Chapter 2. The Northen Lights 5

“Sir Locarno! You have said too much!”
Eiolin yelled at Locarno,
“Princess, you should not care about that insignificant ranger.”
Locarno seemed not to care at all about Gray, but his words this did not curb  Eiolin's anger.
“Do you think someone who is of a high class doesn’t have to respect those below them!?”
“…….”
Finally, Locarno lowered his head.
“If you think so, it means anyone who is higher than you can be just as disrespectful to you, doesn’t it?”
“….. I Apologize, Princess.”
Locarno finally apologized, but it was too late. Eiolin took a deep breath and said, “Anyway, we cannot get any help from him. Let’s leave this cave on our own.  This way!”
Eiolin pointed out the direction, in which there were not any slimes.
“We have to remove some of the slimes to pass.”
Michael gathered his magic and cast a fireball into the group of slimes.
The fireball exploded and created a large space middle of the gathering of slimes, but the slimes are divided and recovered soon with more numbers. 
Locarno told Michael, “Why don’t you finish them all at once?”
Michael seemed confused, “Something is strange, Sir. My magic power is weaker than usual, and also I can feel something is wrong.”
Not only Michael but also other paladins and magicians said they felt something strange.
“I feel uncomfortable.” “I have a headache.” “My magic effect does not last long.”
Eiolin said, “Save your magic power, Michael.”
Eiolin and paladins moved forward and started to hack away at the slimes, but the slimes were not easily defeated. The slimes soon quickly surrounded the paladins and attack them swiftly. 
“Unbelievable. Those slimes are unusual.” Said Duran,
“Weird. The slimes are getting stronger..” Locarno replied,
Duran thought for a while and said, “No… it’s…. hmm.. we are getting weak because of the fog!”
Rashid asked,
“Is it poisonous fog, Sir Duran?”
“I’m not sure, Prince. But I can feel I’m getting weak and slowly being paralyzed.”
“It’s because you guys didn’t listen to Gray!” Rashid yelled,
“Even if he was here, the coward would not be of any help, Prince!”
“Prince, and Sir Locarno, I think we need Gray.  He must be well aware of here.” Joel, a paladin had said.
“Shut up, Joel!”
Eiolin tried to make them calm down.
“Easy, easy… Everyone, we have to calm down, and we can get through this together.”
Duran spoke to himself, “Did I perceive him wrong? I thought he was reliable.”
The paladins and magicians were getting worse and worse. Magicians who had low stamina started to keel over and the young Rashid finally fell over.
“I feel dizzy.” “I cannot walk anymore.” “Why am I like this?”
All of the paladins and magicians slowly losing hope. 
At that time, there was a big explosion behind paladins.
"Booom!!!!!!!"
“What’s that?”
From the smoke of the explosion, Gray had appeared, “Are all of you alright?”
“Gray!!!!!”
Gray threw a ball-shaped object, and it exploded on impact in the middle of the group of slimes.
“What’s that, Gray?”
Rashid asked, “It is a bomb for the people who cannot use magic power. It is necessary to have them for our rangers. Anyway, I was not too late, fortunately.” 
“Gray! I thought you really left us!”
Eiolin welcomed him and Gray gave grasses to all of the paladins.
“Everyone, take this and chew on it.”
“The grass?” 
“ We are not cows, why should we eat that?”, Locarno complained.
“Your all feeling losing strength right?”
Everyone nodded, “We are!”
“That’s what we are wondering. Is the gas poisonous in the cave?”, Duran asked.
Gray answered, “No, sir. The Vashj Slime in the cave makes a special sound wave, which makes people and animals paralyzed. If I was a bit later to come, you guys wouldn’t be able to move. The grass is to remove the paralysis.”
“Thank you, Gray. The reason why you went and left was so that you can find the grass. We didn’t know that…”, Eiolin said.
Locarno stopped her from giving her thanks to him, “Princess! We hired him, he just assisted us because he got paid! We don’t have to thank him.”
Gray said, “It is not because of the money, my mission is to help all of you pass through Mt. Gigantes safely. I just did what I had to do. Let’s keep moving, follow me.”
“Everyone, follow Gray!”, With Eiolin’s command, all paladins followed Gray.
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