Chapter 166 Franken; Stan
In the end, Sivi accepted the skeleton's surrender.
Although judging from the exchange diary written by Sophia, this guy seems to have killed many Kate tribes, it has nothing to do with Sivi. The only reason he is hostile to this skeleton is just because it attacks his own students. Sivi has also taught it a lesson in this regard.
In addition, Xiwei was also quite interested in this skeleton that could cast spells so flexibly, so he signed a master-servant contract with the skeleton.
After plundering some more expensive items from the skeleton castle, Xiwei gave it a crystal of return and let it go back to the floating island first. After killing two snow monsters that had no power to fight back, she reported peace to Alisha and the others to end the effect of [Savior Bond] and returned to the Sky Island - but after so much time, the deficit of the magic pool in the academy panel has been so huge that Siwei was ashamed.
If it weren't for the fact that the demolition of the building would require a fee, it might be more cost-effective to demolish and rebuild it directly.
As soon as he returned to the empty island, Siwei saw the bones lying in the fountain, as if he was studying the operating principle of the sacred verses of the sacred rituals...
Because Xiwei thought that such a big living creature in the empty island was only a few dwarfs besides himself, and he felt so angry that he bought some small ornamental fry and sprinkled them in the river and fountain pond. In order to prevent these fish from falling off the empty island with the water, he also specially made several interception networks in the river.
At this time, many small fish were pecking at the bone racks that were like dead objects lying in the fountain, looking particularly strange.
"What are you doing?" Xiwei looked at the scene speechlessly. He asked after a while.
However, because most of the body is immersed in water, the skeleton's usual skills in manipulating wind elements to speak are no longer effective, and only a series of gurgling sounds and bubbles are heard.
Xiwei sighed, used the mage's hand to lift the skeleton out of the fountain and put it aside, and then threw several small fish that fell out of the skeleton's chest and skull back into the pond.
The wet skeleton scratched the skull with its fingers, making a creaking sound.
"This place is amazing." It said, looking around with its empty eye sockets.
Although Sivi knew that it should be an exclamation from the bottom of his heart, the feeling of no ups and downs of tone was like a crappy actor reading the lines according to the lines. It made Sivi a little subtle upset.
"From today you will stay in this magical place for a long time. So don't worry, you will have a lot of time to study this place." Xiwei controlled the mage's hand and pulled the skeleton that was about to move to the home holy stone back to its original place: "Before this, I must have a full understanding of you."
Although it is still early, Sivi must accompany or monitor the vampire girl in the afternoon, so the preliminary processing and arrangement of the skeleton must be completed before noon.
"I know everything, my master." The skeleton was very connected.
"First of all, the most basic. Name, age, gender."
"My name is Franken, Franken Stan. Please forgive the bones of the skeleton. I have no idea how many years I have spent after becoming a skeleton, especially recently, my concept of time has become increasingly blurred." The skeleton spread his hands and said that he had no impression of his age at all: "Of course, I don't think I'll have to be a skeleton for more than ten years at most."
"I think that's because you are always the same... The relationship between skeletons nesting in a dark castle. Whether you are lonely or obsessed with your own interests, it will be difficult to grasp the changes of time, but the former is longer and the latter is shorter." Siwei said casually: "So do you remember how old you were before your death?"
"Of course I remember this. At that time, I was only twenty years old, and it was a moment full of confidence and longing for the future." The skeleton said. Although the content seemed romantic, it made people feel that this sentence was a bit ironic: "As for gender, I was a man before I was alive, and after I died, I was a skeleton. Are you satisfied with this answer, my master."
"Very satisfied." Siwei touched her chin and nodded.
In fact, Siwei has learned something more important than the other person's name and age.
For example, this skeleton should be the mutated skeleton mentioned by the undead mages.
According to the research of the undead mages on the undead, the skeleton is a monster formed by the corpse after being received by the undead plane and being transformed under the strong breath of death.
All the flesh and body are rotten, and only the bones are left, they should not have any memory of their life. In fact, most skeletons look very dull because of this. After all, even the soul has been lost.
However, everything always happens unexpectedly.
About a hundred years ago, a necromancer claimed that his skeleton had memories of his life and maintained a normal level of consciousness. This incident caused an uproar in the necromancer world, and caused many necromancers who were positive about this incident to begin to check the skeletons under his command. As a result, other skeletons with self-awareness were discovered one after another.
Of course, the number of this kind of skeleton is extremely rare compared to the huge number of skeletons themselves, so that so far, many necromancers still regard skeletons with self-consciousness as a fantasy. Before this, the necromancer community generally believed that only when skeletons evolved into skeleton lords or skeleton-type monsters of the same level would the core of the magic element replace the soul to make the skeleton develop self-consciousness.
Skeletons that can bring their own memories of life and maintain self-consciousness are collectively called mutant skeletons. There is no convincing reason for their birth. However, there is one thing that is beyond doubt for all necromancers who believe in the existence of mutant skeletons - this kind of skeletons with their own consciousness, um... I mean that skeletons with their own consciousness can definitely be regarded as the target of key cultivation. At least before advancing from the skeleton lord, they are often much better than their stupid and stupid similarities.
"The next question... let's go to the castle to discuss it slowly." Looking at Franken, who seemed to want to run to study the hot springs, Sevi sighed. He carried it into the castle with a mage's hand.
"Although it may not be convenient for you, I still hope you can explain what you said before, "What must be done" to me." On the way to the dean's office, Siwei asked the skeleton shaking behind him.
Sivi is not laissez-faire. He always likes to collect as much intelligence as possible so that he can grasp the situation and direction of the situation at all times. The same is true at this time. In order to prevent accidents that may be unfavorable to the academy, he wants to know what the other party is going to do. After all, for this purpose, Franken did not hesitate to do various experiments, and gave up when the situation was unfavorable. If the other party refused, even if he used the authority of the master-servant contract, Sivi was willing to do so.
But to his surprise, Franken did not show any sensibility about this, and quickly told Sivy all his purpose.
Franken was originally just a magician who lived in a small village similar to the previous Savi, who liked to study various magic. Unlike Savi, Franken got along well with the villagers at that time. He even found a lover in the village and gave birth to a cute boy with her.
Although he is twenty years old, he is still a beginner-level magician, Franken has extremely unique research and insights into magical structure. The Seven Stars Mage Tower in the nearby big cities even took a fancy to his research ability and invited him.
However, Franken, who was newly married at the time, immediately rejected this invitation that would make him promising, just to have more time to spend with his family.
By opening a small classroom similar to a private school, the children in the village were taught to learn to read and know some magical knowledge to collect tuition fees. In addition, the royalties obtained from submission to the Goddess of Truth, although Franken's life is not as good as those noble and wealthy businessmen who are rich and well-known and worshippers, he is still very good compared to ordinary people.
In addition to class and writing magic drafts, Franken's remaining time was divided into two parts, accompanying his family and conducting magic research. He liked this kind of days and sincerely hoped that this kind of days would continue.
However, the God of Fate likes to joke with people. Just when Franken's son turned one year old, he suddenly discovered traces of the necromancer appearing near the village.
At first, Franken didn't take this seriously. After all, although the church and the Seven Stars Mage Association always shouted at the necromancers, generally speaking, as long as the other party did not appear in the city with great integrity and did not do anything that would harm the world, they would not really fight to destroy a necromancer who is likely to cause huge losses to them.
And a secluded wandering sect like Franken would not take the initiative to provoke these necromancers with perverted personalities.
Because the village where Franken lived is not far from the city with the Seven Stars Mage Tower, he did not think that the other party would be so desperate that he would cause trouble in such a place, thinking that the necromancer was just passing by.
But a week later, when Franken discovered the trace of the necromancer again, he felt something was wrong - how could he have taken so long to pass by?
At the same time, the villagers in the village showed signs of being infected with the plague one after another. Even Franken's one-year-old child was no exception.
After realizing that this might be the devil's deed, Franken decisively informed the seven-star mage tower of the wizard. Then the mage association also rounded up the necromancer, but unfortunately there was no result.
After examining the patients, the pastor of the church confirmed that the villagers were indeed a plague with a very contagious and difficult to cure, but the mortality rate was not too high. This plague was the first time that neither the priest nor the pastor could find similar diseases in the classics, and the source of the plague could not be confirmed. However, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, the village must be isolated.
So the people in the village were forcibly expelled to a remote corner, and the isolation state was unable to trade. Before the new round of crops matured, they could only rely on a small part of the food subsidized by the city.
There was not enough food, and soon people in the village began to die due to the double torture of plague and hunger. Even Franken's children became skinny and dying.
Franken, who believed that this plague must have originated from the curse of the magic of the necromancer, ignored the ban issued by the mage association and the church, and angrily found the lingering necromancer not far from the city. He fought with the other party.
However, the opponent was already in the middle level, and Franken, who was still in the early stage, was defeated and was killed directly by the opponent. He summoned him as a skeleton through the resurrection of the skeleton. After killing the enemy, he had to enslave his body as his subordinates for a lifetime. This is a common habit among many undead mages.
However, what the necromancer did not expect was that for some reason, Franken's memory and consciousness did not lose, but relied on the skeleton. So when the other party was not paying attention, Franken attacked and killed the necromancer and found a note from him.
