Chapter 2: The Core of Life and Death
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Seventeen years of spectatorship allowed him to learn a lot of magic knowledge, but he never cast any spells, so he could only be regarded as a scholar, not a mage.
It wasn't until he weaved his first spell that he became a mage.
Only spells that are truly woven in this world will be detected by the life and death core, and will appear in the attribute panel.
With a 5-point physique, Gavin's bone strength has been restored to the level of ordinary human bones, so that it will not fall apart when the wind blows.
The mage's biggest reliance is mana, and the mana that mages are used to is arcane energy.
A mage without mana is like a poisonous snake without poison, losing its greatest reliance.
Most matter can be used as carriers of arcane energy, either physical or bone, can carry mana, but under normal circumstances, there is not much mana that can be carried.
The carrying capacity of skeletons for mana is far inferior to that of flesh.
This skeleton body now only carries 20 mana, and it can't even cast a slightly stronger Tier 1 spell.
It must be transformed.
Gavin picked up the carving knife and removed his bones one by one, carving runes into them.
This was originally a method for the Eternal Night Hades to increase the strength of their subordinate Hades General, and it belonged to the category of alchemy. Because he felt the novelty, Gavin remembered it in the spectators, and now he used it to strengthen himself.
It was a brutal process, but the skeleton felt no pain. As for the psychological discomfort, Gavin has been completely immune after watching the Eternal Night Hades do it countless times.
Exactly three hours.
He carved all his bones with runes, and the carrying capacity of the skeleton's body for mana was increased tenfold.
Now he has 200 mana, enough to cast at least four Tier 1 spells, and his own safety is guaranteed.
He had time to think hard.
Death is not scary, there are so many ways in this world to bring a newly dead back to life without any side effects.
The terrible thing is that there is no resurrection.
The necromancer's intentions were very sinister, using the level 3 necromancy spell "Ecstasy and Bone Erosion" to wear away flesh and soul, leaving only a white bone, and all the clothes and clothing on his body existed, indicating the identity of this white bone.
This is a very vicious method of killing, and it is obvious that the person behind the necromancer and this white bone have an unrivalled hatred.
From his vast memories, Gavin knew that the murderer was likely to be a noble kid named "William Barov" in Pegasus City. Driven by interests and emotional entanglements, he killed Gavin, and between the two of them was a girl named "Morgana".
William Barov was vain, entertaining, and thoughtful, and the original Gavin died at the hands of a necromancer, who must have left without proof.
Such a violent storm, with William's temperament, could not have been viewed in the rain.
But when the storm is over, he will definitely come to check it out, and his personality has always been very cautious. And he would come to see it himself, and his death must be kept secret and not let anyone else know. Once he lets his sister know that his death is related to him, then he will face the crazy revenge of the Sullivan family.
Gavin didn't know how long the storm would last, and there wasn't much time left for him.
He had to get out of here as soon as possible.
Skeletons belong to the category of undead, their bodies are very fragile, and in the human world they belong to street rats, and everyone shouts and fights. Only by going to the dark regions buried deep underground can Gavin have any chance of surviving.
And revenge, or any other plan, can only be ranked second.
The Dark Realm belongs to the underground world, which is ten meters below the surface of the earth, and the environment is intricate. Almost every town has several entrances to the Dark Realms, and the wilderness is countless.
This is the outskirts of Pegasus City, in the southern part of the quiet forest. In an abandoned medium-sized cemetery in the Quiet Forest, one of the tombs has its headstone removed to create a portal to the Dark Realm.
The wild is dangerous, and Gavin must be fully prepared to enter the dark realms. There is the law of the jungle, where the strong survive and the weak eliminate. If you don't have a certain amount of strength, entering the dark region will become someone else's meal.
The casting of necromancy requires death energy, and some also require casting materials. Bone meal is the easiest spell casting material.
Gavin unleashed his psychic power, which is a Tier 0 spell "Sensing the Undead" that does not consume any energy.
The spirit of 19 points surpassed most mortals, enough for him to perceive the undead within a hundred meters of his surroundings, or five meters underground.
Gavin's eyes were filled with two dark blue flames pulsing, and he had found his target.
Ten meters to the east of the hut, there is a skeleton.
It was the skeleton of an old dog, dead for more than three months, the flesh and blood had completely decayed, and only a white skeleton remained, and there was still a faint death energy left on it.
Every mage learns alchemy.
