Chapter 67: Progress and Magical Troubles
Although Locke and his party arrived at the mansion of other members of the Floyd family, Locke remained cautious in this strange place. Outside the courtyard led by Locke, there are always two subordinate warriors guarding it, and once something happens, Locke can also know it as soon as possible.
Locke and his party have two independent courtyards, and Locke originally wanted Rowling and some of his subordinates to live in the other courtyard, but Rowling was reluctant to live and insisted on living with her brother.
Rowling's stay also made Locke a little helpless. Locke didn't want anyone else to live with him, as that would affect Locke's research on necromancy.
After Rowling entered the Floyd family's mansion, there was an inexplicable fear in her heart, only with her brother would Rowling feel at ease, which is why Rowling lived and died differently from living in another courtyard.
Throughout the afternoon, Locke did not leave his courtyard, and had been waiting for the news that his subordinates had collected from Damo City.
Some of the news, either in the form of information or oral transmission, was collected and brought into Locke's courtyard by Locke's subordinates.
When night fell, Locke knew about the basic information of Da Mo City.
To Locke's surprise, Rowling, who lived in the same courtyard with him, did not disturb Locke for an afternoon. All afternoon, Rowling spent the whole afternoon in her room, quietly refining magic crystals to accumulate magic power.
After instructing the guard's subordinates, Locke entered his room.
Sensing that Rowling was still working hard to refine the magic crystal and accumulate magic power, Locke also planned to continue to study the undead magic that he had just successfully cast, the undead summoning.
The spiritual power in Locke's body is still in the best state, although in the previous battle, Locke cast several undead magic, and the spiritual power and magic power have been consumed, but the consumption is not much, and the spiritual power has been completely recovered after this time. It's just that Locke consumed a little undead mana, but he didn't recover spontaneously.
The magic spell summoned by the undead went through Locke's mind.
Then the incantation began to be chanted quietly from Locke's mouth. With the chanting of the magic spell, Locke's spiritual power was also constantly consumed.
At this time, Locke felt as if his spiritual power had passed through the barrier of the plane and extended to another plane, which was the plane that Locke was familiar with, the undead plane.
"Well, failed again. Locke just felt a burst of mental power drain, and the spell was over, and Locke didn't summon any undead creatures.
"Looks like I still need to start practicing with low-level undead creatures. Locke secretly pondered the reason for his failed spell casting. For this time, the spell failed, and Locke was also prepared. After all, Locke is not familiar with undead magic such as undead summoning, and the chances of casting a spell are not high. Moreover, the higher the level of the undead creature summoned, the more difficult it will be, and the higher the chance of failure.
The biggest reason for Locke's failure this time is because Locke summoned a fifth-level undead creature this time, and the chance of casting a spell is naturally extremely low.
Although the spell failed, Locke did not lose heart, and planned to continue practicing the undead summoning magic step by step.
When Locke cast the spell for the second time, a burst of white light flashed, and a white undead creature appeared in Locke's room.
This time, Locke summoned a second-level skeleton warrior, and it was also the second undead creature summoned by Locke.
As soon as this second-level skeleton warrior appeared, he was instantly crushed by Locke's body, leaving only the floating soul fire. In the case that the soul fire of this second-level undead creature has not yet returned to the undead plane, the soul fire of this second-level undead creature was directly swallowed by Locke.
Of course, the soul fire of the second-level undead creature did not bring any benefit to Locke because the level was too low. However, it pointed out the direction for Locke to continue to improve his strength in the Loki plane.
In the time that followed, Locke was summoned again and again by his undead.
Of course, Locke's undead summoning spells are some successful and some fail.
As time goes on, the chances of Locke's spell being successful are getting higher and higher. And in the process of casting spells, the level of the undead creatures that Locke began to choose to summon is also constantly increasing.
Every time a spell is cast, whether it succeeds or fails, a portion of Locke's spiritual power will be consumed, and the higher the level of the undead creature that Locke chooses to summon, the greater the spiritual power consumed.
In this case, the spiritual power in Locke's soul was consumed extremely quickly. The mana consumption in Locke's body is much slower, and only when the spell is cast successfully, the magic power in Locke's body will be consumed when the undead summoned creature breaks through the limit of the plane wall, so the speed of Locke's mana consumption is less than one-third of his mental power consumption rate.
However, after dozens of minutes, Locke had already begun to choose to summon mid-level undead creatures.
Each time an undead creature is summoned, Locke kills it instantly, devouring its soul fire before it can return to the undead plane. For Locke, who was a fifth-level undead creature, the soul fire of a low-level undead creature devoured by Locke, had no reaction at all.
However, when Locke devoured the soul fire of the first fourth-level undead creature, he found that although his soul fire could not enhance his soul fire, it could replenish his consumed spiritual power to a certain extent.
Originally, after Locke summoned a fourth-level undead creature, his spiritual power was almost exhausted. And when Locke devoured the soul fire of this fourth-level undead creature, Locke's spiritual power instantly recovered somewhat.
After several times, Locke had to stop summoning the undead.
At this time, there was still more than half of the magic power in Locke's body, but Locke's spiritual power was exhausted.
Although every time Locke devoured the soul fire of a fourth-level undead creature, his spiritual power could recover a lot. It's just that Locke's chance of summoning fourth-level undead creatures is relatively less than 100%, and Locke's remaining spiritual power is getting less and less.
Locke summons slaying undead creatures in the room, and naturally makes some noise.
In Locke's soul perception, Rowling, who lived in the same courtyard as him, also heard the movement she made when she killed the skeleton creature. However, Rowling didn't plan to come to her room to check it out.
In her room, Rowling has been cultivating and improving herself. Hearing the movement coming from her brother's room, in Rowling's thoughts, her brother should be practicing his sword in the room to cause some movement.
Locke looked at the many bones scattered on the ground, and directly collected these bones into the altar space.
Feeling his rapid progress in the magic of summoning the undead, Locke was also extremely happy in his heart.
Although Locke has not yet summoned a fifth-level undead creature, Locke knows that he will definitely be able to summon a fifth-level undead creature next time. At that time, he will be able to directly devour the soul fire of the summoned undead creatures, and he will be able to directly enhance the soul fire and quickly advance to the sixth-level mage skeleton level.
Undead creatures summoned by necromancers to other planes, although they can still return to the undead plane, but it does take time, and Locke can instantly kill the undead creatures summoned by himself, without giving them time to return to the undead plane.
In meditation, time flies, and when Locke's consumed mental power is fully recovered, it is already dawn.
After recovering his mental power, Locke couldn't help but think of the consumption of magic power in his body.
Since Locke came to the Loki plane, it has been difficult to sense the existence of the death element, that is, the magic of the undead. The undead magic in the surrounding space was extremely scarce, and Locke found himself unable to absorb such a thin element of death.
After discovering this situation, Locke knew that if he wanted to continue to summon undead creatures in the future, he first needed to solve the problem of how to restore the undead magic in his body.
Locke is a skeletal creature with a lot more magic stored in his body than a human mage of the same level. Therefore, when Locke's spiritual power was exhausted, more than half of the magic power in his body was still not consumed.
How to quickly recover the magic power in his body, Locke couldn't help but think about how other necromancers in the Loki plane accumulated mana and replenished the mana.