"Three months!" Pandora said at once.
"Three months, huh? That's not very long. I'll look forward to it." Richard smiled, then asked, "If you run into any difficulties, tell me. I can help solve them."
"There really is one difficulty. The main problem right now is the lack of high-quality bones." The Lich Old Man spoke up, looking at Richard. "The bones we're using now are ones I found while digging up graves outside whenever I had the time. There aren't many, and the quality is passable, but they work. Once we use them up, though, if we want to keep working, we'll have to dig up more graves. Whether we can find suitable bones then is hard to say."
"Digging up graves?" Richard shook his head. "There's no need to go through all that trouble. Let me handle it. I'll get you plenty of high-quality bones."
"How will you handle it? Do you know where there are abandoned graves nearby?" the Lich Old Man asked curiously.
"I don't," Richard replied. "But I have money."
The Lich Old Man froze.
"All right, I'll buy the bones and bring them back in a few days. That's settled." Richard was eager to inspect the Geothermal Power Generator outside, so he turned and left Eden Garden.
Watching Richard leave, the Lich Old Man took quite a while to recover his composure. He muttered, "You can... buy bones? Well, that truly never occurred to me. But even if it had, it would've been useless. After all, I don't have money."
Turning back to the new skeleton before him, the Lich Old Man said to Pandora, "All right, let's continue."
"Mm." Pandora nodded, full of motivation. "We have to finish within three months."
"Finish in three months?" The Lich Old Man glanced at Pandora with