Chapter: 199
“Oops…”
Holding the opened pendant, he brought it closer to inspect it.
It was hollow inside, whatever it was holding had decomposed a long time ago.
“Hmm, probably a note or something” he thought “Wish Kel was here, we could probably have read it.”
Pocketing the amulet, he moved out of the ruins, making his way towards the first smallest pyramid.
Two stone statues were ahead, one on each side of the street facing each other. Similar to the other soldiers, they each had large shields and swords.
Jay wanted to put his new battle tactics to the test: kiting around one and keeping the second soldier behind the other so that he would only have to fight one at a time.
“The street seems a little narrow, but I’ll give it a try anyway.” Jay thought.
As he approached, one of the statues slowly turned its stone head towards Jay, sensing his presence as the rest of its body began to wake up.
The second stone soldier slowly began to move too, taking a step forward onto the street with a dull thud.
“Ah, here we go again” Jay smiled, brandishing his new hammer with threatening eyes.
He was confident despite being stabbed through the chest because he knew their attack patterns – or at the very least he could tell what they were going to do based on their movement. So far they only thrust and slashed with their massive swords, so it wasn’t too difficult.
The stone soldiers were strong and full of physical force, but slow and far too obvious. Time had not been kind to them, while being made of stone would make anyone’s movements slower.
The first one slashed its sword, and Jay ducked underneath before jumping to the side – just like last time, a sword thrust from the second statue narrowly missed him.
Jay made a smile as if he was a hunter closing in on his prey. They were harmless if they couldn’t hit him.
“Time to try my new tactic.” jumping to the side until the second soldier was behind the first, he was ready.
The two skeletons he had at the side joined the fight, smashing their hammers against the legs and heels of the massive stone warriors, chips of stone flying off at high speed as the skeletons pummelled their ankles with all their might.
Jay ducked another sword swing, crouching down low. From his crouched position, he jumped up high and brought the hammer down squarely on the stone T-visor helmet. Both of the cheek plates cracked off and fell to the side, revealing a life-like face beneath the armour.
[6]
“Oh?”
Jay almost felt like pausing his assault, a little taken back by how lifelike the stone face looked; not noticing it previously as he just wanted the fight to be over. The face even had subtle blemishes and pores on the skin.
“It’s fine craftsmanship…” he admired the details put into the masonry of their stone faces “it’s too bad.” he thought as he smashed the hammer right into its jaw, chipping off more stone.
[6]
“Damn, no stun.” he jumped back – but not fast enough. Jay was relying on a stun after smashing it’s head, so now he didn’t have enough time to dodge.
Bracing himself, he held his shield high as the sweeping blade came in.