I became the slime toy of the evil dragon girl?

Just a few minutes later, there was no more movement from the deep hole that Qiqi had dug.

Ian called out into the cave a few times, but Kiki didn't respond.

Silence reigned all around, and the underground was eerily quiet, an ominous atmosphere beginning to spread.

Ian muttered, "I hope nothing's happened. Why is there no sound at all?"

Ian and Lilith exchanged a worried glance and pressed their faces close to the edge of the deep cave.

Ian was preparing to cast a detection spell into the cave.

Suddenly, a hand grabbed the edge of the cave entrance, the hideous hand covered in blood.

They were almost face-to-face with Lilith, and there was even blood and mud mixed together, splattered on Lilith's face.

"Aaaaaah!"

Like a scene from the dead returning, Lilith screamed in terror, and her Shadow Sword was about to slash down without warning.

Ian quickly grabbed Lilith's wrist with one of his tentacles.

It was pulled in, but not completely.

Because the tentacles extending from his body are faster than the magical tentacles of [Mind Manifestation], Ian subconsciously uses his own gelatinous tentacles.

But the slime's strength was too low, and Ian's entire body was lifted into the air by Lilith's wrist.

In a moment of desperation, Ian thrust his tentacle straight into Lilith's screaming mouth with a sharp, direct motion, delivering a beautiful blow deep into her throat.

"Yue!"

Lilith's scream abruptly stopped, turning into a dry heave, causing her Shadow Sword to miss its mark.

As soon as Qiqi poked her head out of the cave, a shadow sword came crashing down on her.

Although it didn't hit her, the whistling sound of the blade still made Qiqi shudder. Her hand slipped, and she fell into the hole.

Fortunately, Ian was prepared and had already generated magical tentacles that wrapped around Kiki's slender waist, pulling the disoriented Kiki to the ground.

Ian felt like he was living more and more like a tentacle monster than a slime.

Ian threw Kiki to the ground and said to her, "What were you doing down there, not answering anything? You were acting like a ghost!"

Qiqi's tightly closed mouth suddenly opened, and she spat out a lot of dirt, making a few "pui" sounds.

Then, looking aggrieved, she said, "I forgot to wear a mask, and while I was digging, dirt kept pouring into my mouth, so I couldn't talk at all!"

Playing with bombs too often has damaged my brain. (jpg)

Ian suppressed the urge to complain and turned to Lilith, who was coughing.

"And you? What's wrong with you this time?"

Lilith blushed at Ian's question, turned her head to the side, and stubbornly said, "Even someone as powerful as the Shadow Blade has her weaknesses, like the undead!"

Please... you're a demon! You're a fairy! How can you be afraid of ghosts?!

Ian was completely speechless and stopped paying attention to the two clowns, shifting his focus to the current progress.

Seeing that the lines he had drawn with shadow magic were intact, he said to Kiki, "What happened when you went down there? Why didn't the lines I drew get cut at all?"

Kiki's lips curled into a smile, and she said mysteriously, "Don't worry~ It only requires a little technical adjustment..."

Her slender fingers deftly tapped several runes on the glove, and magic gathered between the glove's edges.

A few seconds later, accompanied by a series of tiny, continuous explosions, a tremor came from underground.

The soil sank, and all the lines Ian drew turned into deep fissures in the ground, completely splitting the plot of land apart.

Ian nodded in satisfaction. Although Kiki seemed unreliable, her expertise in explosions reassured the slime...

Kiki raised her face, her expression clearly saying, "Praise me!"

"Well done~" Ian didn't hold back his praise and immediately activated [Analysis].

Kiki's cut was very precise, perfectly matching the magic veins marked by Ian.

As expected, under the magical vision, the "sweet" magic that was constantly flowing into the land seemed to have been cut off, and the magic input stopped.

The Starlight Honey Fruit bush in front of me was withering at a visible rate; the emerald green leaves turned gray and withered, and the once plump Starlight Honey Fruits shrank.

The rate at which his life force was being lost far exceeded Ian's expectations, but he was temporarily unable to solve the problem of the rapid loss of life force.

The only option is to try to piece the cut-out plots back together immediately.

If, after being pieced back together, the life force can stop losing or even be restored, it means that his analysis of the magical pathways is correct, and the Sweet Forest slicing plan has a chance of succeeding.

Ian immediately said to the other two, "Quickly fill the cracks in the ground with mud."

"Huh?" Kiki was the first to question it.

In her eyes, after the slime appeared in the crevice, it just stood there in a daze for a minute before coming to its senses and trying to fill in the crevice she had painstakingly blasted open. She couldn't help but say, "Did you and Charles plan this out? So that you wouldn't disturb his stupid super teleportation array, you specially sent me out to blast mud for fun?"

Qiqi got angrier and angrier as she talked, her eyes widening and her mouth full of curses.

"That old idiot, if you gave me the budget for his stupid grand formation, I could blow the entire Dawn Kingdom to smithereens!"

Time is of the essence; the magic veins must be pieced back together before these plants die in order to prove that what I have drawn is correct.

Ian didn't have time to explain to her, so he simply kept quiet and pretended to be an expert.

[Mind Manifestation] Release!

Ian manifested a basic earth magic spell—Earth Wall.

The magic was released directly at the fissure in the ground, and in an instant, the fissure was filled with earthen walls. As the magic that controlled the formation of the earthen walls dissipated, the soil was also successfully filled into the fissure.

The same method was then applied to the surrounding land, and the crack in the ground was completely filled.

[Analysis] It is still operating.

Under the magical vision, the severed veins seemed to be reconnected, and the "sweet" magic flowed back into the land.

The Starlight Honey Fruit also stopped its withering process and began to revive.

The obvious change in the bushes proved Ian's success at this stage, which was naturally noticed by Kiki and Lilith.

Lilith's heart was in turmoil. As one of the most sensitive races to magic, a fairy, she could only vaguely sense the existence of magical energy channels, let alone draw lines clearly on the ground.

"How can there be such a terrifying magical connection? My nemesis seems to be even stronger than before... Damn it!" Lilith thought to herself as she secretly compared herself to Ian.

Just as Ian was overjoyed.

A sharp, piercing whistle suddenly exploded around us!

An arrow struck the ground in front of Ian.