Chapter: 841
Red and Jay rolled it over towards the gate enclosure and, without hesitation, pushed it down.
*Boom! - Grr*
The cauldron landed with a heavy boom, shaking the gate as it ground down further, but it just wasn’t enough.
The skeletons below wouldn’t last much longer. If they fell, the large swarm of knights would push through the gate. It would be a matter of time before they found and killed Jay.
For now, it locked the skeletons in a triangle formation. Having copied the tactics of the knight they had slain in the forest, they braced themselves and covered each others backs, but the damage was still mounting.
The gate needed to fall before the skeletons did.
Red had already rushed over to the next cauldron and gazed at its master, waiting for him to come over and help it push, however Jay stood there.
Looking down into the gate enclosure, and seeing his loyal skeletons still fighting below, he smiled. At this moment, they filled him with such pride; they were fighting for him.
Red banged its shield against the cauldron, trying to get Jay’s attention, but Jay stood there, shaking his head with a smile.
Something had appeared in Jay’s hand - a pale, fluid-filled crystal.
“Seems like I’ll need to use one of these. I always thought I’d be throwing it at a monster.”
***Sorry for no chapters these last few days, I have been very sick.
Inside the mist keep dungeon, back in Losla, Jay had found three acid-filled shards. They were not useless, even though they were leftovers after a fight between a twisted abomination and giant warrior statues. Within each shard was an acid so powerful that it turned stone to liquid. Jay had been keeping these for emergency situations, and now was a perfect moment.
Jay made one appear, and he tossed it down into the gap.
“One less acid shard.”
*BOOM!*
The fist-sized shard exploded, and only now did Jay realize the abomination pressurized it on the inside.
“Such a despicable creature.” He thought, remembering the Mannaton Soul Eater, its soulless stare and its slackened jaw.
It landed perfectly on the jammed side of the gate. The acid spattered all over the rust and angrily hissed as it ate through both the rust and stone alike; each of them melted like wax before a flame, and with a deep screeching metal grind, the gate moved again.
*Crr - Boom!*
The knights below had no time to move, and none of them expected the giant iron spikes to come down.
The gate gave one last screech of defiance before it dropped, crushing a line of knights below and crunching through the floor of roots vomiting out of the castle. Their armor offered no defense against the metal stakes driving through them, forever pinning their corpses to the ground.
[920 Exp]
Eight knights perished.