Chapter 8.

Chapter 8. Slime Slaying Quest

"Hey!"

 Lucia shouted and swung her wand, crushing the slime at her feet. However, the slime once crushed and splashed into liquid, immediately gathered in one place and regenerated naturally.

"Kyukyu!"

"No matter how many times you crush it, it will regenerate!"

Plains near the town of Carmelo. The horizon stretches endlessly, and the beautiful blue sky spreads out. The blue sky and Lucia's screams seemed to reach beyond the horizon.

It's already been about an hour since we came here to kill the slime. In the meantime, Lucia was still wrestling with a single slime.

"Throw your brain plasma out!"

"Squeeze... Kyu... Kyukyu!"

"I will do it again! Wow!"

No matter how many times she smashed it, the slime immediately regenerated and made a cute squeal. Lucia slammed her wand with a desperate look.

What does the slime do? It squeaks. Lucia says that if you can't defeat it, you should stop being an adventurer, but when will she defeat it?

Even from the outside, the slime seems to be a troublesome monster. It's harmless to humans and animals, just happily jumping up and down, but its regenerative ability is amazing. When you finish crushing it, it returns to its original state.

 The slime was jumping up and down on this plain, and adventurers who had taken slime-slaying quests like us were fighting. However, most of them, like Lucia, wielded their weapons endlessly against the regenerating slimes.

"Hey, slimes are weak, aren't they?"

"Oh, that's right... As you can see, slimes don't attack at all, so you can hit them as much as you want... Whew!"

I'm ramming the slime from the side where I said it wouldn't attack. 

However, it seems that the body is made of water, and even if you hit it, it is only as powerful as being hit by a water balloon. Lucia was tired.

Lucia seems to be more worn out from wielding the wand multiple times than from the damage caused by the slime.

"Huh, huh... Isn't this much different from waving a pickaxe all day? Come on, it's gone! Splash it like water and perish!"

While saying something noisy, Lucia smashed the slime again with her wand. And, as a matter of course, the slime regenerated.

"Isn't it working?"

"No, it looks like this, and every time it regenerates, it consumes magic. Eventually, it will not be able to regenerate!"

Don't get excited and swing your wand while you're talking. According to Lucia, slimes are monsters that appear abnormally after rain. The slime got its life from the magic power in the puddles.

In other words, slimes are magical creatures composed of liquids, and it is inefficient to defeat them with physical attacks. They can be easily defeated by using some kind of elemental magic attack. Lucia, who taught me this, was hitting the slime with her cane like an idiot.

"Shouldn't you use magic?"

"Well, I can use it, but I'm good at special magic... It's commonly referred to as mysticism, and it's magic for anti-Ancient Blood."

"I don't care if it's a special spell or whatever. If you can kill a slime, you should use it... maybe it only works on Ancient Blood?"

"Oh no... Other than Ancient Blood, it is also effective against evil beings from the darkness, but magical creatures like slime are a bit... It's impossible... Yes."

"Then why were you so confident before you took the quest?"

"I knew that physical attacks wouldn't do much, but I still thought that my wand brain-smashing strike would kill it with a single blow!"

This guy is an idiot. What is a brain plasma strike? Is it supposed to be the name of the technique?

Looking at the other fledgling adventurers, those who can only do physical attacks seem to be having a hard time.

The content of this slime subjugation quest is to kill 10 slimes in one party by dusk. If you can't meet your quota, even if you kill 9 of them, you won't get anything. If you can't kill one in an hour, it's doubtful you'll be able to make it in time.

"Oh well... If you only need to crush it, I can help."

I don't have any weapons, but luckily tree branches are lying around. The slime's defense is as fragile as water, so it should be enough. I pick up a large wooden stick and approach the slime around it. Lucia says hurriedly.

"No, you better stop. Slime has the property of being attracted to men, and it burrows into men's lower abdomen... so."

"What is it?"

If you stop in the middle, I will only feel disturbed.

"It's going to be a little obscene, or something like that... Ugh, I'm embarrassed to say that from a woman to a man!"

Lucia blushed slightly and turned away from me. In other words, does the slime sneak into a man's crotch and do something to his dick?

"Eh, are these guys such erotic creatures!?"

"Kyukyu!"

I am suddenly frightened by the slime that is approaching my feet while bouncing around, and I step back.

"Slime has such properties that there is an anecdote that it is the embodiment of a woman's erotic fantasies."

It's the worst anecdote. It's a joke. I shudder at the astonishing fact. I shudder to think that slime on this plain is slowly approaching my lower abdomen.

In fantasy erotic manga, there are quite a few situations where women are violated by demons and tentacles. My legs tremble when I think that there may be a possibility of experiencing it with my own body.

"Kyukyu!"

"Wow!"

Before I knew it, I reflexively trampled on the slime that had been clinging to my feet. However, as a matter of course, it regenerated and came closer to my feet.

"No, don't come! Don't come near me!"

Finally, I throw away the piece of stick I picked up and run away from the approaching slime.

"Crush these guys quickly!"

I begged, but Lucia didn't try to help me, just looked at me with a smirk.

"Well, a man who is frightened by slime and runs away has something that comes to his womb like this."

"Don't be stupid, erotic goddess!"

"Oops, I'm still a goddess apprentice."

"I don't care about that, help me quickly!"

My screams echoed across the slime plains. After that, I worked with other adventurers to destroy the slime that had gathered around me, and I was able to complete the quest safely by dusk.

"The image of being chased by slime is still burned into my eyelids!"

"I'll never do this quest again."

I swore so hard.