Chapter 66 (1/2)

Ch. 66: Saving After Grasping the Situation

Doing something about the slimes that were chasing them was top priority for Loren and Klaus.

Even if they were trained or had the power of a Gift, Loren and Klaus were only human, and couldn’t escape the boundaries of fatigue.

Even if they could move for long periods of time, it didn’t last forever, and they knew that they would eventually tire and get swallowed by the slimes chasing them.

“Klaus. Go hack at it for a bit. I’ll carry Ange in the meantime.”

“You want me to go in there and kill myself!?”

“It’s okay. I believe in you.”

“I don’t trust that unfound trust of yours!”

Loren thought maybe he could do it, but seeing how Klaus declined, it seemed that his > ability wasn’t as convenient to be able to upset overwhelming quant.i.ty.

“Not as useful as I thought.”

“The thought of trying to do something about that with just a sword is ridiculous!”

Loren thought that shouting would just make him tire faster and shorten the time for the slimes to catch up, but he did acknowledge the fact that he was the one that made him do so, so he decided not to say anything.

They continued running, but after turning a few corners and running through straight corridors, they realized that the pressure that they couldn’t feel the pressure from behind them anymore.

Slowing down slightly, they looked back and saw that the overwhelming number of slimes had disappeared.

“Are we saved…?”

“What? How? I mean, we should be happy if we’re okay, but…”

The fact that they were saved all too soon and so suddenly without notice, made Klaus suspicious that something worse might come their way, and started looking around.

As Loren braced himself for whatever would come next, not understanding their situation, Shayna appeared in front of him.

‘It’s okay Onii-san. I took care of the slimes.’

Shayna said proudly, wanting to be praised.

Not sure what to do except to appreciate her efforts in his mind, and when Loren asked her for an explanation, apparently Shayna had used her powers as a No Life King to save them from the wave of slimes.

‘I used energy drain on the slimes and weakened them to death.’

Slimes were very inferior and simple creatures.

Of course, if many of them group, they became threats that even Loren and Klaus couldn’t deal with, and they had just experienced it, but individually, they weren’t strong at all.

Shayna had drained the life out of each one of them little by little, so that Lapis wouldn’t notice, and wiped them out.

The effects didn’t show immediately since there were too many of them, so even if a bunch of them had died it didn’t make much of a difference, and because she couldn’t strengthen the powers due to Lapis’ high senses.

‘I can’t do this too often. Onee-san almost noticed.’

If Lapis found out that the astral body of a No Life King was residing within his own, both Loren and Shayna had no idea what sort of actions she would take.

They had a feeling she would try to purge the No Life King as a duty of a priest, or she might follow her curiosity and start to view Loren as a target of observation.

Or it might be something completely different, but in any case, the one thing they did know was that it wouldn’t be anything good, so both Loren and Shayna were being careful not to let her notice and didn’t want her to find out.

After reminding her to be careful, Loren opened his mouth, trying to convince the others otherwise.

“Maybe it found other prey somewhere else?”

“Wouldn’t that be the students? We need to go help…”

“You trying to catch the attentions of the slimes again by moving around recklessly?”

Loren stopped Klaus, who set Ange down and started to wander off, and although he had a worried look on his face, he knew that Loren was right and stopped trying to go off.

“Then what do we do?”

“First of all is our current location. You can find it out with some time and walking, right?”

“Yeah, let’s start with that.”

Klaus and Ange were given a map since they were proctors as well.

Loren followed as Klaus spread out his map and started walking.

Ange didn’t have a problem with her body so she could walk on her own since the threat of the slimes had pa.s.sed.

But Lapis’ limbs, which were prosthetics, were still unmoving so she was still gripping onto Loren’s back, but there was no way they could tell Klaus and Ange that.

“Did your priestess get injured?”

“Don’t worry, I’m just here because I want to.”

Lapis’ response to Klaus was unfriendly.

It might’ve been a reaction to Klaus being careless around women, and while Loren smiled, thinking that this is what meant to be unapproachable, but Ange frowned and glared at him.

As they followed Klaus, who smiled nervously and sped up to escape from Ange’s glare, a moment later he pointed at a spot on the map.

“We’re right here.”

Loren couldn’t help but doubt him at the quick identification of their current location.

He didn’t really think that Klaus would be able to find it.

But when they started moving, the corridors matched what was on the map, which meant that Klaus indeed knew where they were, and Loren looked at him in surprise.

“It’s not a big deal. I’ve been down here many times back when I was a student.”

“This is the first time I’ve ever felt glad that you’re with me.”

“You aren’t really complimenting me, are you.”

When Loren told Klaus that there hadn’t been anything to compliment him about, he seemed to know that, as he shrugged in silence.