After Ana's explanation of the Green Crow necromancer's possible plan, I feel he is much more dangerous than the necromancer who was being chased by the students during the deadly test.
That necromancer was a real genius on the rise, but as he's garnered a lot of attention, I doubt he'll stay alive until the war starts, unless he's protected by someone more powerful than he is. Temples shouldn't let a figure like him have time to strengthen himself too much.
I wasn't surprised when Ana said that the Green Crow must be a non-talented necromancer, obviously this is a comparison made on a different scale of measurement than is usually used.
A talentless mage of the death element at best can become a low-level necromancer who serves as a sacrifice or distraction to be used by stronger occultists. This Green Crow must have an unstoppable talent or he won't be able to be that free, but he doesn't have the ability to become a red-core necromancer during his long life.
Even if he sells his body to an evil god turning him into an undead, which is a very common fate for necromancers. Few of them have the real courage to face death from old age, most are killed for being a necromancer or turned undead through a divine 'blessing'.
The Green Crow seems to have a plan to refine a high-level undead, but this is usually only done by those who have a lot of allies to protect or a red-core or blue-core necromancer. This is because the aura that high level undead release is very difficult to control and hide without being stronger than them.
Just as a fighter releases elemental energy through his body if his control over it is not much higher than his level, the undead suffer from these same weaknesses, but in their case, it is much more powerful, the area than the element of death. spawn is much larger than those of fighters and the death element also stands out easily in any environment.
Even high-level dead who start to develop a level of higher intelligence, the undead don't have the ability to hide the energy they emit, so necromancers are responsible for doing that, but it's obviously not an easy thing to do.
Because of this and a few other reasons it is very hard to believe that the Green Crow can hide the energy that his creations will emit, this is one of the reasons he made his base on this side of the realm. The northern region has a lower population and traffic that will only decrease further when the war starts and making it across the border is even more idiotic.
Even if he managed to open an arm on the border barrier, the death energy that would remain after his undead had passed through the hole would be enough to set off some alarms on the border. Green Crow would have to have a light or life mage specializing in purification to be able to cleanse the death energy that would be born from a cluster of undead.
Because of all this Ana believes that the Green Crow will sacrifice the best or best ghouls he can refine after using the innocent people of the northern region to feed his ghouls. Any devotee can make sacrifices to the deity he worships and may he carry his mark on his body.
Devotees do this not only to show their faith in the deity they have chosen to follow, they can also make sacrifices in exchange for various types of 'blessings'. In the case of the Green Crow, Ana believes that he will ask for power from the goddess Hel or the god Whiro, who are the most popular pair of gods among necromancers.
Ana really wants this Green Crow to be a worshiper of the goddess Hel because she is a chaotic goddess who has the image of ruler of the land of the dead where everyone will rest. She doesn't care much about good or evil, she is more focused on giving eternal rest to the dead in her domain.
She is one of the only gods that has the element of death that is considered 'good', this is because many high-level cemeteries have their altars and this makes the dead buried there no longer to be disturbed.
It's easy to purify death energy from a corpse or graveyard to prevent undead from spawning naturally because of the death energy that accumulates in that type of location, but that doesn't stop a necromancer from going there and using their death element. to revive the dead.
Goddess Hel's protection can prevent necromancers from disturbing the dead, after hearing this I found it strange that so many necromancers worship Hel, but she explained to me that many necromancers choose to put their faith in Hel because they can offer their undead to her in exchange for the blessing of Hel's death.
This blessing is an extremely pure death element energy, which is quite unusual as the blessings of chaotic gods tend to be chaotic and the goddess Hel is associated with three different elements, so it would be quite normal for her blessing to be a mixture of these elements.
The death blessing can help necromancers only hide which is a very useful skill for them and has no negative effect on their core or their bodies. This is completely different from the boon offered by the evil god Whiro who has a hold not only over necromancers but also plague mages who are famous for ruthlessly killing large numbers of innocents using their deadly poisons.
Those who receive this god's blessing tend to be far crueler and more insane than the worshipers of Hel.
The greater the hatred and cruelty that the dead offered as tribute to Whiro the greater his blessing, which in turn not only strengthens the worshiper but also poisons his mind making them even more violent as that is what the god does. evil Whiro wishes to be spread across the world in his name.
Of course, I too have the same desire as Anne, and far more likely that such a well-planned operation would be carried out by a worshiper of Hel. It's much easier to deal with someone like him than the violently inclined lunatic most Whiro worshipers have.
The lunatics who follow this god tend to be a big problem to kill, even when you involve light elemental mages and mages that specialize in large-scale fire elemental attacks. As I mentioned before the god Whiro's 'blessing' has both death and poison aspects, their worshipers who have gathered enough divine power at their core tend to be quite deadly.
Killing one of them at close range tends to cause the warrior to be hit by a blast of noxious and deadly poison made of divine power, if the necromancer here is a Whiro worshiper I wouldn't get close to him at all. A distance of fifteen meters is the minimum necessary to be time to escape a poisonous explosion, with Keni's diary we know when Mitus and the Green Crow's meeting was scheduled.
I particularly have no intention of participating in this operation, I would even leave it to the templars of the temples of the goddess Helena to subdue this type of necromancer delay, if something goes wrong it will be a problem for the templars responsible to deal with this divine poison using their flames divine powers that have the property of purification.
I feel really lucky to have a leader who shares my opinion, Ana has no interest in being the one to deal with the necromancer. She intends to leave this quest to someone else and she will recommend that a team of templars accompany the team this quest is assigned to.
We will already earn great rewards for having found so much important information that will screw these necromancers and we also have as a bonus the slaves we are going to save. If this location were just to smuggle slaves from another country, our earnings would be quite small, but as a necromancer involved the lives of slaves is much more important in our report.
I feel like this is a little wrong, especially when you add the fact that our kingdom was founded by a descendant of slaves who were basically treated like slaves when they were young.
Our kingdom has always stood out in the region for the way it treats slaves, even though the conflict caused by this has diminished with the passage of time, but still to extremely slave-holding countries around us that not only pension differently but also teach their people, that the royal family of our kingdom is an aberration. Rebellious slaves who do not deserve to be called a royal family must be exterminated and a family of true noble blood must be placed as ruler of the lands.
This is the only way to wash away the sins of these slaves who have turned against the natural order of the world. Basically, a bunch of greedy idiots.
After my necromancer class that Ana gave me when we discussed what was written in Keni's journal, there wasn't much we can do about our current situation beyond what we've already seen. Let's capitulate Mitus and whoever else is lucky in his group to survive the explosions and not be killed by the violent members of our team.