Chapter: 608
Jay's energy dwindled and signs of fatigue began to show themselves.
It seemed the mountain range was much further away than he initially thought.
He sat down for a moment as he waited for his energy to replenish. His new skeleton, Handy, came and stood before him as it waited for new orders..
Jay waited for his energy to recover for a moment but he soon got an idea.
“Hmm… the skeletons have infinite energy…” his lips curled into a mischievous smile.
Jay immediately began to put his skeleton to work.
The skeleton responded to Jay's thoughts as it went away to begin cutting some small trees – though with one requirement: they had to be long and straight, and about the width of a sword handle.
In the meantime, Jay summoned his other skeletons.
Blue, Red, Lamp, Dark, Heavy and Sweeper popped up from the pile of bones, ready to serve their master.
Jay felt a little more at ease now that his skeletons were around. Previously he almost felt like he was being watched, but there was a sense of safety in numbers.
Somehow, it felt like his skeletons brought a sense of warmth to him.
As Handy chopped the small trees down, a flat cut was left on the remaining part of the tree. It would be much too obvious that this was a human’s work, and this is one reason why the skeletons were summoned.
Jay felt a little uneasy making his skeletons do this, but one by one, each of them got down onto their knees and, non-sexually, chewed on the cut-marks.
The skeletons’ partly tooth filled skulls were perfect as now it simply looked like the trees had been roughly chewed and destroyed by some wild animal.
The only ones spared from this duty were Heavy and Handy.
Handy was spared because it was busy chopping, and Heavy because it was collecting the chopped down trees to bring to Jay.
Jay changed back into his Molodus coat, feeling much more comfortable as he slipped it on. The coat seemed to adjust itself as it greeted his body once more; almost like it was glad to be home.
Jay ripped up his old cloak into long strands and created two piles of small trees.
Soon enough there was enough wood for Jay's purposes, so he had Handy and Heavy come back to assist him; he had them remove the extra branches and leaves until they resembled long sticks.
Next, he tied the long strands of ripped up cloak around two bundles of sticks, forming what was like two long make-shift beams.
Finally, Jay pulled out his chair from his inventory and placed it on top of the two long pseudo beams, before sitting in the chair himself.
For a moment he simply sat there as he waited for his other skeletons to finish gnawing on the wood stems.
As he waited, he added the extra bones from the summoning pile back into his ring, but he grabbed just enough to craft an ossein sword and held them on his lap for a moment.
The skeletons finally completed their task and they marched back; each of them had wood splinters, twigs and leaves stuck in their teeth; their jaws stained with a green colour.
Jay felt sort of bad for doing it, but he couldn't afford to waste anymore time.