Black sorcerer

Chapter 10: The outside and the inside

It's going to blow up, everyone hide!

Jaro was frankly unimpressed by the dying swirl of slime. If a meteor couldn't kill him, why should he fear an explosion of this magnitude?

The reason he hadn't intervened earlier was because he was tired, but mostly because he didn't want to. He even hoped that the four of them would die here! Of course, he also had a crazier idea, which was to use a monster to kill himself!

This idea had occurred to him before he left the city. After all, killing himself had been his wish for a long time! Whether it would work or not, he wanted to try it!

Why had he come up with this idea? Apart from the fact that he held thousands of lives in his hands, the main reason was that he didn't want to live anymore. Those days of unspeakable pain had made him lose the meaning of life.

But when Alice turned and ran towards the slime on the verge of self-destruction, something stirred in his heart.

Although they had only met less than a day ago, Jaro knew that Alice was not a reckless person. Of the five of them, she was the most meticulous. She would not have acted without a reason. How could she, who had inexplicably come into this world, die so easily? Even if she was going to die, she would not choose to die in a place like this!

Just as he had thought, Alice was not reckless. The moment she turned around with her sword raised, Jaro noticed that she was murmuring something, as if she was chanting the incantation of some powerful magic.

Jaro couldn't tell what it was, but it seemed to be some kind of light magic that had been temporarily applied to the long sword. However, he realised that this was not the case when the long sword pierced the fluorescent body of the slime.

Alice's goal was not to prevent the slime from exploding, nor was it to kill it. The sword wounds left by the Red Lotus had all been repaired, but not the arrow wound.

The arrow had long since been dissolved by the slime's body, but the powder left in the wound not only hindered its self-healing, but also caused immense pain, worse than salt on a wound.

The arrow wound was very small to begin with, but as the slime's body swelled, so did the wound. Self-healing was already slow, and now that the wound had grown, it was no easy task for the slime to stay sane.

All Alice had to do was to plunge her sword into the wound and then use all her strength to send the slime flying. Even if she couldn't send it flying, she had to get it as far away from the others as possible.

As for why she did this, apart from the intuition that the self-destruction could no longer be stopped, it was also because she had no idea how far the self-destruction of this slime would spread.

Of course, none of that was the main reason. In any case, she would not risk her life for a team that had been put together on the fly. Even if she were to risk her life, that would not be the reason.

The reason was the oath she took when she joined the Knights' Guild this morning. If she couldn't even protect her teammates, what was the point of being a Knight? Just face the slime and retreat, how cowardly...

Xial, don't just stand there, hurry up and go!

Facing Alice's threatening long sword, the slime was still very tenacious, but it was still pushed back more than ten metres.

Seeing that the most hated Xiu was about to run more than 100 metres away, it was enraged. Before it could fully mobilise the magic in its body, it exploded. Until the moment of its death, its gaze was still fixed on Xiu's back.

With a loud explosion, the surrounding trees and ground were destroyed. The others were fine, but Alice was in trouble. The moment the slime exploded, she was blown away and her only long sword was shattered into pieces.

If she hadn't temporarily redirected the white light on her long sword to form a small light barrier, she would definitely have been killed. She was lucky to escape with only minor injuries.

When Jaro arrived, she tried to get up: 'Don't move. I don't know any healing magic, but I do have some common sense. Your arm needs...'

'No, I'm fine. Are you all right?

Having used her last ounce of magic to treat the wound, Alice collapses limply into Jarro's arms. Now that she has no energy left to fight, she just wants to get up, and Jarro really doesn't know what to say.

Alice, you really screwed up this time! If you hadn't been so lucky, we would have really lost you as an important team member! You've done really well, and when we get back, I'll buy you a good sword! Don't move, I'll bandage your wound first.

If they had decided to retreat earlier, they might have had a chance, but now it was too late. Just as Xiu finished bandaging Alice's arm, the slime that her companions had summoned appeared. It would be very difficult to break through the siege.

Fortunately, these monsters moved very slowly, so they had time to prepare. Having arrived in this world so cluelessly, Honglian did not want to die. She still had many clothes she wanted to buy and wear, and she still had many delicacies she had yet to enjoy. How could she die in such a place!

Faced with such a life-or-death crisis, the first countermeasure that came to her mind was the bottle of medicine powder she had repaired: "Xiu, since this bottle of medicine powder can hurt monsters, take it out quickly!

Seeing his teammates injured, Xiu blamed himself. Aside from the two bottles of precious medicine powder he bought while wandering around, he doesn't seem to have been of much help.

Despite his self-blame, he must first get everyone out of danger. He quickly handed one of the bottles of powder to Honglian and began to apply the powder to the dagger he had not yet used.

Jaro was not afraid of death, but when he saw everyone else racking their brains to find a way out of their predicament, he was moved: was death really so terrifying?

He had always thought about facing death with equanimity, but now that he saw everyone's faces full of fear, he had a new interpretation of death: death is something everyone has to face, it may be really scary, but death is not the end!

But it would be nice if you could do something meaningful before death comes, like giving people peace of mind. After all, no one wants to leave behind too many regrets before they die!

Jarou had a lot of regrets. Apart from self-destruction, his greatest wish was to resurrect the innocent people who had died because of him.

But after this incident, his mentality had changed. He wanted the four people in front of him to return alive, and he wanted to see how far they would grow in the future.

With this decision, Jarou's whole temperament suddenly changed. His eyes no longer seemed distracted, and his sharp gaze kept scanning the slime less than 30 metres away.

But just as he was about to go all out, Honglian shouted, 'There are too many monsters. It's going to be very difficult to get out of here safely. I have a suggestion. I'll be responsible for distracting some of the monsters, and you can use this time to retreat quickly! Don't worry, those slow-moving slime can't defeat me. I'll catch up with you soon! Everyone...'

Alice, who had noticed Jarro's transformation, wanted to say something about it, but when she heard what Red Lotus had said, she quickly put her thoughts aside. Red Lotus, your fighting skills are really good, but you should take off those high heels, right? Hmph, before we left, I already told you to take off those high heels, but you... Never mind, you put them on first!

They were a pair of white cloth shoes wrapped in a transparent bag that looked very clean. After Alice had put on the standard long boots, she put them into the mini rucksack she was carrying.

Not wanting to refuse her kindness, Red Lotus quickly changed into them and set off: "Thank you! These boots are great, they're really comfortable! Don't worry, I'm not going to die! Hey, blue-shelled snails, I'm over here, come and get me!