The Witcher starts by getting the inspiration panel

Chapter 23 The Combat Power of Skeletons (for further reading)

In an instant, Li Cha's soul wandered again, this time still possessing a crooked figure, still chanting the spell to control the skeleton over and over again aloud, but the focus has changed. This time Li Cha's focus is on understanding how to control the skeleton , to perform daily actions.

After performing it several times, Li Cha seemed to be enlightened and inspired. It turned out that he wanted to subdivide his mental power into two tentacles, and control the left and right sides of the skeleton frame at a certain rhythm.

But the difficulty of subdividing the mental power and probing out one tentacles and two tentacles is completely different!

So, the rickety figure repeatedly manipulated the skeleton to walk, first stepping out the left foot, then stepping out the right foot, and after slowly coordinating the steps, the arms should also be raised
After a long time, when Li Cha regained his senses, he performed the trick of manipulating the skeleton again. Sure enough, the skeleton walked much more smoothly, more like a normal person walking.

After performing it a few more times, Li Cha has fully grasped the rhythm of this walking control.

Immediately, Li Cha was overjoyed, and controlled the skeleton "Kara Kala" to run around the room.

For a moment, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Li Cha controlled the skeleton to speed up and run to the chair, and slammed the wooden chair back with a hand knife!
There was only a "click", and there was a crisp sound of wood cracking, and the hard chair back bar was easily broken into two pieces.

Li Cha took a closer look, first carefully looked at the palm bones of the skeleton frame, and then at the broken part of the crossbar on the back of the chair, his eyes lit up.

The chairs in the school dormitory are all made of black pine wood, which is durable.

If it was not deliberately damaged, Li Cha estimated that it would last for decades without replacement, but even such a hard wood was easily split by the skeleton he manipulated.

This shouldn't be just because the skeleton that Melo gave was a quasi-knight, with a solid skeleton.

And it's more about the magic of witchcraft. It seems that under the control of spiritual power, the hardness of the skeleton's bones has also been enhanced by some unknown reason!

Otherwise, Li Cha really doesn't know how to explain that the palm bones are intact, but the black pine wood, which is almost as hard and strong, is easily broken.

Immediately, in order to verify his guess, Li Cha manipulated the skeleton to cut off the other two backrest bars on the back of the chair.

When the skeleton's palm bone was checked again, it was still white and undamaged, as good as new!

Li Cha looked happy, retracted the tentacles of mental power, picked out a bone from a pile of scattered bones, picked up the knight's long sword and made a few gestures lightly.

Without the blessing of mental power, the bones still had no scratches. Li Cha was immediately surprised. It seemed that his previous guess was wrong.

Obviously, it's not because of my spiritual blessing, but because this skeleton has been strengthened by some means.

Li Cha patted his forehead, and finally recalled what Melo said before leaving, "This is the skeleton of a quasi-knight, which has undergone preliminary purification and strengthening."

The key should be in the two words of purification and strengthening!

Of course, there is also the word "preliminary", which indicates that the hardness of the bone should be further strengthened.

"Hey, I've only used it a few times. Why do I feel that my mental power is being consumed a lot!" Li Cha was puzzled. It stands to reason that manipulating skeletons should consume very little mental power. Feel!

Could it be that the higher the level of mastery of the trick of manipulating the skeleton, the more mental power it consumes when manipulating it?
No, no, it should be that the more complicated the action of manipulating the skeleton, the greater the mental power it will consume, and the longer the continuous manipulation, the greater the mental power it will consume!
Thinking of this, Li Cha's complexion darkened, and his brows were tightly frowned.

From this point of view, the short board of my lack of mental strength must be made up for.

Otherwise, even if the skeleton can be manipulated exquisitely, if the time is too short, it will be of little practical value!

This is quite different from Li Cha's original plan of manipulating skeletons in the wild to kill all directions.

Call up the panel and look, only to see the [Witchcraft] column: Manipulating Skeletons (thickness 14%).

It has already entered the second level, that is, the superficial level.

Li Cha made a rough estimate, although the current skeleton frame is much more flexible, as if a real person is walking.

But the corresponding mental power consumption is nearly 0.4% more than that of the entry-level level. Almost every half hour, it needs to consume units of mental power.

In conversion, it consumes 0.8 units of mental power per hour.

"Could it be that the next level, that is, the proficiency level needs to consume more than 1 unit of mental power? In this case, doesn't it mean that I can only maintain the skeleton for a maximum of two or three hours before exhausting my mental power!"

Li Cha paced back and forth, thinking whether to further improve the trick [Manipulate Skeleton], or to postpone it for now.

After a long time, Li Cha's expression froze and he made up his mind.

No matter what, let’s push the juggling [Skeleton Manipulation] to the proficiency level first, because only at the proficiency level can one meet the training standard for the zero-level witchcraft [Shadow Grasp] in the future.

Sooner or later, you have to improve, it is better to improve now!
Half a day later, Li Cha looked exhausted, looking haggard and exhausted, but seeing the [Witchcraft] column displayed on the panel showed: Manipulating skeletons (16% proficient), he was extremely happy in his heart.

Li Cha raised his brows, but didn't see any movement, and the skeleton next to him "thumped", like a -meter race, and quickly ran to the desk.

Before Kankan hit the desk, he braked suddenly and stopped firmly, ten centimeters away from the desk.

At this time, the skeleton stretched out his right hand, picked up a thick book on the table, then returned to Li Cha again, and handed it to Li Cha.

The smooth movement of the whole process is almost the same as that of a real person.

The skeleton picked up the knight's long sword from the wall again, made a starting gesture of Cornell's swordsmanship, and then began to gesticulate with style and style.

Adept at mastering tricks, Li Cha has been able to control skeletons and make very complicated movements, and the accuracy of his control has also been greatly enhanced.

The only disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of mental power, which is estimated to consume 1 unit of mental power per hour, but this is already a little less than Richard expected.

Looking at the skeleton in front of him performing Cornell's swordsmanship, Li Cha nodded slightly, with a satisfied smile on his face.

From the current point of view, the combat power of the skeleton under his spiritual control has reached the level of a quasi-knight.

The most important thing is that the skeleton he controls is not afraid of death!

Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, he will not hesitate to follow his will and go through fire and water!

However, Li Cha, who was planning to further improve his tricks, called up the panel and glanced at the energy consumed, he couldn't help being surprised.

The energy point has dropped from the original 3505 to 2805, consuming a full 700 points.

This hasn't even gotten to the point - learning Rodrigue's meditation and the grip of the shadows, this foreplay has already consumed so much energy? ? ?
Li Cha was also speechless for a while!

"This level of consumption is far more than the inspiration of a bow and crossbow! It seems that the improvement of witchcraft consumes far more energy than basic skills!" Li Cha frowned and thought to himself.

Originally, he also planned that if the energy consumption is not high, he will continue to improve the control of skeletons to proficiency, or even a higher level!

But now it seems that I still have to think again.

(End of this chapter)