"Who?" the sli suddenly turned around, its googly eyes staring at Ning.
"What's… going on?" Ning looked at the two, not sure whether to be angry or confused.
"Teacher? Teacher!" the princess shouted the mont she saw Ning. "Teacher, look, look. I ranked up."
"Huh?" Ning turned to the princess and checked her rank. As he did, his eyes narrowed in surprise. "Rank 3? How?"
"Slimy gave spiritual energy," the princess said.
"Don't call slimy. I told you to call master," the sli said.
"No! You're slimy," the princess said and started laughing on her own.
Ning couldn't process the situation at the mont, so he instead went up to the princess and checked whether sothing was wrong with her or not.
She was mostly fine, aside from being dirty from playing on the ground. Although, now that Ning properly did check the floor, it was mostly hard-wood that he was standing on. That didn't seem like a place one could get so dirty.
"What's this black smudge on your face?" Ning asked as he wiped so black soot-like substance from her face.
"Huh?" the princess turned to look at Ning's finger. "Oh, it was probably that ti I went into that hole."
"That hole? What hole?" Ning asked.
"Hey? Have I seen you before?" the sli suddenly spoke, grabbing Ning's attention.
Ning turned around to pay attention to the sli finally. It was a blob of… sli with a blue core floating in the middle, and everything else like its arm and eyes was a caricature ford by the sa sli body.
It was about half a ter at the base and reduced to about a quarter by the ti it reached the top, which was also about half a ter tall.
"What are you staring at? Is this how you look at your master?" the sli suddenly started shouting.
"What?" Ning looked confused. Was there a reason why the sli thought it was his master?
"Hey! Don't call yourself a master. Your na is slimy," the princess said.
The sli couldn't help but groan when he heard that. Ning could understand what that was. Slimy wasn't the best of words to call soone by.
"Was this the beast that summoned you here?" Ning asked the princess.
"Yes! Slimy said that if I helped him get things from the holes, he would help rank up, so I ca," she said.
Ning stared at the sli up and down. He could tell that this was a rather intelligent beast. If he wasn't wrong, this beast most likely even had a soul in it.
He wanted to check how strong a beast with a soul was. So, he then used up his analysis and his eyes went wide at the very first second.
"Rank 9? What the hell?" he exclaid in surprise. He had never even thought of such a high-rank beast existing and it was this random sli he found on this planet.
Granted it might have so soul and intelligence, but that hadn't helped the people of Nulwurn from getting stronger at all. So what the hell was going on here?
"How do you know my Rank?" the sli asked with a weird look in its eyes as if it were emulating confusion and suspicion. "Rank 8? I have never summoned a human this strong before. I would have rembered."
The sli's voice got colder. "Who are you? And why are you here?" the sli asked.
"I am this little girl's teacher. I am here to get her back. You tell why you summoned her in the first place?" Ning asked, his voice equally cold as well.
"What? You ca here to save her?" the sli looked confused. "How do you know this girl I just created?"
Ning was taken aback. "Created? What do you an? You summoned her," he said.
"Yeah, I did. That's how I created her. How do you know her? That's what I'm asking," the sli said.
Ning couldn't understand if the sli was trying to make fun of him or not. "Do you know what summoning is?" he asked.
He chose to assu that the beast was oblivious about what summoning was.
"Of course I do. When I need sothing, I call for soone to help . When I do that, they are created to help ," the sli said.
"No!" Ning said. "No one is created to help you. They are summoned to help you from elsewhere."
The sli looked at Ning, not believing him at all. "That's a lie for sure," the sli said. "After all, I've gone around the world and there is not a single human out there. How do you explain all the humans in here ca from?" the sli asked.
"From the other planet where the human live," Ning said. "It's a planet that is directly opposite to the sun on the other side of it. This planet and that planet had the sa distance and speed in relation to the sun, so you never end up seeing each other."
The sli looked at him dumbly. "No way, is there really a planet out there with humans?" the sli asked.
"Yes, now unsummon her right now," Ning said.
The sli looked towards the princess but didn't unsummon her imdiately. It wanted to learn more.
"What about all these people I've summoned to help outside? Are they from that planet too?" the sli asked.
"Yes, absolutely," Ning said. Just then a thought ca to him that he hadn't thought for a while now, but seed to ominously fit together.
"When did you start summoning these humans?" Ning asked.
The sli thought for a bit. "About 2 years ago or sothing like that," it said. "That was around the ti I started to think of settling down."
"And how many have you summoned until now?" Ning asked.
The sli thought for a bit and said, "1342 humans."
"I thought so," Ning thought as he sighed. He was starting to realize the answer behind the mystery that had been there since he had co to Nulwurn.
He had realized the answer to the quest. He had found the missing people that were vanishing from all around the world.
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