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"...!!" Upon realizing his breathing within the black fog created by the rat king became much clearer, Ethaniel hurriedly swept his sword in an arc, quickly protruding out a bright light that cleared away the rats around him.

Soon after breaking free from the rats, Ethaniel wasted no time as he glanced over towards the back of him, noting that Shinto and Rustly were busily making their way over to him.

"Human!" Rustly cried out. "We mustn't waste any time, Reru is having trouble with Fischier!"

"What do we do?" Ethaniel frowned as he felt the fog that had lingered for a long time dissipated away, only remaining the shadows of a warm feeling. Moments later, his eyes scanned around the area, still in a combative stance. "We're busy with these annoying guys..."

With one swing of his sword, he sent out a pillar of light that shone down towards the Farchu that were frantically making their way over to the group.

"I don't know!" Rustly clicked his tongue. "But think of something with Shinto!"

"Huff... huff..." With his eyes on Rustly, Shinto hurriedly shook his head whilst gasping for air. "Whatever Rustly is saying, I'm sure it's in relation to Reru. But, not now. Frey and Kon are still struggling."

Shinto soon averted his gaze over to the far distance, quickly noting that Frey and Kon were in a struggle against the countless rats that were surrounding them.

"So, we go to them first and then to the boss?" he stated. "Then what about the horde then?"

"We'll worry about that later." Continuing to gasp for air, Shinto held onto his staff as he moved forward. "The fog that I made should be enough of a distraction for them to be unable to catch us."

"Hey- Humans!" Reru clicked his tongue.

"We'll catch up with you in a bit," Ethaniel stated.

...

Within the area by the distance, Frey and Kon who was on her shoulder battled in a frantic manner, pushing away the rats that were pouncing and attacking.

"Huff... huff..." Frey breathed in heavily as countered countless attacks from the rats with her parry skill. However, in turn, her health dropped, lowering from the yellow zone into the red. "Ugh... these rats are annoying!"

"Kiikk!!" Despite the countless times she had punched and kicked, the rats remained persistent as ever, continuing to pounce and attack like there was no tomorrow.

"Ack..." Kon let out a tired breath as he shot out a basic attack, filled with magic energy over to the rats coming from behind Frey. "At this rate, we'll be dead!"

"Argh! I don't wanna die!" she gritted her teeth, enduring the pain whilst punching and turning some of the rats into grey-ash. However, in the place of the empty spots, the rats filled in the gaps and carried on their onslaught. "There must be a way to get out of this mess, right?!"

Even when the air around them had cleared away, Frey and Kon were still struggling. Unlike Shinto who couldn't focus on casting spells due to the poison and countless attacks from the enemies—Frey didn't need to mutter out any chants and could directly use the skills immediately.

However, even then, compared to Frey who had the back up of Kon with Ethaniel who was fighting alone—There was a clear line of difference. Ignoring the ploy of skills availability and status of a class, Frey failed in comparison to skill. She couldn't dodge the attacks nor could she avoid the inevitability of being surrounded much more than Ethaniel.

"Hah... What do we do?!" Kon cried out as he shot out [Orbal Shadow] that had just come off cooldown, in turn increasing the orbs around him to two. "Master and Ethaniel are busy..."

"There must be something!" Frey swung her fists upon the end of [ Parry Fist ]'s duration. "Something... something... Argh! By the time I think of something, I'm dead!"

"Do we even have time to think!?" Kon tiredly jumped forward as he scratched at the rat. Soon after, he landed on Frey's shoulder, though almost missing.

"I don't know!" Frey continued receiving attacks as her health neared the edge of the bar. "Something... something..." Still not wanting to give up, she continued thinking whilst abruptly moving around and dodging the few hits from the rats that could've resulted in her ashen death.

"Kikkk!!" As the rats angrily persisted on, a sudden white flash of light shot forward, quickly swallowing up the rats around her. Moments later, a figure appeared in of Frey, tanking the hits.

"Argh... Barely made it in time," Ethaniel's voice protruded out as he swung his sword across an arc, sweeping away the rats into a distance.

