In the end Oberon never got an answer as to what the Slime was planning to do with all those crystals as rather than respond he simply swallowed one of the mana-restoring items and dashed, or rolled, away.

It seemed that a lot had happened in the few moments that he had been distracted; the group of rats from earlier had appeared and engaged the female Goblin and a couple more Slimes soon followed them, crushing the larger Goblin in their path. The first Slime, the one with the oddly shaped protrusion on top, latched onto the female Goblin as she was struggling against the larger rat before spearing her on a stalagmite that erupted from the ground. And just like that it was over, what had previously seemed like a desperate struggle was suddenly a victory in their favour; here at least, the battle had been resolved.

But that didn’t mean things were going as well everywhere. Now that the noise in the immediate area had died down Oberon could hear the sounds of fierce fighting happening nearby and looking in that direction it was easy to see the large figure stomping around with many smaller figures swarming him.

That was where Digbie and Mourningstar had gone to earlier; he could see them now, a single point of light flitting around the big guy’s head and a solitary bipedal silhouette running around. It was also where everyone else seemed to be heading to as well as first one then the other smaller Slime headed that direction, followed soon after by the two smaller rats.

With everything settled here and with no more obvious threats heading his way it seemed like Oberon should join the on-going battle as well, but before he did there was something he had been meaning to try for a while now and since he was curious what his progress on the ‘regeneration’ skill was now was as good a time as any.

[color=f49ac2]“Open skills tab.”[/color]

He still had a few skill points left over from his last level-up and if there was a useful skill near to completion it might be worth spending them now rather than trying to stockpile them. However, he shouldn’t wait too long before joining the battle in case someone needing healing, so regardless of if his attempt worked Oberon began to fly towards Rattleskull.

Once there he saw a battle in full swing, a badly wounded Rattle and a host of humans-turned-monsters attacking him from multiple avenues. From a cursory sweep of the area it didn’t look like anyone was too badly hurt at the moment, other than the large creature they were trying to kill, so his services weren’t in high demand at the moment; furthermore, he didn’t want to risk firing an attack into the middle of the melee in case he hit someone other than his target, leaving him with few options at the moment.

For now Oberon would just hang back and wait for an opportunity to present itself. In the meantime, he prepared himself to cast Shield III on the first person her saw Rattle take a swing at; judging by how the female Goblin had broken straight through it earlier it might not entirely save whoever the large Goblin attacked, but it was better than nothing.

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Tried to give myself another migraine
Prepared to cast 'Shield III' on first person Rattle targets with an attack
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[@Zeroth]