Chapter 59: The World as an Instruction Manual
Creating two high-tier undead right now was not, strictly speaking, a good idea.
The materials would be expensive, but the more important factor was time.
Many humans harbored a fundamental misunderstanding about undead. They thought that a simple Raise Skeleton spell—yanking a skeleton out of a corpse—constituted true necromancy.
In reality, such skeletons would last at most a single day. They weren't undead at all, but rather mere temporary puppets.
Their movements depended entirely on the caster's control, and their souls were fragmentary and incomplete at best.
Creating autonomous undead that could persist long-term and retain most of their original reasoning—especially high-tier undead—was a different matter entirely.
The first step was to determine whether Hastin and Hares' souls still lingered.
Ambrose wasn't worried about Hastin. A cutthroat thief who preyed on his own kind was unlikely to be devout. After death, his soul would remain trapped in his body for a long time, suffering without reprieve.
The real concern was the half-elf ranger. Most elves worshipped the elven pantheon, and those gods were notoriously possessive of elven souls. In most cases, death meant immediate ascension to the divine elven realm. There was little chance that he'd linger behind.