Mid-Battle Respite (Extra Update Seeking Subscription)

"You really were making use of even the bone scraps."

Gu Xi was rather speechless at Eve's suggestion.

If they truly arranged things according to that line of thinking, Gu Xi feared that three years later, there would be no Skeleton Mages left—only ghost mages.

The bones would have been squeezed dry.

Yet Eve believed her choice was the most correct approach.

If they could raise the undead's levels from the foundation up, why not do it?

Research needed manpower, and undead needed to learn as well.

If they did not make this clear in advance, then once the other Aryadovi Districts were taken, it would not be so convenient to mobilize similar troops.

After all, there were not many corpses associated with intelligence, and many places had their eyes on them.

It was not just the library that needed them urgently. Other places had all sorts of demands as well.

"That's only proper. The undead won't get tired anyway, so why not make good use of them?"

Eve smiled smugly at Gu Xi's praise.

As Gu Xi's fourth Contract Undead, Eve understood her position very clearly.

Unlike the other three, she had not been with Gu Xi from the beginning. She had joined later.

Nor had she, like those three, brought Gu Xi the Three Divine Skills of Death right from the start.

If she wanted Gu Xi's recognition, she had to produce something of her own.

Research in technology and magic was the direction she had chosen for herself.

At the same time, research could not possibly rely on her alone.

If she truly depended only on herself, then even after a hundred years, she might not fully grasp everything Gu Xi had brought back from the libraries of three universities.

Not to mention building on that foundation