Chapter: 171

“…eminence?” Jay raised a brow.

“Oh… It’s just part of my class. Never mind…”

“Hmm, rightio. Good thinking anyway, It’ll help in the far future too.” he shrugged, standing up “Ready to head back?”

“Yep,” Anya nodded, putting her crossbow away and her hands in her pockets. “Though we will probably need to rest before we climb up those boulders, my prostrate skill really takes it outta me.”

“Oh, sure. I’m going to leave two skeletons here to finish off any more leeches in the cave. They have that ‘kin’ skill that lets them create more of themselves. I don’t want an army of leeches marching on Losla in a few years just because one of those things escaped.”

“Oh I didn’t notice that, good thinking. I was treating this like a dungeon, thinking we finished it since we defeated the ‘boss’ monster” Anya said with a nod.

“Yeah, this is our first non-dungeon quest anyway. I think we did quite well.”

“Agreed.” she smiled.

Jay decided he would leave Red and Lamp. Both of them were level two, so they could maintain their weapons with essence, and Jay also wanted to keep Blue with him since it was level three.

Jay thought about what would happen if he needed them on the way back to Losla or at Losla. At first, he was just going to have them run back when he needed them, but even with their speed, it would take at least a whole day, so he decided to de-summon them, trying something else.

First he grabbed their three ossein swords and the old shield they were carrying, adding them to his inventory.

Jay gathered their precious silt-wolf bones and wolf skulls, adding them back into his necrotic ring. Their blue semi-solid bones were the most precious part.

After pulling out a bunch of the normal, weaker soap rat bones and two soap rat skulls, he shifted his ring back into the normal form. This was so that his ‘raise’ spell didn’t pull out the higher quality silt-wolf bones during the re-summoning.

Since he cut off the supply of the better bones by shifting his ring back to finger-form, the spell would have to use the low quality ones that he pulled out, now piled on the ground before him.

Red and Lamp were recreated before him, yet sadly were indistinguishable from each other.

“Hmm…” Jay had an idea, wanting to test something as he had a theory.

He created four bone daggers out of some normal bone before speaking to his skeletons.

Holding two daggers in one hand, “Lamp, here you go.”

To Jay’s surprise, one of the skeletons stepped forward.

“So you do know your own names! Ha!” Jay was excited about this.

The young skeleton didn’t have a name, so today was it’s initiation into the pack.

He quickly turned to the level one skeleton – the one he hadn’t named yet, while making sure Anya was looking – and of course she was, it’s not every day you get to see a necromancer summon two skeletons.

Jay tried his best not to smile as he began the sacred ceremony. Of course, if Anya wasn’t around he wouldn’t bother.

Jay made the small stand before him with it’s soap-rat head facing downwards, submissive to it’s master; It was a strange sight seeing a bloodthirsty skeleton act like this, and Anya didn’t look away for one second.

“I, your eternal master” Jay made some of his green gas flow from his palm as he slowly tapped the flat side of a bone dagger on the skeletons shoulder,