Chapter: 160

“Shit…” Jay pulled out five more unstable teeth, beginning to charge them all.

Anya desperately loaded and fired more bolts at anything she could. The skeletons continued to hack, stab and slash away at leeches.

The leeches that surrounded them were different – they had red stripes on their bodies, and they didn’t recklessly charge at Jay and Anya; instead, they patiently moved forward together and seemed to be quite organised.

There were approximately 35 red-lined leech imps, while about 10 more normal ones were pushing through the encirclement to try and attack Jay and Anya.

The leech imps that formed the circle were letting the normal ones past. They had a single red stripe travelling down their bodies, starting at the mouth.

“Stay in the middle.” Jay gestured, as Anya stepped between the group of skeletons and Jay. She continued to fire her crossbow from cover – though it could hardly be called cover, standing between a single human and four skeletons.

Many of the normal leech imps were dead now, killed by the skeletons. The skeletons wasted no time and quickly moved on to slashing at the leech imps with the stripes.

The five teeth Jay was charging had taken a while since there were so many of them, but Jay was getting close to firing them off into the crowd of leeches.

In the time it took Jay to charge the teeth, Blue had already killed one of the red-lined leech imps.

After the first one died, the red-lined leeches suddenly all stopped moving forward, it was as if they were waiting for something.

The last few normal leech imps that had pushed through the red ones and had been dashed to pieces by now.

Only the red ones were left, still forming a circle around them – new target of Jay’s minions.

Jay took a moment to analyse one of the red-line leeches.

It was level two, nearly the exact same as the other ones except for having more health as well as an addition to its name.

<[Leech Imp Level 2 (Royal)]>

“What makes it royal..? Is it because it’s level two?” Jay was curious as he guarded Anya. He was wondering about this, but his thoughts were cut off when he heard something strange.

A voice from the darkness came from outside the circle of leeches.


“Please… stop hurting them…” A girl’s soft voice cried out.

Jay paused, surprised from hearing a young woman’s voice in here, a dark ravine filled with deadly leeches of all places.

“Surely everyone was dead by now…” he questioned Anya to make sure he wasn’t crazy.

“Did you hear that? The voice?” he asked Anya as he looked around for the source of the voice.

Since the red-lined leeches weren’t attacking or closing in anymore, he had his skeletons temporarily stop attacking because of what the voice said – they seemed to freeze like statues in mid-attack, still ready to continue the slaughter after the slightest signal from Jay.

“Do you see anyone?” he asked.

“No, I don’t see anything… Shouldn’t everyone be dead by now?”

Suddenly, the red-lined leeches circle formation moved and opened on one side.