He put his hand on the dead man's chest and took the corpse anyway.
`[SUMMON UNDEAD SKELETON — 80 MANA]`
`[MANA: 2,990 / 3,100]`
It came up in six seconds, ordinary, obedient, exactly as usable as any other body he had ever raised.
That was worth knowing. Whatever the red was doing to these things, it did not touch the part of them that answered to him.
He sent it wide round the barricade instead of keeping it at his elbow.
One of the soldiers turned to intercept it, which cost them the left end of the shield line, and Ronan drove forward into the space with Finn on his shoulder.
Maeve did not brand the fresh one.
She put it on the shoulder Finn had already dished, because a brand on undamaged plate is a brand on plate.
`[MAEVE CALLAHAN — HEXLIGHT BRAND APPLIED]`
Finn hit the same place for the third time.
`[RUINED SOLDIER — HP: 4,650 → 1,880]`
It stayed up.
