Episode 37: An Unsuspected Encounter (1)

******* Carolus' POV ********

Great.

What a perfect way to end the day.

Just watching the sun goes down on the west while RIDING A HORSE RUNNING AT FULL SPEED.

Damn. This giant slime won't let us go.

He became a 9 block-ish size now and I tried looking at his status using the eye of ender to see if I can fight him.

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Name: Giant 91%

Level: 91 (91 up) 69%

Race: Legendary Slime

Age: 689

Status: Healthy

Health:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Abilities:

Heat Resistance: Level 5 (Max)

Cold Resistance: Level 5 (Max)

Poison Resistance: Level 10 (Max)

Ender Dragon's Gifts:

Slime Body - cannot age no matter how much time passed.

Slime Supreme Leader - can command thousands to tens of thousands of slimes by his will.

Slime Regeneration - can absorb the surrounding slimes to heal itself.

Toxic Body - a poisonous body that can kill and dissolve anything.

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After seeing his status I just said nope and ordered to run away.

I'm not in the mood in fighting a giant monster that can heal itself indefinitely until he runs out of slimes to absorb and I also don't see any end in the number of slimes in this swamp.

The reason that they are not a lot of trees around here is the slimes dissolve them to increase their size and split themselves to half. We managed to witness it by seeing the giant slime hop around and dissolving the swamp trees he managed to land and giving birth to new slimes.

I also notice a percentage in his name suggesting that he is not in his final size so he is probably about 10 or so blocks.

He is also missing five hearts and all the Legendary Monsters that I met has 50 of them so probably because he is still not complete.

I turned my head around to see if we managed to outrun the giant slime. I suddenly saw that he took a great leap and is now slowly gaining on us.

Goddammit. If only he is not in his territory surrounded by thousands of slimes, I can kill him but I guess I'm not lucky today.

We are galloping at the highest speed our horses can achieve and we are now starting to slow down probably because the horses are getting tired.

We are absolutely dead once that monster reaches us.

I think pretty hard for a solution to escape this monster when finally I remembered something.

I quickly held an ender pearl in my hand.

I threw it as hard as I can in the distance until it is no longer visible in the eye.

I hold on Rose's shoulder and imagined her as a part of me. I also imagined the horses we are riding.

I heard a leaping sound behind us and I quickly raise my head above us to see that the giant slime is now at our heads.

He is now descending and we are totally getting crushed or absorb.

'Come on, ender pearl! Break already!' I shouted in my head while looking at Rose.

I can't see her face because of the helmet but I can totally guess that she is worried since she didn't complain about my hand on her shoulder.

The giant slime is about 5 blocks away from us.

'Come on!'

4 blocks

'Oh! God!'

3 blocks

2 blocks

I suddenly feel something crushing my body and the scenery quickly changes.

The ender pearl landed in the 1 block deep swamp water.

The horses are now frantic and trying to shake us off.

"Easy, boy. Easy." I said to my horse while rubbing his neck.

My horse calmed down after a while but Rose was kicked off in her horse and is now face down on the water.

I quickly dismounted in my horse and calm her horse down since it is now trying to run off.

After calming the horse, I quickly check on Rose to see if she is alright.

I was about to touch her when suddenly she stands up and removes her helmet.

She then started vomiting and I just waited for her to finish her thing.

"What was that? My body hurts like it is being crushed by something." She said to me while wiping her mouth using a towel.

"It is teleportation using an ender pearl. You'll get used to it eventually." I just said to her and quickly ordered to get back on our horses.

We managed to distance ourselves from the giant slime but they are still slimes around us and are now slowly hopping their way in our position.

I can see Rose is still groggy from the ender pearl teleportation but she quickly mounted her horse and we started running again.

We can now barely see anything in the surroundings since it is really getting dark but we still pushed forward.

I was about to use a Night Vision VI potion to help us see when suddenly I noticed something flying towards us.

I quickly equipped my bow and fired but the thing that is hurling towards us breaks up hitting the arrow and a liquid is sprayed all over Rose and me.

I noticed that I have now a Night Vision VI in my status and I can see the surroundings like the sun is still up in the sky.

Rose is shocked too probably wondering who threw that bottle.

I can see something in the distance and both me and Rose ready our bow.

It is riding what appears to be a skeleton horse and there is a hooded person riding it.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here? Two foolish travelers." I can hear the person voice talking to us and she sounds like a woman.

Man. I have trouble distinguishing the gender in this world unless I managed to hear their voices.

I didn't talk back to the stranger and neither does Rose.

Silence filled the area until the stranger slowly moved her horse towards us.

Rose quickly draw her bow ready to fire.

"Put down the weapon, Rose." I just ordered her since I'm trying to figure out what this stranger is doing.

The stranger slowly pulled down her hood and I can see that she is not human.

