Chapter: 516

– 40% damage reduction to slashing, stabbing damage.

– 20% more damage taken from crushing damage.

[Helvetia’s Revenge]

– Magic damage immune.

– Any wielded weapons become cursed.

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[An honoured servant of the Helvetian King, turned to stone. A once legendary blacksmith, now purely relying on instinct to forge. Time passes, but the hammer continues to strike. Hessven works tirelessly, forging weapons for the King’s great revenge.]

“Huh, no active abilities… well, there is that water one but I guess it lost the ability after it turned to stone.” Jay squinted at it, scratching his chin.

Compared to the spearmen and swordsmen statues, this one seemed very well-fed; at least before it turned to stone anyway. It had thicker limbs and a large stone belly; all covered by its thick gothic ornamental armour.

Unlike other statues, it had no helmet. It would probably be too cumbersome when crafting, and it was bald with a thick stone beard.

With the statue surrounded, the skeletons crept closer to begin their attacks, but the statue took the initiative and lunged forward.

*BOOM!~*

With a sideways swing, its stone hammer instantly connected. The feeble creature was instantly smashed to pieces, its spine flying into a wall and falling apart.

“Shit.” Jay thought as he quickly resummoned it.

The level one skeleton had 15 health and no armour, so it was hard to determine how much damage was actually done – until another hammer swing came flying at Sweeper.

Sweeper dropped its hammer as it was similarly sent flying, though it maintained its form as it slammed against a wall.

Despite its rib cage being mostly snapped off and one of its hands lying on the ground, it instantly jumped back into the fight.

Jay smiled seeing how his minions just didn’t care about being wounded. If they were human it would count as being mortally wounded if they were living. No human could ever hope to match their tenacity, or how quickly they could jump right back into a fight.

The statue had quite a different reaction as it saw that its damage was merely superficial. Shouldn’t they stay down for at least a moment to recover?

The statue had never fought the undead before, and it definitely didn’t expect them to be entering its forge. What happened to the guards? Surely they wouldn’t have fallen to a small force of undead and two humans. Nevertheless, they were here now and it would fight. The thirst for Helvetia’s revenge still was not quenched.

Seeing that the skeletons wouldn’t go down so easily, it immediately changed its tactics. It swung again at Red as it dashed to a corner; the swing missed though as it was simply trying to clear a path to a more defensible position.

Jay analysed Sweeper to check just how hard the statue was hitting.

HP [38/60]

“Damn, 22 damage? Good thing it missed Red.” Jay nodded, seeing Red dodge-jump to the side.

The skeletons used to have 5 bonus HP from the silt wolf bones, but now they relied on Jay’s new armour, giving them 20 extra HP. It was a good trade-off once they evolved into fully-formed skeletons.