Chapter 57 The race from the west

As Lieg stood in his epic cool guy pose for a bit realizing that, nothing was happening. The slimes were just surrounding him, which so happens to be not what he was expecting. He kept his pose has his eyes started darting from left to right,

Still nothing happen "I saiiidddd… Well then lets, get to work!".

Still no response but just when the slime that was in engulfing the entire village, reaching right up to his feet. We shift focused to Obi's group,

"Cyclone Magic: Walls of blades!",

As Raga by stabbing his hands into the ground summoned a wall of blades. To block the narrow passage jumping back onto the carriage, while Elika was meditating to keep her enhance spell on the carriage up without suffering mana deprivation. Obi's at the helm, going full speed down the mountain from the slime oozing down the path.

(Dammit this weapon's bullshit, even my half pure stone craft to it is causing it to break).

Raga thought as he held Obi's favorite knife he made himself. Absolutely disappointed by the end results of teaching him for years,

"Well at best it's got at least four to five walls of blades left in it".

After saying this immediately jumps out of the carriage again, to summon another all of blade above them as a blob of slime was heading straight down onto the carriage from running off of the trees above hanging over. As he saw how far the carriage had gone leaving him, going down the mountain he thought.

(Normally we wouldn't try going down this steep mountain this fast, but this creeping fear it's nothing like I've ever seen before. It's slow but it expands, it flows as if it's hunting).

Raga turn the blade into the ground, expanding the wall of blades blocking the passage way. And immediately start sprinting back to catch up to the carriage, but looked back behind he sees the slimes going over the wall of blades.

"Still on the pursue, I see?".

Faki in a panic shouted "It's no use it's coming down too fast, and we're just not going fast enough",

"Can't we just go down faster?" Faki asked.

But as he asked that out came blood from Elika's mouth, from a loud cough as she replied with her eyes closed.

"Hmmm… sure, like I'm not putting out more than I can ever get out of this little body of mine".

"Come on guys we're gonna make it, we're just half way off this mountain".

As the they loudly panic, Raga still a few meters up could still hear them and thought.

(Wishful thinking but unfortunately seeing as we were on a intermontane Plateau where Rengma was built on, 1200 meters high going down on the west side which is a more crooked slope, of 900m downward descent in a few turning side passages. On foot the average time would be between 7 to 9 hour to make it down to the valley. For the average carriage at a safe speed would be between 5 to 6 hours a trip down or up, the terrain not made for fast travel the mountain filled with old wet caverns to keep the stream flowing to the holy kingdom steady. Honestly we have a better chance going down the streamline than actually traveling on this one path road).

But as he was concerned for his members well being an idea came to, he murmured,

"The stream over the road" Has he barely dodges another splash of slime coming from above his head.

Rolling on the floor he placed his left hand on the ground, holding knife in his mouth then placing his right hand on the wall next to him before it was engulf by slime. He could feel the vibration of rushing water flowing from within the walls, and right before the slime could touch a hair on his head.

"Cyclone Magic: Das bled uthal-puthal!",

As he twist his right hand clockwise in his left hand counterclockwise creating spiral drill burst of green energy into the mountain.

The air pressure alone from the attack blasted the surrounding slimes away causing it to flow across from the gaping hole, as Raga disappeared into the mountain.

Back to Elika group, "How far away from the valley are we?", one of the villager asked.

"We are about 600 meters down, we should be reaching the white lily Valley soon, once there we can pass on the track the greenery there should stop the slimes from flowing any further" said Obi.

"Once around the track we can easily to go over the bridge, the creeping fear will flow right into the river" explained Elika.

But just before they could give sigh of relief, they could hear the pitter-patter from something landing on the roof of the carriage. One of the droplet drop between the gaps behind Obi into the carriage front, they were able to see what was falling on the carriage top. It was a dead bat covered in slime just starting to digest, as soon as Obi clothes had make contact with the slime he had immediately thrown it off of his back. The slime had made its way on to the carriage from the blast of energy Raga how to use to go into the mountain,

Elika open her eyes her right arm out and cast "Éclat de nettoyage".

When a light burst of holy energy, the slimes within the carriage evaporated. The Carriage just a few more hours away from reaching the valley, had to enter a path hollowed into the mountain which meant all the Slime from above would run right on top are the carriage. Realizing this Elika was about to clasp her hands one more time for a major spell.

"Not yet".

When she was stopped by has Obi as he slowly steered the carriage over to the wall he started to chant.

"Become my shield, protect me from danger outside my view, follow along the path I decide. Earth magic: Gandagee kavar sir kee deevaar!".

Has he jams his hands into the wall of the mountain causing a giant roof of Stone to protrude out of the mountain, covering the carriage as well as following along the lines of the track making all the Slime that would flow off of the hills above flow off without touching the carriage.