Back at the academy, it was already lunchtime, and the two sisters of Veratis had been following Chris in a state of misery, and the three of them had a hasty lunch, Chris sent the two sisters to rest, and made an appointment for a night departure, and then came to the library. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Since the beginning of the final exam, few people have come to the library, and it is still old Finley at the door, and after saluting him respectfully, Chris came to the bookshelf and searched carefully.

"The Illustrated Guide to the Dead", Chris has been paying attention to this book for a long time, but in view of the fact that there have been no undead in the mainland for more than a hundred years, although he was influenced by the online game of his previous life, when he accidentally found it, he just flipped through it and put it aside.

Written by a high-ranking Assassin who had fought in the War of the Dead, the book is a very comprehensive record of the types and weaknesses of the undead that appeared in the battle, and is even illustrated along the side.

From the lowest-level skeletons to the highest-level ghost dragons.

The Mentor also suggested a number of factors for the formation of undead creatures, some of which had been confirmed by some necromancers before the War of the Dead, and some of which had been inferred by some of the others.

The undead creatures are considered to be a special form of life that the living have a nostalgia for the present world and deep grievances that cannot be resolved, but before they feel the influence of undead magic, they are all slowly dissipating in the form of "silent existence" - both physically and the dead energy that supports their actions.

However, the disembodied ghost ghosts are more special, and the ghost ghosts are considered to be the materialized manifestations of pure spirit bodies, and even without the intervention of a necromancer, they will exist in a special area according to a certain instinctive consciousness. For them, it is usually necessary to use magic or weapons with magical powers to deal substantial damage.

Regardless of which organism dies, the functional activities of various tissues and organs gradually cease, and a series of changes that occur in the corpse under the action of internal and external factors are called postmortem changes, and the phenomenon presented by these changes is the corpse phenomenon.

After becoming a corpse, it inevitably begins to decompose, and finally it is ossified, for example, the time required for human ossification in the air varies with the season, and adult corpses take half a month to more than a month in summer. In the soil, ossification takes a long time and the seasons change little, seven to ten years in adults, four to five years in children, two to three years in young children, and about one year in newborn bodies.

During these times, if the necromancer's call is felt, all corpses within the effective radius will respond and "come back to life".

The Assassin had a special experience, in the second year of the War of the Dead, when all the Assassins in the country were tasked with keeping watch on the outskirts of all villages and towns - the necromancer's style was to encroach gradually, advancing from town to city, killing more and more people, the greater the number of undead armies.

At that time, he was only a fifth-level assassin, in charge of a small village of less than six hundred people, and finally one day, a necromancer with only a few undead minions "patronized" here. The Assassin was waiting in a small cemetery in the woods outside the village, and when he spotted him, he immediately went into stealth, and when he realized that the necromancer was not of high rank, he made up his mind to leave the necromancer alone.

The best time to assassinate is obviously when the opponent casts a spell, so this assassin has been keeping his stealth and approaching the other party step by step, when the necromancer casts the undead summon, the assassin and him are actually very close, but at this time he found an interesting thing-

With the summoning, many of the tombs in the woods cemetery began to shake, and then many skeletons or zombies crawled out of the ground one after another, and the assassin caught a glimpse of a skeleton that had existed before at his feet, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and quickly moved slightly. Strangely, the skeleton did not respond to the necromancer's call.

The Assassin was only slightly startled and didn't think much about it, and immediately launched an attack on the necromancer, and needless to say, the necromancer was killed, and the summoned undead were also eliminated one by one.

Eventually, the Assassin approached the "disobedient" skeleton to take a closer look.

This is a cemetery, and it would have been normal for a skeleton to appear exposed outside the tomb - it was not at all strange to be dragged out of the grave by some beast in the woods. This skeleton must be one of the unlucky ghosts in the unknown tomb who is still at peace after death, and the ribs and leg bones have disappeared somewhere, because most of the body has been exposed to the air for a long time, and the bones have begun to appear to varying degrees of weathering, and even a light knock will cause it to shatter.

The Mentor of the Assassins then presented a corollary to the upper echelons of the Empire: the bone-decaying dead were not affected by necromancy. A proposal was made to abolish burial and introduce cremation.

Needless to say, the empire was shaken up by an uproar, and his reasoning was gradually accepted by most during the long war, but his proposal was ruthlessly rejected for the simple reason that only infidels and evil creatures on the continent could be destroyed in this way.

As the war escalated, several undead creatures were discovered that could move on their own without the effects of necromantic magic, in addition to the aforementioned ghosts, there was also a type of undead creature called ghouls, who were once humans, but when they were underground, for unknown reasons, they were able to crawl out of the tomb on their own, obeying the instinct of hunger but only eating dead human flesh. In most cases, they appear timid, instinctively afraid and avoid humans, but no matter how long they survive, they are not able to be "upgraded" in various ways like even the lowest-level skeletons, and in the War of the Dead, they are mostly only used for poisoning and infecting the rear of humans due to the constraints of necromancy, and like all undead, divine spells have a lethal effect on them.

There is also a species of undead creature that is nicknamed the "native undead", and the first example was discovered in the peaceful years after the War of the Dead.

Because of the impact of the war, many nobles built family treasure troves and escape passages under the residences when they built their residences, and many escape passages encountered the influence of hard underground rock formations during the excavation process, and had to go back and dig again, which led to some escape passages crisscrossing like a labyrinth, and then, tragedy occurred.

The seven-year-old daughter of a marquis walked into the passage on a whim, accompanied by a pet cat that she had carried with her since childhood, and never came out again.

The search lasted for three years, of course, some time was delayed in the search for the murderer, and finally it was guessed that after his daughter entered the escape route, the grief-stricken father had fallen into a state of madness, and he ordered the house to be demolished, and the ground was dug up to search for his daughter.

In this era when there were no excavators, this huge project cost countless manpower and material resources, and finally found the girl's body, and because of the good ventilation, the girl's body did not decompose, but turned into a dry corpse, and the pet cat that followed was no exception, but to the horror of countless people, it was still moving next to the body of the little owner.

After catching it, it was discovered that it was actually dead, but it showed the same timid and fearful behavior as it did when it was alive, and did not instinctively attack living creatures, even if it was scratched by its claws, it would not be poisoned or mutated. Under the illumination of low-level holy light techniques, it will not be dissolved like other undead creatures, but instead show a kind of intention to "chase the holy light", as if the aura of the holy light makes it extremely comfortable.

It's a law-defying creature!

Many people speculate that the formation of this creature is due to the obsession with someone or something before death, and the pursuit of life under the premise that the body is not destroyed. That's why people call them "Spirits".

In fact, this is also a process of transformation.

When it dies, it becomes an object from a living being, and then there is a second critical stage: because of the influence of obsession, it "lives" and has an instinctive consciousness of its own.

This situation is not unfamiliar to Chriss—a "Painted Horse" in a previous life is also a case of this, which was originally an inanimate object, and then "became a refinement". It's just that maybe under the influence of some unknown factor in this magical world, the "essence" is more complete, and even the corpse can be driven as it was in life.

Chris was sure that the caves in the cemetery were caused by one of these two creatures.

But which one?