It took exactly ten days to reach the desert. Ten days, during all that ti, I kept using [Nightfall], and I gained a level. Now it is level 7. This ti, I need to perpetually train my skills while I am traveling. But while all the other needs to kill sothing, [Nightfall] is the sole utility spell. Of course, with my important mana regeneration, the pitiful cost of creating so shadows is not a burden. That's why I trained my [Aura of Mayhem] too. I think that I can manage to have five different skeletons inside it, and still don't lt them. As for the duration, past five seconds and my concentration will falter and at least one will die. I never managed to improve the range of that spell, it is still a few ters.
Besides that information, I was never detected and I avoided every living being. No matter their race, human, elf or even treant, I didn't let one see . As for a ratman following and trying to assassinate , Oslo never manages to catch him. My escape from Ronta and his probable encounter with the dwarf has allowed to disappear from his sight. Only when I was passing near Ronta did sothing strange occurred. Oslo detected a shadow, not like the assassin that was clearly a ratman, I am talking about a living shadow. No matter the angle, it didn't have any size, and that's what puzzled both of us. Shadows don't move like that, without a body to create them or a magician like . But the shadow was located inside the wood, North of Ronta, and never seen again. It looked like she was moving toward the South, as for whether it was going to or coming from there, we haven't a single clue.
But now that I am at the edge of the desert and out of the forest of the elves, I can finally begin my plan. Normally, I should be lost because that part of the desert had greatly evolved while I was away. But Oslo managed to find one forr oasis which had turned into a small lake. And since I have no idea how he can do that, I only have to blindly trust him once again. He said that he recognizes the rock where I experinted my spells, back then. That's what he said, honestly when I saw the stone, I didn't find anything strange. Normally, that's the mont where I should have seen a lted dune or at least so traces of acid. But nothing. But we are not lost, apparently. And it is ti to create my new skeleton magician.
About that, during those days where we were traveling, I have really imagined multiple scenarios where it can work. Well, at least in my mind, that is working. That's why we have not rushed toward the base of Krieg, because we need those skeletons. The n in armors are too dangerous to face in a lee fight, even if my level 5 skeleton warriors are pretty strong. But with an army bombarding the base from far away, the followers of Krieg will have no chance to win this battle.
The first thing that I will try is not necessarily the magician form of an undead. It is to at least grant him the control over magic. Like , I am feeling the mana flowing through my veins, I can feel it take form when I cast a spell. Those things are necessary for my undead. That's why, even if I won't create a true magician on my first try, make him feel the mana will still be counted as a success. I try to think of the sa skeleton as usual, but with a flow of mana surrounding him. Mana being inscribed on his bones, and that he can activate as he wants. I keep trying to describe more and more of those feelings, and then a skeleton is finally created.
I check my MP, and from the look of it, this skeleton has a higher cost than the normal one. 48/420, that's a little more than fifty mana of difference. As expected, the System recognizes the form that I wish to create, and establish the requirent in mana. After a little reflexion, I figure out that if a normal skeleton cost 600 MP, this one would have cost 700 MP. If I didn't have that reduction, I would have a hard ti invocating just a small dog. But now, let's see what he does. Number one?
-Yes, master?
Are you feeling sothing that doesn't exist but yet is present? Sothing that goes around your body, that you can manipulate but yet is strange, eerie?
-Yes, master, I feel sothing in the air, what are your orders?
I want you to use it as you wish, create sothing out of it, and show what is the spell that you created.
-As you wish, master.
I can see him concentrating on his hands, slowly turning them around. Even if it doesn't really make sense, and his movents are erratic and random, I still think that he truly feels the mana around us. For nearly a minute, he keeps going, but without doing anything. Nothing was created in the end.
-I am sorry master, I manage to touch this feeling, but every ti I tried to capture it, I failed.
That's alright number one, it just ans you are not suitable to use mana. I created you with just the intention of you to feel it, not necessarily use it. That's okay. Now return from where you have co. I lt him, since he was not in his final form. No matter what happens, number one is and will always be my strongest undead.
After that, I waited for hours and thinking about how I can create a skeleton that can touch the mana. For the second try, I start with the sa idea, but a different result. I imagine a skeleton capable of creating a fla in his hand, capable of burning the tree around him. I keep thinking about that picture and then summon number one. 22/420, this ti, it was even more costly. I ask him the sa questions and he answers identically as his forr self. As for touching mana and creating sothing, this ti he manages to do it.
-See master, that is what I can create.
And inside his hand, a small fire was burning. Just with his mind and my imagination, I have created the first skeleton magician in my army. But while it is impressive, the size of the fire is small. I ask him to make it bigger and to throw it at the trees that we can see just outside of the desert. He executes my order, but while the fla grows bigger, near one ter of height, the mont the fire leave his hand, it is gone. I ask him to do it again, to make the fire leaves his hand and touch the trees. He never manages to do it. I have to lt another number one.
For the third ti, I think about the sa skeleton, but this ti, I imagine him capable of casting a spell, like a fireball the magicians used against . It seems to be a pretty standard and easy to learn spell, since everyone had cast it against . I imagine my skeleton capable of throwing a huge ball on so trees, burning them to the ground. And while the invocation was fine, at the last second, sothing went wrong. I don't know why since a skeleton has appeared in front of . But sothing was wrong. I check my mana, and this ti, I had nothing left. 0/420. I apparently didn't have enough mana. And as expected, when I ask him to cast fireball, it explodes on his face, killing him.
I try to create another number one. The spell hasn't even started that a backslash of mana destroyed my skeleton. The third ti, the fireball was launched, but instead of going toward the tree, it went to the sky and fell down on number one. Again and again, I try to make him cast a simple spell. But most end up dead after the first try, and those that survive the fourth cast of fireball are none.
Five days after reaching the edge of the desert, I have still not managed to produce a single skeleton magician. Even Oslo is worried, our hope was crushed, as the nurous ashes of my skeletons fly in the wind. I try one more ti, only to see him failed miserably. Six hours later, another try and 38/420! I check my abilities, and everything related to magic has been upgraded. So that ans.
NUMBER ONE, CAST FIREBALL!
-Yes, master.
And as I watch him skilfully create a big ball of fire in his hand, and targets a tree, at least a hundred ters away from his position, I feel satisfied. Because the tree and three others that were too close are burning.
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