21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 407 - 404: Assessment (Request for Monthly Tickets, Request for Subscriptions)

When Misumi Mikoto followed a Ghost Maid to the study room, drying her hair with a towel, Chen Yu was sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace, reading a book.

Although magic could keep the room temperature constant, the fireplace was burning with fire, providing a sense of warmth to Misumi Mikoto who had just soaked in the cold blood bath for half an hour.

In front of Chen Yu was a cup containing a green liquid, steaming at the top, which looked somewhat suspicious.

"Master, Miss Misumi has arrived," the Ghost Maid reported in a low voice to Chen Yu after bowing to him.

Chen Yu merely glanced up, noticing that Misumi Mikoto had changed back into the clothes she had come in, though her hair was still dripping wet as she dried it with a towel, and then motioned for the Ghost Maid to step back before saying, "Come and sit down, the potion on the table is prepared for you. I certainly wouldn’t want my only apprentice to catch hypothermia or something because of a mere test."

Hearing what Chen Yu said, Misumi Mikoto realized that the suspicious green liquid in the cup was intended for her.

Handing the towel to the Ghost Maid, Misumi Mikoto went over to sit on the sofa opposite Chen Yu, picking up the cup on the table. However, she did not immediately drink the contents of the cup but stared at it with a doubtful look.

Although a forensic scientist is not a doctor who cures people, they still have basic medical knowledge, and this suspicious-looking liquid didn’t seem like a medicinal potion at all—rather, it resembled the poison of an evil witch in a fantasy tale.

Of course, Misumi Mikoto knew that Chen Yu wouldn’t harm her, but still, due to her caution and fear of the mysterious potion, she asked Chen Yu, "Teacher, what is this made of?"

"This thing, it’s made with lots of good stuff, zombie brain marrow, toad saliva, bat feces, spider leg hair..." Perhaps wanting to joke around, Chen Yu deliberately listed many disgusting-sounding "casting materials."

However, having put down the cup, Misumi Mikoto did not forget the purpose of her visit that night, so she asked Chen Yu, "Teacher, didn’t you say earlier that you wanted to test me on practical spell operations? Is the test still going on?"

"Are you ready to take the test?" Chen Yu asked her, looking at her lazy appearance.

"Didn’t I come here for that very reason?" Misumi Mikoto looked at Chen Yu and showed him a confident smile.

————————————————————

Inside the Mage Tower’s experimentation field, a two-meter-tall giant skeleton stood in the center of the open ground, while Chen Yu and Misumi Mikoto stood before it, looking at the enormous skeleton. Continue your adventure at novelhall.Côm

Unlike ordinary skeletons, this skeleton’s bones were clearly thicker, and its legs were not structured like human bones, but rather like the robust hooves of a cow, and its head was a stark white cow skull.

"It looks like you’ve got a good grasp. Using animal bones to summon skeletons is far more practical than using human bones since animal bones are heavier and stronger than those of humans," Chen Yu said approvingly as he watched Misumi Mikoto summon a cow-headed skeleton with a pile of cow bones.

This was his own modified version of the Skeleton Summoning Spell. Although he had only made some modifications to the standard skeleton structure in the original spell, and the casting materials had changed from any bones to specifically cow bones, for Chen Yu, who could easily get tens of tons of cow bones, being able to transform an ordinary 1.8-meter-tall humanoid skeleton into a 2.2-meter-tall cow-headed skeleton—with bone strength and power increased by 1.5 times—made the spell extremely practical.

"Does that mean I passed the test, Teacher?" Misumi Mikoto asked Chen Yu with a beaming smile as she saw him nodding.

Chen Yu glanced at Misumi Mikoto, smiled slightly, and while nodding, he also pulled out a box from his person and handed it over to her: "This is your birthday gift; happy birthday."