After becoming a Pseudo Undead, I found that the transition did not come with confusion or panic the way one might expect.
Probably due to the additional guidance of Thaumanthus.
Still, if anything, the understanding settled into me with a strange, almost unsettling clarity.
It was not something I had to struggle to grasp, nor was it something that required long contemplation before it made sense.
Not only that, my prior experiences with Demonic Essence and Infernal Essence created a foundation that made the assimilation of Death Essence feel natural.
So, I understood.
What it meant to be Undead was not as simple as being "dead but still walking".
That description was crude—something born from the limited understanding of those who observed from the outside.
In truth, the distinction between living and dead had never been as absolute as people believed.
It was an objective classification, one born from a subjective lens.
