Chapter: 871
Sweeper glowed its eyes at Jay and assumed a crouching position while Jay and the other skeletons readied their swords.
The knight marched over and leaned down to grab its sword.
Its visor revealed the moat while it forwards, and something caught its eyes.
An odd shadow, perhaps?
Its rusted helmet slowly ground to the side.
Jay responded before it could.
(Now!)
A skeleton pounced from the shadows, its bone claws outstretched; three other beings were behind it with swords pointed at it, staring with vicious hunger, looking like they wanted to consume it.
Raising its gauntlet, it blocked the pouncing skeleton.
Its claws scraped off a dust of red but couldn’t find a grip.
The parasite saw enemies and, being alone, it only had one motive: “Warn the brothers.�
It left its sword, standing back up straight again.
(Lamp, do it!)
Suddenly, a green flash appeared.
“Glow pod?� the parasite thought.
Yet something suddenly pulled its neck back.
Lamp had wrapped its shepherd’s crook around the neck of the knight.
Jay, Red and Lamp all pulled, causing the knight to stumble back and fall.
Without hesitation, they dragged it into the moat.
The defenseless knight died without a fight as the skeletons held it down and plunged their swords through the gaps in its armor.
(Drag its body under the bridge.) Jay commanded.
Checking there were no parasites on him, he grabbed the knight’s sword, which was still sitting on the edge of the moat.
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“Problem averted.� He thought.
Jay went to move under the bridge, but paused.