Chapter: 857

An ethereal, slender skull appeared as its jaws snapped shut; another necrotic bolt landed on his back, turning his upper body into a sack of twitching flesh.

Red offered no mercy, continuing to bash its shield and slash its sword at the knight.

The knight thrust its arm into the skeleton’s rib cage; It released a torrent of parasites and eggs - to little effect.

Only having a single sword and a useless egg-laying arm wasn’t enough to fight the fearsome skeleton.

Red ignored its egg-arm while swatting its sword away with its squire shield. Raining more sword strikes, the creature’s neck was soon severed.

Two fragile, naked enemies remained, gazing at the onslaught. It was unclear what the parasites controlling them were thinking. Perhaps they were immature.

“Finish them.” Jay said casually, stepping away from the parasite-filled pools of blood.

Red seemed to have its dreams come true as it pounced on the defenseless, weaponless humans. It cut off the leg of one, and then pierced its neck as it struggled on the ground.

For the last enemy, Red dropped its shield and pounced.

Red’s sword plunged into the chest while its bone jaws clamped onto the collar bone and crunched; it healed itself while slaying the enemy.

Releasing its sword, it grabbed the head and twisted sharply, breaking the neck. The parasite inside was no more.

[920 Exp]

It surprised Jay, seeing how brutal Red was, as he hadn’t seen the skeleton in battle against humans for a while.

“Well… they are still the same monsters they have always been. Giving them a role and fine armor won’t change that.” He nodded.

Red stomped on the remaining parasites and eggs, cleaning out its own skeleton as well, while Jay went back to the stairs and spread out more of the luminous fluid, ruining more of the scent-paths the knights used to keep themselves automated, and from getting lost.

Splashing some over the pulsing, nutrient-carrying root, it had little effect.

“Now… let’s see where this one leads.” Jay thought.

“One of the naked’s ran to it, so perhaps it’s a place of safety. Or so it thought.”


“It’s been nearly two days since I entered this dungeon, so about two to three hours have passed in the real world. Asra will wake up soon…” Jay thought.

When he had left the real world, it was already late into the afternoon. Leaving Heavy to guard Asra, the vampire, she was wrapped up in a noon-leather blanket when he left.

To make another assassination attempt, Dark was still making its way back through the mountains and forest towards the mage hunters, while its secondary aim was to misguide them.

As for the mage hunters, they were still cutting a path through the mushroom desert, waiting for more specialised hunters to arrive who were adept with tracking magic.

After slaying Sullivan and his most loyal men, the mage hunters had irreparably damaged Losla forever, yet it was still changing. After being terrorized by the mage hunters, the villagers were already packing their belongings, while the other more paranoid types had left everything behind completely, not wanting to risk another lockdown where death would be the only escape.

Anya and Smiley (Matheson) were in mirror reality thirty-four at the third academy; an institution for variants. While safe for now, each of them was dealing with their own share of troubles; Anya, losing her father, and Smiley, his imprisonment, parasite, and escape.