The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 431 Soul Essence
Ordinary humans and mages who have had close contact with elemental forces are very different.

However, mages hold a very special position among humans, and their corpses are not easy to obtain.

For now, these ordinary human corpse material cards are enough for them to practice the Death Servant Technique.

After Moran used these corpses to design the series of material cards for ordinary human corpses, he produced a batch and gave one to each of Lilith, Vasita, and Sylph.

After all, they were the ones who discovered these bodies together.

They had already discussed and agreed on the distribution method.

If there is only one copy of each type of corpse material, let Moran take it to make cards and then distribute one copy to each of them.

Lilith and Vasita were overjoyed, because this set of cards not only contained materials of ordinary human corpses of various sizes and parts, but also a lot of high-quality soul essence.

This is a spiritual material that can generally only be extracted from ghosts or the soul fire of skeletons. It can be used to create dead servants and enhance their spirituality.

The Soul Extraction spell in necromancy is specifically used to extract the essence of the soul.

"The quality of the soul essence of an ordinary human is this high!" Lilith exclaimed in surprise. "The quality of the essence that appeared after the beast-shaped ghosts were scattered was not this good!"

“Humans have the most active spiritual power, and the quality of the soul essence that can be extracted after death will also be higher,” Moran said. “Even ordinary humans have stronger spiritual power than lower-level superhumans of other races.”

“No wonder everyone says that humanoid undead servants are highly agile!” Vasita said.

“However, the {material cards - Soul Essence} created from my Book of Cards are all pure, unlike those extracted directly from ghosts or recently deceased corpses, which carry a portion of the deceased’s spirit. So no matter how many you use, the Death Servant will only be a little smarter; it’s still a blank slate and needs us to teach it to understand,” Moran said.

She had tried it, and only the first card made from these corpses would randomly carry a little bit of the corpse's spirit from its lifetime. Subsequent cards made using magic power based on her card-making experience wouldn't have this effect.

Her Book of Cards can only directly create pure soul essence nourishment; the imprint left by the soul cannot be copied.

"It would be great if we could even make a {Material Card - Soul Essence}!" Lilith said. "The reason this material is so rare is that one copy represents the soul of one, or even several, intelligent beings. Now that we can exchange it for energy, it's much more convenient!"

“Yes! I can’t wait to study the Death Servant Technique. It’s getting late, let’s set up camp first!” Vasita suggested.

Moran and Lilith shared the same idea.

The group returned to the flying carpet. Lilith first controlled the flying carpet to fly a little deeper into the Black Forest, and then rose into the sky. Moran took out his own flying carpet and put it next to hers.

However, this time, it was Vasita who brought out the tent for everyone to rest in.

She used to live in a cave dug out of the hillside in the inner area of ​​the college, but now her tent is decorated warmly and beautifully.

Each room has a different style, and many of them are common decoration styles on Earth.

Moran recognized it immediately: "Did you use the {renovation package card}?"

“That’s right!” Vasita said, “I like every style of the {Decoration Package Card}, so I decorated one room for each style. Anyway, the tent is big enough! You can choose whichever you like to stay in.”

Vasita and Lilith happily went to examine their newly acquired materials, while Sylph returned the cards to Moran:
"I don't intend to be a death servant, so I don't need these."

"Are you sure you don't want to do it?" Sylph had always expressed little interest in necromancy, so Moran wasn't surprised. "I don't want to do it," Sylph said firmly.

Cultivating mutated plants and learning the magic and knowledge to protect her has consumed all her energy.

In her opinion, necromancy was of no help to her in the early stages, and she really didn't like dealing with corpses.

She liked the feeling of plants being vibrant and thriving, but disliked the stench of rotting corpses.

"Then come to me if you need anything later!" Moran didn't give a definitive answer.

People's preferences change!
After talking with Sylph, Moran went directly into a small suite in Vasita's tent and went to the workroom inside.

During this time, she has been studying necromancy, especially the Death Servant spell, and has been eager to try it out. Now that she finally has the materials, how can she not give it a shot?
There are three main categories of undead creatures: zombies, skeletons, and ghosts.

Ghosts cannot be artificially created into undead servants, so we won't consider that for now; we'll only choose from zombies and skeletons.

The zombie's body is intact, but its soul is missing, and it has little spirituality. The newly created low-level zombie can only obey its master's commands and can only understand simple combat instructions.

Even advanced zombies have a hard time learning to do anything slightly complicated.

A zombie that can cook, like fried rice, is definitely an anomaly among zombies.

If it hadn't been taught by a zombie, it would never have learned anything, no matter how much soul essence it was fed, given its normal zombie's spirituality and potential for intelligence.

However, although zombies lack souls and intelligence, they have the potential to grow into the undead race, although it is only a possibility.

Moran has recently read through numerous books on necromancy and undead creatures, and apart from Ms. Genia, she has not seen another instance of turning zombies into a race of undead.

Prior to this, witches widely believed that the undead were a naturally formed race, and like ghosts, could not be raised using the Death Servant spell.

Skeletons are incomplete, just skeletons, but their skulls contain the fire of the soul, making them far more intelligent and spiritual than zombies. Even low-level skeletons can learn a simple task.

During this time, Moran saw skeleton warriors wielding clubs, skeleton archers with bows and arrows, lumberjack skeletons that could chop wood, and skeleton farmers that could plant trees in the Black Forest.

Spiritually, skeletons grow much faster than zombies.

However, no matter how much fuel is added to the soul fire of the skeleton, it cannot be brought back to life, possess a true soul, and become a reproductive being like the undead race.

In terms of combat strength, skeletons of the same quality are slightly weaker than zombies.

However, skeletons are easier to repair and maintain than zombies, and there's no need to worry about rotten bones.

After considering the pros and cons of zombies versus skeletons, Moran already had his answer.

A skeleton suits her better.

She doesn't plan to use the same necromancer tactics as ordinary necromancers, forming a horde of undead. At most, she'll keep a few undead servants to liven up the house, and Zizi won't be bored all day long, just sitting around with a wine jar doing nothing.

If we don't need them to charge into battle, it's actually better if they're more intelligent and perceptive.