Chapter: 846
It caused Jay to feel helpless as he had locked himself inside the castle, and he knew that out there, in the forest behind them, an army of eighty knights was marching.
“Surely they’re not here to help me?� Jay smiled.
“I didn’t realize they liked me that much. Huh. I guess I was pretty benevolent for letting them live?�
Jay continued to watch through the arrow slit as the advancing army of knights marched into confrontation with the armor-clad humans.
“Poor bastards.� Jay frowned.
However, there was a sudden change in the humans behavior. They quickly rushed back towards the forest. They dropped torches as they retreated as quickly as they appeared.
“Huh? No fight? What...� Jay said, confused as he furrowed his brows.
“Don’t tell me they were just being greedy? Little bastards...�
Jay left the arrow slit and filled up the staircase with more bones.
“I guess I shouldn’t expect much from weak villagers... or humans. They weren’t coming to save me, they just wanted my crumbs.� Jay said, a sneering smile appearing. A part of him felt silly for even assuming they were coming to help.
“At least they will distract some of them... though it doesn’t really matter now that I’m inside.�
Jay went back to the gate enclosure and checked on the intelligent knights. Also momentarily distracted, they soon had resumed their plotting against Jay.
During this time, Jay had recovered enough mana to add more into the mana well, allowing three skeletons instead of two to rise from it when the time comes.
“Good. Just keep chatting. Keep plotting. Good, good.� He thought, smiling at them like a predator.
The more time they wasted, the more skeletons they would have to deal with, and the more knights Jay could slay.
Yet before Jay gained enough mana to queue a fourth skeleton, the intelligent knights acted.
Each of them split off in different directions, heading to the various passageways within the courtyard, but two of them went up the staircase that the skeletons were holding.
Jay would not sit around and wait, so he continued with his own plan.
(Red, it’s time. Blue, serve me well.)
Red appeared from the other staircase and grabbed another bone, munching it as it came to Jay.
“Let’s move.� Jay said and followed Red into the empty passageway leading through the wall; the opposite passage to the bone well.
In the passage, there were arrow slits in the wall all along the way, giving enough light to see the walls, but as it was dusk, the passage itself was almost pitch-black. The only benefit was it made Jay and Red harder to see as they navigated it as quickly as they could.
However, the darkness wasn’t a problem for Red, but an advantage as its [shade vision] made a mockery of the shadows.
Jay assumed there will be no enemies in these passages, but he readied his death-walker shield, which also had shade vision.
Red creeped forward and Jay followed the sounds of its foot bones against the stone floor, but suddenly Red disappeared in the darkness as it dashed away.