"N-not help from that thiiiinnng!"
But it was too late and the white tentacle dived down and stabbed inside the murky green slime monster, its tentacle piercing its surface. The slime immediately reacted, thrashing desperately, and trying to flee, but to no avail, the tentacle wiggled around and the slime quickly began to be sucked up and absorbed, the tentacle draining its mass into itself, shrinking the green slime down as its insides whirlpooled around the tentacles surface.
Soon the slime was gone and Astrid shuddered as the tentacle explored her arms, sucking up the last of the green slime's remains.
She turned her head to see that the vulpine's slime monster hadn't even been fully concentrating on the one attacking her and had been simultaneously attacking and absorbing slime monsters or their fluid remains.
"...What is with this band?"
She was stopped from further pondering however by a scream. With a whip crack sound the gnome flew past out of the darkness as though hit with a bat, her arc of motion near straight she was travelling so fast. She hit the ground hard and went rolling.
"Flora!" shouted Fey galloping toward the fallen gnome.
"What was that? What's happening?" said Lily, the otterkin standing by her invisible sister protectively.
"I don't know, but it seemed to have attacked from the ceiling judging by her angle of fall…"
Fey came to a stop by the gnome, her hooves sliding slightly on the damp stone. She slapped a hand down and a wash of green flooded the gnome quickly healing her fractured bones.
Flora slowly sat up and looked over her body.
"Oh my gods I'm covered in sewer grossness!"
"Uhm, I think it's just damp moss here flora"
"Sewer bullshit is all over me!"
"P-please concentrate Flora. What happened? How did you get hurt like this?"
"It's-" she scowled. "-Kind of a bigger one."
The sound of large quantities of goo slurping across stone made the band turn their heads toward the darkness. The darkness seemed to change and after a moment it became blue. Their eyes moved upward and they realised that they were looking at a slime nearly two stories tall, a massive wall of blue gel-like slime that filled the space between two pillars and had to squeeze through due to its enormity. Above the slimes top most part floated a blue slime halo ringed with slime spikes like a crown and glowing faintly in the dark.
"Wummy stop!" cried out Vivi as the tentacles sticking from her took one look at the giant slime monster and promptly dragged Vivi off into the darkness pulling her along by her pussy.
Ellaria turned on the minotaur "The guild never said anything about this! That's way way beyond just any regular slime, this isn't something that can just be taken on by anyone! What the hell are they thinking not warning of such a thing?!"
"I- I don't know! Nobody must know this thing is here because no one comes here!"
"Tch. Or you led us into a trap so you could kill us off, no doubt in an attempt to poach Fey here as the only survivor."
"Wha- NO! That's not what's happening I promise! I promise!"
Fey raised her hand hesitantly. "Uhm it wouldn't be a very good trap if she's trapped in here with us too Ella."
"We're going to have words later," said the elf, her eyes flashing before igniting into flames, her red hair rising as embers poured forth. She stretched out her arms and a pair of massive golden fireballs sprung to life over her palms, flecks of starlight and chromatic aberration fringing their wavering flickering edges. The fireballs exuded a sense of pure power.
"Back! Everyone back!" yelled Flora swiping at the air. The band and Astrid were hauled off their feet by her power and dragged backwards as Ellaria advanced on the slime, then strode, then dashed before flipping into the air and spinning, her arms flying around her like whips and loosing the pair of fireballs on the gigantic slime.
The fireballs roared toward the slime in pillars of terrible fire.
Then they struck and an ear splitting scream rent the air as the giant slime reeled back in pain, a great plume of fog going up as the slimes surface instantly vaporized under the fire, like two freshly forged swords plunged into water the mist surged outward, filling the space, hiding the slime from view.
The band watched with bated breath as the mist gradually cleared.
Ellaria relaxed slightly. "Someone is going to have to answer for this, what if an amateur band had stumbled upon-"
A massive tentacle lunged from the mist and wrapped around Ellaria's waist dragging her up into the air. A dozen more followed, then a dozen more, and more, until the air was writhing with blue tentacles in every direction snatching up everyone they could reach and holding them fast in the air, encircling limbs and hips and necks.
"You just had to jinx it didn't you El!" screamed Flora from the tentacles wrapped around her, desperately trying to push them back with her power and failing under its overwhelming strength.
"Not my fault!" yelled the elf back while desperately trying to spark flames to life.
The mist cleared as the tentacles moved and the gigantic slime monster was revealed, a large black scorch mark marred its front but apart from that it appeared entirely unharmed and extremely extremely angry.
"H-how do we escape! What do adventurers do about this!" Wailed Lily. Her sister was missing, the slime seemingly having overlooked the invisible otterkin.