In the end, Sivi accepted the skeleton's surrender.

Although it seems that the exchange diary written by Sophia has killed a lot of Kate, it has nothing to do with Sivi, and the only reason he is hostile to the skeleton is only because it attacked his own students. On this point, Sivi has also taught it a good lesson.

In addition, Xiwei also had a lot of interest in this skeleton that could cast spells so flexibly, so he signed a master-servant contract with the skeleton.

After looting some of the more valuable items from the skeleton's castle, Sivi gave it a homecoming crystal and told it to go directly to the floating island first, while after killing the two helpless snow trolls, he reported to Alyssa that he was safe before ending the effect of the [Rescuer Bond] and returning to the empty island - but after so much time, the deficit of the magic pool in the academy panel has been so huge that it makes Sivi embarrassed.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a cost associated with demolishing the building, it might be more cost-effective to simply tear it down and rebuild it.

Upon returning to the Sky Island, Sivi saw a skeleton lying in the fountain, seemingly studying the workings of the Fountain of Sacred Chants......

Because Xiwei felt that such a large sky island creature only had a few little leprechauns besides himself, and he felt too lifeless, so he specially bought some small ornamental fish fry and sprinkled them in the river and fountain pools. In order to prevent these fish from falling into the empty island with the water, he also deliberately made several interception nets in the river.

At this time, many small fish are curiously pecking at the skeleton of bones that look like dead things lying in a fountain, which looks particularly strange.

"What are you doing?" Sivi looked at the scene speechlessly. After a while, he asked.

However, due to the fact that most of their bodies were immersed in water, the skeleton's usual manipulation of the wind elemental was also ineffective, and only a series of gurgling sounds and bubbles were heard.

Sivi sighed, took the skeleton out of the fountain with the mage's hand, and tossed a few small fish that had fallen out of the skeleton's chest and skull back into the pool.

The soaking skeleton scratched its skull with its finger bones, making a crunching sound.

"This place is amazing." It said as it looked around with its hollow eye sockets.

Although Sivi Zhilu said that it should be a heartfelt sigh when he said this, the feeling of not fluctuating in tone was like a crappy actor reading from a script of his lines. It made Sivi a little subtly unhappy.

"You will be in this magical place for a long time from today. So don't worry, you'll have a lot of time to study this place. Sivi manipulated the mage's hand and pulled the skeleton back to its original place, "Before that, I must have a full understanding of you. ”

It's still early. However, Sivi had to accompany or monitor the vampire girl in the afternoon, so the initial processing and arrangement of the skeleton had to be completed before noon.

"I know it all, my master." The skeletons are very cooperative.

"First of all, the most basic. Name, age, gender. ”

"My name is Franconia, Franconia? Stan. Forgive the skeleton head, I have trouble remembering how many years I've spent since I became a skeleton, especially as my sense of time has become more and more blurred lately. The skeleton stall said that he had no impression of age at all: "Of course, I don't think I will be a skeleton for more than ten years at most." ”

"I think that's because you're always a ...... The relationship between the skeleton nesting in a gloomy castle, whether it is loneliness or indulging in one's own interests, can make it difficult to grasp the changes of time, but the former is getting longer and the latter is getting shorter. Sivi said casually: "So do you remember how old you were before you died?" ”…,

"Of course, I remember that I was only 20 years old at the time, and it was a time when I was full of confidence and hope for the future." Skeleton said. Although the content seems to be romantic, it is ironic to say it in an emotionless tone: "As for gender, it is male in life and skeleton in death." Are you satisfied with this answer, my master. ”

"Very satisfied." Sivi touched his chin. Nodding.

In fact, compared to the other party's name and age, Sivi already knew something more important.

For example, this skeleton should be what necromancers call a mutant skeleton.

According to the necromancers' research on the undead, skeletons are completely monsters formed by the corpse of a human being received by the undead plane and transformed into a monster under the strong breath of death.

The flesh is completely rotten, and only the bones are left, and they probably don't have any memories of their lives - in fact, that's why most skeletons look very dull. After all, even the soul has been lost.

However, there are always accidents.

About a hundred years ago, a necromancer claimed that his skeleton had memories of his life and retained consciousness at the level of a normal person. This incident caused an uproar in the necromancer world, and caused many necromancers who were positive about the matter to start examining the skeletons under their hands. As a result, other self-aware skeletons were actually discovered.

Of course, the number of such skeletons is extremely rare compared to the sheer number of skeletons themselves, so much so that many necromancers still regard self-aware skeletons as fantasy - before that, it was generally believed in the necromancer community that only when the skeleton evolved into a skeleton lord or a skeleton monster of the same level, the core of the magic element would replace the role of the soul to make the skeleton self-aware.