"Hey... Frey, Kon..." Shinto muttered out a tired tone. "Why and how were you so far from us?" To not only add onto the agility debuff that the group had received, with the fact that Frey and Kon were miles away from Shinto's original position, it meant that it had taken longer than the estimated time to reach there. 

"Ahem..." Frey coughed out. "I uh... Got caught up in a mess..."

Before the rats had begun their onslaught of attacks, Frey and Kon had frantically tried to dodge the fog that Fischier had protruded out. However, the reach of the fog was even much wider than their expectations, thus, they were caught within the clouds and were in the previous mess till Shinto and Ethaniel had arrived.

"You..." he shook his head as he stopped at his words. Soon after, Shinto opened up his inventory as he took out a small red potion, quickly giving it to Frey. "Whatever... Just drink this to heal back your health. I've no available healing spells so we'll result to this for the time being."

"T-Thanks..." she uttered out defeatedly whilst taking the potion from Shinto.

[ Small Healing Potion ]

Type: Potion (Healing)

Upon drinking the potion, recovers 300 HP.

*Cannot drink during combat.

*Upon drinking this potion, you will be unable to drink another one relating to this line of alchemy again for one minute.

...

Without a moment's hesitation, Frey quickly gulped down the potion in one go, recovering her health from the red zone to the yellow zone.

"You're done?" Shinto asked as his eyes turned towards Kon's health, noting that his health was in a considerable high range. "If so, then let's make haste."

"S-Sorry master..." Kon mumbled out.

"...what was that?" Just as he was about to make his way over to Reru, he suddenly turned back. "Did you say something?"

"U-Um nothing!" Kon hurriedly stated. "Let's go! That slime is in trouble!"

...

Whilst making their way over towards Reru and Rustly who were both fighting against the rat king, the rats from behind the group chased after them.

"Kiikk!!"

"H-Hey, are we just gonna let them chase us?!" Frey cried out.

"Tch... Despite clearing out the front line rats, the backlines are making chase," Shinto clicked his tongue as he observed the back of him, seeing the glaring red eyes at him. "My skills are still on cooldown, but..." Moving his eyes back to front, he fastened his pace. "Even then, we'll focus all strength on the king. Defeating him would make the rats run away."

"Are we even going to make it in time before getting caught in another struggle?" Ethaniel questioned.

With the number of rats killed, the debuff of the group's agility was slowly decreased to a much lower percentage, thus allowing them much more breathing room. But, even so—If they were to slow down, the rats would catch up in no time.

"We'll have to run at our fastest," Shinto stated. "I hope everyone's agility is on par..."

...

"Reru... Rustly," Fischier muttered out as he swept his tail across the two slimes, hurriedly pushing them back. "You should give it up. Master would treat you all well if you and the Sleras join us now."

"Argh... Shut up!" Rustly angrily shouted out as he protruded out a slime wall from the ground, quickly blocking the attacks of the rat king. From leapt forward as he swung his slime sword at the king.

"Just keep your mouth shut and let's just get this over with!" Reru uttered tiringly as his blade clashed with the tail of the king.

"Hmph... so persistent..." Fischier clicked his tongue. "But it's fine. Just a few more days. A few more days," he repeated to himself in a systematic tone. Moments after, his claws aggressively struck at Reru from the side, pushing him back.

"Urk...!" Reru cried out as his back hit the wall. However, he shook off the pain as he leapt forward once again. "And in a few more days, this damn curse will be the end!"

"Who says?" Fischier stated as his tail swept within an arc. "You'll be losing today for master's plan. In fact... It's not a few days in actuality, one of your kind will soon be turned tomorrow."

"Can you just shut up! This is not the king's speech anyways!" Rustly seemed to be frowning as he shot out multiple spikes of slime over to his side. But, in reply to his attacks, the king swiped his claws at the spikes, breaking them.

"If it's not my speech, then whose?" Fischier stated as he was about to protrude another fog once again. However, a blinding light soon struck at him from behind. Following that, a wave of light soon attacked him as well.

"Who says?"