Wizards begin by accessing the Inspiration panel.

Chapter 156 Perfect Transformation

"This outfit is way too revealing! No wonder Richard was staring at me so intently just now," Stephania chuckled, then became even happier.

"Pop~" The Spider Woman, with her curvaceous figure and revealing clothes, walked up to Richard and, taking advantage of Richard's inattention, gave him a hard kiss on the cheek.

Richard was stunned; he hadn't expected Stephanie to launch such a sensual attack on him.

Although Richard was actually quite enjoying it, he pretended to be angry and said, "As a nobleman's son, remember to maintain your noble demeanor."

"Hehe! Master, I was just so happy that I couldn't help myself, please don't blame me," Stephania said with a bright smile, knowing that Richard wasn't angry at all.

At this moment, Richard seemed to suddenly realize something and complained, "Your interruption almost made me forget something important."

"This human-faced spider is your companion beast. In order to preserve its remains, I plan to try turning it into a walking corpse first."

Richard had previously found an old parchment scroll on the short girl when he killed Jenna and her two red-haired companions—a walking corpse transformation ritual—which he later studied in the Gray Fern Fields.

Upon opening the Inspiration panel, Richard saw that in the [Witchcraft] section, the Corpse Conversion Ritual (Beginner 43%) was progressing slightly higher than the previous Spirit Rebirth Ritual. This was because Richard had not intentionally spent energy points to improve it.

Therefore, we are currently at the beginner level of mastery.

However, since he had decided to transform the human-faced spider and had a surplus of energy points, Richard planned to first improve his control over the corpse transformation ritual.

[Host detected practicing Level 0 sorcery, the Corpse Transformation Ritual. Do/Do you wish to consume energy to gain inspiration for practicing the Level 0 sorcery, the Corpse Transformation Ritual?]

Richard didn't hesitate to drag the slider to 10000 and select "Yes!"

In an instant, Richard's soul was pulled into the dream space. This time, he was once again in a spacious underground hall. In the center of the room, there was a blurry figure carefully drawing the witch array required for the zombie transformation ritual on the ground.

The next second, he possessed the figure.

The shape of this witchcraft array was different from the inverted pentagram, hexagram, and even the patterns of the newly learned spirit reincarnation ritual that Richard had used before.

The outer perimeter of the shamanic array used in the zombie transformation ritual is a circle with a diameter of about three meters.

Inside the circle are two equilateral triangles, with all six vertices of the two triangles lying on the annulus at equal intervals.

Since Richard already had a foundation in learning witchcraft formations multiple times, with the support of a massive amount of inspiration, his learning speed was like a rocket booster.

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After a dizzying spin, Richard returned to his original form, and upon opening his Inspiration panel, he saw (Walking Corpse Transformation Ritual, Grandmaster 23%).

Continue to invest energy points until the limit is reached.

After repeating this twice, Richard brought up the panel again, and it displayed: (Walking Corpse Conversion Ritual, Limit, Special Effect: Perfect Conversion).

[Perfect Transformation: The transformed corpse will retain 100% of its minimum bodily activity.]

After carefully reading the explanation of this special effect, Richard was immediately overjoyed.

It's important to know that the movement and attack speed of ordinary zombies is relatively slow because the activity of many parts of their bodies has reached zero.

Necrotic muscle tissue can affect the movement of the entire limb, making the whole body appear particularly stiff and uncoordinated.

However, if a zombie's entire body retains a minimum level of activity, then obviously, the zombie's movement speed and attack speed will not differ much from when it was alive.

The only thing that might be inferior to what they had in life is their burst of power in a short period of time, and this has always been a weakness of zombies, even for high-level zombies.

Therefore, having this "perfect transformation" effect is obviously much better than Richard had previously expected.

Immediately, Richard began to draw a witch array on the floor in the center of the hall with exceptional fluidity.

In no time, Richard had completed the inscription of the magic circle required for the zombie transformation ritual and placed six pieces of blood amber at the six nodes of the magic circle.

The auxiliary material required for the zombie transformation ritual is not intermediate magic stone, but blood amber, a kind of blood essence extracted from living organisms.

The ritual not only repairs the damage to the body, but also enhances its vitality.

Stephena took the initiative and dragged the giant human-faced spider corpse to the center of the magic circle.

As Richard's deep incantation resounded, the intricate patterns on the Corpse Transformation Array began to emit a faint red light, which then converged on the corpse of the giant human-faced spider through the complex array pathways.

Immediately, the corpse of the human-faced spider also began to emit a faint red light.

As the ceremony progressed, the red light grew increasingly dazzling, and the huge wound on the human-faced spider's body began to grow rapidly and heal at a high speed.

And all the tiny wounds were completely healed in the blink of an eye.

Ten seconds later, all the wounds on the human-faced spider's corpse had completely healed!

At the same time, the human-faced spider gave onlookers a strange feeling, as if it were fast asleep, not at all like someone who had died after a great battle.

Seeing this, Stephanie was overjoyed.

"How come the zombie transformation ritual is so successful!" Stephania thought to herself.

Although she did not perform the ritual herself, she had read about the ritual of turning a zombie into a human in books.

