“She’ll be fine. “It’s working!” Valia exclaimed in relief. He sent the slimes after the group, but they struggled to get out of the river, and by the time they made it, Noah and the others had already escaped their vibrational senses. He looked where she was pointing, seeing more than a dozen identical slimes emerge from the tree line, all equal in size and deadliness. Scyler was shoved back by the blast like a bug splattered on a windshield, before slamming into a slab of upended bedrock and being engulfed in a surging explosion of darkness. “Making it just weak enough that it can survive in the sunlight,” Valia added fearfully. With her sword free, Valia again tried to end his life, but was repelled by a wall of blades that nearly destroyed her sword and her along with it. Everyone mounted up and took off into the forest, galloping away from Scyler as fast as they could. “Lumendori, watch over me,” he whispered. Now I really want you! Seraph tried shooting a beam of light, and though it succeeded in burning away some of the slime’s mass, the bones swirling within it, once exposed, helped shield it from his magic, and with his low output, what damage he did inflict was inconsequential.
