#58. The Demon King Slime (3)
Time was up.
The week-long agreement had passed, and we gathered at one spot to head up to the 4th floor.
With the cold war against Yoo Dahui still ongoing, an awkward atmosphere lingered.
It felt difficult to bring up anything to say.
Yoo Dahui seemed unwilling to break the tension herself.
She had kept it secret from Titania about our ascent.
We couldn’t take her along, and even if we could, she’d just scatter us.
It would be pointless.
It was better for her to stay quietly on the 3rd floor.
In exchange, I had left her a generous amount of semen.
Since I didn’t know when I would regress again, I figured it was a good idea to enjoy it while I still could.
Based on fist-sized potion bottles, I had brought around 100 of them.
According to the succubus, a few years’ worth of stamina.
[Visual effect description]
Effect:Sustains stamina for years
Duration:Years of use
‘Not when I wasted none of it, of course.’
Elysha, Eloin, and Elbaren had no right to go along.
Elysha had sulked, but after Elena’s persuasion she gave up.
Thinking about the 4th floor structure, it had been the right choice.
These elves were being protected by Elena.
It meant they would wait for the regression.
Yoo Dahui, me, and Isilia.
The three of us headed to the 4th floor.
“Take care.”
“Don’t come back.”
“Fren, how do you talk to someone going like that.”
“Ah, damn it…!”
I bid farewell to the red-haired mercenary guild, the Red Sleeve Mercenary Guild, after about a month of heavy reliance on them.
Some had become quite close, so the feeling was bittersweet.
Ally remained friendly toward me.
I had occasionally stuffed her, and the effects were quite good.
Fren, however, was hopeless.
Having his twin sister Ally netorased, he understood to some extent.
The 3rd floor Kingdom’s boss monster, the Demon Magic King Slime, lived in the underground waterways beneath the Kingdom.
Since it kept moving, it was easy to think of it as random encounter.
We searched the underground waterways without a word between us.
Since leaving the guild house, I hadn’t spoken a single word.
Yoo Dahui seemed determined to maintain this atmosphere.
I already knew her intentions, but I hadn’t said anything.
Two wrongs, one right.
I was acting offended properly as well.
There were various types of players in the underground waterways.
Even though they were inside the Kingdom, since it wasn’t a safe area…
[Ominous description]
[PK players lurking for the weak]
“Uhehe, just the three of you?”
Players waiting to PK like this appeared often.
Outside the Kingdom gate was too populated and ambiguous, and the dungeon was too scary with phantom monsters, so naturally they descended here to PK.
It was a mix of greenskins—goblins, ogres, and trolls.
“What were you three planning to do down here? Kirik, come to hunt the boss monster?”
The group that rushed out surrounded us.
“Impossible. Even if the King Slime looks weak, it’s no easy prey.”
“So I’ll give you the lesson myself. Drop all your equipment right now. Keruk, keruk!”
Two goblins, three orcs, one troll, and one ogre.
The goblins’ daggers gleamed with a greenish light, as if they were thieves.
“Haa… I wanted to get up quickly, but the boss just doesn’t show up…”
Yoo Dahui grumbled in irritation and drew her sword.
Frowning, she looked more terrifying than imagined.
Slash-!
One step, and the troll’s head flew off.
It was a speed the others couldn’t even react to.
“Novellosh!”
“Piaager, catch that girl right away!”
Before the troll’s head even rolled on the floor, the ogre came thundering over.
Yoo Dahui didn’t stop walking and accelerated.
The ogre split in half and died in an instant.
“Piaager!”
The orcs couldn’t hide their shock.
They made disgusted faces, kikik.
An unsightly sight.
‘Enough of these trash…’
Yoo Dahui couldn’t be beaten by them.
To defeat her, a top-class team or higher from that floor had to come.
It was a level incomparable to the Yoo Dahui in the novel.
I didn’t think I could beat her myself either.
Even though my strength was lacking, I couldn’t find any opening at all.
