Timothy created a new ability, a fully necromantic ability, even, because he was supposed to reanimate skeletons with it! He absorbed the new power in his body, and hoped that it would work like it was supposed to, because he didn’t want to spend all day tugging on strings of mana channels, regardless of how enthralling that may sound, especially since it didn't cost any mana to experiment. It was interesting, but he didn’t want to spend hours creating abilities that he would then dispose of.
“Okay… I need test subjects.” He muttered.
Afterwards, he slipped out of the bony den, swam nearly twenty meters away from it, and tried to put his new ability to the test! A dark cloudy substance oozed out of the barb of his tail during the attempt, but this cloud was small, because he wasn't cranking the ability up to the max. He didn’t need to.
The cloud then traveled around his close vicinity, and sought out skeletons to reanimate. This part of the process was costly, he was spending two-hundred mana points a second, just to allow the cloud to do its thing! Though this was a bit expensive, it was pale in comparison to the expenses that he had made recently, he didn’t mind it.
The cloud found three skeletons in a short time, and started encouraging them to get out of the sand. Though it was difficult to crawl out of several feet of sand, the cloud, although without mass, encouraged this sort of gravitational pull around itself which made the barricading sand a lot lighter for the skeletons! A dust cloud was caused as a result, but that wasn’t an issue per se, it was barely blinding, and at some point, the three skeletons started moving around within the dust cloud!
This was the fun part! Since Timothy managed to get these skeletons moving already, he then got rid of the dark, necromantic cloud, because the cloud had fed the skeletons with all the mana that they needed! In a sense, he only made a single deposit of mana there, and in turn, the skeletons kept moving and abiding his command, without being fed any more juice, they didn't require any more mana!
The latter was the highlight of his new ability, he stole the mana patterns for it from the Bone Multiplier ability, and from the looks of it, he successfully implemented it to his new ability! The highlight was that once the skeletons were reanimated, he didn’t have to feed them any mana again for weeks, or unless the skeletons were destroyed by an external force.
The bony den behind them worked in a similar way, meaning that the artificial bones that he created were to last for weeks at a time without being fed another drop of mana! This was where he got the inspiration from.
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“Hu-hahaha!” He celebrated, and then joked. “Walk, my monsters! Daddy's calling!”
The skeletons belonged to various dead fish, so they didn't have feet to walk on, so they couldn’t fulfill his command. Actually, they couldn't swim that well either, considering that their mere bones themselves weren't enough to help them swim, so they were just drifting in the deep waters, helplessly! Their brains had deteriorated a long time ago as well, so they were also brainless, senseless.
“Well, that's what a thousand mana points will get ya.” He sighed, and realized how pathetic the sight in front of him was. “My plan worked well regardless, these bastards don't need any more juice, the experiment is a success!”
Regarding names, he decided to call this new trick the Cheap Reanimator ability, because he really loved how cheap it was! Sure he may need to reanimate skeletons of mammals for this ability to be more useful, but the important thing was that it worked, and it did what it was supposed to do, so that was all that mattered. Furthermore, since the skeletons were at his behest, they were sensitive to any other ability he would unleash on them, such as the Bone Multiplier ability!
The latter ability was strong enough to create entire limbs on living creatures, so, attempting something similar on the unliving, was even easier! With that said, he started experimenting on one of the skeletons that he had reanimated.
Tim picked the smallest skeleton, so he wouldn't waste too much mana on it, and slowly but surely, he started building a fish from scratch! He first fixed its missing bone pieces, such as pieces of its ribcage, and tail, until he made a whole skeleton. The skeleton was only four-inches long, so this took him forty-seven mana points to achieve.
Afterwards, he indulged in the more complex part of his experiments. Calculating it based on its size, he gave the skeleton a couple of tiny organs to use, and then he connected those organs to a new nervous system that he managed to create shortly after!
Everything about this was complex, but with an MQ of three-hundred points, his abilities were simply overpowered, especially the ones related to creation, such as the Bone Multiplier ability! His understanding of his own powers had deepend significantly!
At his rate of understanding, he managed to give the skeleton everything it needed to be a fish, such as flesh, eyes, senses, a brain, and so on! The whole procedure cost him one-thousand mana points, and it ended up being cheap, in a sense, on the count of how small the fish was!
The fish practically came to life at this point, and recognized its master, and swam around in joy as a form of respect for its master! The fish was reanimated perfectly, to the very last detail! He created a tiny anglerfish, because he had worked based on what the skeleton could fit, as to not exert too much mana.
Tim could’ve turned this skeleton into that of a different creature if he wanted to, but then he had to figure out the appropriate organs for them to use, and that part wasn't only more complex in comparison, but it was also deathly expensive! He wanted to avoid such overly-ambitious experiments for now.