Skeletons that are capable of carrying their own memories and retain a sense of self are collectively known as mutant skeletons, and there is still no convincing explanation for their origin. However, for all necromancers who believe in the existence of mutant skeletons, there is no doubt about one thing - this kind of self-contained AI, eh...... I mean, skeletons with their own consciousness can definitely be the focus of cultivation, at least until they advance to the Bone Lord, they tend to be much better than their stupid counterparts.

"Next question...... Let's go to the castle and talk slowly. Looking at Francon, who seemed to want to run to the hot springs again, Sivi sighed. A mage's hand carried it into the castle.

"It may not be convenient for you, but I still hope that you can explain to me the 'must-do' you said earlier." On the way to the dean's room, Sivi asked the skeleton that was swaying behind him.

Sivi is not a laissez-faire man, he always likes to gather as much information as possible so that he can always grasp the situation and the trend. It was the same at this time, in order to prevent accidents that might be unfavorable to the academy, he wanted to know what the other party was going to do, after all, for this purpose. Franconian did not hesitate to do all kinds of experiments, and even gave up when the situation was unfavorable, and if the other party refused, even if he used the permission of the master-servant contract, Sivi did not hesitate.

But to his surprise. Franconian didn't say anything about this, and quickly told Sivi all his purpose.

Franconia was originally just a magician who lived in seclusion in a small village like the previous Sivi, and liked to study all kinds of magic. It's different from Sivi. At that time, Francony got along well with the villagers, and he even found a lover in the village and gave birth to a lovely boy with her.

Although he is already twenty years old and still a beginner magician, Franconian has a very unique research and insight into the construction of magic. The Seven Yao Mage Towers in the nearby big cities even took a fancy to his research abilities and extended an invitation to him. …,

However, Franken, who was newly married at the time, immediately turned down this offer that would give him a bright future, just to have more time with his family.

By setting up a small class similar to a private school, teaching the children in the village to read and understand some magical knowledge, charging tuition, and receiving the manuscript fee from submitting articles to the Goddess of Truth, Franken's life is not as good as that of those rich and wealthy merchants and noble worship mages, but it is still very good compared to ordinary people.

Aside from attending classes and writing magic drafts, the rest of Franken's time was split into two parts. Spend time with family and conduct magical research. He enjoyed it and sincerely hoped that it would continue.

But the god of fate loves to joke with people. Just when Franken's son was just about to turn a year old, he suddenly noticed the presence of a necromancer near the village.

At first, Franconia didn't take this to heart, after all, although the church and the Qiyao Mage Association always shouted and killed necromancers, generally speaking, as long as the other party did not appear in the city. They hadn't done anything particularly harmful, and they weren't really going out of their way to kill a necromancer who was likely to cause great damage to them.

And a reclusive traveler like Franconian would not take the initiative to provoke these perverse necromancers.

Because the village where Franken lived was not far from the city with the Seven Yao Mage Tower, he didn't think that the other party would die to do something in such a place, thinking that the necromancer was just passing by.

But a week later, when Franconian rediscovered the necromancer's tracks, he sensed something was wrong—how could it take that long to pass by?

At the same time, the villagers in the village are showing signs of infection with the plague. Even Franconia, who was only a year old, was no exception.

Realizing that this might be the necromancer's ghost, Franconia decisively informed the Seven Dawn Mage Tower about the incident. Subsequently, the Mage Guild also rounded up the necromancer, but unfortunately nothing came of it.

The pastor of the church examined the sick and determined that the villagers were indeed suffering from a very contagious and incurable plague, but the mortality rate was not too high. This was the first time the plague had appeared, so that neither the priests nor the priests could find a similar disease in the texts, and the source of the plague could not be identified, but the village had to be quarantined to prevent the spread of the plague.

As a result, the people of the village were forcibly evicted to a remote corner, and in isolation there was no way to trade, and they could only survive on a small amount of food subsidized by the city until the new crop matured.

Food was not sufficient, and soon people in the village began to die from the double torment of plague and starvation, and even Francon's children were emaciated and dying.

Believing that the plague must have originated from the necromancer's cursed magic, Franken defied the ban issued by the Mage Guild and the Church, and angrily found the necromancer who was still wandering not far from the city. And got into a fight with the other party.

However, the other party was already a senior mid-level, and Francon, who was still a beginner, was defeated miserably, was directly killed by the other party, and re-summoned it as a skeleton through skeleton resuscitation - after killing the enemy, he had to enslave his corpse as his own subordinates for a lifetime, which is a common habit of many necromancers.

However, what the necromancer didn't expect was that for some reason Franken's memory and consciousness were not lost, but instead clinged to the skeleton. So when the other party was not looking, Franconian attacked and killed the necromancer, and found a notebook from him.

