Slime and Growth Showdown (1)

“What is it… Suddenly, the offensive started to weaken… “

“Huh? What!”

Among those who participated in the ranking battle and survived the current situation, the only man who reached Aura Level 3 and the only woman who reached Blue Magic Level 4 were joining forces to focus on survival.

“… [Blue Magic] [Lv. 4] [Giant Rock Wall]

-Bang!!

“Eww?! Hey! Speak up and write… ?”

“Look… Just now, it was a liquid that would melt my magic in an instant… But now… “

“Is it blocked?”

Slime liquid whose flow was interrupted by a rock magic created by a woman.

It had just rushed at them at incredible speed, melting the wall as if magic itself was ridiculous.

To be honest, the inspector who deals with Auror first saw that her magic blocked the slime and decided to cooperate with her, but he gradually began to regret that it was a wrong decision.

However, the slime liquid is now hissing at her magic, but it is not dissolving very quickly.

“Something… seems to have changed… “

“What? What changed?”

“Would you like to hear my thoughts?”

“Tell me. I suck at magic and monsters.”

The man who had just released the aura that had been swinging roughly yet flexibly and strongly, thought that he could rest for a moment and looked at her as he put the sword back on his waist. After closing his eyes for a moment as if thinking, she slowly opened her mouth.

“In that darkness… I just felt a few strong magical forces from the direction the slime was flowing from… “

“Huh? Who the hell is fighting this slime? I don’t think so. Wasn’t it just a last-ditch effort? “

The man, who immediately understood the situation after hearing her story, frowned and tilted his head, but the woman shook her head, surprised that he was more understanding than she had thought.

“No… I can still feel the source of that magical power… I haven’t been eliminated… And, the owner of that powerful magical power is fighting the slime… so the offensive towards this side has probably weakened… “

“Huh. Crazy, who the hell is that?”

“That’s… I don’t know… “

As the woman timidly shakes her head and turns her eyes away, the man shrugs his shoulders, checks the slime behind the magic wall, and thinks.

‘This woman also seems to have quite strong magical power. Is this what you call strong magical power when you see her?’

If she had said that it was a strong magical power, it could have been passed over as just someone with the same level of power as her somewhere else.

But the eyes of this timid blue magician seem to be looking at the magician’s magical power somewhere in the darkness as if it were something far superior to his own.

The man couldn’t understand how such a strong person could have remained undetected in this small space for over a day, looking at her like that.

“Are you stronger than me?”

“… I don’t know about Sochop. But… It’s definitely much stronger than Sochop… “

It was a soliloquy, but the sight of a timid woman answering so sincerely made me chuckle.

Because it’s not a superior-subordinate relationship where you pay attention to what I say and answer everything.

In any case, since we are cooperating to survive together, she should not worry about me but should just keep the magic in front of her stable.

“Okay, now if this magic isn’t going to break through right away, just rest in the back for a bit. If the wall melts or something turns around and comes in, I’ll be there to take care of it. “

“… You want me to trust you?”

“Then~ what if you don’t believe me? Besides, if I was going to trick you, you know I could have stabbed you here and run away already, right?”

“I hope you don’t stab me… “

“Yeah, yeah, I won’t stab you, so you should recover some magic power too. I’m getting help from your magic right now. I’ll stand guard.”

“… Okay. Then… I’ll take a rest on that rock for a bit. “

“Okay.”

The woman, who had quietly held onto her long skirt and moved it, sat down on the rock, closed her eyes as if concentrating on something and began to relax.

The man who saw that sight grabbed the sword’s pommel again, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, then looked into the darkness and returned to his previous thoughts.

‘If she’s definitely stronger than that woman, then that means she’s probably a little stronger than me. I definitely want to see her. I wonder what kind of monster she looks like.’

Toma, a foreign prosecutor, participated in this ranking match as an individual.

At the age of twenty-three, he was a promising man, renowned as a genius who would become the next ‘Sword Master’ in his country.

He didn’t know that a man like that would become interested in a man who was dealing with slimes in the darkness of the mountains.

*

-10 minutes before the slime offensive across the plains begins to weaken.

“… Brother, is that really slime? Ugh… It’s so different from what I saw in the book? “

Nora’s words continue, starting with Harb’s voice, which is making a weak sound for the first time in a long time.

“… Rudis, are you sure you can actually catch this? Ugh… It’s so big? “

Even Nora, who had been confidently saying that she would be able to achieve one goal once this was over, was forced to let out a weak voice.

The silver princess, who was listening to the two people talking, opened her mouth.

“Commoner! If you’re not crazy, then you’re crazy! That’s not a monster made for people to catch!”

Even she, who had been saying that she would be helpful just a moment ago, began shaking her head violently and talking about running away from this place.

The black-haired man standing in front of them, Rudis, smiled softly and pointed behind him with his finger.

“Where should I go? The path I came from is gone?”

“””… … “””

All three of them looked at Rudis again with bewildered expressions as they saw that the path they had come from was now covered in the liquid emitted by the slime before their eyes and no longer a path.

However, seeing the three people acting like that, Rudis didn’t blame them at all and just smiled awkwardly and thought.

‘Well, when you see a slime that has grown in size by eating about 30% of a mountain, it can’t be helped that it makes that kind of expression.’

