Night is a time for rest for ordinary people. After a busy day, most people have tidied up their personal hygiene early, lied down in a warm bed, and fell into a sweet sleep.

But for necromancers, night is the time when they start working.

Although he is a mage who specializes in necromancy, a necromancer is still the same as a normal mage. He can use meditation to replace sleep and will not feel tired due to lack of sleep.

In ancient legends and myths, ghosts are always afraid of the sun. Whenever the sun rises during the day, all ghosts must hide in the shadows to avoid being burned or even burned to death by the sun's blazing rays.

In fact, this is indeed the case. In the definition of necromancy, the sun is an aggregate of positive energy. The light it emits is extremely lethal to all kinds of undead creatures and ghosts, even very powerful high-level undead.

Creatures will also be affected, and their power will be weakened when exposed to sunlight. Only truly top-notch undead creatures have the ability to ignore the sun.

It is precisely because of this that necromancers study necromancy most of the time at night or on rainy days, because this way they can eliminate the interference of the positive energy emitted by the sun on the magic. There is even a dark sky in necromancy.

This is a spell that covers the sky and creates an environment suitable for the undead to survive.

With Chen Yu's current ability and level, it is obviously impossible for him to build a dark canopy that covers the sky. Not to mention how many resources this requires, just the impact of covering the sky. In this era when the sky is full of satellites,

I’m afraid it won’t take 24 hours to be discovered by the satellites in the sky that monitor the earth all the time, right?

Putting these unnecessary thoughts out of his mind, Chen Yu took out the mold and the materials he had prepared and started his work tonight. He needed to make a ritual candle tonight.

Ritual candles are specially made candles that are not used for lighting themselves, but to attract ghosts. Although ritual candles will also emit light after being lit, this light is mainly extremely harmful to ghosts.

Great attraction. And when the ritual candle is burning, it will have a "scent" that is irresistible to the ghost, which will attract the ghost to the candle unknowingly.

For necromancers, ceremonial candles are mainly used in various summoning rituals or special magic rituals. They are indispensable and important props in rituals. This is just like the practice of ancient Chinese Taoist priests opening altars, incense candles, talismans, etc.

The same kind of things are always indispensable.

The production of ceremonial candles is not complicated. You only need to mix the prepared materials according to a certain proportion, and then pour them into the mold. Even if there is no mold, it is not impossible to shape them by hand. For ceremonial candles,

In other words, the materials used in making are the key to the quality of ritual candles. Depending on the quality of the materials used, the effects of the ritual candles produced will be completely different.

According to the production method recorded in the "Compendium of Universal Necromancy in the Multiverse", a standard ritual candle needs to use corpse wax mixed with cat ashes as the main materials, and add tomb moss, corpse grass, grave soil, etc. as auxiliary materials.

Then use the dead hair soaked in corpse oil as a candle wick. If you can use the Tianling Cap as a candle holder, the effect will be even better.

Although the materials cannot be said to be very evil, these things are not acceptable and understandable to ordinary people. It is precisely because most of the materials used in necromancy are of this style that even the undead with good intentions

It is also difficult for mages to be accepted by mainstream society, and they can only hide in the darkness.

Although the materials for making ritual candles are not very complicated, nor are they too difficult to find, corpse wax and corpse oil are not things that he can obtain. After all, in a modern society governed by the rule of law, it is almost impossible for corpses to be left until the meeting.

The corpse wax will be discovered at the stage of production and then sent for cremation or burial. He has no way to obtain these things.

In addition, Chen Yu couldn't put a corpse in his house and wait for it to produce corpse wax, so he could only use other things to replace it.

The alternative Chen Yu chose was... paraffin wax.

Originally, he planned to use beeswax, a natural product, but unfortunately, it is not easy to buy natural beeswax in a place like Tokyo. On the contrary, it can be industrially prepared and mass-produced.

Paraffin wax is very easy to work with, so Chen Yu naturally chose to use paraffin wax.

Although the materials were quite different, Chen Yu successfully made ritual candles out of paraffin after experiments. Of course, the effect was indeed much worse, but in Chen Yu's opinion, some of them were already very good.

As for other materials, cat ashes are not difficult to obtain. Although it is more troublesome, you can still get such things if you spend some money. Even Chen Yu used very high-quality black cat ashes, which are worth mentioning.

They are called high-quality products. Grave moss, corpse grass and grave soil are not that difficult for Chen Yu, who rents an apartment next door to the cemetery. He only needs to go to the cemetery at night to collect them.

As for the dead hair soaked in corpse oil, as a medical student at Dongda University, Chen Yu still knows some ways to get dead hair. He is not short of this, and the hair of living people is not irreplaceable.

It's corpse oil... It's a pity that one corpse only has so much corpse oil. If you want to avoid being discovered, you can only collect a little bit from each corpse. Although the accumulation of these little bits can build up a tower of sand, it is not enough at all.

So Chen Yu also thought of using other materials instead.

He used long tweezers to take out the oil-soaked hair from a jar full of fishy smell and put it into a glass dish that had been prepared. He quickly closed the lid and sealed it again before he dared to breathe.

.However, even though it was only turned on for a short period of time, the air in the room was still filled with a very unpleasant smell of dead fish and rotten shrimps.

This is the alternative method that Chen Yu thought of. Corpse oil refers to the oily overflow of fat when the body is highly decomposed. Corpse oil can be seen on corpses that have not been processed for several days in the summer. Corpses with overflowing corpse oil look like they have been soaked in oil.

It's more than average. But it doesn't say that corpse oil must be collected from people. It can be replaced by animal carcasses. In Japan, the seafood market throws away a large amount of unsold goods every day, especially in the summer.

As long as you collect a little bit and leave it for a short period of time, you will naturally get corpse oil. Of course, the smell will be... very unpleasant.

After opening the window to ventilate the smell and let the smell dissipate, Chen Yu used a small crucible to melt the paraffin that had been buried in the cemetery for a month, then poured various crushed materials into it, and injected the undead spirit according to the production requirements.

Stir with magic power, pour it into the mold after stirring evenly, put in the candle wick made of dead people's hair, wait until the wax liquid solidifies, take it out of the mold, and after lighting it, it will emit a green fire, a ceremonial candle
Chapter completed!