"Sigma, glory belongs to us!"
After a fierce battle, the Minotaur Chieftain's spare Hand Axe split open the head of the second-tier magical beast.
As the second-tier magical beast died, the Minotaur Shaman shouted before falling.
"Then, Kil'jaeden, what was the price?"
The Minotaur Chieftain surveyed the battlefield. He felt only sorrow, not the joy of victory.
To kill this second-tier magical beast, every warrior he had brought from the Horde had died here.
His right-hand man, the Minotaur Shaman Kil'jaeden, who had supported him every step of the way, had fallen after their victory.
He was covered in wounds, and the second-tier magical beast still had his left arm, severed at the shoulder, clamped in its jaws.
As he watched the Transcendental Skeletons closing in, the Minotaur Chieftain knew this battle had no winners.
The snipe and the clam fought, and the fisherman profited.
"For the Horde!"
The Minotaur Chieftain, at the end of his strength, launched a desperate charge.
Before long, the already gravely wounded Minotaur Chieftain died beneath the Transcendental Skeletons' assault.
And the Horde he had cherished so dearly had already become history.
The Minotaur Chieftain's tragic end made Medivh's group seem like villains.
But when it came to the survival of a people, there were only opposing stances, never right or wrong, good or evil.
Had the Minotaur Tribe been stronger and the Kurd City District been the one to fall, then Medivh would have been the one to meet a tragic end.
Not wasting time on sentiment, Medivh waved for the skeletons to clean up the battlefield, bundling up the Minotaur warriors' corpses along with that of the second-tier magical beast.
They shoveled away the magical beast's blood scattered across the ground, along with the bloodstained soil. Nothing was wasted.
The skeletons never complained. They only worked hard.
Trip after trip, they carried everything away. Before dawn, the skeletons had emptied the Minotaur Tribe.
Under the morning sun over the Kurd City District, Medivh tallied the casualties and spoils from the operation.
Minotaurs were tall, powerfully built, and strong. They wielded heavy weapons like Meat-Cleaving Great Axes, Great Hammers, and spiked clubs.
When Minotaur warriors fought desperately in a blood rage, their lethality was formidable.
The Time Skeletons had sturdy bones, but even they were somewhat fragile against heavy weapons that treated all living things equally.
In earlier battles, enemies had only left some cuts and fractures on the skeletons. There had been no casualties.
This time was different. During the assault on the Minotaur Tribe, fourteen Green Bone Skeletons, twenty-seven White Bone Skeletons, and seventy-two Grey Bone Skeletons had been killed. The losses were considerable.
Twelve Skeleton Assassins who had lured the Minotaur Chieftain had been hunted down and killed.
The Skeleton Assassins were all high-year Green Bone Skeletons who had touched the threshold of the first tier.
Their sacrifice was the greatest loss of the operation.
There was no helping it. Their opponents were too strong. The Minotaur Chieftain and Minotaur Shaman had personally joined the hunt, bringing many Transcendental Minotaur Warriors with them.
If the Bone Spirit Assassin hadn't improvised and come up with the poisonous scheme of setting a tiger against a wolf, the Skeleton Assassins who had lured the Minotaur Chieftain would most likely have been wiped out.
In the end, the Skeleton Assassins had outplayed their foes. They had not only exceeded their mission to buy time, but had also killed the Minotaurs pursuing them and a second-tier magical beast.
The Skeleton Assassins deserved the greatest credit for this operation!
Those who achieved merit deserved rewards. Medivh gave the Skeleton Assassins the second-tier magical beast's blood.
After finishing the casualty count, Medivh began inspecting the spoils.
The fresh Minotaur corpses were of no use to him. After special treatment, the skeletons would bury them in the Graveyard District.
He wasn't particularly interested in the Minotaur Tribe's treasures, so he had them hauled straight to the Armory Camp's warehouse.
What interested Medivh were the bones excavated from the Minotaur Ancestral Graveyard.
