not sculptures.
"No wonder the federation attaches more importance to undead natural disasters than other disasters. The suppression effect of high-level undead on low-level undead is really too great."
Looking at the skeleton soldiers who behaved like little white rabbits under the Alpha Deterrence Skill, Bai Qi officially understood the sharp class gap between undead creatures.
"Fortunately, Alpha understood deterrence before fighting Zhang Kai, otherwise he might not be the opponent of that deadly violent ape."
Bai Qi felt a little lucky, then put on his rune glasses and walked towards the first skeleton soldier with his rune carving knife.
"Shuke, you are responsible for statistics of experimental data, Alpha, remember to suppress these guys."
On the day he returned to Gusu City, President Qin sent fifteen skeleton soldiers and asked Bai Qi to start the experiment on his own. Bai Qi was also happy to have free test products and accepted them all without any courtesy.
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"Then, let's try the first set of runes first."
Bai Qi pushed up his glasses, picked up the carving knife and started carving on a skeleton soldier.
Compared with the Red Flame Iron, the bones of the skeleton soldiers were obviously much weaker, and Bai Qi hardly felt much resistance.
However, Bai Qi also noticed that when he was carving with the carving knife, his spiritual power flowed into the runes unconsciously along the carving knife.
"In addition to the energy of the pet beast, can the mental power of the beast master also be used as an energy source?"
Bai Qi had a vague guess, but because of such a distraction, his hand movements were a little heavier, and the runes that had been drawn to normal were completely scrapped.
Sure enough, carving runes is a delicate job, and only someone as focused as Alpha can spend the entire day carving.
Bai Qi let out a breath and calmed down to carve again.
There were no problems this time, and a brand new rune quickly took shape in Bai Qi's hand.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm moving like clouds and flowing water, like a master."
Looking at the first work in his hand, Bai Qi nodded with satisfaction.
"Universal rune: hardening, similarity: 67%, beast master, you still need to work hard."
Just when Bai Qi was satisfied with himself, Shuke's cold electronic sound suddenly sounded, directly pulling Bai Qi back to reality.
"Tsk...that's the only thing about mechanical beings, they're not sensible enough."
Bai Qi smacked his lips, glared at Shuke with some disgust, then looked at Alpha and said: "Alpha, let it guide the energy to activate the runes."
Gala Gala.
(OK.)
Alpha nodded and walked up to the skeleton soldier. The soul fire flashed in his eyes. The skeleton soldier shook his head and looked at the runes on his arm with some doubts. Then he made no next move.
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Gala Gala.
(Master, it doesn’t seem to understand your instructions.)
Bai Qi was silent after hearing this. The intelligence of this skeleton soldier was too low. He couldn't even guide the energy value?
Looking at it this way, Alpha is quite clever.
It's just a bit boring as usual.
"Forget it, let's activate it for Alpha."
Bai Qi sighed helplessly, walked aside and let Alpha activate it instead.
Alpha nodded, grabbed the arm of the skeleton soldier, and carefully injected a ray of energy. The hardening runes suddenly lit up, and a faint light slowly enveloped the skeleton soldier's arm.
This is almost exactly the same as the pet beast's hardening skill.
"Shuke, test the hardening effect and record the maintenance time."
Bai Qi asked Alpha to release the energy transmission, and at the same time asked Shuke to step forward. After a while of tapping, Shuke quickly gave feedback.
"The effect is basically similar to the hardening skill, but the intensity is very low. If the beast master can achieve 100% similarity, it should be able to increase the effect to entry-level proficiency."
Just getting started with proficiency?
Bai Qi couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Hardening is a general skill that many pet beasts can master through training. If it only has the effect of entry-level proficiency, it would be a bit useless.
"Forget it, at least it proves that runes can be popularized on skeletal creatures."
Bai Qi comforted himself, and then began to try the second rune.
This time, in order to avoid the embarrassing situation from before, Bai Qi contacted the board several times in advance to confirm that there were no problems before he started writing.
"Shadow Rune: Concealment, the similarity is 89%, the similarity is extremely high, congratulations to the beast master."
Hearing Shuke's praise, Bai Qi nodded with satisfaction, and then signaled Alpha again to step forward and activate.
boom!
The moment Alpha injected his energy into the hidden rune, the bones of the skeleton soldier immediately cracked open, and then exploded into countless fragments.
Gala Gala.
(Boss, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it.)
Seeing the skeleton soldiers explode in his hands, Alpha immediately lowered his head and apologized to Bai Qi aggrievedly.
"It's okay, there should be a problem somewhere else."
Alpha's energy control accuracy is not bad, and there will not be excessive energy values. The so-called problem should be with the runes.
