Chapter: 816

It was more like a mound than a wall.

Jay readied a spear from behind the barrier.

Sweeper followed the knight from behind, but the knight had kept its momentum and charged right into the makeshift barrier of bones.

With a crash, bones split and cracked as its unstoppable heavy armor smashed into the bone wall, and Jay was surprised at how flimsy his barrier truly was. At the very most, it slowed some of the knights momentum.

Jay planted the base of his bone spear into a gap between the roots, bracing it while aiming the tip at the rampaging knight.

The knight had no time to react.

The spear’s tip found a catch in the armor, fixing itself in place before snapping under the force of the knight.

The knight stumbled and slowed down, caught off guard for a moment - it couldn’t see what was on the other side of the wall before it charged right through it; relying on its metal armor to protect its body.

Yet even as it stumbled it brought down a heavy cut towards Jay’s head.

Jay stepped back as the spear snapped and brought an ossein sword out to meet the already-descending swing of the enemies two-handed sword.

The ethereal helminth let out a necrotic bolt but as it met the enemies armor it burst into a harmless glowing cloud of mana.

Jay’s gauntlet hand was free, and he didn’t have his death walker’s sentry shield out for one reason.

“Uncaring rip!”

He reached his gauntlet out as if grasping for his enemies soul, yet the bone pulled was not enough to execute.

The bone that was ripped out was somewhere in the chest, and if Jay had to guess it was part of the rib cage, though it didn’t exit the armor it was clad inside - perhaps for the best, as there was the risk of parasites spraying out.

The knight didn’t feel any pain at all as it continued to pull down its heavy sword.

At the same time, Jay’s bone sword deflected the two-hander from crushing his head, but it landed on his unarmored shoulder instead.

Jay dropped his own sword to the ground.

“GRRH!”

Jay gritted his teeth in defiance as he reached up and pushed it off of his shoulder with his necrotic gauntlet - but something was wrong: his arm was still attached?

Well, not wrong, but perculiar.

To Jay’s and the knight’s surprise there was no damage - a ethereal parasite tail had appeared and flashed a necrotic green as it met the sword just above its masters precious flesh.

The helminth’s [Sentinel form] was working perfectly.

Since the helminth had absorbed the damage, the sword didn’t sever his arm completely. In fact, as Jay push it off, there was no pain at all.

Sweeper finally caught up, and pounced on the intelligent knight from behind.