Fang Zhou nodded slightly, his confidence in the [Charge] skill growing.

Currently, my skeleton clone in the Undead Realm only faces two feeble types of enemies: Skeleton Warriors and Zombies. However, as the clone's power rapidly increases, it will soon encounter High-tier Undead Creatures like Stone Golems and Dark Forbidden Guards. By then, the [Charge] skill will surely shine, proving to be even more formidable than it is now.

While Fang Zhou was deep in thought, Lu Hu shouted.

"Students who won your battles, rest up! The second round of combat will begin shortly."

On the training ground, a heavily panting Ye Fan immediately scrambled to his feet. He joined the two other students from his squad and retreated to the side, seizing the opportunity to recover his stamina and Spiritual Power.

Lu Hu nodded slightly, then turned to Fang Zhou and said, "Let's continue.

"We've just discussed the three main elements: attack, defense, and displacement. Next, I'll cover the remaining two: buffs and control.

"Combat Professionals have quite a few Beneficial Skills. For instance, my personal favorite, [Weapon Specialization], is a passive skill of the beneficial type.

"[Battle Cry] is an active Beneficial Skill that enhances all of your attributes. At the Black Iron tier, it can be advanced into either [Victory Battle Cry], which is an area-of-effect buff, or [Horror Roar], which has a control effect.

"[Vengeful Stance] is a Black Iron tier Beneficial Skill. It consumes Battle Qi to temporarily increase attack speed and critical hit probability. At higher levels, this skill can even gain a Life Absorption effect, significantly enhancing a Combat Professional's burst damage and sustained combat ability.

"Generally speaking, if a Low-Level Combat Professional can raise the proficiency of these three Beneficial Skills—[Weapon Specialization], [Battle Cry], and [Vengeful Stance]—to the Perfection level, that's enough to build their entire combat system around."

Fang Zhou nodded, once again recording Instructor Lu Hu's words in his notes.

[High-level Weapon Specialization], [Victory Battle Cry] or [Horror Roar], plus [Vengeful Stance]. This will be the focus for the skeleton clone's next stage of learning.

Then, before Fang Zhou could ask, Lu Hu continued, "Regarding the last category, Control Skills, the most common type for Combat Professionals are the shout-type skills. For example, there are various shout skills like [Intimidating Shout], [Berate], and [Taunt]. These shout skills combine Battle Qi with vocalizations and gestures to produce various control effects.

"Additionally, depending on their Profession's Energy Attribute, Combat Professionals can learn skills with effects like knockback, stun, slow, or even binding.

"Personally, I highly recommend the Control Skill [Trample]. It's a universal Black Iron tier skill for Combat Professionals. By consuming a large amount of Battle Qi, it generates a powerful shockwave that trembles the surrounding ground. This skill can make enemies unstable, causing them to stumble or fall and temporarily lose their balance. It can even disrupt spellcasting to a certain degree.

"Even low-flying enemies will be affected to some extent by the shockwave from [Trample]. Once a Combat Professional reaches a High Tier, this skill can evolve into [War Trample], which inflicts a temporary stun on small- and medium-sized units. Even against large or super-large units in Heavy Armor, it can apply a slowing or binding effect."

Lu Hu explained animatedly, and Fang Zhou nodded along in agreement.

Attack Skills: [Brutal Strike], [Battle Qi Slash], [Vortex Strike].

Defense Skills: [Block and Counterattack], [Battle Qi Shield].

Displacement Skills: [Heroic Charge].

Beneficial Skills: [High-level Weapon Specialization], [Victory Battle Cry], [Vengeful Stance].

Control Skills: [Horror Roar], [Trample].

This was the skill list he'd prepared for the skeleton clone to learn, based on Lu Hu's strong recommendations and careful selection. If the clone could learn all these Black Iron tier skills, its direct combat power would rise to a terrifying degree he could hardly imagine. At that point, not even the Berserker Heroic Spirit Olaf, who could currently fight the skeleton clone to a standstill, would be a match for it.

Thinking of the bright future ahead, even someone as calm as Fang Zhou couldn't help but feel a twinge of excitement.

However, within a moment, Fang Zhou controlled his emotions and began to carefully consider the enormous expenses ahead.

In terms of contribution points, covering the five combat elements, there were a total of eleven Black Iron tier skills. Of those, [Brutal Strike] and [Heroic Charge] had already been deduced. That left nine Black Iron tier skills.

Exchanging for them from the Sea City Military Academy's Skill Library would cost 100 contribution points per Black Iron tier Skill Book, for a total of 900 contribution points at full price. Furthermore, he wanted to redeem the Skill Insights for all eleven Black Iron tier skills at once, which would require another 1,100 contribution points.

900 plus 1,100... that was a total expenditure of 2,000 contribution points.

Luckily, he had the 40% discount privilege for being the number one Seed Student. However, he wasn't sure how this 40% discount would interact with the 50% discount from the Undead Mage research project group. No one had told him whether the two discounts would stack, or if he would simply receive the better of the two.

Thinking of this, Fang Zhou looked at Lu Hu and asked urgently, "Instructor Lu Hu, there's one more thing I'd like to ask. As the academy's number one Seed Student, I get a 40% discount on contribution point exchanges..."

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