The First ghost felt a bit awkward. Even though Sam's face is not fully revealed, he could see just from his eyes, that Sam has understood what he is hinting at.

Being exposed this bluntly made him a bit embarrassed, but he took a deep breath and spoke.

"Unless, we finish the task right now. We made a pact that we would catch that Sentient undead ourselves, but the external factors around the forest are making it a bit difficult. The undead creatures in the surroundings are extremely defensive when it comes to this one's defense.

From what we could guess, this sentient undead is actually planning on gathering a large enough undead army so that it can invade on this town.

It has already gained enough power to create undead from corpses. It is only short of an artificial core formation for it to become a complete undead creature and the starting stage of it would be Initial Stage Transcendent stage of Astral Plane.

Which means..?

"I know what it means." Sam replied as he went into deep thought. He didn't expect to come across a sentient undead creature in a place like this.

The sentient undead creature they are talking about is completely different from the undead creatures like the vampire and ghouls who have sentience to do their own things, rather this sentient undead is a completely normal undead that became sentient because of the natural causes.

It might be because of the long time it spent in the death energy to gain a spirit by itself, or a ghost or a specter that was forcefully attached to its body and slowly it strengthened enough to form its own consciousness. But either way, it is not exactly a good thing.

This thing is actually an abomination even vampires and ghouls wouldn't let spawn. It is possible to artificially create this, but no one wants to do it, because anyone who did it in the history became a prey for this undead creature and turned into its food.

This undead creature is like any other undead creature, it has no pain, fear or other emotions, but it has extreme hunger and has intellect on top of all of that which makes it dangerous than any other undead.

Once an undead manages to grow an artificial core, things would be even m