Chapter 15 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
The rumors are indeed true, liches are evil creatures!
It's so evil!
Isabel ran out of Amber's study with a red face. If it were a human lord, he would have spread some dirty gossip.
But in this gloomy castle, no one cares about such trivial matters.
A group of uneasy people gathered in the center of the hall on the first floor of the castle. They all had their own thoughts and stared at Isabel on the stairs.
The land reclamation plan is finally going to be announced, which is a turning point in their lives.
Isabel had never tried to speak in front of hundreds of people, and even though she tried hard to muster up the courage, she still spoke haltingly.
"Well... the Lich Master said that we can start the reclamation today... For the specific arrangements, we will allocate them according to the number of young and strong people..."
As a result, I had just finished speaking when someone asked impatiently.
"Then what about our previous land? I had two acres of land and a house in my original territory!"
"Yes, I also have an acre of land."
"I still have a cow!"
"Didn't they say that everything would be fine after coming here? If we start all over again, we'll lose everything!"
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A group of people were talking at the same time, completely drowning out Isabel's voice.
The little girl had never seen such a chaotic scene before. She was so frightened that her face turned pale and she fell down on the stairs.
Seeing the scene in chaos, Isabel was a little flustered. The group of people became more and more excited as they talked, and they kept approaching her, as if they wanted to surround her.
Weren't they all fine before? How come these desperate refugees became so scary when they were about to start a new life? Just when Isabel was about to run away in fear, a sharp scratching sound came, like the sound of a sharp blade scraping on stone.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Raul standing in the hall with a grim face.
He held a big hammer in his right hand and a strangely shaped skeleton in his left hand. The harsh sound just now was the noise made by the skeleton's sickle-like arms scratching on the ground.
This is Kha'Zix No. 1, the alien skeleton created by Amber. Many people present have seen how powerful this skeleton is. When they were escaping, they were chased by the lord's soldiers. Thanks to this strange skeleton, the lord's pursuers were repelled.
This skeleton looks weird, but its fighting power is enough to crush a fully armed militia squad.
Raul carried a sledgehammer and walked towards the crowd step by step.
The crowd, who had just been so excited that they wanted to rebel, now became silent and automatically separated into two sides to make way.
Raul walked without saying a word, and the alien skeleton followed him silently. The sound of footsteps and bone claws crawling echoed in the castle, as if it was even more deafening than the previous quarrel.
Raul walked all the way to Isabel and said seriously: "Stand up, Isabel, don't embarrass the lich master."
Isabel quickly stood up and apologized, "I'm sorry, I..."
Raul interrupted and said, "Now is not the time to apologize. Have you completed the task assigned to you by the Lich Master?"
Isabel didn't expect Raul to speak like this, he sounded like Amber's loyal servant.
Raul helped Isabel up, then turned to the timid refugees and said, "What do you think of the Lich Master's arrangement?"
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the strange skeleton with bared fangs and claws. They had completely calmed down and remembered that the owner of this territory was a lich.
Deep inside the castle, Amber Xiu saw everything that happened in the hall through the magic projection. It was he who arranged for Raul to help Isabel stabilize the situation, and now it seemed that he didn't need to worry about it anymore.
Amber was quite satisfied with Raul's transformation. Once a sheep has personally tried killing its own kind, even the most docile one will begin to transform into a ferocious beast.
With a wave of his hand to dispel the detection magic, Amberxiu once again focused his energy on research.
He has already taken a quick look at the book "Research on Ghost Reproduction". Although he may not have fully grasped the experimental details, he has thoroughly understood the basic principles.
Master Morgan found inspiration from the process of human reproduction.
Human beings reproduce, and after ten months of pregnancy, babies are born with souls. Putting aside the physical body, from the perspective of the soul alone, two independent souls have given birth to a new soul through some means.
Similarly, all races with souls have some way to increase the number of souls.
These new souls have not experienced the process of physical death, so they are not dead in essence.
As long as this soul growth process of one plus one being greater than two can be reproduced through magical means, the new soul can be made into a zombie, a special type of undead soldier that is not restrained by light magic.
It sounds simple, but wanting to get rid of the assistance of the flesh and reproduce purely by relying on the soul itself is more difficult than for a mortal to become a legend.
Master Morgan spent thousands of years and finally created a special ritual magic that can achieve reproduction at the soul level. Master Morgan named this ritual magic "Soul Embryo".
The entire book "Research on Ghost Reproduction" is centered around the ritual magic of "soul embryo", and all the principles are explained in great detail and clearly.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Creation is difficult, but copying is much easier.
Amber is confident that he can reproduce this ritual magic, the only problem is that the cost is too high.
To successfully complete a ritual magic, the cost is nearly 50,000 gold coins.
This is only the cost of a newborn soul. Next, a suitable spirit body needs to be created for this fragile soul, otherwise the soul of the newborn will soon "die" due to the loss of nourishment from the physical body.
This death does not mean that the soul dissipates, but it means that it cannot stay "alive" and will quickly transform into undead. Only special zombie figurines can keep the soul active while having the convenience of undead soldiers that can be disassembled and assembled at will.
The manufacture of the body of a zombie costs a large amount of gold coins. If you want to have a certain level of combat power, the figure will be astronomical.
To create a zombie comparable to a high-level undead, the conservative estimate is that the cost would be 200,000 gold coins.
Amber Xiu said to himself, "I spent 200,000 gold coins to make a zombie, but it only has the combat power of a high-level undead. I might as well hire a few high-level human professionals to work for me with 200,000 gold coins. No wonder this thing is not popular. The cost is too high and there is no cost-effectiveness at all."
But Amber was not disappointed. Instead, he was so excited that the fire of his soul was about to burst out of his eyes.
Because he found that he could significantly reduce the production costs of zombies.
The virtual soul was a special magic that Amberxiu obtained when he was promoted to Legend. He could create different souls according to his needs. The reason why those alien skeletons could function perfectly was entirely because Amberxiu created exclusive souls for them. Otherwise, letting human souls control eight bone claws would definitely be a waste of time.
After reading Master Morgan's works, Amberxiu estimated that he could use the magic of simulated soul to replace the ritual magic of "soul embryo", and the cost would be greatly reduced.
As for the body of the zombie, Amber looked at the large glass bottle on the table, which was the cheap living mercury. The living mercury, which only had a body with high magic resistance but no soul, could perfectly fit the simulated soul made by Amber with just a little modification.
The study of magic is really an interesting thing. I am afraid that even Master Morgan could not have imagined that hundreds of years after his death, a lich would obtain the legendary gift of creating a virtual soul. He would not have thought that those lunatics in the City of Alchemy would create living mercury, a perfect material for zombies.
And now, Amberxiu is standing on the shoulders of giants and is about to embark on a golden road to wealth.
"Master Morgan, if you hadn't died, I would really like to communicate with you."
Amber Xiu sighed and said that if this master could live to this day, the Alchemy City might really be able to complete the mysterious plan of creating gods. This is the power of knowledge.
After expressing his feelings, Amber Xiu began to prepare the materials.
The first experiment in making zombie figurines is about to officially begin!
(End of this chapter)