This Skeleton Is Not Right

Medivh had been a learned scholar in his previous life, so some things came easily to him.

The bones the Skeleton Farmers had dug up during this time were enough to keep him converting them for a while.

He designed a simple brick kiln and directed the Skeleton Farmers to build it and fire bricks, producing construction materials.

"Yo, when did a camp appear here?"

The smoke from the brick kiln was highly conspicuous, drawing over a gang of thugs wandering the Wilderness.

"Haha, what do we have here? Skeletons? There's actually a Necromancer here, sir!"

Seeing the Skeletons moving around the edge of the camp, the thugs burst into laughter.

Necromancers had been in decline for a thousand years. They were no longer synonymous with fear.

Mages were all treated like masters, except for Necromancers. In this day and age, even a somewhat sturdy farmer could bully a Necromancer Apprentice.

"Heh, let me see. There are quite a few Skeletons too. Enough for me to smash with one hand?"

A thug as skinny as a monkey stepped forward, claiming he could crush those dozen or so Skeletons with one hand.

"Monkey, go stretch your legs. Let that esteemed Necromancer understand what it means when we say the times have changed!"

The other thugs whistled and egged him on, telling Skinny Monkey to solo the Skeletons.

The thought of Skeletons that might have cost the Necromancer his entire fortune being beaten to death like stray dogs by the roadside filled them with excitement.

Chances to bully a mage were rare. In this era, hardly anyone was willing to become a Necromancer.

Skinny Monkey gave the Skeleton Warrior a contemptuous glance, put away his chipped iron saber, and picked up a wooden club from the ground.

He felt that using a blade against undead Skeletons would insult his weapon. One swing of his club would be enough to smash an undead Skeleton apart.

"Break!"

Skinny Monkey leaped high and brought his club down at the Skeleton Warrior's forehead.

The Skeleton Warrior raised its Bone Shield with its left hand to block, while its Bone Sword swept upward in its right.

Skinny Monkey had seemed formidable, but his jumping chop struck the Bone Shield without making the Skeleton Warrior budge an inch.

Instead, the Skeleton Warrior's seemingly casual upward slash split Skinny Monkey's smug face in two.

"How is that possible?"

Skinny Monkey fell backward, and the thugs were stunned.

Hadn't they said undead Skeletons could be smashed apart with a few blows by any old farmer? Why was this Skeleton different? It had instantly killed Skinny Monkey in return.

Skinny Monkey was not particularly strong among them, but there was no way he should have lost to an undead Skeleton, right?

"That Skeleton is strange. Get it together!"

Someone had died. The thug leader's smile vanished as he called for his men to attack together.

He did not believe the Skeleton Warrior could defeat them. If they had thought they could not win, they would have strategically withdrawn long ago.

"Damn it, why is this Skeleton so strong?"

You never knew until you fought it. Once they did, no one had anything to say.

The Green Bone Skeleton Warrior made the thug leader question his life.

He was a seasoned Apprentice Knight. Though he had yet to refine his blood and vitality into Battle Qi, his powerful physique was enough to handle more than a dozen elite soldiers.

Yet his strength only matched a Skeleton's evenly. Had Necromancers risen again?

The three Green Bone Skeleton Warriors were each comparable to seasoned Apprentice Knights.

The Green Bone Skeleton Hunters took down one target with every arrow.

The Green Bone Skeleton Farmers were not skilled in combat, but relying on their lack of fear of injury, they cut down ordinary thugs like wheat.

Not long after the battle began, more than half the thugs had fallen.

"Retreat!"

The thug leader could not understand how things had turned out this way, but he knew it was time to run. If he did not, they would all die here.

"You think you can leave after coming here?"

The thug leader was determined to flee, and the Skeleton Warriors could not stop him.

Medivh stopped watching the show. Battle Qi erupted from him, and with a flash, he caught up to the thug leader.

"A Knight!"

