Chapter 338: Leaf-blood Hunger

Dark dived off the platform and plunged into the murky waters below, swiftly retrieving its daggers and vanishing without a trace like a novice assassin. Only Jay felt its presence heading towards the swamp island. “Be careful down there,” he murmured to himself.

Jay grabbed the black orb, Leech, and held it for a moment.

Huh...? he examined it closely. I can sense something… like it’s one of the skeletons. Perhaps the necrotic mana it absorbed became a part of it?

He held the orb up to the light, examining its dark surface. Interesting.

As he looked at it, Lamp returned and Blue had finished gathering the amber spheres into his bag, so it was time to act.

Jay faced his gauntlet down and began to pull bones back into it, slowly lowering his platform down, closer to the water. Handy returned next, along with another skeleton which Jay didn’t realize was there until it reached its hands out of the water.

“…Heavy?” Jay raised a brow.