Chapter 80: Reading Session
“Undead created by necromancers are normally individually weak. These creatures operate under very basic instincts and have no sense of self-preservation. They don't attempt to dodge or block any attacks thrown at them. Instead, they mindlessly advance toward their targets. This lack of self-preservation and tactical awareness make them very easy to handle for a combat-trained mage or anyone wielding a weapon. Even a novice mage could dispatch these undead with relative ease, as their movements are predictable and their reactions slow.
“The danger that comes with fighting necromancers comes from the fact they can overwhelm you with sheer numbers of undead. It is not unheard of for a necromancer to easily control over hundreds of undead creatures at a given time. The quantity of undead they can create makes up for the drawbacks.
“But, if a necromancer has no access to bones or corpses, they are no more dangerous than a regular mage. Possibly less so, since they chose to specialize in necromancy and might lack skill in other types of combat magic. Without bones or corpses to animate, their arsenal of spells are severely limited.
“However, don’t expect to come across a necromancer that doesn't have access to corpses in some way.
“Necromancers are known to carry around an object known as a bone bag. It is similar to other spatial storage items, able to store many items in a small object, except it is purposely designed to hold only corpses, and a lot of them. The exact capacity of these bags is hard to determine. But to give an example of their capacity, a particularly dangerous rattle bone cultist I defeated had collected the bones of over a thousand people and stored them in a single bone bag.
“Bone bags are illegal to make due to the fact they are crafted specifically from the skin of a living human being. The type of corpse that can be stored in these containers is determined by the type of skin from which the bag was made. Consequently, human skin is the preferred material for crafting bone bags, as these bags were typically used to store human corpses. The process of creating a bone bag is both gruesome and barbaric, involving the skinning of a living person to ensure the bag's enchantment would hold.
“Anyone carrying around a bone bag is a clear indication they are a necromancer and most likely a Rattle Bone cultist.”
—“Hunting cultist” By Archmage and Witch Hunter Betty Vo
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