Necromancy minions

The group was still in the Jambel City, inside the spatial artifact. This time he was within the forest biome. Tyris had brought the snake's eggs here, and she had already created a nest for herself inside the earth like a real snake and was on top of the eggs by heating them with her body.

Nicola was himself in another part of the same environment, sitted in a meditation pose. The elements circulated around his body, the seven of them launched sparks around or spears of ice sometimes. Nicola used his scientific knowledge back of the Earth as a support to be able to bring unusual uses for these elements. He had already learned how to do electrolysis of water, using thunder to separate water components and using gases as fuel to create a powerful blue flame. Unlike the ethereal flame that Tuatha commonly presented or even his fox fire that could not fully burn the ingredients and materials.

This flame was tested by him in alchemy and in the forge bringing better results, since the products created by her emitted a unique bluish glow and had traces of the three elements.

By melting the air at high pressures together with the fire he reproduced the plasma. A powerful, highly concentrated orange beam that was able to cut most materials with surgical precision easily. With his dominion over the earth he was able to understand an important principle.

Even though wood and metal are recognized as different types of mana by the system they were still manipulable through the earth element. Nicola used this element to recreate the electrical installations, metallic copper wires were coated with the sticky sap of a tree that isolated the wires and reached simple creations such as lamps and sound equipment that Nicola had developed with the sound cores.

Light and darkness had an ethereal way of being manipulated. Because Nicola possessed the Celestial Essence of Darkness he had much more affinity with the element of darkness, learning to manipulate it in an almost masterly way, he created Euclidean forms with darkness or recreated body parts and even hid in the shadows. Dark magic was not very fast but it was very difficult to defend itself, its sticky form could cause the acid melting effect on anyone who touched it and even reproduce poisons.

The light was different, very useful for healing people. The light was fast and seemed to divide into many branches of the domain. Nicola thought of three, the first was healing, and the introduction of light coupled with his knowledge of anatomy allowed him to act more easily when sending and what to look for when he was offering treatment to someone, the second was manipulating light like holograms, refraction and diffraction of light, making parts of his body invisible. And lastly, the aggressive aspect of the light by creating super-fast rays of light that would hit enemies and cause no healing, just a seared wound that would hurt a lot when in contact.

In addition, Nicola started experimenting with necromancy, creating smaller living dead was an interesting task, for this Nicola used the corpses of small magical animals that he found inside the biomes. In front of Nicola were three carcasses of dead animals. A skeleton of a sparkling squirrel and the body of two earth wolves recently killed by him. As described in the books that talked about necromancy Nicola sent the dark mana inside the bodies, with no intention of destroying what lay ahead, the dark energy infiltrated the flesh and bones of the specimens that Nicola chose.

After the animals' bodies were drenched in dark energies, their bodies moved involuntarily with spasms and a red glow formed inside the eyes of the three animals. Nicola then jumped to the next step, which consisted of forming a rune with his own soul energy fused with the mana of light and injecting them into the bodies on the ground. The rune as soon as it entered into them merged with the dark mana to form a black core smaller than a pearl. This nucleus was what kept the dead alive in the state he was in and gave him the ability to move when given orders.

The rune marked by Nicola within their core was what made them linked and allowed Nicola to send orders through their minds. The two wolves of the earth turned into zombies, the rotten flesh was kept attached to the bones and the muscles allowed them to move in a logical way. And the squirrel moved through its own necromantic energies. The three could be commanded in the same way as the beetle servants Nicola owned. But he couldn't share the vision with them in the same way as the beetles.

[Ability unlocked. Minor necromancy, Amount of undead servants 03/25]

[Interference found, synchronization with the Heavenly Darkness Essence. Increased proficiency in necromancy.]

[Minor necromancy updated, control limit increased]

[Number of undead servants 03/100]

"The ability received through the Heavenly Darkness Essence has increased my ability to create and control lesser undead. I think this will have some uses in the future." Nicola thought as he ordered the undead to perform simple tasks around them.

He had no more time to waste and decided to leave the spatial artifact and continue his journey, the others chose to continue inside the artifact to continue training and experimenting. Nicola checked out of the inn and paid for the room in which they stayed.