When a necromancer crafted their own undead creatures, they could not allow anyone else to interfere. Otherwise, Huo Ling would have wanted to trouble his teacher with making this corpse.
Among skeletal creatures, skeletal warriors were relatively simple to create. As long as the revived skeleton had mostly been a combat professional in life, it would do.
To obtain a spellcaster, however, two conditions had to be met.
First, the skeleton had to have been a spellcaster while alive, with the innate aptitude to become one.
Second, when it was revived, it had to be fortunate enough to gain the spirituality of a spellcaster.
Although the skeletons of spellcasters naturally attracted spellcaster spirituality from the Undead Plane, there were always exceptions to everything.
Generally speaking, at least one-third of crafted spellcaster skeletons would fail, degenerating into ordinary skeletons that could only become combat professionals with somewhat stronger soul power.
Once Huo Ling had finished his preparations, he began formally crafting a spellcaster skeleton.
The preceding steps remained unchanged. At the third step came Wraith Modification, a spell unique to Breath of Darkness.
A combat professional's skeleton possessed a combat template that could be inscribed into its soul nature.
When dealing with a spellcaster's skeleton, there was likewise a spellcaster template.
However, this corresponding template was far more complicated. Feeling the remaining soul nature within the body, Huo Ling understood that he could leave behind two first-tier spells and three zero-tier spells in this skeleton's soul nature.
Any more, and the soul nature would not be able to bear it.
After a brief moment of thought, Huo Ling knew which spells he wanted to leave behind.
The zero-tier spells were: White Bone Fangs, Ashen Mist, Touch of Fatigue.
The first-tier spells were: Bone Cone, Negative Energy Ray.
Carefully, he inscribed the