Chapter 1323 - The Secrets of Undeath (Part 1) (2/2)
”One more word and I'll burn your notes!” Scarlett roared as more slaps ensued until Kalla's party hat fell off her head.
The poor Nyka covered her face with her hands in embarrassment, drawing everyone's compassion. On top of that, listening to Kalla's words made them wonder if Manohar and the Wight were actually relatives.
”The first thing you need to know is that Lith is right when he said that he and Nyka are alike.” The thought of losing months of hard work made Kalla instantly change her attitude toward the lesson.
She not only had no sense of time, but no memory either. It was the reason why she wrote down everything she discovered so as to not stuff her brain with notions that were useless for her current project. Without those notes, she would have to start again from scratch.
”After studying the undead for personal reasons and the Abominations because of Balkor, I can tell you that there's a paper-thin difference between them. It's a common belief in the Necromancer community that the foremother of our discipline, Baba Yaga, based her work on Abominations.”
”Both undead and Abominations are born with a black core. The fact that undead always retain at least part of their physical body and are infused with a powerful life force allows them to stabilize quickly, whereas Abominations are solely made of Chaos energy that has no counterpart.
”It's the reason why their hunger far surpasses that of the undead, keeping Abominations from having even a semblance of life, and why they are unable to keep their bodies. Yet it also allows them to use Chaos magic freely.
”To let you understand the greatness of Baba Yaga's work, I would like to point out that while all Abominations were at some point Awakened and hence their cores retain the ability to use true magic, undead are quasi-Awakened even if in life they were just regular people.
”All those who get turned into undead become so attuned with some elements that they can use them as true magic, while their talent for the mystical arts grows with age even though they had none before being sired.
”By feeding, Abominations simply recover the strength they have lost along with their body and use the light element they rob from others to master Chaos magic. Undead, instead, feed on life force, using it to enhance their cores akin to how Awakened do with world energy.
”Both Abominations and undead can't feel the world energy easily due to their faulty cores. That's why Baba Yaga made up for that by allowing her children to feed upon more than just the light element.
”They absorb the life and even the essence of their prey, adding it to their own. As you should already know, the only difference between mana and world energy is the presence of the seventh element, Spirit Magic.
”The Spirit Magic gets absorbed so that an undead can prolong their existence while the other elements after being reduced to world energy can be assimilated by the blood core.” Kalla said.
”Wait a second. As far as I know, Abominations can't feel the world energy at all.” Lith said.
”That's one of the main differences between Abominations and Eldritchs. Only the latter are completely cut off by Mogar.
”A newborn Abomination can find a mana geyser to stabilize themselves, just like the Puppeteer you faced in Jiera could use his Orc body to feel and manipulate world energy through the crystals.” Kalla shook her head.
”Which means that, in theory, an Abomination can Awaken just like an undead. Their faulty cores make it difficult and even in the case of success, the progression of their cores is greatly slower than normal.
”Most Awakened who decide to be turned into undead, first wait until they have reached the bright violet core or at least the bright blue. That way, once the transformation is over, they can easily bring their blood core back to their previous level by just feeding instead of wasting time with Acc.u.mulation.” Kalla said.
”Does the same stand for fake mages as well?” Quylla asked. ”Since I have a deep violet core, would I keep it after being turned? Also, what happens if I die first and then a Necromancer makes an undead out of my body?”