Chapter: 641

With a weapon, Jay sent the skeleton away, and Sweeper quickly sprinted off towards the direction of its death, as if wanting to get revenge on its killer.

The rest of the skeletons were either guarding Jay or using the chopped-off lizard heads to pluck away the dangerous fruits.

Jay sat down and watched the fruit-picking process, unalarmed and unconcerned with the beast on his tail. It was a little over two hours away, so there was plenty of time to deal with it. For now, he relaxed and rested from the journey, and despite the undead using bloody lizard heads to pick hazardous fruit, there was something calming about watching the fruit-picking process.

Two hours later and Jay got another notification.

“Huh?” he raised an eyebrow, stretching a little as he stood up from his chair.

[Your skeleton has been slain]

Sweeper perish again.

“Hmm… ok.” he shrugged, summoning Sweeper again.

There were still three spears left, so Jay sent Sweeper away with another one.

“Surely it will be close to death by now?” he thought as he watched Sweeper sprint off across the rocks once more.

Jay wasn’t sure how powerful the beast stalking him was, but most of the wild creatures out here were below level five – even the weakest natural animals like the glade deer didn’t even have levels, meaning they had no class or powerful skills, while the highest level enemies he came across so far were the level two perreton wolves.

His guess was that it was around level eight since it could kill a skeleton.

There was a chance it could have bled out before even reaching him, in which case Jay would just have to wait for an exp notification, hopefully sometime soon.

For now though, he would just have to wait.

The fruit-picking skeletons had made it nearly half-way across the desert, slowing down as there were many more of the fruits to pick in the centre, among the larger mushrooms.

Jay leisurely looked at Heavy and Red by his side; all three of them had nothing to do.

“Well, I might as well try that new skill out. Hopefully it’s as good as mark and host.” he nodded with a solemn smile, remembering Sedulus for a moment.

Jay checked the skill once more before proceeding.

<[Mind – Level 1]>

– Craft a rudimentary sentience. Form a basic mind.

– 25 Mana

“Alright, let’s see what a mind looks like.”

First, Jay tested the skill by walking away from the skeletons and trying to activate it without any skeletons around. He believed there was a chance of being able to make a disembodied mind which he would have to implant into the skeletons, and he didn’t want to miss that opportunity – perhaps it would have opened up new avenues of research.

Unfortunately, nothing happened.

With no success this time, he called a skeleton over.