The Dean Has Arrived

In the end, Xi Wei accepted the skeleton's surrender.

Although judging from the exchange diary written by Sophia, this guy seems to have killed a lot of Kate tribe, but this has nothing to do with Xi Wei. The only reason he was hostile to this skeleton was because it attacked his own students. Regarding this point, Xi Wei has already taught it a good lesson.

In addition, Xi Wei 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 more valuable items from the skeleton's castle, Xi Wei gave it a homecoming crystal to let it go back to the floating island first, while he killed the two helpless snow monsters. After reporting to Alisa and the others, the effect of the [Savior Bond] ended, and they returned to Sky Island—but after so much time, the deficit in the magic pool in the academy panel was so huge that it made Xi Wei feel ashamed to the point.

If it weren't for the cost of demolishing the building, it might be more cost-effective to just demolish and rebuild.

As soon as he returned to the empty island, Xi Wei saw the skeleton lying in the fountain, who seemed to be studying the operation principle of the holy spring of chant...

Because Xi Wei felt that there were only a few leprechauns besides himself on such a large empty island, and he felt too lifeless, so he specially bought some small ornamental fish fry and sprinkled them in the river and fountain pool. In order to prevent these fish from falling off the empty island with the water, he also set up several blocking nets in the river channel.

At this time, there are many small fish curiously pecking at the bone frame that looks like a dead thing lying in the fountain, which looks extraordinarily weird.

"What are you doing?" Xi Wei looked at the scene speechlessly. asked after a while.

However, because most of the body was submerged in water, the skeleton's usual skills of manipulating the wind element to speak were no longer effective, and only a series of grunting sounds and bubbles came out.

Xi Wei sighed, lifted the skeleton out of the fountain with the magician's hand and put it aside, then threw a few small fish that fell out of the skeleton's chest and skull back into the pool.

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

"This place is amazing," it said, looking around with its empty eye sockets.

Although Xi Wei knew that it should be sighing from the bottom of its heart when it said this, the lack of ups and downs in its tone felt like a crappy actor following the script. It made Xi Wei a little uncomfortable.

"From today onwards, you will stay in this magical place for a long time. So don't worry, you will have a lot of time to study this place." Xi Wei manipulated the mage's hand and pointed at the Homecoming Saint again. The skeleton, which was about to move, pulled back to its original position: "Before that, I must have a full understanding of you."

Although it's still early. But Xi Wei 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 everything, my master." The skeleton was very cooperative.

"First the basics. Name, age, gender."

"My name is Franken, Franken Stein. Excuse me, the bone-headed skeleton, I've lost track of how many years I've been a skeleton, especially as my sense of time has become increasingly blurred lately. "Skull spread out his hands, saying that he has 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 it's because you're always one... The relationship between the skeleton nesting in the dark castle, whether it's loneliness or indulging in one's own interests, it will make it difficult for people to grasp the changes of time, but the former is getting longer and the latter is Get shorter." Xi Wei said casually, "Then do you remember how old you were before you died?"

"Of course I remember this. I was only twenty years old at the time, and it was the moment when I was full of confidence and longing for the future." Skull said. Although the content seems very romantic, it makes people feel that this sentence has a bit of irony when it is said in an emotionless tone: "As for gender, it is male in life and skeleton in death. Are you satisfied with this answer, I master."

"Very satisfied." Xi Wei touched his chin. nodded.

In fact, Xi Wei already understood something more important than the other party's name and age.

For example, this skeleton should be the mutated skeleton in the mouth of necromancers.

According to the necromancers' research on the undead, the skeleton is completely a monster formed by the corpse transformation under the strong breath of death after the human corpse is received by the plane of the undead.

The flesh is completely rotted, and only the bones are left. They should not have any memory of their life—in fact, most of the skeletons look very dull because of this. After all, even the soul has been lost.

However, there are always accidents in everything.

About a hundred years ago, a necromancer claimed that his skeleton had memories of his life and maintained a normal level of consciousness. This incident caused an uproar in the necromancer world, and many necromancers who were positive about this incident began to check the skeletons under their hands. As a result, other self-aware skeletons were discovered one after another.

Of course, the number of such skeletons is extremely rare compared to the huge number of skeletons themselves, so that until now, many necromancers still regard skeletons with self-awareness as a fantasy—here Previously, the necromancer community generally believed that only when the skeleton evolved into a skeleton lord or a skeleton-type monster of the same level, the core of magic essence would replace the role of the soul and make the skeleton self-aware.

