chapter 19

In a game, you can encounter monsters just by walking around. Even in this world, monsters appear quite often.

It’s exactly like a game, but it’s still another world and reality.

That’s why even slimes have a source.

I found a cave at the end of the forest.

Holding the lantern is a pain in the ass, so I activate fire magic.

A fire the size of a head appeared in the air.

I entered the cave, lighting up the surroundings.

–I found it.

After a few dozen meters, you reach a large space.

There was a monster lurking in the far end.

The naked body of a glamorous woman. It smiles as if it noticed me.

Essentially, it’s someone you meet in the woods.

Then the male adventurers would have happily approached and called out to the topless woman wandering in the forest.

But this is in an empty cave.

The woman’s naked body is only on the top half.

The bottom half – was a clear, liquid mass.

Queen Acid Slime

Race : Slime

Level: 32

HP : 320/320

MP : 256/256/256

Attack power: 192

Defensive Power: 416

Agility: 320

Abilities: Mimicry

Skills: absorption, liquefaction, king’s spit

I take the saber out of the item box.

The Queen is a monster that absorbs other creatures and generates slime from their energy.

As long as this thing is alive, the number of slimes will continue to increase and the creatures around it will become extinct. The best course of action is to kill it as soon as possible.

In terms of quest rank, it would be around D. However, it’s a case of an adventurer who has signed up several members of the [Bonds list] to fight it with a party.

Well, it’s a lot less than I am now. I can handle it on my own.

“You ready?”

—- I start running.

I closed in and swung my saber just in time to hit the tip of her sword.

Brilliantly, the lower half of the queen is sliced open and fluid gushes out of it.

But instantly, the shape of the Queen changes as well.

The top half of the human shape instantly turned to water and bounced on the ground.

And then she quickly regained her shape and took her first appearance.

The wound I ripped out with my saber earlier is gone.

Once she broke the shape, she made everything liquid, and then absorbed it from there and returned to her form again.

It’s probably due to this trait that its defensive power is so high.

It’s not enough to just attack. It’s simply a physical challenge.

I may have a better HP rating than her, but…

And then liquid shot out of the Queen’s mouth.

It flew toward me, and I couldn’t avoid it–I couldn’t cut it.

The liquid hung on my left hand.

“Uggh!”

A pain that was an order of magnitude different from the acid of acid slimes assaulted my left arm.

As it is, smoke is emitted from my left hand and it’s corroded.

Even if you take acid from acid slime, it should be a burn at best.

In contrast, the Queen’s attack is on a different level …….

Oh, I see. The king’s spit.

The Queen spits the liquid out of her mouth in rapid succession.

I run around in the cave, avoiding each shot.

“Every creature has a weakness.”

The structure of the slime is simple. A stone with properties and structural information and the liquid collected by it.

The Queen has to have some kind of life core.

Where is it?

I stand in front of the queen.

There is nothing in the liquid part of her lower body.

It is there, limp and distorted, forming a large hole. It drops back just before it is swallowed.

A stone that is separate from acid slime. A mimicry that takes the form of a person. A mouth that serves as an outlet for acid.

The core is also a medium for producing acid.

Then!

I take the grip part of the saber in my mouth and run towards the queen again.

Saliva shot out of the Queen’s mouth.

“Damn!”

I forced off the cloak of recognition inhibition that I was wearing with my right hand, which I could move. As soon as the cloak was spread wide in front of me, I jumped up to the very edge of the cave ceiling.

The king’s spit splatters on the cloak and instantly turns to smoke.

Meanwhile, the Queen, gripped by the cloak, looks around the area as if she’d lost sight of me.

In a state of floating, I grip the saber tightly in my right hand.

Leaning on gravity, I drop towards the queen.

At the same time, I thrust the saber at her.

“Hmm!”

The landing spot is the upper half of the Queen’s body.

The saber pierced her chest – the black stone at the back of it.

“—-Γא”

The Queen emitted a sound that was hard to call a voice, and then scattered on the floor.