Chapter: 512

Anya was already aiming her crossbow, but just before she fired Jay suddenly stopped her.

“Save your bolts. Let the skeletons deal with this.” he held his hand up.

Anya lowered her crossbow while the skeletons got to work.

Blue began to effectively command Red, Sweeper and the level one feeble creature.

First, Red and Sweeper attacked one statue each; Red took the left state and Sweeper took the right statue, taking the aggro and forcing the statues to target them.

Next, Blue and the level one skeleton went behind the left statue and started smashing their hammers down on its back.

The poor statue had no choice but to turn to face them. Unfortunately for the statue, its back was now wide open to Red, which made it suffer for turning its back.

Between Blue, Red and the level one feeble creature, the statue was basically spinning. What was once a fearsome soldier turned into a useless punching bag.

The feeble creature got a few slashes in, but its damage was minimal, almost not worth mentioning. Soon however, it found that stabbing was more effective than slashing against their dark stone bodies; it was a slight difference but was enough for it to continue this strategy, and now it was only stabbing.

Despite having weapons quite effective to face a swarm, they had no choice but to accept their fate and give up their soul stones. They were simply outnumbered.

The second statue could do nothing after its comrade died, it still did some damage to Sweeper but it wasn’t enough to create any kind of momentum; the four skeletons made short work of it as they turned its body back to rubble.

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Since the skeletons didn’t escape unharmed, Jay gave them a small bone pile to munch on while he, Anya and Lamp ventured a little further.

Looking around on each wall of the room were what seemed to be stone bookshelves and racks of some sort.

After walking a little deeper into the room they found a stone staircase in the very back; a set of stairs leading down and another leading up.

“Up or down?” Anya asked.

“Down.” Jay immediately made a choice.

There wasn’t any real difference between either choice, so wasting time thinking about it was just that – a waste of time.

This is what caused Jay to be so decisive for things like this; he couldn’t imagine how much time would be wasted by adventurers arguing about such meaningless choices.

Sure, there would likely be different things either way, but they had zero information, so the choice was the same.

For these situations, Jay would easily just make a decision and go with it. By the time they clear the bottom level, perhaps other adventurers would still have been arguing.

“Wait here for a second.” Jay said as he went back to collect the remains of the bone pile.

After the skeletons ate their fill they were all in top condition again, their armour was pristine and they were ready to fight. The skeletons all headed back to the stairs and went down first, shortly followed by Jay and Anya.

As they looked from the top of the stairs, they couldn’t tell how deeply it would descend into the earth because of the darkness, but it didn’t go down as far as they thought it might, maybe only one or two stories.

The bottom floor opened into a wide passageway with a triangle ceiling.