I became the slime toy of the evil dragon girl?

Monster camp.

Charles was engrossed in optimizing the magical nodes of his super teleportation array.

He scribbled on the paper, thinking about where he could optimize the budget, even if it was just a few gold coins.

"After all, this grand formation is too expensive... sigh!" Charles couldn't help but sigh, his tired face scrunched up like a bitter gourd.

He went through sheet after sheet of paper, and finally found a redundant design in the formation that could save him at least tens of thousands of gold coins from his budget!

"The calculation is almost complete! I've been working hard all morning, and I'm finally making some progress!"

Just as Charles was putting pen to paper to calculate the magical nodes of the great array.

A blinding light suddenly flashed across the distant sky, followed by a violent roar and the earth shaking.

The ink on the table was spilled by the sudden earthquake, staining the white paper and turning Charles's carefully calculated work into a black mess.

"Damn it!" Charles slammed his fist on the table and looked up at the distant sky.

The old butler's face, already contorted with bitterness, bulged with veins as he snarled, "Kiki Wrench! You damned dwarf! You're more of an embodiment of destruction than a dragon..."

......

......

Sweet Forest

A sharp sword pierced through a tall, dense berry bush, its blade brushing the obstructing bush aside.

A small figure cautiously peeked out from the berry bushes.

She carefully surveyed the surroundings and confirmed that the area was basically safe.

He waved, and two more people emerged from the berry bushes.

The Gilded Rose Squad.

Nicole watched as the clumsy red-haired girl quickly overtook her, and hurriedly whispered, "Phoebe, slow down! Watch out for monsters, there's no one to scout for us!"

"Relax, relax~ Nicole, don't be so timid! What other monsters are there in Sweet Forest besides goblins? No monsters have come out of that monster camp."

Phoebe gave the squad of warriors a perfunctory look and continued charging forward on her own, even trying to pull the white-haired priest, who was daydreaming beside her, to walk faster.

Nicole said anxiously, "But..."

Seeing the two rushing forward quickly, one after the other, without any intention of stopping, I could only stamp my foot and follow.

But they hadn't gone far when a violent explosion shocked the three of them as well.

The three of them looked up at the sky at the same time.

Phoebe unconsciously nudged the white-haired priest beside her, who was staring blankly at the sun-like fireball in the sky, and said, "Barbara, look, the sun looks like it's exploded..."

Nicole silently sheathed her sword and shield, her small body trembling, and whispered, "Are we really going to such a scary place? Maybe we should run away now..."

Upon hearing this, Nicole began to have second thoughts.

Phoebe snapped out of her daze, tossed her long, wavy red hair, pointed her giant wand directly at the direction of the explosion, and said with unwavering determination, "No! We have to go to the explosion site right now! There must be some unspeakable secret of the monster there! We're going to become famous and rich!"

Having said that, he took firm steps and dragged the white-haired pastor forward.

Nicole sighed again, picked up her sword and shield again, and followed.

......

......

After gathering all the thorns and taking the crystal ball into the sky, the half-elf priestess had exhausted all her magic.

Exhausted, he leaned on his staff to barely stand, and a sharp pain, as if his magic power was being depleted, throbbed in his head.

The mud magic she maintained had long since ceased, and the cage formed by thorns had transformed into towering giant vines.

At this moment, Ian had already keenly grasped the crucial moment for their escape.

Before the three half-elves could recover from the explosion, they took advantage of the moment.

Ian caught Lilith as she fell from a great height with his magical tentacles, and then, with the tentacles binding her ankles, he began to flee at top speed.

By this time, she had been burned into a charcoal-grilled shadow fairy by the aftershocks of the explosion, and Ian was dragging her along the ground by her ankles.

It was extremely tragic.

Since she had already passed out, Ian figured Lilith wouldn't blame him for using her to mop the floor, after all, he didn't even know if he could escape, and he had still taken her with him out of loyalty.

Qiqi also snapped out of her reverie, which was filled with a devout yet somewhat lingering expression.

She seemed quite reluctant to part with her masterpiece; if the half-elf hadn't been there, she would have stayed for several more hours to savor the earth-shattering explosion.

Kiki, using explosive propulsion, caught up with Ian in an instant. Although Ian had already released wind magic—Wind Wings—using [Mind Manifestation], the acceleration of the wings was still a bit slow.

"Ian, do you think I should make some technical adjustments, like changing it to instantaneous explosion? Or adding a long-range launcher? I hadn't considered that before; throwing this thing out manually seems a bit too primitive."

Kiki, who has already caught up with Ian, has even started asking for Ian's opinion.

Even after she fled, she was still reliving the horrific explosion she had caused!

Ian's face darkened, and he couldn't help but yell, "Is your brain made of a bomb? Do you have to blow everyone up?!"

Knowing she was in the wrong, Qiqi scratched her head as she ran, then chuckled, "Sorry, I'll make it up to you. I really didn't expect this magical factor fusion to produce such power..."

Good, good, good! Fusion! You even managed to conjure up an otherworldly magical nuclear bomb by hand, huh?! You really are a genius!

Ian thinks Kiki is a genius, but her mind isn't quite right. But all geniuses are probably a little crazy, right?

Sudden.

Another whooshing sound as an arrow pierced the air, and it embedded itself in Lilith's arm.

"Hiss!" Lilith gasped.

She was jolted awake by the pain, and felt a burning sensation spread throughout her body. She barely managed to utter half a sentence.

"I'm alive? As expected of me, the Shadow... Ah!"

Lilith was still being dragged along the ground by Ian when her head suddenly slammed into a rock that was protruding from the ground.

With a muffled thud, she fainted again.

Arrows carrying the power of the wind kept passing by Ian and Kiki.

However, Ian has been maintaining a shield through [Mind Manifestation].

Although the effects of level one magic were not obvious, the two sides had already created a considerable distance between them, and the opponent's main priest was exhausted, so it was a close call.

Just as Ian's magic was almost exhausted, the exploration team finally spotted the gate of the monster camp in the distance.

The arrows behind them finally stopped, it seemed the half-elves had retreated.

Just as they were about to reach the camp, Ian's 360-degree senses caught a fleeting reflection on a distant hillside.

That couldn't be natural light; it looked like the glint of sunlight on metal or a lens at sunset.