Thoth silently nodded slightly, flinching back as Vincent started to move again and hastily returning to her work.

He was scary. 

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The slime raced along the floor like a slime possessed. 

Actually, it sort of [i]was[/i] a slime possessed, given how the Core worked after all. 

It mindlessly continued fleeing in a straight line. As the rock Alexander had thrown embedded itself in the slime's mass, it did not seem to impair the monster, though it sent some vibrations thrumming through it. The slime simply continued on its way, entering the second room without difficulty, and upon reaching that area, it leapt away, towards the staircase that led to the fourth floor. With all the might of a jumping slime, it fled for its life towards the assumed safety of the fourth floor, where it could sit in a corner and cry. 

You're not a bad enough dude to kill a fleeing blob, are you?

There is just one thing, though. A strange sound was just slightly audible in the cavern. It had first appeared when Alexander threw his torch at the red slime, but when Senna had shot her arrow through one and Alexander had thrown a rock at the fleeing one, it had appeared again. A sort of fizzling sound. 

It was coming from the rock.

The rock inside the slime was fizzling.