“I’m starting to suspect that higher necromancy requires a living subject. To properly turn Raghul, I would have needed to fill his whole body with dark magic, not only his core. And of course, add my mark.

Probably the reason why Kalla can’t master necromancy isn’t because it can’t use light outside of first magic, but because has no knowledge of the cores.”

“Makes sense.” Solus concurred. –

With Kalla’s guidance, Lith managed to raise his first skeleton after a few tries, destroying some of them in the process. When he felt sure to have grasped the basics, he even managed to raise Rodimas’ ghoul.

Before following Kalla to receive her final gift, Lith went back to put the two badly burned mercenaries out of their misery.

– “A part of me would love to experiment on them with higher necromancy, but honestly, I had more than enough for today. Also, if I manage to turn them into sentient undeads, I would feel responsible for their lives.

I would be either forced to kill them, and that would be a waste, or let them roam free, and that would be plain madness. I’m done playing with powers I don’t fully understand. Guess now I have one more thing to research in the library.” –