Cemetery

Nicola approached the body of a crocodile about ten meters long. The animal still had an aggressive aura around its body, emanating like a bloodlust. As he walked deeper he found bodies of strange and unknown species. Something with red gorilla arms and a black bear body with a big white moon on its chest.

Green and blue ogres were in a flock and the closer he got to the epicenter of that energy he could see the strangest bodies, as if mutated by the energy of darkness.

Humanoid species of horned and stinging frogs and even giant insects like flies and colored centipedes could be found.

Nicola approached that place with caution, even though he had a strong energy of darkness in the place did not prevent him from moving around like a fish in the water.

Something in his blood bubbled up as if he were back home. The spheres that circulated around its elementar core were excited and vibrated as they absorbed the energy of darkness into the environment, purifying the mana stored within them.

The perfect place for cultivation on the elements of darkness, even the elementar core benefited from being in such a place.

'I should use my best to absorb this dark mana before I leave, but before that I should find out why this concentration is so great and ensure that I will be safe in that place.'

He looked around and continued his walk, but soon stopped again when something caught his eye. A corpse in perfect condition from a race he had recently studied.

An arachne, it had the upper body of a woman, but the lower body was a giant spider, having eight legs and an abdomen that ended in a gland that produced the silk from which she weaved her webs.

The arachne were a race that was on the verge of extinction, few places were conducive to their development and reproduction. Only dark places with a lot of dark energy and easy prey, such a swamp was suitable for this.

The corpse in such perfect condition could not be left out. 'These days I came across a skill derived from the energy of darkness called necromancy. Something about how light and darkness are not opposing elements but just two sides of the same coin.'

There is a reason that the mana of light and darkness is so scarce in nature, and that is because they are the strongest elements. Life is nourished by light, according to legends, it can even raise the dead or create new beings.

Darkness, on the contrary, is the element of death. It is not the evil itself, it is just that all living beings are afraid of death, that's why they fear it. And fear can easily change, despite bitterness and prejudice. Necromancy is just a magical discipline like any other.

When creating an undead, the controller would send a single tentacle of black magic on the corpse, creating a core of blood within the body, that dark energy amplified the corpse's physique and entered the energetic core of that being, transforming it into a new form of life, or rather, of the undead.

After that he was supposed to add a spark of light magic during the process, he impressed the creature with his life force and linked it to his will.

This would create a smaller undead, which would be the undead with no will of their own that would only follow orders and should be fed frequently by a supply of mana provided by their master.

The necromancy that created the greatest living dead, who had their own will despite not being able to turn against their masters, was done in a different way. It wasn't just any corpse that could be turned into a major undead, only well-preserved cadavers could go through the process.

Unlike creating a smaller undead, when creating a major undead, the necromancer should create a core of dark energy within the body and insert his mark with magic from the light, this time into that core, keeping it essence while the magic of darkness canceled death.

He hadn't yet tried to use superior necromancy, mainly because raising a conscious undead was almost like having a child. Even if the major undead were smart and matured quickly, they would still start out as a blank slate, needing parents and guidance.