He had originally intended to send the Twin Witches to the Great Forest of Tob to assist the Magic Serpent Naga, but after a brief consideration, he abandoned the idea.
This was because the situation of the Twin Witches was different from that of the Magic Serpent Naga.
The Twin Witches submitted to him purely out of fear of his strength. Furthermore, the Twin Witches also knew that Lyle had left magical imprints on them, so even if they ran, they couldn't escape.
That's why they obediently followed Lyle's orders.
As for the Magic Serpent Naga, it concerned the acquisition of experience in the later stages, and Lyle did not want any problems to arise unless absolutely necessary.
As for the reason for letting the Twin Witches leave the Great Wetlands?
Naturally, it was to guard against the upcoming actions of the Slane Theocracy.
What he had just said was not meant to scare the Twin Witches. If the Twin Witches couldn't transform into humans using the magic ring...
Lyle had indeed planned to deal with the Twin Witches in the same way as the Cave Lizardmen.
Next—
He looked at the unconscious Gray Robed Mage beside him.
Lyle's eyes narrowed. He intended to use the other party as the first person to experiment on and to kill completely.
"It's not about right or wrong."
"I hope you can sleep forever."
Lyle stood up, staring at the Gray Robed Mage. He flipped his palm, and an iron sword appeared in his hand. He swung it down.
Blood gushed from the throat!
The Gray Robed Mage awoke from his unconscious state, his bloodshot eyes suddenly widened, and after his body trembled a few times, he completely lost his breath.
"Experience gained: 16212"
[Experience Slot: 65977 / 120000]
The information on the attribute panel flickered.
"Above Level 29, it actually provides nearly 20,000 experience points." Lyle was slightly surprised by the experience value gained.
Since he couldn't accurately determine the Gray Robed Mage's specific level, Lyle also couldn't analyze how much experience value was given per level.
"Resurrection of the Dead · Modified!"
As this thought flashed through Lyle's mind, he immediately activated the resurrection magic, his eyes fixed on the area above the Gray Robed Mage's body.
Under the passive ability of [Shaman Mentor], he could see the translucent soul that emerged from the Gray Robed Mage's body after his death.
Buzz—
A powerful magic power fluctuation emanated from Lyle, forming a circular magic circle three meters in diameter, appearing at Lyle's feet.
The invisible, astonishing magic power caused the surrounding air to become heavy.
Since "Resurrection of the Dead · Modified" was a resurrection magic modified by humans from another world that could be cast through the magic system, it required double the amount of magic power.
Such a large consumption of magic power, even with Lyle's current magic power, would not last many times.
Therefore, the professional skill "Mad Meditation" of [Mad Mage] was activated to substitute the consumption.
Whoosh—
The magic circle's light flashed.
The soul, which was originally floating above the Gray Robed Mage's corpse and gradually showing signs of dissipating, was forcibly pressed back into the opponent's corpse under the effect of the resurrection magic.
"Ah—"
The Gray Robed Mage's corpse, in the blink of an eye, regained life, instinctively letting out a scream, as if waking from a dream, and sat up with a face full of cold sweat.
"Thank you, Alli..."
The Gray Robed Mage gasped a few times, and as his consciousness gradually recovered, he instinctively wanted to speak.
However!
When he saw Lyle standing in front of him, the Gray Robed Mage's pupils suddenly contracted, and his face showed a mix of shock, astonishment, disbelief, and other emotions.
"Swarm—" The Gray Robed Mage wanted to cast a spell, but Lyle, who was prepared, acted one step ahead and knocked him out again.
At such a close distance, the Gray Robed Mage had no chance of resisting against Lyle's true close-combat abilities.
"Resurrection magic is indeed somewhat related to the soul."
Lyle looked at the unconscious Gray Robed Mage, thinking about the changes that occurred during the entire process, and murmured:
"His aura has clearly weakened a lot. According to the characteristics of low-level resurrection magic, he should have dropped four levels."
Lyle had known about this change long ago, so he wasn't surprised.
In the anime and light novel versions, Bone King and Demiurge had conducted extensive experiments on healing and resurrection magic and had reached certain conclusions.
Lyle had not resurrected the Forest Sage King, Hamusuke, after killing him earlier, precisely because of the drop in life level after resurrection.
The reduction in experience was one thing.
The crucial point was that the opponent's fur and other materials would also decrease in level once resurrected after death.
As for skinning the opponent's fur off beforehand, it was also useless, because after resurrection, any missing limbs on the opponent's body would also disappear.
This was also a conclusion reached by Demiurge, so there was no situation of farming materials through resurrection magic. While there were some ways to exploit bugs, the results were unknown.