Chapter: 359
Jay had each of his skeletons stand to the side as he backed up, then he ran forward towards the pit and threw it as far as he could with all the strength he could muster.
The glowing orb went extremely far across the room, making a whistling noise as it coursed through the wind. Jay’s adventurer strength gave his body a large boost, which even surprised himself.
What was more surprising though, was that the orb was still going. Soon its trajectory flattened out and began to fall.
It eventually went down behind something in the darkness, and Jay waited patiently as he waited for the noise of it hitting the ground.
…
*Crack!*
A loud sound and a flash of light rang out, echoing off the walls.
Jay didn’t realise that when an orb shatters it releases a large amount of light, similar to a lightning strike.
The flash of light briefly lit up a large part of the room, as well as causing a silhouette of what it went behind.
It was a mountain of corpses, skeletons, filling up this deep ravine.
This was more than simply a mass grave – this was the entire burial site of Helvetia.
Countless skeletons were piled up; the ones at the bottom of the pile were probably ground to dust from the pressure of the ones on top.
Even in Jay’s peripherals, he didn’t see the walls on either side during the intense flash of light, somehow the room was even wider than it was long.
“Oh…” he was speechless, the room really was enormous, and he was still coming to terms with all the skeletons in here.
Jay realised he had to get down there somehow, to a necromancer this was like a wonderland, a dream. One man’s corpse was another man’s treasure after all.
He did feel a strange sense of remorse for wanting to take these skeletons, but he knew that these had merely become empty vessels – the souls of the helvetians were all transferred into soul stones by now.
Even the helvetians had not given these real graves, as no one had died. This is why they were discarded here like trash, so Jay quickly stifled any remorse he had.
“Hmm.. “ Jay walked around one side of the platform, finding nothing.
The other side however had a path – and it was going downwards.
Jay had a large grin as soon as he discovered it.
“And Sedulus said there was no treasure here…” he shook his head with a smile.
Jay walked down the path, of course with a skeleton in front – who knows what could still be alive down here after all these centuries? Or what could have grown and evolved?
After walking for some time, he finally came to the shoreline of the sea of bones.
“Finally” he smiled, approaching a skeleton and raising a hand.
The ring responded to his thoughts, shifting into its second form as his beloved bones floated around him – it then began to slowly pick up bones from the skeletal sea, it was like they were magnetised by him.