Chapter: 874

With its weapon in hand, Sweeper jumped over one story high, which was impressive, but it only made it halfway to the platform. Without its weapon, it gained more height, but it simply wasn’t enough. On the third attempt, Jay helped it by giving it a push upwards too, but it made the skeleton spin and land on its head, while still not getting close enough to even touch the platform above, much less find a handhold.

“Damn…” Jay thought, making a mental note to make himself a simple bone ladder.

“Sometimes the simplest tools are the most useful.” he nodded, pursing his lips.

Jay sent Sweeper back to hide under the bridge and equip its stolen armor before another knight came charging through the room.

“Hmm, they will have found the body we stole that armor from by now, and they don’t even know we’re in here, which is the best part. In the meantime, we’ll just have to go deeper.”

As the knight left through the doors, the skeletons emerged from the bridge and Jay quickly re-summoned Blue. Again, Jay was a little disappointed seeing that it had lost the squire armor upon death, but at the very least, it kept its spectral bone armor.

Jay sent the skeletons forwards through the hallway to stand just before the T-intersection while Blue reformed. This way, a knight would blindly charge around the corner into the skeletal arms of death.

Blue was nearly ready as the skeletons were in place, but making the most of his time, Jay made Blue wield one of the knight’s rusted swords. It wasn’t the best, but it would be enough to get between the enemy armor and sever the spinal parasite.

The knights themselves had health they could whittle down with standard attacks, but the parasites made it pointless to even bother with it.

“I’m glad I autopsied the corpse of the first knights we fought, discovering the weak spot, otherwise this low level dungeon would have been a k-nightmare.” He smiled to himself, really wanting to have said it out loud and fill the dungeon with echoes of his own laughter.

Jay told Blue his joke and was repaid with an empty stare; Jay had never seen a skeleton be so emotionless and undead.

With Blue ready, they both dashed down the hallway towards the other three skeletons. The hallway itself was about as wide as two knights, but only one knight could fight properly in it.

As Jay came closer to his skeletons, he didn’t give Blue command over them just yet, as he had his own plans.

*Clang~*

A knight suddenly dashed around the corner.

It met the skeletons with its chest plate and helmet, smashing into the wall of bones. It couldn’t even raise its sword.

The knight lost its step, grazed against the wall and fell on top of Lamp.

Instead of pushing it off, Lamp held onto it, embracing it on the ground as it struggled.

Of course, it wasn’t an act of passion as its claws plunged through the knight’s neck; green blood squirting everywhere.

The knight pushed against the ground but couldn’t even move; two skeletal feet were pressing on its back, one from each skeleton.

Two clean thrusts, and the other two skeletons instantly executed it; Sweeper and Red helped Lamp up.

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Jay, however, looked back down the hallway he had just ran through; the darkness through the doors gave him a tense feeling.

“The doors will remain open for now… I can’t let anymore knights leave as they may alert the army outside.”

“I’m just counting on none of them coming back through these doors.” he thought, and turned back to looking at the T-intersection.