Chapter: 403

Something seemed different as he walked towards the cage with the half-bred.

The creature no longer cried, screeched or wailed. Was it sleeping?

Jay retrieved his trusty butcher knife that his skeleton dropped next to the cage before he checked inside the cage – it was silent because it was dead.

On first glance it appeared to only be resting, as if the little abomination had screeched itself to sleep, but after poking it Jay confirmed it was dead.

“What? But the skeleton only would have done 1 damage to it? …and it screeched after it was stabbed so.. How?”

There was no pool of blood around it, so it definitely didn’t bleed out,

“…I wonder how it died?” Jay had his skeletons check the room for any other life forms that could have killed it – nothing.

“Oh well.” he shrugged, attempting to loot it, “not all mysteries have to be solved.”

[Soul Stone] (Empty) x 1

“Weird…”

With the assistant dead, Jay checked his hidden quest.

<[Hidden Quest – Slay The assistant]>

[Slay the Assistant]

[Progress].

[2/2 Slayed]

[Complete! Collect Rewards?]

“Two slayed? I guess that half-bred thing counted as the assistant too, since its soul was in it? Huh.” he shrugged.

Jay wasn’t too concerned with the ambiguous quest, he was just glad to complete it as he ‘collected rewards’ – not that there were rewards other than ‘progress’.

It seemed like a pretty lame reward to Jay, but he didn’t care too much anyway – this pyramid had already given him a massive power boost. Besides, perhaps there was more loot after he made more ‘progress’.

After a quick search of the room he didn’t find anything of much interest, though the nest the creature had made contained some bones so he added those to his gauntlet.

Jay returned to the main chamber, it was brighter now as a third glowing circle was now lit up.

On the throne, somehow, a small stone effigy of the assistant had appeared.

It was strange to say the least, who would make a miniature statue of that monster?

Jay obviously went ahead and tried to place it in his inventory, thinking it was some sort of trophy, but it seemed it was part of the dungeon; he frowned lightly.

“Aw… it looks so cool too…”