Chapter: 576

Jay sensed the helminth was quite far away as it had pushed them out of their territory and killed them off. He had to wait a moment after he commanded it to come to him, even though it headed straight for him as it dug directly through the earth.

“Hmm…” he quickly planned his next steps as he waited near the mining camp’s light.

The helminth returned, snapping its jaws at its master – its way of saying hello. Jay smiled, but quickly grimaced a little as it regurgitated some bones for him.

“Good job…” he praised it, though a little unconvincingly.

Jay had it attach onto his armour using its [Sentinel Form] and it quickly disappeared; like before, it ended up as the familiar dark-blue amulet with a dark-green crossbow bolt image hanging on his chest, along with the invisible feeling of the helminth around his neck.

“Good.” he smiled as it seemed to get comfortable and stop moving.

Jay quickly exited the dungeon – only to enter again straight after. The whole dungeon reset and all the wolves respawned.

Next, Jay summoned his seven skeletons:

– Blue, Red, level 4

– Sweeper, Lamp, level 3

– Dark, level 2

– Unnamed Skeleton, unnamed skeleton, level 1

The troop of undead looked impressive to Jay, especially the ones with the spectral armour and helmets on. Jay couldn’t help but pause for a moment and smile at their glory.

“Alright, let’s get you all equipped.” he nodded as he stood next to the mining camp’s lamp as he began to pull out all their weapons.

Jay only made the bone hammers for the helvetian dungeon as the enemies had the [Brittle armour] passive, but in this dungeon his swords did eight damage while the bone hammers only did six, so he went to give Blue, Red, Sweeper and Lamp an ossein arming sword each; the smaller skeletons would get daggers.

Jay still had to upgrade their weapons now that his scrimshaw skill was level three, but once again, he decided to leave it for another time. He had other priorities.

Unfortunately, as he went to check his inventory, he couldn’t find the weapons.

“Dammit… Looks like I will be making you new weapons after all.” he shrugged.

Jay couldn’t find the swords as they simply didn’t exist anymore – he held onto them for too long, and due to their [Life Span] attribute, the weapons had all disintegrated back into bones.

The only one who still had weapons now was Dark, who was given the same two daggers it was using last night.

Jay checked them while handing them back, and they still had nearly nine hours left; of course, he did add some mana and brought them back up to twenty hours of life.

Jay formed a bone pile as he began to craft.

“Defend me.” He ordered as he sat down under the lantern to begin crafting all the swords and daggers the skeletons would need.

He didn’t expect to get attacked, but it was better to have precautions.

Jay decided he would send his band of skeletons to cull the silt-wolves with their new weapons before analysing his helminth. For efficiency.