Mr. Zhou slowly spoke: "There's no need to say more about these, not much point."

"I think we might as well set a time... How about dinner time? From now on, every day at dinner, we enter the group voice chat."

"Then we'll share our insights and experiences from exploring the magic domain throughout the day, exchanging with each other to make greater progress."

"Currently, the game hasn't released a guild system or the like, but I think if it does in the future, we can consider forming a Skeleton Mage Guild."

"At that time, we'll only recruit new dual-profession players with the Skeleton Mage occupation."

"This way, not only can we help new dual-profession players rise quickly, but our team can also grow rapidly, allowing more new players to join in magical research, giving us greater benefits."

"And moreover, we can monopolize the demand for Skeleton Mages. From the current situation, we can see that the game's world setting seems very grand."

"And the combat system has overturned the usual game path, so combat will definitely be essential in the future."

"Once we research magic to heal undead injuries, we'll essentially be caregivers! Tell me, which game doesn't favor caregivers?"

"Surely, they are in great demand."

"By then, we can start a hiring service, requiring a hiring fee to employ our Skeleton Mages, which can serve as our guild's operational and activity funds."

After hearing Mr. Zhou's words, everyone fell silent for a while.

After quite a pause, Lord Xu was the first to speak: "Zhou, I really doubt your profession, whether you're actually in civil engineering. I wouldn't doubt it if you said you're a monopoly-loving capitalist."

Mr. Zhou awkwardly smiled: "Xu, you can doubt my ethics, but you can't doubt my profession. I'm definitely in civil engineering, no lies here."

"However, I just have a lot of free time usually, so I know a little about other things."

Lord Xu chuckled: "Well, I think your proposal is very good, Zhou, it can be done."

Shadow's voice was a bit low: "Okay."

Seeing this, Mr. Zhou didn't continue on this topic, instead, he pivoted the conversation: "Next, let's talk about all our current research insights and experiences in the magic domain, shall we?"

"Let's speak one by one without holding back, as holding back truly harms others without benefiting oneself. Everyone must open up and communicate fully and without reservation, that way we can mutually benefit."

"It's obvious you're all smart people, so there's no need for me to say more. Let me take the lead."

After that, several of them began to exchange ideas.

...

In an instant, a week passed by.

On this day, Fang Ka was seated on a recliner in front of the ancient castle, meditating, when Shadow approached from afar.

Once in front of Fang Ka, he spoke straightforwardly: "Mage Fang Ka, task submission."

Shadow was someone who was particularly sparing with words.

If one word could make something clear, he wouldn't use two.

Fang Ka was long accustomed to this.

Shadow only had one task assigned to him by himself, and that was to create magic. Now that he was here to submit a task, it surely meant he had created a new spell.

He immediately became interested, glanced at Shadow briefly, then sat up a bit more straight, and spoke slowly: "Alright, let me see."

Shadow spoke calmly: "Dark Assault."

The next moment, Fang Ka saw Shadow's skeleton body stir up a whirlwind, charging toward a tree in front with extremely fast speed.

His right hand extended forward, a thumb-sized cone-shaped black fluid pierced through the tree.

Seeing this, Fang Ka was a bit stunned and took a moment to react, dammit, this guy made himself into an assassin?

He could tell that this magic seemed to be a combination of Wind Element and Dark Element magic.

And it was indeed an attack magic.

But this attack magic clearly had something off about it.

As everyone knows, mages fear close combat.

Whether fighting other mages or knights, mages always try to keep distance and attack from afar like artillery.

It's all about who can outgun whom.

But Shadow just completely ignored the mage's weak point, using a spell to turn himself right into an assassin.

Completely redefining what it means to be a mage.

What school of thought is this?

Instant Kill Assassin Mage School?

There's no denying, the magic that Shadow created outright flipped the conventional mage combat style on its head.

Fang Ka could see that this magic had strong destructive power. Moreover, it could boost the caster's speed to a terrifying level.

This was just the Basic Level; if Shadow's mage power level went up and he built a series of magic based on this spell,

it would surely grow increasingly terrifying.

If used unexpectedly in the outside world, it might genuinely have an instant-kill effect.

There's no denying these players can indeed surprise him. He glanced appreciatively at Shadow, then asked him to teach him the spell, and promptly rewarded Shadow.

He rewarded Shadow the same way as he did Mr. Zhou.

He didn't feel the reward was too much, since the magic directly overturned the mage combat strategy, its significance was substantial.

The research difficulty of this magic was surely very high, yet Shadow managed to research it ahead of Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching.

This clearly demonstrated his talent, as Grandpa Qian had been researching magic earlier than Shadow.

Upon seeing his reward, the Soul Fire in Shadow's eyes flickered.

Then, with a slight nod toward Fang Ka, he turned and left.

Fang Ka drew his gaze back from Shadow, then closed his eyes again, preparing to return to meditation.

A player who can generate value is a good player, eccentric personality or not, it didn't matter to him.

A player who cannot generate value, no matter how good their personality, is a worthless player, meaningless.

But just as he closed his eyes, he heard a voice coming through Dark Speech.

He immediately activated the carrier for the Dark Eye Magic Array and glanced at the screen above.

He saw Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching standing at the Royal Palace entrance.

However, Grandpa Qian's appearance at this moment was rather dazzling...

His entire body was covered in crystalline ice, each ice crystal meticulously covering every single one of his bones, and in the surrounding light, enveloping Grandpa Qian like a diamond skeleton.

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