Demonic Skeleton God-Chapter 120: The First Mana Crystals

The system responded almost immediately, as it usually does.

[Tip: Two things have changed — the amount required for your evolution and the functioning of strength for your soul slaves. Instead of Evolution Shards and Evolution Dusks, your evolution will now operate on the principle of souls. You need to collect a certain number of souls in order to evolve once you reach the maximum potential of your Stage. Souls drop from every enemy, regardless of their strength. Your slaves can still absorb souls from beings you’ve killed because they absorb a different part of the soul than you do. The Stage system will no longer apply to your soul slaves, and their strength cannot be clearly recognized.]

[Tip: Slaves grow strongest by absorbing souls; training also helps, but only to a minimal extent compared to souls. Your slaves will no longer emit any magic energy, so their strength can only be measured in battle.]

The system once again sent Flain such a long reply that it had to be divided into two system windows.

Flain really liked the first change — it was very similar to the excuse he gave Itai to hide the system. Practically, Flain will now receive Evolution Shards in a different form from every enemy killed by him, his slaves, or Itai’s skeletons.

He didn’t have such a good view on the second change. Flain could no longer determine exact strength using magic energy, and on top of that, training was now likely less effective. Flain decided to test it and once again summoned Aran and Ivy in front of him — and indeed, he felt no magic energy from them.

"Aran, do you feel like something has changed?" Flain asked Aran.

"You are right, my king. I do indeed feel a little different. I can’t precisely determine my strength, and I don’t feel any magical energy from myself. But from you, my king, I do clearly sense magical energy," Aran replied.

"I feel the same," Ivy added.

Flain didn’t know whether his slaves could see the system, but he assumed they couldn’t, since they would have reacted differently and would know what caused it. So Flain explained to them in detail the changes introduced by the system. He told them straight away what the system was, as hiding it would only cause unnecessary confusion.

"My king, I had a certain idea of what the system might be. But I didn’t know it was such a powerful thing. Thank you for taking the trouble to explain it to us," Aran said gratefully and bowed.

"Seems kinda too complicated to me," Ivy said.

Aran gave him a hateful look and was about to say something, so Flain recalled both of them back into his soul just in case. He would never have expected such a strong rivalry and hatred to form between them. He would have to work on that in the future because he had big plans for them. free𝑤ebnovel.com

Ghosty was currently sitting in the corner and observing what was happening. Flain didn’t have any use for him at the moment, because letting him watch the surroundings of his room would be pointless — Flain was certain the academy was secure enough, so he let him do whatever he wanted.

When the system said that his slaves were not governed by the Stage system, he wondered how it worked for techniques and spells they learned, and whether they could even learn them at all. Flain didn’t even have to ask in his mind—the answer arrived immediately in a system window.

[Tip: Your soul slaves can learn spells or techniques, but their stage doesn’t matter at all. When a slave learns a skill, it will transform according to the slave’s power and grow stronger along with them.]

At least something about this change was good. Flain could give them any skill—even stage 1—and it would adapt to their power. Of course, he would prefer to give them spells of their highest affinity, but Flain didn’t even know what that was and didn’t exactly have a wide selection of spells to choose from.

Flain knew that spells and techniques could be bought in the academy shop for Mana Crystals, but he would only buy them for himself, since his slaves currently had no real use that would justify investing in them. And he didn’t even have Mana Crystals—at the moment, he had only 1.5 Mana Crystals in the form of gold, and he was supposed to receive another 5 from the academy this week.

Flain hadn’t looked at skill prices, but he figured that since his Night Communicator cost 70 Mana Crystals, the average price of skills wouldn’t be low. Flain looked forward to the day he could finally rob students of their Mana Crystals. He guessed they wouldn’t carry them around, so he planned to station one of his slaves outside their room, and the student wouldn’t be able to leave without handing over their Mana Crystals.

Flain was aware that such behavior would make him a lot of enemies, but ultimately, he didn’t care. What would he gain by being considered a good, fair student at the academy? The answer was obvious: nothing. But if he robbed and exploited others, he’d get Mana Crystals, which he could use to grow stronger faster and buy useful skills.

Flain saw only pros and cons—morality or similar nonsense meant absolutely nothing to him if there was no gain from it. Flain’s imaginary brain was wired that way, and nothing could easily change that. Of course, Flain had a fairly high ego and sometimes struggled with emotions, but that didn’t really fit into his brain’s logic of pros and cons in any significant way.

A little while later, those annoying servants came to Flain again with another unnecessary dinner—but this time they finally did something useful and gave him the weekly 5 Mana Crystals along with the meal.

Flain examined them. They were blue crystals the size of a finger with pointed tips, but they couldn’t pierce Flain’s fake skin, so they were safe. Flain debated whether to use them immediately for training or save them for a skill. In the end, he decided to use one, which should last him one Mana Crystal’s worth—that is, a whole day, 24 hours.

Flain began training...

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