Chapter: 452

“What the fuck…” Jay pursed his lips, shaking his head at Paul before focusing on the fight.

*Fwoosh!~*

The blue rails on Anya’s crossbow glowed as another heavy bolt was released, piercing deeply into the body of a Nestling Gatherer, ending it in one hit; Jay nodded in approval.

Anya had taken one out with every single bolt, significantly taking pressure off the mace-shield guy and the glaive-guy on the right.

The rangers on the left were the composite bow girl and the tall lanky guy. They were doing well too, but were simply not as proficient as Anya – they had even missed a few times..

Perhaps it was Anya’s easy access to the ranger training ground, perhaps it was the crossbow weapon. Either way, she never missed.

The nine people under Jay’s command were working well as a team, but the truth is, the real battle had only just begun.

“Shit, what the fuck is that thing!” The guy with the glaive just finished off a nestling gatherer as he looked up at something larger coming out of the treeline.

“Just focus on what you’re doing. I’ll handle it.” Jay calmly said.

In truth, he hadn’t seen the large thing emerging from the forest yet, but he had to calm down the glaive guy.

His calm voice brought a sense of safety in the midst of battle, a sense of security over the group. Each of them nodded and focused on what they were doing.

The creature emerging didn’t stop its charge out of the forest though. It was fast and large. The front part of its body was about the size of a horse.

First its head poked out of the trees, but in an instant its whole body was out.

Like all other wood elementals, its whole body was made from wood, the difference was though that its wood seemed much older, being a dark colour.

The wood was dark, mossy, and even had bugs running through it. Various spiny sticks as well as the odd leaf dotted its long body.

Speaking of the body, it was also bug-like. The body was long and slender with many segmented spiny legs running along each side, similar to a centipede.

Like the rest of its body, its upper torso was also made of wood – the only difference was that it resembled a humans’. Almost like the centipede version of a centaur.

Its torso came complete with a dark, wooden deer head which was covered in more moss and dirt, crowned with a large pair of antlers.

A bright green glow radiated from somewhere in its throat, only coming out at its empty eye sockets.

It had two long, slender arms which seemed like sinisterly twisted roots, ready to suffocate a victim with the creeping tendrils it was made from.

Some of the other adventurers thought that Jay was probably just putting on a show, trying to seem like he wasn’t scared.

However, nothing could be further from the truth. Oddly enough, it reminded Jay of a dihexapede soul eater – except this one wasn’t level 133. In Jay’s experienced eyes, it was like a baby.

A baby which was much stronger than him, but still, a baby.

Paul had already taken a few steps closer to Jay, ready to back him up in a moment’s notice – but Jay held his hand up.

“Wait a second. We got this.”