The previous year's arcane research came up short. It seemed there would be no immediate method for making undead easier to raise. A new problem was going to be on the horizon, the problem of labor within the chosen. Setnakhte took half of the chosen with him on a recruiting drive. He would visit the nearby city of Serrith to recruit peasants to join the Chosen. While he would prefer scholars, it was unlikely he could pull the upper class away from this city. While he is in the area he sends messenges with caravaneers to the Gurgen to the north around the mountains advertising the need for slave labor by the Chosen in Saladonian lands.
While in Serrith, the members of the chosen there are not openly displaying signs of necromancy or even practicing it in anyway. They had been warned by the citizens of Salli not to do these things while in the city here. Hopefully by the end of their expedition and return to Saladonia, they would have new recruits.
Back in Saladonia, the Undead were returning to the capital after mining clay for Vallenia. Iset, who was commanding them met with Khafra and began discussions as to what the undead would do next. It was decided that they would work in the city creating infrastructure to house a larger population. For the next few years the citizens of Salli would see the skeletal laborers constructing mud-brick homes while the remaining scholars in the city worked to recruit from the Gladium to join with the Chosen. They made the arguement that under the Saladonian Republic, they had little standing in society. With the Chosen they would be able to clear themselves of the dishonor that the Saeling have placed upon them.