Chapter 294: Controlled Chaos

(Blue, Sweeper. Start cutting the root open again.) Jay ordered.

Next, he glanced down at his feet. The helminth had eaten its fill and was ready to rejoin him, but Jay noticed something else. The root looked different.

“… did it get less white? It seems… faded? The slightest shade of grey.” Jay thought, observing the milky sap.

“Are my eyes playing tricks? Maybe Red is doing something? But what?..”

The helminth snapped its jaws, craving its master’s attention.

“Alright, come up.” Jay patted his chest.

The bone worm sprang, shifting into its ghostly form while its body folded back into an amulet around Jay’s neck. Since the grew to level four, there was more bone mass, it made a thicker chain with plated leaf-shaped segments.

“Nice.” Jay nodded.

Blue and Sweeper got to work, hacking away at the root while more of the thick milky sap leaked out.