Chapter: 879
Lamp gazed at Jay through the eye-holes in its human skin… and slowly shook its head.
"Ah, I guess not?… What could make a skeleton retreat?"
Jay stepped away from the top of the stairs, paranoid as he was, and sent Lamp down again - except this time, he used the mana-hungry [Host] skill, entering the eyes of Lamp and seeing through its eyes; Lamp came back safely, but there was no assurance that he would.
There were only the faint dark-red emergency lights, but it didn't bother Lamp with its shade vision. At the bottom of the stairs, a sheet of interweaving roots covered the floor.
Lamp stepped one foot onto it, and suddenly something moved in the darkness.
The roots opened up like a coffin, and from them, a humanoid figure appeared.
It had no armor, but was not naked either. Instead, a covering of wriggling roots moved all over its body. Many of them poking out and twisting through its flesh.
The being didn't charge at Lamp, as there were roots connected to it from the back of its spine.
"So that's why Lamp stopped… probably why the knights don't bother coming here either. The plant has its own guards."
Jay ended the [Host] skill, conserving his mana.
"Looks like we'll have to fight that thing. It seems like it can't move, so I'll just wait at the bottom of the stairs." he thought, after seeing its body entangled into the ground.
Jay sent the other skeletons down first before going down himself. If he was wrong, five skeletons would be there to lie down their lives for him.
As Jay reached the bottom, it was much darker. They had destroyed many of the dark-red lights, and only the dark silhouette of the enemy remained. In the shadows, it looked like a simple knight as the roots covering its body moved in all the right places.
The knight army was likely closing in by now, but Jay took a moment to analyze his enemy as it had caused Lamp to hesitate.
< [Workless Ova - Level 8] >
[Type - Construct, plant, vessel]
[HP - 208]
<[Skills]>
[Spire Knife-Hand]
- 8 damage
- Piercing
[Spire Claws]
- 4 Poison damage per second
- Can Stack four times
- Long spines have pushed out and replaced the finger nails of this living construct, each of them coated in poison.