One day later, Ezekiel arrived with the Skeleton Ring and gave it to Skalain without further talk, as Skalain gave twenty gold coins to Ezekiel.
"Mister Skalain, I wanted to ask you about something."
Skalain was inspecting the ring when he heard Ezekiel. He took a look at him for a second and then nodded.
Ezekiel smiled and then asked.
"I would like to know how to increase our magic control."
Skalain smiled upon hearing this question. In the dark archive, these kinds of things are given some ideas but not a direct approach, as every mage has a different kind of connection with magic and there is no one approach to magic control.
Basically, there was no right answer.
"Tell me about your magic control and what kind of style you are using."
Ezekiel took a deep breath and started talking.
"I am using the Black Sun Magic Control tome, and our approach is to think of magic as fire and control it according to how natural fire moves."
Skalain nodded and then added.
"If you want to increase your magical control and make your fire, or black fire in your case, more powerful, you need to think in terms of fire, but not only think but also embody it and understand it in the sense of knowledge as well as nature."
"My words may come to you as confusing, but what I am trying to say in the simplest sense is basically that you need to learn more about fire; any knowledge and extra thought of understanding fire would do wonders for you."
Ezekiel murmured what he heard, and then a smile formed on his face.
"Thank you, Master Skalain; I will try to understand your words deeply when I am back."
Skalain smiled and added
"A fire does not care about when to burn or when to extinquish; you should not wait for it to burn as long as the place is okay."
Ezekiel gulped and then left the area as the words of Skalain resonated in his head.
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After Ezekiel left the area, Skalain went back to his place and then looked deeply at the Skeleton Ring.
He smiled and then nodded.
"This will be a great addition to my power."
"Right now, my magical power only lets me control one hundred basic skeletons and six of my own sentinel skeletons."
"Still, from now on, I can travel with all my force without any problem. If I want, I can summon all of them at the same time and take them back at will."
"This is a great tool; I wonder how it was created."
Skalain stopped thinking and went on to study. He was going to learn more about skeletons and how he could improve them.
He was thinking that if he were to give tools to skeletons, such as swords and knives, It may increase their power level to some degree.
Of course, their power level will not be the same as sentinels. Each sentinel is a two-meter-solid magical creature that, in the form of a skeleton, should be able to take on more than sixty of the skeletons he created with ease if he controls them with great care and mastery.
He should be able to take on sixty to seventy of them despite losing all of them in a battle.
But of course, all of these things are calculated in his mind, and they may not be the same in a real battle. Who said that if he engaged in full-frontal combat with a hundred skeletons, he could use guerilla techniques to fight against an army, which would make six skeletons easy to destroy with no problem at all?