Chapter: 223

Another dagger thrust came at him from the side, threatening to slash across his face, but he ducked below as it went past. Normally Jay will have backstepped, but he was at risk of getting too far away from the luminous orb.

If Jay fought in the darkness, he would have no choice but to run back to the entrance where he could see again; the entrance wasn’t too far away, but the clouds were dark and thick, hardly any light got past them, less still got past the massive stone slab roof that jutted out of the entrance.

Jay raised his shield as the next one came right after, grazing across the shield as he deflected it.

“Double strike” Jay thought as he started counting to ten seconds again, he predicted it perfectly this time, not needing to disengage and wait a few seconds like he did previously.

Taking the opportunity after it’s double strike ability, he swung at the soldiers jaw, an uppercut strike with the hammer was easily enough to send its stone helmet flying off into the darkness.

[6]

“I guess my strategy has found itself this time” he thought as he was starting to damage it.

Dodging another dagger thrust and taking a hit to his shield, he swung his hammer sideways, finally landing a hit on its jaw.

[12][Critical Hit]

Jay smirked “Half way.”

The fight continued for a while, but since Jay learnt how to deal with the statue, the outcome was inevitable. The statue couldn’t do anything after Jay found an opening, but it still fought to the bitter end.

The statue has waited here for aeons and had all the time in the world, now all it could do was simply bide its time as it waited for death.

*Crack!*

With a final hit from Jay’s hammer, the statue’s head shattered. It’s stone daggers fell from its hands and crumbled on the ground just before the rest of its body did too.

[100 Exp]

Jay didn’t really need to catch his breath after the fight, and he took no damage, making it quite easy; he had only used a small amount of his large stamina pool too.

“They’re not so hard. Perhaps if it had more intelligence it could have tried to bait me into attacking and maybe wait for an opportune time to use double-strike – rather than using it as soon as it comes off cooldown. Oh well.” Jay smugly smiled as he walked over it’s corpse, collecting the loot – another empty soul stone and a ring. He threw them into his inventory before going to help the other fight.

“…where are they?” Jay couldn’t see his skeletons, grabbing the luminous orb off the ground, he began to slowly jog towards them.

“Have they just been back-stepping all this time?” Jay chuckled to himself “The statue’s aren’t that hard to fight… perhaps they’re just being extra cautious since I didn’t want them taking damage.”


Jay could hear the rattling of bones and the grinding of stone, the sounds slowly getting louder as he ran.

“Hmm, yep, they must have been backing up so they wouldn’t get hit”

“I don’t want to have to heal their damage, I should speed up.” Getting closer, Jay ran a little faster.

“Oo~!” Jay came to a halt as he saw the back of the stone statue appear in the darkness, but he was running too fast and had too much momentum to stop in time.

“Ah shi-” *thud*