episode_0008
by fnovelpia*****
This body is not that weak even with bare hands as long as there is mana. However, there is a huge gap between when you are holding the sword and when you are not.
Cut it. Just by drawing the sword with such intent, I could grasp everything around me.
The boss slime was located near the end of the canyon. The straight passage leading there is divided into three groups of slimes, blocking it like a gateway. Is he trying to consume me even a little more?
Give it a try. With that mindset, I rushed towards the slime in the front row.
Wow,
The slimes’ reactions to my attack were uniformly the same. A noise as if tearing the air was heard, and all the slimes swelled to three or four times their size.
Of course, the volume of the body is limited, so it would have become thinner accordingly. However, if it ends with a single blow from my sword anyway, there is no need to focus on defense.
As expected, these guys must have come up with some kind of countermeasure while watching my battle.
“Tch, annoying!”
Pshaak!
As it became thinner, the slimes were cut with a single knife without much resistance. However, it was not possible to stop the torn bodies of slimes from attacking them.
Originally, I would have avoided it, but now both the sides and back are blocked. As much as I wanted to save mana, I was reluctant to even choose to blow it all away with a big skill.
Thanks to this, my hair and clothes, which were already sticky, became completely sticky with the slimes’ bodily fluids. I don’t know what their plan was, but I think they succeeded in making me irritated.
“Oh, really!”
Without even having time to shake off the liquid, the slimes launched a second attack. However, the narrow terrain is not only advantageous to the enemy. There is a limit to the number of people who can attack at once, so this group also met the same end as the ones that charged in just before.
I was careful to see if the slimes might be aiming for a gap blocking my view. The boss slime was still shaking in place and did not take any action.
Thanks to this, the number of slimes was decreasing at a frightening rate. If a group of people gathered together and charged in to make a clean sweep, it was natural for that to happen.
Was it just a low-intelligence monster recklessly charging in? Around the time I started to have doubts. The weight of the sword I was swinging suddenly increased.
“Ugh… ?”
Okay. The sword that was aiming for the core missed and cut the slime’s body in half. Although there was no significant damage, the results just aroused me more than I expected.
Ever since I first grabbed the ogre, there has never been a time when the sword didn’t move as expected.
Something is wrong. At the point when I recognized that, I chose the means that would most objectively confirm my condition.
“Status window!”
As I take a large step back, a glowing string appears before my eyes. The result is to focus your attention on the items that interest you most before anything else.
[Mana: 561/6000]
The remaining mana amount was already less than 1/10 of the original amount.
Why? The pace distribution must have been clear. When I compare the number of engagements I had on my way up here and the time I spent fighting here, this rate of attrition is clearly strange.
Even in the midst of confusion, my body was steadily doing what it was supposed to do. He took out a mana potion from the pouch on his waist, cut off the cap, and drank it in an instant.
However, even though there was a bitter taste on my tongue, the feeling of strength returning to my body was minimal. The mana value in the status window has only just exceeded 10%. Originally, about 1/4 of it should have recovered.
And even that 10% began to decrease noticeably as soon as the increase stopped.
Shoo!
“Now, take a moment!”
There was no time to leisurely analyze the cause. The slimes ran back and forth non-stop as if they would not miss even the moment of drinking the potion.
I don’t know why, but my mana is draining out. If we eliminate all the slimes one by one now, we will run out of fuel before then.
If so, let’s cut off the enemy’s head before that.
This time, instead of pointing the sword, I pointed my upper body forward towards the rushing slimes.
[Sunbo]
With the feeling of instantaneous acceleration, I escaped behind the guys who had attacked me. Of course, that alone doesn’t completely reduce the distance to the boss slime, but that’s not a problem. All you have to do is go through it all.
The boss slime seemed to understand my intention and began to gather slimes between him and me. On the contrary, I ignored them all and ran towards the boss slime.
The slime hit my side, but I moved forward. Even if my arm is grabbed by the slime, I cut it and move forward. A pile of slime formed a wall and came crashing down, crushing me underneath it. Blow it all away and take one step forward.
There was damage due to the ignorant rush, but the gain was certain. The boss slime I saw up close was trembling with shock, its large body.
It came in the right interval. After confirming that, I pulled out the sword I had put away in an explosion.
[Baldo – New Moon (朔月)]
Ugh. A thin line was drawn on the boss slime’s massive body. One beat later, liquid was spouted from the line, and the boss slime’s body began to slip and fall apart with diagonal cuts.
This guy is no match for me in a 1:1 match. Based on Boss Slime’s overly self-interested attitude, my guess was correct.
But this is not the end. Upper and lower body divided in half. You need to check which of the two has the core.
topside. As soon as I confirmed that, I poured mana into the sword again.
Sigh.
With a surging sword, bodily fluids sprayed out in all directions like blood.
The size of the slime core is proportional to the size of the body. There was not enough space for the core to move satisfactorily in a body that was cut in half and then in half again.
After using two big moves, the boss slime started to move, but even then it was too late. The core will be in half before that guy does anything.
The movement after swinging the sword flows smoothly into the movement just before cutting. A line connecting the tip of the sword and the core. All you have to do is draw this line straight down and you’re done.
