Sam went into the tower"s library. He is going to learn a new art. The Spirit enchantment. This is also a minor profession like the Seer tower.
They are dark element users, who use a form of necromancy to attach spirits to the weapons, formation discs, artifacts, Puppets, and so on.
These spirits wouldn"t be a good as the naturally formed Spirits of the weapons and they can be destroyed easily if the object which was enchanted was of low rank and the user is of far superior cultivation level.
If the user is powerful, he can even kill the spirit with just a mere thought.
But why do they still use it? It is used for better coordination between the user and the weapon. They will have a contract after the spirit is enchanted and if given enough time, the spirit could grow strong with sufficient nourishment, and along with that, the weapon should be reforged from time to time to adjust will the level of the weapon spirit.
This is mostly suitable for weapons that are made of materials like meteorite sand and blood iron as these weapons can improve ranks with time.
But it would be a waste to enchant those weapons as the natural spirits born for those weapons are more powerful. Just like the shadow sword, they can become extremely powerful, powerful enough to destroy the consciousness of a user just like that.
Compared to the natural spirits they can only be considered mediocre at best.
Why does Sam need this mediocre spirits then? It is because he doesn"t need them for battles or to enchant his weapons, rather he needs them for their intelligence.
He wants to use the spirits in the same way the artificial intelligence is used in his previous life.
One of his next choices of research is puppet artisanship. And after seeing the "brain" mechanisms he collected from the puppets of the palace of inheritance, he has many new ideas.
But to execute them, he first has to learn these necromancy skills, so that he can perform the best enchantment.
He started absorbing the divine wills in the necromancy section.
In this world, necromancy is cla.s.sified into three categories.
The Undead Necromancy. This is using the dead bodies to create the physical army of undead. This is the most basic necromancy and easiest of them all.
The second one is soul necromancy. This is using the souls of the dead to do their bidding, It is either for an enchantment or in battles. The army they could have or the souls they summoned are mostly intangible and they mostly cause mental attacks.
The third one is the shadow necromancy. This is the necromancy that uses both physical properties of the undead necromancy and the intangibility of the soul necromancy.
This last method uses the shadows of the dead. There would be a shadow for every life in this world and as the person grows strong, the shadows of the person also do. But not many people can use the power of the shadows as they truly reside in the shadow world.
The shadow world is not accessible to anyone. After a person dies, within that shadow world the laws will make the shadow disappear.
In the shadow necromancy, after the necromancer kills as a person, he will use his skills to barely access the shadow world and pull out the shadow which was about to disappear and form a contract with it.
Allowing it to exist as it gathers power with his help.
It can now freely transverse between the shadow world and this world with the help of the necromancer.
Sam wanted to learn all the three of them, except for the first one which is only useful in some specific situation where he was outnumbered and he just needs some immediate manpower, the second one is used for enchantment, which he would be using very often in future.
As for the third one, he is most interested in this one. This shadow necromancy can be used for both numbers as well as many other purposes, like tailing, tracking, and many others.
But the necromancy does have its drawbacks and it needs an enormous mental power, which is not everyone"s forte.
The more read through the information, the more Sam felt that there are immense possibilities with the dark element.
This also gave him thoughts that the opposite of the dark element which is the light element is left unexplored.
He doesn"t believe that it can only heal and he has enough proof to back his claim as he himself has explored it and even created pure light energy-based attacks.
As Sam sat on learning the things, the things about his new project are going in full swing.
At this moment, Jack and the rest also finished the first phase of their training.
They are done with the three spots they chose and are traveling to a single destination.
It is a city where all of them decided to meet after their first phase is over.
They each spent one month in their current training locations and arrived at the city.
They spent the day together, chilling out and eating all kinds of food they can. Even in that city, some type of construction is going on which is related to Sam"s project, and even when they traveled there are many signs on the project all over the way.
The next morning, they met up in the woods near the city and their purpose is to test themselves out. For a Spar.
They are going to be the fighting together in the future and it is necessary to be aware of each other"s abilities and another reason is, all three of them want to be the best among the three.
Jack, Watt, and Philip stood in a triangle and are staring at each other. Just as they were about to start the fight, all three of them suddenly turned around, having each other"s back.
Jack held his sword to his waist and Watt held a card in his hands and Philip"s hands are already turning red.
"Wow. You really are good, no wonder the lightning spear sect lost to you guys."
Three people came out from three different directions.
One of them has a hammer in their hands and out of the other two one has a longbow and the last one held a pair of daggers.
There is a crest of thunder embroidered on their chests.
Philip narrowed his eyes as he looked at them carefully.
He found the crest familiar and after some thought, he said in a low voice.
"Thunder Bolt sect?"
The three newcomers stopped in their tracks and the man who spoke earlier said with a peculiar smile.
"Seems like you know who we are. So, be prepared. We are not like those weaklings from the lightning spear sect. We are a perfect team. Even though we only wanted to capture one of you, by our luck, all of you started traveling to the same destination, giving us a perfect opportunity.
Hehe. If we catch all three of you, the rewards will be great."
As he finished his words, the three of them moved. The archer started firing arrows non-stop. He is a lightning element user and the arrows he shot were surrounded by azure blue lightning.
His first target was Watt.
As Watt was the only one who showed the moves with long-range, he first targeted him and kept him busy.
The one with the hammer is bulky and huge.
He swung the large battle hammer as his whole body and the weapon are completely surrounded by the lightning.
He moved towards Jack. He seemed to be a person who is proficient in defense and the last one is the person who spoke earlier and seemed to be the leader of the group.
He wielded two daggers as he made his move towards Philip.,
He is also a lightning element user and he is using the lightning element to increase his speed and the efficiency of the attacks.
He moved like flash and even if Philip could see and guess the moving pattern and his eyes can keep up, he is still having a hard time for his body to react and to their dismay, the opponents are all Level three Grand realm cultivators.
Seems like they wanted to up their game since the trio managed to defeat Level-2 cultivators.
Although Philip is having a hard time keeping up and getting the same speed as the opponent, he has other ways to counter it and that is precision.
Of all types of abilities, speed is the one that is hard to counter, but that doesn"t mean it cannot be overcome.
The precision is one of the best methods suitable for that purpose.
He closed his eyes and he applied metal element fusion to his body. His whole skin was transferred into metal and it became extremely hot and turned red as he applied fire element.
He noticed that for his metal molding technique, it has better results when the metal is hot as he can mold it easily.
After taking a few hits, he finally got a hang of the other person"s ability and was ready to counter-attack.