It seemed that the bone parasite received the warning. He sensed the helminth try to travel upwards but it suddenly stopped, turned, and then went back to circling him underground.

Jay understood what was happening as soon as it stopped, and with a sigh, he immediately put his skeletons to work.

Finding a lower part of the root system furthest from the trees, he instructed the skeletons to begin chopping open a triangle-shaped hole through the roots.