Michael summoned another creature from the damaged coffin of the forgotten.
This undead was a bit special. It was the very one Michael had used to exchange for his dead undead back at the unified college exams.
But here was the thing.
Why had there been only one undead exchanged when he had lost more than one?
It was because this undead, though lower in raw power, was far more precious than any of Michael's own. He could not deny it. How could he?
This was an extraordinary-rank creature whose function was to serve as an extra life for its host. When alive, it had been a parasite-type creature. One could even consider it living armor.
It fed on its host's life force to survive, and when the host was injured, it returned all that stored energy to heal them. It was reusable so long as it never gave away every last drop of life energy and always kept enough to slowly recharge.
Michael had taken the worm's corpse and revived it.
