Chapter: 837

Jay sat silently for a moment, letting his thoughts mix and sink in while the skeletons diligently hacked away at the writhing root; much of the green fluid had since poured out and filled some of the pit below.

Finally the root separated.

Jay stashed his chair away, and the group began to march back towards the castle. Lamp was sent further ahead - much further this time, as it would give Jay enough time to prepare an ambush for whatever response force may come.

As Jay walked, he felt like he was about half-way back, yet there were no signs of any knights coming.

Something about it was unnerving.

“Hmm… no response force?”

It didn’t make sense.

It was eerily silent, the only sounds were the marching of his bone soldiers, and at this point Jay actually preferred the enemies to send something than nothing at all.


Jay marched all the way back to the castle thinking that he may have been walking right into an ambush.

However Lamp, Jay’s forward scout, was fine thus far and the only thing the knights knew were that two roots had been cut.

Safely, the party eventually arrived at the mounds of roots near the castle, and he soon found out why there was no response force - an army was gathering, its size growing larger with each passing second.

Yet Jay still sensed some more opportunity to be taken advantage of, and he wasn't going to let it slip.

“By now they have probably sent another small force to investigate the first cut root, so why don’t we have a little look?” Jay smiled.

He and the skeletons marched back towards where the first flesh-root met the mounds of roots near the castle and sent Lamp into the forest before giving out some orders.

(Blue, if Lamp finds some easy kills out there, take all the skeletons with you to slay them - except for Red of course.)

Blue nodded, and waited alongside Jay and Red. It didn’t take long, not even thirty minutes had passed and suddenly the skeletons sprinted off into the forest.

Watching them leave, Jay couldn’t help but feel like he knew the enemy better than it knew itself, as he had accurately predicted another scouting party being sent this way.

“Seems like I just bought myself some more time.” Jay smiled.

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The small scouting force was easily destroyed while Jay didn’t even have to lift a finger, and it seemed that the enemy had underestimated Jay.

Of course, this scouting force was sent out before the second root was cut, so it was much smaller than it should have been.

While Jay waited for the skeletons to get back, he kept his eyes facing towards the castle as the knights had reacted strongly to the second root being cut, finally it seemed like they were shaken into action.

By the time the skeletons returned, a large assembly of knights were gathered at the front of the castle and in an organised formation.

It was too far away to count exactly how many there were, but Jay guessed there to be well over fifty knights.