Episode
Slayers: An Ancient Pledge! One Who Seeks Immortality!
Overview
They visit both Tarimu and Demia and they think Halcyform, the former guild director, did it to them. Lina and the gang go to Halcyform's home, which is the only place isn't damage, and they find out Halcyform pledge to the monsters (or to Saygram) to become immortal. Halcyform seem to powerful for them, but Lina trapes him in ice. Saygram wants to attack, but Xellos shows up, and Xellos tells him not to. Saygram retreats, and Xellos talks to them. He was about to explain how to kill Halcyform, but Lina beat him to it, explaining that inorder to kill the pledge, you must destory the stone that he pledge.
Details
- Series
- Slayers
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1996-04-26
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
An Ancient Pledge! One Who Seeks Immortality! is Episode 4 in Slayers Next of Slayers. It aired on 1996-04-26. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 3: A Wonderful Business! Being a Bodyguard isn't Easy!
Lina and Amelia fight over which restaurant is better, Roast Beef or Hot Pot. Lina/Gourry goes to the Roast Beef restaurant, while Amelia and Zelgadis goes to the Hot Pot restaurant.
Both parties are approached by two different men, and are asked to take a position as body guards for two candiates that are running against each other.
What they both don't know is when playing dirty, Lina/Gourry attack Amelia/Zelgadis, and vice versa.
Both candiates, Tarimu (for Lina/Gourry), and Demia (for Amelia/Zelgadis), decide for them to have a showdown at the ruins of the city, which is just north of there.
When parties meet, they are not surprised who are they challenging, but they head back to town, where magical slime beasts are attacking everyone. Lina/Amelia goes to find the roots of the beasts, and it is revealed that it's coming for both of their candiates home.
They throw Taimu and Demia in jail, but both Lina and Amelia forgot that they didn't get paid (after being promised to get high
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The group manages to search around the home, and find a hidden room in the attic. By this time, Halcyform has already been defrosted.
They escape his wrath when Lina makes a whole in the ground around them. They land in a sewer like place in the home, where slugs are present. Lina gets scared and hang on to Gourry. They proceded to get transported to another place by Saygram, while Zelgadis and Amelia fight of the slugs. Then Amelia and Zelgadis manages to get kidnapped.
Shortly after, Lina and Gourry runs away after being transported and end up in a lab. They see a woman laying there, and Halcyform shows up. We learn his back story, why he is doing this. He is trying to bring back the love of his life, Rubia (the woman in the box) after monsters attacked them, and he wasn't unable to save her.
Amelia and Zelgadis shortly appears, wrapped up in a cococun, they fall into the pool, where they lose their energy, giving it to Rubia.
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Episode 7: Sudden Cooking! Follow the Phantom Dragon!
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Episode 8: Be Eternal! The Day Prince Phil Died?
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Episode 9: Hidden Ambitions! The Shocking Confession?
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Episode 10: On a Journey With a Pack of Scoundrels?! Take Back That Magic Power!
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The Claire Bible Manuscript!
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Episode 12: The Unexpected End? The Shocking Truth!
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Episode 13: Impending Fall! The Moment of Ambition's Defeat!
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