Chapter: 423
“Thanks,” Jay smiled. It was a little less than expected, but Trenly was still new – besides, the butchery had been closed for a while so customers were bound to be lower than usual.
“Hmm I wonder if I should buy something new with this… hmm.”
“Maybe I’ll just wait and see how my bone crafting does today.” Jay thought as he cleaned his plate before heading back upstairs..
“Trenly, I’ll be busy upstairs; don’t let anyone come up.” Jay looked him in the eye, adding a little more weight to his words.
“Do not disturb, sure.” Trenly stopped chopping for a moment and nodded.
As soon as Jay got into his room he closed the door and braced it with a chair.
Next, a cloud of the dark green mana appeared before disappearing again – a pile of bones being revealed in its place.
“Now… I need to level my scrimshaw up.” Jay thought as he sat on his bed, looking at the bone pile.
“It would be a waste to just create multiple copies of the same thing. I should at least try to make some useful stuff.” He nodded, a thought drifted across his mind.
“They have weapons for offence, they would need defence too…”
“Skeleton armour?” He wondered, “…can they even wear armour?”
The first thing Jay did was summon one of his skeletons. It tapped about on his floorboards before he ordered it to stand still.
There were only three skeletons left alive in the dungeon last night, so this didn’t hurt any of their progress. The question was which skeleton was this one?
Thankfully, now that it was level three, it has its name against its level – it was Sweeper.
Jay pursed his lips, “Of course it’s fucking Sweeper.” he shook his head.
“Alright, let’s get on with it.” Jay shook his head more as he went over to his skeleton.
“Hmm… I need to make something simple that can easily attach to your body.”
A necrotic breastplate was currently a bit too beyond Jay’s level. There was simply too much material to focus on, so he had to craft something smaller.
As Jay looked over the features of his skeleton he found that there were some gaps in its forearm and lower legs; unlike some of the animals Jay had butchered, humans have two bones between the elbow and the wrist, with a gap between them.
“Hmm…” he held Sweepers arm out, “I can totally exploit this gap to attach armour to.” A smile began to appear on his face.
“So it seems like I’ll be creating vambrace’s and greaves first.”
Jay immediately got to work, he grabbed a small amount of bones from the pile and began to channel his necrotic mana into it.
The bones all responded in kind, levitating and turning into lightly glowing, viscous blobs.
In the quiet of Jay’s room under the sunlight coming from the window, Jay noticed something new.
“Huh, there’s a kind of dust coming out?” he squinted at it.