When Rex looked inside his inventory he saw that the gold coin had a paper beside it in the inventory.
Upon clicking the paper, he saw the words, "I am just a small fry when we compare to the bigger liches and Necromancers."
When that was what Rex completely read. He decided to let the gold coin out and watch the lich completely reform.
Instead of a normal looking boy, this time it looked just like a little skeleton. A green flame appeared in his eyes, a blue flame in his rib cage, and a red flame in his legs.
"This is how I was born. Power over my past flames and each flame a symbol of what I can do. I wanted you to know this before we start to actually explain what we will have to fight against."
Rex held his finger up and began to inspect the lich's bones. Each bone purposefully selected to reinforce and produce the flame. Each flame also produced Qi in different ways. The women of the lake had also changed and waited for Rex to be done with the lich before they walked out to him.
"Something seems off about you. Your bones reinforce and produce the flames, and the flames produce your Qi. Yet, you were a boy when we first met. What actually allowed you to keep your boy appearance even with those other people?"
"Strong questions need strong answers. Yet, this answer you will have to allow me to explain what you are fighting against.
In the far expenses of each Realm from the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth there is a group of liches and necromancers. They experiment on young children the most. Trying their best to make the best Necromancers and/or Liches depending on the circumstances."
Rex was angered by the experiments on young children. He could already piece together what happened to make the boy maintain his human form.
"So they take a skeleton of a normal size humanoid and place it into a cauldron of sorts. This is to extract all the Qi that they can out of it. For what is actually inside the cauldron, I do not know. Whatever is in there is able to do the extraction.
The Qi is the heaviest object in the cauldron once it is all extracted and goes to the bottom of the cauldron. A tube is placed inside the cauldron closed up until the Qi is felt. I do not know how it is felt only that it is."
Even Rex could not believe the story at this moment. He decided to listen through because who says that this was not the truth. He just could not believe it.
"When all of the Qi is inside the tube. It is brought out. Either a Lich or Skeleton has to do that part because of the boiling cauldron water would instantly fry even dragon scales entering the cauldron."
Rex knew what part of the formula was. A glowing yellow flower called the Morning Killer. It wakes up brighter in the night almost turning the night into day upon feeling movement. Baby Dragons loved to play around them and some even get scars on their scales. When those scales come off, they keep them as reminders of what truly brings them down.
"As the Qi enters into a child. They are forced to then drink the cauldron water. This is where the story becomes different for parties. If the child dies, a lich will revive the child and force them to continue the drink. If the child manages to survive by a hair, the child becomes a necromancer."
Rex already knew of the change that the Morning Killer could do if used properly. He guessed that either during the ritual or something in the water causes the mutation of something evil within the Morning Killer.
"I do not know what truly happens when the Necromancers leave. I do know what happens with the liches." The tone which sounded sad and afraid, "Humanoid skins are dangling by a thread. Some are older adults, some mid, and other adults are mutilated because they would not corporate with their skinning."
Rex's eyes had a fury in them. He could guess at what was in the skinning process and how they got those people.
"When a lich finds a skin that he or she likes. The lich that guides them focuses a lot Qi between the skin and the skeleton. Honestly, I do not know how long I was out because I can never enter into a city without suspicious activity around me. From the city itself or from lurking shadows that the necromancers and liches have."
Rex knew what this was about. Even he felt bad because this was turning them evil. What good does it do if something or someone uses their power against the organization that helped them? None.
Rex waited as the boy finally let out a small sigh. This was proof of how much he wanted to be a boy again.
"Well, we Honestly need to get into some fine clothes for the ritual that is about to happen here."
Rex turned his attention to the women who seemed afraid of what was going on. The boy was saddened by this. Rex gently led the dup to the point of being able to enter the house.