Once the problems of skilled workers and costs had been solved, that seemingly mad plan crept back into Green's mind.
He wanted to equip every Skeleton Soldier and Zombie under his command with Alchemy Mecha. To a Necromancer, these low-level Undead were expendable, hardly worth investing in. Green, however, saw them as the newest, sharpest trump card in his hand.
Fearless in the face of death, absolutely loyal! If subordinates like these did not deserve the greatest investment, who deserved great heaps of Gold Pounds?
Before this, though, Green had planned to treat Skeleton Soldiers and Zombies like people and simply wrap each one in an Alchemy Mecha.
Black Claw's proposal opened his eyes. Skeleton Soldiers and Zombies were not human. There was no need to keep them alive, or even keep their bodies intact. Taken to the extreme, they could retain nothing but their Soulfire, though that would place far greater demands on the mecha housing it.
Black Claw's approach was undoubtedly the most balanced and reliable.
Take a Skeleton Soldier: remove its unnecessary, feeble torso and limbs, keeping only the skull that housed its Soulfire and the Undead Core hidden in its spine. Embed those in a specially designed mecha, and it was effectively a new body.
Black Claw was an expert in mechanical Alchemy. The moment he put forward the idea, he got to work.
The machinery workshop based on Black Claw's old factory had already been rebuilt. With plenty of Skeleton Laborers and Cyclopes that served as human-shaped cranes, putting up a workshop was easy. Installing and calibrating the machines took far longer.
After all, Black Claw had assembled those machines himself from parts scavenged on the black market. There were no detailed blueprints or assembly plans, so he had to design and direct the installation