94 Two Living Liches (2/2)
Finally, the more decomposed the undead was, the higher the demand for mana was. In other words, if the mana was infinite, only destroying all the limbs until it turned into dust would truly kill the undead. If the amount of mana was pitiful, just beheading it could make it crumble. Of course, since none of them had any souls or emotions, they wouldn't even care if they lost a limb or were seconds away of extermination.
The second type of undead was the same as those two liches that were still fighting each other. They had a soul, and most importantly a mana core inside their bodies. It was both an advantage and a fatal weakness. Only by destroying the mana core would such an undead die, but at the same time, even if the core was extracted from its main body, the soul will not be destroyed. Meaning that some funny situations did happen across all the planets. Funny for Malakov of course.
For example, a lich core was protected for so many years that it was in the end forgotten. Looking at the gem that was dirty and covered by dust, they only thought of it like a jewel. It was later inserted inside a necklace. The day the woman wearing it died was the day for the lich to be reborn. Using her body as a catalyst, the lich managed to destroy the entire kingdom and took its revenge. Thinking about that, Malakov tried to remember its name. Was it something like Kelops? Phelet?
”Why are we going this direction? Why are we going right? Why not going left?”
”Because I chose it, I chose right. I am an elf … a lich elf … a lich … something andI chose right!”
”Well, I am an huma … lich too … and I say we go left!”
”Right!”
”Left!”
Who would have thought that the two actually deeply hated each other? Because they only had access to their memories to prevent their soul of collapsing, they only saw cordial interactions between the elf and the human. But the moment Malakov left the two together, they began bickering for anything. The more they did this, the more he had to manually tamper their minds to make sure they followed his road.
Unfortunately, by doing so, the previously sealed memories were sometimes leaking, like right now where the two instinctively said their races, but only remembered their current condition after a few seconds. The only good thing that did happen was when they first met a group of soldiers. The two liches instantly attacked them without even asking a question beforehand. Meaning that his training did have some qualities.
”Right!”
”Left!”
”RI …”
”Le …”
Shutting down the two morons, he once again temporarily took control over their bodies and mind and the army began to march toward Archet once more. At this point, and after looking at the sun that was high in the sky, he felt that he would need to do that at least one more time. And with a bit of luck, they will arrive a few hours before dusk. If only they hadn't stop for so long, and he hadn't been reluctant at fixing the problem quickly.
”Well, it doesn't matter anyway” They had voluntarily pumped up the number of skeletons just to make the defense even more heroic. However, half of the undead will crumble after just a single arrow hit them. There was no way for liches like those two to manage and provide mana to such a large army. Otherwise, undead across the entire universe would have already conquered each planet.
”Why does your side have more zombies than mine? I want some zombies too.”
”Hahaha, that's because I am better than you. You only have skeletons, look at those three zombies.”
”Shut up, give me my zombies.”
”They held for one minute.” The only intelligent skeleton in the entire plain was mindlessly looking at his two white feet while trying not to think too hard about the rest.