Chapter: 621
“Good.” he smiled.
Jay attempted to charge the tooth with mana – yet instead of the tooth filling up with mana like usual, it acted more like a bone and became soft and malleable.
“Huh… so I only loot the teeth that are usable in spells…? Interesting…” he flicked the useless tooth away.
“I guess that’s why the tails didn’t get looted – but it’s not like I can’t use them for a future bed.”
With all the looting and bone gathering complete it was time to leave.
Jay had another skeleton fetch the two wooden beams for his chair. The perreton wolves were still attacking, but they were more like annoying pests.
The skeletons easily cut them down, and since most of the flying wolves had died, the attacks became more and more scarce.
Jay set up his throne again and sat on it once more, feeling strangely euphoric. After the nightmare where he cried out for help from his skeletons, he now had them lifting him as if he were a king, and so now he felt a deeper affection for his skeletons than ever before.
“Onwards,” Jay pointed, a grin on his face.
He knew which way to go as he still sensed the marks he left on the mage hunters in Losla – he simply needed to head away from them.
With everything gathered, looted and harvested, Jay left the pile of boneless, blubbering and drooping wolf corpses in his wake.
After Jay made it some distance away, there were no more wolf attacks: The perreton wolves had a feast laid out before them – and with no bones.
It was a free buffet.
Jay smiled as he heard their screeches dying out behind him, glad their sounds were getting quieter as he was carried harmlessly away.
After the harvest, he got 73 tails in total, which was more than enough to make into a bed of sorts – though now Jay had other things on his mind.
“I’ll be getting past the mountain soon… Once I get on the other side I’ll keep going, but I should be relatively safe. I wonder what I’ll find in the deeper forests…”
As Jay was carried closer to the base of the mountain, he began to think about his next steps.
He wasn’t sure if he should simply just keep going south or stop by at another village and try to pick up any supplies he could – not that there were other villages further south of Losla.
In one sense, Losla was on the very southern outskirts of the south-western region of the kingdom, so it meant that there would be no mage hunters waiting along the way, but on the other hand, any settlements would simply be small hamlets consisting of a handful of houses – they wouldn’t have much to offer anyway, not a name for their micro-villages.
Jay made a decision, “The safer option is to just keep going south. Besides, the sooner I go south, the faster I can set up some sort of camp or base.” he nodded resolutely.
“With the skeletons working full-time, It shouldn’t take long to create some kind of clearing in the forest.”
The sun was beginning to come up, and as he looked around, Jay realised he was already being carried around the base of the mountain on his throne.
“Stop.” he ordered, before jumping down.
Looking around, he was now high up enough to see over the trees.