Chapter: 256

Stephen had no breath left in his lungs to scream – and after taking one breath he began to cry.

After second, the tendon healed back up, draining Stephens health.

“Hmm… how will I stop it from healing…” Jay wondered.

He wanted to permanently slightly cripple Stephen by causing permanent damage to his achilles tendon – resulting in a permanent limp. A permanent reminder which would stop him from developing such hubris.

Furthermore, this would stop him from being able to run away if he tried to do the same thing to others in the future. Of course, if he tried attacking Jay again, he can say goodbye to his other tendon too.

This was when Jay had an idea for an experiment.

“I wonder…”

Jay turned to Stephen, pulling his hand back and then punching, he bashed Stephen right in the cheek, causing his head to bounce off the rock; he was knocked out in a single punch.

The water turret was still firing, and had taken 15 of Jay’s health so far, so it was slowly taking it’s toll.

Jay hopped down from the boulder and destroyed it with his shield before returning to Stephen again.

Next, Jay repeated the same process to sever his tendon, yet this time, Jay tried something risky – he put his hand across and would, and before the tendon could heal, he channelled some of his necrotic essence into the wound.

Jay closed his eyes and felt his energy going into the flesh.

It was much more complicated as he was used to dealing with bone – but the difference this time is that he wasn’t trying to make something useful from it, but to disable it.

Soon he honed in and found the snapped ends of the tendon.

“Okay.. here it goes.”

Jay focused on them and channelled his necrotic gas to solidify around the ends of each tendon – creating a sort of cartilage-cap on each end.

“If this works, they will act like a barrier to stop the tendons from reconnecting.” he smiled, watching the wound close up once more.

Jay checked Stephen’s health after the instantaneous surgery.

[64%]

“Good.. it’s not dropping. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see what he’s like after he wakes up.”

Jay decided to walk further down the path until he could barely see Stephen lying unconscious on the rock. He didn’t want to be around when he woke up.

Jay continued to enjoy the warm sun and the gentle forest breeze. Other than the ambush today, it was quite peaceful and he was still somewhat enjoying his day – but now, Jay was more interested in his instantaneous experiment.

Soon, Stephen stirred on the rock, lifting his head up before he sat up.

“Arrh!”

He let out a little squeal as he tried to stand up, putting some pressure on his foot. Clearly, Jay’s surgery worked.