Chapter: 332
“..And I do have another undead companion now.” Jay smiled to himself as he touched the amulet on his chest.
“It also seems like most of the adventurers have a party size of at most 5 too, so I probably have a good amount of skeletons for now.” he thought, watching the adventurers going in and out of the association; he still didn’t realise that the unspoken limit of 5 was because of him.
Going solo into dungeons and being high level changed the mindset of the other adventurers. Clearly he was doing something right, right?
With a nod, he wasted no more time, putting another skill point into undead mastery..
[Undead Mastery Level 3] (Passive)
[Your undead can reach a max level of (4). Level up is permanent]
[Current levels: 3]
“Now all I have to do is wait,” Jay smiled gleefully. “I wonder if they will need more food.”
Next, Jay was going to decide if he should head home or travel back to the mist keep dungeon, however as he looked up there was a young girl standing in front of him.
“Naria?” he smiled.
She didn’t say anything but smiled back slightly, staring into his eyes, full of wonderment.
Jay wasn’t experienced with kids so he couldn’t think of what to say, especially since she wasn’t saying anything either.
“You look healthy.” he patted her head. “I hope you’re taking good care of Margaret and the other adventurers.” he smiled, and soon received a toothy grin back.
Jay was glad she was smiling now at least. When she first saw Jay, he seemed like a monster, and to Jay, she seemed helpless as she shivered in the back of that cupboard; her only defence was clinging more lightly to her water bottle.
“Alright. I have monsters to slay and people to save, so I need you to stay here and protect the association.” he smiled warmly at her as he crouched down.
Naria made a serious face and nodded as she held her tiny fist up, accepting her role as the protector of the guild.
“Good girl.” Jay smiled, almost chuckling at her antics. He gave her one more head pat before leaving.
He felt uncomfortable around children as he didn’t know what to say, so he made himself scarce.
As a lone butcher, he was all business. Usually he only talked to others about what he practically did, which would probably not be very relevant to a young child.
“Now, home or dungeon.” Jay considered his next steps for a moment.
He would still be levelling if he went home, but he wanted to explore more of the dungeon and reach the next pyramid – perhaps even clear it.
Unfortunately, his new creature’s necrotic bolts would be useless against the statues, but this only spurred another idea of Jay’s.
He would not let the bone helminth be idle – it would be a waste after all.
After some thought, Jay decided to head to the Wolf’s Quarry dungeon.
While it was a level 5 dungeon, it would of course be much harder to navigate and have a higher max level of monsters in it – however, Jay had only just played around on the tip of the iceberg of this dungeon and had only faced monsters around level 5.