However, just before that, something other than the core intervened on that line. The shape of a person. This was probably the boss slime’s last struggle.
Of course, it wasn’t that important. I just cut the slime’s core in half──
──No, what are you thinking! Of course it’s important!
“Keueuuuu!”
This was not a scream made in a desperate attempt to twist the sword. When I tried to change the sword, it lightly cut off the slime’s flesh as if changing the path of a toy train.
However, failing to cut the core here means that the opponent also has time to act. The boss slime’s strike aimed at the gap in my attack and hit me directly in the side.
A huge soft body several meters long was swinging its tentacles. My small body bounced off the floor as if it were a water swallow and landed on the stone wall of the canyon. Patter. Pile of dirt and pieces of stone fell on the fallen head.
“Queu, ugh… .”
Because of the shock that shakes my entire body, I can’t even scream properly. I need to get up quickly and grab my sword. Even if you try to prop yourself up, your hands just scratch the ground.
Fortunately, I wasn’t the only one who was incapacitated. The boss slime, who somehow managed to turn around, was not even able to maintain his flowing body properly. A core with a corner cut off was in the corner of my eye.
Not much time passed, but between the boss slime and I, I was the one who woke up first. Carrying my now heavier body, I picked up the sword that had flown far away.
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[TS Prana Lv.19]
Vitality: 3324/7800 / Mana: 97/6000
Physical: 52 / Reactivity: 81 / Mana Responsiveness: 13 / Mental Power: 49 / Resistance: 24
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It happened, but I also suffered serious damage. Not only did a single hit cut off more than half of his vitality, but he also consumed a large amount of mana to withstand the damage.
Perhaps because there was no mana, the stats were also noticeably low. It feels like it has entered power saving mode. Still, I think I can break the core.
Now all you have to do is go and cut it and you’re done. While I was thinking that, the slimes I had passed began to slowly come towards me.
“That’s terrible, really!”
It was a bit difficult to cut them all apart with one blow like before. I slowly retreated and cut down as many as I could, one by one. Fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to deal with the slime itself, as there was no room to control multiple boss slimes.
The problem came after that. The liquid that comes out after cutting slime. Every time I turn it over, I feel like my body temperature is strangely rising. Perhaps because the resistance was low, the poison that originally did not work became effective.
But even if I know that, there is no way to do anything about it. It is difficult for me now to take out the antidote and drink it and avoid being poisoned.
Considering that it can move like this, it doesn’t seem to be a paralyzing or lethal poison, but any poison is bound to be effective if it overlaps several times.
“Kuu, haa… !”
In the end, I was unable to suppress my rapid breathing and had to desperately push away the slime’s resistance while my body was collapsing.
… What kind of Germany is this really? I’m out of breath, my body is hot, and I feel strangely itchy, but I can’t tell where the itching is. The feeling of frustration is building up, but there is no way to resolve it, which makes me even more anxious. It’s such an unpleasant poison.
No, that doesn’t matter. Anyway, there are only two or three slimes left. All you have to do is eliminate all those guys and destroy the core──
“Hiya!?”
Sigh. My continuing thoughts were interrupted by a sudden stimulus. Something passed along the back of my spine as if it were burning a tickle.
“Sleep, whoa, whoa, what is this!?”
The stimulation didn’t stop there. The sides, under the armpits, lower back, etc. Something continued to stimulate every corner of my body.
When I looked more closely, there wasn’t one. Two, three, maybe more things were moving around inside the spirit. I tried to hold on to it somehow, but I couldn’t, as if it was slipping away or clinging to me as if it had never existed.
“Ugh, hot, that, stop… !”
It’s just a simple tickle, but somehow it feels like all the strength is draining from my body. In addition, in between the tickling stimulation, a strange sensation began to come into my mind.
Before I knew it, the movement inside the clothes had changed from a tickling sensation to a rubbing sensation. Locations gradually became more focused on more explicit places, such as the breasts or between the legs, rather than awkward places such as the sides or thighs.
No matter how much I am, I realize this at this point. They’re trying to do something dirty to me.
“Well, no… !”
So far, I’m just left with a strange feeling. But little by little, I had the feeling that something was coming together within me.
The nervousness that was building up inside my body was getting hotter and hotter.
And now, unidentified stimulation continues to be given.
It is dangerous for these two to be connected. I felt that way intuitively. At the same time, I also remembered how to prevent this.
Paang. The last handful of mana left inside me. When it was released all at once, a strong booming sound rang out around the area.
Churruk, fluttering.
At the same time, pieces of slime cores tumbled down from inside the spirit. The essence of what was moving and stimulating inside the clothes was the cores that had not been able to be cut and were covered up.
Anyway, this solved the feeling inside the clothes. All that’s left is to wait for some mana to recover and then destroy the core.
But at this time, I had completely forgotten the obvious fact.
Just as I didn’t wait for the boss slime to recover, there’s no way the boss slime would wait for my recovery.
“Ah.”
By the time I raised my head at the sudden shadow, everything was already late.
Sigh. I was swept away by the overwhelming mass pouring down from above, unable to do anything.
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