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Volume 10 Chapter 274

The Elnor Family vs. Slime (Second)

「Ultimate Thunder!」
Luke unleashed ultimate magic suddenly.
It was an attack that one wouldn’t expect against a slime.
Even though Yoko and Seira cast moderately strong magic spells, which were critical hit, the slime remained unaffected.
The physical attacks from Hakua and Elmia could also easily obliterate a normal slime.
But as Seira said, slashing attacks didn’t work against slimes.
Elmia’s holy sword has a special effect against monsters. In other words, her attacks with the holy sword were still effective against amorphous monsters like ghosts and slimes. But that too didn’t seem to affect this slime.
And its attack speed was abnormal.
Luke couldn’t track the slime’s tentacles restraining Yoko’s party with his eyes.
Though he managed to sense the flow of magic, he realised that Yoko’s party had been restrained only after they were already bound.
This slime was not normal—Luke realised.
Luke recalled the seasoned adventurers’ advice given to newbies within the guild: Adventurers often die when they least expect it.
Luke suspected that Johann might have brought a creature stronger than a slime disguised as a slime to teach them not to underestimate based on appearance alone.
Thinking about it, there is no way the opponent in the promotion exam would be a slime, just because they were completing their requests diligently.
So, he decided not to hold back.
Thus, he unleashed the ultimate magic without any mercy.
An attack with no holds barred against the slime.
The ground of the amphitheatre was gouged by the tremendous power.
「D-did I get it!?」
Someone asked the wrong question at that moment.
It was Ryuushin.
「Pii!」
「W-What!?」
「Hey hey, you’re kidding… …」
The slime, on the charred black and gouged out floor, jiggled as before.
「Pii」
The slime’s form vanished.
「I-it’s gone?」
「Luke! Behind you!!」
Ryuushin, amongst the monstrous Elnor family, with exceptional dynamic vision, noticed the slime creeping up behind Luke—
「Ow!」
He couldn’t stop the slime from striking Luke’s head from behind.
「… ….」
「… ….」
Though struck quite swiftly in the head, Luke remained standing.
「H-Hey. Luke, are you okay?」
「Yeah… … I guess. I didn’t feel a thing」
—That’s right.
This slime had incredible durability and speed, but its attack power was almost zero
No matter how fast it moved, this slime had almost no weight. Since attack power changes with speed and weight, it had the same attack power as a normal slime.
So, despite being incredibly fast, it seemed unlikely to inflict damage on Luke, who is over level 100.
「Hey. Aren’t these… … not that big a deal after all?」
Though they couldn’t take damage, it seemed unlikely they would inflict any damage either.
So, Ryuushin judged that as long as they could somehow restrain it, they could win.
After all, the enemy was just slimes.
Nothing special—-.
But this slime was different.
「Pii pii!」
「What!? Gah, oof, ugh!」
Ryuushin, who had let his guard down, was struck repeatedly by the slime at super high speeds.
「Ryuushin-sama!」
「Ugh, ugh. W-why… ….」
Each blow had clearly greater force than when it struck Luke.
Worried, Hinata rushed to Ryuushin’s aid.
He had taken considerable damage.
「Heal!」
With Hinata’s healing magic, Ryuushin’s injuries began to heal.
「Hinata, I’m sorry」
「No… …more importantly, don’t let your guard down」
The slime in front of Ryuushin and the others had somehow clad itself in a magic cloak.
By donning the magic cloak, it further enhanced its speed and reinforced its weak attack power.
「H-hey. That’s—-」
「Yeah. It’s the magic cloak used by Haruto and Meldie」
Among the five slimes, there was one that had mastered magic cloaking.
It was a particularly special one, even among the super-enhanced special slimes under Haruto’s protection.
It was the leader among the five slimes.
And now, it stood before Luke and the others.
「… …Luke, Riel, Hinata, gonna need your help」
「Are you planning to do that?」
「Yeah. Otherwise, we probably won’t be able to defeat this thing」
Ryuushin was convinced that the slime before him was a formidable opponent.
He realised he should fight with all his might, utilising his comrades’ power to surpass his own limits—
「… …Alright」
「I understand. Let’s do it!」
「But don’t do anything reckless」
Luke, Riel, and Hinata touched Ryuushin’s back, infusing him with their magic power.
Gradually, threads of lightning, wind, and light entwined around Ryuushin’s body.
In response, he began to dragonise his body, clad in the magic cloak of lightning, wind and light.
A few seconds later, a half-dragon standing on two legs, wrapped in a whirlwind of lightning and light, appeared on the spot.
Ryuushin, a black dragon of darkness, obtained resistance to holy attributes with Hinata’s assistance.
Furthermore, Luke and Riel gave him the magic cloak of lightning speed and wind, enabling him to move and attack at the utmost speed.
Unable to clad himself in a magic cloak while using up his magic power for transformation, Ryuushin had devised this fighting method to become stronger.
When facing formidable enemies, Luke’s party always enhanced Ryuushin and provided full support.
With this fighting method, they had defeated several daemons with only four members.
Ryuushin, enhanced by Luke’s party, had enough power to easily defeat daemons.
「Alright, let’s go!」
As Ryuushin said—
Before he could strike the slime clad in magic cloak, he tripped.
「Buhoa!?」
He crashed face-first into the ground, uttering a strange noise.
One of the three remaining slimes, watching the scene, entangled its tentacles around Ryuushin’s legs as he tried to move toward the leader.
Sudden restraint caused Ryuushin, whose momentum was stopped, to fall forcefully to the ground.
「Eh?」
Luke was surprised, but it wasn’t really strange.
Because the slimes were being quiet, it felt like one party was fighting one slime at a time, but for slimes, which are monsters, there was no way that such an arrangement could exist.
They simply helped out because their comrades seemed in danger.
But that was true for the other members of the Elnor family, too.
「Everyone, let’s go!」
「Yes!」
「As darling commands」
Responding to Haruto’s command, his party and Tina and Citri’s party, who had been waiting, also sprang into action.
The full-scale battle between the Elnor family and the slimes had begun.