In Rod's impression, even if the necromancer who has passed the Endless Night Ritual and transformed himself into a lich has a big difference in the strength he can finally have, and this is related to the quality of the core materials selected in the Endless Night Ritual.

What determines a lich's potential, and what it can ultimately achieve, is the quality of the Endless Night Ritual, in addition to its own talents.

Among the core materials used to guide the Endless Night Ritual, the Mother of the Dead is one of the highest quality.

The Lich transformed by using the Mother of the Dead in the Ritual Core often has the most powerful strength, and will also have a great advantage in the process of continuing to improve its strength in the future, far exceeding the Lich transformed through other Ritual Cores.

In the absence of high-quality core materials, even if a necromancer meets the prerequisites for promotion to a lich, they will rarely choose to transform immediately, but instead collect materials to ensure their potential once they become a lich.

It's just that in the process of collecting materials, necromancers need to pay attention to not allowing their strength to improve again, that is, to become a high-level necromancer.

Once the strength of the necromancer is improved again, he misses the best stage of holding the Endless Night Ritual, and after becoming a high-level necromancer, it is tantamount to choosing another path of the necromancer, even if he performs the Endless Night Ritual again and transforms himself into a lich, he will not be able to obtain the special value of the lich itself.

At this time, in Rod's hands, there happened to be the Mother of Dead Souls, which was the advantage that Rhodes had compared to other necromancers who needed to collect ritual materials.

With this very special item, Rhodes does not need to collect materials again, as long as the character level meets the requirements, he can directly perform the Endless Night Ritual and transform himself into a lich.

If Rhodes chooses the path of the Lich, when entering the Fifth Order, Rhodes only needs to directly take up the position of Senior Necromancer.

Of all the classes that Rhodes can advance, the Senior Necromancer is the most basic. Compared to other classes of the same rank, it requires less experience to become a senior necromancer, only 150,000 points.

It's just that Rhodes is a little hesitant about whether to choose to be promoted to the lich.

In Rod's opinion, after being promoted to become a lich, the main improvement for himself is in controlling the number of undead creatures, and for other aspects, whether it is the level of spiritualism or his own spell casting ability, there is not enough improvement.

What's more, according to Rhodes's experience in his previous life, as the rank increases, once a creature enters the seventh order, that is, the rank where the legendary creature is located, there will be a clear difference in strength for other creatures that have not entered the seventh order. This is true not only for legendary mages, but also for all professions.

For the average legendary lich, when their strength reaches this level, they can truly master the legendary level of spiritualism and create a huge army of undead, coupled with their own strength, creatures below the legendary level naturally cannot fight against them.

It's just that for other legendary creatures that also have a seventh order, it's hard for the lich to deal with them. Without the bonus of the legendary mage in spell casting, the spell casting ability of the legendary lich is only similar to that of the average high-level mage, in this case, it is naturally difficult to deal with the real legendary mage.

Due to various limitations, the vast majority of lichs will face such a dilemma, but among them, there are exceptions.

Rod recalls that in the second expansion, the peerless necromancer, when he became a legendary lich, showed spell-casting abilities that even surpassed ordinary legendary mages, which was obviously different from what Rod had in mind.

Regarding this most special legendary lich, in Rhodes's impression, in addition to the difference between this and ordinary lich, there are more anomalies in his body.

According to the information collected by Rhodes in the game of the previous life, the Death Shadow Battle, this peerless necromancer, at the apex of the sixth order, when he was about to enter the seventh order, held an endless night ritual, and transformed himself into a legendary lich in one fell swoop.

The fact that a large number of players, as well as ordinary necromancers, had come to the conclusion of transforming the Lich with their own experience could not be applied to this peerless necromancer, which undoubtedly shocked all players at the time.

As the Shadow of Death campaign progressed, some players in subsequent games followed suit, wanting to wait until they reached level 10 of the sixth order, and then hold an endless night ritual to transform themselves into a legendary lich to see if they could get any special blessings.

It's just that these players didn't get the expected gains, but once again proved with their own experiences that once they held the Endless Night Ritual, their rank had reached the sixth order, and the transformed lich could not compare to either of these two methods in terms of strength.

How this peerless necromancer did this caused a large number of players to speculate at the time, and Rod had a deep impression of it, but the discussion of these ordinary players did not reach a consistent conclusion in the end, perhaps only the necromancer himself knew this.

At this time, when Rod was thinking about his promotion route, the news about this peerless necromancer undoubtedly appeared in Rhodes's mind.

Although Rhodes recalls this point that the peerless necromancer has achieved, he cannot use it as a reference to solve his own situation.

Rhodes knew that in the setting of the game itself, this peerless necromancer was the real protagonist in the Shadow of Death expansion, just like the protagonist of the first expansion was Tanan, and in the protagonist of the game itself, most of the laws that apply to ordinary creatures will be problematic in them.

Because of this, although Rhodes recalled this, he still seemed a little hesitant.

The ability of a legendary mage to cast spells is something that Rhodes is unwilling to give up, and because of his experience in his previous life, Rhodes clearly knows how much damage a legendary mage can cause.

In contrast, with the end of the Death Shadow Campaign, the situation of necromancers is much worse than before, and even legendary lichs can only be confined to Diya under the siege of legendary creatures of many races.

Because he was well aware of the game process after that, Rhodes was extremely hesitant to choose the direction of advancement and could not make a decision in a short time.