Chapter 43: Radiant Magic, Skull Sword Hand

  With the help of his enormous strength and iron gauntlets, Talant managed to dig out a large pile of pale skeletons and over thirty skulls from the charnel pit in less than half an hour.

  Corpses and skeletons are of little difference to a necromancer - they can be transformed into undead minions through the ritual of awakening.

  But whether it's a zombie or a skeleton, the body and bones must be at least 80% intact to be awakened as an undead, so those wandering necromancers would rather sneak into regular cemeteries than worry about a large pile of jumbled skeletons where you can't tell which one is the femur and which one is the vertebra.

  But is it possible for such a thing to stump Dr. Rovey, this forensic pathologist?

  Although Luo Wei had not encountered a situation where he needed to piece together the victim's bones after becoming a forensic doctor, during his 5-year university period, he had already memorized the human skeletal structure very well.

  So for Luo Wei, assembling a human skeleton was not difficult at all.

  The only problem is that when Luo Wei was assembling the skeleton, he had to pay attention to his surroundings at all times. Who knows if a group of tattooed mountain barbarians would suddenly jump out from the weeds, or if a sturdy earth spirit with a weapon would appear?

  It's okay, roughly when Talant was too powerful next to Rovi, until Rovi finally managed to piece together the twelfth complete skeleton, there wasn't any unexpected guest jumping out to bother Rovi.

  However, this was also the limit that Luo Wei could barely piece together, and the remaining bones were too fragmented and difficult to identify. Continuing to assemble them would be a serious waste of time.

  In fact, even the twelve complete skeletons that have been pieced together are at most 80% original, with the remaining 20% of the bones being "borrowed" from other deceased.

  What Luo Wei could do was only to make every complete skeleton look like a perfect one on the surface...

  To maximize the effectiveness of the spellcasting materials for summoning spirits, twelve complete skeletons were arranged by Rovi in a head-in and feet-out posture, forming a large hollow circle.

  Not far from where the dry bones were laid out, Luo Wei drew out three corpse-refining magic arrays in one breath, and then placed on them the corpse-refining spell materials purchased from slave trader Kolenwi.

  These twelve corpses may or may not include those two bronze knights, so let's first refine the corpses into a magic array and then talk about it.

  However, Lovi only had five pieces of corpse-refined spell materials on hand, and these spell materials were naturally purchased from the slave trader Colenwei.

  In fact, after discovering that the slave trader Colenwal's goods for sale included things like female corpse finger bones made from human bodies, Lovie had already completely given up on going to the mountain city of Kandia with him.

  Trafficking in slaves is already outrageous, but trafficking in human organs is even more outrageous to the extreme. Even if slave trader Kolrenwi repeatedly emphasizes that the human organs he sells are all purchased from the families of normal deaths.

  According to the slave traders' descriptions, a considerable number of ordinary residents would privately sell the bodies of deceased family members, as even if they did not sell these organs that could be used for spells, it was highly likely that they would be stolen, and even the entire corpse might be secretly taken away.

  Every city is not lacking in undead mages without formal heritage, or cultists who worship demons emerging one after another. The various temples and mage associations kill them but cannot exterminate them...

  In short, in the slave trader Kolenwe's description, his behavior of selling corpse organs is not only not a crime, but also a great good deed - that is, letting the deceased's relatives have money to bury their relatives' corpses, and the remaining corpses can let the deceased spirit masters who lack materials for spells, just spend a little money to avoid the possibility of becoming a corpse thief.

  Perhaps slave trader Koran Willy was telling the truth, but what if he wasn't?

  Without those female corpse's finger bones and other materials, Luo Wei was unable to complete the Corpse Refining process, so in the end he still had to buy five sets of Corpse Refining materials from the slave trader Kolun Wuyi.

  When you can't even protect your own "corpse", how can you talk about protecting others' corpses?

  Asrat's near-death experience made Rovei clearly aware of his own condition, he was very clear that he was no longer a living person, but a pseudo-undead wizard who would soon turn back into an undead.

  However, if there's a chance in the future, I'll take a look and see if there's a way to improve the Corpse Refining technique, replacing these human tissues with more humane materials...

  This is not impossible, since the magician Salo has already discovered through research the human cell named "life particle" by him. If we carefully analyze the materials used in corpse refining, shouldn't we be able to find out which substances are really effective?

  Let's put aside the soul and other things, at least the things that make up the human body are just various organic and inorganic substances, and organic substances can be manufactured from inorganic substances.

  Hmmm... If I were to reform the necromancy, making it completely unnecessary to use various human body organs filled with strange smells, and only need to use heavy organic and inorganic raw materials, wouldn't that be enough to transform it into a brand new school of magic?

  For example - Light magic?

  It would be best to add some impressive audio-visual effects, like the kind that come with casting the Dispel Disease spell from the Holy Night Emblem, where a bright and warm beam of light envelops the target.

  Making a bright and warm light column may not be too realistic, but using chemical reactions to make some flashing lights and fragrant scents is not a big problem.

  While thinking so, Lovi had already completed the construction of three Corpse Refining Magic Arrays on the ground. He stood up and took out a glass tube containing the materials for summoning the spirits from his pockets.

  Rovey removed the stopper from the glass tube and began to recite an incantation of awakening the dead, a dark and pungent smoke wafted out of the tube, under Rovey's guidance, it filled the concentric circles on the ground, covering the twelve skeletons and the pile of skulls surrounded in the middle.

  When it was divided into countless black smoke, all of which drilled into the skeleton, one after another skull soldier with the sound of bones rubbing against each other stood up, staring at the empty eye sockets with a faint green glow.

  Eleven skeletal figures stood with empty hands, except for the last one that stood up, whose skull was even paler, and in its hand appeared a white bone short sword.

  What is this?

  This is Skull Sword Hand.

  Because he had a good swordsman martial arts before his death, after being awakened as a skeleton soldier, he also condensed the white bone short sword due to instinct and possessed the special skeleton soldier with the swordsman's instinct. He was born with this equivalent black iron lower rank strength.

  Lovinga's memories of the somewhat unreliable magician Saro, clearly revealed to Rovin the intelligence about the skull soldiers wielding white bone shortswords.

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