Rushing up the path as fast as possible to avoid falling down along with the parts of the path that was collapsing a few seconds after she stepped on it, Scaly managed to easily outrun the heavenly lake serpents below, who at this point didn’t really have that much of an effect on the path outside of causing things to shake a bit every now and then. Simply put, she had managed to successfully get high enough to no longer have to worry about them.
Of course, although she didn’t have to worry about the heavenly lake serpents below, she still had to worry about the fact that the path beneath her feet was collapsing under her weight. Forcing her to keep moving to prevent herself from going down alongside the path.
Luckily, it wasn’t difficult to traverse the path itself and after a little over five minutes, she managed to safely reach the top of the path and safely left the crater as the last bit of the path crumbled behind her and fell into the water below.
Rooar!
Roar!
At the same time, seeing how she managed to safely leave the crater without falling into the water, the large number of heavenly lake serpents gathered below all began roaring angrily as they stretched their heads several meters out of the water in the process. Creating a rather interesting looking forest of heavenly lake serpent heads on the surface of the water.
Even then, there wasn’t much they could do other than angrily roar up towards Scaly who had already left their view at this point in time. Only able to slowly ascend as the water from the heavenly waterfall filled up the crater and brought them closer to the top of the crater.
Looking down at the heavenly lake serpents who were all busy roaring up at her, Scaly could not help tilting her head slightly as she watched how the water slowly rose
Looks like it won’t be long before the water reaches the top of the crater together with the heavenly lake serpents...
Narrowing both her eyes as she thought about this, Scaly realized that there was a very real chance that these heavenly lake serpents would soon be able to reach the top of the crater... And different from the path that was far too small for their massive bodies, they would be able to move around without any problem after they got out of the crater.
Not just that, but outside of the heavenly lake serpents who would soon be able to chase her down, Scaly also realized that the massive amount of water inside the crater would soon flow over the edge and down the mountain after it reached the top of the crater.
Outside of this being rather dangerous considering that she could get swept away by the water with her tiny body, she also understood that there was no way for her to safely go through her fourth evolution anywhere on the mountain.
For now, she would have to try her best to get away from the mountain as fast as possible before the water flowed over the edge and came rushing down towards her. Flooding any cave or crevasse along the way, while also washing away any monsters that might be residing on the mountain itself.
Whoosh-!
So after glancing back down at the angry heavenly lake serpents below, Scaly wasted no time as she began rushing down the side of the mountain without caring the slightest bit about being noticed by any powerful monsters that might reside at the upper parts of the mountain...
Boing~ Boing~ Boing~ Boing~ Boing~
[Mountain Bouncing Slime, lvl 32]
[Mountain Bouncing Slime, lvl 26]
[Mountain Bouncing Slime, lvl 35]
[Mountain Bouncing...]
In the end, it didn’t take long before she ended up running into a few familiar looking slimes bouncing around the side of the mountain.
However, different from the mountain bouncing slimes she had encountered further down the mountain, these mountain slimes were following around an especially large mountain bouncing that resembled the massive mountain slimes she had seen when climbing the mountain at the edges of the mountain range.
[Mountain Bouncing Slime Lord, lvl 56]
[Description: The lord of the mountain bouncing slimes, a powerful mountain bouncing slime that has taken control of an entire mountain. Having several large groups of mountain bouncing slimes patrolling around the mountain at all times. In terms of strength, it’s not among the strongest for its level, but even the weakest mountain bouncing slime lord has more than a thousand mountain bouncing slimes below them following their command. Avoid at all costs if possible.]
Reading through the description of the mountain bouncing slime lord as it was called, Scaly could not help feeling a shiver run down her spine when she sensed that the mountain bouncing slime lord in question seemed to notice her before starting to bounce directly towards her followed by over a hundred mountain bouncing slimes.
If not for the fact that she had to get down the mountain as fast as possible to avoid the heavenly lake serpents and the water that would be flowing out of the crater in the near future, she would have undoubtedly tried to turn around and escape back up the mountain towards the crater that now seemed far safer.
After all, even though the heavenly lake serpents were powerful and far beyond what she could deal with at the moment, they seemed to be far easier to handle compared to the hundreds of mountain bouncing slimes now bouncing towards her in almost eager manner.
I just have to escape and-
Thump~
Running down the mountain to escape the mountain bouncing slimes, Scaly suddenly felt herself tripping over something, as she smashed headfirst into the rocky ground, causing her to try and get back on her feet to continue escaping down the side of the mountain-
Bang-!
However, as she did this, one of the mountain bouncing slimes that had been chasing after her similarly tripped over something before rolling down the mountain and colliding with her, something she didn’t think was possible considering the fact that slimes were almost entirely made up of slime.
But there was nothing she could do about it, as she soon found herself joining this unlucky mountain bouncing slime in rolling down the side of the mountain.
Roll~~
Roll~~
Although painful to roll down the rocky mountain side, her strong scales managed to absorb most of the damage that she ended up sustaining... And looking at things from another perspective, her speed of descending the mountain was far faster than when she had just been running down the side of the mountain.
The only negative being that she had no way to control the direction she was rolling in and could only hope that she wouldn’t end up accidentally rolling down into some kind of crevasse and find herself trapped when the water and heavenly lake serpents appeared.
Bang!
At least, when it came to smaller stones, she directly smashed through them or ended up using them as a ramp to fly through the air for a few seconds before violently smashing into the ground again, a painful experience, but because of this, her speed only ended up increasing with each passing second, as both she and the mountain bouncing slimes seemed to be locked in some kind of competition of who would be able to reach the bottom of the mountain first.
Roar?
In the end, outside of the mountain bouncing slimes that seemed to reign supreme on the tall mountain, Scaly also ended up encountering a large number of other monsters along her journey down the side of the mountain, who seemed to be surviving by hiding inside small caves present along the side of the mountain.
Of course, given her speed, none of them could catch her and could only look on filled with confusion as she disappeared further down the mountain together with the mountain bouncing slime.
Rumble-!
It was just when she spotted the forest surrounding the base of the mountain appearing during her rather painful journey down the mountain, that a loud rumbling sound suddenly echoed out from behind her.
Whoosh~!
Barely managing to turn her head when she was launched flying by a few rocks serving as a ramp a short time after the loud rumbling sound behind her, Scaly noticed that a side of the mountain had directly collapsed, causing a massive wave to rush down the side of the mountain... And it just so happened to be the side of the mountain she was on.
Roooar!
ROOOOOAR!
Rooar!
However, the thing that caused Scaly to try and increase her speed even further was the fact that she saw more than a dozen heavenly lake serpents inside the massive wave of water heading directly towards her.
Not just the heavenly lake serpents, but the mountain bouncing slimes had also been caught up in the wave and were similarly heading towards her.