Chapter 455 - 427: Maritime Combat Specific Undead
"Hmm, miniaturizing the jet propulsion engine works better underwater. Carving wood takes too much time, let’s custom-order a simple metal shell instead, but two jet engines are too wasteful—one is enough, the power is already sufficient, there’s no need to strengthen it anymore. Let’s add an air undead test tube... Might as well not make it in a synthetic form, since undead are especially easy to detect."
Amberser kept making changes to the blueprint, and quickly came up with a new version of the undead troops.
It was the simplest form of streamlined machinery, hardly recognizable as a fish anymore, resembling more of a small torpedo with its own jet propulsion.
Finger-sized, with a miniature magic array as the propulsor, relying solely on minor fin movements for direction control, and the torpedo’s head had space to load alchemical bombs or other weapons.
Amberser muttered to himself, "Alchemy bombs are too costly, my air undead are more cost-effective."
The so-called air undead was a colorless, odorless, extremely toxic substance that Amberser had previously developed by transforming air into corpse-like properties, and then stuffing it into a completely blank pseudo-soul.
This type of undead had no thoughts, no will to act, and not even any functional movements, making them very low cost. However, this air undead could only be preserved in sealed containers; once released, they would explode instantly, turning into a colorless, odorless ’undead air’."
Amberser had tested it, and should a living creature directly inhale the undead air, it would quickly be eroded by dark magic power, its potency more horrifying than any known toxin, making it far more efficient in killing than alchemical bombs.
If this air undead were placed in the head of such a small torpedo and exploded upon hitting a target, the deadly air would quickly spread, poisoning the target.
The only problem was that, being a gas, the air undead would form bubbles that rise to the surface upon detonation. How many of these bubbles could the enemy inhale?