Skills with no cooldown? I become the Undead Scourge! - Chapter 15

“Level 10!” Lu Ran’s eyes lit up.

He was quite satisfied with his leveling speed.

Casually picking up the gear dropped by the Frost Wolf King boss, he skimmed through it. Among the loot was a pair of rare purple caster boots—usable—so he equipped them right away. The rest was nothing special, so he tossed it into his backpack.

Then, eagerly, he opened his skill panel.

Having dabbled in all classes during his studies, he knew exactly what Level 10 unlocked: [Necrotic Grasp].

[Skill: Necrotic Grasp]
[Cooldown: 2 minutes]
[Mana Cost: 10]
[Effect: Summons necrotic tendrils within a 10-meter radius, immobilizing the target for 3 seconds!]

This was the Necromancer’s first crowd-control skill.

For spellcasters, control skills were crucial—they bought time for sustained damage and kept enemies at bay.

Three seconds of immobilization wasn’t particularly long, but it wasn’t short either.

Yet for Lu Ran, the implications were terrifying.

He had no cooldowns.

As long as he had mana, he could spam this skill indefinitely, layering and extending the immobilization within a 10-meter radius.

In other words, any enemy within his range would be stuck in place, helplessly eating his attacks.

Unless Lu Ran ran out of mana, they’d be permanently rooted.

“This is amazing!” Lu Ran licked his lips excitedly.

Then, he turned his attention to the golden trait panel.

A new golden trait unlocked every five levels. Including the initial [Divine Borrowing], this was his third.

[Trait: Boundless Reach]
[Effect: From the moment this trait is unlocked, every enemy killed increases the range of all skills by 1 meter. No upper limit.]

“Huh?”

Lu Ran was momentarily stunned but quickly grasped its potential.

“Kill one monster, and skill range increases by one meter?” he mused.

Right now, his [Skeleton Summon] had a 10-meter range—meaning he could only summon skeletons within that distance.

At first glance, [Boundless Reach] seemed underwhelming—just a way to toss skeletons farther.

But the key detail? It applied to all skills.

At higher levels, who hadn’t killed millions of monsters?

For Lu Ran, a million kills meant a million extra meters.

That was a thousand kilometers!

In the late game, he’d unlock skills like [Bone Tyrant Summon] and [Abyssal Bone Dragon].

He could literally rain bone dragons on a city from hundreds of kilometers away.

One man, annihilating entire cities from an untouchable distance—with no one even knowing it was him.

And that wasn’t all. Later, he’d unlock Necromancer’s offensive spells.

He’d be sniping enemies from a thousand miles away.

Even now, just grinding a few dungeon runs would push his skill range into the hundreds of meters.

A full day of farming? Kilometers of range.

At this stage, he could blanket entire dungeons with his skills.

The thought sent a thrill through him. Too excited to stop, he decided to run [Frostwolf Valley] again instead of heading back for dinner.

Since this was just a test, he saved the Level 10 dungeon for tomorrow.

Back in [Frostwolf Valley (Hard)], he bulldozed through to the boss arena.

With a single [Necrotic Grasp], inky tendrils erupted from the ground, coiling around the Frost Wolf King’s limbs.

The boss fight triggered, but the immobilized wolf could only howl helplessly at Lu Ran, unable to break free.

The bind lasted three seconds.

Lu Ran timed it perfectly, chaining one [Necrotic Grasp] after another.

Just as he predicted.

The Frost Wolf King was permanently locked down, the three-second immobilization refreshing endlessly.

He toyed with it for two full minutes.

The poor boss could only roar in frustration, completely powerless to move or attack.

“This’ll make boss fights a joke,” Lu Ran nodded in satisfaction.

Then, while keeping the boss locked, he directed his skeletons to swarm in and detonate with [Corpse Explosion].

Effortless. Zero pressure.

The Frost Wolf King crumpled.

Meanwhile, [Frostwolf Valley (Hard)] had three zones with 300 regular wolves, three elites, and the boss—304 enemies total.

Which meant Lu Ran’s skill range just grew by 304 meters.

He could now summon skeletons 300 meters away.

Or lock down a target from 300 meters, forcing even ranged attackers to stand there and wait for [Corpse Explosion] to obliterate them.

“If I ran into those three assassins now, it’d be a cakewalk,” Lu Ran mused.

After all, [Necrotic Grasp] was an AoE control skill.

Though its base range was only 10 meters, that was more than enough to trap those agility-based assassins—no escape, no chance.

With his tests complete, Lu Ran left the dungeon satisfied.

After dumping the day’s loot on the auction house (priced to sell fast), he finally went to eat.

Notably, the gear from [Fissure Dungeon] and [Frostwolf Valley] had already sold out.

Between that and the gold looted from the three assassins, Lu Ran now had 220,000 gold!

Just yesterday, before his class awakening, he’d been scraping by with a few hundred gold.

He could splurge on low-tier BiS gear now, but that’d be a waste.

With his leveling speed, gear upgrades came too quickly to matter. Only at higher tiers would top-tier gear give him a real power spike.

After dinner, back in his tiny rented room, Lu Ran lay on his familiar, decade-old wooden bed, lost in thought.

Necromancer was a standard, unremarkable class.

But the trait system’s bonuses were downright monstrous.

At just Level 10, with only three traits (including the starter one), he could already outclass any hidden class in the world.

And there were so many more traits to unlock.

Just then—

Tap. Tap. Tap.

A knocking sound.

Lu Ran glanced at the door, then realized—it was coming from the window.

Startled, he peered over to see Qin Wuyao outside.

“Miss Qin, what are you doing here in the middle of the night?” Lu Ran sighed.

“Heh, came to hang out,” she grinned.

“Late at night, just the two of us… what exactly are we ‘hanging out’ to do?” Lu Ran muttered, eyeing her increasingly developed figure.

“It’s not that late,” Qin Wuyao rolled her eyes, then climbed in through the window without waiting for permission.

She looked around and remarked, “Your place is smaller than my bathroom.”

Lu Ran resisted the urge to facepalm.

“Did you come here just to roast me, princess?” he said dryly.

Qin Wuyao waved her hands. “Of course not! I just wanted to ask…”

She leaned in, suddenly serious.

“Do you want to serve the nation?”