Chapter: 36

<[Description]>

[An abomination, it’s existence spits in the face of life and death. Execute with extreme prejudice.]

“Hmm, not completely healed. You must have a few other cracks… also shouldn’t you be level 2 now since I levelled up the skill?”

Jay was confused as he pursed his lips; checking the skill again.

<[Raise Feeble Creature level 2]>

Cast on the corpse of a small creature, raising it to fight for you.

[Damage 1-2]

[Life – 15]

[(2) Feeble creature total]

[Mana Cost – 5]

[Must be cast on a small corpse or nothing will happen]

“Hmm, I guess I levelled up the raising skill but that doesn’t actually level up the quality of the monsters I raise..? Damn, fair enough. I wonder how I can increase their individual levels…” Jay pondered for a moment before realising he hasn’t completely healed Don.

“Men-… I mean, Restore” He held out his hand again, remembering the spell name correctly.

The ability was slightly different this time – perhaps because he discovered the skill.

The gas still left his hand, but this time it was a much larger amount, slowly forming a larger cyclone around Don’s whole body – Don was in the eye of the storm, looking at Jay cautiously, perhaps wondering why they weren’t doing anything; Don didn’t even seem to notice it was being repaired.

A moment later, Jay cast [Shell Restoration] on the other Don.

Since he had the skill now, he didn’t need to concentrate at all, the only cost was to his mana pool.

8 Mana points later, the mist dissipated; both Don’s now fully repaired.

Jay was satisfied “Good, I won’t need an endless supply of bones now, I can just keep fixing these skeletons.” He patted one of the Don’s.

“Let’s go, only need about 8 more rats to hit level 4” He said to the Don’s as he spotted the next clearing.

The trio kept trudging through the mud and over decaying wood, pushing away reeds and sometimes landing a foot in the swamp water; Jay’s shoes squelching as he culled the soap rats – It was getting harder to find the rats due to how many they killed, but before long, enough died for him to hit level 4.

[Level up]

[5 Free Attribute Points]

Jay sighed, “Finally. Status.”

Normally, one would be excited to level up, but he had been in this stinking marsh for hours, not even fighting most of the time, he was bored, no longer appreciating the effort that went into killing each rat, his morale low.