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“I have to turn the wyvern body into a zombie before it gets damaged, so I’ll go to the studio.”

“Already? Not resting?”

I nodded when Amy asked if I was going to start working right away without stopping.

Anyway, all I did was pour dark magic into the skeletons, so it wasn’t particularly difficult. Even avoiding the wyvern’s attack, Jiena and Amy lifted me up and carried me, so it was natural that I wasn’t physically tired.

“It is bound to be in the best condition if it is made immediately after death. The same goes for recovery.”

Moreover, because the wyvern could run away, the wyvern was quickly caught, causing quite a few injuries. In order to recover those parts, it had to be done as quickly as possible.

Once rigor mortis had occurred, recovery of the skin was not an easy task. Even when a living being dies, it is possible to maintain all of the functions of the body as long as they have not yet completely stopped.

It was not that the body itself was lost to the point where recovery was impossible, but that a certain level of stab wounds could be recovered.

When I told her that for that reason I had to get to work right away, Amy nodded. But even so, he quietly clung to my side.

“Andrew. Well, can I watch you turn a wyvern into a zombie? Jiena, aren’t you curious too?”

“Goo, I’m curious, but personally, I don’t like things that are gross… … .”

I tried to drag Jiena in, as if she wanted to watch the work being done, but unfortunately, Jiena shook her head, saying that she didn’t like how gross it was. Of course, Amy still looked at me with a curious expression.

“Well, that’s right. There is nothing that cannot be done.”

The process of creating undead was not that dangerous. It may be dangerous for black magic to spread to those around you when you use curses and various types of black magic, but it was not dangerous for Amy.

Since it was already engraved with a brand full of dark magic, curses and dark magic were not a problem.

Hehehe, Amy, who was smiling and happy, waved to Jiena, who was heading to the bathroom, and headed to the studio.

The corpses of wyverns brought by skeletons were already in the workroom. Among them, the wyvern’s body on the workbench had the sword that Amy had placed at its nape.

“Oh! Oh, I can’t use this… … .”

Amy, who belatedly realized this and pulled out her sword, started crying. I don’t know if the wyvern’s blood causes rust to form quickly, but part of the blade was already full of rust.

Of course, since it was a sword that could be made in our blacksmith shop, Amy was not very disappointed. He roughly placed his sword next to the entrance and immediately ran to my side.

“What do we do now?”

“First, you need to recover from your wounds. There are no parts cut or lost, so this is easy.”

“Did I hurt my neck?”

“What… … . It may take some effort, but it’s not impossible.”

I gave appropriate answers to Amy, who seemed to have many questions, and decided to restore the wyvern’s body.

First, the carcass was turned over and its stomach was cut open. But no blood flowed. This is because he died from excessive bleeding with numerous wounds all over his body. There wasn’t much blood to flow in the first place.

Moreover, since it was cut using black magic, there was no reason for blood to flow.

“Ugh.”

But it was even more bizarre because there was no blood flowing. This was because the things that were supposed to be inside the body were clearly visible because they were not stained with blood.

Even Amy, who had never seen anything like a former mercenary, was disgusted.

Of course, I didn’t get tired of it because I was somewhat used to it. Even though I didn’t like it, it wasn’t the time to frown when I saw it.

“But didn’t you say it would restore you? If you split it like this, how do you recover?”

“Recovery will be done with vitality. That’s why I cut the boat open.”

After giving a simple answer to Amy’s question, I immediately found one part.

It was a heart that would have been pounding less than an hour ago.

“Now I will make your heart beat with black magic. Inside the heart, the essence of blood full of vitality will be liquefied and injected. That vitality will force the Wyvern’s body to recover. It is possible because all of the body’s functions have not yet died, so it is not difficult.”

“Then won’t it come back to life?”

“Not really. The soul has already left the body. And because it doesn’t simply make your heart beat, but uses black magic to make it beat, you don’t have to worry about it coming back to life.”

He shrugged his shoulders at Amy, who seemed to be worried for no reason, and immediately began carving a magic circle into the wyvern’s heart.

They say zombies just say ‘wake up!’ It was not an undead that could be created with a single word. I had to take steps to activate my dead body. Making the heart beat using black magic wasn’t just about physical recovery.

That’s why various magic circles were carved into the wyvern’s stopped heart. So that the heart can beat steadily, so that the essence of blood containing vitality can move through the blood vessels, and so that the bodily functions do not stop due to that vitality.

Like a jeweler who processes jewels, he carved several small magic circles into the wyvern’s heart. After completing the work, the blood essence prepared in advance was liquefied and allowed to seep into the heart.

