Another Villain Appears

After announcing Ryuji is responsible for Pyun-Pyun, he felt that the deep red slime was staring at him with hatred despite the slime having no eye. 'Wow. This slime has an attitude. He attacks my party then berates Pyun for thwarting his attack.' The more Ryuji thinks, the more he realizes that this so-called trump card with the fancy black needle thing or spike is fragile and can be countered even by Pyun-Pyun's tentacles. To be fair, he thinks that this deep red slime is kind of annoying for a beginner villain. And just because he can speak, he blabbers too much nonsense. Is he that drunk with power? He already assumed that this slime had encountered Vreta-chan's missing thing and most likely it is. For a mere few days, this slime had advanced with its magic and he actually can speak fluently. His train of thought stopped as he felt someone is staring at him.

He looked towards the bushes as if someone was staring back with malice. It sent chills to his spine. He had not felt it since the day he was poisoned.

Pyun-Pyun felt the same thing but he was not scared. Compared to the first time he encountered that aura, it would be really intimidating but right now, no matter how malicious the glare of that creature is, it was not as intimidating as before. The wolf brothers did sense it too and they grew wary about the events that will unfold.

The deep red slime was observing his opponents and there was a change of their demeanor. He felt another insect had come to play. He is also familiar with the aura. He jiggled gleefully.

As if from nowhere a woman appeared a few meters from Ryuji. She was hideous and lunged towards the goblin while screaming. "You!!!! You F*cking bastard!!!!"

"Master look out!!!" Raiji was horrified with the woman's snake creature. He never saw anyone, it was not like the fabled nagas or lamias. This was more sinister looking.

Ryuji quickly evaded. He was more than terrified. Ever since that day he got bitten, he had an acute fear of snakes. He encountered several a few days back and threatening his second life gave him quite a scare. He values his life because he has yet to enjoy it and he had a close brush with death because of these slithering creatures. He wanted to block the attack and hit the attacker with a blunt force to retaliate.

"You… shitty goblin!" The woman's attack failed since the goblin had evaded his attack. she flicked her tongue and glared at the goblin with intense hatred. The woman was green but dull in color and she grew a hair with long dark locks. She had a human torso and covered with scales, but her head and her facial features are still the same of a snake, specifically that arrow shaped head that is prominent with vipers. She recognized this little green man in front of her. The guy that killed her favorite mates and buried her alive. If she were not buried alive, she could still have that magic rock and all its power.

"Another insect appeared in front of this king! Creatures in this forest are really tired of their pitiful lives and waiting for me to conquer them." The deep red slime jiggled with joy. With the magic rock that shows him endless possibilities, his dream of being a powerful slime is just around the corner. He can easily kill anyone, or so he thought.

'Ugh the blabber slime has more nonsense to spout with.' Ryuji thought and frowned hearing some idiotic nonsense.

The woman looked to the direction of the voice and she looked like she had won the lottery. "Hahaha! I finally found you! You, scheming imbecile!!" She screamed with glee.

'Oh, another villain… was there a convention for loose screws here.' Ryuji frowned further. He is not so thrilled with this reunion of theirs.

"How dare you curse this king! You shall pay with your life for this mockery!" The slime angrily replied.

"Give it back to me! Its mine!" The woman lunged at the red slime with her fangs bared.

The red slime conjured the murky water and blasted it to the attacking snake creature. It jiggled. "Hahahaha! It is now mine, bitch!"

Ryuji watched the event and yawned. Lowered his cleaver and walked directly to the earth hut where the two wolves and Pyun-Pyun are.

"Master, aren't you going to stop them?" Fuji was slowly regaining his strength. He is now able to sit up properly inside in the earth hut.

"Not a chance." Ryuji replied earnestly. He would not want to get in between the fight of two nut jobs. It was along with his old work policy of work smart not hard, but in this case it's fight smart and not hard. The snake thing already aggroed the slime, so why would he rile the slime for himself. It would be ideal to have them kill off each other right now and whoever wins, he will kill them. However, in the back of his mind that if the fight between these two got out of hand, he had no choice but to defend himself and his party. He was observing the deep red slime and the snake lady launched attacks. "Just don't lower your guard." He clenched his weapon as if trying to be ready to defend himself and his group if the two fighting creatures affect them.

The surrounding area had grown dimmer by the hour, but the snake woman kept attacking the red slime with several strikes. The slime countered using water attacks to blast him off. The lines of "give it back to me" and "its mine" were always screamed on every attack made by the snake woman. Ryuji watched closely at the exchange and sensed something going on with the deep red slime. While deep red slime was busy blasting the woman with water, he noticed that the fog is slowly creeping around the slime and he noticed some static.

Fuji and Pyun-Pyun were more sensitive to the mana around them. Despite the sky turning indigo in color, there was no fog around them thanks to Fuji. He deployed <Aether Absorption> which also increased his recovery by utilizing the mana lingering through the fog. Pyun-Pyun was also glowing for some unknown reason as the area grew darker.

"Now you will all die!" The slime jiggled violently, and a maniacal laugh was heard after. The thunderclouds formed above, and the static is now showing a black and red hue. Then a large thunder struck down the area followed by similar thunder strikes.

"Curse you slime!" The woman cried as she attempted to slither away from the thunder's target zone. With that vast amount of power, it will surely obliterate her into ashes, and she won't be able to have a chance to reunite with the magic rock and claim what is rightfully hers. That mere thought terrified her. Living is one of her priorities as she skedaddles away from the series of thunder attacks. She was still hit by one of the smaller thunders and gave her a shock and burned her scales at her back.

Ryuji was really annoyed at this point. He knew that there is something amiss with the deep red homicidal slime. He also knew that somehow one of the attacks between the crazy snake woman and the equally psychopathic slime would have some powerful attack that may devastate the area. Though he did not expect that the deep red slime can also have thunder since his attacks were only water and the black needle thing earlier. He quickly jumps in front of wolves. He was thinking again of a shield that should block the thunder attacks, the earlier opportunity did not trigger the <Sword of Tartarus> to change. He wished for something that could block that incoming electric power. Anything at this point, so he thought the cleaver had a bigger surface area with its blade. But even if it's a divine item, he asked himself 'Is this enough for the thunder?' He was secretly wishing for it to activate.

The cleaver lit up with its black light. Ryuji knew that to change the <sword of tartarus>, there is a need for a wish or intent to use the item to unlock its mode. The <sword of tartarus> slowly changed again to something round but the diameter is almost as tall as Ryuji and a bit heavy. In Ryuji's imagination it is like a trump card to block the thunder. However, in reality the transformation is taking too long as the thunder strike was a few feet away.

"Master!!!" The wolves shouted with worry. As familiars, they tend to place the goblin over their safety. But the deeper reason would be, they may not be able to survive the ordeal if the goblin perished right now. He is the most powerful among their group followed by the slime. Fuji already thought of this and Raiji was thinking along the same idea, but he still is wallowing with his pathetic performance.

A chime resounded to Ryuji's head. <Familiar Pyun-Pyun learned <Barrier of Holy Light>>