‘Tsk…’
Just following the rapidly growing Yoo Dahui was already a burden.
I felt it once more about the sense of reality of the story.
“This human female…!”
The orcs and goblins threw themselves at us in desperation.
Now that they had turned their backs, the ending was decided.
I threw myself into victory, clinging to a thread of hope.
But the opponents were Yoo Dahui.
The greenskin gang became cold corpses in under a minute.
‘Novellosh, Piaager…’
I offered a brief prayer for their deaths.
We continued forward.
I spread my mana and explored the wide waterway.
Finding traces of the King Slime wasn’t easy at all.
There was a clear difference when Elena was present and when she wasn’t.
Splash, splash-.
The sound of people playing in the water suddenly rang out.
Even though it was a waterway, there was a path a human could walk.
Unless the waterway was blocked, water didn’t flow on that path.
“What?”
It felt like playing a horror game, so I slowly approached the source of the sound.
Splash, splash-.
The sound of splashing water grew louder.
There was also a feeling that it was approaching us.
Splash-!
When I rounded the corner, water droplets splashed in every direction.
The Demon Magic King Slime threatened us with a weird wailing sound.
Translucent tentacles spread in all directions and broke the silent wall.
Yoo Dahui took out the decomposition liquid from her inventory.
And she threw it firmly at the King Slime.
Whoosh-!
The King Slime caught the decomposition liquid.
“What?”
Normally it should have swallowed it quickly, but it held the liquid and looked it over carefully.
It hesitated suspiciously.
“Just eat it when I give it to you nicely!”
Yoo Dahui raised her sword aura and slashed the King Slime.
Yoo Dahui’s sword aura cut the King Slime into chunks.
Thud, the falling pieces of the King Slime.
Kiiieeeeeeeeek!
The King Slime let out a scream that wasn’t even a scream.
Shing-!
It threw the decomposition liquid back and rushed toward Yoo Dahui.
It swelled in volume and came covering to swallow it in one go.
The same action as before when it swallowed me.
“Back away!”
[‘Pluto’s Hand’ activates.]
Thirty black hands protected Yoo Dahui.
Attacks from the King Slime were nullified by the invisible hands.
Yoo Dahui glanced at me.
Her face was slightly flushed, but she pretended not to notice me.
Was I acting offended too long?
That thought continued.
“No need for this.”
Yoo Dahui said it as coldly as possible and swung her sword.
She cut the black hands and the King Slime in one go.
Looking at the black hands being sliced apart, my chest ached.
‘But, what exactly is Yoo Dahui?’
The King Slime was being cut too easily by Yoo Dahui’s sword.
It wasn’t the usual boss monster that sliced easily.
It was a terrifying boss immune to physical attacks and magic.
Kiiieeeeeeeeek-!
Looking at its current form, Yoo Dahui actually seemed like the boss monster.
The Demon Magic King Slime had been cornered by Yoo Dahui and was pitifully being torn apart into pieces.
“It’s rejoining.”
I watched the fallen pieces carefully.
The result was that they were rejoining into one again.
Because of this trait, the decomposition liquid was essential for a perfect raid.
It was the reason Orde could rattle on.
“Dahui-ya, the decomposition liquid. Let’s start by feeding it the decomposition liquid first.”
“I know. So be quiet.”
Yoo Dahui answered sharply.
She was acting like she was deliberately holding back her anger.
But I knew everything.
Once I knew, it turned out to be just a pitiful tone.
‘Should I try reversing it once?’
It didn’t sound bad.
Among Pluto’s black magic, there were many things similar to transformations.
‘I feel like I’ll stay on the 4th floor for quite a while.’
It felt that way.
It felt like we were quite far from Elena.
Yoo Dahui took out the decomposition liquid from her inventory.
Same bottle, same liquid.
The Demon Magic King Slime had intelligence.
I had thought it was stupid, but it showed no interest in eating when I pulled it out openly.
‘No choice.’
The King Slime liked certain things.
