Cosmic Champion
Prologue
Episode 4 – Boss
----------------------------------------
“Ke!!!” Zeke’s suddenly shouting causes blood to gush out of his mouth once again. The pain in his back also sparks up.
“Just when I’m about to die?!!? S**ty game!!!” He curses the sudden event; as confusion, anger, and pain amalgamates.
In that moment, the Slime Queen is about to launch another attack on him.
Crack!
Before the monster could do anything, a cracking sound happens at its back.
When Zeke tries to look at it, he sees its dark-blue colored body covers in black substance.
The affected little slime jumps into the river simultaneously.
“Now!” A woman’s voice follows the cracking sound.
Pop!
The next second, a burning arrow is shot at the monster igniting its body.
“Grrrrrr!” The monster growls as it turns around to find the culprit.
While the giant slime is busy, a middle-aged man sneaks to Zeke as quiet as possible.
“Shhh!” He put his finger on his lips to signal Zeke.
He then brings out a syringe with red-colored liquid and injects it into the young man’s leg.
Zeke on the other hand, widens his eyes.
It is not the fact that he feels surprised but rather; scared.
He wanted to stop the middle-aged man, but not only he couldn’t, he was also too late to do so.
[You are injected with a small potion. Your Health point recovers to 25.]
A report notification from the device emits, causing the middle-aged man to frown.
With the notification abruptly sounded, the Slime Queen quickly looks back.
“Damn it! We have to go now!” the middle-aged man curses in panic.
He tried to get himself together then quickly supports Zeke, and flees the scene with him.
“Hm!” the moment the monster is about to follow them, it gets interrupted by another fire arrow.
Frustrated and annoyed, the Slime Queen sends a tentacle from its body into the river and quickly absorbs the water to douse the flame.
….
As it’s showering, the monster also searches for the arsonist.
Nothing is present except trees, bushes, and countless stones.
“I’ve got its attention…. Pray that they both will get far before it changes its mind….”
The archeress hopes for the two while making herself as quiet as possible in a bush behind a tree.
If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it's taken without the author's consent. Report it.
When the Slime Queen crawls closer to her position, her heart pounds faster and faster.
...
After some time, Only the flow of the river could be heard, and the monster’s noise is no more.
The woman slowly peeks her head out from the bush.
“Finally…”
When nothing could be seen aside from the nature, she slowly walks out of the bush and follows the two.
….
Drip…… drip…
When she arrives near the tree that Zeke was hit, she feels something touches her shoulders.
She has a strange feeling; A chill run through her spine.
“S**t!!” When she looks up, she sees the monster’s dropping down.
The moment she decided to look up, her foot already moved forward by her instinct.
And because of that, she barely escapes death.
The queen of the slimes dropped to the ground only a few steps behind her.
If she hadn’t taken a step, she would’ve ended up inside of it.
“Grrrr!” The monster growls once again.
“F**k! Why is it so damn smart?!”
With panic and fear, the woman hit her legs as fast as possible.
Splat!
The Slime Queen shoots out a big blob of mucus causing the ground in front of her to be dirtied.
“Tch!” the archeress sees the ground being covered in mucus, and exclaims in annoyance.
She quickly takes a left without delay.
For whatever the mucus is there, she doesn’t want to find out in this moment.
And that is her grave mistake.
“Ouch!”
Only a few steps took in that direction, and she is now on the ground.
There was already another puddle of mucus where she was heading. Her feet slipped and her bottom hit the ground quite hard.
The puddle was so clear that it’s hard to detect.
“It wanted me to take this route in the first place!!?!?”
When she tries to stand up, the slippery mucus suddenly adheres her body causing her to lose balance and falls to the ground once again.
All her struggles to escape the mucus only exhaust her.
As she is surprised by the monster’s intelligence, it’s creeping closer.
When the monster stands tall before the archeress, her eyes that are supposed to be shaking, radiate a cold and vicious sight instead.
“Oi!” A man’s voice explodes from behind the monster causing it to turn around instantly.
The reason it didn’t attack the archeress before doing so was because it sensed something.
“Geeeew…”
The crying of a little slime emits from Zeke’s grasp.
He returns with the greased little slime from before.
“This dude is nuts as hell…..” the middle-aged man thinks in his mind while standing by to help the girl.
The moment the Slime Queen sees the blade pointing at the little one, its pupils shrink in an instant.
It’s furious more than before, but it can’t move its slimy body carelessly.
“Let her go and I’ll do the same to this one!”
Zeke bargains against the Slime Queen with sternly voice and face.
The little slime’s eyes moisten up as if it’s about to cry.
…
For a moment, everything is silent.
The Slime Queen was trying to weigh its options.
The next moment, the sticky mucus on the archeress’ body changes its form.
When she realizes it has become liquified, she shakes her hand and the mucus flies away just like water.
When Zeke looks pass the monster and sees his saviour could stand up, he nods his head to signal her.
After that, he slowly puts the little slime to the ground while pointing the sword at it; meanwhile, the archeress too, slowly walks away from the puddle.
Both the queen and the swordman exchange stares without any blinks. None dares to make a mistake.
…
Pew!
The big monster is the first to make a move. It shoots a small amount of its mucus with a speed that Zeke cannot react in time.
The mucus covers the blade rendering it futile.
In the next moment, as Zeke’s trying to understand what’s happened, the monster shoots out its mucus once again; this time it targets the ground, paving the way to Zeke.
Because of the body that is similar to snail’s, the slimes are slow on land.
However, if the land is painted with liquid….
“!!!”
“Does it think it’s the black hero in a cartoon or what?!?!?!”
Zeke is shocked at what he’s witnessing; it’s not because the supposedly slow creature is approaching him with an incredible speed, but because of its intelligence.
Besides creating the path to make itself travels faster, the Slime also changes the mucus to be more slippery to increase the speed even more. Thus, it can reach Zeke within 5 seconds despite some distance.
Zeke quickly snatches the little slime from the ground and throws it on the side as far as possible while enduring the pain on his back.
The monster is stunned by his action. Its eyes are fixed on the little slime despite it’s still in the middle of rushing.
“Now!”
Zeke quickly runs away on the opposite direction of the little slime then shouts as loud as possible.
With his shout, the monster comes back to its senses. Its head turns back to face the blonde man.
In that moment, the monster finally reaches Zeke. He’s now within its grasps.
Whoosh!
However, before it can grab his body, a sound of something cut through the air rings out.
The monster instinctively has a hunch. It quickly turns its head to where the little slime was thrown again.
It sees a burning arrow flying toward the direction. When it turns around, it sees the woman holding a bow.
Her fierce gaze meets its eyes. They both glanced at each other before the archeress runs away.
“……erhhhh!” It growls in annoyance.
In the end, it decides to stop chasing Zeke and quickly rushes to where the little slime was thrown.