Chapter 97—Teleportation Array
Slime#47 stared at his tiny palms in disbelief.
’How did he take it?’ he fumed, eyes snapping to the floating spider near Vael.
Vael grinned and gave him a cold look.
A hole formed in space and devoured the spider.
’A storage skill... he should’ve placed that small tentacle in it too.’ Young Slime’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 time, I couldn’t properly kill it. According to that spider sealed artifact, it had some 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 Slime 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—something that should’ve looked cute.
But to Slime#47, it felt like provocation.
Young Slime’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?" Slime#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, slime," Vael said with a sharp stare.
Slime#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 Slime.
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"How did he appear behind me...?" Slime#47 muttered as he found himself in Mama Slime’s arms.
But the moment he focused his Will power—Crack!—the mental world shattered.
He opened his eyes and saw Vael grinning.
"It’s useless. It doesn’t work on me anymore," Slime#47 said plainly. ’I can’t even touch him, much less injure him.’ His expression turned grim.
’Good... become 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 Slime#47’s furious sight.
’What is he planning?’ Slime#47 wondered nervously. ’I don’t want to be played again... I wanted to keep those sealed artifacts away from that menace.’
He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.
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Elder Slime and Slime#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 time. Chandeliers shattered on the floor due to the battle.
"Pull this carpet," Elder Slime 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 Slime 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 Slime’s eyes twitched as both slimes dropped.
"You’ve got to be kidding me..." Slime#47 said, staring down as they fell. "That’s more than thirty stories."
Young Slime caught Elder Slime’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 Slime ordered, pointing around.
The cracked pieces had fallen all the way down to the fourth floor.
’This place is rotting too,’ Young Slime thought, looking at the mold and rotten furniture. It was no different from the other floors.
They searched quickly.
"Found it," Elder Slime grinned, picking up a silver white stone covered in engraved magic graphs.
"This is...?" Young Slime asked, tilting his body.
"This is what I need," Elder Slime 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 slime asked. ’In a few days, that tree eldritch and the purple guy would appear.’ His core turned heavy as he remembered their power.
In just a few clashes with the purple-haired guy, Slime#47 had already realized—’I’m no match for him. And he still uses a sealed artifact directly on me... like I killed his parents or something.’
"Yes," Elder Slime nodded with a wide grin. "But it will take time."
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After three days...
A huge twenty‑meter‑wide circle was drawn near the fortress entrance, packed with dense magic glyphs.
"It’s done," Elder Slime muttered, sweating as he connected the last remaining line.
Click!
’Yeah... I can’t understand any of this,’ Young Slime thought, staring blankly at the sigils.
Whenever Elder Slime ran out of mana, Slime#47 poured his mana into him.
Because of that, Old Slime 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 Slime thought, checking his reserves.
Elder Slime placed the space stone in the center.
The array lit up in silver white.
The sigils rose upward, forming a twenty‑five‑meter dome, with the space stone at its heart.
"Quick... let’s get going," Slime#47 ordered.
Elder Slime nodded and rapidly placed mana crystals onto the array. Glancing at the space stone’s glow and dome, his eyes narrowed, every mana crystal they had found in the slime farm owner’s house—he placed them all to power it.
"Need more..." He muttered, glancing around.
Thud!
Young Slime’s eyes sharpened. ’That tree eldritch is here. And the purple lad shouldn’t be far.’
"Quick. Teleport them," Young Slime ordered.
Wob!
Under his command, slimes 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 slimes vanished.
"Quick!" Young Slime barked as he heard Thud! Thud!growing closer. ’The tree eldritch...’
"We need more crystals," Elder Slime said grimly, activating the array again as it filled with slimes once more.
End of the Chapter.