Cthulhu Gonfalon

Tu Ya’an and Tessa left and went back to the magic tower to figure out what to do in the future.

Originally, Tu Ya’an had two goals in his life. The first one was to revive his sister. The second one was to strive to become a demigod so that he could stay with his sister forever. Other things such as making a lot of money to buy all kinds of clothes for Tessa were things that could be done easily, and they were far from long-term goals.

Now, his first goal had been achieved, perfectly. As for the second goal, would it be so easy to become a demigod? He needn’t rush on that.

And now, he had no idea about where to start. His power was still far from the legendary peak, so he’d better put that second goal aside. He preferred to wait until he reached the legendary peak before working hard.

Now, he was thinking about how to apply his Dead Soul Spell to production.

In theory, he could summon skeletons by himself. It would be nothing difficult for him to summon hundreds or even a thousand of them at one time. As long as food and accommodation were provided, and there were enough human bones as material, summoning ten thousand skeletons was not a big deal for him.

However, unless there were other spells that could dominate the Dead Soul Spell, the skeletons Tu Ya’an summoned would only obey his commands.

This was an important feature of low-level Dead Souls: they were mechanical.

That was to say, the reason why a low-level Dead Soul was loyal and brave was that it had no ability of thinking at all, just like a car or a knife, and it could be simply regarded as a tool.

Of course, if no one controlled it, the low-level Dead Soul usually intended to show strong aggression against all living creatures because of the conflict between positive and negative energies. That was why there had always been many skeletons in the Ashes Woods.

The Dead Soul created by Tu Ya’an also had the nature of attacking all living creatures. If Tu Ya’an was too far away from them, he would be unable to give them a new order in time. Then they would be dominated by this nature and turn into horrible demons after executing the original order for a period of time.

That was the biggest problem that Tu Ya’an faced now.

How could a mage control low-level Dead Souls for a long time when he was far away from them? That was a major problem of the Dead Soul Spell, and so far no mage had found the solution.

Tu Ya’an was no exception.

If he could solve that problem, he could go to the underworld and control the low-level Dead Souls there. He could also gather them together and establish a kingdom to move forward to the realm of god.

Theoretically, if he could solve this problem, there would be indeed a great hope for him to succeed.

But that was impossible. He really couldn’t find a solution.

So he had to change his way of thinking and consider the means of how to hand over command to others easily when he was far away from the Dead Souls.

That was easy. The elder necromancers had thought of this possibility long before and developed a variety of solutions. One of the cheapest methods was the so-called Command Wand of the Dead Soul.

The Command Wand of the Dead Soul, it seemed to be something very luxurious, and of course, it could also be made in that way. But in most cases, it was just a branch of a locust tree that was picked by a necromancer. The necromancer had to engrave a simple magic array on it and then correspondingly engrave the magic array on the body of the Dead Soul that needed to be controlled. That was all.

That was something originally designed for new apprentices, and it enabled them to control a few Dead Souls to protect them or to work for them. But who would like to spend a lot of money and energy making a high-level magic tool that could control a large number of Dead Souls?

Only an absolute idiot would!

Tu Ya’an could certainly make such a magic tool, but the problem was that he was alone and couldn’t make it any faster.

It was not to say that it was troublesome to make such a wand, but this wand needed to be matched with the magic array on the Dead Soul. Thus, he had to engrave an additional magic array on the Dead Soul, and that was really troublesome.

Tu Ya’an thought about it for a long time but still could not figure out anything. Finally, he felt that instead of pondering at home alone, he should go out and look for places where there were a lot of workers to see if he could find some good ideas.

After all, the wand was made for these workers. They would be the ones to manipulate the skeletons to work, so they were the most qualified ones to make some suggestions.

With this idea in mind, Tu Ya’an left the magic tower with Tessa and went to Gold-Panning Town, the farthest back of the towns of the Republic of Northwest.

Gold-Panning Town hadn’t been able to make much progress until the last few years when they started to engage in special farming, and that was considered to be a truly reliable way to make money. However, with a lot of manpower invested in it, the special farming technique failed to create a stable income. The mayor of Gold-Panning Town, Dios Almark, felt very upset and anxious and didn’t know what to do.

Tu Ya’an’s visit made the mayor very happy. The mayor laughed with his mouth wide open and said that he was going to have a big banquet to welcome him. After all, in the mayor’s mind, although Tu Ya’an was just a necromancer, he was still a legendary mage!

Tu Ya’an was not interested in the banquet. He explained his intention straightforwardly and asked if his idea could help Gold-Panning Town.

Almark thought about it for a long time. He frowned at first, then thought about it again, but then shook his head. Later, he seemed inspired and pondered for a while before nodding with a smile.

“I have an immature idea,” Almark said. “Can these skeletons help with digging or something like that?”

“Of course, but they can’t work in a way as accurate as human do,” Tu Ya’an said.

“It doesn’t matter.” Almark laughed. “Our town’s special farming is underground. At present, the biggest problem is that the scale of the farm is too small. You know, we have a small population here, and we don’t have much money to hire people to work for us. Thus, we can only dig the tunnels when we are free from the farm work, so the digging progress is very slow. If the skeletons can help dig the underground tunnels, I think they will be very helpful!”

Tu Ya’an paused for a moment and said, “What I want to ask is whether you have any ideas to make the skeletons obey your orders after I leave.”

“That’s easy. I can find a certain area to let them dig there slowly, and no people will be allowed to approach there,” Almark laughed and said. “Are you afraid that they will attack the living creatures? Then let’s make sure there are no living creatures around them. According to what you’ve said, the reason why the skeletons don’t obey your orders when you’re far away from them is that the instinct of attacking takes the upper hand in their minds, right? But if there were no living creatures around, they would always obey your orders and find no chances to attack others.”

Tu Ya’an remained silent for a long time and finally nodded with admiration on his face.

“I’ve never thought that a mayor of a small town could be so wise!” He sighed deeply. “I’ve always thought that I’ve been very smart, but I’m nothing in front of you!”

Almark laughed naturally in a humbled way, and that was how the matter was settled.

The next night, Tu Ya’an, together with Almark, found a suitable area. Then Tu Ya’an manipulated the skeletons he had summoned to start the digging there.