Chapter: 712
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.
The poor bone parasite was blocked by the roots, unable to crawl upwards and meet its master, so the simple solution was to cut a way through.
Of course, Jay would not be doing any chopping himself.
Under his gaze the skeletons began chopping away at the dense wood.
“Everything’s in order. Time to check on Dark” he thought, walking back to sit next to the campfire on his bone platform – he wasn’t going to let himself lie down defencelessly on these forest floor when his body would go limp from the [Host] skill
One of the few things spared from the blood-vine bear’s hunger were the parasites, spiders, bugs, leaflings and elementals hiding throughout the forest, half of them waiting to make Jay into their meal, or new home.
Just as Jay stepped onto the bone platform though, his hunting skeletons returned.
Turning to see what they caught, Jay was… surprised, to say the least.
“…What the fuck Lamp? What the fuck”
The skeletons marched through the barrier of bone spikes carrying their prey: a large black rabbit with claws.
But that wasn’t what made Jay surprised. It was what Lamp had done to it.
The corpse had been completely skinned.
They had carried a skinned red corpse through the forest, all the way back to Jay.
But how did Jay know the rabbit had been black? What about the hide?
The hide was now wrapped around Lamp’s back of course.
Well, not exactly wrapped around. More like clinging to it.
Jay stepped closed and examined the black fur. It seemed to be somehow fused with the bone on Lamp’s back, as if the skeleton had grown it itself.
“What kind of freaky….” Jay had no words.
He imagined Lamp in the future; something about a fur-covered skeleton sent shivers up his spine.
Lamp just stood there, looking at Jay; gut knife in one hand, shepherd’s crook in the other. Both of them bloody.
“I… I guess it saves me some time skinning it.” he shook his head.
After the skeletons dumped the carcass onto the bone platform, he sent them off to continue hunting.
Next, he decided to butcher some of the carcass, adding the fresh meat to his inventory and cooking just enough to sate his hunger. Before cooking the rest of it, he decided to use the remainder of his mana to give a mind to one of his skeletons: Red.