The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Once you've decided to become a Skeleton Death Servant, you can start choosing bones.

Considering that they are still on their journey and often travel by flying carpet, and that space on the flying carpet is limited, the adult-sized dead servants would take up too much space, Moran picked out a skeleton of a three-year-old child.

Anyway, the core of a skeleton is the Soul Fire. As long as the Soul Fire is intact, the skeleton can be replaced at any time.

Now, use the small skeleton to focus on nurturing the little skeleton's soul fire, making it smarter and enabling it to learn some things.

Once we can actually help her with her tasks, we can replace it with a larger frame that's easier to work with.

She neatly arranged the skeleton on the carpet, first cleaning it with a cleansing spell, then nourishing it with magic converted into necromantic power, and finally soaking it in a low-level bone spirit potion she had prepared beforehand.

The Bone Spirit Potion is a potion that makes bones harder, more durable, shinier, and more spiritual, making them easier to control with the Soul Fire.

If you want to properly care for a skeleton servant, Bone Spirit Potions are essential for its daily maintenance.

The bones were soaking in the Bone Spirit Potion, and Moran then took out a brass oil lamp, but there was no oil in the lamp.

She took out several {Material Cards - Soul Essence}, first conjured a ball of Soul Essence, placed it in the lamp, and then ignited it with the necromancy Deathfire spell.

The pale gray flame, devoid of heat, burned silently. Just then, Moran used the Death Servant spell to mark the flame.

Suddenly, a tiny bit of green, as thin as a hair, appeared in the pale gray flame.

When she saw this hint of green appear, Moran breathed a sigh of relief.

The green tinge on the flame signifies that the fuse of the soul fire has been lit, and at the same time, the pact between this small flame and her undead servant is established.

Next, all you need to do is add "fuel," that is, the essence of its soul, and wait for it to grow stronger.

Once the entire flame has taken on the distinctive green color of a low-level skeleton soul fire, it's almost ready.

However, if the flame goes out during this process, all previous efforts will be wasted, and you'll have to start all over again.

"Squeak, keep an eye on things for me. If the essence of the soul in the lamp runs out, tell me to add some more."

Moran entrusted the task of watching the small flame in the oil lamp to Zizi.

"Squeak!" The little monkey nodded solemnly, squatted down by the lamp, and stared at the wick with its two round eyes without blinking.

It already knew that the creature born from this lamp would be its future companion.

Growing up in a troop of monkeys, Zhizhi is always surrounded by a group of little brothers wherever he goes, and he longs for his companions.

Seeing that it was quite serious, Moran put down a timer and went to do other things with peace of mind.

After reading a dozen or so pages, Zizi called her.

When Moran saw that there was only a little bit of the essence of the soul left in the lamp, she quickly added a whole bunch more.

"Squeak, you timed it perfectly!" Moran praised.

She glanced at the clock beside her and roughly knew how long a ball of soul essence could burn.

Set your alarm a little in advance, and then add your Soul Essence on time.

"Alright, you don't need to watch over it anymore. The alarm will remind me when it's time," Moran said.

Squeak shook its head, pointed to the {Material Card - Soul Essence} in Moran's hand, then pointed to itself, and said in a stuttering Common tongue, "I~ come, squeak!" "You want to help me add Soul Essence?" Moran asked in surprise.

Squeaky patted its chest and nodded: "Squeaky, I can do it!"

Moran thought for a moment, and it seemed that the Soul Essence didn't necessarily require the Death Servant's master to add it personally: "Alright then! Here, take these."

It's okay to let Zizi try. If it fails, we can just rekindle the soul fire and nurture it slowly.

In any case, the loss of this bit of soul essence is nothing to her.

Thus, Zhizhi officially took over the important task of raising and caring for this flame of soul.

Moran has just discovered two methods in "Corpse Cosmetology" that can both increase the aesthetics and strength of bones.

One method is gilding, which involves attaching a metal protective or decorative layer to the bone.

It is recommended for witches who know alchemy, because the protective layer needs to be as thin as possible so as not to affect the skeleton's movement.

Another method is boiling, which involves boiling the skeleton's bones together with specific magical plants and water.

For example, the best ingredient for the decoction method is Jade Bone Flower. It can transform the bones of a skeleton into jade, making them more beautiful and dramatically increasing their strength. Not only will their flexibility be greatly enhanced, but they will also possess a certain degree of bone self-healing ability.

The Jade Bone Flower can transform an ordinary skeleton into a top-tier skeleton.

However, although it is very effective, it is extremely rare.

Moran had only seen descriptions of the Jade Bone Flower in books; it wasn't even among the many rare magical plants in the Witch Academy's plantation.

It is said that only on the bones of those who died a very tragic death but without any resentment will the Jade Bone Flower grow.

How could someone who died such a gruesome death not harbor resentment?

Therefore, this flower is a legendary existence; it's best to just look at it and leave it at that.

Below the Jade Bone Flower, the next level up are Crystal Jade Grass, Crimson Flame Root, Water Coral, Thunder Bamboo Leaf, and so on.

They can imbue the bones of skeletons with other energy characteristics besides the power of death, making them suitable for use by skeleton mages.

Thanks to the material upload function, some of these materials have already been included in the Card Book, and the corresponding material cards are already available in the store.

However, the effects produced by boiling these materials are more suitable for skeleton mages, and Moran doesn't want to train the little skeleton to become a mage for the time being.

Low-level skeletons can only learn one thing and complete one simple task. Even if they are trained into skeleton mages, they can only produce small flames and small water balls, which have no destructive power at all.

Aside from these aesthetically pleasing and functional ingredients, the rest are just coloring materials like petals of the big-faced flower and leaves of the blue-heart grass, which have no functional effects and can only change the color of the bones.

After much deliberation, Moran finally decided to abandon the boiling method. It would be better to wait until the little skeleton's soul fire level was higher, it was smarter, and it could learn more before using the boiling method to modify the bones. For now, the gilding method would be better.

Moran glanced at Zizi, who was squatting in front of the oil lamp, clutching an alarm clock and diligently watching the soul fire, and decided to plate the little skeleton with silver.

It's cute and understated, and most importantly, its fur color is similar to Zizi's, which might make the two little guys closer.

Moreover, silver plating has the least impact on bone flexibility.

Before the bone-infused potion had fully soaked, Moran used cards to create a bone of the exact same size to practice silvering it. (End of Chapter)