Skeletons that can carry their own memories and maintain self-awareness are collectively called Mutant Skeletons. There is still no convincing theory about the reason for their birth. However, for all necromancers who believe in the existence of mutated skeletons, there is no doubt that this kind of skeleton with its own AI, uh... I mean, the skeleton with its own consciousness can definitely be regarded as a key training object, at least in the advanced stage. Before the Skeleton Lords, they were often much stronger than their stupid counterparts.

"The next question... Let's talk slowly in the castle." Looking at Franken who seemed to want to go to the hot springs to study, Xi Wei sighed. A mage's hand carried it into the castle.

"Although it may be inconvenient for you, I still hope that you can explain to me the 'things that must be done' that you said earlier." On the way to the dean's room, Xi Wei looked at the dangling skeleton behind him. asked.

Xi Wei is not laissez-faire, he always likes to collect as much information as possible so that he can always grasp the situation and direction of the situation. It was the same at this time. In order to prevent accidents that might be unfavorable to the academy, he only wanted to know what the other party was going to do. After all, it was for this purpose. Franken did all kinds of sexual experiments without hesitation, and even gave up when the situation was unfavorable. If the other party refused, even Xi Wei would not hesitate to use the authority of the master-servant contract.

But to his surprise. Franken didn't show any words about this, and quickly told Xi Wei all about his purpose.

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

Although he is already twenty years old, he is still a junior magician, but Franken has extremely unique research and insights into the structure of magic. The Qiyao Mage Pagoda in the nearby big city even took a fancy to his research ability and sent him an invitation.

But Franken, who was newlywed at the time, immediately declined this invitation, which would make him a promising future, just to have more time with his family.

By setting up a small class similar to a private school to teach the children in the village to read and understand some common sense of magic and collecting tuition fees, plus the manuscript fee for submitting articles to the Goddess of Truth, Franken's life is not as good as those of the rich and wealthy nobles and businessmen. A noble enshrined mage, but compared with ordinary people, it is considered to be very good.

In addition to attending classes and writing magic manuscripts, Franken's remaining time was divided into two parts. Accompanied by family and magic research. He likes this kind of life very much, and sincerely hopes that this kind of life can continue.

But the God of Destiny likes to joke with people. Just when Franken's son was just one year old, he suddenly discovered that there was a necromancer near the village.

Franken didn't take this seriously at first. After all, although the Church and the Qiyao Mage Association always shouted at the necromancers, generally speaking, as long as the other party did not appear in the city in a fair manner. They didn't do anything particularly harmful, and they wouldn't really go to war to destroy a necromancer who was likely to cause huge losses to themselves.

And a reclusive traveler like Franken would not take the initiative to provoke these perverted necromancers.

Because the village where Franken lived in seclusion was not far from the city with the Qiyao Mage Tower, he didn't think that the other party would be dead enough to make trouble in such a place, thinking that the necromancer was just passing by.

But a week later, when Franken found the trace of the necromancer again, he felt something was wrong—how could it take so long to pass by?

At the same time, the villagers in the village showed signs of being infected with the plague one after another. Even Franken's one-year-old was no exception.

After realizing that this might be the work of the necromancer, Franken decisively reported the incident to the Qiyao Mage Tower. Then the Mage Association also rounded up the necromancer, but unfortunately there was no result.

After examining the patients, the pastor of the church determined that what the villagers had was indeed a highly contagious, difficult-to-cure plague, but the death rate was not too high. This is the first time that this kind of plague has appeared, so that priests and priests can't find similar diseases in the classics, and the source of the plague is still unclear. However, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, the village must be quarantined.

As a result, the people in the village were forcibly expelled to a remote corner. In addition to the isolation, there was no way to do business. Before the new round of crops matured, they could only rely on a small part of the food subsidized by the city to survive.

There was not enough food, and soon people in the village began to die from the double torment of plague and hunger, and even Franken's children became skinny and dying.

Thinking that this plague must have come from the necromancer's curse magic, Franken ignored the ban issued by the Mages Association and the church, and angrily found the necromancer who was still wandering not far from the city. And fought with each other.

But the opponent has long been a senior middle-level, and Franken, who is still a beginner, was defeated. He was directly killed by the opponent, and he was re-summoned as a skeleton through skeleton recovery-after killing the enemy, his body must be destroyed. Serving as one's own subordinates for a lifetime is a common hobby of many necromancers.

However, what the necromancer didn't expect was that Franken's memory and consciousness were not lost for some reason, but were attached to the skeleton. So when the other party was not paying attention, Franken shot and killed the necromancer in a sneak attack, and found a notebook from him.

