Chapter: 604

Jay’s body was frozen from fear, but conversely, his mind was running fast. He quickly used [Mark] before the mage hunter could do anything.

[Your skeleton has died]

Blackness – then Jay found himself back in his own body.

*huff huff huff*

Jay woke up leaning against the tree with a cold sweat and rapid breathing.

The killing intent was one thing, but he just died in the body of a skeleton, and he felt like his chest was caving inwards; this was definitely not something he wished to experience again.

“Something was wrong with that skeleton…” the mage hunter officer thought.

“Something was wrong with that guard…” Jay thought, gritting his teeth as he tried to get his breath under control.

Meanwhile a red strand began to leave his body. He was relieved that at least his mark skill activated before he died in his skeleton’s body.

“I didn’t even see him move… It was just instant death” he shook his head.

“I need to keep running. Much, much further away…”

Jay slowly stood up, fighting a feeling of nausea.

Before moving he checked to see if he dropped anything from his pockets but there was nothing but a small imprint on the decaying damp leaves.

Next, he checked the marks he placed on the mage hunters.

It seemed that his distraction idea worked as the mage hunters he had marked suddenly formed a line and all moved towards the west.

“Successful operation.” he nodded, “now let’s head south-east” he said to his little skeletons.

His undead crusade moved west through Losla before being destroyed, but Jay didn’t move in the exact opposite direction (east) – due to his growing paranoid nature, he thought that would simply be too obvious:

Wouldn’t it be smart to send your undead towards the west while you run east? Of course.

But wouldn’t the mage hunters assume that too? Probably.

He guessed that the east would probably be searched next, if not at the same time.

He decided not to summon the other skeletons just yet, as the less vegetation that was disturbed, the better. He didn’t want to be tracked by hunters or a mage hunter equivalent to a hunter.

The level one skeletons were lighter and smaller so they would be fine – though one of them was covered with thick armour which made it slow and heavy.

Jay regretfully decided to unsummon it and add its bones back to his gauntlet, only keeping the one he was training into a zweihander.

At this moment, Jay decided to name them: Handy, and Heavy – though he realised that he wouldn’t be able to keep naming skeletons as he would not be able to remember all of them. Seven was already a lot to remember.

Of course, he would never forget Blue, Red and Lamp.