Chapter: 630

“Good.” Jay smiled.

With that done, Dark dropped the fruit harmlessly onto the ground.

“Now…” Jay gazed closely at it, wondering what it tasted like… tempted for just a moment.

… “No, resist the forbidden fruit.”

Jay decided to have Lamp come and grab the fruit to see if it was still active. He probably wouldn’t eat it, but was simply curious. Mostly.

Perhaps he may change his mind depending on what the fruit did.

Lamp was here to serve its master, so without hesitation it grabbed the fruit.

Suddenly, the fruit burst with juices, and like before, it had unnatural growth as it covered the skeleton’s hand in a red growing mold which quickly became solid.

“Eugh…” Jay grimaced a little, imagining that happening in his throat or mouth.

Needless to say being suffocated by a fruit would be a pretty pathetic way to die, especially after all the powerful monsters he had slain.

Jay pursed his lips with a shrug, “Oh well.” His desire to eat it quickly died. Mostly.

He then had another skeleton chop off Lamp’s hand and gave it some extra bones to consume, then tried to extract the bones out of the solid red mold – to no avail.

It seems the fruit somehow grew right into the bones and melded with them.

The mold-covered bones were as good as trash now, so Jay simply tossed it into the desert.

“Looks like we’ll need more fruit cutters.” Jay said as he had the skeletons begin to gather another two heads of the strange lizards and repeat the process – the other lizards they killed previously couldn’t be found, but thankfully there were plenty of these creatures around as they were still shifting the sands, so getting more wasn’t a problem.

It only took a few moments, and two more headless lizard bodies were covering the rocks with more blood, forming an eerie display.

Finding a mauled corpse in the wilderness was one thing but finding three headless bodies was something else – it was either a sign of a dark ritual, or a message, and in both cases it meant one thing: Beware. Do not go this way.

In the dry mountain air the blood dried quickly after the headless creatures were drained.

Jay carried on happily however, oblivious to the greusome message he left behind.

With three of these heads in total, he was ready to start cutting a way across the desert, but he still had one concern: were there enemies waiting for him on the other side, lurking in the forest?

Feeling a little paranoid as he usually was, Jay decided to send his skeletons across the desert by themselves first while he waited on his throne which was set up on the side of the mountain.

Of course, he didn’t send Red either as he needed his guard. He also decided not to send Heavy across either as it would have a hard time dodging the red fruits in its thick armour, not to mention trudging through the sand where it would sink more deeply.

The skeletons entered the desert, and before cutting they made it about thirty percent of the way across, weaving between mushrooms before they had to start cutting away the fruits. The mushrooms were more dense in the middle of the desert, and almost overlapped each other. They formed a curtain of hanging tendrils, each with a red fruit on the end.

Unlike the mushrooms on the outside, near the forest and the mountain, the ones at the centre were also much taller, about thrice the size of the smallest ones, so Jay couldn’t simply walk on top of them.

He wouldn’t have trusted them anyway. If they decided to fold up and he touched a fruit, it would either result in a painful amputation or death.