"He's a genius." Franken sat on the couch. Recalling the scene at that time, his bones were so light that he didn't feel like he was sinking down when he sat on the sofa: "It was based on the Plague Cloud and the Plague Curse." Wrote a new curse magic on his own. He seems to call the magic 'Plague Source', and those who die after being infected with this plague will have a plague cloud on their body when they revive it with a skeleton, which is much stronger than ordinary skeletons. His goal was to wait until all the quarantined people were infected with the plague before killing them, so as to replenish his skeleton herd. As you know, the Seven Yao Mage Association will not die for a few plague patients and a necromancer who is about to enter the high ranks, at most it will only verbally sanction it. ”…,

"The source of the plague was released from the water that the people of the village drank from, and because of its insidiousness, even the priest did not discover it. Although there were not many people in the plague situation at that time, in fact all of them were already under the curse. Sooner or later, there will also be a plague. Franconian paused for a moment before continuing: "And, what is even more terrifying is that the water in our village is of the same origin as the water in the city, and the inhabitants of the city should gradually begin to show symptoms of this plague, although I secretly alerted the Holy See that there was a problem with the water source. But to be honest, I'm not hopeful at all that they'll take this tip seriously. But there was nothing I could do about the source of the plague, and I didn't want my lover and son to see me like this, so I ran away with the necromancer's notes. I've been researching necromancy and other magic for years, trying to debunk the effects of the source of the plague, but unfortunately I haven't been able to do it so far......"

"Wait...... If I'm not mistaken, could it be that the city you're talking about is Morag? Sivi, who had heard half of it, suddenly interrupted.

"That's right. Do you know the way, master? The skeleton asked, looking up at Sivi with empty eyes.

"Maybe it's because you've been in the middle of nowhere, so you don't know what to do." Sivi thought about it for a moment, and finally decided to tell him, "Morag has now become a famous plague cage. ”

In fact, not long after Franconian left there, a large-scale plague broke out immediately, and in order to prevent the outbreak of the plague, the nearby lords finally organized a large number of earth elemental mages to sink Morag nearly a hundred meters into a huge pit city, and arranged magma on the periphery to prevent the people inside from escaping.

Of course, the magicians inside were all taken out of the coffin and subjected to various healing measures.

It didn't take long for new penalties to be introduced in the region – those who did not commit a crime to death, but could not be released, would be exiled directly to Morag to fend for themselves.

It is for this reason that Morag is called the plague cage.

"There's only one thing I want to do, get rid of the source of the plague over there, and I'll be at your disposal the rest of the time, but please make sure you give me enough time to test." The skeleton has no eyeballs, but Xiwei is still a little hairy by the other party.

"This request of yours does not conflict with the philosophy of my academy, I can agree."

Sivi nodded and agreed to the other party's request, and then he crossed his fingers with his hands, propped his chin and stared at the skeleton and said, "But don't worry too soon, I have other things to ask you before that." ”

"No problem, just ask."

"Your research on magic is really good......" Because he had seen some of his research results in the other party's castle, Sivi still believed in Franken's research level, "But what about your own magical knowledge?" ”

"Are you going to test me, my master?" Francony asked calmly.

Sivi shrugged noncommittally, and then began to pick out random questions from his knowledge and ask the skeleton one question after another.

The skeleton will answer honestly, too.

Soon Sivi mastered the other party's current level - Franken's knowledge of magic can only be said to be quite good, at least one or two of the more off-the-beaten-path questions in Sivi's school examination can be answered.

In addition, for the university subject of alchemy, Franken's attainments in pharmacy are so poor that Sivi can't help but sigh, but it has a very good foundation in enchantment and demonology, and it is even slightly worse than Sivi in runes.

In the examination school, Franconian performed best in the field of magical construction. …,

In fact, the science of magic tectonics is also a large subject, divided into many disciplines such as spell literature, magic deduction, and alchemism, but Franconian is completely refused, and can answer more detailed things to Sivi's questions in any way, and can even draw inferences and think of some things that even Sivi can't think of.

And one of the things that Franken admires most about Sivi is that he has a very good innovation and imagination in every aspect.

Most of Sivi's knowledge of magic, alchemy, etc., was instilled by the system, except for a little left over from its original predecessor, and in a sense, this knowledge was more like an encyclopedia that could be consulted in an instant—it could answer Sivi's questions, but it could never create something new on its own.

Even magic that seemed to be original to Sivi, such as the Radiant Flame, was actually just a combination of Radiant Flame and Flame Blast, not a true original.

It is precisely because of this that when Franken's talent is revealed, Sivi has a feeling that he has picked up a treasure.

"Very well, from today onwards, you will be the teacher of our academy in the construction of magic." Sivi nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at the bare bone frame: "But before that, I have to get you a leather ......" (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )