Chapter: 396

“Good thing I’m here to kill you. What a blessing I am to you” he smugly grinned, though his eyes looked like a predator.

The assistant-creature having offspring meant that there was a good chance it would come back. This was great news for Jay as now he would have another chance to kill it.

“Now… I suppose daddy… or mommy? …whatever. ‘It’ will come back for you, so all I have to do is wait…”

Two of the skeletons returned just as Jay planned his trap.

He walked towards the other room, having a strange feeling as he planned the pyramid trap since it seemed backwards – shouldn’t the dungeon be making the trap for him?

“I guess I’m not locked in here with the monsters, they’re locked in here with me” he shrugged.

Jay had his skeletons pick up the little baby-sized creature and shove it into one of the cages.

The little fiend responded with screechy little cries, but Jay totally ignored it.

“It will be better if you cry, go ahead, call for help,” he smiled.

Jay went back to the main room as he planned his trap.

“Hmm… how am I going to keep the assistant in here when it comes back…”

A series of thoughts ran through Jay’s mind as he thought about what to do.

“Collapse a pillar to block off the assistant?”

“Hold a knife to the baby’s throat?”

“Just try to kill it really quickly?”

As he looked at the passage, the solution hit him like a truck.

“Oh, it’s so obvious! I just need to close the door and seal it again. Duh!”

It was the simple, elegant solution, and it should work too; the door was keeping this thing in, standing the test of time over the centuries, so it easily passed the durability test.

Jay willed his other two skeletons to return as well as he thought about how his trap would work practically.

He would keep one skeleton in the room with the half-bred, while himself and the other three skeletons would hide behind the pillars in the main throne room.

Jay also extracted bones from his gauntlet, making a small pile of bones next to the entrance.

When the creature returned, Jay would sneak into the exit passage, close the door and place the heavy iron bar across it.

However, he first needed to test something.

Jay unsummoned Blue and closed the door – then he tried to raise the skeleton from the other side of the door.

“Arise…”