D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad Chapter 1948 Announcements

--- Lily ---

Lily collapsed at the top of the tower. This had been a terrible idea. The water had something else mixed into it and was sort of sticky. She’d barely managed to make it up before Hedera but suppressing the desire to clean herself off was hard.

A loud splat echoed next to her as Hedera collapsed, similarly soaked and looking frustrated. The climb hadn’t been hard necessarily, but the oddly sticky water had been determined to just get everywhere. It was thoroughly unpleasant and meant the tower had been more of a test of grit then one of agility. Lily wanted to transform and sprawl out on her back... but she also didn’t want to be soaked in both forms.

So instead, Lily grabbed the key and made a shadow slide down for Hedera to take. The elf in question was happy to be off the contraption and slid down with Lily following behind her to make sure the slide was stable the entire way. It was actually quite a lot of shadow and the end of it... might have been more flash then substance until she got closer to it. Still, nobody noticed so it was probably fine.

When Lily got to the ground she transformed and started stretching. "Blegh, why did we even want to do that," Lily shivered. "I still feel like I need to get clean even though I’m dry in this form..."

"Yeah I have no idea what that was. I almost want to say it was sugar water but obviously it didn’t taste sweet... or much like anything," admitted Hedera.

"Wait you drank it?" asked Lily, glancing back at the tower. It... didn’t exactly look unclean. In fact it probably was safe but it really didn’t seem like a good idea.

"Not intentionally," countered Hedera. "But I was soaking wet and I do need to breath occasionally. I wasn’t game enough to just stick with my nose considering the fact the water was going everywhere and clogging it half the time,"

"Ah... yeah fair point," conceded Lily with a sigh as she transformed and placed the key into Hedera’s hands. Mentally sighing, again, Lily hopped up onto Hedera and tried to ignore the squelch of sticky wet clothes.

Heading through the door that opened as they approached it with the key revealed that the next room was an underwater treasure hunt. Perhaps it was a coincidence... but Lily was willing to be the real designer realised that they needed a place to wash off. Both Hedera and Lily were happy to dive into the water and just... float around for a bit.

Of course, that was as nice idea but first Lily wanted to get clean. She created a shadow arm with a big shadow sponge and tried to use it to wash herself off... and it had particularly mixed results. It wasn’t good at getting the stickiness off. The initial dunk in the water had done most of that, but the remnants were really clinging on. Worse though, was that the sponge kept getting caught on her horns. Despite knowing a real sponge was much less prone to do that.

It was while Lily was trying to get clean that they were interrupted. "Hello! Hello! More announcements from your friendly dryad host!" announced Thyme, their voice echoing around the space. *

"We’ve actually got quite a few things to announce today! Firstly, Timmy’s can now fight with you! They may be limited to Rank 1 in power but surely you can think of something right? This applies to fights against monsters, and against other contestants but still not orb challenges so do keep that in mind.

"Secondly, the centre has been locked down! What a shock! It will now open... eventually... at some time. It won’t be more than a month!" Lily shared an annoyed look with Hedera who shrugged, not knowing what to say to Thyme’s announcement. "That’s the power of this rule change. You won’t know when the middle will open so... good luck!

"The final announcement, is that weather has gotten more extreme across the island!" *"It won’t always be worse, sometimes it will be better but the swings will get more extreme. Make sure you’re well prepared for whatever is going to be thrown at you!" finished Thyme.

Lily sent Kat the mental image of her smirking.

Kat sent over a mental shrug.