Chapter 1309: Chapter 1309

Du You was organizing the occupied areas of the battlefield while observing the developments on the other side.

From the start of the attack, the Lich King had merely watched from the sidelines, while Skarow was very active. With the Lich King’s cooperation, Skarow had the support of all surrounding Undead.

Even often, Undead Creatures were captured and brought to Skarow’s side for him to kill.

To nurture this individual, Du You could be said to have spared no expense. Previously, Du You had left many Undead-type Skill Scrolls for the Lich King. Others couldn’t use them, but Skarow, who had been transformed, could.

Du You planned to nurture this Lich into a more conventional direction, that is, toward being a Mage.

Initially, Skarow learned a powerful attack magic and then used this magic in conjunction with continuously killing surrounding Undead Creatures to gain Crystal Coins. Like a Professional, Skarow soon gathered enough Crystal Coins, but he showed no intentions of upgrading his level.

From Du You’s perspective, Skarow had long understood what tier promotion meant, and since his own star rating was too low, he planned to first upgrade his star level. It could still be elevated before reaching a certain level.

Thus, under Skarow’s calculations and with the Lich King’s intentional and unintentional guidance, Skarow indeed triggered some missions. Of course, all these guidances were controlled by Du You behind the scenes; otherwise, the Lich King wouldn’t have considered these.

Through missions, Skarow advanced to 4 stars. Then, during the process of advancing to the third tier, he leveraged advanced tasks and jumped to 5 stars. Advancing from the third tier to the fourth tier was a very important threshold that shouldn’t be wasted.

After a long time spent eradicating three other garrisons, Skarow finally received another mission and directly advanced to 6 stars, which was a significant effort. However, Skarow didn’t have a Celestial Star Bottle, and neither did Du You’s side; without it, it was impossible to advance from 7 stars to 8 stars.

So, Skarow didn’t wait any longer and immediately started the next step of the advanced mission. With such a large army for protection, Skarow easily completed the advanced mission and, with this advancement, upgraded himself to 7 stars.

And in terms of the Professionals, this star level was quite high. However, this star level was acquired later, and Skarow’s innate star level was very poor, so it was quite inferior compared to a canonical 7 stars.

His foundational strength was, perhaps, only a bit stronger than those 6-star Professionals.

Still, with this, Skarow was quite satisfied, knowing that for hundreds of years, he had always been stuck at the second tier without any advancement. After progressing to 7 stars, Skarow continued to strive harder.

Du You had prepared many Skill Scrolls he couldn’t use himself, including many with Undead Attributes—attack skills, defense skills, auxiliary skills, summoning skills, curse skills...

In short, just for advanced skills, Du You had many. As long as one learned them, no advanced materials were needed, and they were directly above the fourth tier. Besides the two skills related to Undead evolved by Du You himself, no one else around him could use them, and now all of them had benefited this sneaky Lich.

And Skarow’s performance also greatly surprised Du You; he had, leveraging the annihilation of the enemies, rapidly elevated himself to the fifth tier, and even reached the pinnacle of the fifth tier.

Even the skills had been boosted all the way to the same pinnacle. In this way, at the pinnacle of the fifth tier, Skarow was definitely not weak, equal to any Professional of the same star level.

Regrettably, this fighting power did not represent his innate potential. Relying on the potential brought by the high star level of 7 stars, Skarow was able to reach the pinnacle of the fifth tier. But by then, he had reached his limit.

Using the opportunity to eradicate the last garrison and many rebels, Skarow finally, with the help of the army, completed the sixth tier advanced mission. Indeed, this guy’s calculations were very strong.

However, at this moment, Skarow realized he couldn’t break through the sixth tier. Even without any more missions blocking him, he didn’t have the capacity to advance further. That feeling of reaching out and not being able to touch was just like when he couldn’t break through the second tier originally.

Skarow knew this was his limit. To advance further, he would definitely need a long period of practice and accumulation, as well as sedimenting his own power. The advancement had been too rapid, and he hadn’t adapted well. He also needed to find more advanced skills and elevate all his remaining skills; he couldn’t leave any skill unadvanced.

Only with the power brought by these advanced skills could he possibly push himself to the sixth tier; otherwise, there was absolutely no chance.

Moreover, given his own level talent, he feared that after reaching the sixth tier, that would be his limit. Even if he could use the characteristics of Professionals to advance to the peak of the sixth tier, advancing further would be impossible, and Du You himself felt the same.

Originally, he had continuously accumulated foundational strengths and solidified his roots for this very reason. If any hidden troubles lingered, Du You worried he might reach a high level and then be unable to advance further.

Thinking back, he and two sisters, efter completing missions, had directly broken through and couldn’t be suppressed. But this guy in front of him, no matter what, could not advance further—that was the biggest problem. Many Professionals spent their entire lives stuck at a certain stage and couldn’t advance, basically the same situation as Skarow.

Yet even so, Skarow’s advancement greatly startled Du You. From the second tier to the pinnacle of the fifth tier, and even completing the task to advance to the sixth tier, this speed was unprecedented in Du You’s eyes.

Thinking back, he had suffered so much to advance to this stage.

Of course, enduring hardships was beneficial. Although Skarow had taken shortcuts, even if he might potentially break through to the sixth tier, to completely sediment his own power would take at least decades. This was still considered fast since he had become a Professional; if he had been an ordinary Undead, he would never think of sedimenting his power within a lifetime. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⁂𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⁂𝓷𝓮𝓽

At the same time, Du You could feel Skarow’s gratitude in his heart. Although the rapid advancement had led to problems, Skarow was still genuinely grateful. This was true heartfelt gratitude, not feigned for future benefits.

From now on, Skarow was no longer a minor character. In the Netherworld, a fifth-tier powerhouse was also considered a master, one capable of establishing a medium-sized territory.