Ancestral Totem

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

At present, the cat-girls in Kurd City were either Apprentice Spirit Rune Warriors or Apprentice Warlocks.

The cat-girls' progress made the Fox-girls and Rabbit-girls envious. Unfortunately, Kurd City had no Fox-person or Rabbit-person skeleton seniors, so they had no way to obtain the lost heritage.

They hoped Medivh would explore the Ancient Battlefield where the Fox-person and Rabbit-person tribes had fought.

Medivh had no plans to go on an expedition for now. He was busy refining the bones excavated from the Minotaur Ancestral Graveyard.

After processing the bones of the Heavy Skeleton Warriors, he refined two kinds of Transcendental Minotaur bones: Minotaur Skeleton Warriors and Minotaur Skeleton Shamans.

The Minotaur Tribe's Transcendent Heritage was Totem Power.

The Minotaur Warriors manifested their transcendent power through Totem Marks drawn on their bodies, much like Spirit Cat Warriors and human knights.

Minotaur Shamans were spellcasters who could unleash all kinds of Spell Totems, much like Spirit Cat Warlocks and human mages.

In the blink of an eye, the Minotaur Tribe had been wiped out half a month ago.

During those two weeks, Medivh had worked day and night, refining the bones excavated from the Minotaur Ancestral Graveyard and assembling a batch of resurrected Green Bone Skeletons.

The batch 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 Origin Bone Artifacts. They were more powerfully built, stood a full five meters tall, and had thicker Bone Armor, giving them an imposing presence.

The Minotaur Skeleton Shamans also wore Bone Armor. Their Origin Bone Artifacts were Totem Bone Staffs and the Totem Pillars they carried on their backs.

The Totem Pillar was the Minotaur Shamans' melee weapon. Though they were spellcasters, they were also skilled in close combat.

Like the Spirit Cat Skeleton Warriors, each Minotaur Skeleton Warrior had an incomplete Inheritance Totem.

Medivh and Suixin used the historical knowledge preserved by the Minotaur Skeleton Warriors and Minotaur Skeleton Shamans to meticulously restore the Minotaur ancestral Inheritance Totem.

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

Using the Inheritance Totems restored by Medivh as a reference, the three Minotaur Skeleton Shamans filled in the missing parts of the ancestral totems for the twenty-four Minotaur Skeleton Warriors.

Medivh had specifically chosen Green Bone Skeletons with long years behind them to refine and resurrect as the twenty-four Minotaur Skeleton Warriors. They were only one step away from reaching the first tier.

After their ancestral totems were completed, they advanced to the first tier, low level, just like the Spirit Cat Skeleton Warriors whose Inheritance Spirit Runes had been completed.

With their Inheritance Totems complementing each other, the Minotaur Skeleton Shamans mastered five Totem spells: Healing Totem, Earth Totem, Taunt Totem, Inspiring Totem, and Windfury Totem.

Healing Totem provided healing over an area, Earth Totem enhanced defense across an area, and Taunt Totem forced its target to redirect its aggro.

Inspiring Totem boosted morale across an area, while Windfury Totem increased movement speed across an area.

The Minotaur Tribe had been able to kill second-tier magical beasts above their level thanks to the Totem spells of its Minotaur Shamans.

After the Minotaur Skeleton Shamans were created, Medivh tested their abilities. The totems they summoned were Bone Carved Totems.

As Time Skeletons, their Totem spells also worked on Time Skeletons who weren't Minotaurs.

With the Minotaur Skeleton Shamans bolstering them, Medivh's skeleton army would be tougher and more ferocious.

There were still plenty of Minotaur bones in the Underground Warehouse, enough to keep Medivh refining them for a while.

This operation had greatly strengthened Kurd City. The blood of the second-tier magical beasts had helped two first-tier, low-level Bone Spirit Assassins advance to the middle level, and another fifteen Skeleton Assassins had become first-tier, low-level Bone Spirits.

After the battle, Medivh had created twenty-seven Transcendental Minotaur Skeletons, along with a powerful new kind of Common Skeleton.

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

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

The Bone Spirit Assassins marked suitable targets for attack and ruins worth excavating. When Medivh ran short of bone materials, he would launch a new operation.

You couldn't get fat from a single meal. Until he had refined most of the Minotaur bones, Medivh wouldn't go running around. He would focus on developing Kurd City in peace.

While Medivh was crafting skeletons, Kurd City was attacked by a band of thugs and a Goblin Tribe.

Kurd City was strong in battle. The attacking thugs and goblins were now all sleeping in the Graveyard District.

That Goblin Tribe had harassed them several times. After killing the goblins who came to raid them, Medivh sent the Transcendental Skeletons and a group of Skeleton Warriors to follow the trail back and attack the Goblin Tribe hiding in the mountains.

Goblins were the byword for poverty and evil. Other than being prolific breeders, they had no redeeming qualities.

The Goblin Tribe had mostly junk, and they found very little treasure.

They were called evil because they captured females of other races to bear their offspring.

In that Goblin Tribe, the skeletons saw many female members of other races and beasts being kept in captivity.

In the end, adult goblins and goblin newborns that burst out of their bellies would tear them apart and eat them.

The skeletons gave them a quick death, freeing them from endless torment a little sooner.

Goblins were loathed by everyone. Whenever the army of any race encountered them, they would wipe them out on sight.

Goblins could eat a tremendous amount, devouring anything they could digest, including the corpses of their own kind.

Goblin Tribes had no graveyards. This operation had mainly been about eliminating a threat.

The goblins kept showing up to pick fights. It was getting ridiculous!

Kurd City was growing stronger, while the entire Odyssey Region was going through its hardest times.

The famine had lasted two and a half months. Starving thugs and members of other races were attacking camps with food wherever they could find them.

It was the darkness before dawn, the bloodiest period.

After a while, when the herds that had fled the Odyssey Region migrated back in great numbers, the famine would end.

Until then, the starving would do anything to get food, including eating corpses.

The Alien Tribes and human camps would do everything they could to repel the starving raiders and protect their food.

The Odyssey Region was desperately short on food, but not a single merchant from the Gewalt Federation came.

The Vincent Family and some of the soldiers at Winter Fortress knew all too well how terrifying starving thugs could be.

Trading with a band of starving thugs at a time like this could lead to anything.

Because Winter Fortress's garrison had suffered heavy losses, the Vincent Family had paid a hefty sum in compensation.

Merchants chased profit. The Odyssey Region offered nothing but risks and no returns, so they weren't about to do charity work.

Of course, the famine only affected small and medium-sized factions. The major powers in Odyssey had ample food reserves and were unaffected.

The famine would sharply reduce the population of the Odyssey Region, but it wouldn't change the overall balance of power.

Small and medium-sized factions were like roadside weeds. Cut them down, and they would grow back after a while.