Chapter: 164

Her legs were black tentacles, some human flesh still loosely clung to them. The hood she wore had fallen off since he bumped into her, revealing a bald head with two red lines going over it, similar to the leeches.

“I told you, you wouldn’t escape.” she said in an emotionless, empty voice.

Since Jay was so distracted, another leech behind Jay had enough time to attack now, biting him on his tricep – though he didn’t notice due to the anaesthetic properties of the leech saliva.

Two leeches clung to Jay from behind as he glared at the girl, holding his sword and shield ready.

The little girl had milky white eyes and no pupils, only a red ring which travelled around where the pupil used to be. Both eyes were now widened as they stared directly at Jay, her mouth had no lips and was beginning to drool.

Jay had a sense of uneasiness as he was about to strike her, but since she clearly wasn’t human anymore, he went ahead and slashed his sword right across her face, causing a deep tear across the skin.

Her head flicked to the side from the force of his strike, but when she turned back, a black gash appeared where the sword had cut, some red blood trickling out.

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Her eyebrows had an angry expression while her mouth-hole curved into a sort of smile – at least from what Jay could tell.

“Shiiit…” said Jay, realising he had only made her angrier.

Before Jay’s eyes, her bottom jaw slowly split down the middle before opening sideways, strings of slime between the jaw bones as her mouth widened.

The whole mouth split apart. Opening sideways, it revealed sharp, spiny teeth which covered her mouth and throat. Some of these teeth had even started to form on the cheeks.

Apparently she no longer had any human teeth or even a tongue.

She roared at Jay, spittle flying as her jaw stretched wider than her ears, before biting down on him. The creature’s face wrapped right around his neck as its teeth sunk into his flesh.

“Whah the fuh…” Jay was startled by her transformation and didn’t react in time. Bitten, his jaw went numb as his mouth opened wide.

“Hey, this feels kinda good…” he thought as his head leaned back while his eyes rolled back into his head.

[Paralysed – 3 seconds]

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The three seconds that passed felt like an eternity to Jay as fear began to set in after the paralysis notification. The numbness felt fine for a moment but then he couldn’t move, it was like sleep paralysis as he stood there behind drained. The girls throat was making peristaltic movements as it drained his blood away – along with his HP.

Finally, a skeleton arrived to help Jay – it was Blue, the skeleton that had been with Jay from the start.

Without remorse, Blue plunged its sword into the girl, stabbing through her ribs, her neck and her shoulder blades, rending flesh and bone as it slashed away – though it did less than one damage with each attack.

Jay was still being drained by the leeches behind him too, though he hadn’t noticed them yet.

The other skeletons and Anya had killed two more leeches; only six remained alive, including the two attached to Jay.

Blue’s savage attacks helped Jay to mentally keep his head in the fight.

After the paralysis ended, Jay immediately slashed at the girl’s face again as he tried to jump away – yet the leech on his arm stopped him from moving any further.