Chapter: 147

Jay waited in the bedroom, shutting the door to the hallway so he was alone and sitting on the bed. It was quiet for a moment until he heard Anya’s footsteps above.

Taking the opportunity, he lied on the bed which caused him to involuntarily smile.

“Ahh… It feels softer than it should. Probably because of the journey we just went on.”

He felt like he could almost fall asleep – though he stopped himself as he felt his eyes start to close.

With a sigh, he ate some bondtussle root hoping it would give him some extra energy.

[Mana Regeneration buff 1%]

– lasts for 1 hour(s).

“Probably a bad idea letting my guard down in the ruins of a slimy house.” he sat up on the bed, taking a deep breath as he tried to resist the temptation of a comfortable bed.

Anya followed the trail of blood on the roof, it led her to the spine of the house. It went along the spine until it abruptly turned and created a trail going down off the side.

“It’s not hard to guess what happened here” she thought as she went back to inform Jay, hopping in through the window as quickly as she hopped out of it. She stood on the bed next to Jay.

It was too quiet, Jay thought he was beginning to hear creaks coming from other parts of the house, so he was glad she was back.

They were both a little tense since this was the first proper monster hunt they had outside of a dungeon. Anya had accompanied guards on their monster hunts, but never played a role in them, or was in any danger. At the moment Anya didn’t have any guards, and Jay didn’t have any skeletons to help them, which only added to the tense atmosphere of the destroyed, silent hamlet.

For some strange reason, Anya felt more relaxed around Jay’s skeletons. While they were horrendous abominable monsters, they were on the same side and protected her.

“We need to check behind the house.” Anya lightly stepped off the bed.

With a nod, Jay pulled his weapons out again, opening the door and leading her back outside.

The duo made their way to the back of the house, a dirt path leading them between the houses.

In the backyard was a small fence circling a vegetable garden. The fence was partly broken and pushed over along with some trampled crops. The plants were ruined, not only due to being trampled but also because they were covered with a coating of slime.

One piece of the fence was completely covered with a blood stain, as if it had been painted red – though no blood trails were leading away from it.

“Strange…” Anya thought as she looked up at the roof, plotting the trajectory of a falling person. “Someone would surely have been heavily injured after falling from that height… but impaling on this spike would definitely kill them…”

After some scrutiny, she turned to Jay.

“I think someone was chased onto the roof, slipped, fell, and was then impaled here.” she pointed to the wooden spike.

“Mm… but no corpse…” Jay nodded, crouching down as he examined the vegetable patch. “Only human footprints? And they’re all travelling back towards the village.” he thought to himself.

Jay had a strange feeling as raised his shield as he turned to the woods, scanning it with his eyes and with his shield’s eyes – though neither detected anything.

“Hmm…” he glared into the woods.

“What is it? Do you see anything?” Anya raised her crossbow and crouched, ready to fire into the woods.