Li signaled behind him, and Timaria immediately understood. Li was telling her there was danger ahead, so she tensed up once more. Yet she soon shook her head with a bitter smile. Outside, her strength was indeed first-rate—but here? What kind of place was this? Who the hell knew what this place was? Timaria only knew that here, she might not even count as a worm.
Think about it carefully. Without Li, she probably would not even have made it through the first door, much less escaped for her life beneath those rolling boulders. Even if she had escaped the boulders, she would probably have ended up as a meal before the Death Soul Worms, right?
Timaria looked at Li's back. For some reason, she found herself increasingly unable to see through this guy.
Just now, Timaria had clearly felt the powerful magical power Li had transferred to her. That magic carried a trace of Index's aura. Timaria had never heard of any method capable of transferring one's magic to another person. So what exactly was Li?
A monster? Or an unfathomably powerful expert?
But Timaria's attention was quickly drawn away by the strange sensation beneath her hands. Being a clean freak by nature, she nearly cried out, but she forcibly suppressed the urge. This was not the time to scream randomly. If she alerted an enemy, there would be nothing left to do but weep.
Li, meanwhile, examined things far more carefully than Timaria. He lightly sniffed the slime. It gave off a scent he was once fairly familiar with: snake.
That was right. There had to be a snake here.
Li relaxed somewhat. After all, he truly was not afraid of snakes. In Li's mind, there had never been a snake capable of standing against him.
Snakes generally