Chapter: 217

The skeletons were pretty good at working together as a duo. One would attack while the other would defend.

The statue thrusted at Lamp, while Red would strike the statue. After doing some damage Red would become the target, so Lamp would start to strike the statue instead.

“They make a good team.” thought Jay as he watched. “They probably can’t solo a statue yet, but they’re good enough to do it together at least.”

Before long the second statue was dead – and without any help from Jay.

[40 Exp]

“Nicely done” he smiled, seeing the experience point notification.

“Huh, how come I didn’t notice that before… The spear statues give more exp points. That’s strange. They’re still level 3 though, so it doesn’t really make sense…” Jay looted the soldiers, getting two more rings, but was still puzzled as he pressed onwards, moving deeper into the city as he made his way closer to the first black pyramid.

“Maybe I got more exp because they’re harder to kill?” Jay wasn’t sure, as he walked, he had made up different theories, but so far, none of them made much sense.

Moving further into the city, the rubble piles were larger, and more of it crossed the obsidian-paved roads as he walked.

“There must have been larger buildings near the pyramid” he guessed.

As he made his way through the rubble, he finally saw the entrance clearly.

The entrance was huge and rectangular, two giants could have easily walked through side-by-side.

A large slab made up the roof of the entrance, held up by two massive black statues on either side; they had the same armour as the stone soldiers but were made from obsidian, both looking majestic as they held up the massive slab which was jutting out from the pyramid structure, forming an extended roof of sorts.

Further outside, two huge obsidian pillars stood in front of the pyramid, each as wide as Jay’s house and taller than the 3-story Snakeraven inn. The pyramids and these columns were the only things so far that weren’t in ruins.

Approaching the pillars, Jay saw three stone soldiers coming into view, standing in between them; at first the pillars looked like the size of a normal soldier, while the soldiers near them looked like ants – but Jay was just far away.

“What is this, a dungeon for ants?” he thought as he approached.

In between the two swordsmen was a spear-wielding soldier; each of the three of them carried a shield in their off-hand.

Jay squinted at the spear soldier, trying to see more clearly “…Is that a black helmet?” he paused for a moment.

“That may complicate things, hopefully I can just knock it off.”

Jay decided to make a strategy since there were three soldiers this time. After seeing how well his minions could fight, he decided to have each of them fight a statue – well, not fight, but distract.

There were three in Jay’s party and three enemies.

“I’ll fight the first swordsman and slay it, then I’ll come over to fight spearmen. The skeleton fighting the spearmen can go help fight the second swordsman.” he nodded.

“At this point in the fight, two skeletons will be fighting one swordsman, and I’ll be fighting the spearman.” Jay nodded to himself affirming his plan, “Not much else to worry about after that.” he shrugged, casually walking forward as he made his skeletons form a line next to him.

With his plan sorted, there was nothing more left to say. Jay marched forward with his minions as the stone soldiers began to ‘wake up’, breaking out of their guard stances and readying for battle.

Each of the soldiers picked a target, and thankfully, one of the swordsmen statues picked Jay.