Chapter 18: The Undead
Edwin has been helping Miguel with this and that for the past few days, and rarely goes back to his dorm other than sleeping.
"Edwin, you've already known and learned all the materials and basic knowledge of necromancy in the past few days. ”
Edwin nodded, "No problem. ”
"Okay, go back and get ready, and we'll go out tomorrow morning. ”
"Where are you going?"
"You don't have to worry about it. Miguel reached into the swirl of the wall and vanished.
Helping out in the past few days has really given Edwin a rudimentary understanding of necromancy. Life has been quiet since the start of school. There are still not many students in this class of the Academy of the Dead, and there are only a dozen or so counting him.
The college was loosely managed by the students, and the dormitories were also individual dormitories, and Charnes would occasionally come over to see him. He himself enjoyed the feeling of being alone, being able to study alchemical magic and do what he loved.
He lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling, Mr. Abel and Mr. Akayl themselves were rarely seen, and the smell of corpses on his body seemed to be stronger after coming to the Academy of the Dead.
Necromancy gave him a sense of black magic, but Miguel said that there was no right or wrong in magic, only people.
"Where are you looking forward to tomorrow?"
"Edwin, it's very idle. Mr. Abel appeared in his room.
"Ya...... Mr. Abel, why are you here?"
"Come and see you, are you still adjusting to the past few days in the academy?"
"It's okay. Edwin scratched the back of his head.
"Why did you choose dark magic? I thought you would choose elemental magic or alchemical magic. ”
"Necromancy feels more intimate. ”
"Also, you are a rare grave keeper yourself, and alchemy magic is not that simple. ”
"I know. ”
"The armor and swords of the knights of the kingdom were forged using alchemical magic. Are you now at the realm of wandless spellcasting?"
"Not yet, Mr. Abel, why do you still have a wand when you've already reached that state?"
"Because it's both a status symbol and an inherent habit. By the way, you're going out with Miguel tomorrow. "He and Rudolph, the older magicians, were used to casting spells with their wands, which were like companions to them.
"Well, but he didn't tell me where I was going. ”
"He, stay with him and pay more attention to your own safety. ”
"Where will he take me?"
"I don't know, as long as it's in the kingdom, there's no place he can't go. ”
"He's too...... Time and Space Mage?"
"His space-time magic is even more sophisticated than necromancy, and he used to be the first freshman in the assessment like you. He taught himself space-time magic and necromancy, and later stayed in the academy as a tutor, and the students he made had all kinds of accidents one after another, so almost no students wanted to go to him. To be honest, I was surprised that you chose him. ”
"I didn't know what the mentors were like, maybe it was fate. Edwin smiled.
"Maybe. Edwin, time may be running out for you. Abel took out the key, opened the door, and went back.
"Time left for me?" Edwin pondered.
The next day, he got up early. The pattern of the changing walls in the castle of the Academy of the Dead, he himself has figured out after many failures. Walking to the door of Miguel's room, he knocked on the door,
"Who?"
"Teacher, it's me Edwin. ”
Miguel's tousled hair opened the door for him, and the bloodshot in his eyes proved that he had stayed up late last night.
"Why so early?"
"You didn't mean to make me ...... in the morning"
Miguel yawned and hung his clothes on his shoulders. Edwin felt that he was less than twenty years older than himself, and he was still very handsome when he looked at people from the side.
"Come and leave so early. Miguel slashed the air with his left hand, and a torn space gradually expanded, until the wind whistled and the space was large enough for two people before he snapped his fingers and stopped.
The two of them walked through, and Edwin's palms were sweaty.
"Nervous about what?" Miguel looked at him with a smile.
"For the first time. ”
"As a man, I only allow you to be nervous for the first time. ”
Edwin realized that the two of them were now beside a long river with brightly colored plants growing on both sides, but there was no one else here except the two of them.
"This is the River Levis, and we are now in its midstream, originating in the plateau of the Auston Kingdom, downstream in the Elven Kingdom, and finally into the Sea of Origins. Miguel crouched down and played with the pebbles on the riverbank.
"What are we doing here?"
"Do you know why my students are dying?"
Edwin's mind was empty when he heard this, and he subconsciously made a defensive move.
"Don't be afraid. They're all arrogant guys, just as arrogant as I am. It's in this kind of place that they run into a problem that they think they can solve, and then ...... "He made a gesture of wiping his neck."
"They're all dead. ”
"I won't. Edwin laughed miserably.
