Within the dark halls of the catacombs, a sli slipped on the stone-paved grounds as it dragged Raina through. With her hands tightly stuck to its body, she couldn't escape.
"Ack..." Unable to resist the force of the sli, she followed along with the monster's pacing, to prevent her arms from breaking due to excessive force.
"...what do I do?" she muttered herself. "This guy isn't attacking at all and is just dragging everywhere..."
"Gloop."
"Gloop?"
"Gloop!"
"...and, the slis that are around seems to be staring at ...?" she shivered at the thought. "Scary..."
The sli and Raina walked at a steady pace as they reached the end of the hallway, wherein, they were soon greeted by a large door, of what seed to resembled that of the statue which sword was upright from earlier.
"...huh?" At the sight, her head tilted with a confused look. "Am I being taken to the boss room?"
"Gloop!" The sli jiggled slightly. "Gloop, gloop!" Soon after, it jiggled once again, as the door of the hallway opened. Montarily, it began to move into the room, dragging Raina.
"Hooman?" Entering into the room, a deep voice resounded through.
...
While Sli was taking Raina, the rest of the party mbers hurried along the path as they made their way through. With their weapons in hand, they quickly struck at the slis which aggressively approached them.
"Gloop!" The sli pounced over to Ethaniel in a frenzy, quickly knocking him back.
"Tsk..." Ethaniel gritted his teeth as he soon sent a bright flashing light over towards the enemy in front of him. Following up with that, Frey rushed over, quickly throwing a punch at it.
"...hey, is it just or are the slis just getting powerful every encounter?" Frey muttered out in worry. "it takes way more hits and attacks to kill them!"
"This is just the fourth encounter!" Kon cried out.
"But even if they're getting powerful over ti, they seem to be getting less aggressive, per se?" Shinto calmly stated as he sent multiple shots of mana spark over towards the target.
"Huh? What do you an?" Frey questioned as she turned the sli into grey-ash, finally ending the battle.
"What I an is, for every encounter of the sli we had, they seem to have progressively gotten less aggressive," Shinto said, waving his staff over towards Ethaniel as he cast his skill: [Mark of Umbra].
"Wouldn't that be good for us then?" Ethaniel shrugged. "If they're gonna be pouncing at us every so often, we can hurry it up and catch up with Raina."
"Right, right!" Frey nodded her head. "But, where are they? They can't have made it that far, right?"
"We had been fighting for quite a while," Shinto turned to glance around the vicinity. "By the ti we reach them, we might be at the end of the hall."
"Gloop?"
"Gloop..."
As they continued down the hallways, more slis started to appear, however, the monsters only stared at them from the distance, not making any moves against them.
"Huh. You're right... they ARE getting less aggressive..." Frey pondered. "What the heck's going on?"
"Does it really matter?" Ethaniel raised his brow. "Just get a move on."
"Well, their behaviours weird! Aren't monsters like... bah! I kill you! Or sothing like that?" Frey tilted her head.
"Hmm, now that I think about it, it's weird," Shinto thought to himself. "From that first sli that took Raina, it showed so weird actions."
"Like how it didn't straight up attack us?" Kon added on.
"Yeah. It only started doing stuff against us when Raina used her skills..." he continued his line of thought. "Looking back on it, did it really attack Raina in anger?"
"What else could it be?" Ethaniel scoffed. "The sli called for other slis for back-up while it dragged Raina away."
"W-Well... how do we even tell a slis emotion?" Kon muttered out.
"By the way they move, maybe?" Frey answered.
"They can only jump up and down, pounce and shake," Ethaniel raised his brow. "How on earth do you tell an emotion just from that?"
"Like how they're happy, sad, angry? Movents of the body tell a lot actually!" Frey excitedly stated. "You can probably tell if soones lying just by the way they move."
"...but their slis... not humans," Ethaniel blinked at the statent from Frey.
"Still a living thing!"
"Then, how did the sli acted for you?" Shinto turned to Frey as he asked.
"How did I thought it acted? Uh... I don't exactly rember..." Frey said. "Happy probably?"
"Happy??" Ethaniel questioned in a confused tone. "How does that look happy?"
"That was my impression of it!" Frey answered back. "It didn't look angry at all..."
"If it wasn't angry... then why did it go and take Raina like that?" Shinto mumbled out.
"Donno. My head's empty," Frey shrugged.
"Great help, Frey..." Ethaniel scoffed.
"I don't see you helping?" she pouted.
"I already gave you my stance didn't I?"
"Ahem... in any case, sothing's up," Shinto quickly intervened as he observed the slis within the area. Noticing that they seed to be conversing with one another.
"Gloop, gloop?" One sli jiggled its body.
"Gloop..." The other sli shivered.
"They're basically holding up a conversation in their own language, I think..." Shinto assud. "Too bad we can't understand them. But... I feel as if they're talking about us?"
"Are they plotting to kill us?!" Kon cried out.
"I don't think so. But I could be wrong, everything's based on assumptions at this point," Shinto sighed.
"Arghh! Why can't everyone just speak the sa language?!" Kon pouted.
Still making their way forward, the group quickly stopped at their footsteps as they noticed a small sli upfront, blocking their way. The mont their eyes locked onto the sli, the sounds from the monsters around them seem to grow louder, until they began to resound throughout the catacombs.
"Gloop...!!"
"G-Gloop..."
"Gloop!!!"
It seed as if the slis were crying out.
"H-Huh?" The group was confused at the sudden situation.
"G-Gloop, gloop..." The small sli pounced forward, approaching the party.
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