“My very own monster… erg, fish? It''s as if I''m Doctor Frankenstein, only without the creepy lightning.” He joked.
What he achieved here had a lot more math included in it, and of course, he was aided by what could be considered dark magic. It was dark, because he had disturbed this little guy''s watery grave, gave it eyes, senses, a brain to think for itself once more, but he didn’t give it a soul. He couldn''t do that as of now.
Sure the anglerfish looked happy, but Tim got sad once he remembered that this little guy''s life was purely artificial. The anglerfish, and its insides in its entirety, would fade away in a few weeks if Tim didn''t feed it any more mana by then, they would fade away, regardless of how realistic the little, four-inch fish seemed!
By his calculations, he had to feed his little slave here, a hundred points of mana by every end of the month, or else it would die, again! It would fade away.
Anyway, although the ethical aspects of his second experiment were very challenging, what he achieved here was still a baffling amount of success! He could reconstruct entire humans like this, as expensive as the latter may be, as he''d just need to visit a human graveyard to achieve great results!
The reanimation of dead bodies was cruel, it was dark without a doubt, but it didn''t look so dark to him if he did this to his enemies! He''d love to enslave anyone that shot fireballs against him, but that time was yet to come. For now, he felt a bit sad that he gave this little anglerfish such a miserable existence.
As Tim thought about the latter, he sighed. “I guess this is why people don''t like necromancers? Actually, the common necromancer probably reanimates gross, fleshy, stinky bodies, so that''s a better reason to hate them. At some point I''m going to have to do the same, I''m gonna have to be a graveyard harvester, but I won''t be as gross about it, I''ll make sure that my slaves are all nice, and spiffy! New arms for everyone if they need them, and new organs too, cuz I can''t have my slaves be zombies - I want them to shit, shower, and shave! Should be easy!”
As she noticed his harrowing train of thoughts, the system chimed in. [Reanimation is generally frowned upon, however, if you upgrade your MQ at a high enough score, you can actually revive people, rather than reanimate them! Most necromancers or healers cannot revive people, so if you manage to get yourself up on that level, you''ll be considered godly! Not to mention, it''s a lot cheaper than manually reconstructing an entire human being.]
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“How about you help me get to that level, then? When''s the next MQ upgrade?” He asked, because he really liked the idea of reviving anyone he pleased.
Quick as a flash, the system explained. [The next MQ upgrade is available at the next batch of upgrades, in fact, you can choose to upgrade it however much you want later on, but it will be extremely expensive to do so! Not to mention, your other abilities are also costly to upgrade, so unless you''re comfortable with killing hundreds of creatures, you''ll have to figure out how to spend your points properly, and efficiently! The possible selections after this badge of upgrades will be endless for you, you’ll be tempted a lot!]
Furthermore, she added. [Regarding your MQ ~ Your best chance is to re-visit the library of Rempegana, you can have a better chance at increasing your MQ there, potentially rapidly, on the count of your current, upgraded score! In hindsight, this is better than spending thousands of system points, just to move your MQ by a nudge. I advise you to be more calculative, because you won''t have any protective guard rails soon, as in, the upgrades you’ll choose to buy after this batch of upgrades, will either be what makes you exemplary, or it''ll be your demise!]
The system flashed those long paragraphs in front of him, and she made spectacular points too, so Tim had to re-read everything that flashed in front of him, just so he''d understand everything properly! The takeaway was that reanimation was expensive, revival wasn''t as expensive, and that he''ll surely get a sore head as soon as he beamed through this current batch of upgrades! There was a lot to think about, but for now, he only focused on a couple of things.
“I gotta figure out how to revive shit, it''ll come in handy. For fuck’s sake, my friends were swallowed by a Sea Orc yesterday, they could''ve turned into mush if they didn''t get stupidly lucky! We get in trouble all the time.” He thought.
However, revival, as a magical ability, was far beyond him right now. He was yet to master reanimation itself, so he''d rather focus on the later for now.
Reanimating creatures was a lot easier in comparison, so he summoned his new ability, and started, and sought out more skeletons. He found five more of them, and although most seemed useless, there was one, tiny skeleton that caught his eye.
Experimenting on tiny skeletons was cheaper, so he started practicing on this one as well. It didn''t take as much mana to fix this one up, because this species apparently lacked muscle tone and fat significantly!
Once he was done, he observed the creature, but he couldn’t make up what kind of species it was. He just reconstructed it based on the tiny, thin skeleton that he worked on.
Noticing his confusion, the system then chimed in. [You just reconstructed a Bony-Eared Assfish! They''re deep sea creatures, so I''m not sure what its remains were doing up here, at the four-hundred meter mark. It''s an interesting creature nonetheless, you can keep it as a pet!]
“A pet, huh? It''s a unique pet, right enough, very assy.” He remarked, as he mocked the creature''s large, bony head. “Assfish, haha!”