Chapter 131 Estobar 2

“Come on you old prick…” Jay squinted, “Make another cool skeletal contraption…”

Suddenly, something different was being ‘reconstituted’.

Four bones made a cross-shape which were placed flat on the ground as the base of the structure, while some long femur bones made a tall column with a skull on top.

It appeared that the skull had grown some thick bone hair, similar to dreadlocks – but upon closer inspection, these were all tiny finger bones connected to each other, attached at the back of the skull.

Jay watched silently as he was taking everything he could in, committing everything to memory.

The skull then turned its head at one of the skeletons and opened its mouth.

*Trok… trok… trok*

“Aw shit, it’s a turret! It’s a damn turret!” Jay was as shocked as he was excited.

Each finger bone that made up the turret’s ‘hair’ was pulled into the back of the skull, converted into what looked like a tiny throwing knife and quickly shot out.

Each of these strange knives made a ghostly wailing noise as they travelled through the air to meet their targets.

Jay was figuratively drooling at the mouth. It was a simple-looking design but there was an elegance to it; having only the bare-bones needed to function – literally and figuratively.

Jay didn’t even care that his skeleton was being attacked by it, but he wasted no time and quickly analysed it..

<Dreadmourn Turret – Level 3]>

HP 5/5

<[Weeping Kunai]>

– Causes fear (weak) while airborne

– 4 piercing damage

– Requires ammunition (Bone, fingers)

“Amazing. I could probably make my own ammunition with my scrimshaw skill, so that won’t be a problem for me” he grinned.

Jay would definitely try to make a turret and an energy shield creature now, he didn’t care how long he would have to experiment, it was simply too cool in his eyes.

Estobar obviously didn’t care what Jay thought, he didn’t give Jay any rest as another level 5 skeletal golem was being crafted.

“Shit, give me a break. I was only joking before when I said the pipes were for soup” Jay finally had to be a bit more aggressive during the fight – he couldn’t just have his skeletons running around, being chased by a growing swarm of skeletal golems.

He took out some bones from his gauntlet, making a pile as he got prepared to summon for when his skeletons fell in battle.

Meanwhile, he had his skeletons begin to attack the level five golems instead of run from them.

Two level five skeletons went down, but so did two of his own skeletons.

Jay quickly summoned them and made them retrieve their weapons. A third skeleton went down and Jay hastily resummoned it too.

[-4]

“Ah fu~” A small knife was embedded in his leg.

[-4]

“Shit, it still hurts even though they’re tiny”

Jay raised his shield, causing it to take most of the damage instead of him while he pulled these weird daggers out of his leg and abdomen.

[-0.8] [-0.8]

“One.. two..three…” he gritted his teeth and held his breath as he yanked it out, causing even more damage.

“Fuck!” he screamed through his gritted teeth as it made a bigger hole when it was ripped out.

[-2]

Three skeletons were now working on taking down the shield; another had died to a level 5 while Jay was distracted.

Things were not looking good.

After ripping out both of the knives, his skin quickly healed back up, though more of his HP drained from the extra damage he inflicted when he ripped the second one.

[-2]

It was purely by chance that hammers happened to work really well against other skeletons, and Jay quickly re-summoned another skeleton to go attack the new level 5 skeletal golem before joining the others to help take down the energy shield.

*trok… trok… trok…*

The skull turret continued to fire, but Jay made his skeletons ignore it and keep wearing down the shield.

Jay could easily keep the fight up as long as he had mana – however, he had already summoned his skeletons four times, and while it was still fairly high, it was being drained far too quickly.

The pressure was on.

Another level 5 skeleton stepped out of the energy barrier, entering battle with his skeletons once more.

“Dammit, this can’t go on for much longer…”

Jay decided to enter the fight; if he ran out of mana before this shield went down it was game over.

Swinging his hammer at the shield, he was disappointed by the damage number.

[6]

“What? Aren’t I supposed to be doing at least 12 now??”

Jay analysed the shield again, realising it had 50% melee mitigation.

“Dammit…”

Jay began bashing away at the shield. If he was doing only 6, then his skeletons would be doing much less.

The strength of the skeletons was only 13, having gained one per level since level 1. Each of them dealing a whopping 3.5 damage to this shield per hit.

It really wasn’t much, but at least when the four of them were hitting it, the damage added up.

For now though, two of the skeletons were off dealing with another level 5 imitation skeleton, while a skeleton next to Jay was just about to crumble after having ten of those knives embedded in its body.

Meanwhile, Estobar was pumping out even more of the level 5 skeletons.

“Dammit, I take back my apology you old bastard!”

[6]

Jay smashed his hammer against the shield, causing it to flicker off for a moment.

It would only take a single love tap to kill the shield-projector, since it only had one HP, but Jay decided to try and preserve it so he could study it later.

He made it clear in his mind that it was off-limits, forcing the skeletons to avoid it too.

Instead, Jay and his skeleton targeted the deathmourn turret; it was doing too much damage to be left alive.

[5]

Despite its high damage, it went down in a single hit, having similarly low HP to the skull-shield.

In this time, another level five skeleton had formed…. then another.

“Dammit, the pipes are speeding up?” It seemed that Estobar had managed to raise his other hand during this long fight to place it on another glyph, causing the pipes to speed up – this allowed more of his bones and soul stones to be ‘reconstituted’.

“You dirty fucker Esotobar!” Jay barked.

Meanwhile the ancient Helvetian Estobar, still having a permanently angry face with furrowed brows, seemed to have an ever so small condescending smile on its face as his two new skeletal golems stood before him – though only one lashed out.

One had to guard Estobar since the shield was down, so Jay and his skeleton only had to deal with one for now.

Thankfully, Jay’s other two skeletons had killed their target, but only one returned to Jay since the other had died.