Sensing this, the other black wolves increased their already swift speed even further.
They sprinted almost hugging the ground, their four legs kicking frantically, stirring up large swathes of soil and fallen leaves.
In the blink of an eye, all the black wolves had escaped into the woods and disappeared.
Meanwhile, the three black wolves that had been tackled by the skeletons were now killed by their sharp claws.
After confirming that all the black wolves had fled, Edmond’s tense nerves finally relaxed.
This was his first real battle, even if his opponents were just a pack of wild wolves.
“Whew~”
Edmond closed his eyes and let out a long breath, calming his excited emotions, then opened his eyes to survey the surrounding environment.
The four skeletons had now stood up, with the mangled wolf corpses beside them.
Their white bones were stained with blood and shredded meat, looking extremely ferocious.
Seeing the mangled wolf corpses, along with the blood and shredded meat scattered on the ground, Edmond frowned.
“This is too bloody.”
Afterward, he used his Mental Power to manipulate one of the skeletons to fetch water, preparing to clean up.
At the same time, the other three skeletons guarded the cave entrance, alert for any possible return of the wolf pack.
…
“Splash~”
Edmond used Mage Hand to lift the wooden bucket and splashed all the water inside onto the ground.
Under the repeated rinsing of clean water, the blood and shredded meat on the ground flowed away with the stream, and the ground returned to cleanliness.
Beside him, the four skeletons had also been thoroughly cleaned, their bodies restored to a pristine white.
After finishing cleaning the skeletons and the ground, Edmond finally had time to check the pile of wolf corpses; there were six black wolf bodies in total.
In addition to the five corpses mangled by the skeletons, there was the Alpha Wolf’s body, which had been burned to a cinder by ghost fire.
However, even if the corpse was burned to a cinder, as long as the soul was undamaged, it wouldn’t affect its transformation into an undead.
That’s right, Edmond planned to transform these wolf corpses into skeletons.
After all, he hadn’t been able to resurrect more undead due to a lack of corpses, and this wolf pack attack had conveniently provided him with some.
However, there was one small problem: the Skeleton Resurrection Spell he had mastered only worked on human corpses.
But this was only a minor issue, as he already had a full understanding of the Skeleton Resurrection Spell.
Furthermore, switching from human corpses to wolf corpses was merely a change in form; the core of the Spell remained unchanged.
As long as he made a few slight adjustments to the Spell structure, he should be able to successfully resurrect the wolf corpses as well.
Next, Edmond began to study it seriously.
This time, it only took him about half an hour to successfully master the Spell to resurrect a Skeleton Wolf.
Standing before that cinder, Edmond injected Necrotic Magic into it and constructed the Spell structure at the head position.
The next steps were the same as resurrecting a skeleton: pulling the soul together and then transforming it into Soul Fire.
The only change was that what he created at the end wasn’t a human skeleton, but a Skeleton Wolf.
“Sss~”
Not long after, the cinder slowly began to wriggle, and then a Skeleton Wolf tore through the corpse and crawled out from inside.
Edmond crouched down and began to examine the Skeleton Wolf before him carefully.
Compared to humans, wolves certainly had lower intelligence, and therefore, their soul strength was also significantly weaker.
However, thanks to the freshness of the corpse, the strength of this Skeleton Wolf was roughly the same as when Edmond’s four skeletons were first summoned.
After all, those four corpses had been buried for who knows how long, and they had already rotted quite a bit.
Afterward, Edmond pondered for a moment and decided that resurrecting one more Skeleton Wolf would be enough.
The remaining four wolf corpses would be used to enhance the strength of those four skeletons.
After all, in Edmond’s view, the best material for creating undead was human corpses.
Wolves, after all, had too low intelligence and too weak soul strength; they probably wouldn’t be very useful later on, and they were also hard to hide.
So, two should be enough.
Next, Edmond selected the most robust wolf corpse and resurrected it into a Skeleton Wolf.
Afterward, it was time to modify the souls of the other wolf corpses.
With the experience from the Skeleton Resurrection Spell, this wasn’t a difficult task for Edmond.
Under the vortex formed by the Spell structure, all the souls within the wolf corpses were pulled together, and under the modification of Necrotic Magic, they turned into a mass of blue Soul Fire.
Edmond used Mage Hand to drag the Soul Fire in front of himself.
Watching the blue flames flickering before him, Edmond examined them for a good while before finally feeding them to a skeleton nearby.
The Soul Fire flew in front of the skeleton and was absorbed into it, merging with its own Soul Fire.
Not long after, the Soul Fire was completely digested.
“Whoosh!”
The blue flame inside the bone helmet suddenly flared up, flickering violently.
“Hmm.”
Edmond watched this scene with satisfaction; judging by the contract in his mind, the strength of this skeleton had increased by nearly thirty percent.
Next, Edmond successively modified the souls of the remaining three wolf corpses into Soul Fire and fed them to the rest of the skeletons respectively.
After this nourishment, the strength of all four skeletons had received a decent boost.
However, it was a pity that what they absorbed was only the Soul Fire of wild wolves, so it was impossible to gain memories of using weapons.
After experiencing this battle, Edmond became even more determined in his idea that his undead subordinates needed to learn how to use weapons.
Because this was too barbaric.
Recalling the ground covered in shredded meat and blood, and those mangled wolf corpses, he felt slightly nauseated.
Did every fight have to end up with shredded meat and blood all over the ground?
This was certainly one of the reasons why Necromancers were detested.
Only focusing on the combat power of the undead, completely disregarding everything else.
For instance, their appearance—keeping one’s undead clean and tidy, rather than rotting and emitting a foul stench.
And their fighting style—letting the undead learn to use weapons, rather than biting and clawing like wild beasts.
Although Edmond was a Necromancer, he was also a normal person, so he certainly didn’t want others to treat him with an attitude of disgust.
Especially the attitude of other mages; mages were like scholars who never stopped researching, and burying oneself in research was indeed fine.
But if one could communicate with other peers, one would certainly gain good insights.
And who would be willing to communicate with a Necromancer who reeked of corpse stench and walked around with a group of rotting zombies?
Plus, Edmond’s own preferences were quite normal, and he was very satisfied with the appearance of the skeletons he had modified.
After cleaning up the remaining wolf corpses, Edmond returned to his bed, preparing to go to sleep.
Ever since he learned Meditation, he hadn’t slept; changing things up now wasn’t bad either.