Bai Qi patted Alpha's head, looked at the fragments on the ground and pondered for a moment, then came to another skeleton soldier and carved a hidden rune again.
"Alfa, try again."
Alpha nodded and carefully injected energy into the skeleton.
This time, the skeleton did not explode again, and its figure slowly merged with the surrounding shadows.
It's not a problem with the properties of the runes themselves, it can only be a problem with the number of runes.
Bai Qi took out the carving knife and carved the hardening runes on the second skeleton again, and then activated Alpha.
Sure enough, the skeleton soldier exploded into pieces.
"Can it only bear one rune? No, it should only be able to bear one kind of rune at the same time, and it should also be related to the level."
Alpha has used many runes in actual combat before, and in the battle with Gushan, four bone cages were engraved with explosive runes. If it were just a simple limit on quantity, Alpha would have exploded long ago.
However, in this way, Alpha will need to pay attention when using runes in the future.
Thinking of this, Bai Qi once again recruited two skeleton soldiers to try. The result was as he expected. The skeleton soldiers could only withstand one type of rune. If more than one type was used, it would cause unbearable damage to himself.
However, if the growth level and bloodline level are increased, the amount that can be endured should be increased, and Alpha is the best proof.
"Finally, I've made some discoveries, but it's a bit expensive."
Four skeleton soldiers were used up in about ten minutes. Bai Qi seriously doubted that these skeleton soldiers could last him through lunch.
"Let's try it first to see if runes with other attributes can take effect."
Looking at the remaining eleven skeleton soldiers, Bai Qi temporarily gave up his attempts at shadow runes and began to turn to runes of other attributes.
"Let's try the ice attribute runes first."
Bai Qi selected among the runes provided by the Rune Cube, and finally selected a relatively simple ice rune: low temperature.
Bai Qi has tried this rune, and it can lower the temperature within a certain range. As for the effect, it can barely be used as an air conditioner.
After carving several runes in succession, Bai Qi had obviously gained some knowledge. The speed and quality of carving had obviously improved a lot, and he soon carved ice runes on various positions of the skeleton soldiers.
"Alpha, let's try this time to see what the upper limit of the skeleton soldiers' endurance is."
Alpha nodded, and the blue ice energy spread to the skeleton soldier along his fingers, lighting up the first rune, then the second, and the third...
Soon, the runes all over the skeleton soldiers were lit up, and a cold air began to escape around the originally ordinary skeleton soldiers.
Done!
Seeing that the skeleton soldiers successfully demonstrated their ice attribute abilities, Bai Qi nodded with satisfaction.
Originally, he was worried that the skeleton soldiers would not be able to activate ice runes without ice abilities like Alpha, but now it seems that he has thought too much.
Gala Gala.
(Master, this skeleton soldier seems to be actively absorbing my energy. Do I want to interrupt?)
Just when Bai Qi was about to further try high-level ice runes, Alpha suddenly sent a message.
"Actively absorbing your energy? Will this thing backfire?"
Bai Qi frowned slightly, and was about to ask Alpha to stop the energy supply, but Shuke suddenly stopped him.
"The skeleton soldier's energy operation is very stable, and it seems to be undergoing some changes. I suggest you, beast master, wait and see."
Shuke's mental power swept across the skeleton soldiers, and he immediately grasped the skeleton soldiers' situation, and then released a map of the skeleton soldiers' energy value changes in the air.
"The equipment on my body is still too rudimentary and I cannot monitor more detailed data. I suggest that the beastmaster seizes the time to purchase materials. I need to upgrade it."
"oh……"
Bai Qi nodded numbly, feeling suddenly uncomfortable.
Who is the beast master here...
Soon, the skeleton soldier stopped absorbing Alpha energy, and an icy blue energy slowly seeped out from the runes, gradually covering the skeleton soldier's body, and the temperature around the skeleton soldier also dropped rapidly.
If it was only the fresh-keeping layer of the refrigerator before, it should now reach the freezer layer.
Click.
The frost dissipated, revealing the figure of the skeleton soldier, but the whole body was no longer the pale white before, but turned into a light blue, and the previously carved runes also disappeared.
Bai Qi was a little surprised when he looked at the skeleton soldiers in front of him that were constantly spewing cold air. Shuke also gave the current data of the skeleton soldiers in a timely manner.
[Name]: Ice Bone
[Attribute]: Ice system, undead system
[Bloodline Level]: Medium Servant
[Introduction]: The undead born in the frost can attack with the power of freezing.
"Is this evolved?"
Seeing the data given by Shu Ke, Bai Qi couldn't help but exclaimed.
Runes can actually promote the evolution of skeleton soldiers?