'And if I do make a core can I make it house high intelligence?' Wouldn't it be cool to make the core his representative?
'Well, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself' He needed to first verify it was possible. The only way to do so was to use the regular dungeon spawned skeletons or to return to the orc plains and experiment there.
'The latter is a better idea' The orc plains had vastly superior resources. For one he didn't need to make his own magic crystals. He also wouldn't need to worry about running out of boar blood ink.
He could also experiment using an orc's body rather than a skeleton once there. Of course, he would first have to make sure the orc was either unaffiliated to him in any way or an enemy.
Even though he was powerful, it wouldn't do to become a tyrant. That could lead to some sort of uprising against him.