Chapter 470: The Others Also Fighting Goos
While Roy and Celestine fought the goo, the others also entered similar looking room in the path they have taken.
Shelia and Candy entered the reinforced room with a gla.s.s cage as well. Candy found the letter with the same content as the one Roy found. The Professor has too much time to spare.
"Candy. There"s something inside the gla.s.s," Shelia said as she can smell something is inside it.
"Hmm? Brown goo? A living one?" Candy a.n.a.lyzed the thing inside the gla.s.s cage.
"Maybe it"s Victoria"s friend," Shelia said.
"I doubt it. This must be the thing that was told from the letter."
"Let"s kill it then!"
Unlike Roy and Celestine, this time, it"s Shelia who attacked first. The goo realized the killing intent from Shelia, and transformed into a dinosaur just like the one Roy fought.
Shelia"s attack didn"t do much on the dinosaur as it has no effect.
"Interesting. Fine, I"ll slash you with my claws until you"re dead!"
For this fight, Shelia just attacked at the dinosaur again and again. Part of what can be called as the dinosaur"s flesh got all over the room as Candy hid her body behind the desk so she won"t get dirtied.
But Candy realized that the separated flesh of the dinosaur is moving and trying to return back to the place where Shelia is fighting the dinosaur. So, she used fire magic at it.
But the magic resistance of the goo is too strong. Even just a small part of it, Candy needs to use higher firepower to burn it to ashes.
"This might be a bit difficult. Shelia, let me fight it. Seems like physical attacks are useless against it. Magic can damage that thing, but I need bigger firepower," Candy said to Shelia who is still fighting the thing that no longer look like a dinosaur.
"Okay! I guess I need to train even more," Shelia said.
Unlike Roy who instantly thinks of another way to defeat the enemy in front of him, Shelia is not that smart. She"s a creature who loves fighting and the only way she can think of to defeat enemies she can"t hurt is for her to be stronger.
Candy burned the dinosaur with a powerful fire magic, and just like the situation with Roy, the dinosaur turned into a human.
"Hey, are you okay!?"
Seeing that the enemy in front of her turned into a human, she thinks that it was a human experiment and after defeating it, it turned back into a human. But that"s wrong.
The naked man in front of her tries to attack Candy, but Shelia quick enough to notice that as she pierced her claws to the chest of the enemy.
"That was close. If you get hurt, Roy will be sad. I don"t want that," Shelia said.
"You do know that if you get hurt as well, Roy will still be sad? Anyway, thank you for saving me. But what is this thing?"
While Candy is curious about the thing in front of her, the fit adult male body transformed into a senile old man. And the two prepared to fight again, when a portal opened.
"I"ll take care of that guy. Seems like you faced the same thing as I did. I"ll bring him to Varadis to see if the people there can cure that guy."
Roy appears from the portal, grabbed the senile old man, and opened another portal to Varadis after pouring something black into the man"s mouth.
"You fought that thing as well?" Candy asked.
"Right. You also got the letter? Anyway, you can continue going this path. If you have the same letter, I guess the paths will be connected again ahead. We"ll be meeting there before the exit. See you later."
Roy left as quickly as he arrives. This time, he"s checking on the others.
Wendy and Graham has difficulty facing the goo in front of them. The dinosaur has been defeated after series of wind magic and light magic attack from the two of them, but the human the goo transformed into was too strong for them.
"He can use earth magic to defend himself. My wind magic is not strong enough! Graham, stall it for five minutes! I"ll try something bigger!" Wendy said.
"Can you really defeat it? Sigh… why do I have to do this? Well, shadow clone! Let"s defeat that thing!"
Graham who has called his shadow clone to help him fight, but still found no way to defeat the enemy. So, he agreed to stall for time with just him and his clone.
His clone will fight up close since it doesn"t matter if it dies, while Graham attacked using light magic from afar. But the enemy is not just strong. He"s also an artificial master level earth mage.
