Spirit Cat Warrior

Among the Green Bone Skeletons, there were four Tier 1 low-grade Bone Spirit Warriors.

With four First-Rank Bone Spirits, plus Medivh and Audrey, two Tier 1 knights, the Armory Camp was not among the top powers of the Odyssey Region, but at least no one could bully them at will.

"Suixiang, are there any Ancient Battlefields nearby?"

The Skeletons Medivh resurrected had different professions.

Skeleton Farmers possessed far less combat ability than Skeleton Warriors of the same age.

Farming was certainly important, but without enough force to protect one's livelihood, everything was meaningless.

In the Odyssey Region, force outweighed everything else.

Including the Armory Camp, Medivh had found three Residential District ruins.

All three ruins had once been villages abandoned after the Odyssey War. The excavated remains mostly belonged to farmers, with few warriors among them.

Medivh wanted to excavate an Ancient Battlefield. That would yield more warrior remains, and if he was lucky, he might even find the remains of Transcendents such as knights and mages.

Medivh's appointment as a Pioneer had come too suddenly. He had not had time to prepare, let alone study the History of the Odyssey War, so he knew nothing about the distribution of Ancient Battlefields.

Audrey was the same. She had never imagined that she would one day come to the Odyssey Region.

If he wanted to learn about the war history of the Odyssey Region, he could only gather information from the natives.

That had been one reason he took in those nonhuman female slaves.

"There is a battlefield nearby where the Cat-men's ancestors once fought."

Suixiang spoke haltingly. This time, she did not have Suixin relay her words, instead showing Medivh the results of her studies.

The Spirit Cat Race had migrated several times throughout the Odyssey Region, and Suixiang had heard the adults speak of their people's past.

"Good. We'll set out after nightfall!"

Medivh looked delighted. He had only asked casually and had not expected Suixiang to truly know of an Ancient Battlefield nearby.

The Armory Camp had strength, but that was no reason to flaunt it.

Necromancers might have declined, but that did not mean a group of Skeletons walking around in broad daylight would not attract attention.

Medivh's Skeletons were no Common Skeletons. They would not necessarily lose to small or medium-sized Thug Gangs.

But those were unnecessary battles. Clearing out Thug Gangs would not benefit Medivh in any way.

What he needed were historical remains, not fresh corpses blessed by the Holy Light.

Meaningless battles had to be avoided whenever possible. Wasn't it better to farm peacefully in the Odyssey Region?

At sunset, Medivh left behind two Tier 1 Bone Spirit Warriors and several Green Bone Skeletons to guard the camp, then set off for the Ancient Battlefield with Audrey, Suixiang, and the other Skeletons.

They had not traveled far northeast before night fell.

Night belonged to beasts and the Night-Walking Tribe. Thug Gangs generally hid in camps or temporary shelters to rest, rarely moving about in the dark.

The Ancient Battlefield Suixiang mentioned was not far away, only a little over twenty li from the Armory Camp.

Skeletons did not tire. Jogging in a forced march, they reached their destination in just over an hour.

According to Suixiang, this Ancient Battlefield was more than two hundred and fifty years old. At the time, the Gewalt Federation had not yet fully withdrawn from the Odyssey Region. While migrating, the Spirit Cat Clan had encountered an army retreating from the front line, and a great battle had erupted.

That encounter had devastated the Spirit Cat Tribe, and they had yet to recover even now.

As he entered the Ancient Battlefield overgrown with wild grass, Medivh circulated his necromantic power to investigate.

Suixiang's memory had not been wrong. In Medivh's spiritual vision, densely packed bones appeared, buried in the shallow layers beneath the ground.

There had been no victor in that encounter. Both the Spirit Cat Tribe and the Gewalt army had suffered devastating losses.

Neither side had fought to the bitter end. They had hastily dealt with the corpses of their own people and comrades before retreating.

After locating the remains, Medivh waved for the Skeletons to excavate the spots he had marked.

Soon, skeleton after skeleton was carried before him. The remains had all been looted, leaving behind no burial goods.

Medivh did not care. His targets were these nearly decayed bones, not burial goods.

Medivh casually cast his spell on several skeletons, obtaining Top-Grade Green Bone components that were all over two hundred and fifty years old.

Suixiang had not deceived him. This was a high-quality Ancient Battlefield perfectly suited for excavation.

"Eh!"

After casting his spell again, Medivh obtained an entirely different skeletal component: a Spirit Cat Warrior's arm bone.

It was not as though he had never refined Cat-man remains before, yet those had still yielded human Skeleton components.

This arm bone component, covered in Spirit Runes, came from a Spirit Rune Warrior. Transcendent power had made it unique, preserving its Cat-man traits.

This was not an isolated occurrence. In the following refinements, Medivh obtained more skeletal components from Spirit Cat Warriors, as well as components from Spirit Cat Warlocks.

He also found skeletal components from human knights and human mages.

This showed that many Transcendents had died on both sides in that brutal encounter.

For the past few months, Medivh had only refined the bones of ordinary people. He greatly anticipated what kinds of Skeletons these Transcendent bones could resurrect.

Suppressing his excitement, Medivh refined as many of the bones excavated from the Ancient Battlefield as possible.

At four-thirty in the morning, with his mana exhausted, Medivh had the Skeletons load the remaining bones onto handcarts and transport them back to the Armory Camp.

Medivh was not greedy. He ended the excavation and quietly returned to the Armory Camp before dawn.

Upon returning, he immediately began meditating, hoping to restore his mana quickly so he could resurrect those Transcendent Skeleton components.

"This is truly difficult!"

After recovering, Medivh selected a set of Spirit Cat Warrior Skeleton components and began assembling and resurrecting them.

This resurrection was exceptionally difficult. It had been a long time since he had felt so utterly drained and covered in sweat.

His hard work earned him sweet rewards.

After the Spirit Cat Warrior stood up, Medivh immersed himself in the feedback from the Spring of Time.

When he opened his bright eyes again, not only had his exhausted mana recovered, but his spiritual power had also increased greatly.

He was now closer to becoming a Senior Mage Apprentice. A few more such rewards and he would be able to advance.

After examining his own condition, Medivh began studying the masterpiece he had created.

The Green Bone Spirit Cat Warrior came with Bone Armor. Its build was far more slender than that of a human Green Bone Warrior, making it obvious at a glance that it was an agility-type warrior.

The Spirit Cat Warrior had three weapons: retractable triple-bladed bone claws on the backs of both hands, a single-bladed claw knife at its waist, and a short crossbow on its back.

The Spirit Cat Warrior's most distinctive feature was the Spirit Runes on its forehead and body. It was a Spirit Rune Skeleton that possessed the Spirit Cat Tribe's unique Spirit Cat Power.

When it activated its Spirit Cat Power, spiritual energy clung to its extended triple-bladed bone claws, making them incomparably sharp.

Its spiritual energy could likewise attach to its claw knife and short crossbow to increase their attack power, or to its Bone Armor to strengthen its defense.

This Spirit Cat Warrior was merely an apprentice Transcendent, only one step away from Tier 1.

After making a careful comparison, Medivh discovered that the Spirit Runes on the Spirit Cat Warrior's forehead were far more complete than those on Suixiang's forehead.

He could roughly guess that the encounter had caused the Spirit Cat Tribe to lose much of its inheritance. That was the true reason the Spirit Cat Tribe had fallen into decline and failed to recover after so many years.