Chapter 222: Cang Xu’s Equipment

Although the necromancy path was an emerging school of magic, it had developed three aspects.

They were bone aspect, corpse aspect, and soul aspect.

Cang Xu was a soul aspect necromancer, this aspect’s trait was making, housing, and controlling ghosts.

Ghosts were controlled similarly to how an alchemy component controls a magic ship.

The more components there were, the more functions a magic ship had and the stronger it was.

But this amount had a limit, magic ship designs had so many prefabricated locations and the magic power reservoir could supply so much magic, these both determined what type and how many alchemy components could be loaded.

Cang Xu had his soul quality and spirit strength.

A small flower pot couldn’t grow a big tree.

Cang Xu’s gifts were worse than Zi Di’s, and he was once a mere bronze level. After becoming a necromancer, his talent’s limit broke through into the iron level.

“Soul crystals can increase soul capacity, thereby automatically improving spirit strength.”

“My soul needs to be constantly strengthened before I can control three silver level ghosts.”

By strengthening one’s soul continuously, a soul aspect necromancer can eventually become a one man army that can control countless ghosts in battle.

“Furthermore, according to the necromancer inheritance I have, there are still higher level soul aspect spells. Among them are ghost transformation spells that can modify the foundation of a ghost to increase their military power and mobility and is perhaps able to reduce the soul burden on the necromancer and so on.”

“Most importantly, there is a method that can decrease the erosion that negative energy has on the body.”

When Cang Xu thought of that, he couldn’t help but look down at his palm.

A magician’s power originated from external energies, for example fire path elements and with path elements.

By using these energies, a magician’s body will inevitably be eroded by these elements.

Over a long time, the vast majority of magicians will have weak bodies.

This systemic problem was worse with necromancers.

They suffered negative energy corrosion, not only will their bodies deteriorate, so too will their temperament. 

As time passes, necromancers will develop a loathing for living beings and even have a strong longing to destroy them.

The bad name of the necromancy school came in part from this.

Of course, the main thing was that they touched the taboo of souls and offended the core interest of the gods.

In order to vie with negative energy corrosion, Cang Xu had transformed his body into a living dead body.

He used all of his efforts to barely maintain his humanity.

But this condition also had imminent dangers.

Especially during the last battle, when he used many necromancy spells, causing his body to abruptly suffer heavier corrosion.

“The method I used to transform my body merely came from my own research.”

“The undead gathering will have magicians exchanging with each other, I should be able to gain something than can vie with negative energy corrosion better.”

Cang Xu looked forward to the undead gathering.

Because he had so many things he needed to acquire.

These things barely appeared in normal exchanges.

This was the first undead gathering Cang Xu would participate in, he lacked any experience in it.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t had the chance, he even obtained a few contact methods from the soul aspect necromancer’s inheritance that could let him join local undead gatherings.

But Cangn Xu didn’t go.

He was very cautious, and to him, if he exposed himself, he would be ruined. He wouldn’t be able to continue serving as steward and his family would be destroyed as a result.

Cang Xu’s choice had cause him to miss virtually all opportunities. But thanks to that, he had survived until now.

Many powers disseminated fake information and arranged traps to lure necromancers into gathering so they could hunt them down!

Now, Cang Xu has decided to join a undead gathering.

His conduct style had undoubtedly radicalized by a lot.

On the one hand, he had true comrades and external help.

On the other hand, the boundless ocean was far from the Sheng Ming Continent, and there was more space for him to use his fists and feet.

Finally, the current situation was forcing him to do so.

During the battle, Cang Xu had been affected by the Devil Gold Coins and exposed himself.

Thinking of that now, his heart felt a chill.

Too dangerous.

Luckily, he had the layer of disguise as a Wisteria Merchant Alliance elder, otherwise it would be massive trouble!

There was also the blackmail message, but no reply came back, making Cang Xu very vigilant.

“According to common sense, the Bai Zhen Clan should have written back.”

“It seems a problem has appeared during it!”

“I must become stronger, to deal with possible unexpected events and crises in the future.”

The undead gathering also contained danger.

He needed to arm himself as best as possible.

Speaking of which, the survivors had purchased many good things from the auction.

The melee was not a good time to use them, to guard against making flaws that would expose themselves.

But now, the Deceptive Disguise and the Anti-investigation and Prophecy spells had been cast on some important equipment, allowing them to be openly used.

Cang Xu inspected the equipment he was wearing.

One brass infusion bottle – the fresh water infusion bottle

A delicate compass apparatus – the palm compass

A badly damaged water path magic book – inside it had three gold level water path spells, the water arrow spell, the water snake book and thick fog spell.

There was also the voodoo substitute death puppet.

Beside the magic book, the other three items were silver level items.

The fresh water infusion bottle could meet the daily water needs of 200 people, and after the survivors talked it over, they temporarily put it on the Iron Lump.

