Chapter: 714

It was lying exactly in the path of where the mage hunters were cutting.

“You know what to do.” Jay sent a thought command to Dark, and ended the host skill.

Jay returned to his body and brought his throne over to the platform and took out the spears which were used to hold him up, assembling it himself as he readied his ride.

It was time to leave, but a few things still had to be done.

Red was still kneeling before him, waiting to accept the gift of a mind, meanwhile the other skeletons were either busy cutting a hole in the roots or hunting.

It seemed that Jay was still quite deep within the blood-vine bear’s territory as the hunting skeletons had to travel quite far just to find one animal.

Much of the carcass was still sitting by his side, waiting to be either cooked or butchered, while some larger cuts of meat were in his inventory already.

“Dammit.” he shook his head, hating the idea of wasting the meat, but it seemed like he had no choice.

While Jay did get a small snack so far, the other meat in his inventory still had to be cooked, and setting up a fire and cooking later on would only slow him down, especially since he had a fire right here, already burning.

“Blue” he called, the skeleton came running over. Jay spent a few minutes showing the skeleton how to cook, hoping it wouldn’t result in him vomiting later on.

As Blue got to cooking, he stashed away his swag, and left the fresh cuts of meat sitting on the rectangular-shaped slab of bone he made to sleep on.

Jay was about to hand it some skewers to cook with, but instead the skeleton simply held the meat over the fire. It was nowhere near hot enough to burn the bones.

“Huh. Good.” Jay thought.

He then pulled out the gift from sullivan: the noon-leather blanket.

One side was soft, but the other was smooth and waterproof. It would have to do for now.

“Leave the cooked meat here.” he pointed to the black leather blanket.

He felt a little shame using it to lay cooked meat on, but he had no other options at the moment.

Jay turned to Red and began to form its mind while his chef got to work cooking.

He was quite low mana since he had been consistently using mana sense all morning, as well as the host and mark skills.

After five minutes, Red’s mind formed. Soon it began to spasm and have it’s seizure but Jay didn’t stand around watching.

Blue only just began to cook its second batch of meat, holding its hands over the fire as the meat sizzled angrily in its boney fingers.

So far, there would be enough cooked meat to last for almost two days, but he would have to ration it unless more was cooked.

Jay left it to cook as he checked on the progress the skeletons were making through the roots; still trying to get to his helminth.

So far, it seemed that their damage to the dense roots was mostly superficial. Swords and daggers really were not the right tools for the job.

Judging by how far they cut, they would probably need half a day to get the job done. Even then, there was no telling how many more ancient roots were underneath the ones they were currently cutting.