Perhaps because of the potential influence between the two souls, the young man who carried part of Gavin's soul was a genius with great talent for alchemists, an intermediate alchemist, and there were also a lot of alchemy tools in this hut.
Gavin took the old dog's bones into the hut, then dismantled the bones, smashed them into pieces, and began to carve and grind.
Alchemy is a very complex technique, and many materials need to be carved into fixed shapes or ground into powder.
Gavin has a lot of knowledge about alchemy, but he has never done it with his hands, and the coordination of the skeleton's body is relatively poor.
However, he was very patient, and it took him five hours to grind all the small pieces of bone into bone meal and shape the large pieces of bone into specific shapes. Skeletons do not need to eat and do not get tired, which is the only benefit of skeletons.
From the old dog skeleton, Gavin gets 12 death energy. Gavin consumed half of the bone meal and performed bone hyperplasia on his skeleton body, further increasing the strength of the bones and increasing his physique to 6 points, barely able to cope with long journeys, but not enough.
Gavin used a small shovel to carefully dig up the piece of soil that had soaked into the "Blood of the Fire Boy", then put it into a glass container, add water, add the bottle of unfinished potion, then add a small amount of bone meal, stir and let it stand for half an hour, wait until the soil settled, and then use a small spoon to pour the water on it carefully onto his bones.
Make a sizzling sound.
There was a slight error in the ratio of that bottle of potion, resulting in the effect of the bottle being reduced by at least 30% even if the bottle was completed. In addition, the blood of the fire boy has already evaporated a lot, and the effect has been reduced by half.
The potion Gavin concocted in this way was extremely ineffective, but it was better than nothing.
The Fire Child is a very peculiar fire elemental creature who is born with a flame constitution. It is very small in size, only about 1 meter tall.
The Fire Child is covered in elemental flames, and only in the heart is there blood, and that is the blood of the Fire Child.
The heart of a fire boy can only refine a drop of fire boy blood, which is very precious.
The Blood of the Fire Child contains a large amount of elemental flame, and if it dripped onto a tree, it can even burn an entire tree to ashes.
Even though it was diluted thousands of times, the potion mixed with the blood of the fire boy was still burning his bones.
It is also a means of strengthening bones.
It took almost an hour for Gavin to pour all the potions on his bones, turning them from grayish white to a faint red.
His constitution has not changed, but 1 fire resistance has appeared in his stats.
This means that ordinary small flames can no longer cause damage to themselves. And in extremely cold weather, the bones will also maintain a certain temperature so that they will not be frozen.
Night falls.
The cottage crumbled in the storm, and the starless night was particularly dark.
Rainwater fell into the house along the cracks in the roof, and the ground became muddy.
Gavin used polished bones as spell nodes, wooden sticks to support the bones, and thatched huts as wires to guide the path of mana, which was covered in mud - the precipitated mud in the container, which contained the blood of the Fire Boy.
This is a spell model of a standard Tier 1 spell "Bone Fire", with a total of 73 spell nodes, and Gavin enters 1 mana on each bone to establish a solid spell circuit.
One of the bunches of thatch, resting on the door of the hut, is the simplest spell trigger loop.
When the door is opened again, one end of this bundle of thatch is disconnected, the trigger circuit is activated, the spell "bone fire" is triggered, and the mana on the bones will stimulate the blood of the fire boy in the mud, forming a cold bone fire, this process will be delayed for half a minute, just enough for the person who opened the door to enter the hut.
The bone fire will ignite the thatched hut, and under the impetus of mana, in a very short time, the entire hut will be turned into a sea of fire.
William Barov is a reserve knight of the Solar Lancers, with a Tier 5 Human/Tier 5 Warrior (Tier 1 Probationary Knight) or higher template. A first-order bone fire spell couldn't kill him, but at least it could leave him with a painful lesson that he would never forget.
It's just a small interest.
When Gavin is strong enough, he will kill the distant relative with his own hands, and use the spell "Ecstasy to Destroy Bones" to corrupt him into a skeleton, making him an eternal enslaved skeleton warrior, ending the cause and effect between himself and him.
Cause and effect of hatred.
Gavin took one last glance around the room to make sure there was nothing wrong with the spell trap, so he pushed the door open and closed the wooden door without any nostalgia.
The storm grew stronger, dissipating the breath of the undead, and also made the caravan or adventurer in the wilderness very small, reducing the chance of being discovered, which was beneficial to his actions.
Gavin threw away all his burdensome clothes, just picked up the oak staff, and hurried away in the night.
He had to get to the dark underworld as soon as possible to keep himself safe.