Chapter: 883

Only two skeletons remained whole after the Ova forced the other two back.

With fewer enemies harassing it, its health stopped dropping.

Jay checked the health of the skeletons; Sweeper lost eleven HP, while Handy lost eight.

It was not a lot, but Jay made a mental note to go nowhere near the creature. Seeing the limbs being twisted off, it looked far too painful.

(Blue, replace Handy and Sweeper.) Jay ordered, and had Handy and Sweeper came to him, at the side of the fight.

Jay held out some bones for the skeletons, summoning them in his hand for them to consume, but one broken jaw bone appeared from the necrotic gas and slipped from his hand, falling to the ground.

The jaw bone landed on the roots below, and before a skeleton could reach it, the roots moved.

A green tendril coiled around the bone. The roots parted and swallowed it; the jaw bone disappeared.

Immediately, Jay stepped back as his eyes widened in fear.

"Fuck. What is stopping them from dragging me or the skeletons under?" he thought, but didn't let himself panic.

The skeletons continued to eat and reformed themselves.

Jay made sure to not drop anymore bones, but as he looked up to the fight, he noticed something else was wrong.

Blue had not returned to help with the fight.

Looking through the room, Blue was hacking away at roots ensnaring its legs. Each of them reaching up and winding through the gaps in its bones, holding it in place.

Immediately, Jay looked down at his own feet, glad to see they were free of entangling roots.

"I need to get off these damn roots." he thought.

Jay kept himself calm, not daring to take a step.

"The skeletons could move across the room, and forwards through the room, but not backwards towards the stairs? Other than Blue being deeper into the room, that's the only difference."

(Handy. Move back towards the stairs.) Jay ordered.

The skeleton took a few steps backwards, but suddenly the roots under its legs came alive, reaching up and grasping at the skeleton, stopping it from reaching the stairs.

Immediately Handy hacked away, trying to free itself.

Meanwhile, the Ora fought back against the two skeletons, harassing them back. Its health was stable, and no longer dropped, but it couldn't rise because of the two skeletons, so for now it was stuck at forty-six HP.

The skeletons attacked less, becoming more wary after seeing the Ora's [Construct Scavenging] ability.

Yet this was no longer Jay's concern.

"So, the roots ensnare anything moving back to the stairs." He thought.