Chapter 76 – Chapter 76 Dwarf Dungeon
The dwarf kingdom was in the shape of a huge staircase leading to the basement, with long tunnels dug on both sides of the staircase. And Jason moved slowly step by step. At first, Jason scouted, and when Jason couldn’t handle it, he ran with the other women.
And when he advanced about 20 floors, Jason felt strange. He didn’t have any monsters. There were floors with few monsters, but there was no floor without any.
‘Is there something else here?’
Everything had to have a cause. If so, there must be a reason why there are no monsters on this floor.
Jason stopped guessing. If you think a lot, you can make a lot of mistakes in the dungeon. The important thing was to analyze what the five senses saw and move on.
‘Is this floor used as a banquet hall for some reason?’
It was different from other living districts. The rooms were few and the corridors were long. And I got the impression that those corridors are converging into one place.
Jason headed there.
“Kureuk. Kuruk.”
And he found one huge space. The space was melted into something. The surface was smooth. In the center was a very large slime.
‘Is that a mutant slime?’
The slime that Jason knew was a being that reached the height of a person’s knee at its largest. But the slime over there was bigger than a normal bear. It could have swallowed at least one person.
Jason did a lot of studying. Among them, he later had knowledge of the monsters he had to deal with. However, I had never seen such a slime in any monster encyclopedia.
‘But new monsters always appear.’
Jason first judged that monster to be quite strong. If there were no other monsters on this floor, there was a high possibility that the slime was the cause.
‘As expected, it’s hard to put an underarm attack on a slime-like guy.’
Creatures with bones, muscles, brains and hearts were easy to attack. The slime’s weakness was the core at its center. If it was a small slime, I could still figure out the location of the nucleus, but it was a very big slime. There were many cells, so the position of the nucleus was not well visible.
Fortunately, the giant slime stayed still. I almost thought I was sleeping. It was the best opportunity for Jason.
Jason calmly prepared to kill from a distance. He smeared his arrows with poison. He decided to write the best move he could.
Assassination and killing were activated simultaneously. The time around him seemed blurry, and his five senses were sensitive to finding the enemy’s weakness. Jason’s poison arrow flew straight to the giant slime.
Puck.
The slime’s flesh shattered as if in a small explosion. However, considering the slime’s gigantic body, it was still only a small wound. Jason’s body was tired because it was right after the assassination and assassination. He had to take a break as he breathed. But he couldn’t. He immediately activated his warrior’s skill, Combination Strike. His muscles forcibly moved, ignoring the pain, again triggering a strike and a kill.
Puck.
A new poisoned arrow pierced the already bursting flesh of the slime. A new wound formed around the place where the arrow had been pierced.
“Kureuk. Kuruk.”
However, the giant slime was slowly recovering. It was not at the level of just suturing wounds like normal slime. Jason’s sixth sense sensed that his cells were being restored.
And he was slowly crawling towards Jason. As the giant slime moved, I could see its bodily fluids melting the floor. The floor made of bricks that the Dwarves had built for a thousand years was melting.
‘For now, I can’t do it on my own.’
Jason made a bold decision. He retreated back.
**
“As soon as I found out. The giant slime has regenerative powers and its bodily fluids dissolve even dwarf bricks. The good news is that the movement speed is about the same as a human running speed.”
Women were worried.
“Wouldn’t it be difficult for us alone? It’s a new strain. I’ll keep an eye on the situation.”
Adventurers are those who risk their lives in a dangerous place called a dungeon, but they are not those who live thoughtlessly. They chose the dungeon they went to carefully considering the party’s job composition. If possible, I went to a place where there was a monster who knew how to attack. That was the standard and the secret to lengthening the life of an adventurer even a little bit.
“But it goes further down. Opportunities to monopolize a dungeon without interference from other adventurers do not come easily.”
And Jason’s opinion was strong. The word give up was not in his head. He was only thinking about how he could kill the giant slime.
The women thought hard about how to attack the giant slime, just as Jason wanted.
**
This time, Jason and his women headed to the giant slime. This time, he was sleeping. Jason gave a hand signal to the women to take their positions.
