Chapter: 168

“Overnight I changed… my feet grew tentacles, I didn’t…” She sobbed, not being able to continue “I couldn’t do anything”

“My own father chased me off into the valley.” tears streamed from her eyes.

Jay’s skeletons stopped attacking, and for a moment, there was peace.

Anya halted her attack for a moment too, as Jay replied to the girl.

“I’m sorry… believe me, I know what that’s like – at least some of it.” He had a furrowed brow.

Jay was almost going to let her live since her story resonated with him. She was another unfortunate person with a monster class, much like himself – only her class caused physical changes too.

She couldn’t make it to a mana conduit since they lived so far out in the country, perhaps the others even told her that not getting a class would be fine.

At first, he wasn’t sure if he should let her live or slay her now…

“Perhaps I would let her live… a monster class doesn’t make you a monster… It’s your actions that decide that…” he reasoned to himself.

But Jay remembered the hamlet. Everything covered in slime after the leeches digested everyone in their path, her first victims being children.

She had no mercy as she swept through the village with a horde of leeches, swallowing children and draining people.

Jay made up his mind, having a stern expression as he replied to her, passing his judgement.

“You massacred the hamlet, killing everyone. We simply can’t let you live. Your actions have proven you to be a monster, now die as one.”

Jay was not entertaining her fake tears, after all, he was just inside her stomach getting digested.

Anya put a hand on Jay to stop him, but Jay still gripped his sword tightly as he turned to her, only saying two words in an angry voice.

“RUN ROSA, LIES”

Anya snapped out of it, remembering the note they read: RUN ROSA.

It wasn’t a note to warn someone called Rosa, it was a note to warn them about Rosa, the leech queen.

They both started stabbing the leech again, Rosa wailed in anger and pain.

A sly grin suddenly appeared on the leeches face even though her eyes were missing, some white spots appeared around her head, the queen’s voice changed from a girl’s voice into a deeper combination of voices as it sounded once more.

“You will SUFFER!”

“She’s changing again Jay!”

“Just keep stabbing! She’s nearly dead!”

Suddenly, the leech queen split apart into five more leeches. Four of them attacked while one was trying to get away. Jay could sense some sort of mana-connection between the leeches as he walked between them.

The four leeches were enough to stop them from chasing the escaping one, but the skeletons could easily handle the situation by themselves – the leech queen probably lost her normal vision some time ago since she didn’t understand the invisible force killing them wasn’t magic spells, but was actually the skeletons. They gave off no thermal signature, so in the dark environment, they may as well have been invisible.