The afterlife turned out to be quite diverse, obviously before the trip started, I tried to find out as much as possible about the possible undead that we can face, but as the number is very large, I focused on the most common and the most used variations. According to Raven the red sparrow appears to have two warriors who are both bodyguards and guinea pigs for him, so it's quite sensible to predict that the undead and the living that follow the red sparrow might get 'improvements'.
Taking two undead encyclopedias with me and the various questions I asked Mia and Raven I believe I have a pretty good idea of what we're up against, Raven really wasn't exaggerating that the undead of a greater race or class have abilities and more unique traits than warriors or magical beasts have.
Even though fighters focused on controlling their aura may or may not develop an innate property in their aura, but they are still quite different from the abilities described in the encyclopedias I've read.
Leaving the classic undead aside since the red sparrow is very unlikely to use a skeleton or normal zombies, I focused on memorizing the strengths and weaknesses of undead like wraith, lich types, night eaters, freaks, and beasts. dead.
With every page I turn I encounter an enemy that I don't want to face, I was surprised that zombies branch into two different families a zombie will usually evolve into an elemental form of it if it remains a zombie after evolving, but that doesn't improve that much their intelligence only physical and elemental strength is increased.
The second form of devolution happens when they actually become a different kind of undead, the lich who are considered to be the most intelligent undead nor even the ghouls who can be as intelligent as certain living beings cannot reach the level of undead. intelligence a lich can get.
Lich is easily identified by their thin bodies, the other variations of zombies such as flaming zombies, drowning zombies, petrifying zombies and black zombies tend to have larger bodies and even become undead giants that are meters tall or more. Lichs can have both strong and weak bodies, but they are always thin, not unlike a fighter focused on mobility and agility, which is a trait that lich fighters have.
The lich's greatest advantage is the intelligence they awaken, but only after time and training do they develop their minds to a great level before then they tend to have the ability to obey orders more complex than a simple attack or protection command. I wouldn't be surprised if the red sparrow had a lich as an assistant for their experiments as they can handle the fragile materials of the element of death without having the possibility to damage the materials as their hands have the same mobility as a warrior's hand alive, but without the disadvantage of suffering from the influence of the element of death that only accumulates around a necromancer's experiments.
One of the most classic ways to find a necromancer's hideout and notice when nature starts dying without even an obvious explanation. Lichs only tend to get stronger when exposed to different types of materials that have the element of death, even warriors and mages that have the element of death are not as immune to its influence as lichs who are also not able to influence materials. with your simple presence.
I wouldn't be surprised if the red sparrow had a lich in its party, but the main question about the lich is whether it will be a mage or a warrior as lichs have physical or magical abilities almost as high as the living.
I'm more confident it can be a warrior as they are more common among necromancers like the red sparrow which doesn't seem to have reached the orange core in so long, lich warriors tend to have more utility in a short period of time which they don't. it's a surprise.
It's much easier to learn the basics of physical combat than the basics of spellcasting, especially when the lich's body can help it master physical abilities more quickly, which is why necromancers tend to give lich warriors the same type of weapon as when they were alive, their muscle memory can be impaired after death, but it can still help a lot, especially when they have to teach a lich to fight for a short time.
The other enemy that I believe we will face would be a wraith that may or may not be a combatant enemy, the red sparrow intends to stay hidden while the war begins a wraith to effigy his hiding place is very useful. Wraith can take many forms and some in small animal forms can serve as an almost invisible lookout as their bodies tend to be transparent when their energy is low or when they have great control over it.
It is difficult to kill them without the use of aura or elemental energy, purely physical blows tend not to affect the wraith's nearly intangible bodies as much which also makes them silent assassins, a combat wraith is much more difficult to create than a simple wraith that has the function of monitoring the perimeter.
For them to have the necessary strength to not only interact against living beings but face a wraith-level equivalent core warrior is quite complicated since they cannot use elemental energy other than death, unlike non-wraith zombies capable of use the element of fire, wind, or any element other than the element of death, but this also makes all attacks made by the wraith have the ability to harm a person like a death mage's magic.
Mages who tend to have a weaker body and life force than fighters are the Wraith's preferred target, but they also have suicidal tactics which is basically trying to invade a fighter's or mage's body and blasting their elemental energy inside their own body. victim.
Raven warned me to be very careful with any wraith that try to get close as without a direct hit of aura or elemental energy it is impossible to block a suicidal wraith, they are basically an explosive death element magic with the ability to think.
I wonder if an explosive arrow would be affective if it exploded inside a wraith, the metal that shatters into shards contains a considerable amount of aura and fire element in a metal that naturally contains mana. Aside from the fact that the explosion would alert the enemy I think it can be an effective attack against a wraith that doesn't have the ability to block the shards that usually get stuck in warriors' skins.
Hope I don't have to use an explosive arrow, but it's always good to think of some tactics the third type of undead we may face was speculated by Raven, as I don't have the permission to see the information that is available to Raven, I believe very wise to prepare myself to face any undead that Raven mentions in these next few days.
Night Eaters are perhaps the deadliest enemy we can face during this quest, Raven spent quite a bit of time explaining about them when she avoided spending the same amount of time on other undead.
This type of undead is not only considered an elite among the dead, it is also very expensive to create, unlike lich and dead beasts that are created from intact corpses, a night devourer is created from a mixture of human, animal, and animal corpses. beasts, this entire mixture is refined into a complex form and the necromancer's choice.
This is what makes a night devourer so dangerous, unlike its undead 'cousin', an aberration that can be made of either bone or rotten flesh and bones that tend to have very large, composite bodies.
Aberration is a type of undead that draw on the raw power of their monstrous bodies, not long after they've spent refining this type of undead, they are like a dead animal that devours and assimilates everything that has ever been alive, pretty terrible enemies more typically only seen in really large armies, a necromancer like red sparrow would have no interest in freaks, but a night flayer seems like an enemy we're going to face.
According to Raven, the first step of facing a night eater and identifying the attributes of its body, unlike lich, night eater may have elements other than the death element, but they are generally not easy to notice as the death element has always dominated. the black body of a night devourer.
The second step is to identify the non-human parts of the Night Eater, they may be more humanoid than beasts, but there is still the possibility that they are more animalistic than humanoid, but this is not common because this type tends to be wild and dumb. too much. The night eaters were designed to be predators of warriors and mages, they must have the advantages of the humanoid body and the wild instincts of magical beasts.
Depending on what kind of fusion was made on the night predator it could make it an assassin, a beast warrior designed to be deadly in direct combat or it could end up being designed to have the ability to ambush and attack from a distance like a hunter. Raven said that once she faced a nocturnal predator that had the element of poison in her body and shot countless spikes to infect her targets, it really looked deadly.
After all the lessons and reflections, I had about the undead I realized that I prefer to face animals and magical beasts. I'm not that excited to face an undead that should be level three or maybe even level four weak as it would be hard for the red sparrow to create a high-quality level four undead without having to spend a lot of money and a lot of time which it looks like he hasn't had in years, according to Raven's comments.