Chapter: 346

So far, he was slowly acquiring these things – but was also finding that he was gaining so much more; his thoughts changing as he learnt discipline and drive. Realisations about what power and strength truly meant were beginning to shape his mind, slowly turning him into a different person.

As he ran down the hill like he usually did, his eyes drifted on someone lurking in the bushes below the path. He slowed down his jog for a moment out of curiosity, but soon he regained his focus, picking up his speed with a renewed spirit.

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“What are those?” Anya asked as she watched the skeletons gather some strange looking crystals.

“Huh? Oh, they’re for a quest. Soul stones.”

“You got a quest?” she was surprised, never having heard of someone getting a quest for this dungeon.

“Yep… hmm. I wonder if you can loot the soul stones off their corpses now that we’re in the same party?”

“I’ll try.” she said as she walked over to one of the recently deceased stone soldiers.

“Nope. Nothing. It must not let me since I don’t have the quest.”

“Yeah… probably” Jay said, but he had his own theories about why only he could loot the soul stones.

Anya proceeded to move to other corpses and loot them, making Jay confused.

“What are you doing? I thought you couldn’t get soul stones?”

“I’m getting the rings? Duh.”

“The rings…”

Suddenly, Jay felt like his heart stopped beating as he realised a crucial mistake he had made.

All this time, he only had his skeletons collecting the soul stones and ignoring the rings. Not all the statues had them, but he would have lost hundreds of rings probably.

Anya was still gathering the helvetian rings so she didn’t see Jay turning pale.

“Fuck…” he stood still, not blinking as his eyebrows creased “I completely forgot… I could have had the skeletons gather the rings this whole time..” he thought to himself.

“And I reset the dungeon too so those are all gone..” he clenched his teeth as the realisation dawned on him.

He could no longer hold in his anger.

“FUCK! …FUUUCK!” he yelled out loud as a wave of frustration rolled over him.

“Woah, what?” Anya turned and looked at him, worried they might be under attack.

Jay was red, an angry expression on his face as he looked at the rubble on the ground clenching his fists.

“Nothing” he snapped and exhaled angrily, “Never mind.” he said softly and turned away.

“O…kay…” Anya said, a little confused before she went back to gathering.