I’m not sure if slimes usually have the ability to grow that big, but in the novel, there was an explanation that the black magic slime that gained consciousness by eating the princess was as big as a mountain.

I’d estimate that it’s probably around 10 meters tall. Looking at it this way, I can get a rough idea of how big the 15-meter giant from the Giant of the Islands manga was.

I can’t even begin to fathom how huge 50 meters really is.

“… Girl, I think I’m going to melt to death here today.”

“Um… No, since Rudis said she could do it, I’ll believe her for now… I want to see. Can she really take it down? Huh?”

“Brother. I’ll just be the stepping stone, so why don’t you run away with the two of you… “

All three of them cowered before the gigantic presence of the fantasy slime.

Well, if you think about it, they’re all in their early 20s. They just turned twenty-two.

I think it would be natural for these kids to react this way if they were faced with an acidic slime that seemed to embody absolute death.

what.

“[Black Magic] [Lv. 3] [Black Magic Bullet]”

-Bang!!

-Ughh …

“””?!!”””

That doesn’t mean I have any intention of waiting for them to mature mentally.

As I launched a preemptive strike at the slime, the three people started to look at me in surprise as they saw the thing let out a human-like scream. I smiled as kindly as I could and opened my mouth.

“Life is a battle! Our team consists of two black magicians, one swordsman, and one pack. It’s not an easy team to win against, but it’s not a bad team to deal with the average slime. Let’s go without being scared. No matter how big they are, their core is still smaller than a person’s body!”

“But who is the luggage? Isn’t it about the girl?”

“Okay, Harb. Get his attention from the front. There’s no need to aim for a direct hit. Nora, make a ground for Harb to step on. Just use [Black Swamp] to erase the ground where the slime has melted. Can you do it?”

“Ugh, yeah! If it’s like this, I have to do it even if I can’t… !!”

“You’re not answering?!”

“Princess, please never leave Nora’s side. I won’t go far, but if you go too far, I might not be able to protect you.”

“Oh my gosh!!”

“”Pfft!””

The princess couldn’t stand my blatant ignoring reaction and shouted. Nora and Harve finally couldn’t hold back their laughter at her reaction.

Yeah. Even if you use all your potential, it’s an opponent you can only hope to win against, so if you go in nervous and already lose, how are you going to win?

Of course, I’m confident I can win without eliminating any of you.

That’s what a reincarnation is.

-Kugugugu!

-Keuu …

“Eek?!”

Perhaps because he heard the princess’s voice, the guy who had only let out a stupid howl at my attack turned what looked like his face(?) towards us.

The princess seemed very nervous about the guy’s reaction and hid behind Nora.

“Hot! Thank you, Princess. Just like before, please cheer me on like you usually do. Now, let’s begin!”

“Ugh…!! I don’t know! I decided to believe everything Rudis says!! [Lv. 2] [Black Swamp]!!”

“I will do it just by trusting in you, hyung!!”

-fault!!

Harb, who instantly wrapped his sword in an aura and leaped forward with a martial arts level higher than mine, immediately began swinging his sword and cutting down the slimes around him.

The slime, which was screaming as if it was in pain from its main body being attacked, although it wasn’t hit there, started to direct an incomparable amount of liquid at Harb, who was starting to cut it up, rather than at the princess.

“[Lv. 4] [Black Tower]”

-Kwaaang!!!

-What the heck?!!

“Huh?! That magic of Rudis…!!”

Nora’s eyes widened in surprise at the magic I used to protect Harb.

A huge black tower with dense magical power bursts through the mountain and sticks out like a stake embedded in the slime’s body, ‘perfectly’ protecting Harb’s head from the acidic liquid that covers it.

And since she knew the difficulty and ‘defense’ of this magic very well, she looked at me more surprised than anyone else here.

“I learned it from my teacher. You will be able to use it soon.”

“… That’s ridiculous. Even a level 5 black magician has to practice [Black Tower] separately, which is a difficult spell. How can I shorten it with an intermediate catalyst?”

“Ha! The magic book I gave you is inferior to the intermediate catalyst?”

“… … “

I decided to speak directly to her, who was still holding the magic book I gave her proudly in one hand.

“Listen carefully. Your talent is definitely several levels higher than mine. Right now, it may seem like I’m ahead of you, but one day, you’ll be a talented person who will surpass me. So… I trust your skills.”

“… … “

The story is already twisted. And in the end, the heroine Nora chased after me.

I’m not sure how to treat her in the future, but I want to push her growth a little here and there anyway.

This time again, it’s not a proper plan, it’s a third-rate plan. But anyway, that’s what I’m hoping for.

“This slime battle, you’re the main character. Got it?”

No answer comes back.

Her blue eyes, which looked at me as if she still didn’t understand what I was saying, were full of questions.

And I don’t have the luxury of waiting for her answer.

-Kwaaang!!

“Huh?!”

“[Lv. 4][Black Tower]”

-Whoaaa!! Cheeek!!!

-fault!!

The slime moved as if it was pulling out the stake I had set up.

After driving another stake over Harve’s head, which was staggering in the aftermath, I ran after him.

“… I’m the main. I’m… more talented than Rudis… “

If it was Nora, who was chewing on my words and shining her blue eyes, I could believe that she would definitely grow in this battle without having to say anything more.

Before I could hear what she had to say after following me here, I wanted to return at least one more thing. With that thought in mind, I ran towards the slime.