Chapter 64 (2/2)

“I don’t know what part of my body is here, but no matter what it is, it won’t cause situation a situation like this. Trust me.”

“Well, I’m not that suspicious of you, anyways. But this isn’t normal at all, is it?”

“Yes. a.s.suming the floors below are in a similar state, I’ve never heard of slimes covering half a dungeon.”

After saying that, she went silent for a moment, and opened her mouth again.

“Something I’ve never heard of before. This is very interesting.”

“Don’t be a greedy scholar here. We’re not sure if we can even make it out alive.”

Ain and his party were the ones currently taking care of the slimes, but if Loren and Lapis had to head back by themselves for some reason, Loren was the one who was going to have to deal with them.

Lapis had extra torches in her bag, but when it came to chasing slimes off on the way to the surface, it would become exceedingly difficult the lower they went.

“Even I’m not such a girl that prioritizes her hobbies to satisfy her curiosity in this situation.”

“That’d be fine if it were true.”

Surprisingly, Lapis had a dangerous air about her that she would enjoy her hobbies to the point of ruining herself.

Loren felt so and let out a weak laugh as he realized that if something were to happen, he considered the options of knocking Lapis out unconscious and drag her across the floor if he had to but left out the option of abandoning her.

“What’s so funny?”

“It’s nothing.”

As he answered Lapis and continued walking, Shayna appeared in his sight, batting her wings.

‘It’s okay Onii-san. I’ll use my power as a No Life King to its full potential to get you and Onee-san to the surface if I have to!’

As Shayna declared with her fists in front of her chest, Loren told her that he was looking forward to it, and then realized that due to him thinking, he was quite behind and started to walk faster, but then stopped abruptly.

“Loren?”

Lapis, suspicious at Loren’s sudden stop, called out but Loren didn’t say anything and looked down at his feet.

Loren felt slight tremors under his feet.

Although it was very slight, but if he could feel it across a stone floor, it meant that something was happening in the corridor ahead, and when he looked up, he saw something that he wished that he hadn’t.

It was the sight of Ain and the others running back as fast as they could.

They were running with all their might, without any regards to the slimes that they were crushing under their feet.

As for what they were running from, Loren saw a large wall of slimes that filled the whole corridor, gushing towards them like a flood.

Loren’s face stiffened, and he immediately turned around and started running back the way he came.

“Hey proctor! Why are you running away!?”

“I don’t want to die!”

“Then at least run after we run past you!”

“Can’t afford to do that!”

There was nothing Loren could do against a wall of slime that filled the corridor barreling towards him.

All he could do was run, praying that it didn’t catch up to him.

Even if he tried to burn them with his torch, against that, he could only imagine himself getting crushed by sheer number.

“Where the h.e.l.l did they come from!?”

When Loren shouted, Cloud shouted back.

“We don’t know! They just came from the other side of the corridor!”

“Move your legs if you have the strength to move your mouths! We’ll get caught!”

“Guys! This way!”

After Feim’s cry, Al shouted out, and Loren sensed that they weren’t behind him anymore.

When he looked back, all he saw was a semi-transparent wall of slime, and didn’t see a trace of the students that were running behind him.

“Did they get swallowed!?”

“No, I think they ran into a side road.”

Since Loren was carrying her, Lapis was able to see everything, and told him all that happened.

Apparently, Ain and the others had ran into a branching corridor to wait for the wall of slime to pa.s.s.

“Would you call this getting separated or losing sight of them!?”

“Does it really matter?”

“Of course, it does! Depending on if it’s them getting separated on their own or if it’s me losing sight of them, it would affect the success of the job!”

“You’re worried about that in this situation…?”

“I mean, if I ran after then ran past, we would’ve gotten caught…”

Even as he spoke, Loren’s speed didn’t falter.

On top of Loren, who was running at a distance from the wave of slimes, Lapis looked back at the wall of slime crashing towards them and said with a sigh.

“I’m sure you can worry about that once we get out of this situation, don’t you think?”

“Definitely.”

Loren felt that she had a point, so he shelved the problem and continued running through the corridor with all his might, at a speed that seemed impossible to reach for someone with a great sword and a person on his back, without tripping on the slimes beneath his feet.