Chapter: 851

There were only two knights, though it sounded like more because of the echoing through the hall and passages.

He steadied his breathing as he prepared to burst out of the door. The knights marched past, about to be in the perfect ambush spot.

Jay took one deep breath in and squeezed the door latch with his sword in the other hand.

However, just before he made a more, they suddenly paused.

Jay held his breath, freezing his body.

The knights, oddly, looked around the room and then awkwardly turned back.

“Huh?” Jay thought. “They were marching confidently, like they were on a mission, and then suddenly seemed… lost?”


[690 Exp]

The skeletons at the gatehouse had slain more enemies while Jay and Red infiltrated the castle.

Jay crept out of the room as the two lesser knights left. Red cracked open the door, peeking at the leaving enemies and then at Jay, checking on the safety of its master.

Jay ignored the skeleton as he went to look around.

“How come they stopped?” he wondered, standing over the spot they stopped. It was the same place Jay had splashed out the luminous fluid.

Jay’s eyes drifted to the empty jar.

“Surely it’s not that simple…” Jay thought, “they have a pheromone scent ability, so they probably use it to create patrol paths, too?”

Jay grabbed some more of the glowing jars, adding some smaller ones to his backpack. There were still some echoes coming through the passages, so without wasting time checking the other rooms, Jay followed them.

A few of the roots led through this passageway too, so Jay was content with following them.

[Your skeleton has been slain.]

“One summon left in the bone well.” Jay thought.

So far, the skeletons at the gatehouse had held on for far longer than he expected, and had brought Jay enough time to recover a sizeable chunk of his mana pool.

Thirty mana to be precise.

“Blue must be commanding them well.” He smiled.

The two lesser knights led Jay and Red through different passages, connecting to different hallways until eventually coming to a much larger chamber.

The castle itself was giant, so fitting in so many grand halls was not a problem. Jay walked into the room on a stone balcony which wrapped around the wall.

The roof was so high that they could not see its top as it returned to darkness; The knights placed more luminous jars of green fluid around the balcony, and while bright, they were not enough to dispel the shadows completely.