The Iron Lump didn’t have many supplies, and after it sailed from the battle, the ship had even less supplies.

The compass was a maritime navigation instrument, and it was given to Cang Xu to prevent him from getting lost and be able to determine his own course.

The survivors only had two magicians that could use the water path magic book, and now that Cang Xu was adventuring to the undead gathering, it was only natural he got equipment first.

Finally, was the death substitute puppet…

Looking at this item, Cang Xu’s heart couldn’t help but warm.

Originally, Cang Xu and Zi Di had purchased this from the auction for the dragonman youngster.

But the dragonman youngster decided to give this item to Cang Xu to prevent any accidents from happening.

Besides these 4 items, Cang Xu had some other things.

For example, in his sewn human leather storage pouch, he had a shroud, 5 fire path rings, a curved magic mask, and a magic conduction bracelet.

The human leather storage pouch also had many casting materials, such as dead sea shell fragments, grimace mushrooms, ghost spider legs, and so on.

Some magic scrolls that mainly came from Mystifying Monster Island.

Many magic potions. The survivors had a comparatively strong medicine production capability, and after a few days, they were able to replenish their medicine somewhat and filled Cang Xu completely on medical stores.

There were other things that had been purchased from the auction.

But they didn’t suit Cang Xu.

For example, the arrowhead headband was not magician equipment, its service target was fighters.

For the same reason, the Mushroom Dancing Shoes and the mushroom tights didn’t suit Cang Xu either.

The Sunlight Disc was a gold level component used to build an artificial garden and other such projects. 

The glass external armor and sacred plate armor didn’t suit magicians either.

“Finally, there is also the Feather Snake Sail.”

The Feather Snake Sail was in a wooden chest, folded neat and tidy, nearly filling said chest.

Cang Xu took the wooden chest, then left the captain’s room to come onto the deck.

Besides him, there was not a single other person on deck, magician Qing Xin was on the main mast’s lookout tower, responsible for keeping watch.

Upon seeing Cang Xu, she slowly flew down.

As a wind path magician, she was better at flying than magicians of other schools.

When she left the island, she had no equipment.

But now, her left wrist was wearing a magic conduction bracelet.

There was also the silver level treasure, the life protection cushion that had been temporarily allocated to Qing Xin.

The magic conduction bracelets had originally been a pair. One for Zi Di and Cang Xu. The one Qing Xin was wearing was the one Zi Di had loaned to her.

She also wore the life protection cushion; it was a good life saving treasure that could heal through absorbing blood.

Cang Xu and Zi Di couldn’t use it.

Because they were necromancers, and the life protection cushion’s healing energy violently conflicted with negative energy.

A normal person would be healed, while Zi Di would be harmed. If it was used on Cang Xu, it would break his body’s life and death equilibrium, causing him to suffer a backlash.

Seeing Qing Xin, a loathing immediately appeared in Cang Xu’s heart.

This was the aftermath of his usage of so much necromancy spells.

“Come, help me hand this sail up.” Cang Xu enduring the hate as he opened the wooden chest’s lid, exposing the sail inside.

Qing Xin was amazed, “A Gold level sail?”

When Cang Xu and Zi Di had purchased this sail, she was still a slave imprisoned and didn’t know anything about it.

Magic spell – mage hand.

This was a very basic spell that could let a magician’s spirit meddle with matter and remotely control objects, it looked like a formless hand.

Because the magic model was very simple, it could be cast extremely quickly and consume a tidbit of magic power.

This also determined its upper limits, it was only suitable to use in daily life, such as writing remotely and for grabbing some materials when a magician was busy experimenting.

With Cang Xu’s mage hand, the Feather Snake Sail inside the wooden chest was hoisted, then unfurled it in the air.

“I can help you.” Qing X I also used mage hand.

She tore the old sail off the main mast.

Cang Xu seized the opportunity to change sails.

The Feather Snake Sail was very gorgeous, and after the change, it made Qing Xin disoriented.

But they weren’t finished at this step.

Because the Iron Lump was a magic ship, next Cang Xu still needed to connect the Feather Snake Sail to the magic power reservoir.

This was somewhat troublesome.

Because the Iron Lump was a mere bronze level magic ship, and when it was designed, it didn’t have any alchemy modules for sails.

Therefore, Cang Xu and Qing Xi had to construct their own channel.

With magic power pouring in, it was difficult to activate the Feather Snake Sail.

It was gold level equipment, and the magic power it consumed was hard for Cang Xu and Qing Xin to supply, thus, they had to rely on the magic power reservoir.

In fact, even with the Iron Lump’s magic power reservoir, it was a little hard to meet the Feather Snake Sail’s demand.

The Feather Snake Sail and the Iron Lump were clearly incompatible.

But this was temporary.

“When the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps beats us, this ship and sail will become legitimate spoils of war.” Cang Xu thought.