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Chapter 24 - Trial

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Eram looked at Sheila who spoke to him in a robotic voice. " I will fight you at your level until you understand how your abilities work."

She immediately dashed forward noticeably slower than the first time Eram fought her. He stepped back scared of getting hurt causing him to barely avoid getting hit in the face. Eram gritted his teeth and attempted to punch her. He missed his punch by the width of a hair.

Sheila kicked Eram in the stomach, sending him flying backward. She felt a pain in her leg, noting that Eram somehow attacked her. Eram charged forward again, determined to learn at least a little about himself. Eram threw punch after punch to land a blow, but he was still missing. Sheila countered Eram's pointless flurry of punches with one of her abilities: Primordial Frost, causing little sparkles of ice to slowly sap Eram's stamina.

Eram continued to run forward as fast as he could like a moron trying to hit her at least once, but she managed to evade him every single time. Eram feeling desperate tried to find another way to attack her but couldn't think of anything. Sheila moved back and used one of her other abilities Primordial Flame which caused all of the sparkles of ice to explode turning into fire. The Fire wasn't hot at first however the longer one stands inside it the hotter it gets as well as makes it harder to absorb pho.

Eram still refused to give up. He felt as though if he wanted to move forward he had to accomplish something in this fight, Eram needed a win. He looked around and saw a vase with a plant living in water. He quickly picked it up and hurled it at Sheila catching her off guard and hitting her for the first time. Eram was excited he finally managed to land a hit so he looked at more things to throw. He sprinted towards a shelf with all sorts of books and items on it throwing anything and everything he could get his hands on.

Unfortunately for him, not a single one landed.

As he ran through the fire he noticed it didn't nearly burn as hot when he first was in it. He started to understand his adaptation ability a little better. He ran harder and faster than he did at the start as well. He was desperate to land a punch. His body was changing to allow him to use his energy faster giving him a boost of power. Eram got close to Sheila throwing a punch and barely grazing her which was enough.

Sheila was also learning Eram's abilities noticing the pain in her soul and quickly adapting. Realizing that her soul was weaker than normal she used another one of her abilities Primordial Maribel Turning all of the fire into stone and Dirt that quickly attached to Eram massively slowing him down and hindering him.

Eram almost fell to the ground due to the sudden increase in weight but pushed forward. He felt something itching him inside his head but he couldn't quite get his hands on it but it was so close. Eram kept running as fast as he could feeling the weight getting lighter. Sheila noticed him as well and moved accordingly. She used her last ability Primordial life, creating all of the dirt on Eram to explode growing all sorts of plants all over him, sapping, strength, vitality, and stamina, and harming him. The vines and roots grew into his skin causing him immense pain.

He smiled knowing this wasn't nothing compared to the fear he had gripping him earlier. He wondered to himself. Why was he scared, as long as he wouldn't die he could push forward. He would do anything to win. He looked deep into himself realizing what was holding him together was the little trinket Cedric gave him.

He reached out with his hand to hit Sheila knowing that if he did that he would learn something. Eram barely managed to hit Sheila again but it was enough. His core changed adding a little bit of her core. He realized he could eat souls. ' As long as I can hit her I can gain her power.' He realized he had a little bit more energy and he could kind of grasp what her core was but it wasn't enough. He tried to use the fire ability she used earlier but couldn't for some reason.

Sheila smiled knowing this was the best kind of power to fight the invaders which motivated her more. She ran up delivering a punch hard enough to send Eram flying backwards. Eram didn't take it lying down. He managed to hit her at the same time gaining more of her soul. He felt he had enough to try to use the ice ability.

He focused and all of the plants surrounding him exploded into shimmering ice particles. Eram didn't know how to control it like Sheila to make them weaker so it quickly started using all of Erams' pho stored inside his soul. He realized it a little too late as he ran out of pho and fell to the ground. He was panting but he didn't want to waste any moment and not learn something. He looked and felt his soul as all of Sheila's' power slowly vanished. He looked at both Sheila and Cedric and saw them with kind smiles. He closed his eyes and passed out.

Eram woke up back in his room at the alarm signaling the start of school. At first, he thought it was all a dream but then he realized the trinket was still inside of him. He looked around and saw Alexander and Michael gawking at him.

Michael yelled more than spoke at him " Your back! Thank goodness we thought you died! We were all worried sick. Hurry up let's get changed and walk the girls to class!"

Alexander and Michael quickly pushed Eram around to get him dressed and ready for class. They bolted out of the room and quickly walked to the girl's dorm. Upon knocking on the door and the girls promptly opening at the beating they all saw Eram and their mouths fell open.

Lila and Yuki both bombarded him with questions. " That creepy old man didn't do anything to you did he?" Lila looked concerned as she asked.

" Are you feeling better? You look better. Are you walking with us to class?" Yuki asked frantically.

Eram laughed happy to have friends. " No Cedric didn't touch me or anything. I promise. Also to answer your questions Yuki Yes to both. Honestly, I'm glad I got that rest. I think there was something extremely wrong with me." Eram started telling them everything since he got to the school.

He told them about the attack from Sheila outside the dorm, as well as how once he woke up he trained to catch back up with them. He also told them how glad he was to finally see them again. They walked promptly to class laughing and talking.

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Cedric's' office after he took Eram back to his room after he passed out. "Sheila did you sense it earlier."

Sheila looked back at Cedric with a furious face. " The Invaders are making another move again." She hissed out every word knowing that they wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

Cedric looked back at Sheila with the same fury. " It's one of his pets if I had to guess. It stayed outside my range so I couldn't see exactly what it was. If it got close enough I would've killed it and followed its soul back to that piece of shit and kill him once and for all." Cedric said almost yelling

Sheila and Cedric brooded over the fact that there was an enemy outside of the school.

***

The dock after it landed to bring back goods to the human continents.

The pick slime thing slid off the boat landed on the shore and hid behind some trees. Once it knew it was hidden it transformed into a person and hid amongst the crowd. It knew it had to look for where the creature was. It used one of the abilities that the master had given it to give him the location of his desire. It left the crowd and hid back amongst the foliage.

Once nobody could see it again it sprinted as fast as it could reaching a speed of up to 250 miles an hour. After sprinting as fast as it could it reached some shrubs near a clearing about a mile away from the school. It knew where it was from a map it stole from a caravan it passed earlier in the day. It knew this was a school but he knew his eyes weren't deceiving him.

It started sweating hysterically and freaking out. 'This isn't a fucking school! This is a fucking Temple and not just any Temple that fucker is back in the mortal world! How!" The pink slime realized The thoughts were his own but of his master. It shivered at the thought that his master was in his head the whole time.

The Master furiously thought to the slime ' Listen you little fucker.' The master's thoughts sounded more terrifying than his actual voice sounding more like the screams of dying women and children. " You will wait for what I can assume is a child who is holding his soul. You will get him and torture him until his souls collide causing him to mutate into a monster strong enough to destroy a continent or two. We need him to destroy that temple as well. It should severely damage that piece of shit and weaken the seal enough to let our master back through."

The master was so furious it showed the pink slime visions of what the master was doing. He was torturing a dragon to relieve its stress. The dragon had its sanity back and realized what it had become. It cried to be put out of its misery but the master was peiling off its scales one at a time causing it extreme pain. The vision faded leaving the slime terrified. It must complete its mission or that would be itself up there. This was the pink slimes trial.