Raid: Toxic Slime Cavern (8)

Wait... This thing isn't trying to kill us...

"What the hell," I muttered as the slimes tried to corner us against the wall of the cavern.

Is it trying to lead us somewhere?

I glanced at the leader, who stood firm, a face full of determination after seeing me try and save him.

It looked as if I moved something within him, so I, of course, was going to take full advantage of this…

Squish

The wall of toxic slime suddenly moved forward, causing us to step back once more, but this time we hit the cavern wall.

Our backs were against the rocky surface, and I could feel the toxic slimes getting hungrier and hungrier… yet it never even tried to make a move, despite how helpless we were.

Come on… Eat me… Eat me…

The slime reverted to a more normal form, and this time I couldn't see the end of it when I stared deep into its slimy body.

It felt as if I was staring into the abyss… a slimy abyss.

Suddenly, black and green tendrils shot out from the slime once more, latching onto my ankles and wrists and then pulling me deep into its body.

I caught a glimpse of the leader trying to save me by reaching out his hand desperately, but it was too late as I was inside the slime… of course, I didn't die, though.

I pretended to be screaming in agony while trying to dive farther away from the leader's position, so he lost sight of me.

Eventually, it worked out perfectly as I escaped from the other side of the slime, who just ignored me.

"*gasp*... *gasp*..."

I had held my breath for at least one minute, and I wasn't the best at it, so I was fighting for my life in that damn slimy mess.

"*cough* *cough* *cough* *cough*... That should be enough," I muttered, and just as I had thought, the leader blew up into an angry mess.

His blood-red aura shot out from the top of the slimy wall, so I made my way behind a tree before seeing the slime slowly shrink.

But, it wasn't doing anything while being absolutely destroyed as it kept closing into the leader until I saw it press against the wall of the cavern.

And all of a sudden, it stopped.

Silence.

The blood-red aura was completely gone, and the slime began to shrink rapidly.

I was confused for a bit until I realized the slime had disappeared entirely, leaving a gaping hole in the middle of the cavern wall.

"Huh? How is that possible," I muttered.

Breaking the shell of a cave-like dungeon is impossible, and you could say the same for an open dungeon that actually has a sky.

If you dig down far enough, you'll reach rock or a material that is impossible to mine, break, shatter, melt, or do anything to… It's literally impossible.

So then, how did the dungeon wall break? Or maybe… Just maybe... the cavern wasn't the entire dungeon…

I walked over to the gaping hole and stared down into the massive cave below where the leader was fighting against the toxic slime.

But, now that he had so much more open space, he was able to make quick work of it, but his anger continued to rage.

I almost felt a bit touched by how angry he was for me.

As soon as the entire slime had been cut down, my eyes began to roam the walls of the open cave, below me trying to find a way to get down.

In order for the next part of my plan to work, I needed to keep this guy around… and gain his trust once more.

But why would I do that? Wasn't I just trying to kill him? Yes… and so?

Before, I wanted to kill him as we had the rest of the raid members, and after we killed the boss, I could easily kill him in order to up my reward at the end of the raid... And he was the only one in the way.

But now, the raid team is in shambles… I guess it is slightly my fault, but at least I got two stat points out of it... and I guess I did underestimate and overestimate both the leader and the raid members... So I'm at fault for this...

Though… this actually might work in my favor once again.

Suddenly, a massive wave of toxic slimes appeared in the cave below me, and I could see the leader's face instantly pale.

It looked as if he had seen a ghost.

After regathering his melting mind, he ran in the opposite direction of the wave, and I assumed the slimes calculated this.

But, slimes are incapable of thinking of such things.

They only have three things on their mind: Eat, Attack, Sleep. That's it.

"So it must be the boss," I muttered upon thinking back to the articles I had read on the boss of this dungeon.

After breathing out a long breath, I glanced back at the trees behind me, which had toxic vines slithering up their trunks.

I walked towards them, ripped them off the tree, and quickly tied them together into something akin to a rope.

As I was only about one hundred twenty pounds, I didn't have to make something very strong, but it still had to be sturdy enough to not rip.

After tugging the makeshift rope a couple of times, I tied it to one of the large boulders that were the rubble of the massive hole in the wall.

It looked to be kind of sturdy, but that wasn't enough. I wasn't about to die because I wasn't careful enough.

If I die in my area of specialty, I'm going to kill myself in the afterlife.

After placing a few more stones near the bottom of the boulder, where the rope was, I gave it another tug, allowing the elasticity to bounce my arms back slightly.

"Perfect," I muttered before grabbing onto the end of the rope and then tossing myself with the rope down into the cave.

Once the rope had reached its lowest point, the elasticity allowed me to travel a few feet further down.

And after hopping off, I saw the rope get shot back up into the air.

It was like bungee jumping, but I let go at the lowest point.

"Alright, let's check out what the hell is going on here," I muttered.