"He is a genius." Franken sat on the sofa, recalling the scene at that time, his bones were very light, and he would not feel like he was sinking when sitting on the sofa: "He actually wrote a new curse magic through the cloud of plague and curse of the disease. He seemed to call the magic "Source of Plague". People who died after being infected with this plague will have their own plague cloud when they revived with skeletons, which is much stronger than ordinary skeletons. His purpose is to wait until all the quarantined people are infected with plague before killing them to enrich their skeleton group. You know, the Seven Stars Mage Association will not verbally punish a few plague patients and a necromancer who is about to enter the advanced level. At most, it will be just a verbal sanction."
"The source of the plague was released in the water that people drink in the village. Because of its hidden nature, even the priest did not notice it. Although there were not many people who had plague conditions at that time, in fact, everyone was already cursed. Sooner or later they would suffer from plague." Franken paused for a while before continuing: "And what's even more terrible is that the water in our village is the same as the water used in the city, and the residents of the city should gradually begin to show symptoms of this plague. Although I secretly reminded the water source to the Holy See. But to be honest, I had no hope of whether they would pay attention to this prompt. But at that time, I had no choice but to see my lover and son seeing what I am now, so in the end I ran away with the notes of the wizard. For so many years, I have been studying undead magic and other magic, trying to crack the effect of the plague source, but unfortunately I have not been successful yet..."
"Wait... If I guess correctly, could it be the city you are talking about Morag?" Sevi suddenly interrupted halfway through hearing.
"That's right. Master, do you know too?" The skeleton raised his head and stared at Xiwei with empty eyes.
"Maybe it's because you've been in a remote place so you don't know." Sivi thought about it for a while, and finally decided to tell him: "Morag has now become a famous plague cage."
In fact, shortly after Franken left there, a large-scale plague broke out immediately. In order to prevent the outbreak of the plague, the nearby lords organized a large number of earth element specialist mages and joined forces to sink Morag for nearly a hundred meters to become a huge pit city. They also arranged magma on the periphery to prevent people inside from escaping.
Of course, all the magicians inside were taken out and received various healing measures.
Not long after, the region introduced new penalties for illegal punishment—for those who do not die but cannot be released, they will be exiled directly to Morag and let them die.
It is precisely because of this that Morag is called a plague cage.
"I only want to do one thing, to solve the source of the plague over there. I can be sent by you at other times, but please be sure to leave me enough time to test." The skeleton had no eyes, but Xiwei was still a little psychologically furious when he was seen by the other party.
"Your request does not conflict with the philosophy of my college, and I can agree."
Xiwei nodded and agreed to the other party's request. Then he crossed his hands and held his fingers, staring at the skeleton with his chin and said, "But don't worry too early. I have other things to ask you before that."
"No problem, please ask."
"Your research on magic is indeed very good..." Because you have seen some of its research results in the other party's castle, Sivy is still very confident about Franken's research level: "But what about your own magic knowledge?"
"Are you planning to take the exam for me, my master?" Franken asked calmly.
Xiwei shrugged without comment, and then began to pick out questions from his knowledge to ask the skeleton.
The skeleton will also answer honestly.
Soon Siwei mastered the other party's current level - Franken's knowledge of magic can only be said to be pretty good, at least one or two more in the questions in Siwei's exam.
In addition, for the major subject of alchemy, Franken's poor attainment in pharmacy made Sivi unable to help but sigh. However, it has a good foundation in enchantment and magical science, and is even slightly worse than Sivi in runes.
In the exam, Franken performed best in magical construction.
In fact, magic construction is also a major subject, divided into many disciplines such as spell literature, magic deduction, and law casting. However, Franken completely refused to accept it. He could answer more detailed things from any aspect of the question of Sivi, and even learn from them, thinking of something that even Sivi could not imagine.
What Franken admires most is that it has good innovation and imagination no matter which aspect.
Except for the slightest bit left by the predecessors at the beginning, Sivi's knowledge of magic, alchemy, etc. is mostly instilled by the system. In a sense, this knowledge is more like an encyclopedia that can be queried instantly - it can answer questions raised by Sivi, but it can never create new things on its own.
Even magic that seems to be original by Xiwei is actually just a magic that combines the flames and flame explosions, not a true original.
It is precisely because of this that when Franken's talent was revealed, Sivi felt like he had picked up a treasure.
"Very good, from today on, you will be the magic structure teacher in our academy." Xiwei nodded with satisfaction, then looked at the bare bone stand: "But before this, I have to make you covered in skin..." rs!~!
Chapter completed!