Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha Chapter 5 Part1

Skeleton VS Slime

The slime is relatively beautiful is something, I feel a little.
This transparent individual who is sliding back and forth as if it is a ball of fresh water is formed from a viscous liquid.
When it has eat something recently, because it's transparent, while it's doing the digestion of another monsters it has eaten, everything is seen as a mix of bones, meat and liquid... very grotesque, it's unusual that adventurers find it in such a state..
Naturally, since adventurers need to take on this type of monsters too, even if they do encounter it in that state, the unpleasant feeling will be suppressed.. only a little remains..
Though, if you have been wandering this labyrinth and doing this job over 10 or so years, you don't feel anything anymore..
When I think about such things, the slime in front of me is in an extremely lovely state.
I don't think that I want to scatter the body fluid of the slime along with the remains of it's prey.
But, if it's slime in this state, their body fluid is pure.
In this way, the body fluid of the slime when it's clean, is a very valuable article to sell to alchemists, or to the adventurers guild.
But even the impure body fluid of a slime is valuable since it can be used for manufacturing low grade recovery potions.
I currently have one tool bag on my waist from before I became a skeleton, since I have containers to save its body fluid in case I beat it, I will use it this time.
After that, I approached the slime who was moving unsteadily.
The slime who notices me, shivers and then shoots something like a lump of water towards me.
I safely avoid that since I already expected it.
The lump of water I avoided hits the ground and releases several clouds of smoke.
This is the first and main type of attack of a slime, Acid Ball.
it's created from acid that it stores inside its body, and attacks by shooting it, wherever the acid hits, will end up disolved.
It's not a fatal attack, but the place that got hit will result considerable damaged.
At least, the area surrounding the face must be absolutely protected.
Well, for the current me, this type of attack is more severe than to humans, because all I have is bones, and if a hit lands on me, my bones will melt.
It's an attack that I must avoid at any cost.
But, no matter how dangerous that attack is, its speed is just too slow.
A slime is normally extremely slow, its movement also has a defined pattern, if you are careful, it's not that much of a threat.
However, according to my current state, a slime is hard to finish.
But one positive thing is that at least, my speed now is similar to when I was human. I don't feel I will lose to a slime.
It fires an acid ball again as I'm slowly approaching it.
I start to accelerate while I get near and raise my sword to hit it, the slime starts to form another acid ball but before it managed to release it, I landed my sword.
The slime stopped its attacks and started to quiver in its place, some seconds after that it crumbled as if falling out.
That phenomenon means it's dead, when a slime loses its life, due to losing the power to support its body, the fluids lose unity and crumble.
I'm surprised to the extremely quick ending.