Soon, the bone fragment grew into a bone dagger.
Looking at the bone dagger in his hand, Edmond gripped it with delight and then curiously swung it a few times.
Finally, Edmond muttered to himself in a tone that could hardly conceal his excitement: “I did it!”
This was a new Spell that Edmond had researched from the Bone Spear Spell.
The effect of this new Spell was that he could conjure and craft anything out of bone, just like the dagger in his hand.
Edmond named this new Spell Bone Crafting.
“In three days, I have successfully created a new Spell.”
Edmond said this; although he did not know much about the situations of other mages, he still felt that creating a new Spell in such a short time was already remarkable.
Although the Spell Bone Crafting was very similar to Bone Spear, it was merely changing the shape of the Bone Spear into the shape of other items.
However, just as the books said, as long as one could create a new Spell, even if the change in the Spell structure was not significant, it still proved that the mage possessed sufficient ability.
“Does that mean I am now an Official Mage?”
Edmond took stock of the Spells he currently mastered: Mage Hand, Ghost Fireball, Skeleton Resurrection, Bone Spear, and the Bone Crafting he had just created.
That added up to exactly five Spells.
Meditation was not considered a formal Spell, merely a technique.
And the conditions to become an Official Mage were: mastering five Spells and creating a new Spell.
From the time Edmond started contacting magic until now, not even a month had passed, and he had already become an Official Mage.
This speed was extremely terrifying, even when compared to other mages.
In fact, this was mainly because Edmond’s affinity for Necrotic Magic was extremely high, and he was extremely adept at manipulating Necrotic Magic.
Edmond let out a long sigh, suppressing the excitement in his heart.
Subsequently, he looked at the skeleton carrying a wooden bucket that was walking in from outside.
During these past few days, he spent every day researching Bone Spear while using Necrotic Magic to enhance the strength of the skeletons.
And now, the four skeletons had undergone certain changes; the bones on their bodies had become whiter and sturdier.
They were also able to receive slightly more complex commands, such as fetching water.
Edmond looked at the white bones all over the skeleton, and then combining it with the new Spell he had just created, a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
That was whether he could use the Bone Crafting Spell to modify the skeletons?
Once this thought appeared, the idea in his heart grew more and more intense, and Edmond immediately prepared to try it out.
With a movement of his mind, a skeleton standing nearby walked up to him.
Edmond looked at this skeleton, not immediately taking action, but starting to ponder in his heart.
The skeletons resurrected by Skeleton Resurrection were all identical, whether in height or appearance.
Edmond had specifically observed before that even the number of bones and bone joints on their bodies were the same, with absolutely no difference.
This meant that the skeletons were not entirely composed of the bones from the corpse.
Within the Spell structure of this Spell, there must be a part whose function was to create a complete skeleton.
Immediately, Edmond began to carefully study Skeleton Resurrection.
Previously, he had only learned how the Spell structure was built and had not deeply researched the function of each part of the Spell structure.
And in this study, Edmond devoted all his attention to it; by the time he woke up, it was already night.
“It’s night already?
That was too fast.”
Edmond touched his stomach, and only then did he feel a sense of hunger surging up.
Subsequently, he quickly stuffed a few white breads into his stomach, then used fire to heat the water in the wooden bucket, and had a wonderful hot bath.
“Phew~”
After the bath, Edmond let out a comfortable sigh and sat back on his bed.
“Click~ Click~”
Accompanied by a clatter of bones, the four skeletons stood at the entrance of the cave and stood guard.
Edmond continued to study Skeleton Resurrection for a while, then began to meditate.
Although research was very important, for a mage, Mental Power was the foundation of everything.
If you didn’t have enough Mental Power, you would have no way to use magic, let alone cast Spells.
The cave quickly became quiet, with only the faint “crackle” sound of the campfire burning continuously.
And at the entrance of the cave, the four skeletons stood motionless like sculptures, the Soul Fire in their eye sockets flickering slightly.
Outside was pitch black, with only the faint firelight emanating from the cave, making it look peaceful.
After a while, accompanied by a rustling sound, many pairs of green eyes lit up from the darkness.
These green eyes moved slowly in the darkness, but they were always staring at the entrance of the cave.
Although fire could drive away beasts, sometimes, it could also attract them.
The four skeletons at the entrance faced the moving green eyes outside without any movement.
After all, the order they received was just to stand guard here.
Those green eyes flickered in the darkness for a good while before slowly disappearing.
…
The next day, Edmond woke up from Meditation and opened his eyes.
“Phew~”
He let out a long sigh and then stood up to stretch his body.
After a night of Meditation, he now felt refreshed, and his Mental Power had also improved to a certain extent.
After washing up and finishing breakfast, Edmond continued to research Skeleton Summoning.
This time, Edmond spent another four days before finally combining the two Spells, Skeleton Summoning and Bone Crafting, to create a new Spell once again.
Bone Modification.
The effect of this Spell was that it could modify skeletons, allowing the bones on the skeleton to grow according to the caster’s will, growing various things.
Such as bone armor, bone swords, and the like.
After creating this Spell, Edmond casually called over a skeleton and used Bone Modification on it.
“Click, click~”
Accompanied by the influx of Necrotic Magic, the bones on the skeleton in front of him began to grow.
The surface of the skull began to slowly thicken, extending outward, eventually forming a thick layer of bone armor outside the skull.
That layer of bone armor wrapped the entire skull inside, leaving only two narrow slits at the eye positions.
At the same time, other parts of it also changed; the ribs thickened outward, moved closer together, and the gaps between them were filled with newly grown bone tissue, forming a solid piece of chest armor.
The limbs were also changing; the bones of the forearms grew and fused with each other, eventually forming an arm guard that wrapped around the entire arm.
Sharp bone spurs also protruded from the finger joints, and the ends of the finger bones became sharper, like a pair of bone claws.
What was most eye-catching was its left hand; from the position of the wrist bone, a slender piece of bone began to extend outward.
Eventually, a thick bone sword grew out from the skeleton’s left hand.
After stopping the input of Necrotic Magic, Edmond looked at the skeleton in front of him, which had changed drastically, and was very satisfied.
The original skeleton was just an ordinary human skeleton, looking very thin and small, as if it would fall apart if it received a single attack.
But now it was completely different.
The bones all over its body had obviously become sturdier, and it was covered with thick bone armor everywhere.
Even the most core part, the skull, was covered by a thick helmet, with a pair of blue Soul Fire flickering in the gaps of the bone helmet.
This skeleton looked very imposing as a whole, completely different from how it looked before.