Chapter: 417

“Finally…” Jay sighed, still looking up at the dark clouds as a light breeze flowed through the pyramid; he was thankful that no building-sized boulder came crashing down to crush him into a red paste.

A gentle path downhill led from behind the throne, exiting out the back of the pyramid.

In the distance was another black highway to the next pyramid. It seemed that this whole pyramid was split in half with the immense power from the glyph.

*Scree~* *Hiss~* Eiiiii!~*

Jay noticed some small escaping dihexapedes, exiting from somewhere in the recesses of the freshly opened and cracked pyramid.

“Shit…” Jay watched helplessly as the long leathery creatures sneaked through the ruins of the city and began their sneak attacks on helvetian soldiers, devouring the soulstones with zero remorse.

Was it by design that these were here? He couldn’t be sure.

Perhaps it was just another part of the dungeon, another twist to hinder his progress. What he could be sure about was that he would have to face them now too.

Thankfully, it seemed that they were quite low level, as the soldiers they preyed upon were only swordsmen, while the dihexapedes were only barely winning their fights.

They were definitely not the level 133 nightmares Jay had previously encountered.

“Seems like we have an intense battle ahead…” Jay said to his three remaining skeletons.

With a sigh, Jay finally went to the skull-shield projector.

Finally he could study it; he smiled, glad that it wasn’t hit by a high-speed falling pebble and died – It only had 1HP after all.

He crouched down on his knees, looking closer as he tried to gain some understanding of it as he tried to figure out its parts.

Unlike the turret, it had no moving parts – it was quite literally a teepee of bones around a soul stone with a skull on top.

“It’s definitely not that simple…” Jay thought as he inched closer.

“Hmm…” Jay gazed into the skull’s eyes. There were more smaller bones inside, so small that they seemed like hairs. They seemed to make the form of a tree within the skull.

Looking at where the skull was connected to the teepee, he found that these branch-like bone structures came from under the skull, going down through the teepee support and touching the soul stone on the top.

“Ok, so it must be channelling the energy into the skull… somehow…”

Jay made a mental note with a yawn; he was getting sleepy. That battle had taken much of his energy, not to mention that he had been here for hours.

“But the power source… what do I use.” he looked at the soul stone, pursing his lips while thinking about what he could use to power its barrier.

The only thing Jay had for a power source would be his sickly green necrotic mana. He put the shield on the ground and traced his fingers across the glowing arteries on the shield – it’s the closest thing he could think of which used his mana like a power source.

“Maybe I can make something like my shield, with necrotic mana arteries?”

“Hmm… I’ll also need some kind of container for my mana to keep powering it…”

“Soul stones are not an option – I only have access to empty ones… well, I have a single full one now but then I would be back to square one.”