This Minotaur Tribe had existed for quite some time. Its ancestors' bones had been treated, so most hadn't decayed into dust.
The Central Castle's Underground Warehouse held more than sixteen thousand Minotaur skeletons, including Blue Bones over three hundred years old and Purple Bones over five hundred years old.
Medivh used spirit sight to make a rough inspection. The oldest skeleton was seven hundred and fifty-six years old.
The skeleton, which appeared deep purple under spirit sight, gave Medivh a powerful sense of oppression.
It had been very strong in life and was most likely an ancestor of this Minotaur Tribe.
That was as far as the Minotaur Tribe's historical legacy went. It had no bones above Purple Grade for Medivh to see.
With the potential threat eliminated and a batch of decent-quality bones in hand, Medivh had achieved his strategic goals.
The worsening famine in the Odyssey Region had nothing to do with Medivh.
His people had plenty to eat. As long as no fool attacked the Kurd City District, he wouldn't kill anyone.
For now, he only wanted to focus on resurrecting skeletons. The skeletons under his command would continue developing the Kurd Nine-Grid.
After receiving Medivh's reward, the Skeleton Assassins had made tremendous progress.
The two Bone Spirit Assassins they had originally had advanced to mid-level first-tier Bone Spirits after absorbing the second-tier magical beast's blood.
After bathing in the second-tier magical beast's blood, fifteen Green Bone Skeleton Assassins had awakened Bone Spirit Power and become low-level first-tier Bone Spirits.
Every part of a magical beast was valuable. The second-tier magical beast's meat would be a resource for Medivh and Audrey to cultivate Battle Qi.
The second-tier magical beast's Magic Core was also a precious resource. Unfortunately, Medivh knew too little about magic to understand how to unlock its value.
He had used the Frost Deer's Magic Core as the cooling source for the Underground Freezer.
The Bloodthirsty Mosquito's Magic Core was gathering dust in the treasury, and this second-tier Magic Core would get the same treatment.
Without a magical inheritance, Medivh wasn't in a hurry. He could resurrect a skeleton mage and draw on knowledge from history.
Before, he had only known Bone Resurrection. Now, he had learned three common spells, and the Library also held the inheritance of five fire spells.
As long as he had time, nothing would be a problem. History would give him the answers and pass down lost knowledge to him.
The bones of ordinary Minotaurs, like those of Cat-men, smelted into human bone components.
Just as ordinary Cat-man bones smelted into special Ranger Assassin Skeleton components, ordinary Minotaur bones smelted into components for a special-class skeleton.
Medivh selected a batch of high-year Green Bones for smelting. Once assembled and resurrected, they became Heavy Skeleton Warriors.
The Heavy Skeleton Warriors were incredibly burly, standing a full two and a half meters tall.
They had absurdly thick Bone Armor. Their innate primary weapon was a Bone Heavy Hammer, and their secondary weapons were a pair of Mountain-Splitting Bone Axes crossed over their backs.
The Heavy Skeleton Warriors were extremely powerful, with an overwhelming advantage against Skeleton Warriors of the same level.
Audrey tested one out and said that without using Battle Qi, she couldn't do anything to the thick-skinned Heavy Skeleton Warrior. Its attacks, on the other hand, posed a serious threat to her.
Even using Battle Qi, Audrey couldn't kill the heavily armored Heavy Skeleton Warrior in a short time.
Medivh was very satisfied to have gained a new skeleton type with formidable combat power.
The sacrifice had been worth it. Kurd City would grow even stronger.
After resurrecting the Heavy Skeleton Warriors, Medivh began refining the Transcendental Minotaurs' remains, trying to assemble Transcendental Skeletons.
While he was busy smelting bones, Suixin and Suihua used materials scavenged from the Minotaur Tribe to mix a Spirit Liquid specifically for drawing Inheritance Spirit Runes.
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