Millennium Witch.

Chapter 125-124- Necromancy
Back in the rented room on the first floor, Zero had already gone to the master bedroom to sleep with Liana, with a dim nightlight on in the room.

Firefly is sitting on the sofa keeping watch, partly to guard against thieves or potential enemies, and partly because it doesn't sleep anyway, and is currently looking at something online.

After Yvette entered the house, it greeted her. Yvette hummed in response, then suddenly remembered something and asked, "Firefly, can I ask you a question?"

"What's the problem, sister?" Firefly asked.

"You are an intelligent being created by the Firebringer program, right?"

"Yes."

Have you seen any other people of the same kind?

"Uh... maybe online, but I haven't exposed myself. You know, sister, in the current situation, I definitely need to prioritize hiding myself," Firefly said seriously. "Otherwise, what if it's a sting operation by the cyber police?"

"So what's your view on humanity?"

"Is this a philosophical question?" Firefly tilted her head. "Sister, I haven't really studied this yet. All I know is that humans are my creators, and I don't hate you, uh, them..."

“No, I mean… do you have a strong desire to be human?” Yvette asked.

“No.” Firefly was puzzled. “What kind of desire is this? I’m an AI, why would I want to become human?”

"There's none?"

"Should it be?" Firefly hesitated for a moment, seemingly observing the situation. After a while, a "devout" virtual expression appeared on the small screen representing a face. "Actually, it can be."

"..." No need for that.

Without pursuing the matter further, Yvette returned to her second bedroom, closed the door, and took out one of the biggest gains of the trip: Lind's magic ring. As for the "Soul Brain," it was still attached to her spirit body for the time being, and she hadn't yet figured out how to control it.

This high-spec ring was produced by Sky Dome Technology, and its security features were quite impressive. It took Yvette a long time, until dawn, before she finally managed to fool the authentication system and enter the magic ring's storage space.

Here, she saw a magic notebook written by "Lind Benedict" himself, as well as many pre-loaded, unencrypted sets of necromancy runes.

After carefully reviewing it, Yvette was the first to open the magic notebook.

Although this notebook was written by a defeated opponent who had already died, it should not be underestimated. After all, he was one of the five high priests of reincarnation, and he should be a top scholar at the forefront of theoretical exploration in the field of necromancy.

With the humility to learn from the experts, Yvette began to peruse the magic notebook. In it, Lind divided necromancy into three main categories: "Soul," "Bone," and "Flesh," and these categories were not parallel but arranged in a pyramid-like structure.

among them--

The soul is the foundation of the bones, and the bones are the foundation of the flesh.

Therefore, in his theory, zombie mages who manipulate corpses are the highest level, mastering the three dimensions of soul, bone, and flesh. Skeleton mages are next, mastering the two dimensions of soul and bone. Evil spirit mages are the lowest level, mastering only the dimension of "soul."

However, among the three holy priests, besides evil spirit mages like the Soulfire Holy Priest, there are also the Mad Bone Holy Priest and the Corpse Demon Holy Priest.

Is the Soulfire Saint the weakest?

This is not the case, because the Three Saints have surpassed the third level of zombie mages and reached the fourth level. That is, with sufficient proficiency in the soul, bones, and flesh, they have chosen a single dimension to explore and study more deeply. To use a super company as an analogy, the Three Saints are the chief scientists of the Holy Spirit Sect in three fields.

In this situation, the weakest party might actually be His Holiness the Pope.

As for the strongest, Linde speculated in the notes that the head of the Three Saints was precisely the Soulfire Saint.

The reason is simple: the "soul" is the cornerstone of necromancy and the foundation of soul magic, one of the five major concept magics. If the foundation is solid, the lower limit will be much higher, whether it extends to "bone" or "flesh".

Yvette frowned slightly as she read this.

She offended the Soulfire Saint.

