Chapter: 100

Jay felt a little sad as he detached himself emotionally, but he reasoned that they had only met a few times briefly and they probably wouldn’t even remember him anyway.

With a sigh, Jay grabbed his dagger and stood up while getting his skeletons into formation again – two in the front, another carrying a lamp at Jay’s side.

Walking through the winding crevasse, more of the blueish crystals periodically dotted the walls and ground. Dimly glowing back when the lamp went past, they were creating a faint glowing trail behind him.

Suddenly the two skeletons at the front pounced into the darkness ahead. Jay stopped, raising his buckler and then slowly moved forward.

He heard a whelp from the darkness.

“Another silt-wolf”.

Just as the skeleton’s fighting came into view, a glow came from Jay’s right side. Feeling the ambient mana being sucked into the glowing light, goose bumps went up Jay’s back as he sensed danger.

Stepping behind the skeleton at his side, Jay snatched the lamp and raised his buckler in the direction of the light.

Peering over his buckler, Jay looked at the glowing light as three folds of flesh opened up to reveal the bright light, an undulating orb gathering mana. Suddenly, the ball of light began to wildly contract, the light getting brighter – then suddenly it exploded. A pulse wave was released, a golden sphere of light expanded, washing over the minions and seemingly going through their bodies before hitting Jay.

[-10]

[Debuff resisted][Debuff Resisted]

The pulse had no physical effect on anything as it passed right through his buckler, but mentally Jay felt like his brain was punched. His hearing was ringing, the mental shock was so great that he passed out for half a second and woke up while hitting the ground.

The skeleton by his side had already rushed over to stab at whatever the light was.

Jay’s vision was blurry as he looked up, trying to make sense of his situation while his brain felt scrambled – two minions were fighting a silt wolf, while another was frantically stabbing at something in the dark – whatever emitted the mental attack.

Not willing to take any risks, Jay activated his bone ring to give him more defence as he retreated back to the cave entrance. If a siltwolf wanted to grab him now, it would have to make it through the floating bones, exploding unstable teeth and a freshly re-summoned level 2 minion.

It didn’t take much time for the siltwolf to die; the new ossein swords proving again to be far deadlier, their wide blades causing so much damage that they almost disabled parts of the wolf’s body during the fight due to the massive holes and gashes.

[200 Exp]

Without a sound it died, falling to the ground as the glow from the unknown creature was beginning to start again.

The two feeble creatures rushed over to stab at it – whatever it was. Stabbing and slashing noises sounded while Jay waited patiently, looking at the intensity of the glow as he stood near the entrance, ready to take cover behind layers of stone in case another mana pulse was about to go off.

The light grew bright once more, yet this time something different happened. The pulse was physical. An orb of red expanded, a thicker wave travelled a shorter distance compared to the golden one. The cave walls seemed to tremble as the minions were sent flying into them.

This pulse didn’t travel through objects so it didn’t injure Jay who was hiding, but he had other concerns as he looked up.

He could only hold his breath while looking up into the darkness above, as if looking up would stop a rock from killing him as he held his buckler above his head.

The minions had dropped their weapons from the force of the physical pulse, some of which were now lodged into the walls nearby.

The minions fell off the wall and stood up, returning to the formation Jay had them in previously. Three swords were missing. Jay sent out his creatures, each with one sword to finish off the monster – yet they didn’t bother to move. Apparently the creature was either dead or escaped – though Jay couldn’t tell in the darkness.

“Did it suicide?” he wondered, “I didn’t get any exp…” raising a curious eyebrow.