The thug leader clutched his throat and collapsed unwillingly. That sword strike had contained Battle Qi. The one who killed him was clearly a Knight.

"Ah, it's over already!"

Audrey had just cut down a rookie Apprentice Knight. Looking around, she found that no thugs were left standing.

She had no idea how Medivh had done it, but the Skeletons he created were astonishingly powerful.

That thought lasted less than a second before she ran off to claim credit from Medivh.

They were tied to the same rope. Medivh being strong in magic was a good thing!

After a quick search of the spoils, Medivh had the Bone Farmers drag the bodies to the Burial Ground.

Fresh corpses were useless to him. They needed to be buried in the soil and tempered by the passage of time.

The Odyssey Region was full of Thug Gangs, watched by covetous Alien Tribes, with magical beasts roaming everywhere. It was an extremely dangerous land of chaos.

If he wanted to rise in the Odyssey Region, there would be no shortage of battles ahead. Today's fight had only been an appetizer.

After wiping out the attacking Thug Gang, Medivh returned to the pile of bones to refine bone components.

Just as Apprentice Knights had broad categories like rookie, beginner, and seasoned, Mage Apprentices were also divided into low, middle, and high ranks.

The rookie rank referred to Apprentice Knights who had just begun practicing a Breathing Technique and accumulating blood and vitality.

Such Apprentice Knights were generally weak. Those with little combat experience might not even defeat elite soldiers.

The beginner rank referred to Apprentice Knights who had accumulated a large amount of blood and vitality and used it to strengthen their bodies.

Even with limited combat experience, such Apprentice Knights could rely on their strong physiques to defeat several elite soldiers.

Green Bone Skeleton Farmers were roughly equivalent to this type of Apprentice Knight.

The seasoned rank referred to Apprentice Knights whose blood and vitality had become abundant and who had begun using the Blood Refining Technique.

Such Apprentice Knights possessed vigorous blood and vitality and powerful bodies, making it no problem for them to defeat more than a dozen elite soldiers.

Audrey was a seasoned Apprentice Knight.

Seasoned Apprentice Knights still belonged to the category of ordinary people. They were merely stronger warriors.

Only by using the Blood Refining Technique to gain Battle Qi and become a formal Knight could one be considered a Transcendent.

Mages were different. So long as they learned the Mental Meditation Technique and spells,

even low-level Mage Apprentices counted as Transcendents.

The rank divisions among Mage Apprentices were far more precise than those of Apprentice Knights, determined according to mental strength.

An Apprentice Knight only needed to eat to cultivate. The more nutritious the food, the better it was at increasing blood and vitality.

A Mage Apprentice's cultivation was different. Pure meditation was highly inefficient, and Meditation Potions were needed to improve cultivation efficiency.

Medivh had merely been a passerby at Loran Magic Academy, so he had no chance of obtaining Meditation Potions.

However, he was exceptionally gifted. By casting Temporal Bone Resurrection, he could receive feedback from the Spring of Time and strengthen his mental power.

He had improved greatly over the past month and a half and was close to advancing to a mid-level Mage Apprentice.

The stronger his mental power, the more mana he could convert, and the more bone components he could refine.

The more bone components he had, the more Time Skeletons he could resurrect with his spell, the more feedback he could obtain from the Spring of Time, and the greater his mental power would become.

It was a chain of positive feedback. He would only grow stronger and stronger.

"Yahoo, we finally have a home!"

A week later, Audrey ran gleefully around a three-room brick cottage.

It had been a little over two months since they left Loran City.

At last, they no longer had to live in a carriage. They had a home that sheltered them from the wind and rain.

"Medivh, you're so thoughtful!"

Entering the bedroom and seeing the steaming bath, Audrey cried out in excitement. After two months of roughing it in the wild, she could finally take a hot bath.

In the other bedroom, Medivh was lying in a hot spring pool with his eyes closed, relaxing his mind.

He had not specially equipped a bath for Audrey. He had merely built one for her while building one for himself.