Undead

Biodata

Types and Ranks

Ecology and Behavior

• Ancient Capital — Undead rise from the ground when deathly energy is sufficient. Night brings hordes to the Outer City Wall; winter increases their numbers and strength 8 9 320.
• Rain and deathly energy — Rain stirs the death aura and can wash away topsoil, releasing buried deathly energy. During one storm, increasingly powerful Undead emerged as the horde grew 134 137.
• Sunlight — Ancient Capital Undead normally retreat underground by day. During the cataclysm, the Fountain of Rage reduced their fear of sunlight, though sunlight still scattered the death energy they needed to move 139 163.
• Egyptian pyramids — Egyptian Undead depend on the Nether Radiance emitted by pyramids and generally remain near their pyramid’s territory. Stronger Undead guard the tombs and Pharaohs rather than joining the front lines 312 323 324.
• Pyramid mirages — A projected pyramid can draw Egyptian Undead to a distant location. They treat nearby human settlements as intruders and attack them 324.

Major Conflicts

• Ancient Capital defense — Students and mages earn rewards for guard duty and Undead kills. Zhou Sining kills ninety-six Undead on his first shift, then repeatedly hunts them for the Life Points supplied by his Demon-Slaying System 4 6 18.
• Ancient Capital Cataclysm — Sha Yuan’s approach raises the plains’ deathly energy, while the Black Vatican plans to use rain-dispersed Fountain of Rage to enrage the Undead. Multiple Undead Monarchs mobilize; Zhou Sining fights the Corpse of the Mountain Peak and later draws the attention of six Monarchs 131 145 154 157 162.
• Pusini and the Habo Pyramid — A pyramid mirage brings an Undead army against the Egyptian city. Zhou Sining and Mu Nujiao fight near the pyramid; afterward, an Egyptian vanguard finds its mirage gone and its army wiped out 324 327 334.