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Once Ibro and Maya reached the next city, Ibro asked her to get Gorsag out. Ibro didn't wait for Gorsag at his place, as he moved at once to the air as he started his first battle here. 

Gorsag appeared in the middle of the air to feel astonished at first, and then he used his divine sense to know the real situation. The situation was tight. 

Maya briefed him over the current situation. When she finished, Ibro just finished his battle. He released beta stones for Maya to guide while he said to Gorsag:

"I need you to formulate a strategy of my moves. My supply of skeletons isn't enough to fight battles over huge scales. I need time. Create a perfect strategy for me as soon as possible."

Gorsag knew how dire the situation was, so he replied rapidly:

"I will finish the plan in less than an hour, my king."

Ibro then waved his hand as Maya retook him into her pocket space. This city was targeted by two groups of demons only, one Ibro purified at the city walls, and the other was slight to the North West. 

Once Ibro and Maya did their jobs, they returned rapidly to the teleportation portal to find a messenger from Erond waiting for them there.

"My king, lord Erond said we have lost 20 cities so far. He had moved some of the skeleton's army from some calm cities to relieve the pressure over other cities. But he predicted we will lose at least 500 cities in these attacks."

"500 cities…"

Ibro muttered to himself, this number was way bigger than his initial estimates. He clenched his fists with anger. His containment plan kept failing. His enemy was more ready than he thought.

"Tell Erond to keep me posted with all updates. Also, I will release the skeletons and cultivators' armies in multiple cities. Make him relocate them after they finish killing the demons."

Ibro then moved towards the next city with the silent Maya. She knew how bad this situation was. 

She experienced a similar situation before. Ibro reached the next city. Ibro had limited amount of skeletons and cultivators inside the pocket space of Maya, so when he reached this city he asked the system at once:

'System, you have transformed the seal and the teleportation functions before into divine abilities. Can you do the same with my death summon and death arise techniques?'

Ibro didn't stop his battle for even once, as he waited for the system reply:

'Yes, I can. But I will need many SPR orbs to do that. You also need to be ready, as the final result might be slightly different than your two techniques.'

Ibro knew that fact already. The seal and teleportation function got big changes when they were transformed into divine abilities. That wasn't the true goal of Ibro as he asked:

'Can you turn them into something like the Sword Strike function?'

This time, the system didn't reply immediately. Ibro finished this battle and moved from this city as there were no other enemies here. 

He left a few skeletons with some cultivators to defend the city. When he reached the next city, the system replied:

'If you wanted to do so, then I have to remodel the necromancer technique that you have. I must transform it into a whole function.'

Ibro replied while he was directing his sword strike towards the demons:

'What do you mean with that? Explain further please.'

The system explained at once:

'If I do that, you won't be able to learn new techniques except after paying some SPR orbs, or fulfill some conditions like that in the different sword strikes.'

Ibro didn't hesitate to agree:

'Do it, I don't mind that change.'

Previously, Ibro needed the help of Dronil to give him new techniques, but now he was planning to forsake Dronil. He had a better system with more potential. 

So, this solution was the best for him too. The system didn't speak as it began to work over this process. Ibro stayed in this city for nearly half an hour, as it was attacked by 6 different demon legions. 

Ibro needed to upgrade his death summon technique into a function as he already neared his limit of using soul sea energy. After all this depletion and refilling, his soul sea could support him in 30 consecutive battles. 

Ibro had neared this number, as he would reach it in just three more cities at this rate. Once his soul sea was depleted, he would need one hour to gather a few energy there. 

He would never risk filling his empty soul sea with demon energy for fear of its backlash. Once Ibro finished clearing the demons around this city, the system said to him:

'I have changed your technique into a new function. It's called: Necromancer function. Do you want to view its info now?'

Ibro rejected at once:

'No, I don't have time for such a thing. Tell me, how can I use the death summon technique?'

The system replied at once:

'It's not called a technique, it's called a curse. All you need to do is to pay a certain amount of SPR orbs, but it's a huge amount of SPR orbs.'

Ibro didn't have the luxury to even argue with this stingy system. Ibro knew that this system might have raised the toll for unlocking this curse.

'Just activate it already. How can I use it?'

'Just, as usual, say the name and it will be activated at once.'

Ibro was passing through the portal to reach the next city. Once they reached this city, Ibro and Maya found it was already breached by the demons.

"There are endless streams of demons flooding to the city."

Ibro didn't hesitate as he used his usual attacks towards the demons. Once he created a space for his soldiers in the city to regain control over the walls, he started to use his newly acquired curse.

'Death summon curse.'

At once, the familiar feeling of gathering energy from all parts of his body overwhelmed him again. This was pretty similar to the way he felt when using the sword strikes. 

Ibro then controlled the energy flow as usual. Immediately, his body radiated very huge fog that covered the radius of 100 kilometers around him. 

Once the fog stopped expanding, huge rustling voices erupted from inside it. The fog disappeared and endless skeletons legions appeared in front of Ibro.

"What the hell is that? I counted over 100 million skeletons already!"

Ibro heard the cry of surprise from Maya to feel astonished as well. His previous technique was able to summon 500k skeletons only. His newly acquired function could yield 100 times his previous technique effect. 

Ibro felt how the gap was between his PSR energy and the low-level spiritual energy. What if he used the Ro-energy to activate this curse? 

What if he used his newly formed supreme energy? Ibro was an inspiration. He didn't stop here, as he said to Maya:

"Release some death knights from the pocket space."

Maya nodded as she released around 100 death knights. They were part of his personal army. Ibro then ordered them to stay here and supervise this huge army. 

The skeletons summoned by his curse function were higher in ranks than those he usually summoned before. He was sure of this huge army's ability to defend this city. 

Ibro then moved towards the next city. He didn't waste time, as he said to the system:

'Stop using the usual divine abilities. I want to try out something.'

'…'

The system didn't reply to Ibro. It already got used to his craziness. Ibro stood in the air while he was surrounded by his shield spell. 

He canceled the other two spells as he had no use for them. Ibro then started to use his curse:

"Death Summon Curse."

At once, his body began to gather energy from all parts of his. Ibro didn't let the energy seeped out from his body, as he directed it first towards his mind. 

Once the energy reached there, it mixed perfectly in harmony with the soul sea energy. At once, his newly formed golden grey energy had been formed again. 

This time, his head released a very thick opaque golden grayish fog that gathered at 100 spots separately. Ibro watched this fog with surprise. 

He thought he would summon billions of skeletons here, but he only summoned 100 death knights only. 

He looked with doubt towards these death knights who got off their huge horses and knelt on the ground saying in unison:

"We salute our king. Your loyal death kings are under your service."

Ibro looked in astonishment towards them. It was the first time he ever heard of such a rank. He asked in confusion:

"Can you tell me what role do you play in battles?"

All of them replied in unison like they were controlled by a higher power:

"We can summon dead followers to fight for you, our king."