Chapter: 835

“Hmm? Oh…” Jay was surprised, as he had told the skeletons to take whatever they wanted for themselves.

Blue held out a tattered-looking diary. It’s original leather bindings did not do well at withstanding the test of time, and only a few pages had survived, as they were coated with a waxy substance.

“Where did you find this?” Jay said, flipping through the worn-out, tattered pages.

Blue simply pointed its sword up to the top of the tower.

“Nice work.” Jay nodded at Blue.

Blue bowed respectfully, and then went to help with cutting the root; it had since found its own chest plate of armor and started to make a few clinking sounds as it moved too. At this point its armor suit was more complete that Red’s, though Red carried the shield.

In the meantime, the knight which was pushed into the pit had died too, giving Jay some more exp before he entered the tower.

[115 Exp]

“Red, let’s go.” Jay said, and Red went in front of Jay, leading him to the top of the tower. Jay was getting quite accustomed to not going first and giving orders instead of doing tasks himself.

This particular tower was in much better condition, and its internal wooden stairs were supported by various stone blocks, making the climb to the top as uneventful as it was safe.

Looking around, Jay found the place Blue had grabbed the diary from.

A corpse - well, a skeleton as it was fleshless.

“Nice coat.” Jay remarked.

The skeleton wore a white coat of some sort, and Jay guessed they must have been quite rich to have such a pristinely white piece of clothing.

Dead for some time, its bones were clean of flesh and it was lying against a wall with an empty glass vial loosely clasped in its hand.

It was obvious to Jay how it died.

“Seems like a better fate than what’s out there.” Jay frowned.

Another part of the room had a table with some scraps of paper and some odd instruments which seemed to be similar to butcher and blacksmith tools except much smaller.

“Odd…” Jay scratched his finger across a rusty spoon, but decided not to take any of them with him.

There was a dark pile of mush covered with a coating of green mold which Jay guessed was once a food pile, as next to it was a large cauldron with black stagnant water at the very bottom.

Jay decided to search the pockets of the white coat, and found a strange needle-like dagger which Jay guessed was a sort of letter opener.

“I wonder what they were doing here. No weapons, in a tower surrounded by knights… why leave the castle?”

Another pocket contained a strange flat-rope tied around a tear-drop shaped object which was like a squishy sort of wood, or perhaps a sort of mineral-filled sponge.

“Very odd…” Jay squinted at it as he squeezed it gently.

Analyzing it offered no clues, and he guessed it was a necklace of sorts. Perhaps an amulet, or perhaps it was nothing more than trash.