Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 461 New Undead Faction
In the northern wilderness, the Spark City Institute of Magical Sciences.

After finishing a whole day of experimental research, Arturo Lambert had just returned to his rest residence in the Academy of Sciences when he heard the beeping communication prompt sound from the magic brain device in front of his desk.

Magic brain communication technology has become very popular in Spark City. The Central Administrative Office has even set up a new management department for this purpose - the Communications Department, to uniformly coordinate and manage the magic communication devices that are everywhere in the city.

Unlike most ordinary units that can only use "intranet communication", the Magic Academy is one of the few privileged departments that can send and receive information from outside the territory through magic brain equipment. Dean Arturo even joined the Magic Network Spellcaster Forum under the joint recommendation of several territory spellcasting consultants such as Duncan and Eye of Illusion.

He skillfully activated the Magic Brain instrument in standby mode, and two messages with obviously different signatures quickly popped up on the crystal screen.

One was from the only son, Ash Lambert, who often used the Ministry of Culture's Magic Brain intranet to send himself some simple greeting messages, but most of the time he would not receive a reply from Arturo.

In comparison, the second message obviously piqued his interest and drew his attention more. It was actually a text message from the city lord.

I opened the message and quickly read it——

[You, Sirius, or Prall, lead the team. Select several outstanding researchers from the Academy of Sciences and set off for the royal capital, Golden Radiance City... Let's showcase our new Undead faction, which has recast its development path, to the orthodox mages of the Union, who have always looked down on them!]

Arturo's eyes condensed with soul fire, and he felt that his alchemical soul core was vibrating rapidly, as if it was prone to overheating and shutting down at any time.

The Spellcasters' Union is a powerful magic association that most independent spellcasters who are determined to pursue truth and wisdom aspire to join. Compared with any other spellcaster organization or wizard family in the Southern Continent, the magic concepts and research directions promoted by the Union are more advanced and progressive. The miracle city of Alayeh, which gathers all the magical powers, is the place that countless spellcasters desire and yearn for the most.

Young Arturo was no exception.

Perhaps only Sirius and Prall, two of Arturo's closest friends and relatives, knew that when he was young, Arturo had tried to give up the family inheritance and had applied to join the Union... He had combined the research results of his family ancestors, improved them, and re-explored a new undead flesh and blood magic called [Resurrection and Proliferation] - temporarily transplanting the reinforced limbs and torso of a zombie to the caster, giving the weak caster, who was not good at close combat, a powerful physical enhancement ability.

Arturo had originally entered the union with full confidence, using his improved combat skills as a "stepping stone"... However, he was ruthlessly rejected at the first round of internal review of the Federation. The chairman who presided over the review meeting did not even bother to watch his demonstration of skills. After just listening to the theoretical description, he stood up and walked away with an unhappy face.

He also left behind words that haunt Arturo to this day: "If the filthy and foul dark magic of the Necromancer can be practiced openly within the Union, the world will probably think that our proud Temple of Truth is nothing but a den of filth. The Church will probably have even more reason to attack and despise us!"

Arturo had been simmering with anger for nearly twenty years, but the status of necromancers in the magical world continued to decline, even to the point where they were forced to retreat into seclusion overseas, facing a situation where they could barely protect themselves. Arturo's original ambition to revive the necromancer faction and challenge those arrogant, orthodox wizards to face their own challenges faded. After all, the necromancers could publish their research papers in the influential Magic Bulletin, while necromancers like him, who tried to purchase a legitimate corpse for research, faced scrutiny and harassment from various factions. The necromancer faction as a whole lagged far behind other spellcasting factions, a sad reality that Arturo had to silently accept.

Of course, all these tragic situations did not end until they met Harvey, who controlled the soul puppet and came from afar to visit his best friend... The city lord not only saved himself from the brink of death due to the reckless lich transformation experiment, but also generously invited and sheltered the necromancers who were being hunted down by the Federation and the Church, allowing them to have a foothold in the new city in the northern wilderness.

The most important thing is... His Excellency the City Lord pointed out a brand new faction development path for them - the research on soul and magic network energy!

From then on, Arturo found that all the undead flesh and blood magic he had learned in the past had become trivial skills. No matter how he looked at it, he felt it was backward, conservative and meaningless... The truth contained in the field of soul energy research is as vast as the ocean, and the city lord, as a guide and enlightener, has also pointed out a new path of exploration for all the lost necromancers in the past.

This time, the road to the ultimate truth is no longer filled with unknowns and chaos. After repeatedly verifying the real existence of the three forms of magic, the magic runes that were once mistakenly regarded as the manifestation of spells and vassalage of rituals have become the "source code" that can directly act on the magic itself... In the world of souls and energy, everything seems so orderly, just like the alchemical beasts used in various production factories and manufacturing departments, methodically following the established procedures.

Just like Arturo himself, after experiencing the incredible soul transfer experiment, as an alchemical life itself, he can truly appreciate the infinite mysteries of engaging in soul research... Freed from the flesh and blood body that has been weakened and aged by years of attack from the energy of death, and freed from the vision that has gradually become cloudy due to desk research, as long as the energy network of the planetary energy gathering array covers him, he can conduct experimental research tirelessly, and his reactions will always be sharp, and his actions will be absolutely stable and accurate to the minute.

[Let’s show our brand new spellcasting faction to the orthodox mages of the Union!]

Arturo's mind kept echoing with Harvey's invitation. His body stood up uncontrollably, as if rarely, and turned to walk out of the study... He happened to run into two close friends who also lived in the Academy of Sciences, Sirius and Prair.

"What are you..."

Sirius and Prall exchanged a look, their expressions extremely agitated as they said in unison, "Dean... No! Clan Leader! You're not planning on leading your men to the capital alone without informing us, hiding the news from the City Lord, are you?"

Arturo was stunned and said awkwardly, "Of course not. I was just planning to discuss this with you guys."

Sirius breathed a sigh of relief, then said brightly, "The city lord has also informed us in a letter. Since we are both aware of this, and he hasn't issued any strict orders requesting a list of names...how about we all go to the capital together?"

After all, Arturo is not the only necromancer who is holding a lot of anger and wants to completely avenge his previous humiliation in front of the orthodox spellcasters.

(End of this chapter)