Chapter: 225

The carved picture was massive, the light from Jay’s orb only reached across half of the image, making him have to look at one half before the other.

The image showed a tremendous sprawling city with beautiful buildings, streets and gardens. Hundreds of thousands of people were in its streets, vines and plants hung from balconies and various streams, gardens and fountains dotted the vibrant city.

It was easy to tell that this city was luxurious, it was like a paradise, a utopia; at the side of the city was a massive purple-blue orb of dark clouds and purple light, it was much larger than the city itself and its effects had only just touched on a small part of the city boundary.

Standing closer, Jay could see tiny lightning bolts in the clouds of the orb. The buildings near it were all crumbled, and Jay could tell that the artist tried to depict parts of the stone floating into and around the purple orb. This would have causing debris to destroy buildings, which would create more debris to feed into the storm of magic.

Jay noticed that the plants, trees and vines near it had all withered, and bodies littered the streets near it – though they didn’t die to rampant debris hitting them, their cause of death was something else.

“Is it some sort of life-draining spell?” Jay thought as he looked across the city once more. Now that he noticed it, it was like the area near the purple storm orb was like a zone of grey; the rest of the city was relatively green and colourful with all sorts of flowers.

“Hmm… there’s no pyramids in the picture… but it wouldn’t make sense to have a picture of another city. Perhaps the pyramids were built after whatever this was?” Jay reasoned, examining the picture. The six black pyramids were huge, they definitely would have been a main feature of the city.

“Oh well, I guess I won’t know more until I explore more of this dungeon” Jay thought, deciding what to do next.

“Hmm… left or right..” Jay took a moment to think about any clues he may have seen, wondering if he should go left or right.

“Eh, I’ll just go left,” he shrugged.

Going left, Jay fought two more statues which springed forward from the wall – though they were easily destroyed by the four skeletons, with Jay at the side of the fight periodically landing an easy hit.

Soon enough, he came to a halt. Before him were two more statues – though these ones weren’t hiding in the walls, but standing side by side in front of a series of pillars.

“Oh? What are you guys protecting?” a mischievous smile appeared on Jay’s face as he leisurely walked behind his four skeletons.


The walls broke away while the pillars continued forward into the room. It was probably a massive room as Jay could no longer see the walls or even hear echoes from them. The only guide now was this series of pillars on each side of him.

Both of these statues in front of the pillars had black helmets, and Jay realised he would have to either have a drawn out battle with his four skeletons, or risk himself while knocking off their helmets to have a shorter battle.

“Hmm…” Jay analysed them. “Both level four. Eh, the skeletons can handle it.” He decided to relax for a bit as the skeletons fought in his place.

Jay leisurely sent the skeletons forward. While two skeletons had to back up while fighting a level four statue previously, they now had Blue on their side – the level three skeleton.

Blue was not just bigger than the other skeletons, its bones and ligaments thicker, but it seemed more intelligent too – so much so that he noticed Anya giving Blue some suspicious looks.

Blue seemed to have more combat awareness than his other skeletons. This would slowly but surely tip the fight in favour of the skeletons.

Jay of course wasn’t completely counting on them “If they back up enough to come near me, I’ll just step in and help them.” thought Jay as he took out his swag and sat on it.

It was a little too low to the ground to sit on comfortably, so Jay looked through his inventory for various things to put his swag over, in order to make a temporary seat.

“Hmm, silt wolf spines? Those may puncture my swag… old buckler… too flat.. Soulstones, old book… oh, that weird stone.. I forgot about that.”

Jay pulled out a strange purple stone he found inside a siltwolf.

Holding it in his hands, he was a little surprised “…I thought it was smaller last time?”.

It still had a brilliant polish, reflecting Jay’s curious gaze back at him in the darkness.