Let’s talk about necromancy. 

Necromancy or nigromancy is a supposed practice of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, to bring someone back from the dead, or to use the deceased as a weapon, as the term may sometimes be used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft.

Early necromancy was related to – and most likely evolved from – shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors.

But what’s interests our hero…villain is not divination or bringing some one back from the dead but to build an army of the undead.

As so he made many experiments and was known as the master of the undead. But that is a story for later time.

When a necromancer summons the dead for the purpose of divination he summons the spirit of the deceased…a ‘shadow’ of the deceased to be precise. But what happens when someone reanimates a corpse for using it as weapon?

When that happens there’s no shadow that enters the corpse. Then how does the body moves?

So that the body would be considered to be a body of the living it requires a soul. For the purpose of divination the body requires a ‘shadow’, which is essentially a part of the soul.

In that case what enters corpse when it’s been reanimated as a tool?

Answer to that question is…energy. A clot of pure energy. Well a oul is also a clot of energy, but it can’t be considered pure as it contains a spark of life and terabytes of information.

That clot of pure energy does not contain spark or information, and that is why it can’t do anything but obey its summoner and does not have even an ounce of intellect. It is different for a naturally spawned undead, but let’s leave it for a later date.

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So what exactly happens when someone is able to create an undead with an intellect?

(…. POV)

Where am I? Who am I?

When I opened eyes all I could see was a void filled nothing bud clots of energy just like me.

No I’m different. Around me some kind of characters are forming.

What is this?

In next moment I blacked out.

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When I regained consciousness I was at different place.

First thing what I felt is my own body. It was a strange feeling. Then I stood up and looked around.

My eyes stopped at a strange creature. It had a body just like me, but it was essentially different from mine. Also I could see that in that body was a colossal cluster of energy. It wasn’t like the ones I saw at the void. It was pure black with linings of silver. I could also feel that it had something that I didn’t have, something that I was lacking and could never obtain. In a moment I understood that this creature is the one that created me. This is my father.

But what was strange from my perspective was that that there was another cluster of energy. Not so big as previous but different. It didn’t belong to that body, it was chained to the body of my father. Contrary to my father it was crystal clear with a strange symbols appearing and disappearing on all of it.

“Can you understand me?”-My father asked me.

I tried to answer but no sound came from my mouth.

If I can’t make sounds like my father then I will just show him.

With that I raised my hand and showed him two fingers.

“IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!”-He shouted in joy.

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There will be a normal chapter a bit later.