I became the slime toy of the evil dragon girl?

As soon as everyone turned around, they saw the arrow whose tail was still trembling.

Before they could react...

A powerful surge of magical energy erupted from that arrow!

In an instant.

Ian felt the soil beneath his feet come alive, becoming like quicksand, or like countless tiny hands pulling his body downwards!

At the same time, the surrounding fruit bushes and trees began to dim and shrink at a visible speed, as if their vitality was forcibly drawn out and injected into the mud at their feet.

[Mud Swamp Technique]!

They realized that danger was approaching.

Ian immediately used a [catapult start], his dark blue body transforming into a pinball that flew to the side.

Lilith also randomly transformed into a shadow, and Kiki's boots burst into a ball of blazing flames, both rushing out of the swamp spell's area of ​​effect.

If we wait another two seconds, we'll be completely trapped in the quagmire and at their mercy.

But just as the exploration team was about to leave the swamp area...

A sudden change has occurred!

The ground cracked at the edge of the mud spell, and countless dark purple vines with sharp thorns emerged like mad snakes.

Instead of attacking, they frantically intertwined and entangled.

In an instant, an impenetrable wall of thorns was erected!

Everyone was stopped at the same time, and Lilith was also forced out of the shadows by natural magic.

Next, two old gray trees entwined with ancient vines.

Suddenly, a teeth-grinding creaking sound rang out as the old tree's roots were pulled from the soil, and the entire tree stood up like a person.

Seven or eight pupil-less eyes, formed from moss and insect holes, opened on the surface of the tree trunk and stared intently at Ian and the others.

The cage formed by the vines trapped the exploration team and the two tree-men inside.

The swamp spell was still dragging them along from beneath their feet.

"A barrier of thorns! And a twisted treant!" Lilith cried out. "This is half-elf magic! We've been ambushed!"

She moved swiftly, attempting to slash at the thorn wall with her shadow sword.

The blade pierced through, but it felt like cutting into sticky rubber.

She had only managed to cut a few thorns when her sword was firmly gripped, and more vines began to coil around it!

Lilith's sword-wielding hand became entangled in thorns, so she immediately created a new Shadow Blade in her other hand.

Just as she was about to cut through the thorns binding her, the ground beneath her feet broke open once more!

Deep purple vines emerged from the ground and bound Lilith's ankles.

Then, it quickly moved up her calves and bound Lilith's entire body.

"Shadow Escape! Huh?! Why isn't it working...?"

Lilith tried to escape by transforming into a shadow, but found that the shadow magic within her body was disconnected and completely unusable.

"Ahhh! These vines are poisonous! Don't get caught on those thorns... Ughhhh!"

Lilith was already tied up like a dumpling, and could only shout reminders to Ian and Kiki, but her mouth was sealed shut by vines halfway through her sentence.

Ian felt that Lilith might have some kind of constitution that was easily bound, which was not even detectable on the panel, and she was always tied up.

Using the same trick again, vines sprouted from the ground beneath Ian and Kiki's feet.

"Whoa!" Kiki let out a strange cry as another powerful explosion occurred at the sole of her boots, killing all the vines that were sprouting from her feet.

At the same time, the powerful thrust temporarily freed Kiki from the swamp spell's restraints, and with the continuous explosions of the large backpack behind her generating momentum, she leaped and bounded through the thorny cage like a nimble monkey in the mountains, using the explosive force.

The vines at Ian's feet had just begun to sprout.

A burst of pure flame erupted from his jelly-like body, instantly turning the nearby vines to ashes.

Three figures with pointed ears emerged from the woods.

Two of them were carrying longbows, while the leading half-elf priestess held a staff. She asked in confusion, "Dragon's breath? Slime?"

Clearly, she couldn't understand how these two things, representing extreme strength and extreme weakness, could be combined together.

But that extremely destructive, scorching aura was undoubtedly dragon breath.

The scent of dragon's breath made the half-elf priest frown even more, and he threatened Ian and the others, each word deliberate and forceful.

"You are destroying the forest! And humans, who carry an aura of destruction and restlessness, are not welcome. Surrender within three breaths. Otherwise, the next arrow will not be just a warning."

Upon hearing the half-elf's words, Kiki reacted immediately, retorting, "What human? I'm a dwarf! Haven't you ever seen a 1.7-meter-tall dwarf?!"

After finishing her rant, Qiqi pulled a larger red crystal ball from her backpack.

Seeing the runes on the crystal ball trembling, and the dangerous aura emanating from it, Ian felt a stinging sensation throughout his body.

"That brainless Kiki wants to blow me up with her?!"

The crystal ball was activated just as this thought crossed Ian's mind.

The runes engraved on it began to distort.

The intense light was about to burst through the surface of the crystal ball.

The intense magical fluctuations even distorted the light around the crystal ball!

Ian and the half-elf priest attacked simultaneously.

Ian used Modular Casting to instantly create a super defensive spell on the crystal ball, composed of many protective spells.

Rock retaining walls, earthen walls, water cages, wind shields, and so on...

Even with Ian's extraordinary magical power limit, most of his magical power was consumed.

If it weren't for the lack of time, Ian could have used up all of his 5,000+ mana.

The crystal ball, which had just been enveloped by magic, saw its surrounding thorny cage rapidly shrink, transforming into a single, enormous vine.

The crystal ball was lifted into the air at high speed by extremely thick vines!

In the blink of an eye, it has grown to a height of tens of meters and is still growing upwards!

"Phew~" Ian breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the crystal ball fly so high.

With so many layers of protection, it should be impossible for the slime to be killed by explosions.

"Huh? What?! Help!!! Even a Shadow Fairy's life matters!"

On the giant vines that had sprung up from the ground, a shadow fairy was hanging, and she could be vaguely seen flapping her wings in the air.

It turns out that the half-elf priest had gathered all the thorns into one in order to reach a sufficient height, but had not untied Lilith.

At this moment, Lilith was only two or three meters away from the crystal ball that was about to explode, even though dozens of protective spells had been added to the crystal ball.

But, at such close range, with almost insane power, and with completely unprotected flesh.

A shadow fairy might survive, but it's highly unlikely.

At the last moment, Ian activated [Mind Manifestation] again, casting a spell that might be useful.

"I did my best. My beloved little Mo... my mount, I can only say that its fate is in the hands of destiny," Ian thought silently.

Boom!

The deafening explosion pounded against Ian's eardrums, and he felt the ground shaking.

The rapidly expanding fireball irritated everyone's eyes, its orange-red and pitch-black colors swirling wildly as it released terrifying energy akin to the birth of the sun.

The sky, which was originally covered with dark clouds, was suddenly blasted open, and the shockwave, like an invisible giant hand, pushed the surrounding clouds to continue spreading the hole in the clouds.

"Everyone is alive..." Ian thought with relief.

Suddenly, something else came to mind.

"Except for Lilith?"