However, upon some reflection, Kael managed to rein in his impulse to leave.


    Based on the earlier situation, although these zombies, under the leadership of the Zombie King, seemed to have overcome their aversion to sunlight, presumably due to the Zombie King''s influence.


    Nonetheless, as long as he refrained from provoking them, these zombies should remain as harmless as they were before.


    There were still numerous War Lizard corpses littering the road.


    This time, Kael didn''t hasten to depart.


    He selected another, more secure vantage point, hoping to see if any of the fleeing War Lizards would return to retrieve the bodies.


    After a protracted wait, just as Kael was on the verge of dozing off, the silhouettes of several War Lizards emerged in the distance.


    As expected, Kael''s speculation was correct.


    These War Lizards likely had a good understanding of the zombies'' habits.


    These War Lizards made their way back to the battlefield and warily peeked into the shopping mall a couple of times.


    When they saw no zombies at the entrance,


    they went back and brought back more of their kind.


    They gathered the bodies of their fallen brethren on the ground.


    Besides the corpses of their own species, the remains of the previously slain zombies were their primary target.


    This time, the War Lizard tribe had suffered losses and hadn''t acquired any prey yet.


    How could they tolerate such a situation?


    The main task of these War Lizards was to carry all the zombie corpses back.


    Regarding the bodies of the fallen War Lizards, they only retrieved a portion.


    From the vantage point of the tall building, Kael watched as these War Lizards hoisted the zombie corpses one by one and headed off into the distance.


    After some deliberation, Kael decided to trail them cautiously to see where they were going.


    After all, these were the second type of creatures he had discovered in this city, aside from the goblins.


    Kael tailed the War Lizards from a distance, simultaneously extending his spiritual power to pre - scout the surrounding area, guarding against any vigilant War Lizards.


    Even though Kael was following from afar, he wasn''t concerned about losing them.


    The trail left by this group of War Lizards was quite conspicuous.


    They had taken away a large number of zombie corpses and some War Lizard corpses as well.


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    These corpses were bound to drip blood along the way.


    However, to avoid leaving bloodstains, the War Lizards specifically left a few tribe members behind to clean up these traces.


    This was a measure to prevent the zombies at night from being lured by the blood and finding their tribe.


    Although the bloodstains were removed, the marks they left on the road while cleaning up the blood were still quite noticeable.


    In this manner, Kael followed them all the way.


    After some time, he finally located the War Lizard tribe.


    Nevertheless, Kael didn''t dare to approach too closely.


    Once he knew the direction of the tribe, he chose to retrace his steps.


    Currently, his strength was insufficient to deal with this War Lizard tribe.


    Now that he was aware of the tribe''s existence, he could simply avoid this area in the future.


    ...


    When the morning sunlight once again spilled over the area, Kael roused from his meditation.


    His recent meditation sessions had been highly rewarding.


    His strength was now on the cusp of the apprentice rank''s peak, yet to break through to the Black Iron rank, he still had to bide his time.


    He called up his attribute panel for a glance.


    Name: Kael


    ...


    Spiritual Power: 9.9/9.9


    Magic Power: 99/99


    Skills: "The Breath of Darkness Meditation Method", Zero - level Spells: Bone Tooth,Gray Mist, Touch of Fatigue,Lesser Defense Armor, Lesser Surveillance Eye


    Potential Points: 41.5


    Ever since he witnessed the War Lizards being massacred by the zombies during the day, Kael''s hunting expeditions had become extremely circumspect.


    Subsequently, he only dared to target small zombie groups, those consisting of merely dozens of zombies.


    Such small - scale zombie groups were unlikely to have Black Iron - rank zombies, making the hunting relatively safer.


    After each hunt, Kael would resume his meditation, expending all his potential points to promptly boost his combat capabilities.


    He had initially considered asking Professor Li for some additional zero - level spells, but upon further thought, he abandoned the idea.


    After all, they weren''t intimates, and constantly asking for favors like this would inevitably deplete goodwill.


    For the time being, the spells he already possessed were adequate for his needs.


    Since his spiritual power had reached 9.9 and his magic power 99, he temporarily ceased meditating, fearing that he might inadvertently break through to the Black Iron rank.


    The reason was that when advancing from the apprentice rank to the Black Iron rank, certain inheritances enabled one to select specific magic materials or even powerful organs of certain creatures.


    One would integrate these into their body and await the body''s gradual digestion to enhance their strength.


    Apart from the inheritances at the Black Iron rank, meditation methods of the Silver rank and above all had such secret arts, and each secret art required different materials.


    The "Dark Breath Meditation Method" also had such a secret technique.


    After Kael''s spiritual power reached 9 points, he successfully unlocked this secret technique.


    "The Seed of the Bone Graveyard"


    The name of this secret technique was rather unique, and the materials it required were equally so.


    Kael couldn''t obtain them for the time being, so he put his plan to break through to the Black Iron rank on hold.


    This secret technique required three main materials, namely the Lesser Dimensional Stone, the Nether Flower, and the Water of the Styx.


    In addition, there were over ten kinds of auxiliary materials, which were quite diverse.


    Such as: bones, graveyard soil, tombstone fragments, coffin fragments, rotten meat... and so on.


    Fortunately, these auxiliary materials weren''t precious magic substances but rather some rather peculiar items.


    Kael managed to procure all these items in one go one night when he visited the graveyard outside Shixi City.


    Aside from being on edge throughout the day, worried about being detected by the graveyard keeper, everything else proceeded smoothly.


    As for the main materials needed, Kael had already located them in the Tiannan University''s online store, but they required credits for purchase.


    There was no alternative.


    He could only wait until he started school to achieve the breakthrough successfully.


    However, it wouldn''t be long before the school term commenced.


    In the recent few days, Kael had been hunting zombies in the vicinity and had amassed some potential points.


    After the school started, if he utilized these potential points to break through, he would gain a head start.