Day 62
Using [Create Lesser Undead], I once again endeavoured to raise everyone’s levels yesterday.
I could confirm that it’s possible to alter the summoned monsters according to my will.
I could make different kinds of black skeletons; axemen, lancers, archers, and mages were all possible, and if I wanted to go easy on the opponent I could even make simple white skeletons.
It was even possible to summon moving, decomposing corpses called “zombies”, frail clusters of souls called “ghosts” and other undead types.
I wanted to try eating the ghosts, but even I couldn’t eat insubstantial creatures.
It appears that there are certain conditions that have to be met to eat a ghost in this world, so I swore in my heart that if I met someone who could do this that I’d eat his flesh.
Returning to the original topic, for the purpose of earning experience points, I created mainly zombies and the ordinary white skeletons; then I let them get defeated by the troops.
The Black Skeleton Knight is stronger than the others, and for this reason it was able to act as Gobokichi-kun’s or Gobumi-chan’s sparring partner, and was used as an instructor for the Kobolds and Elves respectively.
It was not able to talk beyond making rattling noises. It could communicate using rough gestures though.
Steadily strengthening this ability will make it terrifying.
Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that there were no problems with the undead.
Undead-type monsters have various restrictions like [Sunlight Vulnerability] and such.
Dhammi-chan is an undead, too, specifically a dhampir, but since she possesses a [God’s Divine Protection] and is thus a subspecies, it isn’t a problem for her, unlike for other undead.
Black skeleton class monsters could somehow last ten minutes, although they start emitting black smoke from all over their bodies, but their overall strength dropped so much that it couldn’t even be compared to their usual power.
They got so weak that even the kobolds could defeat them so it should be easy to imagine.
That was what it was like for the Black Skeleton Knight Class of the Skeleton species, so weaker undead such as zombies or ghost and the like couldn’t even last ten seconds before being purified.
Though the zombies were exorcised in the sunlight, their rotting bodies remain, and can be used to spread disease in enemy territory, or as material to fill up holes, or recycled as meat for Hobufu-chan who liked to eat them, but ghosts who leave nothing behind can’t be used at all once the sun comes up.
Besides, it also hurts that they can be easily exorcised, specifically by using holy water or holy light.
Thinking about the forces that can fight during the day, the calculations went a little crazy.
Troubled over how we’re supposed to overcome that, I stopped thinking about it for a moment. Today I was earnestly overseeing the training of the Elves and Kobolds.
The elves were originally hand picked elites, thus they could improve their skills simply by fighting Black Skeleton Knights and Black Skeleton Axemen one on one, so training them was easy.
For that reason, I concerned myself more with coaching the Kobolds .
The Kobolds, as a species, were about equivalent in power with Hobgoblins, perhaps higher, but anyway, here’s our current composition: