I have 10 more skeletons like 164.

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So far, Dean McKenzie was quite satisfied with Carney as a cooperative merchant.

Thus, he took any issues related to Carney seriously.

His first response was to talk to the old man and understand the situation.

Once he confirmed that Carney’s group was ambushed about half a day’s journey, fifty kilometers from the Giant Serpent Tribe, Dean immediately sent Old Eight to investigate.

He asked the old man to guide Old Eight.

Previous experiences in the Goblin Uprising Instance had allowed Old Eight and his ilk to move within a five-kilometer radius of Dean when they were at the first or second-turn.

Now, with the “Summon Skeleton” reaching level 10, and Old Eight’s strength upgrading to level 120, their range of movement had greatly expanded. While Dean hadn’t tested the extreme limit yet, he felt that there shouldn’t be any issues within a hundred kilometers.

While Old Eight was conducting his investigation, Dean wasn’t twiddling his thumbs either.

Firstly, he collected all the corpses and templates amassed by the Giant Serpent Tribe over the past 10 days.

The efficiency of the Giant Serpent Tribe was quite commendable.

Within 10 days, they had gathered 33 perfect quality corpses.

In terms of templates, they assembled 2000 elite templates and 200 excellent ones.

Moreover, it was rumored that the batch of goods currently being robbed from Carney’s group included an additional 5000 elite templates, 300 excellent templates, and 12 rare templates.

The number of perfect quality corpses swelled to a staggering 72.

This stirred a deeper sense of resentment in Dean towards the unknown group of bandits.

“Damn it, this is causing nothing but delays for me!”

Despite cursing, Dean was quick to act. He summoned Doggy Two to help move the corpses into the Land of Bone.

Bringing back 33 third-turn perfect quality corpses cost Dean around 2100 gold coins.

The price was a bit higher than he had expected.

After reviving these corpses, Dean first checked their attributes.

He wanted to know whether any of them had traits suitable for him or his skeletons.

However, after looking over some of the 33 corpses, Dean found the traits to be rather generic.

They mostly had traits like “Defense Strengthen” and “Attack Enhancement”, with none possessing the “Armor Break” that Dean desired, let alone the “Actual Attack.”

As a result, Dean instantly killed the 33 just-revived perfect quality wraiths and extracted 11 perfect quality templates from them.

Dean first used four of these on himself.

[You used 4 Perfect Quality Templates. Your Strength, Physique, Agility, and Spirit obtained Perfect Quality Templates!]

[Your Strength, Physique, Agility, and Spirit all increased by 1000 points!]

[Your attribute traits [Mental Fortitude] [Swift as Wind] [Strength Enhancement] [Enhanced Physique] upgraded to B-grade!]

Four Perfect Quality Templates allowed Dean to upgrade four attributes, boosting them by 4000 points in total.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

Being at level 4 Talent, and with Perfect Quality Templates, the maximum attribute points by level 10 was 1200. This was double the number from the previous rare, an increase of 600 points.

This meant that Dean could add 5400 points to his four-dimensional attribute.

Once Dean had added all of these up, his attributes became:

Strength: 76,324, Agility: 80,034, Physique: 74,316, Spirit: 109,962

Magic Strength: 1,077,620

Mana: 5,356,100

With such attributes, Dean would be able to dominate those at the fifth-turn.

Even though it isn’t quite as high as that of the sixth-turn, remember that

Dean was currently at the fourth-turn!

Dean felt like he was soaring on the road to being a digital monster, unstoppable even if he wanted to.

Even if he stopped strengthening himself now, the five-turn increase of 5 times and another six-turn increase of 5 times.

Dean’s attributes would reach an incredibly exaggerated degree.

“By then, my spiritual power would be at least 2.7 million. I’d truly be a digital monster. I wonder if that level of data can overturn seventh-turn.

No, why do I always go there, why do I have to overturn the seventh-turn? Can’t I just crush the opponent at the same level or maybe one level higher? Don’t fight a battle unless you’re confident of winning!”

Yeah, Dean was thoroughly scared after being beaten up in Spring City. He felt that reversing wasn’t cool at all. Having absolute strength and crushing your enemy felt much more comfortable.

After completing the quality upgrade and attribute assignment, Dean examined the two traits in his attributes that he paid the most attention to.

Trait: Mental Fortitude (B-grade) (Provides defense fixed at three times your

Spirit. Mental attacks below this value will have no effect on you, and those above the value will be reduced by 70%

PS: Mental Attacks exceeding ten times the upper limit of your spiritual power will ignore this trait!)

Enhanced Physique (B-grade) (Increases physique effectiveness by 300%, and enhances life recovery by 3000%.

Can be actively activated to rapidly recover injuries. As long as vital parts are not completely destroyed, you can quickly recover. (Twice a day)

Dean was quite pleased with the effects of these two traits.

The former elevated Dean’s spiritual defense to over 1.3 million.

The latter significantly enhanced Dean’s vitality.

As long as the fourth-turn defense is in place, it would be difficult for Dean to be injured, but if he were injured, it might not be salvageable.

However, the existence or lack thereof is one thing, whether it could be used was another matter.

In short, with this mechanism in place, Dean felt at ease.

“Right, after the fourth-turn, this thing should be able to be further strengthened, right?”

As he spoke, Dean pulled out a sword out of nowhere.

That sword was none other than the [Holy Light Sword]!