Aedius had only put a single skeleton in the first room as he expected one to be enough to scare away Valford citizens. He actually took many precautions in the event that that skeleton had died. The second room contained two zombies, and an eager skeleton rogue who crouched in the bottom left corner, awaiting the arrival of the intruders so that he may attempt to sneak attack them using a rusted, and potentially infected dagger. The two zombies lacked weapons, and made up for it by having varying diseases applied with scratches and bites, and being slightly more resistant to certain forms of damage than skeletons are.

Aedius had found his desired spell, and began casting it by reciting the words to the spell. Two green magic seals appeared next to the throne, and would remain there until the spell was complete. He had actually written this spell in the book himself, and it was really a simple combination of two other spells. It would take time to complete, but Aedius would have a chance as long as his undead minions would stall the intruders.