The walls broke away while the pillars continued forward into the room. It was probably a massive room as Jay could no longer see the walls or even hear echoes from them. The only guide now was this series of pillars on each side of him.
Both of these statues in front of the pillars had black helmets, and Jay realised he would have to either have a drawn out battle with his four skeletons, or risk himself while knocking off their helmets to have a shorter battle.
“Hmm…” Jay analysed them. “Both level four. Eh, the skeletons can handle it.” He decided to relax for a bit as the skeletons fought in his place.
Jay leisurely sent the skeletons forward. While two skeletons had to back up while fighting a level four statue previously, they now had Blue on their side - the level three skeleton.
Blue was not just bigger than the other skeletons, its bones and ligaments thicker, but it seemed more intelligent too - so much so that he noticed Anya giving Blue some suspicious looks.
Blue seemed to have more combat awareness than his other skeletons. This would slowly but surely tip the fight in favour of the skeletons.
Jay of course wasn’t completely counting on them “If they back up enough to come near me, I’ll just step in and help them.” thought Jay as he took out his swag and sat on it.
It was a little too low to the ground to sit on comfortably, so Jay looked through his inventory for various things to put his swag over, in order to make a temporary seat.
“Hmm, silt wolf spines? Those may puncture my swag… old buckler… too flat.. Soulstones, old book… oh, that weird stone.. I forgot about that.”
Jay pulled out a strange purple stone he found inside a siltwolf.
Holding it in his hands, he was a little surprised “...I thought it was smaller last time?”
It still had a brilliant polish, reflecting Jay’s curious gaze back at him in the darkness.
He analysed it, curious once more as he forgot what happened last time.
[?] The item still didn’t let him analyse it.
“Damn... I’ll have to check on it later or ask someone about it.”
Jay wasn’t sure what it was, or if it was getting bigger or if his memory was just bad, but he made a mental note to try and remember he had it in his inventory - to check it in the future.
“I’d better not sit on it since I have no clue what it is.”
With a shrug, he stashed it back in his inventory.
“Whatever, I guess I’ll just lie down for a moment.”
Jay waited patiently for his skeletons to finish the fight, surprised by Blue, which even managed to knock off one of their black helmets to end it even faster when it started slapping it’s hammer against the soldier's head.
Lamp and Red were pushed back for a moment, but soon, Blue had finished one and the last soldier didn’t stand for much longer.
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“Nicely done.” Jay leisurely nodded in approval and gave his skeletons a golf-clap, feeling quite pompous as he was lying down. It was as if this was a gladiator tournament all designed to entertain him.
Jay looted the statues and proceeded forward, walking between the pillars quietly. It didn’t take long before the party came to some stairs; the pillars going up on each side of them.
“Onwards and upwards,” he shook his head, not looking forward to walking up a seemingly endless set of stairs.
“Oh?” Oh, great.” he smiled. He couldn’t see it in the darkness, but the stairs only went upwards for about two stories. Reaching the top, he realised that it was actually a small pyramid.
“A pyramid within the pyramid… so stupid…” he shook his head with a mocking smile
“at least there’s a reward.”
Before Jay, glistening in the soft-blue light of his luminous orb was the glinting glow of a golden chest.
On the chest was a single engraved word.
“Sedulus….”
“Hmm. Why does that seem familiar? Oh well. You should have put your treasure chest in a safer place, whatever happens is on you… this isn’t my fault” Jay shrugged, justifying his actions as he went to loot the chest, trying to hide his excited smile.
“Wait, I don’t need to justify myself anyway, this is a dungeon.” This was Jay’s first dungeon treasure chest, and to him, it felt strange to open up a chest to steal its contents - at least for now.
Opening the lid slightly, his eyes reflected a golden gleam of light shining out from below the lid - suddenly he opened it completely, excited about what he would find.
“Cmon, give daddy something good!”
“...”
“What the?”
Nothing was inside the chest. Suddenly, before he could realise it was a trap, four glowing blue walls materialised around him and his skeletons. The walls went all the way up to the ceiling - which was seemingly endless as it looked like they just kept going.
“Shit,” Jay boredly said, disappointed that the chest was merely another trap. He wasn’t scared, as it was a low level dungeon - rauther, he was annoyed. “I probably could’ve activated my boots and dashed out of here if I was quick enough… oh well.” he shrugged.
“Here we go again.”
After a moment, he felt a little confused as nothing happened after the blue walls formed - though suddenly, the ground below him, along with the chest, dematerialised. Jay and his skeletons fell down into a small chamber.
The floor re-materialised as they fell through it, creating a roof and sealing them in his room.
The room was quite small, and Jay was feeling a little too close to his skeletons. There wasn’t enough room for any of them to fight.
“Damn, at least this trap’s a bit more creative. The wall-ambushes were kinda getting boring.”
Looking around, one side of the room had a lattice of tiny black threads, criss-crossing to form a sort of web-wall. It almost looked like the wall was made of fibrous hairs.
Jay squinted at it suspiciously, approaching slowly, and putting his hand on it.
“Ah, bastard.” the fibres that made up the wall were sharper than razors, easily cutting into Jay’s skin.
“Damn, how am I supposed to get out of here?” Jay didn’t bother touching the hair-like fibres again or forcing them, knowing it would just end in pain. He tried to gently slash his hammer across it, but it had no effect. The fibre-wall was made of the same invincible dungeon material.
Walking to each different wall of this prison cell, he cautiously put his hand against each wall - all three sides were solid without any engravings.
“Damn, I guess I could try to use a spell against the fibre wall. It’s too bad I shoved my last tooth down that leech queen’s throat.” Jay smiled to himself slyly, remembering how much that parasite squealed in pain.
“Well, I suppose I could just leave the dungeon… but that’d suck, what a waste of time..Surely it wouldn’t end like this. I guess I could try calling out.”
The fibre-like wall wasn’t completely filled, and Jay’s orb glowed through to the other side, forming gentle shadows on the ground.
“Hello?!”
Silence…for a moment.
“..hello” Jay’s voice echoed back after a moment. Clearly it was a very large room.
After the echo died down, Jay heard a new noise - the sounds of stone boulders grinding once more.
“Ok, so somethings gonna happen at least.”
Jay went to the back of the cell as he waited patiently for whatever was about to happen. The sounds of grinding stone soon started to mix in with sounds of heavy footsteps - though it was hard to tell how many. There could have been four or fourty statues coming for him, he wasn’t sure.
Jay wasn’t too phased though, as he would just sacrifice his minions and leave the dungeon if it was too dangerous.
“Bring it on,” he said confidently, raising his shield as he waited.
***Sorry for the slower chapters. Study has started again. Doing a healthcare degree is a lot of work. Fear not though, the book will continue :).***
