Chapter: 527

– Duration: 4 seconds

[Rend]

– Uses its claw gauntlets to slash frantically at enemies, cleaving deep into the flesh

– Ignores armour

– 5 flat damage

– 5 bleed damage/2 seconds

– Can stack (4) times

– Duration: 4 seconds

<[Description]>

[Only the most esteemed Helvetian upper mages went through the process to transform into the truth guards. Before the transformation ritual, they will go through another procedure in which their mana pool is ripped out; their mortal bodies tremble endlessly from the pain. Their mana pool is melded with a forbidden metal and is then fused onto their new stone bodies. They are weakened from the process and are merely relics of their former selves, but their desire to keep their mana is almost as strong as their thirst for revenge.]

“Hmm, forbidden metal huh…” Jay squinted at them.

“…I will just have to scrape it off their bodies” he thought as he smiled fiendishly.

Jay and Anya crept a little further away so they could plan an attack. The enemies had quite low health compared to some other monsters, so they weren’t very alarmed.

Hiding behind some shield racks, they came up with a plan.

It was a relatively simple strategy: attack the one grinding while the other went to fetch a weapon – let the skeletons do all the attacking until the enemies targeted Jay, then Anya could get to work doing heavy crossbow damage.

After they were done with their hushed whispering they crept back again and waited till the grinding statue was alone.

“Now!” Jay mentally yelled a thought-command to his skeletons.

Each of the skeletons rushed from behind different weapon racks and slammed their hammers against the statues back.

Instead of falling forward like one might expect, this was a floating statue – It went spinning helplessly across the room, smashing into some weapon racks and causing destruction to the equipment.

“Nice.” Jay grinned, seeing how his skeletons made it pathetically crumple against their hammers; If it had a spine it would have been shattered.

However the battle wasn’t over – the statue wasn’t dead, while the banging sounds of the falling weapons alerted everything in the room.

*…Doon… Doon… Doon…*

It turns out that the two floating statues were not the only ones here. Something had been awakened.

More heavy footsteps sounded, approaching from the back of the room.

“Hmm…” Jay squinted, trying to see anything.