Chapter 71: Ceate Undead (1/2)
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In the outskirts of the Darknar forest...
Tyler had three red ogres pick up the bodies of Zomatsu and the two brothers, one of which was now a corpse. He didn't know the resurrection spell and wasn't entirely sure if the ogre could survive the process either. He remembered the first thought that came to his mind when he saw the dead body of the ogre. 'Finally... A body I can experiment on.' He had no idea why that was the first thought that popped into his head and was a little disturbed by it.
Of course, there were still the bodies of the trolls and the monsters Jarret's group had returned with for him to use, but Tyler didn't want to waste such valuable materials on a test run. However, the body of a Tier 2 ogre wasn't that valuable to him.
When he had first confirmed that the masked girl had escaped, he contacted Albert with a communication scroll and got him to send three Ogres to help him carry the two unconscious and one dead body. He could've also stored the dead body in his storage ring but, the living matter was a different story, and since his ring had a living property, he had to be mindful of what he stored in there as he didn't want anything that would cause him problems in the future.
With the help of the ogres, it didn't take long for them to return to the castle and place the dead body in the same lab room where they had created the undead duo.
The unconscious demon and ogre were placed in a room somewhere else for Erin to look into. They would be out for a while so Tyler thought he might as well conducts some experiments on the dead ogre so he gets more data on what happened to the previous duo.
Liz had a strange look on her face when Tyler and Rain entered the castle together but Tyler didn't notice it as he was busy directing the ogres on where to go. He also saw Albert walking towards him seemly done securing the previous undead somewhere else in the castle. According to him, there was a temporary cell in the lower parts of the south wing and Tyler couldn't help but wonder if it was the same place he had been imprisoned in.
He still hadn't gotten the chance to fully explore the castle and it seemed that Albert knew it better than him now. Still, he was the only one with access to both the magic library and the secret room behind the throne room so he didn't mind this minor issue. Albert followed him inside the room with the newly retrieved corpse and the girls went with Erin to attend to the injured men. They seemed to drag Rain along forcefully as she had wanted to stay with Tyler.
This was fine for Tyler as he did not want any distractions. After learning from Albert that he had unknowingly created a couple of undead, it was indeed a surprise for him, but now he had the urge to try again. It was one thing to create something by accident, the problem lays in repeating the feat. Although he wasn't that much of a fan of necromancy, he also needed quite a lot of manpower now that he had failed to capture the masked girl.
Tyler entered the room with Albert and went up to the dead body with a gaping hole in its chest that had been placed on the same metal long table. He inspected the body for a while noticing the slight warmth it produced as it had only been dead for about an hour now. Tyler then recalled what Albert had said about the amount of negative energy that had caused the last two scouts to transform so he devised a plan.
Turn undead was a Tier 1 spell that could turn a corpse into a zombie or skeleton, but those were too weak to be of any use to him. However, there was a higher iteration of the spell such as Mummify, Create Undead and probably more he wasn't aware of yet.
Create Undead was a Tier 3 spell he knew about but had never read. He needed the next level of intermediate magic runes to learn it but Tyler planned to try and achieve a similar result with only his current knowledge. He stood by the head of the ogre and placed his hand on its head. Tyler now had more experience manipulating magic runes without constructing a circle so the next part was a lot easier.
The hard part was controlling his Mana so it doesn't go berserk, causing him to receive a backlash. He used several magic runes from the Tier 2 version of the Tier 1 wave of despair spell. 'Touch of despair.' He then used runes from the same just as he had done previously so he could transfer the negative energy via touch.
Tyler did this for hours, he didn't want to lose control so he had to take it slow. This was also a good way to improve his Mana control as well as perfecting the magic runes he was using. He also engraved the runes inside the vacuum of the corpse as the dead loses their mana body. And in the case of a demi-human, their cores would solidify and could no longer be used unless a redirection spell was used within a certain period.
Tyler was learning a lot from this experience as he was creating a core for this body from pure negative energy, as the last gore has been destroyed by whatever killed him. He realized why even though the previous two undead couldn't attack him, he also couldn't control them.
Those corpses had accumulated enough negative energy and slowly developed their cores without any imprint by their creators making one of them go berserk and the other was left with no goal but self-preservation.
This required more Mana than he thought and Tyler didn't know why just a Tier 3 spell would take this much Mana but he soon realized that he was now practically creating a spell and this was the process.
Although he wasn't creating a new spell from scratch and already knew the concept of this one, the fact that he hadn't learned the spell and lacks adequate knowledge on the runes required meant he had to go through this process to create a lesser version of the spell. He had been going through this process for more than four hours now and Albert just stood there the entire time before he finally saw the table vibrate.
Tyler opened his eyes slowly and saw a familiar sight as before, only this time was less chaotic. Black aura encased the body of the dead ogre as the table kept vibrating. Tyler soon saw the aura slowly diminished and the figure of the previous pale ogre was now drastically different. He was now even taller than before like a miniature giant.