Chapter: 510

What Jay did next made Anya look a little confused as the skeletons all began handing their hammers to Jay – but she decided to keep quiet and just wait and see.

With the hammers stashed away in Jay’s inventory, he was ready.

“If one of the floating statues notices us, shoot a bolt at it and keep running.” Jay whispered, adding one last order “… and try not to get hit.”

With a serious nod, Anya gripped her crossbow, ready to fire.

“Ok, let’s move.” Jay said.

Suddenly, two humans and five undead were sprinting out of the ruins across the battlefield. Were they running from the skeletons?

They went from crouching silently to sprinting madly at the wall of spearmen.

Jay was initially in the lead, but the skeletons quickly caught up and overtook him. They knew exactly what to do, as Jay was commanding them with his mind while they charged.

The stone statues didn’t seem to be taken by surprise as the undead came charging; they reacted almost mechanically as they pointed their spears and raised their shields. To them, it was just another enemy of Helvetia which needed purging.

The feeble creature had a spear thrust into its rib cage, but it survived, occupying a spearman temporarily – at the same time, one of the higher level skeletons jumped at the statue.

It clawed and grasped onto the statues body and soon wrapped itself around the statues head, blocking whatever vision it had.

This was something that did take the statue by surprise.

Its spear was useless against something at such a close range, but it wouldn’t drop its weapon – perhaps its hands had even locked up as they had been holding it for centuries.

What it did next almost made Jay laugh as they continued to sprint towards the stone phalanx.

The statue had no other options than to smash its own shield against its head, trying to deal any damage to the skeleton it could.

*shhhrew~*

A purple spell suddenly flew around the head of the statue and ended up hovering inside the rib cage of the skeleton.

“Huh…?” Jay thought, “Is it meant to do damage or… hmm…”

The spell still had no effect. Jay wasn’t sure what to make of it. Either way, he was just glad it wasn’t used on him.

A second statue received a skeleton to the head. It also couldn’t do anything to shake it off.

“Here!” Jay yelled as he charged between them.

*Scriiiii!~*

The dihexapedes noticed something strange was happening now too, and some began to charge over to the side. It seemed that the soldiers had partially broken their formation and this was their opportunity to strike.

Jay and Anya dashed through the wall of spearman statues. Thankfully, the floating spell-casting statue was still trying to cast its useless spells at the skeleton since it was the first enemy that made it into its attack range.

The spearman statues on either side of the skeleton-covered statues started thrusting their spears into their allies’ heads.