Chapter: 700

Next, it began using its own mana to craft itself some weapons… or tools. Jay couldn’t help but smile slightly as he hadn’t seen his skeletons make anything in a long time.

Jay watched quietly as the glow of necrotic mana coming from his own skeleton made a cloud of floating bones, but what it did with those one made Jay ever so slightly disappointed.

Lamp formed a dagger. Of all things it could have made.

For a moment Jay was a little disappointed, but as the necrotic mana disappeared he was able to see it more clearly.

It was no ordinary dagger.

“Give it.” he said.

Jay took out his luminous orb and held the dagger up to it. It was quite a wide blade, similar to his own designs, but it had one defining characteristic: A sharp, backwards-pointing spike coming off the spine of the blade.

Instantly, Jay knew what it was and what it was used for.

“Huh. A gut knife?” Jay thought, a shiver going up his spine.

He had used these in his butchery before to help him remove the skin of animals, but he pitied anything which would have this used on it while still living.

As Jay looked at the blade, it seemed that Lamp wasn’t done with crafting.

It began crafting something much different from the femurs it gathered – a long pole with a curved end which turned back on itself.

As it formed, Jay was only getting more and more confused.

“A gut knife and a sheperd’s crook?”

The only similarity between them where that they could pull things towards them, but Jay really didn’t see how this skeletons weapons were going to achieve anything in battle.

Jay looked at the bottom end of its sheperds crook, noticing it came to a sharp point, “At least it can stab with that end.” he thought, handing back the gut knife.

“Well, since you made a gut knife, I guess I’ll send you out hunting too. We’ll see what you can do.”

Jay looked over his skeletons – they were all finished eating except for Heavy who still had to eat more to make up for its armour.

“Alright, Sweeper next.”


“Hang on, why did Heavy level up. It didn’t even attack the beast?”

Jay wondered, “… and it never killed anything. Could it be the training combined with its mind?” “Or… Do the skeletons share exp? – Well, their own version of exp?”

It made sense to Jay, as the skeletons levelled up much slower after there were more of them summoned.

“Maybe I’m onto something…” he thought, making a mental note to test this later.

If he had an army of undead, it would certainly take longer to make them stronger if they were all sharing exp, but also much easier for the weaker ones to level up since they wouldn’t be able to kill higher level monsters to get exp in the first place.

“Anyway… Sweeper next.”