The High Priest's compromise hadn't come as a surprise to Shane.
This necromancer might have some tricks up her sleeve, even managing to conjure such unheard-of things as the "Death Grand Spirit Body," but in Shane's view, the High Priest really wasn't someone he needed to be on guard against.
For, in looking back over her life's deeds, she had always been in search of shortcuts.
In pursuit of immortality, her thoughts were not on solidly enhancing her own strength and breaking through the limits of life to achieve Transcendence, nor, like others, adventuring around the world in search of the legendary Magic Potion which could grant immortality, but rather on transforming herself into an undead creature, a grotesque blend of human and ghost.