Now, if the heart was forced to beat, the vitality of the blood essence would circulate with the blood and forcibly restore the damaged body. At the same time, it also maintains the functions of the body so that they are not completely destroyed.

“Uh!”

As I raised my black magic power to activate the black magic that forced my heart to beat, Amy, who was next to me, let out a noise as if she was surprised.

This is because smoke briefly puffed out from the magic circle drawn on the wyvern’s heart, which was stopped, and then began to beat with a pounding heart.

“He’s dead, but his heart is really beating… … ?”

“Because they are zombies. Corpses that simply move are a type of undead, but they are useless. The efficiency is so poor that the body collapses quickly. Zombies are also inefficient, but they are several times more inefficient.”

The undead, whose bodies rotted and crumbled in real time, consumed enormous amounts of black magic.

Of course, even if turned into a zombie, it was necessary to periodically inject blood essence and continuously infuse dark magic to activate the magic circle of the heart and strengthen the body.

Anyway, after forcing the heart to beat and waiting for a while, new pieces of flesh came up from the wounds all over the wyvern’s body.

“Ugh, this is gross too?”

“Isn’t it still amazing? Your body recovers very quickly.”

“Um… … . That’s true too. So is this how Death Knights recover from wounds?”

“Wound recovery is similar.”

There are many differences between zombies and death knights, so if you look at the details, there is a big difference, but if you look at recovery alone, they can be said to be similar.

“Ugh, I see.”

And, I don’t know if it was because Amy was aspiring to become a Death Knight, but since she heard that it was similar to a Death Knight, she began to look at the wyvern’s body with great interest.

Thanks to Amy’s great interest… … Although not true, the Wyvern’s body recovered from all wounds in an instant. Thanks to this, I had to inject additional blood essence, but that wasn’t a problem.

“Wow, at this level, people who buy monster by-products must be really excited, right? If the skin and muscles are this good, you can get it for a very high price. Monsters with expensive by-products will make a lot of money just by recovering and selling them like this!”

“But if you recover like this, the blood essence value you entered will be more? My labor costs too.”

“Oh, ah.”

I chuckled at Amy’s reaction as if she hadn’t even thought about that part.

“And since it is steeped in dark magic, it will rot quickly if it is not consistently restored with blood essence.”

“It’s unfortunate… … .”

He poked Amy’s cheek as she expressed regret, saying that monster by-products were also her main source of income when she was a mercenary, and then proceeded to turn Wyverns into zombies.

Not only was the overall body strengthened, but overall remodeling was also carried out.

As a wyvern that uses physical force to fly, it was an essential process. Lightening the weight made it easier to fly with less force, so unnecessary parts had to be removed from the body and the wings had to be strengthened.

“… … Are you taking out all the internal organs?”

“Anyway, it’s useless except for the heart. There is no need to eat anything to get nutrients.”

And, the first things to be removed were the internal organs excluding the heart. The external parts are all useful and cannot be left out, but the internal organs were a different story.

“Huh?”

However, while removing the internal organs, a strange phenomenon occurred. One of the internal organs I was trying to cut suddenly floated into the air.

The intestines felt almost like an inflated leather pouch, and they floated even though they were not touched.

At first, I wondered what kind of intestines that was. However, through the process of turning the other two wyvern corpses into zombies, the identity of their internal organs was able to be determined.

That internal organ was the wyvern’s flame sac. No, more precisely, the source of the breath, which creates and stores flammable gas, was this intestine. At the same time, like a fish’s swim bladder, it was also an internal organ that helped the wyvern fly more easily.

If the internal organs were floating enough, it was not impossible to help a huge and heavy body fly.

“This is why after shooting the breath, I couldn’t fly properly and tried to run away.”

This was the reason why the wyvern seemed unable to fly properly immediately after firing its breath. Because it used up all the gas inside while shooting its breath, it was unable to fly easily and tried to run away.

Because it was a very important organ for a wyvern, it was made to sit quietly in the zombie wyvern’s body along with the heart.

And, thanks to its built-in, the Wyvern can be used quite usefully. This is the part that not only allows the wyvern to fly easily, but also serves as a means of attack.

In addition, the flammable gas bag, called a flame bag, was modified to take up all the space for the removed internal organs, making it even more useful. This is because flight is possible with less power, so transporting a certain level of cargo is not impossible.

“It was enough to just use it for transportation, but this could make it very useful.”

In addition to simply transporting cargo, it could also be operated by dropping skeletons from the air.