Ancestor Totem

They helped Suixiang complete her Inheritance Spirit Rune and painted Inheritance Spirit Runes for the other cat-girls.

For now, all the cat-girls in Kurd were either apprentice Spirit Rune Warriors or apprentice warlocks.

The cat-girls' advancement made the fox-girls and rabbit-girls envious, but unfortunately Kurd had no fox-person, rabbit-person, or skeleton predecessors, so they couldn't obtain their lost inheritance.

They hoped Medivh would go excavate the ancient battlefields where fox-person tribes and rabbit-person tribes had once fought.

Medivh wasn't going on any expeditions for now; he was busy refining the bones excavated from the Minotaur Ancestral Graveyard.

After the Heavy Skeleton Warrior bone components, he smelted out two types of Transcendental Minotaur bone components: Minotaur Skeleton Warrior and Minotaur Skeleton Shaman.

The Transcendental inheritance of the Minotaur Tribe was Totem Power.

The Transcendental manifestation of Minotaur Warriors was the Totem Marks painted on their bodies, equivalent to Spirit Cat Warriors and Human Knights.

Minotaur Shamans were spellcasters; they could release various spell totems, equivalent to Spirit Cat Warlocks and Human Mages.

In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed since the Minotaur Tribe's destruction.

During this half month, Medivh had worked day and night, refining the bones excavated from the Minotaur Ancestral Graveyard, assembling and resurrecting a batch of Green Bone Skeletons.

This batch of Green Bone Skeletons consisted of twenty-four Minotaur Skeleton Warriors, three Minotaur Skeleton Shamans, and fifty-six Heavy Skeleton Warriors.

The Minotaur Skeleton Warriors and Heavy Skeleton Warriors had identical core bone weapons, but the Minotaur Skeleton Warriors were more robust, standing a full five meters tall with thicker Bone Armor, exuding an overwhelming sense of pressure.

The Minotaur Skeleton Shamans also wore Bone Armor; their core bone weapons were the Totem Bone Staff and the Totem Pillar they carried on their backs.

The Totem Pillar was the Minotaur Shaman's melee weapon; they were spellcasters but also skilled in close combat.

Like the Spirit Cat Skeleton Warriors, the inheritance totems of individual Minotaur Skeleton Warriors were incomplete.

Medivh and Suixin cross-referenced the historical knowledge left by the Minotaur Skeleton Warriors and Minotaur Skeleton Shamans to highly restore the Minotaur Ancestral Inheritance Totem.

Minotaur Shamans, like Spirit Cat Warlocks, were responsible for painting Inheritance Totems for the tribe's warriors.

The three Minotaur Skeleton Shamans, following the Inheritance Totem restored by Medivh, filled in the missing parts of their ancestral totems for those twenty-four Minotaur Skeleton Warriors.

Those twenty-four Minotaur Skeleton Warriors were all specially selected by Medivh from high-year Green Bones for smelting and resurrection, just one step away from First Order.

After perfecting their Ancestral Totems, they advanced to First Order Low Grade, just like the Spirit Cat Skeleton Warriors who had perfected their Inheritance Spirit Runes.

With the complementary inheritance of the Minotaur Skeleton Shamans, they mastered five totem spells: Healing Totem, Earth Totem, Taunt Totem, Inspiring Totem, and Windfury Totem.

The Healing Totem's effect was area healing, the Earth Totem's effect was area defense enhancement, and the Taunt Totem's effect was taunting targets to shift aggro.

The Inspiring Totem's effect was area morale boost, and the Windfury Totem's effect was area movement speed increase.

The Minotaur Tribe's ability to kill Second Order Magic Beasts beyond their rank relied on the Minotaur Shamans' totem spells.

After the Minotaur Skeleton Shamans were born, Medivh tested their abilities; the totems they released were Bone Carved Totems.

Since they were all Time Skeletons, their totem spells also worked on non-Minotaur Time Skeletons.

With the support of the Minotaur Skeleton Shamans, Medivh's skeleton legion would become tougher and more ferocious.

There were still many Minotaur bones in the underground warehouse, enough for Medivh to refine for a while.

This operation greatly improved Kurd. The Second Order Magic Beast's blood allowed two First Order Low Grade Bone Spirit Assassins to advance to First Order Intermediate, and another fifteen Skeleton Assassins to reach First Order Low Grade.

After the battle, Medivh refined twenty-seven Transcendental Minotaur Skeletons and one type of powerful ordinary skeleton.

Compared to before the attack on the Minotaur Tribe, Kurd's overall strength had doubled.

While Medivh was refining the Minotaur bones, the Bone Spirit Assassins scouted the wasteland, searching for new targets for him.

The Bone Spirit Assassins would mark suitable targets for attack and excavatable ruins, so when Medivh ran low on bone materials, he could launch new operations.

You can't get fat in one bite; before he had mostly refined the Minotaur bones, Medivh wouldn't run around recklessly but would develop steadily in Kurd City District.

During the time Medivh was refining skeletons, Kurd was attacked again by a gang of thugs and a Goblin tribe.

Kurd was well-armed; the attacking thugs and goblins were now all sleeping in the Graveyard District.

That Goblin tribe had harassed them several times. After wiping out the goblins who came to raid, Medivh sent Transcendental Skeletons leading a group of skeleton warriors to follow the trail and attack the Goblin tribe hiding in the mountain forest.

Goblins were synonymous with poverty and evil; their only merit was their high reproduction rate.

The Goblin tribe had mostly junk, and the looted treasure was very meager.

Calling them evil was because goblins captured females of other races to breed offspring for them.

In that Goblin tribe, the skeletons saw many caged female foreigners and beasts.

They would eventually be eaten alive by the adult goblins and the goblin pups that burst from their bellies.

The skeletons gave them a quick death, letting them escape their endless torment early.

Goblins were creatures hated by both humans and dogs; no matter which race's army encountered goblins, they would eliminate them on the spot.

Goblins were incredibly voracious, eating anything they could digest, including the corpses of their own kind.

Goblin tribes had no cemeteries; this operation was mainly to eliminate the threat.

The goblins kept coming to cause trouble; it was getting annoying!

Kurd's development was getting better and better, but the entire Odyssey Region was in its most difficult moment.

The famine had already dragged on for two and a half months, with starving mobs and alien tribes attacking everywhere, raiding any camp that still had food.

This was the darkness before dawn, the bloodiest period.

In a while, when the beast hordes that had fled the Odyssey Region began their mass migration back, the famine would end.

Until then, the starving would do everything in their power to obtain food—including cannibalism.

Alien tribes and human camps would fight with all their might to repel the ravenous looters and protect their grain stores.

The Odyssey Region was desperately short of food, yet not a single merchant from the Gewalt Federation had come.

Just how terrifying a starving mob could be—some soldiers of the Vincent Family and Winter Fortress knew all too well.

Dealing with a pack of famished madmen at a time like this could lead to anything.

Because of the losses among Winter Fortress's garrison, the Vincent Family had paid a heavy price.

Merchants chased profit. The Odyssey Region now offered only risk with no return; they weren't about to do charity.

Of course, this famine only affected the mid-sized and smaller powers. The major forces in the Odyssey Region had ample reserves and were untouched by the hunger.

The famine would drastically reduce the population of the Odyssey Region, but it wouldn't shake the overall situation.

Mid-sized and smaller powers were like weeds by the roadside—cut them down, and in time, they'd grow back.