Chapter: 338

Jay commanded his skeletons to come back to him, but he kept Sweeper out there, collecting the soulstones of the statues the skeletons slayed while he was in lessons with Viladore.

Thankfully, the skeletons had cleared most of the statues this way so there was not much of a hindrance to their journey – apart from the odd piece of rubble on the ruined city roads.

The skeletons sprinted back as a group, and Anya hadn’t seen them for a while so she stopped for a moment to watch them.

As the skeletons had returned back, they began walking ahead of Jay and Anya, functioning as the vanguard of the party.

“Wow… they’re all as big as Blue now?” Anya commented as the three skeletons returned.

“Yeah, and they’re only level three…” Jay smiled, knowing that soon enough they will be level four and probably look even more threatening.

Anya remembered the power that Blue exhibited by itself during the leech incident. She shook her head, speechless. Jay’s personal bodyguards were simply too strong.

As they walked, the silence started to feel awkward so Jay made some more conversation.

“By the way, you can see my level in the party right?”

“Yes, level 9 necromancer..?”.

“Ok. Just checking.” Jay tried to sound casual, stopping himself from smiling as he was level 10.

“The disguise stone even works in parties…” he shook his head in disbelief “…and Sedulus said there were no treasures here.” he thought as he walked along silently, internally though he was cheering.

Jay began to notice a difference between himself and Anya as they walked. He travelled much more casually than Anya, and much more loudly too. Sometimes he even got bored and kicked a rock or two.

Anya however was constantly scanning the environment, she was quite tense by comparison. Her eyes darted left and right, while each of her steps were silent, not making a sound.

Jay appreciated her professional attitude, but felt like she was being way too serious. All they were doing was walking after all.

“Relax a bit, you’re making me nervous.” Jay chuckled with a light smile.

Anya pursed her lips for a moment and nodded as she lowered her crossbow a little.

“Sorry. This is all new territory for me.”

“It’s ok, me too. Don’t worry though, the skeletons will do most of the fighting. I’ll tell you when they need some help. At the moment, they can all keep one preoccupied without taking damage, or take a statue down but suffer a few hits in return.

Anya rolled her tongue in her cheek as she thought for a moment.

“So you can keep four preoccupied at once? Since it seems like you have four skeletons now? Or do you have more?”

“Yep, four. I only have four for now.”

“I see…” she looked at the skeletons with their hammers.

“I wonder how powerful Jay is now.” she thought silently as she walked, realising he could probably take on a group of five statues without much effort.

Soon enough they made it around the second pyramid without incident and were well on their way to the third.