Chapter: 653
The skeletons didn't kill each other during the fighting, but would stop just before killing each other, and would mostly only use tactics to disable - however, if any human or animal ever took a dagger to the eye socket, they would perish without enough health, suffering a major critical hit.
Soon, Jay gave them some respite and healed them, restoring their weapons and crafting a new shield for Heavy.
The skeletons, despite being level two and one, were each quickly turning into experienced fighters.
Someday they would be masters of war, able to sway the ebb and flow of any battlefield, but for now they were nothing but novices. Novices who could happily amputate each other and keep fighting to the death.
A threat was still approaching however - and Jay didn't think he would need to conserve his mana before the beast would reach them, as he believe it would die this time.
That was until he got some notifications.
[Your skeleton has died]
[Your skeleton has died]
“Fuck... Train normally again.” Jay had a bitter expression on his face.
Two skeletons perished almost instantly.
Quickly, he sat down and activated the host skill on Blue and was transported into the body of his minion.
[Your skeleton has died]
“What the fuck?” his jaws clinked.
Sweeper stabbed the bear and jumped back from a claw attack, but the beast pounced forward with a second slash, ending Sweeper with a single strike of it strange thorn-like claws.
The spears did absolutely nothing to stop it. The beast shrugged off the hit without even flinching.
Jay got a glance at the beast before it came charging. Its form was like a bear covered in thorns and thistles, a twisted piece of nature and beast made up of sickly grey vines and thorns.
The vines seemed to wriggle and twist around its body endlessly, and despite having shade vision, Jay couldn't tell if there was any fur or flesh underneath.
Unfortunately, he didn't analyze it - the beast was already charging and he didn't want to experience second-hand death again, so he quickly ended the [host] skill.
[Your skeletons has died]
Jay exhaled with a heavy breath, only just escaping the feeling of death right before the beast came crashing down on his hosted skeleton.
“Dammit. What the fuck was that thing...”
For a brief moment, Heavy and Dark looked up at him, but soon went back to slashing their swords in the air as they trained themselves, minding their own business.
Jay added more bones to his pile and began his summoning ritual. In no time, all his skeletons were summoned once again and it wasn't long before they were equipped too.
“Try to at least do some damage this time.” he shook his head, disappointed in his skeleton as they ran off once more.
Jay had not been paying enough attention to the time, but it was clear the beast was getting closer, as the skeletons were dying more frequently.