246 The Travelling Nightmare

A jagged stone dagger was about to come down on Jay.

Lying in his bed, Jay didn’t even have the time to put his hands up; his reactions were slow, his body felt numb.

Something was wrong. It was so hard to even breathe, let alone move.

Jay knew he could take the stab wound due to his large health pool, but that was not what alarmed him - it was the strange feeling of sleeplessness in his body, the paralysis.

His helminth stopped squeezing him as he woke up and Jay instantly knew it wanted permission to attack.

His thoughts rushed and time seemed to slow down, the ethereal helminth was immediately given permission with only the traces of a fleeting semi-coherent thought.

And then it all happened in a fraction of a second.

Just as the dagger was about to be brought down near Jay’s neck, the ghostly glowing slender skull of the helminth appeared, as if a harbinger of darkness or a spirit of the dead.