The descriptions in the book and what she was seeing now were almost like two different things.

You should know that in a typical zombie transformation ritual, if the body is damaged, it's considered good if it can be simply repaired during the ritual; it's unlikely to be completely healed!

What's more, the human-faced spider in front of her seemed to be alive, even the tiny hairs on its body surface had been restored, which was simply unbelievable to Stephanie.

As the red light instantly contracted into the human-faced demon spider's body, Richard's voice rang out:

"alright!"

"Stephena, try signing a zombie summoning contract."

"Yes, Master!"

Stephania couldn't wait and began to sign a zombie summoning contract with the Spider-Man.

Before long, she successfully signed the zombie summoning contract and then began to control her summoned creatures, making various movements.

To Stephanie's astonishment, the human-faced spider in her zombie form crawled around without any stiffness, remaining as agile as ever, which completely overturned her understanding.

"Master, is your level of control over the zombie transformation ritual exceptionally high? This is simply incredible." Stephania blinked her beautiful, watery eyes as she looked at Richard with adoration.

"Not bad." Richard smiled mysteriously, without directly answering Stephanie's question.

Although Stephania wouldn't betray him, she was too shrewd, so Lee realized that sometimes it was better to keep her a little mysterious.

If judged solely by aura, even Richard wouldn't be able to perceive the depth of Stephanie's strength, because based solely on mental perception, Stephanie is only at the level of a first-level wizard apprentice.

But clearly, Stephania, who possesses the Spider Woman's physical body, cannot only have this much strength.

So Richard is also quite curious about how strong Stephena's fighting ability is right now.

"Stephena, how much of your combat power can you currently utilize in your Spider Woman form?"

Stephania was taken aback, only then realizing that she had been so busy admiring the Spider Woman's beauty and controlling her summoned creatures that she had completely neglected her own combat abilities.

So, Stephania quickly began experimenting with the various abilities and magic of her new body.

After a long while, Stephania frowned, looking utterly disappointed, and said, "Master, the only talent I can use right now is: Blade Arm!"

"Oh, right, there's also a talent spell: Shadow Swiftness."

"Currently, it seems to be only these two abilities."

After listening, Richard seemed to be deep in thought and pondered for a moment.

"This is probably because your mental strength is only at the level of a first-level wizard apprentice. Although your physical body has reached the strength of a formal wizard, it is clear that you cannot unleash the full potential of your body."

"I estimate that if you want to fully utilize the capabilities of this body, your mental strength will need to reach at least the limit of a third-level wizard apprentice."

"Of course, it would be best if your mental strength could reach the level of a formal wizard."

In fact, Richard had anticipated this.

Even if Stephenor's soul were to be reincarnated into the Spider Woman's body, he could not possibly possess all of the Spider Woman's abilities.

If Stephena could unleash all the potential within the Spider Woman's body, Richard certainly wouldn't have chosen this moment to perform the soul rebirth ritual on her.

After all, the only bond between the two was a blood oath.

If the contracted party is stronger than Richard, Richard still has to worry about whether he will be attacked by Stephena.

However, although Stephena's soul is not the original soul of the Spider Woman's body.

But Richard didn't expect that after being reborn, Stephena would only be able to use two of the Spider Woman's abilities.

This is much lower than Richard had expected.

In particular, there's no telling when Stephanie will be able to cast the Dark Chains, a spell that Richard values ​​most.

"It's a pity. It turns out that the Spider Woman's Dark Chains spell is very powerful, but it will probably take you a long time to cast it," Richard said with a hint of regret.

Stephania's eyes lit up, and she said, "I seem to recall the Dark Chains spell you mentioned. I'm sure I'll be able to cast it someday."

Richard thought for a moment and decided to test Stephanie's combat abilities so that he could be better prepared for future battles.

Richard quickly cast a dark elemental shield and bone armor on himself, then turned and said:

"Stephena, try attacking me with all your might."

"Okay, Master, then you must be careful." Stephania was also very excited.

After all, she was also very curious about the combat capabilities of her new body.

The next second, her originally fair and delicate hands suddenly turned into black blade arms, flashing with a cold light.

Then Stephania opened her mouth again and quickly pronounced a few syllables. Instantly, her whole body seemed to be draped in a thin veil, and her speed increased dramatically.

Richard transformed the mimicry bracers into a round shield, drew the Frost Guardian with his right hand, and clashed with Stephena's blade arm.

"Ding!"

To Richard's surprise, even with the sharpness of the Ice Guardian, the blade of Stephania's arm remained completely undamaged.

The evenly matched first move delighted Stephanie, who continued her relentless assault on Richard!

"Clang clang clang!" After a series of clashes of swords.

Stephena is getting better and better at getting used to her new body, and her slashing speed is getting faster and faster!

At this moment, Richard had used almost all his strength, except for his sorcery, but Stephania was still able to fight him with great skill.

This caused Richard's expression to change, filled with both surprise and delight!

He possessed the physical attributes of a high-level knight, coupled with the pinnacle of Cornell swordsmanship, and was also equipped with two top-tier sorcery items.

