Chapter: 353

Jay quickly stashed the soul stones from the wall sockets, adding them to his inventory while Anya remained cautious as she looked around, hoping to see something in the quiet darkness around them. She was still tense from whatever sound they heard.

As they walked deeper into the chamber, they found some large perfectly flat stone tables around the room; some between the glass tanks and others pushed up against the walls.

Some tables were covered with strangely shaped glassware, while others had carved inscriptions and engravings.

Tools of various kinds were on the tables too, and to Jay, some of them looked like they might be spell channels.

Jay analysed some of them, but it seemed that they were cursed with [Helvetia’s Revenge] – they either crumbled to rubble or turned to ashes at his touch.

He was a little defeated as he wanted another spell channel; surely the ones used for these hidden experiments would be of the highest quality.

Some small luminous orbs were on the tables which Jay quickly grabbed, unfortunately after adding mana he found that they were not as bright as his own budget-friendly orb so he simply stored them in his inventory.

[Faded Orb] x 3

The stench was getting worse as they walked, but they could almost see the far the end of the room as there were two more large glowing glass vats – however these were much larger than the previous twelve, each being about the size of Jay’s house.

Jay squinted, seeing something different about them – a large and spiral-shaped life form was inside each of them, tempting Jay to come and look.

Unlike the smaller glass tubes, whatever was inside had at least remained intact, though this didn’t mean it was alive.

Jay stopped himself from rushing, as he still kept his guard up while he moved closer to these massive glass tanks.

After getting closer, he found that there were actually three of these tanks – the third one wasn’t glowing at all however, since the luminous fluid had drained out through a large shattered hole.

It must have shattered a long time ago, as the fluid had all dried up and disappeared.

As they walked closer to the three huge tanks, the smell was getting worse.

They walked by a broken-down sliding wall; one of the ones that the statues would hide behind to ambush; clearly, something was not patient enough for it to open.

Inside were the remains of two dual-dagger statues, and behind them another passage. Jay instantly realised this was where the smell was coming from as a wave of stench assaulted his nose as he passed by; both Jay and Anya’s faces were scrunched up in disgust.

Unfortunately, neither of them could hold their nose as they had their weapons drawn.

*EIIIIIIICH!~*

Suddenly a loud deathly screeching sound rang out from behind them.

Jay turned around to see a massive dark-brown creature with leathery skin climbing up the side of the stairs that they just walked down, easily walking up the side of the wall.


As soon as Jay laid his eyes on its unholy, twisted form he got a notification.

[Chimera Research 15%]

[Hidden Quest Acquired]