Chapter: 715

“Damn. Looks like you’ll have to wait, my friend.” Jay thought to his helminth.

“I wonder if I can give the helminth a mind?” he wondered for a moment.

Red had just finished its upgrade with its mind, so Jay walked back to the bone platform with Heavy and Sweeper in tow, pulling them off chopping duty. There wasn’t enough time to craft them some axes so the helminth would have to wait.

Jay gathered the meat, both the uncooked and cooked along with the noon-leather blanket and added them back into his inventory. In total, it was about three days worth of cooked meat if he rationed it.

Next, he added the bone fire crucible and the rectangle bone plate into his gauntlet, keeping them as living blueprints. The fire which was on the crucible collapsed into sparks and smouldering smoking ashes, quickly going out.

Jay decided to leave as soon as possible with the mage hunters on his tail.

Well, they were quite far away but still on the right path anyway.

As he packed up his camp he looked around making sure that he left nothing behind. He took a sip of his water bag before adding it to his inventory too.

Apart from the remains of the burnt wood, most of which had fallen down into the cracks between the roots, there was only that one strange silvery-white feather, still glistening in the light.

“Hmm. I’ll take it. It makes the burnt wood stand out too much anyway… in case they come this way.” he thought, grabbing the feather and adding it to his inventory.

Jay then turned around and sighed, seeing the hundreds of bone spikes all sticking upwards around him.

He went to add all of these defensive spikes to his gauntlet as living blueprints as well. This is what took the most time, and after adding one hundred of them, he frustratingly decided to just add the rest back to his gauntlet as normal bones, collecting them all with one sweeping hand movement.

Adding bones to the gauntlet was an easy task as it basically sucked them in itself, but stashing them away as living blueprints would sometimes make them rearrange and fold up, and each one had to be added separately. A time consuming process.

With everything collected Jay stood by his throne as the skeletons assembled before him.

Jay paused for a moment, “Oh… damn.” he frowned.

Blue, Red, Sweeper and Heavy were the only skeletons with him – not enough skeletons to carry him on his throne. Heavy was like the weak link in the chain in this instance.

Jay packed up his throne, adding it to his inventory and storing his bone spears away as more living blueprints.

“Looks like I’m walking.” he shrugged.

Jay sensed that the hunting skeletons, Handy and Lamp, had ran somewhere south-east rauther than directly south, so he decided to follow them. It seemed that he was still quite deep within the blood-vine bear’s territory.

Perhaps even close to the centre of it.


~The Third Academy, Mirror Reality Thirty-Four~

Smiley held a wooden practice sword, gritting his teeth in frustration as he stood in the training grounds.

“Next.” he said with an annoyed voice.

Another student stepped forward, holding their own wooden sword.

They held the sword low, then rapidly did an upward slash attack.