Chapter: 517

Without the armour they would only be able to take two hits, and being able to take an extra hit was a huge difference, especially since collectively they could take an extra four hits.

The skeletons had managed to get in a few hits of their own – though it was clear this was going to be a long fight after Jay saw their damage numbers.

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“Abysmal.” he pursed his lips, seeing the pathetic damage.

“This will be a long fight.”


*Dwoosh~*

Thankfully, Anya was there and she dealt piercing damage.

All the armour of the statue counted for nothing, and the [Brittle Armour] passive had no effect on ranged attacks.

A heavy bolt shot forward and ignored the armour as it punctured right through it, creating a borehole as it struck deeply into the stone blacksmith’s large stomach.

The statue was in a corner now, which was a much more defensible position, though after the bolt pierced its stomach, it looked directly at Anya as if warning her, even daring her to shoot another – before going back to striking at the pesky skeletons with its large stone hammer.

With its back protected it began to fight back, each swing causing heavy damage to the skeletons – but after being flattened they instantly springed back up, retaliating with their own powerful strikes.

*Boom~Doon!~*

It would periodically miss, creating tremors throughout the room.

It definitely had lower dexterity than the skeletons, but it was still a level eight opponent, so its strikes would sometimes land on the nimble undead skeletons..

Blue was doing slightly more damage than the other skeletons, chunking off parts of its armour slowly. It was level four now so it was dealing more damage.

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Another bolt struck the creature, dealing massive damage and causing it to pause for a moment as it recoiled from the hit; this only served to let the skeletons freely attack, getting in more easy damage.

It glanced at Anya again after taking more damage from her. Once it was done with these skeletons, she would be the next to die, but for now it just had to focus on culling the skeletons.

Shortly into the fighting, a skeleton had finally been slain – but Jay just resummoned it. It rejoined the battle with the same intense vigour it had died with, and only a moment passed between its death and summoning.

The statue gazed at Jay next, slowly realising that killing the skeletons would be pointless.

After seeing that taking the skeletons out would not be effective, the statue played more defensively for a moment while it analysed the battlefield.

Between a few horizontal swings to keep the skeletons at a distance, it would briefly glance at Anya and Jay – who would it kill first?

After the next bolt came flying and piercing its stone chestplate, it made its move.

*Doon, doon, doon~*

Each of its steps was heavy as it marched forward uncaringly; the skeletons made the most of it as they basically had free reign to attack it.