Chapter: 644

Heavy only glanced at him before turning back to the floating bones, which assembled into Sweeper before them.

Sweeper followed Jays next command and went to get another spear.

Heavy followed Sweeper over to the weapons, mimicking its behaviour. Sweeper grabbed a spear, but this was when Heavy hesitated.

Sweeper was about to sprint off, but Jay stopped before it left.

Jay was sick of it dying, so he decided to send backup.

Another skeleton came back from the sand, grabbed a spear and then stood next to Sweeper as well.

“Go.” Jay said, a hint of annoyance in his voice.

Lamp and Sweeper rushed away to deal with whatever was following them, and Jay was convinced that two of them could do the job.

Heavy curiously watched them leave, but was not curious enough to follow. Instead, it turned to the pile of bones and held its boney hand out over it, copying Jay. Unfortunately for Heavy, a level one skeleton had no mana, so nothing happened.

Jay was please though that the skeleton was mimicking him instead of the other skeletons.

“You can try to summon later, just focus on picking your weapon for now,” Jay chuckled, pointing at the other bone weapons.

“Hmm… I wonder if it will be able to summon someday…” he thought as he watched it.

Heavy went back to looking at the weapons, and it finally selected the dagger – the same one Jay had given it originally.

The lusterless dagger was suited to its body size. For now anyway.

It picked it up and looked closely at the blade, tracing its boney finger along it before swinging it a few times and following it up with a few stabs.

After a while, it began to add footwork into its thrusts, stepping forwards with extra speed and striking with extra power.

“Good, keep practicing.” Jay praised it, watching in awe.

The skeletons first attacks were slow and awkward-looking, but quickly improved.

The skeletons first instinct when picking up a weapon was to start swinging it and now Jay was feeling a little inspired, so he decided to craft it a small shield for it too.

He had crafted a shield for it previously, but he felt like it deserved something special, which basically meant something he would put effort into.

Jay formed another shield-like shape: a triangle with round sides and a flat rectangular top. A classic heater shield shape.

Its form was slender and stretched, it came up to the skeletons shoulder, while the point at the bottom ended at its knees.

Jay was about to finish the process, but he made some finishing touches specifically for Heavy – he gave it a thickened trim around the outside of the shield as well ass bulking up its thickness to suit the rest of Heavy’s armour.

While it was a weighty shield, and was too heavy, it would be suited to the skeletons size once it levelled up, so it would eventually be able to wield it effectively – and giving it a shield now while it was low level and with a young mind would be the best thing he could do for its foundation. Or perhaps the worst.

After all, Jay was no trainer, he simply thought that the more time it had, the better it would become. Since he had never been trained with a sword, he didn’t know that foundational mistakes would be harder to fix later on.