Chapter: 575
“The helminth sure is great,” he smiled; he was already over 10% of the way to level fourteen. The next highest level adventurer was Anya at level nine.
Needless to say, Jay was unmatched – of course, his disguise stone still said he was level nine.
He had planned to pick up the money from his butchery shop last night, but Trenly hadn’t separated it from the rest of the gold used for expenses, and neither was he here this morning, so as Jay left for the wolf’s quarry dungeon he decided to come back later on in the day for gold collection.
“As for today, I will focus on training and learning,” he nodded.
He decided that learning the bone helminths [Spectral Bolt] spell would be the most useful to him at the moment so today he gave it the utmost priority on his list of objectives.
It would be ineffective against the helvetian guards, but he already decided he would look for a different dungeon. Wolf’s Quarry dungeon was one option, but he was getting sick of the darkness all the time, and desperately wanted a change.
As he walked to the Wolf’s quarry, he realised he hadn’t seen his little necrotic parasite in quite some time.
“I wonder if it has grown bigger. The helminth was level one when I was level ten, so it should be level three now,” he thought, as it levelled up along with him..
Jay already decided to practise and train at the guild, as it was safer than doing it at home where he could be seen through his window or would be distracted by Trenly’s noisy chopping downstairs – though he would need to use the outside target area to practise his helminth’s necrotic bolt spell.
He had his own private room at the guild and Viladore to help him there too, so he would find a way to make it work.
Sure, for extra safety he could do it in an instanced dungeon, but they were all either cold, dark, or stinky inside – much more preferable to practice in a warm, quiet, and safe room.
Jay noticed something strange as he exited Losla – there were new guards around.
Two heavily armoured men stood vigilantly at the bridge as they watched the north.
Thick and segmented dark-grey stone-like armour covered their bodies from head to toe, covered by a loose black tabard which had a symbol Jay had never seen before.
Jay stared at their armour for a moment, getting ideas for his own armour designs as he tried to peek into the sides – though he was soon noticed by one of these new guards.
The soldier only turned its helmet and glanced at Jay through its tiny eye slits. No words were spoken, but Jay understood that he had to leave as he felt a threat of danger, a wave of killing intent surging towards him.
He quickly looked towards the bridge and went on his way after a slight nervous shudder.
“Shit… I should have checked their level.” he pursed his lips as he kept walking; he didn’t dare to look back.
“Why are they here? Who even are they…” he wondered.
Being from a small and unimportant village, Jay had never even heard of the mage hunters, much less their new name, the ‘safety bearers’.
The last time he felt such a dangerous aura was during his first meeting with Sullivan.
“I’ll find out once I get to the guild. I guess it’s good we have some powerful people protecting Losla anyway. I wonder if it has to do with the wood elementals attacking?” he guessed, as he made his way to the wolf’s quarry.
Jay quickly entered the wolf’s quarry to collect the corpses his helminth had.
In total, there were forty-two. It seemed that the helminth was still in the process of moving bones back, and it had been focused on killing the helpless wolves.
Despite eating the soil regularly, and being partly mineral themselves, the silt-wolves were literally being attacked from it randomly. It seemed that paranoia and stress ruled over them now, and they all lived in fear after being terrorised for the last few days.