Chapter 90: Not That Kind of Vampire
For a lich who had long since shed all worldly desires, experimentation was one of Ambrose's few remaining forms of entertainment.
After all, there weren't opportunities to make gold daily. And when there was no profit to be had, the only way to pass the time was to run experiments. If those experiments happened to be related to making money, so much the better.
In theory, the power of the Golden Throne granted Ambrose limitless wealth and strength.
With his two legendary boons, Mimetic Soul and Material Transmutation, he had the start of a self-sustaining cycle. Given enough time, becoming the richest being on the continent was hardly a fantasy.
But reality was cruel.
The artificial souls created by Mimetic Soul simply didn't boast enough intelligence.
Before Ambrose stood five newly created types of "undead," lined up neatly in a row.
When it came to material transmutation, density mattered. To transmute the same mass, the denser the material, the more gold was required to alter its properties.
The five experimental "undead" before him were made from books, leather, steel, sand, and gold. Each weighed exactly one kilogram. Each housed a blank soul with a precisely calibrated strength of 100 thaums, a unit Ambrose himself had defined. An ordinary human soul typically fluctuated between 80 and 130 thaums. His manufactured souls were far more standardized and resulted in much less variance.