Chapter 239
Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 239
Chapter Title: 67. Guardian Angel Slime (7)
17.
If he had to perform surgery with infinite mana, what spell should he use?
El Pam didn’t hesitate for even a moment over the question.
There was no need to.
“Cold Beam.”
The most reliable choice for surgery was ice-attribute magic.
Unlike other spells, ice-attribute magic lingered the longest inside a slime’s body.
Moreover, El Pam’s ice-attribute magic wasn’t just any ordinary ice magic.
For starters, thanks to Fried’s ring, all of El Pam’s spells doubled in quantity upon casting.
On top of that, Poseidon’s ring more than tripled their size.
And that wasn’t all.
El Pam had already cast Fire Demon on the Guardian Angel Slime earlier, possessing it with a Fire Demon.
It meant the slime was destined to take fatal damage from ice-attribute attacks.
Finally, El Pam’s Cold Beam wasn’t just any Cold Beam.
Shiiiing!
Revolver! Powered by El Pam’s telekinesis, the ice chunks spun mercilessly as they flew.
Pfooh!
And the moment they made contact, they drilled in like augers.
The result was astonishing.
The Guardian Angel Slime, which had only suffered surface wounds even from 5th Circle magic until now—this absurd monster now had El Pam’s Cold Beams embedded a full five meters deep inside it.
Miner and Ralph, who weren’t busy fleeing like Dibo and Kiri, were stunned by the sight.
‘To think it’d go this deep!’
‘Incredible!’
But at the same time, they realized.
‘Still too big.’
Compared to the Guardian Angel Slime’s colossal size, that five-meter depth was like a mere pinprick on a human.
And the problem was, it didn’t end there.
Bubbling, bubbling!
The Cold Beam El Pam had inserted began corroding rapidly inside the Guardian Angel Slime’s body.
It wasn’t strange.
One of a slime’s defining traits was that its body was made of acidic fluid.
For something on the level of the Guardian Angel Slime, that internal acid was strong enough to melt steel.
Meaning it would dissolve the Cold Beam in about thirty seconds.
At this point, surgery was pointless.
“Cold Beam.”
Yet El Pam kept casting Cold Beam spells relentlessly.
Pfooh!
The beams he fired burrowed deep into the Guardian Angel Slime’s body.
Bubbling, bubbling!
Only to melt away soon after.
Without reaching anywhere near the Guardian Angel Slime’s core.
Of course, El Pam knew this.
That something like Cold Beam could never reach the core for surgery.
If it could, he wouldn’t have needed to order his companions to lure the slime wave in the first place—that dangerous command.
From El Pam’s perspective, performing surgery with Cold Beam wouldn’t have required stopping the Guardian Angel Slime at all.
‘So this is the feeling.’
In other words, this was a test.
‘Of having infinite mana.’
A test of a sensation he’d never felt before in his life.
Of course, he’d already practiced once earlier. Fried’s brooch could only be used once a day.
When it came to his comrades’ lives on the line, how could he not test it?
But as always, practice and the real thing were different.
And in this moment, El Pam was certain.
‘It’s possible.’
That even in the real fight, it felt no different from practice.
So El Pam didn’t hesitate.
“Element Amplification.”
El Pam activated his passive skill, which traded increased mana consumption for boosted damage.
He used it in tandem.
“Blizzard.”
18.
“Slime Wave!”
The moment the Guardian Angel Slime unleashed that terrifying skill, the adventurers fled with all their might.
They didn’t even look back.
“How far are we running?”
“Until the Guardian Angel Slime looks like a dot!”
By the time those adventurers finally stopped fleeing, the Guardian Angel Slime appeared as a mere speck in their eyes.
Honestly, at this point, it wasn’t just escape anymore.
“From now on, we rest.”
“Rest?”
“You all saw it, right? That El Pam’s party are a bunch of lunatics.”
Earlier, the adventurers had thought El Pam’s party might have some special method up their sleeve.
And if they truly showed something extraordinary, they’d have to respond accordingly.
Whether by helping El Pam’s party or taking them out and stealing their achievements.
But now that they’d confirmed El Pam’s party had nothing special, there was only one conclusion.
“We have to spend the day here anyway. Might as well rest as best we can.”
Ignore El Pam’s party and take a proper break.
That was why they’d fled this far.
“So no one’s watching El Pam’s party now?”
“In a situation where every adventurer counts, we can’t risk it.”
“Not even one?”
And the adventurers made no exceptions.
Everyone fled.
That was the reason.
“If anything weird happens, we’ll see it. That Guardian Angel Slime isn’t exactly small, you know?”
The adventurers had no idea.
What was happening to the Guardian Angel Slime right now.
Nor were they the only ones.
“Kiri!”
“Dibo, I’ve got it from here!”
Dibo and Kiri, luring the slime wave, couldn’t see what was happening above their heads either.
“Thank you for your efforts.”
“Let’s catch our breath.”
Ralph, quietly following them in preparation for emergencies, was in the same boat.
In that moment, only one person saw it.
19.
‘My god.’
Miner had experienced countless shocks since joining El Pam’s party.
