Chapter: 494

Jay was only concerned about one thing: were they lone hunters, or did they work together and hunt as packs?

If the latter was true, things could get difficult. It would be troublesome to deal with many of them rather than one powerful one.

He still had to protect Anya too, and in this fog it was even getting hard to see her as she walked only a few meters alongside the party.

Sometimes Jay would still remember the tense feeling when Sullivan ordered him to protect her. It wasn’t explicitly a death threat, but it sure felt like one.

“Anya, stay close, within reaching distance.” Jay said as he pulled out the deathwalker’s sentry.

“Sure.”

The deathwalkers sentry was a useful addition; it was another pair of eyes that would be handy – especially one that could see through fog.

*scrii~~~*

Distant cries continued to sound out, coming from somewhere deep in the fog.

Soon enough, they came across some crumbled stone soldiers. Their bodies were decimated and completely broken down into small chunks.

“Was this slain by the skeletons?” Anya asked.

“No, I don’t think so. They wouldn’t waste time breaking them down like this.”

Jay crouched down as he looked at more of the stone bodies hidden in the fog, and he soon found some dark slime-like substance on part of a stone gauntlet. Four of the fingers were chewed off already.

“Hmm, seems like they’re not only eating soul stones… this could get troublesome.” Jay squinted into the fog as he stood up, waving his shield around in case this was a trap.

Thankfully, the shield gave no response.

“What’s wrong with that?” Anya whispered.

“The normal ones eat soul stones to get stronger, but there was another type which could eat body parts to get stronger…” he whispered back.

Anya suddenly became more vigilant and didn’t say anything, only gripping her crossbow a little more tightly as she stared into the fog and listened to more of the shrieking sounds; she immediately realised the implications of this.

“We should hurry and finish this dungeon, before they get too strong.” Jay suggested.

Anya nodded, and Jay commanded the skeletons to march a little faster. They made some extra noise now, but it would be worth getting to the fourth pyramid faster. It seemed like only a matter of time before this part of the dungeon would be off-limits.

***Hey, so we reached 1127 golden tickets, that means 6 bonus chapters 🙂 Nice work everyone. I already delivered one, so there’s 5 bonus chapters left to do. I’ll get those out asap! 1 week left of my holidays, sigh.

+Sorry there were no updates over the weekend, I’ve been lazy and I needed a break.


Jay and Anya continued to sneak through the mist behind the skeletons while the dihexapedes continued to shriek and call out through the dungeon. After walking for some time, a tall black tower slowly emerged from the heavy fog. It was made from heavy blocks of the same dark stone as the rest of the dungeon.

The entrance had no door, and was extended outwards from the structure like a tunnel. After sending in a skeleton to make sure it wasn’t a trap, Jay quickly stuck his head in to take a look around – on the inside, it was just an empty room. There were no windows or stairs going to the top of the tower; there wasn’t even a gate.