Chapter: 97

[Immortality Research 2%]

“Not long till I hit level 10. Hopefully I get another handy skill. About 15 more silt wolves till the next level up.” Jay calculated, as he took out some jerky and ate it along with some water to refresh himself.

Walking over to the corpse, Jay shifted his bone ring into orbital form, the green gas tenderly extracted the bones from the wolves pseudo-flesh, however a part was left behind.

[Silt Wolf Spine] was left on the ground covered in some soil from the wolf’s hollow body, along with three more [Ferritic Plates].

“Hmm. The spine must be too long to fit into the ring maybe?” Curious, Jay was looking at his blue feeble creature, he could tell that it had incorporated the wolf spine into its form, but for whatever reason it was not wanting to enter the necrotic ring.

“Perhaps the spine has other uses, similar to the soap rat teeth.” he could only ponder. “As for its use, I’ll just have to find out.”

The silt wolf spine was nearly 3 meters long and cobalt-green.

“If need be, I guess I could take the spine out and add it to a bone pile to raise – but I’m sure it would be better used elsewhere, in the same way the soap rat teeth are better for the unstable teeth spell.” he thought to himself, holding the long spine in his hand before storing it away, then analysing the soil-like gritty residue on his fingers – there was no blood in it, yet it appeared to be coated with a slimy, clear fluid. Wiping it off his hand, Jay prepared to craft some cobalt-blue bone daggers.

Pulling out a silt wolf bone, Jay could see tiny glistening flecks in it reflecting from the lamp; the minerals made flame-like patterns going through the bone.

Jay suddenly had an idea. “Come here” he said, standing up as the minions all lined up in front of him, he took all their bone daggers and handed them some silt-wolf bones, yet unlike before they didn’t try to craft new bone daggers.

“Hmm. I guess I’ll need to do it myself.” he thought as he dropped their daggers on the ground and took the bones back before sitting down again.

“The great part about this cave is how quiet it is. I’m guessing I’ll need more concentration for this.” Jay thought as he closed his eyes for a moment, grasping the bone in his hand.

Thick green gas materialized around his hand as it flowed over the cobalt-blue bone, causing it to levitate above his palm.

Since training with Viladore the manacraft trainer, Jay felt like he had a better understanding of mana. Jay moved his own mana into the bone rauther than the ambient mana to achieve greater control, it intertwined through the bones and the minerals, causing them to mix together more so than they naturally did in the wolf’s body.

While they mixed, Jay felt that the minerals were harder together and the bone residue was more of a glue that held them together, realising this, he formed the bone into long strands of bone mixed with strands of the minerals, however he couldn’t make the mineral strands too big or he would lose control over them.

“Seems like my power stops recognizing them as bone when the purity changes too much…” reasoned Jay as a large, shining cobalt-blue dagger morphed in front of him.

This dagger was much larger than the previous ones – it was more like a bowie knife than a dagger. “It will have much better slashing damage,” Jay thought, looking at the knife “It’s much heavier too.”

Pleased with the knife, Jay swung it a few times as he felt the weight of it. Its size was somewhere in between a dagger and a short sword, yet broader than both; though in the hands of the feeble creatures it would suit their size perfectly. No one could craft weapons with bone except him, so everything he crafted was a unique creation, even though it resembled other weapons in both appearance and characteristics.

Before handing it to his sole blue skeleton, he analysed the blade.

[Ossein Arming Sword Level 1]

[Silt-wolf bone]

[8 damage] – Slashing, piercing.

[Lifespan – Requires essence from it’s creator to maintain it’s form]

[Current lifespan: 96 hours]

“96 hours, seems like I’m getting better at this” Jay smiled as he looked at his beautiful weapon “Maybe soon I’ll be able to craft one that never ‘dies’. Though it would be a little unfair, other weapons have durability instead of lifespan.”