Even in this state, Stephania was still able to fight him to a standstill, which shows that her combat ability is in no way inferior to that of an ordinary level three wizard apprentice.

Suddenly, Richard used his shield to forcefully deflect Stephena, then retreated and quickly cast a slow spell on her.

When the black mist merged into her body, Stephania was taken aback.

But the next second, Stephania smiled charmingly, her movement speed almost unaffected.

Richard observed carefully and found that it wasn't completely unaffected, but rather its movement speed was reduced by only about 10%.

"Master, your level zero magic doesn't have much effect on me," Stephania said sweetly.

This was an unexpected surprise for Stephanie, who realized that her body had such a high resistance to dark elements.

Richard's expression also hardened; it seemed that Stephanie's actual combat strength was almost on par with his.

Judging from her aura alone, Stephania was only a first-level wizard apprentice, but who would have thought that she would be even more troublesome than a top-level third-level wizard apprentice?

After a fight, Richard became even more certain of his judgment.

Stephania's combat skills were almost at the limit of a level three wizard, not much different from his.

This surprised Richard, but at the same time, he also became more vigilant.

He couldn't let her improve her strength any further, and he had to keep her by his side at all times, because Richard didn't want the backlash from the blood oath contract to occur.

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When the two emerged from the underground fissure and returned to Silverpine Forest, Stephania was still in a state of surprise.

She would suddenly accelerate from time to time, then swing her incredibly sharp bladed arm at the scattered monsters in the forest, continuing to test the combat power of her new body.

The few remaining Darkfang Spiders or Crystal Web Spiders trembled in fear when they saw the Spider Woman rushing over to kill it, and dared not move at all.

After Stephena slayed several monsters with ease, Richard saw the sheer joy on her face and shook his head, speechless.

However, this is understandable, since she was imprisoned in the Soul-Eating Spider Crystal's shell when she was a first-level wizard apprentice, and it wasn't until now that she finally managed to get out.

Moreover, the fact that it was a first-level wizard apprentice-level spirit controlling a full-fledged wizard-level body from the moment it appeared was truly captivating, a mix of surprise, curiosity, and joy.

When Richard returned to Silverpine Town with Stephena, it was already evening.

The vast sunset, as if spilled red dye, painted a large expanse of deep and light red across the azure sky, making it incredibly beautiful.

At this time, a few people could be seen walking around the dilapidated houses in the town, such as rummaging through the ruins of their own houses and picking up some daily necessities.

However, these should all be spontaneous actions, and the reconstruction has not yet officially begun, otherwise the number of people would not be so small.

Richard nodded slightly as he watched this scene.

Because Richard had specifically emphasized this point to his father before he left.

Until he returns, the entire family must prioritize defense and remain vigilant at all times.

The town's residents were temporarily housed in the inner fort, and were not allowed to return to Silverpine Town to rebuild their homes.

To prevent serious secondary casualties should the monsters return in the event of a resurgence.

It seems that Father and Knight Rollins have carried out their advice very well.

Stephania looked at the ordinary, somewhat dilapidated town before her and curiously turned to ask, "Master, were you born here?"

"Well, I guess so!" Richard thought for a moment, unsure whether to answer "yes" or "no" given his transmigrated situation. He guessed it was more like it.

Stephanie was momentarily confused. What did she mean by "considered"? Shouldn't there only be two clear answers, yes or no? What a strange answer.

But after glancing at Richard's expression, it was clear he didn't want to talk about the topic anymore. Stefanie, always quick to read between the lines, naturally didn't press the matter further.

Soon after, the two encountered a patrol of Richard's family soldiers.

The patrolmen, of course, recognized their second young master and immediately sent one of them back to the castle to report the news.

The other two immediately dismounted and invited Richard and Stephanie to mount. During this process, their eyes frequently strayed to Stephanie, who had a slender figure and a beautiful face.

Stephanie, on the other hand, maintained a dignified and noble demeanor, remaining silent.

Richard waved his hand and said, "No need to trouble yourself, we'll be at the castle soon. You can continue with your mission as usual."

When Richard and Stephena arrived at the family castle.

The Baron's father and mother had already received a message from the patrolmen, and were waiting at the inner gate of the castle along with Knight Rollins and other high-ranking officials.

"Father, Mother, Brother, I'm sorry to have worried you." Richard felt a surge of emotion when he saw his family.

Richard's older brother, Levi, gave Richard a warm hug and patted him hard on the shoulder, but his eyes kept glancing at Stephena next to Richard with curiosity.

"It's good that you're back!" the baron's father said, his voice trembling slightly as he saw his second son return.

"Father, you can rest assured, the source of the monsters has been eliminated!"

"Good, good, good!" The baron was immediately overjoyed and said "good" several times.

"These damned monsters are finally gone! That's great!" Knight Rollins finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As the sheriff of Silverpine Town, he had been under immense pressure lately, and he felt greatly relieved when he heard that the source of the monsters had been eliminated.

"Who is this?" The mother asked Richard with a puzzled look at Stephena, who was wearing tight leather armor and looked rather revealing.

The next two chapters have the same title, but the content has been completely revised and is entirely new, without any repetition.

(End of this chapter)