My feet stopped right then and there.
(This is weird, why can't I rember the shapes of irregular monsters? No, rather than that.... What irregular monster race?)
Goblins? Kobolds? Or so other monster?
The existence of irregular monsters is becoming increasingly confusing.
Seeing my feet that had stopped moving, everyone looked at in confusion.
(If I didn't know the form of irregular monsters why did I prepare those 2 monster items?)
I rembered the 2 items that ca from monsters, Calajin's venomous tail and Ros' gallbladder.
"Young master? Is the young master alright?"
"What?"
"Young master looks very pale right now..."
Ah! I rembered that we were moving towards the irregular monsters.
"Everyone! Stop moving!"
I shouted as loud as I could for everyone to hear.
Everyone instantly stopped moving and looked at .
"Look, we're going straight back to the village."
"Eh?"
Everyone looked confused by my sudden decision.
"Don't complain and turn back imdiately but you must be very quiet and stealthy."
While everyone looked confused, Signe imdiately understood what I ant. She took out sothing from her bag, a very slly plant.
"Please take 1 stem of this plant with you."
Signe distributed the plants to all the teams, although most of the teams were confused and didn't want to accept the plants because the sll was so bad but they were forced to accept it after I looked sharply at them.a
Signe and I led the way out while the other mbers followed behind.
"Young master-"
"Shush!"
Signe tried to say sothing but I covered her mouth.
Sothing was moving in front of us, sothing huge. Everyone else was starting to feel it too.
We hid ourselves into the bushes while monitoring what was in front of us.
As the creature got closer, we could finally see the shape of the creature.
The body was a sticky, transparent liquid, it had no spine, no face, every ti it moved all the objects around it entered its body and began to lt.
"...Sli?"
Yes, an enormous sli.
In the world of monsters, slis are one of those creatures that are still debated whether they belong to the category of monsters or other types of living creatures.
The reason they don't fall into the monster category is because they are not aggressive creatures that attack humans and they are in charge of cleaning up the carcasses of leftover monsters.
Even so Sli can be very dangerous because it can lt anything that enters its body, even living things like humans too. But because they move slowly and have a clear weakness, naly the core in their bodies, slis are categorized as weak monsters, naly the E rank.
Even so, why do I feel the need to run away from these slis?
"Hah! I thought a powerful monster would appear but it's just a sli!"
Erlan stood up and started talking sarcastically to while looking at the sli in front of us.
"That fool!"
Seeing the appearance of a living creature, the sli began to move towards us.
"Looks like the young master is still a kid who never saw the outside world huh? Slis like this are weak monsters, slis that are only big can't beat !"
Erlan then picked up his sword and began ordering the other mbers to attack as well.
"Everyone, get into position! Archers, go straight for the cores in its body! It's ti we show our young master the outside world!"
"Mr. Erlan?"
"What's wrong?"
"No, it's just that I don't see the sli core..."
"What?"
We all simultaneously looked at the sli, and sure enough, there was no core at all visible from the sli's transparent body.
(What is this? Why don't slis have cores? Wait, don't tell -)
Instantly, the sli suddenly began to pull out sothing from its body, a kind of tentacle that moved at an unbelievably fast speed.
"What-"
Just as we were looking confused at what had just happened, one of the tentacles went straight through Erlan's head.
"...Eh?"
We all froze to see what was happening in front of us, the tentacles of the sli pierced Erlan's head and then pulled Erlan into the sli.
"..."
Inside the sli, Erlan's body began to writhe in pain. His body seed to be boiled, skin, flesh, bones, and Tampa realized that Erlan's entire body had disappeared. It all happened in an instant.
"Kyakk!"
"Waahh!!"
"R-run!!!"
Seeing the incident, all the mbers panicked and started running away without any clear direction.
"T-wait! If you run like that, you'll be caught by those tentacles!"
As I frantically began to explain that, no one seed to be listening to what I was saying. They kept running out of the bushes.
"Gukh!"
"Agkh!!!"
So people were imdiately caught and so were chased by the tentacles.
"T-help!"
"I don't want to die!!!"
"Kya!!!"
"Father! Mother!"
Seeing the chaos, I tried to stand up and cut off the tentacles but was stopped by Signe.
"Let go!"
"I won't, young master. What you're about to do right now is foolish. The young master should know that it's impossible to save them right now."
"..."
I then looked around , there was only and Signe left here.
"No!!! I don't want to die!!!"
"Soone! Help!"
I heard everyone's frightened and desperate voices, and I could only sit in silence unable to do anything.
(Why? Why did it beco like this? Isn't it strange? Why didn't I know about this sli?)
Seeing my very pale face, Signe slapped directly on the face.
"What are you doing?"
"I should have said that! Are you just going to sit here and wait for yourself to be killed?"
"Of course not! But how can we run away from that dangerous monster!"
Perhaps sensing everyone's fear and despair made unable to think clearly and unable to stabilize my own emotions.
"It's not like you're alone, young master..."
"What do you know of !"
"I know that you're not one to give up just from obstacles like this!"
"...I..."
I looked into Signe's eyes, eyes that did not look like they were in despair at all.
Seeing those eyes sohow started to make my heart beco very calm and made able to think clearly again.
"Sorry, I seem to be a little surprised by what happened."
"Looks like you're still in shock, young master said sorry."
"Noisy."
I flicked my finger towards Signe's forehead.
"Do you already have a plan?"
"Of course, we're going to fight that monster..."
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