This world did not really have any fine-grained divisions between professions. It mainly depended on what True Word powers you had mastered.
Put simply, if you mastered True Words of the "Lightning" school, then when others described you, they would most likely call you a "Lightning Mage."
Someone like Zhou Xu, who had revealed powerful True Word spells capable of unleashing both "Lightning" and "Flame" attacks, would often be given the title of "Elemental Mage."
As for mages skilled at controlling things like Skeleton Soldiers, they naturally became what people called "Necromancers."
After all, different people had different degrees of affinity with different True Words. At the same time, everyone possessed latent attributes, which meant that some True Words would naturally draw close to you, while others would repel you.
Of course, Zhou Xu was an exception.
So far, not a single True Word had ever shown any sign of repelling him.
As for this phenomenon, Zhou Xu felt that it should be his "Evolutionary Leader" talent at work. The talent enhanced his adaptability, and that adaptability very likely included adapting to all kinds of different True Words.
Regardless, although they had never encountered titles like these before, that did not stop him from understanding them now.
To put it bluntly, they were simply convenient labels. Once someone mentioned a Necromancer, Lightning Mage, or Flame Mage, you would roughly know what sort of person they were dealing with.
At that moment, facing Yalveth's blunt question, if he admitted it,
that would be tantamount to assigning value to all these corpses. When the time came, there was no guarantee that she would not change the terms.
But considering that they planned to form an alliance with her next, and that Skeleton Soldiers were one of Great Zhou's commonly used troop types,