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Chapter 72 Mutation (Please continue reading)

Richard drew the inverted pentagram magic circle again and again, each time with greater fluency, from the previous crooked and intermittent strokes to the current seamless completion.

After solving the problem of drawing the magic circle.

Richard began to sketch the five runes in his mind.

Having already gained experience in drawing runes, Richard grasped the knack of creating his first rune after several attempts.

With a wealth of inspiration, the first rune for summoning skeletons with level zero sorcery was successfully drawn up in less than ten attempts!

After quickly sketching out the first rune, Richard continued to sketch out the second rune in his mind.

Next came the third and fourth runes.

After hundreds of attempts, Richard finally managed to draw the fifth rune!

Thus, a complete model of witchcraft was constructed from these five runes.

The Summon Skeleton Spell model has been successfully built!

Before Richard could continue to immerse himself in the dream, his entire soul rapidly returned to his body.

Since Richard's inverted pentagram magic circle had already begun to be drawn in reality, he immediately decided to finish drawing it and try to summon it once first.

After all, he was already extremely familiar with the entire summoning process in his dream.

Soon after, accompanied by Richard's chanting of incantations, the inverted pentagram magic circle meticulously drawn on the ground began to shimmer with a pale green light.

Mental energy was injected into the magic circle at a special frequency through the summoning skeleton sorcery model in his mind, and immediately, a bright green light shone in the center of the magic circle.

Richard felt as if his mental energy had probed into some strange dimension.

That plane contained countless unknown orbs of spiritual energy, and his spiritual tendrils were constantly trying to make contact with them.

Every interaction involves the continuous exchange of information.

The information contained a wealth of details. For example, the information transmitted by the psychic energy orb would indicate whether the user was a skeleton soldier or something else. Subsequent messages would also convey adjectives such as strong, ordinary, weak, and so on.

In addition, the information will also convey details about their weapons and equipment, such as whether they are carrying knives, swords, or armor.

Different skeleton soldiers respond very differently to Richard's summons.

The weak, unarmed skeletons are the most enthusiastic, but Richard is less willing; the strong, equipped skeletons are the most pretentious and basically ignore Richard.

At this moment, the wonderful use of the mental energy tendrils is fully demonstrated. Richard's mental energy can now be subdivided into more than ten tendrils, so he can communicate with the same number of unknown mental energy orbs at once.

If one batch doesn't work, immediately replace it with the next batch.

Suddenly, Richard had a premonition that the selection process was about to reach its critical point.

In other words, if he doesn't make a decision on which orb of light to choose, the entire summoning circle will shut down, which would mean the failure of the spell to summon the skeleton.

So Richard turned back and chose a psychic orb that he had previously agreed to summon, and immediately reached a summoning agreement with it.

Instantly, the inverted pentagram magic circle on the ground shone brightly with green light again, and a skeletal hand emerged from it.

Immediately afterwards, another skeletal hand emerged. With both hands supporting the ground, a skeleton soldier wielding an iron sword crawled out of the inverted pentagram magic circle, its empty eye sockets glowing with fluorescent green soul fire.

This skeleton soldier was not wearing any armor. Although his bones were thick, there were many broken and gaped parts on his skeleton, which must have been damaged in some battle. The iron sword he was holding was still shiny and not rusty, so he looked like he was quite capable in combat.

Richard was thrilled; this was the first time he had summoned a skeleton soldier!

Although he didn't summon the strongest batch of skeleton soldiers, Richard was already quite satisfied.

According to the instructor, the summoned skeleton soldiers have a very wide range of combat strength. The weakest may be weaker than an ordinary farmer, while the strongest are stronger than a quasi-knight among humans, and some can even go toe-to-toe with a full knight.

This refers to skeleton soldiers, not skeleton warriors or the like.

Richard carefully examined his skeleton soldier and found that its combat strength seemed quite good, probably similar to that of his family's original guards.

However, we'll need to do some simple testing to find out the specifics.

Richard received the order in his mind to have the skeleton soldiers attack the chair.

Upon receiving the order, the skeleton soldier immediately rushed forward, swung his sword, and cleaved the sturdy black pine chair in two with a single strike!

Richard was overjoyed to see this; he finally had a little helper!

Skeleton soldiers summoned from the Netherworld are undead creatures with independent combat consciousness.

Richard only needs to issue a simple order, such as "attack," and the skeleton soldiers will carry it out on their own.

As for how to attack, Richard doesn't need to worry about it at all; the skeleton soldiers will take the initiative to attack based on their own combat experience.

The advantage of this level zero spell is that it allows wizard apprentices to free up their hands to cast other spells and coordinate attacks with their summoned creatures.

The previous trick of manipulating the skeleton required the wizard apprentice to concentrate fully and continuously while manipulating it, and he could not be distracted by performing other spells.

Essentially, that trick was puppetry.

The two are worlds apart!

However, Richard's skill in manipulating skeletons through magic was not wasted; it was very effective in training his mental fine motor skills and would significantly reduce the difficulty of learning more complex witchcraft later on.

For example, the number of mental tendrils a wizard uses to summon skeletons and communicate with the Netherworld directly affects the speed of information exchange.

This, in turn, affects the selection of skeleton soldiers.

Seemingly remembering something, Richard pulled up the panel and saw: [Witchcraft]: Summon Skeletons (Proficiency 77%)

Wow! This level zero spell consumes a lot of energy; a thousand energy points is still only at the proficient level.

It seems that if you are only at the beginner level, you may not only fail to summon frequently, but even if you succeed, the summoned skeleton soldiers may be weak and unarmed.

Suddenly, Richard felt a pang of panic. The next second, he sensed a massive energy fluctuation coming from the southwest. That direction was...

Richard immediately ran out of the room and came to the open space in the dormitory area.

The energy fluctuation was so intense that almost everyone in the dormitory area rushed out immediately.

For a moment, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment!

"Look over there!" one of the wizard apprentices shouted, his expression changing drastically as he pointed to the southwest.

Seeing this, Richard and the others looked in the direction the man was pointing.

A colossal black beam of light shot straight into the sky!

Moreover, the pillar of light didn't seem to be too far from the school's headquarters, probably several hundred miles to the southwest.

Gradually, the pillar of light began to shrink. No one knew what it was, but the energy fluctuations were so intense that it was definitely not a small matter!

At this moment, more than a dozen black-robed wizards flew out intermittently from above the school. Some were flying in the air, some were riding on brooms, some were riding on swamp dragons, and some were riding on some kind of giant bird. They were all different.

Suddenly, Richard and the other wizard apprentices felt the sky darken. A huge bone dragon with a wingspan of tens of meters was rapidly flying over the school and heading towards the pillar of light. Atop the bone dragon stood a black-robed wizard holding a bone staff.

A wizarding apprentice exclaimed in shock, "Graf the Great Wizard! Even he has been alerted!"

"Great Wizard?" Richard keenly heard these three words. He knew that only formal wizards of level two or above were called Great Wizards.

It seems something terrible has happened!

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