"He's a genius." Franken sat on the sofa. Recalling the scene at that time, he said that his bone frame was very light, and he would not feel sunken when sitting on the sofa: "He even used the plague cloud and the curse of the disease as a blueprint. He wrote a new curse magic by himself. He seemed It is called the magic "source of plague". People who die after being infected with this plague will have a plague cloud on their body when they are revived with skeletons, which is much stronger than ordinary skeletons. His purpose is to wait until the quarantine After all the people are infected with the plague, kill them and use it to enrich your own skeleton group. You know, the Qiyao Mage Association will not die for a few plague patients and a necromancer who is about to enter a high level. Verbally sanction it."

"The source of the plague was released in the water source that the people in the village drank. Because of its invisibility, even the priest did not discover it. Although there were not many people in the plague situation at that time, in fact, all the people had already been cursed. Sooner or later You will also suffer from the plague." Franken paused for a while before continuing: "Moreover, what is even more frightening is that the water in our village and the city are from the same source, and the residents in the city should gradually begin to suffer from this plague. Symptoms, although I secretly reminded the Holy See of the problem of the water source. But to be honest, I have no hope at all whether they will pay attention to this reminder. But at that time, I had no way to deal with the source of the plague, and I didn’t want to My love and son saw me like this, so I ended up running away with that necromancer's note. I have been studying necromancy and other magic for so many years, trying to decipher the effect of the source of the plague, but unfortunately So far no success..."

"Wait... If I'm not mistaken, could it be that the city you mentioned is Morag?" Xi Wei, who had heard half of it, suddenly interrupted.

"That's right. Do you know, master?" Skeleton raised his head, staring at Xi Wei with empty eye sockets and asked.

"Maybe it's because you've been in a remote place so you don't know." Xi Wei thought about it, and finally decided to tell him: "Morag has now become a famous plague cage."

In fact, shortly after Franken left there, a large-scale plague erupted immediately. In order to prevent the outbreak of the plague, the nearby lords finally organized a large number of earth elemental mages, and jointly brought Morag down. It sank nearly a hundred meters and became a huge pothole city, and magma was arranged around the periphery to prevent the people inside from escaping.

Of course, the magicians inside were taken out and received various treatments.

It didn't take long for a new punishment for crimes to be introduced in that area-for those who did not deserve to die, but could not be released, they would be exiled directly to Morag, and left to fend for themselves.

It is precisely because of this that Morag is called the Plague Cage.

"There is only one thing I want to do. Get rid of the source of the plague over there. I can do whatever you want at other times, but please leave me enough time for experiments." Skeletons have no eyeballs, but Xi Wei But still being looked at by the other party is a little bit psychological.

"Your request does not conflict with my college's philosophy, so I can agree."

Xi Wei nodded in agreement with the other party's request, and then he clasped his hands and fingers, propped his chin and stared at the skeleton, and said, "But don't worry too soon, I have other things I plan to ask you before then."

"No problem, just ask."

"Your research on magic is really good..." Because he saw some of its research results in the opponent's castle, Xi Wei still believed in Franken's research level: "But your own magic knowledge How?"

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

Xi Wei shrugged noncommittally, and then began to randomly pick out questions from his own knowledge to ask the skeleton.

The skeleton will also answer honestly.

Soon Xi Wei grasped the opponent's current level - Franken's knowledge of magic can only be said to be not bad, at least Xi Wei can answer one or two of the more partial questions in the exam.

In addition, for the major subject of alchemy, Franken's attainments in pharmacy are so poor that Xi Wei can't help but sigh, but he has a very good foundation in enchantment and magic creation, even in runes. It's just a little worse than Xi Wei.

In the examination school, Franken performed best in magic structure.

In fact, magic structure is also a major subject, which is divided into many disciplines such as spell literature, magic power deduction, and spellcasting. He was able to answer more detailed questions, and even draw inferences from one instance, thinking of things that even Xi Wei couldn't think of.

What Xi Wei admired most about Franken was that it had great innovation and imagination in every aspect.

Xi Wei's knowledge of magic, alchemy, etc., except for a little left over from his predecessor, most of it was instilled by the system. In a sense, this knowledge is important to Xi Wei. It's more like an encyclopedia that can be queried instantly - it can answer Xi Wei's questions, but it can never create new things by itself.

Even the magic that seems to be original by Xi Wei, such as Brilliant Break, is actually just the magic he combined with Brilliant Flame and Pyroblast, not original in the true sense.

It was precisely because of this that when Franken's talent was revealed, Xi Wei felt like he had found a treasure.

"Very good, from today onwards, you will be the magic structure teacher of our academy." Xi Wei nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at the bare bones: "But before that, I have to get you a skin... ..."rs! ~!

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