Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 114

Chapter 44: Slime materials are also full of troubles.

“Rion-san, that’s too much!”

“… As expected, this is a bit of a pain even for me…”

Liese screams. Uru groans.
Meanwhile, the sense of crisis is increasing every moment.

Because our field of vision is now is-

?? Filled with a huge slime over four meters high and a number of slimes that were so large that’s difficult to count.

“…… Why has it come to this.”

My bewildered murmur overlapped with the sound of the slime splashing.

The time goes back a little.

“Hmm… It’s bigger than I expected.”

Liese said that while shielding her eyes with her hands from the intense sunlight.
Although I could barely see the opposite shore of the lake, it was spreading over a large area to my left and right. If I had measure it, It will probably be over a kilometer long.
The water is clear and I can see all the way to the bottom. However, there are some places that are dark, so it may be deep in some parts. I have to be careful to make sure I don’t accidentally step on it.
As I was looking out at the lake, I saw something moving.

“Mu, that’s a fast welcoming.”

At the same time as Uru picked up a branch from the ground, a slime crawled out of the lake. She immediately threw it at the core and shoot it through. No matter how resistant to physical attacks a slime is, there was no way a mere green slime could withstand Uru’s throws.
Since we are after slime jelly this time, I’m asking everyone to prioritize attacking the core and Uru uses throwing, Liese uses spear, and Fricka uses needle-type magic. Fin can use magic, but I can’t say that she’s proficient at it, so she doesn’t have any restrictions on what to use, her job is to gain experience while having Zephyr protect her.

“Alright, everyone watch your feet and spread out-”

“Please wait.”

Slimes are small fry, so we don’t need to group together. I tried to split the party and start the hunt, but… A voice that stopped me.

“Fricka?”

“Please stay together. If you don’t, it will be ‘dangerous’.”

“…… Yes?”

I thought that she was joking when she said ‘Dangerous’, but… Fricka’s expression was stiff, and it didn’t seem like she was joking.
… When I was watching Fricka’s expression the other day, I made a prediction, ‘Was she attacked by a Magi Slime in the past?’.
Magi slime are slimes that loves mana, and when it attacks the player, it doesn’t even do any damage, but instead sticks to the player’s body and just sucks MP. If you attack with all your might while it’s stuck to your body, it will cause a special damage calculation and it will be treated as self-inflicted damage, from a player’s perspective, it was just an annoying and unbearable mob.
If it was in Asteria, I thought it would (Personally I think it would be addictive to touch, but everyone looked disgusted) be extremely disgusting monster, but… Could it be that her caution is for an actually completely different reason?
But on the other hand, if we get too grouped, it would be difficult to attack. As I kept a little distance away on guard… Slimes began to bubble up from the lake. One, two, ten… I-Isn’t it a lot?
They are mostly green slimes, but there are some aqua slimes in different colors as well. It’s true that this situation like this might be a bit dangerous.

“This is a lot…”

“This will be fun!”

Starting with Uru’s attack, Liese also defeats a slime with a precise spear thrust to the core.
Although Fin was struggling with her magic chant, Zephyr, who was now as her dragon mount, was able to cover it up by avoiding or guiding enemy attacks.
There were a lot more than I expected, but for a moment I thought it would be okay.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Fricka!?”

That’s when I heard the scream and turned around, a large amount of Magi slimes appeared from around Fricka’s feet. After all, these guys are here…!
Then, they started to jump at Fricka from the front and back, wrapping their body completely around her.

“Nooooooo, take it off, take it, please!”

“I’ll remove it for you, so calm down!”

If I simply attack them, I might hurt Fricka, so I have no choice but to do it manually. I thrust my hand into elastic slimy body and repeatedly moved my arms trying to pull out its core. If I grab the body, it can just slip through, so it’s faster to grab the core and have the body follow it.

“Zephyr, crush it!”

“Kuyii.”

I throw it on the ground and have Zephyr defeat it. It’s much faster than processing it myself. Or rather, if I don’t concentrate on the peeling process, Fricka will be in a problematic state. I wonder how many of these guys there are…!
… I feel like I touched some strange place, no don’t think about it! When I say don’t think about it, It means don’t think about it! I shall carry out this removal work without any hesitation! Hey, don’t try to get into there! Are you guys perverts!?
After desperately reducing the number to a safe level, I laid down a stone pavement and placed Fricka on top of it to prevent them from gathering any further, and then I continued exterminating the slimes.
Although her LP shouldn’t have decreased, Fricka, whose MP(Mental Point) was probably depleted in a double sense, was sitting helplessly on the stone pavement. I took out an MP potion and a towel from the item box and give them to her.

“Um… Take this for now…”

“…… Thank, you……”

Ah… My bad prediction came true… That’s why I didn’t feel like bringing Regulus with us… In other words, it’s better to not describe Fricka’s current state…
But it’s strange. This was verified in multiplayer mode, but Magi Slime had a tendency to target the player with the most MP. I’m the one with the most MP out of all of us, but why am they are aiming for Fricka…?
Did the question slipped out of my mouth… ??What would I do if someone asked me what is a player??? The answer came from Fricka herself, who is still breathless.

“… My, grandfather, said.”

“Wiega-san?”

“He thinks, that they aim, for the one with the highest aptitude number, of attributes rather than the, total mana value…”

“I see?”

Even if I’m at the top in terms of MP, I’d probably be at the very bottom in the list counting the attribute aptitude number. Because according to the Earth God, this body has not yet adapted to the world.
And the attribute aptitude number for every player should be zero. That’s why the target was selected based on the only variable, the maximum MP value. If NPCs had also been present during the verification, I wonder if the results would have been the same as this time.

“… Well… If it was this bad, you shouldn’t have forced yourself to follow…?”

“No… I didn’t expect that number either. It’s worse than before…”

Hmm…? That’s worse…? ………… Don’t tell me.

“… Because I kept asking you to use holy attribute magic, your aptitude increased and it got worse…?”

“–”

Fricka froze without making a sound.
I-I-I’m sorry. I never expected something like this to happen!
While I was in panic, I heard Uru’s voice, who was still fighting the other slimes.

“It got worse?… Maybe ‘that’… Is also related…?”

“…What you mean by ‘that’.”

Fearfully, I looked at the direction Uru was directing her gaze while she was throwing.
For some reason, the center of the lake was slowly rising.

Zabbaaaaaaan

As if splitting the lake… A huge slime appeared.

“…………… What?”

Just the size of the visible part of the slime is about 4 meters high. I don’t know how much it will be if I add what is in the water. The color was translucent pink, and a magic stone much larger than other slimes was floating inside its body.
And around that slime, there are a lot of small (normal size) slimes floating around.

“… Q-Queen Slime…?”