chapter two; section five

The guard who had been waiting impatiently outside the entrance to the scribe’s room led the pair back to the castle entrance. After waving good-bye the pair headed off back to the town. By now it was 2 pm but the slime decided that they needed to head back to the forest as soon as possible. This time their destination would not be the home where the two of them lived but a field in the middle of the forest where they could set up base camp for fighting against wild creatures. By that night they had reached the field without any conflict. They set up their camp in the dark and awoke early the next morning. The first thing they did that morning was to chop down some trees and erect a pike barrier around the camp zone. Slimes would stay away from spiked poles and knowing that the base camp was safe was a reassurance that there would be no unwelcome visitors. The second thing they did was to eat breakfast followed by setting up the rest of camp because in the darkness of the previous night it was next to impossible to erect the bathrooms and the cooking tent. After they had finished setting everything up the slime told the boy what had happened in the royal palace. By the time the slime had finished telling the story it was noon.