Wait, what? What is she?

I was shocked to see her appearance.

She has a feature of a zombie but yet she still looks like a human. She is like a zombie villager but she can talk so it is really strange.

The stranger then smiled brightly towards us like we are best friends which is weird.

"Follow me. I'll take you to safety." The stranger then said after looking at us for a moment and she is now slowly traveling away from us.

Rose looked at me probably wondering what we will do.

We have nowhere to go and we are still surrounded by slimes. Our horses are tired and it is now night time.

We got no choice.

I just started following the stranger and Rose was hesitant to follow but she quickly moved forward her horse after a while.

We just slowly traveling, following the stranger until we managed to reach a house or what appears to be a giant hut.

No. This is a witch hut only bigger.

I was about to order to run away when suddenly the stranger dismounted in her skeleton horse and tie it near the front door.

She quickly opened the door and motioned us to get inside.

Okay. My mind is telling me to run away but my instinct is telling me to trust her.

Hmm. What to do?

I just dismounted my horse after a while and tie it up beside the skeleton horse.

Rose also followed my actions and we are now inside in the hut.

It is beautiful inside and fully lit up.

I can see the stranger sitting in the rocking chair with a black cat on her lap.

"Took you so long to get inside that I started to wonder if both of you decided to run away. That would have been stupid since you will probably wind up dead. Hahaha." She said to us and she put her head on the cat while laughing.

Okay. I can now confirm that she is crazy.

The stranger then stands up putting the cat on the table.

She started walking towards me and switch my weapon into a sword ready to swing at any time.

"No. No. No. No need to be cautious. I am a friend. Hahaha." She just said to me while starting to get close.

She is now half a block away from me and she raises her hand slowly to my head to touch it.

I was about to attack her when suddenly I decided to just let her do it since I'm curious about her.

"I never thought I will see another person in my life wearing diamond armor. This is very interesting." She said to me while her hands are now slowly going down in my body.

I put away my sword in my inventory and stopped both of her hands from going to a place I don't want her to touch.

She just laughed at me while blinking her eyes quickly like she is seducing me or something.

I just opened my inventory and held an item in my hand.

"Oh! An eye of ender. You also have one." She said to me and I can see her face is full of shock and admiration.

I pointed the eye of ender to her and it breaks into tiny pieces till it turns into dust.

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Name: Sisilla Hasani

Level: 0 (Restricted)

Race: Undead

Age: 527

Status: Healthy

Health: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Abilities:

Crafting Level 10 (Max)

Enchanting Level 10 (Max)

Brewing Level 10 (Max)

Cartography Level 10 (Max)

Redstone Level 10 (Max)

Melee Combat Level 5 (Restricted)

Range Combat Level 3 (Restricted)

Weapon Efficiency Level 5 (Restricted)

Poison Resistance Level 10 (Max)

Heat Resistance Level 0 (Restricted)

Cold Resistance Level 2 (0 up) 10%

Ender Dragon's Gifts:

Undead body - cannot age no matter how much time passed.

Battle Restriction - cannot improve in battle no matter how long the training or how many battles won.

Level Restriction - cannot gain any experience from battle.

Inactive Abilities:

Inhuman Strenght Level 2 (0 up) 56%

Inhuman Speed Level 2 (0 up) 56%

Inactive Goddess's Gifts:

Partial Immortality - The body ages slower than an average human.

Monster Hunter - Inhumane Strenght and Speed Level will increase for every monster killed.

Potion Master - all potions used are more efficient.

Fist Warrior - melee combat skills using hands are more efficient in battle.

Ender Dragon's Curse - all of the Goddess's Gifts is blocked and can't be used and can't be seen.

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Whoa! This is the longest status I have ever seen in this world.

She has a lot of gifts from the goddess and from the ender dragon. Though the ender dragon's gifts are more like a curse.

I also saw her used an eye of ender to me which is shocking since I didn't notice it because I'm busy reading her status.

Damn. I was careless.

I quickly threw her on the floor and she just continued laughing like a lunatic.

I stared at her while she is staring at the ceiling. She is probably still reading my status though I wonder why others can see other things in my status while I can't see it. There is a strange thing going here. I feel like someone or something is trying to hide something from me.

I can see Rose on my side dumbfounded about what is happening here.

Thankfully, Rose just remain stand still and not doing anything reckless.

The woman in the floor named Sisilla Hasani did a backward roll and is now standing in her feet staring at me.

"Never thought I will meet you, Oh great Hero." She then said to me while smiling brightly.

What? What is she talking about?

She then fixes her clothes and hair.

"My apologies for my rudeness. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Sisilla Hasani. Former Queen of the Chaephitopia Kingdom. It is very nice to finally meet you." She said to me while bowing.

Great.

This night is getting weirder and weirder.