Industrial revolution starting with the undead

I briefed Eleonora on the situation.

After the graduation exam, Eleonora was supposed to be apprenticed, but the overlap between her father's death and her brother's run away forced her to inherit the lord.

The territory ahead that I inherited was poverty itself, and although it was something I had felt for a long time too, it was a territory with a continuing deficit. So somehow, I did my best to spare myself while I slept and let my finances go bust.

And - from the basement of my home, the mansion, that I found an art book of sorcery.

The moment I spoke of it, Eleonora's eyes opened.

"I did a magic book... I discovered it!?

"Yes, as a result of coincidences... my parents' home was the land where Aarv lived."

"Well..."

"This is the book."

I take out from my nostalgia a treasure that I've protected from ever letting anyone touch my eyes - an art book of sorcery.

In a leather fitting, titled in the ancient language of the Art, it is a substitute for many fakes in alleys. Even fake gold coins move dozens of Art's sorcery books - the real thing, here it is. There's no way a magician like her wouldn't have it, but I could still see Eleonora's hand receiving a magic book from me shaking just a little.

Open the book, look at what's written there, and Eleonora's eyes open a little bit.

"Real, it is... It's also a book of Necromancy (Necromancy), even forbidden among the Arts... you're discovering something from the basement of your parents' house..."

"Me too, my hands shook. It's just... I think it's only a small fraction of what I've been able to figure out when I'm understudied."

"Oh...... I, too, have a somewhat elusive text. But it's an interminable substitute."

"For the past two years, I've been polishing my witchcraft with this magic book as a master. It's written in a magic book. You can use it if you have some magic."

I tell that to Eleonora, with a serious eye.

In fact, for the past two years, I've been self-taught to decipher Art's sorcery books. He spared no time to continue his studies while he slept, wanting to make it his own somehow.

As a result, there are only three sorceries that I have been able to master - Creation (Creation)/Skeleton Soldier (Skeleton), Creation (Creation)/Decay (Zombie), and Creation (Creation)/Immortality (Nosferatu).

The more I read the second half, the more frequently incomprehensible sentences and words appeared, and when I was the last, I could barely decipher them. Probably from the paintings depicted, it's a way that vampires (vampires) and evil spirits (raises) can also be used, but I had no idea how.

Eleonora sighs in a small way at my words like that.

"I see... you've successfully activated Necromancy."

"Yes...... er"

"Well, you could... I've never met anyone else with as much magic as Jin. But even with your magic power, you probably can't use top magic. As far as the text goes, though."

"Really..."

That's what Eleonora says, who is a mixture of Arv and man and can possess the wisdom of Arv. Perhaps, definitely.

Slightly discouraging, but still no problem. If I don't have enough magic, Chris can make it up to me. Though I'm dying.

"So, what happened when you activated it?

"Yes, I made a bunch of skeletons, but they worked fine"

"Hmm. It's a pretty hard way to activate, but have you succeeded? That's Gin."

"I think it's still working."

Even if I leave the territory, the skeletons will probably work fine. As a matter of fact, Skeleton also worked in the village of Ledosta, away from the town of Fulcus, but even once a month or so he made no difference to the Skeletons when he headed for an inspection.

I don't know how the hell you're compensating for your magic. As for that, I have been doing research for the past two years or so, but I have no idea. Neither did the sorcery book explain it to me around there.

But Eleonora frowned slightly at my words.

"Maybe it's working...?

"Ah, yes. I left it in my territory..."

"No, why? Skeleton into territory......?

"Uh... our territory was poor. There were a lot of rural areas with no workers, that sort of thing. Because bandits attacked me and I was sparsely populated, and young people left the village, and so on."

"Hmm...?

Eleonora just frowned when she didn't know what it meant.

Am I explaining it so hard? After all, Eleonora is a magician, and maybe she doesn't know because she's a gatekeeper in territorial management or something.

"So I came up with something."

"I only have a really bad feeling about it, but tell me"

"Skeleton said you could farm if you let him have a quack,"

"Are you an idiot!?

Eleonora screams like that.

Did I say something that weird?

I just thought using skeletons would help develop the territory -.

"I know I'll make skeletons using Necromancy (Necromancy), which was also contraindicated among the Arves, of the Arves sorcery book! It is the natural duty of those like us who seek the abyss of sorcery! I know that!

"Ha..."

"But Jin, think about it! Art's sorcery book is the sorcerer's all sorrow! Even what you have, even what you are born of as an achievement, is something you should keep secret! What are you doing handing that out to the countryside?

"No, as a lord, I think we should put the people first."

"You're really smart, but you're an idiot!

Oh, already, and Eleonora's got a head.

As a lord, I was just going to do what I deserved.

"Well, I can't help it anymore... how many skeletons did you make?

"Uh... uh, I didn't count it"

"Did you make so many?

"Maybe a thousand bodies."

"Blah!!

To my words, Eleonora is amazed.

Uh, I have about a hundred skeletons working in the mansion, and I'm sending about twenty to thirty to each village, and I'm letting each of them deploy a death night made of three skeletons, and I'm giving them quite a few more cow skeletons... yeah, I knew it was about a thousand.

Eleonora looks at me, shuddering in defiance. What the hell...

"Oh, yeah."

I need to tell you this properly.

Eleonora is a mix of blood with the Art, and there may be verses that come to mind about why and why.

"Master, I have something to tell you."

"What more do I have to tell you...?

"Yes, actually, when I discovered the Art of Magic book, I discovered the Art of a young woman who was sealed in a crystal nearby"

"Nothing but a surprise comes out of your mouth!?

Even if they say so.

Nothing. I don't mean to surprise Eleonora. I'm just reporting the facts.

"Yes, so"

"Sealed in crystals......? No way, he... you didn't crush it!?

"I'm not crushing it...... well, yes. Just calm down and listen."

Tell Eleonora to breathe.

And then, suddenly, he showed Chris standing a little behind me.

As soon as possible, Eleonora's face slowly blues.

"That's what makes me this girl."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Chris."

"Explain to me from the start what the hell is going on!!

Look at Chris', long ears off the hood.

Eleonora's cry echoed throughout the mansion.