After 4 hours, Jacko finds himself tired out, eating some of his bread as he watches Sarah reviewing her notes. "Jacko, take a look at this." She says with a large grin on her face. Jacko groans and looks at the paper. "What is it now?" He says.

"If you take a look at this, your Slime Heart reacts everytime you summon a slime, correct?" She asks. "Well, yes." Jacko says. "And you say it appeared after what sounded like absorbing an Elder Slime's Slime Heart." She asks. "Yes..." Jacko scratches his neck. "That means the Slime Heart you have now enhances the heart you used to have. Want to know something more interesting? That means you had a Slime Heart to begin with." Sarah told. "Wait, what?" Jacko suddenly got interested. Sarah holds Jacko's shoulders. "Don't you get it? Slimes are the only ones who can absorb and summon other slimes, hence they cast slime magic with slime runes on them." Sarah said. "Wait...Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Jacko felt intrigued, yet disturbed. "That means you're a slime, Jacko!" Sarah laughed.

Meanwhile, two mages stand before the two rocks. One of them then taps on the rock, Duke then sees them through the hole he opened and immediately closed. "Shit." He then takes up his Fire orb staff from the near his post along with wearing a helmet. He then presses a button to open up the den with it's wooden contraption. "What brings you Magekeeps this late of the day?" He asked. "We seek the Slime One." The Magekeeps said unison. "You're all fucking creepy, you want the Slime One?" Duke asked once more, stalling time as he then used the fire staff to conjure a light fireball to hit a button on a wall, causing the sounds of clanging bells all around the den. "We do, seek the Slime One. Bring him to us and you shall be spared." They said together. "You best get your ass beat first!" Duke yelled as he then runs to them with the intention of knocking them down with the Fire Orb Staff. The Magekeeps then looked at each other and then they bring out their Water Orb Wands to cast Bubble Bewilder, a barrage of bubbles then emerge from their wands and Duke jumps out of the way, but the bubbles kept following him. As Duke was being chased by the bubbles, he dragged his Fire Staff's orb through the ground to collect dust, then turns at the bubbles to use a Fire Blast, causing the high speed dusts to pop most of the bubbles as then takes the chance to run through the incoming bubbles by spinning his staff around in his hand and then smacks away one of the Magekeeps' wand as he uses the end of his staff to hit his head, while using the position to use a Fireball at the other Magekeep, popping the incoming bubbles and knocking the wand of his hand.The Magekeep then felt the orb of Duke's staff nudging his neck.Thrn exerts his strength into conjuring a powerful fire blast to blow away the head of the Magekeep.He then flips the Staff to then place the Fire Orb at the mouth of Magekeep on the ground "Fuck off Magekeeps." He said as he incinerates the Magekeeps head with a Fireball into his mouth. He then looked at the distance and sees more blue glowing eyes in the distance. "God dammit!" He then shoots a light fireball at the button on the wall, slowly letting the den close as he walks back into the hut city, seeing most of the fighters ready thanks to the bell.

"Magekeeps!?" Rift suddenly woke up when he heard the sound of the bell. Sarah and Jacko heard it. "Fuuuuck, didn't think they'd be here soon." Sarah groaned as she then wore some kind of backpack while packing her studies on Jacko. "Wait, where are you going?" Jacko asked, just stunned after what she told him. "Den's under attack, don't know why, I was expecting them to come later." Sarah then walks out of the door through the hut. Rift immediately followed her. "Come on Jacko!" Rift said as he hurriedly equipped his knives. Jacko gulped as he also followed, fearing that people may die near him again.

Duke stood by with 5 other fighters. The smiths and the food providers were refrained from fighting for their lives are too valuable. Water starts to seep throuh the cracks of the den's entrance. "Sorry guys, this was on me." Duke says, as the Magekeeps then broke through the doors with water spells coming at them. Two of the swordsmen managed to dodge and distract some mages while the only archer finished them off with swift and accurate hits. Duke runs up to a distracted mage and hits his chest with the Fire Orb on the staff and then blasts him away while bursting into flames into another mage, causing them both to explode. Duke then gasps as he barely dodges a large water orb shot at him. He looked at where that came from and sees a Magekeeps without glowing eyes. "A Magekeeps Elite..." He muttered, then he notices that more Magekeeps start to surround him, about 5 in total, the rest of the fighters have fallen, but there used to be 30 of them earlier. "I am impressed, you managed to hide from us for so long." The Magekeeps Elite says while taking off his hood, showing his black hair and dapper mustache. The Magekeeps wielded a golden Water Orb wand, charging up a water attack for Duke's final moments. "A shame, you have to witness your fall twice, Duke Fearno, Former Guildmaster Of Dust Town." The Elite Magekeeps recited. "I've run out of things to lose!" He yelled as he dropped his staff, there was no escape now.

"Not on my watch!" A female voice then soon followed, a whirring of wood machinery and steel was heard in the distance as something then drops right in front of Duke.

The Tsunami Blast them fires at the thing in front of Duke, after the attack was finished. It was revealed what fully blocked it. Two wooden palms of mechanical hands that are attached to Sarah's backpack. "How...that was just wood..." The Elite stammered. He knew it was coming, but simple wood blocked the attack!?

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The wooden palms then open up and shows their holes, with fire then shooting towards the Magekeeps Elder. Clearly, the best way to defend the fire attack was with a water wall. And so he did, then suddenly he witnessed the fire burn through the water wall and into his body. His robes had magical resistance, yet he screamed in pain as he was being alive. "HOW!? There's...no way! D-dragon...orb...?" He says, as his body turns to ash almost instantly.