But right now, she could say with certainty.
‘Is this even possible?’
That nothing could be more shocking than the sight before her.
And it was justified.
Shiiiing!
The moment El Pam cast Blizzard, spear-like ice shards began raining from the sky.
These ice shards were incomparably massive compared to a normal Blizzard spell.
Less like spears and more like pillars.
And those pillars began converging on one spot.
Truth be told, Miner had seen this scene a few times before.
El Pam using telekinesis to concentrate his Blizzard magic in one place wasn’t new.
But handling a Blizzard this enormous? This was her first time seeing it.
And she knew it wasn’t easy.
‘Ice magic is the hardest to manipulate with telekinesis, right?’
The main reason El Pam relied on Fire Arrow was the sheer weight of ice-attribute magic.
In other words, the heavier the object, the exponentially greater the fatigue and mana drain when handling it with telekinesis.
Yet now, El Pam was manipulating ice on an absurd scale with telekinesis.
Possible only because his mana was infinite.
And it was a wondrous sight.
The Blizzard’s ice spears, now guided by telekinesis, began piercing the Guardian Angel Slime’s body.
The depth was on another level compared to the earlier Cold Beams.
The ice spears from the Blizzard were already three or four meters long at minimum.
And they were plummeting from the sky.
Even without revolver or drill effects, they plunged over ten meters deep into the Guardian Angel Slime’s body in an instant.
That wasn’t all.
Bubbling, bubbling!
Being so massive, they resisted melting easily inside the Guardian Angel Slime’s body.
Pfooh!
Like needles sliding in, the ice spears penetrated the Guardian Angel Slime’s flesh.
Pfooh!
Toward the core.
Pfooh!
Precisely, without the slightest gap.
It was insane work.
Controlling a Blizzard with telekinesis was miraculous enough, but concentrating it on a single point?
Infinite mana didn’t make it easy.
It required telekinesis control and mental fortitude that defied common sense.
It was also possible only because the Guardian Angel Slime wasn’t moving an inch.
If it budged even slightly, no one would’ve even dreamed of attempting this.
Either way, the method was clear.
If El Pam’s Blizzard reached the core and shattered it, even the mighty Guardian Angel Slime couldn’t survive.
Of course, that didn’t mean victory was assured.
In fact, right now, the one in mortal danger was none other than El Pam himself.
‘My head feels like it’ll split, and my heart like it’ll burst.’
El Pam, manipulating the Blizzard with telekinesis, was enduring agony worse than ever.
It was only natural.
El Pam had infinite mana, but his body was still that of a 6th Circle adventurer.
Pouring infinite mana into such a body?
It was like stuffing a balloon with water until it burst.
The reason he could endure was simple.
‘Reminds me of the old days.’
El Pam was used to this pain.
He’d exceeded his limits countless times, like with mana shock.
This body-breaking torment honestly didn’t faze him much.
The issue was reaching his limit, separate from the pain.
Even for El Pam, enduring beyond his body’s limits was impossible.
So he attacked the Guardian Angel Slime without crossing that line.
And now, El Pam was certain.
‘I can take it down.’
That, as predicted, he could kill the Guardian Angel Slime with Blizzard.
‘Just a bit more.’
And that the end was almost here.
It was true.
Barring any special issues, El Pam could’ve slain the Guardian Angel Slime in about a minute.
‘……Damn.’
But as always in adventures, things never went as planned.
Not this time either.
El Pam sensed it.
‘Bomb Slime incoming.’
A Bomb Slime—not just any slime—was heading straight for him.
It was unexpected.
He’d already prepared for this.
El Pam wasn’t an idiot.
He knew once his companions left and he began the real surgery, he’d be defenseless.
So he’d cleared the surroundings thoroughly.
Spotless.
Yet a Bomb Slime appeared?
And from so close?
‘No time.’
Of course, El Pam didn’t waste breath questioning why this was happening.
It didn’t matter.
What mattered was the choice.
Stop the Blizzard here to deal with the Bomb Slime?
Or push the surgery to the end with Blizzard?
The answer was set.
‘No second chances.’
Considering Blizzard’s cooldown, he couldn’t cast it again for thirty minutes.
Trying again tomorrow? El Pam could guarantee it.
‘The Guardian Angel Slime won’t fall for the same trick twice.’
That slime wasn’t stupid.
It wouldn’t just watch him pull the same stunt.
Above all, El Pam had one more card to play.
“Hoo.”
El Pam exhaled briefly.
And the instant he refocused on the Guardian Angel Slime, it began.
Shiiiing!
The Blizzard’s ice spears hurtling toward the Guardian Angel Slime!
Not just one.
Shiiiing!
Six of them spun as they plummeted toward the Guardian Angel Slime.
Naturally, their power was on another level from before.
Through the pathways already carved in the Guardian Angel Slime’s body, the ice spears raced toward its core at blinding speed.
Crack!
That was when El Pam’s fifth ice spear struck the Guardian Angel Slime’s core.
At the same moment.
Boom!
The Bomb Slime exploded right next to El Pam.