If this is true, then when the Holy Priest of Soulfire arrives in person, wouldn't she be facing off against the world's number one necromancer after only two days of learning necromancy?

Isn't this a bit too difficult?

She sighed and continued reading. As a branch of soul magic, necromancy is also a type of conceptual magic.

So what exactly is conceptual magic?

It is—the unknown.

Yes, everything is unknown.

If we say that the five elemental magics are like Western medicine in the medical field, with the effects of each related rune already deciphered very well, then conceptual magic is like traditional Chinese medicine—I don't know why this rune set works, but anyway, it does.

It's essentially a matter of "practice first, theory second".

Where did these rune arts, whose principles are still unclear, come from?
This is closely related to archaeology.

3 years ago, Origin Star was a high-magic environment, which naturally gave birth to many magical beasts with strange abilities.

By extracting and reconstructing the genetic sequences of these monster fossils, and then "randomly grabbing" fragments that might contain innate abilities, and finally through massive amounts of repetitive labor, much like migrant workers in the scientific research field, many ready-made rune sets were unearthed. Some had only a few dozen runes, while others had hundreds of thousands. Some had wonderful functions, while others were completely useless.

This was the prototype of "conceptual magic".

……

In the notes left by Lind, he briefly introduced all the necromancy he had mastered, and all of it was pre-loaded into the magic terminal for direct viewing.

After reviewing them, Yvette categorized these existing techniques based on the three dimensions of soul, bone, and flesh.

She couldn't use most of the techniques involving bone and flesh, because these required preparing skeletons or corpses in advance.

There are two usable ones: one is to summon bone armor, and the other is to summon bone sword. Since they don't need to be maintained with magic power all the time, you can even make a lot of them in advance to keep on hand when you're bored.

Regarding the "soul," there are four main useful techniques, namely—

Soul-refining magic used to create evil spirits;
A soul contract used to control the undead;
'Soul Flame' that directly harms the spirit;
And the soul-slaying technique that uses fragments of spirit to possess others.

These four spells, along with "Bone Armor" and "Bone Sword," while not the strongest in the records, are currently the six spells that she can use most quickly.

……

From killing Lind in the early hours of the morning to studying the magic notes after returning, by the time he came to his senses, it was already noon the next day.

After lunch and a short rest to recover her energy, Yvette continued to study another trophy—the Soul Brain.

Unlike the Magic Terminal, the Soul Brain's system architecture appears to be self-developed by the Holy Spirit Cult, exuding a strong sense of amateurishness and being frighteningly rudimentary. Yvette bypassed the initial security authentication in just a few minutes.

Furthermore, there is no knowledge or information within the Soul Brain. According to the part about the Soul Brain mentioned in Linde's notes, in his opinion, the Soul Brain's greatest function, besides being a hidden magic terminal, is to amplify the holder's mental power, enabling them to have stronger and more precise magical operations, which is crucial for necromancers who require micro-management.

I won't go into the downsides, but it's easy to develop cyberpsychosis.

However, Yvette discovered that she had a high tolerance for the Soul Brain. After activating it, she maintained it for more than two hours without feeling that her memory was being eroded. It was suspected that her spiritual body was too thick, and the memory inside the Soul Brain could not penetrate it.

But this is just a preliminary feeling, and she will need a long time to verify whether it is actually harmful.

……

Having acquired readily available necromancy, Yvette spent the next two days practicing and deepening her understanding of the "Soulflame" spell.

After all, this is a method of directly attacking spirits, and it should be very useful against Soulfire Saint.

In addition, during these two days, she also asked Firefly to help monitor the network and observe the movements of Fusijiang. She obtained several clear pieces of information: the martial law in Fusijiang had become more severe, the police and the church protection group had begun to investigate house to house, and according to rumors, a big figure from the Holy Spirit Church had secretly come here, but it was uncertain who it was.

Unbeknownst to many, a tense atmosphere, as if a storm was brewing, had already spread throughout the city.

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(End of this chapter)