Chapter: 831
Handy used Jay’s sword as a base as more bones were added around its outside and molded into it.
Instead of doing it all at once, it did it at smaller intervals along the sword, allowing it to create a fairly high quality product; higher than what should be possible with its level one scrimshaw skill.
Jay watched it as he ate a snack and drank some of his water, reminding himself to do that with his next crafts. While on his journey in the outside world, Jay had not been idle himself, and had been continually crafting, melting and re-crafting bone daggers while he was carried along on his pseudo throne.
“Hmm… all level four. Might be a good idea to get Dark in here, otherwise the skeleton-exp might go to waste.”
Heavy was an option too, but Jay needed it to stay with Asra.
While exp for Jay could travel from a dungeon to the real world, the skeleton version of exp could not. Since all the skeletons were level four in the dungeon, which was currently their max level, it would be wasted.
“Well, if I need Dark, maybe I’ll bring it in. It has its own mission in the real world after all.”
Blue was still in charge of the skeletons, and had already sent Lamp off to scout further ahead, following the flesh-like root along.
It seemed no more enemies were coming, so the seventeen knights dead knights must have been the whole response force; there to reinforce the knights, and possibly repair the chopped flesh-root.
It would take time before another force was sent again, but that depended on how long it would take to fix the flesh-root nutrient pipeline - but how much time that was? Jay couldn’t be sure, but he would not be here by the time they realized.
Handy’s sword was getting larger and more hefty. It had also become more straight and symmetrical, compared to Jay’s original design.
Jay idly watched, his eyes sometimes drifting to Red’s new shield by his side as he waited, the blue and white color catching his eyes.
“Two… two what? Two towers? Two Lords?”
It was simply too vague.
With a sigh, Jay gave up, ending his brainstorming session after Handy had completed its new sword, ending the crafting process with the sword grip.
Handy made the grip thicker, wider and more of a rectangle shape than a round one, which would help it to keep the sword straight as it cut towards its target.
The end of the sword tapered off to a perfect triangle point which was flattened on each side so it could still effectively stab, though it would be more like a jagged cut than a puncture.
Jay was ready to march, but he couldn’t help but take in the grandeur of his skeletons for a moment.
While the skeletons with weapons were threatening and magnificent in their own right, they now seemed like an ancient fighting force of deadly soldiers. Armored and ready to carry out their masters will, whether it be to pillage a town or assault a fortified castle. The world seemed like it was at their feet.
Jay was speechless, if only for a moment.
As he glanced at Blue though, the feelings faded; its armor incomplete.
“Still more work to do…” he thought, seeing that Blue was missing a chest piece, among other things.
Coincidentally, the spectral ashen-gray armor mixed well with the metal-gray armor; only lacking the luster of the metal - and Jay only wanted more.
“The more armor we get, the more knights we can deal with too.” Jay nodded approving of his skeletons, feeling content as he was ready to leave.
(Let’s move. We have work to do.)