Getting close to the giant slime was dangerous in itself. First, Jason and Spear, who can safely inflict damage from a distance, were placed on both sides. And at the same time, the battle started by surprise.
“Kureuk! Gureuk!”
Three arrows were stuck in a giant slime. All were poisoned arrows. The giant slime first started moving towards Jason, who did the most damage. However, the thief had a secret method to get out quickly in a dangerous moment. They couldn’t catch Jason with the speed of the giant slime.
Here, the elven sorceress Aliana stepped out.
“Flame Arrow!”
The most common monsters that often regenerate were trolls. And the most well-known strategy for catching trolls was to burn them with fire. Many monsters that regenerate were weak against fire.
Aliana’s magic healed the giant slime’s wounds. And at the same time, Spear fired an arrow. She cried.
“I can’t trigger an assault!”
The giant slime was a monster with no eyes. Each cell was both a means of attack and a means of detection. That’s why the slime seemed to be able to grasp multiple adventurers at the same time and not scatter the concentration of the assault.
“Keep shooting!”
Jason ran and gave orders. And on the way he threw an oil bottle at a giant slime.
An oil bottle could be used for various purposes, so it was one of the must-have items for adventurers. It could be put in a lantern and used as a Molotov cocktail if in a hurry. And in a party with a wizard, it could be set on fire with a flame arrow.
The body of the giant slime was glistening with oil, and when a flame arrow was attached to it, the giant slime started to burn.
“Kureuk!!! Gureuk!!!”
The sound coming from the giant slime became stronger. And the guy changed the attack target to see if it was completely single-celled. It was a magician.
“Ha!”
And finally, Nainyar, who was waiting in the back, stepped out. She wore dwarven plate armor and carried a huge square shield. She did not intend to attack. Her job was to protect the clerics and wizards behind her.
The giant slime rubbed against Nainyar, thinking that it finally had an attacker. She was about to swallow Nine Yar whole. As Nain Yar wielded her shield, she tried to dodge that slime somehow. The slime dripping as it mixed with the oil and burned was menacing.
In the meantime, Jason and Spia eagerly shot poison arrows. Every time Jason came out of a poisonous snake on the previous floor, he collected poison, so the amount of poison was sufficient. Besides, the gigantic slime was starting to focus on the Nine Yar in front of it, and the covert attack was being activated normally again.
And Janie diligently healed Nainyar’s wounds in real time. Aliana continued to fire arrows of fire.
The giant slime continued to take hits. But at the same time, Nainyar was taking more and more damage. He could feel his skin melting as the giant slime’s slime flowed through the cracks in his armor.
In addition, the giant slime had an attack pattern that had not been seen before. The guy shrank his body a few times and then unfolded it all at once. Then his bodily fluids splattered in all directions. Nainyar was unable to block all of those attacks.
If it hadn’t been for Janie, Nainyar would have melted to death long ago.
Nain Yar tickled his hand holding his sword. He wasn’t just a warrior. He was a warrior who wielded the sword in front of him. She wanted to break this huge slime in two with a series of blows. She was slowly feeling the limits of what she could endure, and she wanted to cool off even if she attacked before that.
And Jason, recognizing Nainyar’s feelings, exclaimed.
“Stop! Retreat!”
At Jason’s cry, the women started running away at the same time. That gigantic slime could only move at human speed. And the slowest wizards and priests were at the very end. The two of them were able to escape. Spear also quickly ran away using the Darkness.
Nineyar was the most problematic. She was getting the attention of the giant slime, and she was the closest.
“Huh!”
And Nine Yar, as Jason had said before, even activated her combo and started running away from her. The chain attack was a technique that allowed the body to move to its limit once more. Just as he had promised, Nineyar was able to get away from the giant slime and escape.
The women came upstairs again. As Jason expected, the slime did not pursue the enemy all the way. It was a slime that would rather sit still and eat those who came to it than hunt, probably because of its large and dull body.
And when he came upstairs, there was no Jason among the women. Spear asked Nainyar with a worried look.
“Bocchan… Are you okay?”
