As if the whole loading thing wasn't bad enough Negi and his "partner" had to be attacked by some kind of giant bug which managed to attack and poison him. The good thing was it did only 5 damage, but the poison combined with the fact that mages weren't known for having a lot of hitpoints made it considerately worse.

[color=fff200]"You will pay for that, beetle."[/color] It seemed he was already forced to go back to town for a potion and an antidote, so he might as well add a manapotion to his grocery list and hit that Infested menace with his strongest spell.[color=fff200]"Magic blast!"[/color] Negi spent the next few seconds converting all his mana into power for his spell before firing it off aimed at what he didn't know was Rero in disguise.

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Yamamori could hear sounds of struggle and his curiosity was stronger then his desire not to be killed. He headed back to the start of the area and saw what looked like an undead version of the areaboss fight the two heroes. He knew enough about his species to guess that it was a parasite slime  in disguise and wondered if he should help out or not.