Skeleton Assembly Line

Even the residual holy light power of the Hospice Blessing can slow the decay of bones to some extent, but the erosion of time is unavoidable.

Only properly buried bones can be preserved for long periods.

The number of bones over three hundred years old in the Underground Warehouse wasn't large, so not many Blue Bone skeletons could be raised.

The Odyssey War buried a great many bones underground.

Those bones were high-year Green Bones between two hundred fifty and three hundred years old—excellent spellcasting materials.

Medivh had to thank the God of Light for leaving behind the Hospice Blessing; under the protection of holy light, ordinary bones decayed more slowly and were more likely to be preserved naturally.

Moreover, the Hospice Blessing cut off the path of normal necromancers. Necromancers fell to the bottom rung, and the various races stopped being so particular about handling corpses—they just found a spot and buried them, which benefited Medivh's archaeological excavations.

After focusing on refining for a while, Medivh smelted all the Blue Bones that could be melted.

From the Blue Bone skeleton parts he obtained, he assembled and raised two Transcendental Light Blue Skeletons, thirty-two Common Light Blue Skeletons, and eighteen Common Sky Blue Skeletons.

The Transcendental Blue Bone Skeletons were all Minotaur Warriors, while the Common Blue Bone Skeletons included warriors, hunters, farmers, and so on.

In just over half a month, Kurd gained fifty-two first-tier Blue Bone Skeletons, growing at a rocket-like pace.

After reviewing this batch of Blue Bones, Medivh distributed the Magic Beast Blood he had drawn that month.

The Green Bone Frost Mage and a Green Bone Orc Prophet received the Magic Beast Blood's nourishment and advanced to first-tier low-grade.

Over the past month, two promising skeletons had emerged.

A Green Bone Heavy Warrior and a Green Bone Ranger had awakened Bone Spirit Power on their own, advancing to first-tier low-grade Bone Spirits.

Kurd's construction had never lagged behind. When Medivh patrolled, he saw that the second Nine-Grid District was already fully enclosed by city walls.

In the second Nine-Grid District, the walls of the four new zones were only five meters high, while the walls of the five old zones had reached eight meters.

In the first Nine-Grid District, the walls of six zones had reached sixteen meters, and the walls of the remaining three zones were ten meters high.

"Still not enough skeletons!"

Every stage had its own perspective. Medivh was once again dissatisfied with Kurd's construction speed and decided to take time to raise a batch of Grey Bone and White Bone Skeletons to fill Kurd.

After advancing to a first-tier mage, Medivh's speed in smelting Grey Bones and White Bones was very fast, and the mental and mana consumption for raising Grey Bone and White Bone Skeletons was very low.

He was like a precision machine, as skeletons carried Grey Bones and White Bones one by one to the workbench, turning them into skeleton parts.

Then, complete sets of skeleton parts were moved to another workbench, where they stood up under his mana.

Medivh stood between the two workbenches. Skeletons carried Grey Bones and White Bones onto the smelting workbench, then carried the smelted skeleton parts off the smelting workbench.

Skeletons responsible for inventory management carried sets of bone parts onto the raising workbench, and the raised Grey Bone and White Bone Skeletons walked off the raising workbench on their own.

Medivh and the skeletons handling the materials formed an efficient assembly line, with Grey Bone and White Bone Skeletons as the final product.

"Clack clack!"

After just over half a month, the skeleton handling materials clacked its upper and lower jawbones.

"Lord Medivh, there are no more Grey Bones or White Bones in the Underground Warehouse."

The attentive little secretary Suixin translated.

The skeleton assembly line was too efficient, and the stockpile of Grey Bones and White Bones in the Underground Warehouse had run out.

"Oh, bring up that batch of Green Bones."

Medivh was in a workaholic state, still unsatisfied.

He had the skeletons bring over the high-year Green Bones excavated from the ancient battlefield and continued production.

First on stage were the Transcendental Bones. One by one, Transcendental Bone parts were smelted in the Necrotic Black Light.

The number of Transcendental Bones wasn't large, and within a few days, they were all smelted into skeleton parts.

Medivh picked through his Transcendental parts warehouse, assembling sets of Transcendental skeleton parts for raising.

"The third skeleton mage!"

The first one raised was a skeleton mage—this type of skeleton had the highest priority for raising.

It was a fire-specialized skeleton mage. It didn't bring Medivh any new general spells, only adding three fire spells to the High Tower Library.

Medivh had that skeleton mage write out the magical knowledge it had mastered and store it in the library for him and other skeleton mages to read.

Over the following days, one Transcendental Skeleton after another stood up on the raising workbench.

This raising added to Kurd City District one Flame Skeleton Mage, three Flame Skeleton Knights, one Earth Skeleton Knight, six Orc Skeleton Berserkers, and two Orc Skeleton Prophets.

The Flame Skeleton Knights brought no new combat skills, but the Earth Skeleton Knight brought two new earth-type combat skills.

A new curse spell was added—the Sleep Curse.

A target hit by the Sleep Curse would fall unconscious directly if their mental resistance was too low, or feel drowsy and sluggish if their mental resistance was average.

After smelting the Transcendental Bones, Medivh didn't stop.

He continued smelting the bones of ordinary human soldiers and orc warriors.

The bones of ordinary orc warriors, when smelted, produced human skeleton parts, though they differed somewhat from pure human parts.

The same skeleton warriors—orc bones smelted and resurrected become Axe-Shield Skeleton Warriors, while human bones smelted and resurrected become Sword-Shield Skeleton Warriors.

Above the Skeleton Hunter, there is also the Skeleton Archer, a skeleton resurrected from the smelting of a proper Longbowman.

The Skeleton Archer is a Sword-Shield Warrior equipped with a longbow, with a different positioning from the Skeleton Ranger.

The former excels at stationary output, while the latter specializes in guerrilla tactics.

Whether Skeleton Archer or Skeleton Ranger, both possess strong melee capabilities, making it difficult for enemies to cut off the backline.

"Time to rest!"

After a month of continuous operation, Medivh stretched his back and mentally signaled the Logistics Skeletons to stop replenishing materials.

In this month, aside from the Transcendental Skeleton, Medivh produced 1,625 Grey Bones, 736 White Bones, and 324 Green Bone Skeletons.

The Underground Warehouse's stock was nearly cleared. Next, he would balance work and rest, picking some bones to smelt and resurrect during study and relaxation.

Only when the bones piled up in the Underground Warehouse would he return to the assembly line for mass production of skeletons.

"Medivh, this is the freshly drawn Magic Beast Blood."

When Medivh returned to the High Tower Hall, Audrey was directing skeletons to transport Magic Beast Blood.

The Big-Horned Ox Magic Beast Herd paid their rent on time every ninth of the month, then collected a subsidy and happily went home.

They lived quite comfortably in Kurd City, with skeletons providing them good food and drink, and no need to worry about natural predators hunting them.

All they needed to give was a small amount of Magic Beast Blood, without affecting their health and growth.

When they survived in the wild, they bled plenty, so they didn't mind this at all.

The freshly drawn Magic Beast Blood was allocated by Medivh to the third Skeleton Mage and one Skeleton Prophet.

His cultivation priority was clear: when magic-type skeletons were available, prioritize promoting them by one rank; if no magic-type skeletons existed, promote other Transcendental Skeletons by one rank; ordinary skeletons came last.