It took 2 days for all the potions to be replenished. Abel put Akara's tent into his personal storage box and ignited his Druil spirit on the skill tree. 5 spirit wolves appeared next to him.
Abel saw 2 intermediate druids riding on giant wolves. According to his estimation, they should be mad wolves. Their defense and attack power were much higher than spirit wolves by an intermediate wizard's summoning spell.
In terms of true strength, the Ghost Wolf was actually more suitable to be a Mount than the Mad Wolf. This was because, although the Ghost Wolf's defensive and offensive capabilities were inferior to the Mad Wolf's, what did a Mount need to do? The only thing a Mount needed was speed.
So what kind of creature could be faster than spirit wolves? Probably not, because the spirit wolf could use a method similar to 'instantaneous movement', and due to the spirit wolf's special half soul and half physical body, this kind of flickering movement was almost unlimited.
Come to think of it, this was the perfect mount. But why didn't all the druids ride ghost wolves?
Actually, Abel already had an answer in his heart. He had done an experiment when he first got the spirit wolf. The spirit wolf could not carry a life form.
If Abel sat on a spirit wolf, he would directly fall through the spirit wolf's body to the ground. This was the main reason why spirit wolves could not be used as mounts.
Unfortunately, Abel suddenly remembered that he couldn't sit on a spirit wolf. But didn't he have a skeleton without life? Skeletons had no life, and they had the same death energy as spirit wolves.
With that thought in mind, he summoned Rib Bone no.3 and ordered it to sit on a spirit wolf. He watched the clumsy Rib Bone no.3 slowly climb onto a spirit wolf's back. Its legs were on the spirit wolf's back, so it didn't fall off.
Just when Abel was excited about the success of his experiment, the Hradik cube sent him a message, "Do you want to combine spirit wolves and skeletons into a skeleton Knight?"
Hearing this prompt, he hesitated for a moment. The battle strength of the skeleton was not high. Although it could grow, it would take time. If he sacrificed the battle strength of the spirit wolf to increase the battle strength of the skeleton, would the loss outweigh the gain? But at the same time, the spirit wolf was a mount that could teleport. If the skeleton had the spirit wolf, its battle strength would be greatly increased.
The true power of skeletons was their mastery of Knight skills. As long as Abel learned a Knight skill, skeletons could use it. From this point of view, if skeletons had a mount, they would become a true Knight. Most of Abel's Knight skills could only be used with a mount. Since skeletons' physical attacks contained death energy, their physical attacks were much more powerful than Abel's physical attacks.
Let's try one first. If it doesn't work, I'll lose a spirit wolf. Abel made up his mind. He connected with the Hradik cube through his power of the will and said, "Combine!"
The black substance on the spirit wolf began to rush towards Rib Bone no.3 on its back. It slowly wrapped around Rib Bone no.3. At the same time, Abel felt the mana in his body rapidly depleting. Luckily, his mana had reached 590 points. Let alone a rank 3 wizard, even a beginner official wizard could barely reach it. Although his mana was depleting quickly, it was still within his acceptable range.
As Abel's mana was depleting, more and more of the black substance on the spirit wolf began to rush towards Rib Bone no.3. Rib Bone no.3's bones were no longer exposed. Instead, it was replaced by a black body that looked like its internal muscles and external skin. The black substance on the spirit wolf's body began to fill up.
When the combination stopped, Rib Bone no.3 had completely changed. Now, even if an orc priest was standing there, they wouldn't be able to tell it was a summoned skeleton. From the outside, it looked like a strong Knight riding on a spirit wolf. It was just that this Knight was completely naked. His skin was as black as ink, and he looked like a spirit wolf.
When Abel successfully summoned his first skeleton, he already thought about summoning a skeleton to fight for him in the Holy Continent. However, if he summoned a skeleton to fight for him, it would mean telling others that he had learned orc priest spells. Whether it was humans, dwarves, or elves, they all hated orc priests.
The orc priests were infamous for their horrifying method of making skeletons. Countless elite warriors in the Holy Continent were tortured to death by orc priests just to get a skeleton with the power of the original owner. Every skeleton summoned by an orc priest had a cruel story behind it.
Therefore, Abel only dared to summon skeletons in battle when he was 100% sure that no one would know about it. But now, things were different. These skeletons had changed beyond recognition. They no longer looked like skeletons. They had turned into strange spirit wolf knights.
If it had armor, it should be able to hide its black skin. As long as Abel didn't say anything, no one would know what it was.
The most important thing was that the skeleton's death aura was wrapped up by the Ghost Wolf's dark energy. He could only sense the dark energy with his perception, and the Ghost Wolf's attack also carried a dark energy that was very similar to the death aura attack.
"Huh!" When Abel looked at the "summon spirit wolf" skill tree, he realized that he only summoned 4 spirit wolves out of the 5 he had. The spirit wolf that was fused into the skeleton Knight was assumed to be dead by default and disappeared from the summoning position.
It seemed like the fusion just now was to forcefully remove the spirit wolf from the summoning position so that the "summon spirit wolf" spell could summon a new spirit wolf.
He then looked at the attributes of the "resurrect skeleton" skill:
Resurrect skeleton (Knight)
Allows you to resurrect a skeleton from the corpse of a dead monster to fight for you
Mana cost: 1
Number of skeletons: 4
Damage: 1-2
Defense: 95
Health: 52
Current skill level: 6
The "resurrect skeleton" spell didn't change much after leveling up to the next level, but there was an extra Knight. Abel then summoned Rib Bone no.2. He didn't want to use the remaining 4 spirit wolves. They all had battle experience, and it would be a waste to just turn them into mounts.
He commanded his druid soul to reach his power of the will into the skill tree in his Horadric Cube and cast the "summon wolf spirit" spell. A summoning spell pattern appeared in front of him. Afterward, he felt his mana quickly drop by 150 points, and all of it was poured into the spell pattern in front of him. The spell pattern began to emit a green light, and this green light was getting brighter and brighter. His druid soul sensed many spirits through the pattern. These were the spirits of the spirit wolves.
Abel controlled the Druil soul to try to connect with one of the spirit wolves, but it was rejected. Then the second, the third, and finally the eighth spirit wolf. In the next moment, the figure of a spirit wolf appeared in the summoning pattern in front of him.
Abel didn't expect that even though he had the Druil soul to forcefully use the beginner wizard spell of the Druil, the cost was 10 times the mana output. Luckily, all the spells he learned were summoning spells, and he didn't need to consume mana anymore. If it was an attack spell, he wouldn't be able to handle 10 times the mana consumption. He just needed to cast a few spells to empty his body of mana.
Looking at the slow spirit wolf in front of him, Abel finally understood why the Druil wanted to summon a spirit wolf in advance and train it. If a spirit wolf was summoned during a battle, it would take too long, and if the soul link was rejected more often, the summoning time would be even longer. With such a long summoning time, it would be enough for the opponent to attack many times. It was not very realistic to summon a spirit wolf in the middle of a battle.
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