Chapter: 261

For a moment, he channelled his necrotic energy, attempting to have it enter the crystal – but nothing happened. It was like it was being repelled somehow.

“Yep, I’m stumped… I guess you can’t always win huh…” he pursed his lips.

“I remember Anya saying you could just hold it to use it as a spell channel or something… But maybe I’m doing it wrong. Perhaps there’s a technique.”

Jay gave up for now, storing the crystal away.

After casting the spells and getting nowhere, he decided to slowly walk towards where he remembered Stench-rat Molodus was.

It was better to fight rauther than waiting around doing nothing anyway.

“I might as well make use of my time” shrugged Jay.


Lamp and Red finally brought back some soap rat teeth.

They had taken much longer than the other skeletons, so Jay was slightly annoyed.

“About time..” Jay said, but then saw blood dripping from their skulls – he then realised what they were doing.

“Eugh!” his face grimaced.

As they approached, Jay noticed bits of flesh and gore covering their jaw bones; tendons, viscera and fur stuck into their wolf-skull’s teeth.

The skeletons were normally imposing by themselves, but this made them seem almost like undead cannibals, like they mindlessly ate flesh even though they had no stomachs; a truly horrific sight.

The skeletons were using their bone eater skill to grow themselves – but Jay completely forgot that they would have to chew through flesh first to get to the bones.

“I forgot, you would have to get the bones yourselves…”

Normally, Jay’s ring would tenderly extract bones from a corpse.

“I’m glad I wasn’t there to see it at least… eugh”

The skeletons dropped two more soap rat teeth before him and quickly resumed hunting, and Jay immediately put them in his inventory; He didn’t mind touching them too much as nothing in the swamp was clean anyway.

More experience points rolled in while Jay walked towards the large burrow, and this was when he heard Stench-rat Molodus.

*HISSSS~*

He heard a deep, threatening hissing noise as he approached and poked his head through the reeds and peered into the clearing.

Molodus was already fighting one of Jay’s skeletons, though it wasn’t alone.

A smaller soap rat fought alongside Molodus, and since it was 2 versus 1, it looked like the skeleton, Sweeper, was almost losing and could use some help.

“Oh, one of you is already here… Well, I want some practice.”

Jay had Sweeper back off from Molodus, and focus on fighting the smaller soap rat, while he went up and slashed at Molodus, grabbing its attention.