I became the slime toy of the evil dragon girl?

She had somehow managed to regain her composure. Although her face still had a lingering blush, at least her posture had returned to that chuunibyou (delusional) look.

"Shouldn't we set off? Lady Vivian's will cannot be delayed!"

Ian gathered his thoughts and said, "Lead the way, Lilith."

Lilith took a deep breath, her body surging with shadow energy, and slowly merged into the shadows of the treasure vault passage, leaving only a fleeting utterance:

"Follow my lead, lest you lose your way in this dark corridor, Lord Ian."

Ian watched her amusing back as she skipped and hopped along, making "diudiudiu" sounds.

As Ian walked through the dark corridor, a ray of moonlight shone on him, and the scene before him suddenly opened up.

Having stayed in the dragon's lair since his transmigration, Ian saw this world for the first time.

A brilliant Milky Way stretched across the night sky, radiating an ancient glow. The enormous silver moon hung low, its cool light gilding everything in sight with a hazy silver edge.

The wind, carrying a hint of mysterious magic, caressed his gelatinous body, bringing a vast, cool clarity.

Then, there was an endless forest.

As far as the eye could see, all that stretched to the blurred boundary between the moonlight and the earth was a dark green sea of ​​trees.

There are no skyscrapers or neon lights, no bustling traffic, only the whistling of the wind through the treetops and an atmosphere of freedom and wildness.

A sense of vastness, belonging to swords and magic, to dragons and legends, instantly seized Ian's consciousness. The golden specks of light within him, representing the magic of the stars, seemed to resonate faintly with the galaxy above, accelerating their circulation.

"I...I really am here." A thought emerged with unparalleled clarity.

Time travel, slimes, dragons... all the absurd and bizarre encounters suddenly become real and weighty in the face of this starry sky and forest.

An indescribable feeling of excitement and ambition swelled within his jelly-like body.

"It's spectacular, isn't it?"

Lilith's voice rang out from the side. She had appeared completely at some point, standing on a protruding rock, her face filled with a kind of fervent pride.

"This is the land protected by Lady Vivian's great power, where darkness and chaos slumber, and order is defined by the shadow of dragon wings."

Ian, unusually, didn't criticize her childish rhetoric; his ambitions all needed to begin in this boundless forest.

Just as his ambitions were taking flight, Ian looked out over the endless forest and suddenly a serious problem came to mind.

Ian turned to Lilith and asked, "So, how do we get to Sweet Forest? How long will it take?"

Lilith, still gazing into the distance, said matter-of-factly, "About ten days, if we don't get eaten as snacks along the way."

The surging emotions and light within Ian's body momentarily froze.

"It's been too long. By the time we get there, the Sweet Forest might have already disappeared."

Ian couldn't wait that long; he was hoping to gain experience through a big project and quickly rise through the ranks from being a small-time toy seller.

Clearly, Sweet Forest is part of this big project, and he doesn't want to arrive there slowly only to find that Sweet Forest is already in the Dragon's Nest.

Ian suddenly focused his attention on Lilith's back, on her translucent butterfly wings.

He said, "Lilith, can you fly? Take me with you."

Lilith turned around, and the transparent butterfly wings on her back gently unfolded in the moonlight.

Lilith slightly raised her chin, a hint of pride on her face, and said, "Hmph, a mere slime really does need to rely on the power of the Shadow Familiar!"

However, Lilith immediately looked troubled.

"The sky is not an insurmountable place for me, but I have never carried anyone on a long flight before, and the skies above the Demon Forest are dangerous. I can use the power of shadow to conceal myself, but you..."

Upon hearing this, Ian activated his magic, enveloping his body in a dark magical aura.

She was shocked to see her prized shadow magic appear on a slime. Pointing at Ian, she stammered, "This... ah? Why... are you using shadow magic?"

Ian didn't explain, but just looked at his jelly-like, shapeless body, and then at Lilith's slender shoulders and back, which looked like they couldn't bear much weight.

He jumped up with a "diu" and landed on Lilith's head.

"Let's go, Lilith!"

......

......

Two days later.

boom!

The fairy knight Ian finally flew there.

His mount, Lilith, landed in a rather unglamorous manner, or rather, crashed to the ground.

Her body swayed, her wings flapped weakly, and the front half of her once smooth and shiny silver hair was blown into a wild bird's nest, with a few strands of hair stuck to her pale face with sweat.

Those silver eyes were now only filled with unfocused tears, and there were heavy dark circles under them.

The worst part was the pair of butterfly wings. Originally translucent and shimmering, they now looked wrinkled, limp, and with some scorch marks on the edges. They looked like slaves who had just escaped from some mine.

She stumbled when she landed, almost falling to the ground. She only managed to stand up by using the Shadow Sword in her hand as a crutch. Then she began to gasp for breath, her chest heaving violently, as if she was about to faint at any moment.

And Ian...

He jumped down from Lilith's head.

Its deep blue gelatinous body shimmered in the sunlight, with golden light points flowing smoothly within it. It even shone brighter due to the more concentrated starlight magic it had encountered at high altitude.

He stretched comfortably, jumped around, and felt the security of having his feet firmly on the ground.

During the two days of high-altitude flight, apart from the initial takeoff when he felt completely free from gravity and unprotected, he instinctively wrapped his arms around Lilith's entire face, almost causing the two of them to crash.

What followed was practically a sightseeing tour. Clinging tightly to Lilith's head, it basked in the sun and the magic of starlight.

It also offers a superb panoramic view of the breathtakingly diverse landscape of the Monster Forest.

A shimmering, poisonous swamp.

Majestic mountain range.

A mushroom forest shimmering with an eerie green light.

As for danger?

During the journey, he felt at least four or five heart-palpitating pressures coming from below or in the distance, and he would use shadow magic to envelop and hide himself and Lilith.

Aside from a near miss when she flew past a large bird crackling with lightning, which burned Lilith's wing, fortunately it didn't affect her flight; overall, it was a close call.

Ian said sincerely.

"Thank you for your hard work, my loyal mount... no, my lord." Although this girl is a bit of a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur), she really goes all out to carry out orders.

Moreover, whenever she wants to rest, all it takes is a few silly, melodramatic lines to revitalize her.

Such as...

"The so-called impossible is nothing but a prison for the mediocre!"

"Your trembling body isn't just dripping with sweat!"

Lilith would then fly away as if she had been injected with adrenaline.