Chapter 313: Sli Hutch
One of the abilities of the slis is the rge ability or the ability to combine with one another to create a bigger sli. They might be big right now but they don’t continue to remain as one and will detach back to their smaller bodies once again after so ti. According to the almanac’s bestiary page which is part of the Goddess of Taming’s book page, slis do not want to last long enough to rge together due to their individual cores rging together if they are rged as one, and the slis, they don’t want to lose their individuality and beco a single entity. They only use this tactic to scare other enemies like their local predators and adventurers who are just starting and would be afraid to deal with bigger monsters.
And now, that seems to be the case with the sli that we are seeing right now.
"What is going on? Princess? Why did they suddenly rge?!" Julia is now readying herself to battle as the sli now appears nacing.
"It seems the talks with the other slis didn’t work! They thought that it was our fault that their master beca like this and this little one is now branded as the traitor!" Princess Margaux explained as she translated the voice of the little sli.
"Ugh, Princess! Why you didn’t translate sooner!" Julia quickly scooped the little sli and put it on her shoulder before she assud a battle stance.
"Sorry...I just got distracted a lot since it was my first ti translating sli language," Princess Margaux gave out a dry laugh as she felt awkward for not preventing this event from happening.
Elaina decided to intervene so that the two would no longer banter with one another while there was a problem. "Enough with that, girls. Our main priority is to fend off ourselves and prevent ourselves from killing the slis. They are not hostile for the sake of being hostile. They are just defending their master so only make sure to defend on their attacks," Elaina said as she also ready her sword for the battle.
"Ugh...I hate fighting these guys, their sticky substances are just hard to remove," Julia muttered to herself as she rembered her experience when she followed Elaina in the mines where she ended up fighting a bunch of slis just to follow Elaina.
As the two groups are about to attack...
"Stop what you are doing, my little darlings."
An imposing voice stopped the slis from moving and turned to look at the source, revealing that the witch who collapsed after the transfer was now awake. She is still pale but it seems she recovered enough mana to awaken from her slumber just now and stop the two groups from clashing one another.
"Whew...I guess we have dodged a bullet there," Julia sighed in relief and slumped to the floor with an exhausted face.
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In the end, the slis that were about to attack imdiately understood everything the mont the witch explained the situation. The slis then fission themselves separating from one another. One that Elaina have not seen before unless she counts the ti she sliced and diced a few big slis that beca smaller slis in the process back in the mines.
"Sorry about that guys, the slis are just overprotective of
because of all the things I have experienced in the past. Without them, I would have died back then. And whenever sothing harmful cos to , they imdiately co to my rescue which is why they are not going to go easy if they wanted to fight."
"No wonder they go all out already even though we are trying to reason out with them. The smaller sli that you send out with Julia earlier even failed to convince them and are even threatening the little sli as a traitor," Princess Margaux revealed as everyone looked at the little sli who seed to be relieved that the situation didn’t escalate further.
"Sorry about that. If the little ones think together, even this little guy can’t stop them."
Elaina looked at the witch and examined her face. She still looks pale.
"Are you sure you are already okay? Although it is reassuring now that you are awake, we can’t even be too sure that you are already fine. You look too pale in your complexion, it is kinda worriso."
"Haha, no worries. Although I would look like this now, I wouldn’t look like a pale ghost after a while. It is a side effect of losing a lot of mana in one go and then collapsing in the process. I ssed up with my calculations and thought that my mana reserves were enough. I didn’t even use up any mana catalyst to at least handle the brunt of mana usage. Which drained a lot of my mana. Still glad that everything worked out fine and the house arrived in one piece."
Julia who is silent for a while then asked the witch as sothing seems to be bothering her mind.
"By the way, I have a question."
"Hmm? What is it?"
"Where do you even keep the slis? Slis leave in caves or dark and damp places that it is kind of impossible to see them living inside your ho considering it is neither damp nor dark."
"Ah, I have a few sli hutches in the area. You can see them outside. They stay there majority of the ti."
"Sli hutch?"
Elaina heard that term from the Goddess of Taming and according to Jacob, he also built one and just to contact him if Elaina wanted to. It is the equivalent building for the slis that acts as its house just like how it makes sense to use coops for chickens and a barn for cows, sheep, and other animals like goats and pigs.
"I built them myself as a way to pass the ti back when growing herbs beca too stale for . Since there are rarely any animals in the deep woods and most of them are just monsters, the only monsters I managed to ta were the slis that soon lived inside the sli hutches that I made. I am not sure if it was the sli hutch that most people make nowadays but since the slis live on them just fine, I think I did a great job."
The witch then escorted them to the so-called sli hutch. What they saw were small little buildings that beca little hos for the slis. It is bigger than a regular coop but instead of housing a chicken, it houses slis.
Princess Margaux shook her head when she saw the sli hutches that the witch made.
"These aren’t sli hutches in the slightest, Miss Witch. Although the slis seem to be living here just fine, they aren’t sli hutches and more like little coops that slis made a ho into. You see, I have seen actual sli hutches before when I was with my Father who visited a friend who also sells goods related to slis as so of the goods that are produced by slis are considered as delicacy foods. Sli hutches are much bigger, and looked like an actual dium house for commoners. Inside of the sli hutches simulates a cave’s atmosphere, making them a good breeding ground for slis where they would produce sli eggs that can be used in a variety of recipes and they even treat the eggs themselves as artisan products," Princess Margaux explained.
"Is that how it is? Then what I made for them is not really what we consider a sli hutch. I am the only one calling these little buildings as sli hutch?"
"Yeah. I think so. But I wouldn’t bla you considering you have been alone for quite too long that not knowing what a sli hutch is is not a big problem. There are even a few people in the modern age who didn’t know about sli hutches as well or the delicacies sli can give. Since you tad slis and they started living in your little coops, you will eventually mistake them for the sli hutches instead," Julia explained.
"There are people who don’t know sli hutches existed?" the witch was surprised.
The three girls nodded though one is hesitant to nod along and that is Elaina. If not for the Goddess of Taming informing her that slis can be tad and be housed in sli hutches, even she would be considered ignorant. Thankfully, she learned in advance. Which is why she is a bit hesitant to reveal that it wasn’t that long ago that she learned about this matter.
"Anyways, we should worry about these sli hutches later since the slis seem to be not complaining in any way. Anyways, I think you should have a good rest now, Miss Witch. Considering the loss of your mana not too long ago, not resting would just overstrain your body. It’s best to have a good rest for a while," Elaina suggested.
Since the witch is now safe, Elaina and the girls returned to their houses and would visit the witch soon in the morning one thing is certain for Elaina. A new ally is now here with her.
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