Chapter: 214

“Oh?” he raised a brow, “I guess another page of the book is ready…” he was almost within aggression distance of the stone statues.

“I’ll have to read it after this dungeon; It’s a little hard to focus in here.” he thought, continuing down towards the soldiers, readying his hammer..

Jay began the fight, using the same strategies he did previously – fighting one statue at a time while he kept the second statue behind the first one.

The fight seemed much easier this time, and their moves seemed much more obvious to Jay; they even appeared more slow.

“How did I even get hit before? Yikes…” he looked at the large stone sword flying towards him before dodging it.

“Perhaps this is the difference between having full and empty mana.” he thought as he easily predicted their slashes and weaved between them.

“It’s like my mind is faster with full mana…. Or maybe it was just slow before… huh, maybe my body is slower with low energy and my mind is slower with low mana?”

Previously, they seemed like veteran warriors, each of their strikes making menacingly dangerous noises as their weapons coursed through the wind – yet now, the sweeping sounds coming from their weapons was more like an early warning sign, and now it was like he was fighting with a couple of lazy couch potatoes; people who thought that simply having a big weapon would make them strong.

“Well, having a big weapon just means you have a small… mana pool.” he mischievously smiled to himself.

Jay easily ducked in and out, smashing his hammer on their heads and dodging the large stone swords. To the stone statues, it would have been like fighting a completely different person.

As Jay fought, he didn’t realise, but a smile was beginning to form on his face.

“This is…. Pretty fun?” Jay chuckled, landing another hit and taking the first statue down.

“It feels like there’s a sort of flow to the fighting.”

After he found out about his necromancer class, he seemingly lost his sense of adventure and enjoyment, turning his last few days into a tense struggle to survive, but now he had some breathing room, and was beginning to feel more enthusiastic and energised.

Before he knew it, the two stone soldiers were both in rubble on the ground.

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“I guess time flies when you’re having fun.”

Jay looted them, but was surprised to find that they didn’t drop any soulstones.

“Hmm… at least I got another one of those helvetian rings.” He stored it in his inventory to sell later at the market.

Jay dashed off to fight the next two statues with a spring in his step. While the dungeon was dark and dreary, his mood was cheery, and it was like he had rediscovered his joy again – the adventurous feeling he had when he first woke up on his day of awakening.

“Next.” he said, beginning to jog to the next set of stone statues.

“Last time, I fought two sets of swordsmen and then two spearmen statues. My health still hasn’t recovered… but I don’t plan to get hit again.”

Checking his HP, it was 77/82. This was still high enough for Jay, so he wasn’t worried.

The next two statues were on the next street ahead, and he was still outside of their aggression range – they hadn’t noticed him yet, so he made a plan.

“I’m just going to run up, jump, and smash it’s head in before it fully wakes up.”