Sarah smirked as she then let's the wooden machinery return to her backpack. "You good, Duke?" Sarah asked, catching Duke laughing. "You were way too late." He said. Sarah then looked into the distance. "Maybe not." Sarah says. "What?" Duke looked at her. "Do you want to know why I've returned, Duke?" Sarah says with a grin. "Hmm, I never thought you would at all." Duke said. "I've returned to get rid of the damn Magekeeps and take back Dust Town." She said. Duke looked shocked and pleased. "Are you sure? They already set up four Mage Towers there." Duke said. "Duke, I have a Dragon Orb at my back, I've worked on that thing for years." She says. "A machine powered by a Dragon Orb, can make anything it indestructible to magic and it's elemental powers increased to the max. It's what I thought at first..." Sarah said. "Yeah, but those guys also have a Water Dragon Orb." Duke groaned. He had already heard her say this before. "It's more possible now thanks to a new variable." She then turns to the running Jacko. "Miss Sarah!" Jacko called out, while Rift was running way ahead of him. "Was the fight already over!?" Rift asked. Sarah nodded. "Tell everyone that we're on our way to Dust Town tomorrow, don't leave anyone behind because if they do, our den will be attacked again." Sarah tells Duke. He knows Sarah was way smarter than him, and in fact, she basically taught him many things before she left. Now understanding what Sarah had done to create her machine, he trusts her fully. "Yes ma'am." He said jokingly as he places the staff on his back and walked away. "Rift, get out of here and get ready too." She ordered. "Aight!" He then goes. "Come on Jacko!" He tells as he walks. "No, Jacko stays here." Sarah says, Rift then shrugs as he goes off back to the den. "What is it this time, Miss Stem." Jacko asked. "Don't call me Miss." She says as she comes closer to Jacko. "And tonight, we're going to figure out what else you can do." She then activates her Mechanical Wooden Arms and steps back. "Attack me." Sarah ordered. Jacko gulps. "Are you sure?" Jacko asked, he knows himself the power of his strongest slime. "I can take it, come on, kid." She taunts.

It was getting darker outside, but Jacko had to prove his battling prowess. He knows how to use his slimes, but he himself needs to improve, not just the slimes. So he plans to fight her without the use of the Slime Heart transforms.

"Finn! Broff!" Jacko calls out, summoning his eyes in the sky and his main attacker. Finn began to shoot beams of light at Sarah. She blocks it by moving her wooden arm on the way, then deflecting the beams of light with the enhanced magical defense at Finn. "Hi!?" Finn yelped as he was immediately disintegrated. "Finn!?" Jacko he was startled at the immediate defeat of his slime. He was once again resummoned by his side, but at a weaker form. Broff then dashes towards Sarah and then combusting right in front of her mechanical arms. Jacko looked to see if she survived the attack, then he was even more startled that Sarah remained unscathed. The wood hand then picks up Broff and then crushes it easily into goo. Jacko then summons Grom. The golem slime then charges in after devouring some ground and it spits it at the wood, no effect...as it got crushed easily too. "Sheesh, that's way too basic." Sarah said disappointingly. Jacko felt angry that he just lost some of his best slimes easily. "Sorry..." Jacko apologized. "We're not stopping until you land a hit." Sarah says. Jacko looked up, then he nodded. He realized he was depending way too much on his stronger slimes, recalling the fact that he could summon basic slimes as well.

Jacko then unsummons Finn, then summons two Water Slimes on both his hands, shaping them into tentacles. He didn't need to transform his hands into tentacles anymore, for he realized he could change the shape of the basic slimes he can summon.

Jacko ran towards her while dodging the mechanical arms. Sarah is quite impressed by his dodging, even tho she is intentionally making it easier for him. Jacko uses the tentacles to grab the two arms together, then connects the two water slimes and force them to stick to each other. Sarah smirked as he sees Jacko running towards her with a Grass Slime. The mechanical arms then breaks free from the water slimes and they immediately go after Jacko, grabbing him by his robe as he almost touches Sarah. "What were you going to do with that thing anyway?" Sarah asked amusingly as Jacko was holding the Grass Slime. "It was just in case you attacked, I use it as a shield." Jacko explained, unsummoning the slime midair. "It's important for you to realize that power isn't the way to go all the time." She says as she puts down Jacko. "You still haven't hit me yet." She laughed.

Jacko then summons five different slimes with him as he heard her. "I'm going to try now!" Jacko says as he then begins to run towards her.

The mechanical hand was about to grab Jacko, then Jacko intentionally stepped on a Grass Slime to bounce out of the way, then a fire slime jumped at his back while he was at midair and exploded behind him, launching him forward thanks to his magic resistant robe. Jacko then forms his body to look like a flying kick directly at Sarah's face, she then moves her mechanical hand to...wait a minute!

Sarah looked over to what was stopping her hand from moving, seeing Water Slimes already pinning it to the ground with Ground Slimes burying the Mechanical hand. "Fucker-" Sarah gasped as she then felt a kick to her face, launching her backwards. Jacko also tumbled with her, panting and worried. "I can't believe that worked!" Jacko exclaimed.

Sarah rubbed her face and checks her bruise, she was hit pretty good there so she has to treat that later. She looked over at Jacko angrily, then again she was impressed once more. "That was one hell of a distraction." Sarah commented. "Well, I thought we were gonna drag it on for longer." She says. Jacko soon stood up. "I was getting a bit heated, sorry about that." Jacko says. "No, no. Don't say sorry for that. People survive because of anger, Jacko. It just relieves me that you do have it in you." Sarah says. Jacko thought for a bit, Vines did say something similar yet very blunt. "Don't be a bitch..." Jacko gasps. "Yeah, something like that." Sarah agreed. "Come on, you deserve some rest." She then heads back to the den with Jacko following.