Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 25 Boneless Summoning
By transferring to the high-speed rail, the little troublemaker arrived at the 200-kilometer destination in just over half an hour. Su Ming jumped off the train and didn't run far before arriving at a remote forest area. After winding his way along the mountain road for a few minutes, he finally saw the sanatorium that looked like a mountain resort.

In the center of the sanatorium is a main building that is not very large, next to which is an inpatient building with spacious and luxurious wards, and further back there are rows of villas.

There's not much activity here at night. A small number of patients stay in rooms or villas, there are only two security guards in the duty room, and in the lobby of the medical building, only a few on-duty medical staff are playing cards together; the rest of the place is pitch black.

Entering the medical building with ease, Su Ming dispelled the fusion with the undead, and Miao Xin separated from the little troublemaker. He made a list of the necessary medicines and asked Miao Xin to find them.

Su Ming was initially worried about the ghost's intelligence. He watched as Miao Xin walked blankly through the card table of the on-duty medical staff, followed the signs to the pharmacy, went inside, and began searching through the row of medicine shelves.

After observing her carefully, Su thought to herself, "Although the ghost girl moves slowly, she is quite convincing. It seems she still retains some knowledge of what it means to be human."

He composed himself and began preparing the summoning materials he would need on the Zhiyuan.

Each time Miao Xin found something, she would tap it on the shelf with her ethereal finger, leaving a psionic mark. Gradually, she gathered all the items she needed.

After preparing the materials, Su Ming manipulated the little troublemaker to sneak into the doctor's office, turn on a computer, and frantically download various medical data. The data volume was enormous, and he couldn't copy it all down, so he found a USB drive, stored the data on it, and then summoned it to another world.

Plug it into the laptop here, and sure enough, the data is transferred as well.

Then Su Ming found some odds and ends, such as thermometers and blood pressure monitors, along with the medications that Miao Xin had marked beforehand, and took them all to an empty room on the third floor of the hospital, locking the door behind him.

Su Ming unleashed the spell and began the teleportation.

"The Simplest Way to Summon Everything!"

First, there were some simple vital sign measurement devices, most of which were successfully projected into the other world, and the original objects turned into a pile of fragments on the floor of the ward.

Then the syringes and such went smoothly, but the reagent kit failed.

The summoning of all things requires transporting a model from Earth across space to be reconstructed in another world. Su Ming must have all the corresponding materials at hand.

Su Ming had already prepared for this. The reagent kit contained many complex compounds that Su Ming couldn't possibly possess, and perhaps the entire other world couldn't possibly have. The same likely applied to the drugs; their active ingredients, APIs, were almost all synthesized through complex processes.

When the steam engine was being transported, Su Ming used up all the paint on the car, so half of the equipment was transported completely bare.

He took it to heart at that time. The steam engine could gather most of the materials, and it could also run some minor flaws, but that didn't mean it could do other things—he would definitely encounter problems with materials.

He then asked the skeleton for a copy of the research book "Summoning the Dead - From Burial to Exhumation," and read it whenever he had free time.

Materials have always been the necromancer's Achilles' heel. This class possesses the most powerful and complex construct abilities, but the materials must be corpses or souls.

Not every necromancer can easily obtain enough materials to craft items. Whenever someone goes missing or a tomb is robbed, they are always the first to be suspected and blamed. Moreover, the style of the materials determines the style of the finished product, and necromancers have the highest rate of singlehood among all mage types.

This pain point has been studied by countless researchers, and this book includes a large number of related papers.

For example, animal carcasses can be used, but plant carcasses cannot. So, can protozoa be used?
To give another example, if bones can be used, then can tortoise shells be used? Or can insect chitinous exoskeletons be used?

All of these have been tested and documented in papers—the conclusion, of course, is that none of them work. For example, bones are the most important material for summoning the undead. There's a group of researchers known as the "breeding school," dedicated to finding animals with higher bone content for large-scale breeding, comparing costs and output.

Su Ming was amazed by what he saw.

Those known as the "Boneless Faction" showed Su Ming another possibility for summoning the undead.

The main idea of ​​these people is to get things for free!

Using lime powder as the main material, they created a very inexpensive stone bone, which they then activated into stone golems. They drastically modified the necromancy spells, forcibly making the spells accept this material and summon necromancy accordingly!

This unreliable method actually succeeded, albeit with a very high mana consumption. An arcanist at full power could probably replace 17g of bone!
This method, which would be utterly useless to others, was Su Ming's reliance. He had checked the key ingredients of these test kits, and the content was in the milligram level, or even micrograms! The substances involved were all common, and could be obtained with a box of instant noodles.

As a universal spell, Su Ming could also use the Animation spell. Although he hadn't practiced it much, activating a box of instant noodles was still relatively easy for him.

He found an iron cage and locked the instant noodles inside.

"A revitalized pickled cabbage and beef noodle soup!"

The spell was successfully constructed, and the beef noodle soup jumped up, even wriggling and moving, bumping into the cage after hitting the walls. Su Ming focused his mind and unfolded a spell with each hand.

"The Simplest Way to Summon Everything!"

"Boneless Synthesis Summoning!"

The former generates the part containing the raw materials, while the latter fills in the part of the target that does not have the corresponding molecular formula of the chemical raw materials, and then synthesizes them.

This was Su Ming's first time performing dual casting. Lacking experience, he failed during the combination, resulting in a shattered test kit in his hand.

Su Ming tossed it away. Inside the testing center, the troublemaker shook the crumbs off his hands and picked up another one.

Come again!

As some of the medicine bottles failed to be transferred, Su Ming's proficiency continued to improve, and he finally succeeded in transferring the medicine.

He looked at the vital signs measurement devices that had failed to teleport earlier, assessing whether the cost of the composite summon was worthwhile.

"Never mind, I'd better conserve my magic first," he decided.

Su Ming severed the link with the little troublemaker, ordered Miao Xin to remain on guard, and then withdrew from Earth's perspective.
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The newly acquired items were varied and took up half of the workspace platform. Su Ming considered that moving them would be too troublesome, so he went to Bai Gu's room and carried the girl over.

Su Ming had set up a small bone room on one side of the workshop beforehand, laid out his own bedding, and disinfected the entire room, including himself, with alcohol.

(End of this chapter)