"Alright, I"m done. Graham, move!"
Wendy used a powerful and concentrated wind magic toward her opponent and trapped him in a wind sphere. Where every wind inside is. .h.i.tting him again and again as sharp as a sword.
"Is it done?" Graham asked.
Suddenly a portal opened. The man from inside the portal quickly pierced the chest of the enemy. It was Roy who attacked the enemy.
"You also fight one as well? And you have the letter? Man, the Professor is the most annoying creature in the world," Roy said as he pulled out Reizpear from the enemy"s chest.
"You also fought one?" Wendy asked.
"Right. Shelia and Candy also fought one as well. I bet Angela is fighting the same thing. I"ll take this guy… I mean girl to Varadis and have the doctors there see if they can find anything," Roy said.
The man turned into a little girl after being stabbed by Roy. Just like before, Roy put a Blobby inside her mouth to keep her inner organs from deteriorating, and transported her with portal.
"That goo from before is most likely immune to physical attack. But when it transformed into human, it"s not. But even in human form, they are still strong enough to kill me if I"m not careful," he said.
"Then, you"re checking on Angela last?" Wendy asked.
"Right. The two over there are both mages, so they should be fine."
After saying some other things like the paths will connect, Roy left again. This time, it"s toward Angela"s location.
Angela is currently fighting the dinosaur alone while Sara ignores the fight and investigate the room.
"Other than the letter, there"s nothing important in this place," Sara said after checking the room.
"Really? What about Victoria"s friend here? It keeps regenerating over and over again how many times I attacked," Angela said.
"How about using stronger magic?" Sara suggested.
"Nah, it"s also good for my training. I"ll use stronger magic once I know I can"t defeat it with my current strength," Angela replied.
Just as Roy told her, Angela only uses the strength of an advanced level mage instead of using her full strength of an expert level mage.
"It"s also good using earth magic in this place. Maybe I can learn to manipulate metal like Celestine," Angela said.
"Don"t take too long. Our mission is to investigate this place, not to fight. If the weaker version of you have trouble, the others might have difficulty fighting the same thing. We must hurry to help them."
Even though Sara said that they need to hurry up, she"s still calm.
"Don"t worry. If anything happens to them, Roy will come to help them," Angela said full of confidence.
"But from the letter, it seems like we will be facing the Professor after leaving this place. If he helps the other, he might have used quite a lot of mana to use portal. Well, he can just drink mana potion to help recover his mana."
"Right? Though it seems like he"s already here."
At the same time Angela said that, a portal opened.
"You"re not done yet?" Roy asked Angela as soon as he saw her fighting.
"It will be done soon," Angela said.
"Once you defeated that form, it will turn into a human. I"ll fight that so we can finish sooner," Roy said.
"Is the human form stronger than this one?" Angela asked.
"At least it can use magic. And the physical strength is similar to the one you"re currently fighting. You should have defeated that thing sooner so it will transform and you can fight it before I arrive," Roy said.
"Sigh… I guess I"ll finish it now," Angela said as she casually used blazing ice magic. The ice that burns on the enemy.
The ice stuck on it, so no matter what the enemy is doing, it won"t come off.
And the dinosaur transformed into a human being. It instantly used earth magic trying to attack, but Roy is faster and stabbed his heart. And Roy did the same thing to this enemy like the three from before.
"What are they?" Sara asked.
"I don"t know. But it has two hearts. Once one heart is destroyed, it will transform again. The one I fought transformed into a small kid. Candy"s enemy turned into an old man. Wendy"s enemy turned into a little girl. And this one turned into another old man. What I can guess is that it"s an experiment to combine two or more beings into one. At least two of them are humans," Roy explained.
"How cruel!" Angela shouted.
"Well, since you"re done here, I"ll be going back to where Celestine is. See you later."
Just like that, they defeated the four brown goos. In which all of them turned into earth mages later on.. And their body transported to Varadis to be checked.