Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

As Fang Zhou continued learning, he gradually got the hang of it and was able to provide more help to Shen Zhongyun during the modifications, greatly reducing his workload.

"Another failure!" A Beastman’s corpse lay on the operating table.

Beside the corpse, Fang Zhou and Shen Zhongyun stood on either side, constantly shaking their heads and sighing.

Each failure consumed a lot of resources, and all those resources meant money!

Fang Zhou expertly dissected the corpse with a scalpel, researching the cause of the failure with Shen Zhongyun.

"It’s still an energy conflict. It seems to improve the success rate, we need to keep refining our methods."

After examining the dissected Beastman’s body, Shen Zhongyun quickly found the cause of failure, then closed up the corpse’s chest and abdomen.

After Fang Zhou recorded the experimental results, he looked at the corpse on the operating table and, with a mindset of not wasting anything, cast a spell on the body.

Soon, a Black Iron-grade Corpse Warrior crawled off the operating table, walked out of the lab, and climbed up the city wall.

"You’re certainly not one to waste anything." Shen Zhongyun saw this scene and smiled.

"Uncle Shen, I learned this from you." Fang Zhou laughed.

"Hahaha, you rascal!

But indeed, you Undead Mages have an advantage when it comes to flesh transformation.

Even when experiments die, they aren’t wasted in your hands." Shen Zhongyun nodded as well.

Currently, under Fang Zhou’s command, many of the Flesh Servants and Bronze-tier Artificial Undead are made from dead modified subjects.

"Sigh, how can we achieve a higher success rate!" Shen Zhongyun sighed deeply, unable to resist complaining.

The Beastman modifications in the fortress were already used up, and although recent experiments went much smoother with Fang Zhou’s help, there was no substantial progress.

"Many modifications aren’t unsuccessful; they just can’t sustain life for long." Fang Zhou thought for a moment and said slowly.

"That’s still not a success." Shen Zhongyun couldn’t help but shake his head.

"Uncle Shen, maybe you can think about it from another angle.

While it may not be a success for others, for us Undead Mages, it’s a success."

Fang Zhou had a good idea and spoke with confidence.

"What are you talking about? Failure is failure. How can it be a success for you?" Shen Zhongyun was already bewildered by Fang Zhou.

"Uncle Shen, take a look."

Fang Zhou took Uncle Shen to the window of the tower, pointed to a patrolling Silver-tier Blood Spirit Warrior, and continued, "If we modify a Beastman so that at the Bronze Tier he can have Silver-tier strength.

Even if his life only lasted a short time after the experiment ended.

As long as he held Silver-tier strength at death, isn’t that a success for me?!"

"What do you mean?" Shen Zhongyun pondered, feeling like he grasped Fang Zhou’s train of thought.

"As long as the strength of the modified subject increased, it doesn’t matter if he dies.

For others, a dead modified subject is useless and wasted.

But I can make him into an Undead Creature!"

"For instance, you modify a Beastman, and after the modification, this Bronze Beastman temporarily has Silver-tier fighting strength.

The experiment isn’t considered a success, and this Beastman is about to die for some reason.

But I killed him while he was still alive.

Then, without delay, cast a spell on him, making him into an Undead Creature.

Doesn’t that also give us a Silver-tier Undead Creature, an Undead with Silver-tier fighting power!"

Fang Zhou said energetically.

"This! This this!!!"

After listening to Fang Zhou, Shen Zhongyun’s mind was muddled. He pointed at the Blood Spirit Warrior outside the window, his hands trembling.

"Yes! Why didn’t I think of that! Why didn’t I think in this direction!"

Shen Zhongyun’s face turned red, and he breathed a long sigh, unable to help saying.

Then he looked at Fang Zhou with a complex expression, patting his shoulder, "Genius, truly a genius!

Hahahaha."

Shen Zhongyun laughed heartily skyward, his voice brimming with joy.

He finally understood that what Fang Zhou said wasn’t complicated.

But some things are like a sheet of opaque glass. They look fragile and thin, but when you try to think in that way, you just can’t see through it.

Once the mindset is opened, a whole new world appears.

Shen Zhongyun’s mind raced with ideas.

These failed enhancement experiments, besides being used by Undead Mages as corpse materials, could also be used to extract their energy crystals and energy organs.

These high-energy materials have a significant market demand.

Shen Zhongyun’s goal in engaging in Flesh and Blood Alchemy experiments was always to make modified subjects capable of fighting while alive.

Ideally, they should live for another ten or twenty years, providing higher cost efficiency.

This pursuit is very common in the Flesh and Blood Alchemy industry, to the point of becoming an entrenched concept, with everyone tirelessly seeking the maximization of combat power.

But Fang Zhou, having just entered this field, had not yet formed these entrenched concepts and easily pierced through this sheet of glass.

Whether the modified subject is alive or not is unimportant for an Undead Mage.

All that matters is obtaining a capable fighting force after the experiment.

As for whether the subalterns with adequate combat power are living modified subjects or dead ones, it doesn’t matter.

"Why did I never think of this?" Shen Zhongyun clicked his tongue, only feeling heartache.