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After carving, I poured molten gold into the most important pathways. Gold was an amazing conductor of magic and would allow my skeleton mage to channel larger amounts of magic and also increase its speed. I soaked the skeleton’s bones in the soul essence with a few herbs and minerals added in that would harden its bones, giving it higher defense capabilities. With some difficulty, I embedded the Sea Sapphire into my skeleton’s forehead to increase its magical senses.
The final step was something I had created on my own. It was something I had been thinking about before I even knew about this project. I had my parents send me a small diamond that had come from an old ring of the family. The band of the ring had become so worn away it had eventually broken. I held the tiny diamond in my hand and poured as much death qi into it as I could. Then I placed it down on a table while I created hand seals with my hands. At the same time I said several words of power making sure not to blink even for a second. Strange symbols that were a combination of my knowledge of alchemy and formations appeared inside the ring. Once it turned black I embedded the diamond on the inside of the skull, on the opposite side of the bone from where the Sea Sapphire was embedded. An evil grin appeared on my face as I finished incorporating the diamond into my skeleton.
Chapter 11
I was all fired up for finals. After I took my first final, I already knew I had a perfect score. After my second final, I knew I had aced it as well. I was on fire.
For the third final things were far more interesting. Bob had also created a skeleton. From the bow it was carrying and the quiver on its back full of arrows I assumed it was an archer. The bow and arrows appeared to be made of a black metal. They looked powerful. Luckily Ms. Olga was able to see Bob’s skeleton archer before he freaked out from all the zombies the other students had made. Even though he ran from the room screaming, Ms. Olga still gave him a passing grade.
“He screams more like a girl than I do,” mumbled Nyxra.
The other students had all chosen to create zombies. Nyxra had gone outside of the box and had a muscular four armed troll zombie. I was a little impressed. It looked fierce and was very large. Its head was brushing the top of the ceiling. I couldn’t tell whether she had sewn on the additional troll arms or if the creature had actually been a four armed troll, something I highly doubted.
Ms. Olga approached me. “Well?”
I placed a ring on the table in front of me. It was made of bone and had a small bone skull on it with a tiny blue gem embedded on its forehead. She raised one eyebrow. I was rather impressed by the effect, I would have to practice that in the mirror in the future. Placing the ring on my finger it began to glow. In a flash of blue light the ring disappeared and a skeleton mage appeared standing next to the table.
“I decided to make it portable,” I told her. Judging from the look of surprise that quickly turned into a smile I knew I was getting another A+. The Sea Sapphire was glowing blue in the middle of my skeleton mage making it look powerful and mysterious. At the end of class, Nyxra and Bob gathered around me and demanded I show them how to do the same thing. I was more than happy to teach them.
Chapter 12
It was finally our last class, demonology. This was the last class I needed to pass. Nyxra was already using the blood I had given her to draw a pentagram onto the cement slab used for summoning. Some teams decided to use the ground instead. The symbols that Nyxra was painting on the cement were strange and complex. I was completely lost and it showed on my face.
Nyxra’s cat was currently examining the pentagram and symbols and noticed my confusion.
“Meow meooow.”
“What do you mean I’m slow in the head?”
Those symbols were complex.
“Meow, meeeow meow me’meow.”
I could somehow understand every word the cat was saying and they were all insults towards me. For a cat she had an impressive vocabulary.
“Well…your mom.” I was currently losing in an argument with a cat. A rather annoying and particularly cruel cat. I wasn’t surprised at all she was a demonic familiar.
I hoped my familiar was nothing like the cat.
As Nyxra continued to draw the symbols, the air above the pentagram started to shimmer like the air above asphalt on a hot summer day.
“How is it going?” I asked her.
“This spell is reaching across dimensions to find a creature that is a reflection of your very soul. Then an unbreakable bond is created to forever bind the two of you. The calculations to make this spell work are mind boggling to say the least.” She grinned over at me, then continued to add symbols, redrawing a few, even smearing out a few entirely. I stood there with no clue what she was doing.
I started to doubt my own intelligence. I thought I was smart. I thought I was good at magic. I didn’t understand anything Nyxra was doing. I looked over to Bob and he appeared to be doing most of the work for his team himself. His partner appeared to be as lost as I was and Bob appeared to be a slightly lost than I was. I was more worried about Bob than I was myself. As long as I had Nyxra I knew I would be fine.
The third team seemed to be doing fine, except they weren’t using blood like the rest of us. Their