Chapter 624 - Raid (Part 1) (1/2)

Thanks to all the merits he had racked up during the past year, Lith had been granted access to the Royal Library. It was the biggest and most complete library in the Griffon Kingdom, covering all the subjects known to mages, including the forbidden ones.

The library was comprised of many floors, one for each element. Normal books could be checked out freely, whereas to consult forbidden books it was necessary to spend merits and receive a recommendation letter from someone with a high clearance level.

In Lith's case, both Professor Marth and Vastor had vouched for him along with his commanding officer. Lith was now sitting behind a hardwood table, surrounded by fellow mages in search of knowledge.

The city of Valeron, the capital of the Griffon Kingdom, was surrounded by all kinds of protective arrays and because of them, Lith couldn't put the valuable tomes inside Soluspedia to read them all in a single moment.

Dimensional magic would allow spies and thieves to freely Warp, so it had been sealed. Lith and Solus had spent the last few hours reading tomes about Necromancy, to see if among the undead species there was one suitable for Lith's tastes.

Unfortunately, despite having even checked the legendary creatures' section, their quest had ended up in failure.

'Sigh, why do real vampires suck so bad? They have so many limitations that now I can understand why despite the fact that becoming a vampire is relatively safe and easy no mage wants to be turned into one.' Lith thought.

'Please, if there was such a thing as an immortal and eternally young species that had no weakness at all, outside becoming a disco ball under the sunlight, they would have ruled Mogar for millennia.' Solus said, yet despite her mockery, she was dejected as well.

As long as Lith was human and with a cracked life force at that, he was bound to die sooner or later. Solus had no intention of letting that happen, but just like Lith, she was now clutching at straws.

According to the tomes of the Royal Library, there was a way for Lith to safely become an undead and retain all of his memories.

Unlike Necromancy, that worked on corpses that no longer had a working brain and mana core, many species of undead could slowly turn a living being into one of their own.

In such a case, the subject would never really die. A blood core would take form inside their bodies and grow over time, replacing their mana core the moment their heart ceased to beat.

The problem was that there was no undead species without absurd or crippling limitations. Most of them were unable to even move during the day, trapped in a forced slumber no matter the danger they were in or how deep below the earth they hid.

Others, like the Banshees, couldn't cross water and would die if they fell into a river or a lake. Yet their biggest weakness was their inability to use light magic. For someone like Lith, who had spent countless hours to become a Healer, it was an unacceptable trade.

To make matters worse, light magic wasn't just needed to heal others. Without it, Lith would also be unable to Forgemaster truly powerful artifacts and even to use dimensional magic as freely as he had always done.

Blink, one of his bread and butter spells during fights, required light magic and so did Switch. Undead weren't completely unable to use light magic, but since their blood core was unable to assimilate it from its surroundings, they had to consume their own life force in order to produce light energy.

It meant that if Lith decided to turn into an undead, just to Forgemaster a single item he would need to consume the equivalent of a pigpen of food. Some undead were picky about who they could feed upon and of course, their victim had to be alive.