Einherjar

A secret project started by Zachary Atwood to provide loyal, powerful soldiers, initially for keeping the situation on Earth stable while he was off-planet.

Zombies would essentially rise by themselves sooner or later as long as corpses were left in deathly energies strong enough. However, the key was to infuse them with a “seed of sapience”, which would help them awaken far quicker while also binding them to their progenitor. In Zac’s case, it meant infusing the arrays with his own black ichor to form a connection. Using material sourced from his Corpse Sack, the deceased are placed in artificially created areas that induce the undead to rise (Chapter 667).

The familial bonds of the Undead were a bit hard for Zac get used to. He was essentially Vilari’s father as she carried his mark, and the awakening was performed with him as the “lifegiving source”. But Revenants turned this way were adults the moment they gained sapience, though they were still a bit wide-eyed even after two years of education.

So Vilari was his child, yet she was not. She was an adult, yet she was not, and Zac had some trouble adapting to it. Triv had just told him to see it as the same sort of relationship like the one he had with his Valkyries, which pretty much was true since the Einherjar were bound to him just like Triv was bound to the Undead Empire (Chapter 671).

## Military Strength

### Leader

* Vilari Blackwood, former unnamed mentalist from the Battle of Fates at the Tower of Eternity

### Captains

* Rhuger Blackwood, formerly Cervantes
* Pika Blackwood, formerly Leviala Cartava

### Numbers (as of Chapter 667)

* 50 Elite Revenants mainly made up of Incursion Leaders and their generals
* 2,000 Revenants
* 100,000 Zombies

Zac managed to buy additional bodies from Helman Bodyworks in Twilight Harbor. He bought 10,000 mid-quality E-grade corpses with no connection to the Undead Empire. He also bought 10 peak-quality corpses, each of them once belonging to a peak cultivator. The bodies were also all cleansed of any Karma and slightly enhanced with various means, especially the peak corpses. **Chapter 697**

Since sending back the batch of procured bodies from Twilight Harbor, the Einherjar had seen no significant growth. Certainly, some native undead children were born, but they were essentially feral little devils until they gained sapience. It would be decades before these native undead citizens could step into society either as non-combat or combat classes. He had hoped that this war would provide an opportunity to bolster his ranks surreptitiously. After all, who would notice if a few hundred thousand thousand bodies went missing in a war involving trillions?

The heart curse of the invaders creates maimed corpses. Fixing their wounds is likely a waste of Creation Energy. It might be worth it for some elites, but definitely not for random foot soldiers. It was time to raise some Liches who could create proper Corpselords. **Chapter 893**

Pika was engaged to one of the budding Liches of Elysium. **Chapter 934**

The third requirement Zac had put forth was that they would provide materials, untouched corpses, and various resources to help quickly bolster his undead population and their foundations. This included cultivation manuals, awakening arrays, and entire heritages that suited both the Raun Spectrals and the Revenants of Elysium. Catheya suddenly produced fifty permanent Skill Crystals and a dozen Cultivation manuals. **Chapter 951**

The undead population has quintupled. Pika and her husband are working in the Atwood Academy, overseeing the undead students. **Chapter 977**