"You won't be able to do it. Do you see the jungle in front of you?Go and pick fifty chylan grass inside, you should know what it looks like, I'll pick you up in the evening, this process, only necromancy is allowed. In addition, tell you, this is no man's land, don't want to play any tricks, the battlefield will not give you a chance to play tricks. Miguel left him with a waving hand and went back to catch up on sleep.
Of course, Edwin knew what Chilan grass was, but the jungle was a very limited environment for undead magic, and Chilan grass only grew next to tree elves.
"It's very difficult. Edwin silently walked into the jungle, and he saw the bird land on the emerald vine and try to rest, but the vine rolled up and sent it to its flower, which was uprooted by a giant ant, dissolved with slime, and chewed in its mouthparts.
"Lives matter. He quickened his search, and while he was still looking, five eyes were already on him in the shadows.
"People...... Human ......"
When the jungle completely engulfed him, Edwin saw the first Chilan grass, and when he looked around and felt that there was nothing unusual, he bent down to pull it up, but after a long time of effort, he found that there was no loosening.
"Strange. As soon as he said this, he felt a viscous liquid spill on his head and shoulders.
He didn't even dare to turn back, and sprinted forward with all his might. The Chilan grass had been following him all the way.
"Hell yes. He felt that he couldn't shake it off, so he turned his head to see what it was.
It felt like a wriggling organ, one of his tentacles was a chilan grass, and even one of his five eyes was a human blue eye.
"People...... Mankind...... Delicious. It choked out a human word.
"Eat a hammer!" Edwin raised his wand,
"Everything in the world has a soul, and I use my blood to intimidate its soul and give me a soul. Edwin erupted with black light, as if a virtual hand mixed with black mist had stroked the monster's head, but to no avail.
"No soul?" the monster approached him step by step, he knew why no other monster was chasing him, it turned out that he had already been booked.
"You're still going to eat me?" Edwin was annoyed by such a strange mentor, and pointed to the earth as he withdrew his wand.
"The bones of the dead, I call you in the name of God to wake up at this moment!" Edwin's eyes were about to turn black, and the spell was extremely heavy on his magic and spirit.
He had thought that he would only summon a white bone or a carrion. But after the spell, he saw that as the ghostly light floated on the ground, countless white bone rotting corpses and even the corpses of monsters crawled out of the ghostly light densely shaking.
"These ...... It's all for it!" the monster stuck out two green tongues, its wriggling, carrion-like body like a barrel filled with spoiled wine.
And Miguel, who was high in the sky, looked at Edwin and shook his head,
"Isn't this a second digestion for him? ”
All the undead creatures rushed towards the monster, and it grabbed one in one hand and stuffed it directly into its mouth. The constant disappearance of the undead creature is accompanied by an increase in its size at a rate visible to the naked eye.
"What the hell is this?" Edwin was a little apprehensive.
Its body was now as tall as the ancient trees around it, and its original rotten flesh structure had changed from a white bone structure, and its five eyes were staring at Edwin with a glow of instinctive greed.
"It's still too slow to cast spells with a wand. He kept retreating, and Miguel watched Edwin smile helplessly from the sky.
"You still need me. But just as he was about to go down, he stopped again. He saw that Edwin actually put his wand directly into the ground, the sound of the spell in his mouth was constantly amplified, and a black and purple magic array appeared in the center of him, and the magic symbols had even floated, and countless yin spirits howled, Edwin pulled out his wand again, and pointed at the monster like a knight drawing his sword and pointing at the opponent,
"Since I can't seal you, I'll kill you. He remembered the experience of guarding his tomb more than half a year ago, and slaughtered many things similar to the undead with his blood.
"Die for me!" Edwin's aura erupted suddenly, and the black-purple magic array slowly melted the monster into a pile of white bones and black blood like a swamp of mud.
He saw that the monster had finally melted and collapsed on the woodland.
"Sleep, wake up and go looking for the chran. It's kind of interesting. Miguel said and disappeared into thin air.
Edwin slowly opened his eyes and saw the clear blue sky, he felt as if a shackle had been broken in his body, and his whole body had an indescribable sense of transparency.
"I seem to ...... Can now cast spells without a wand. For him, who reached the bottleneck a few days ago, today's outbreak allowed him to directly unblock the channel between his body and the outside world.
"The mentor really didn't come, I still have to help him pick the orchid grass. As soon as he remembered this, the excitement he felt just now was half gone.
He patted himself and picked up his wand, walking towards the place where the tree elves were deep in the jungle. Miguel in the distance kept looking at his figure,
"Does the Grave Keeper's bloodline add so much to undead magic?" he began to think.