Chapter 97—Teleportation Array
Sli#47 stared at his tiny palms in disbelief.
’How did he take it?’ he fud, eyes snapping to the floating spider near Vael.
Vael grinned and gave him a cold look.
A hole ford in space and devoured the spider.
’A storage skill... he should’ve placed that small tentacle in it too.’ Young Sli’s eyes twitched as he glanced at the transparent spiraling vortex beside Vael.
He pivoted instantly, trying to save at least the fox’s sealed artifact.
"Last ti, I couldn’t properly kill it. According to that spider sealed artifact, it had so ability to save itself—two heads and two pairs of hands," he muttered, dashing toward the fox’s body’s vanished spot.
An orange fox mask appeared in its place.
"Damn it... my ves... se... l..." the sealed artifact muttered furiously, then fell into deep sleep like the other two artifacts.
Young Sli picked up the mask, but—
"Where...?"
He looked up and found the mask already in Vael’s hands.
The mask was bigger than Vael’s entire body. At a glance, it looked like a small figurine holding a huge object—sothing that should’ve looked cute.
But to Sli#47, it felt like provocation.
Young Sli’s eyes narrowed. His mouth clenched tighter than ever as he hissed, "You!!!"
"Demonic Pulse!"
Both his palms erupted with condensed beams of demonic force.
Two beams tore toward the small humanoid in the sky.
ZZZ!
"What just happened?" Sli#47 muttered in disbelief as a chill ran down his core.
He snapped his gaze behind him.
Vael stood there, staring coldly.
"Don’t push your luck, sli," Vael said with a sharp stare.
Sli#47 dismissed his beams and roared, "Demonic Fist!" He punched with his right fist, wrapped in black demonic force.
Whoosh!
"Edict of Yesterday," Vael cast, flashing behind Young Sli.
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"How did he appear behind ...?" Sli#47 muttered as he found himself in Mama Sli’s arms.
But the mont he focused his Will power—Crack!—the ntal world shattered.
He opened his eyes and saw Vael grinning.
"It’s useless. It doesn’t work on anymore," Sli#47 said plainly. ’I can’t even touch him, much less injure him.’ His expression turned grim.
’Good... beco cocky...’ Vael’s lips curled up. ’I need him to be overconfident. Arrogant enough to think he can withstand this skill forever.’
Whoosh!
Vael vanished from Sli#47’s furious sight.
’What is he planning?’ Sli#47 wondered nervously. ’I don’t want to be played again... I wanted to keep those sealed artifacts away from that nace.’
He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.
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Elder Sli and Sli#47 returned to the sealed room. The walls and floor cracked with large cavities from the battle.
Rotten carpets clung to the floor, soaked through with mold. Green stains crawled up the walls, and broken debris lay scattered.
Old paintings hung crooked. Furniture rotted; ornate decorations—everything had decayed, eaten by ti. Chandeliers shattered on the floor due to the battle.
"Pull this carpet," Elder Sli said, tugging the blackened carpet in the middle of the room.
But it won’t budge—mold and rot had fused it to the stone.
Young Sli grabbed the carpet at the center and yanked it up.
The carpet tore free—Crack!—the entire floor beneath broke apart as well.
"This carpet held it together..." Elder Sli’s eyes twitched as both slis dropped.
"You’ve got to be kidding ..." Sli#47 said, staring down as they fell. "That’s more than thirty stories."
Young Sli caught Elder Sli’s hand as they fell.
"Demonic Bind!"
A single sturdy dark vine shot out from the wall.
He grabbed it with his free palm. ’It’s hot...’ he noted. He’d expected a thick plant-like black vein to feel cold.
Using the bind, they slowed and landed safely.
Thud!
"Pick up all the broken debris and floor pieces," Elder Sli ordered, pointing around.
The cracked pieces had fallen all the way down to the fourth floor.
’This place is rotting too,’ Young Sli thought, looking at the mold and rotten furniture. It was no different from the other floors.
They searched quickly.
"Found it," Elder Sli grinned, picking up a silver white stone covered in engraved magic graphs.
"This is...?" Young Sli asked, tilting his body.
"This is what I need," Elder Sli replied. "A space stone. It’s connected to another similar stone... placed in the location I want us to reach."
"With this space stone, you can build a teleportation array?" the multicolored sli asked. ’In a few days, that tree eldritch and the purple guy would appear.’ His core turned heavy as he rembered their power.
In just a few clashes with the purple-haired guy, Sli#47 had already realized—’I’m no match for him. And he still uses a sealed artifact directly on ... like I killed his parents or sothing.’
"Yes," Elder Sli nodded with a wide grin. "But it will take ti."
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After three days...
A huge twenty‑ter‑wide circle was drawn near the fortress entrance, packed with dense magic glyphs.
"It’s done," Elder Sli muttered, sweating as he connected the last remaining line.
Click!
’Yeah... I can’t understand any of this,’ Young Sli thought, staring blankly at the sigils.
Whenever Elder Sli ran out of mana, Sli#47 poured his mana into him.
Because of that, Old Sli finished the array in just three days.
’Lucky my mana regeneration got faster because of Mana Furnace... otherwise this array would’ve never been completed so quickly,’ Young Sli thought, checking his reserves.
Elder Sli placed the space stone in the center.
The array lit up in silver white.
The sigils rose upward, forming a twenty‑five‑ter do, with the space stone at its heart.
"Quick... let’s get going," Sli#47 ordered.
Elder Sli nodded and rapidly placed mana crystals onto the array. Glancing at the space stone’s glow and do, his eyes narrowed, every mana crystal they had found in the sli farm owner’s house—he placed them all to power it.
"Need more..." He muttered, glancing around.
Thud!
Young Sli’s eyes sharpened. ’That tree eldritch is here. And the purple lad shouldn’t be far.’
"Quick. Teleport them," Young Sli ordered.
Wob!
Under his command, slis rushed into the array.
They piled in—standing over one another—until the circle was packed.
The array blinked with bright silver white light, and the slis vanished.
"Quick!" Young Sli barked as he heard Thud! Thud!growing closer. ’The tree eldritch...’
"We need more crystals," Elder Sli said grimly, activating the array again as it filled with slis once more.
End of the Chapter.
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