Chapter 145: Into the Annals of History
Experimentation was a joy, even for a lich.
Ever since his self-destruction, Ambrose had wanted to rebuild his body.
Even with Black Rose's help, this set of bones was still a downgrade from before.
But he had simply been too busy ever since then. Now that he finally had the time to do so, it was time to make proper preparations.
Creating ordinary undead required corpses because dark mana flowed far more smoothly through such materials. With other materials, the loss would be enormous and the storage efficiency abysmal.
Take the simplest of skeletons, for example: channel the same amount of dark mana into a skeleton for three minutes, and it could clatter around for ten years. Use that same mana on a metal body, and two hundred years of charging would get you three seconds of movement.
That was why undead could only reinforce their bodies with mana. They couldn't simply swap their bones out for steel.
This material disparity was not something that could not be overcome. Otherwise, death knights would not bother wearing armor, and their swords would be carved from bone instead of metal.
But though this would have been a problem for any other undead, Ambrose had no such limitations.