Shining gems, luxurious equipment that looked good to anyone, and those kinds of high-class items.
And coins.
It ate coins very well.
Actually, there was a hypothesis that the path it moved on in the underground waterway followed delicious things that had flowed down the waterway.
I took out a lot of 20-coin from my inventory.
I had wanted to throw 20 coins at it today.
I didn’t know why.
‘Just in a good mood…’
10 coins seemed tight, 30 seemed a lot.
“Ah! Really!”
Yoo Dahui tried to feed the decomposition liquid.
She forcibly stuffed it into the monster’s body.
But the King Slime spat out the decomposition liquid.
There was freedom of choice for the liquid monster.
“This guy, it melted just my sleeve!”
Yoo Dahui’s left sleeve had melted.
Her fair skin was exposed.
Since it was skin I hadn’t seen in a while, my body reacted on its own without me realizing.
It had become Pavlov’s dog, Yoo Dahui’s dog.
“You….”
Yoo Dahui checked my state and glared at me with an unbelievable expression.
Her mouth curled up in satisfaction.
That was only for a moment, and she barely continued acting coldly.
I took out the decomposition liquid from my inventory.
I had brought it in a large stainless steel container instead of a small bottle.
Forty liters in total.
I poured a lot of 20-coin coins into the decomposition liquid.
“Slime, eat this!”
And I poured 20 coins all over it.
Without realizing it had gotten wet, the King Slime greedily ate the 20 coins.
The tentacles spreading in all directions were impressive.
Exciting tricks continued, and the more coins it ate, the more the spell inscribed on it faded.
Kiiieeeeeeeeek!
The King Slime finally realized it had been tricked.
“Too late!”
Yoo Dahui chopped the King Slime down.
It fell apart into pieces, almost turning into powder, and could no longer rejoin.
Only the King Slime’s core fell alone on the floor.
Gurgle, gurgle.
The King Slime’s core twitched as if its heart was beating.
If I broke this, a portal would be generated here.
Yoo Dahui smashed it firmly.
The core exploded and the portal was created.
—
[3rd floor boss monster subjugation settlement…]
[3rd floor cleared.]
—
The system judged my contribution as zero.
It meant throwing 20 coins had no value.
‘Unbelievable.’
Whatever.
‘Next time I come down, I have to catch it properly.’
It was already too late now.
In this situation where the portal was created, it was the right judgment to just pass through.
“Isilia, let’s meet alive.”
“Yeah.”
Yoo Dahui greeted Isilia.
Because she had heard information from Elena, she knew she wouldn’t meet her immediately.
Isilia happily crossed over through the portal.
It seemed she had no concern whatsoever about me.
“Dahui-ya.”
I called Yoo Dahui.
Yoo Dahui flinched for a moment and glared at me.
“Why? Why are you calling?”
“…Sorry.”
I started with an apology.
I decided to apologize in advance for everything I had done until now and for what would happen on the 4th floor.
“You know you did wrong, right?”
“Yeah. I did a lot to you… made you suffer, joked around uselessly…”
“…It’s fine. Don’t apologize.”
Yoo Dahui, who had been listening silently, turned her head away.
She seemed to have been forcibly holding back laughter just now.
Even she pretending in this situation felt absurd.
‘Yeah, if you’re going to play, you have to suffer a bit.’
Like I did.
“I won’t accept the apology. I’m reflecting.”
Yoo Dahui no longer accepted conversation and crossed over through the portal.
Yoo Dahui’s body disappeared in an instant.
“Tsk.”
Her back side looked tempting.
Thinking about Yoo Dahui, my hardened penis didn’t want to go down.
“Interesting.”
I took out the mask from my inventory.
This time it wasn’t the white mask.
“……”
Once I put on the coat from the patron, it looked presentable.
“Let’s go.”
I stepped onto the portal.
The musty stench of the underground waterway disappeared instantly.
Welcomed by the 4th floor, a room surrounded by mud with nothing in it.