Chapter 10: You're Cute, So I'll Forgive You
"Lion's Roar." Keima raised the sword in his right hand and pointed it to the sky, and the twelve green slimes in the surrounding came flocking onto him.
The green slimes AKA just your normal everyday slimes has their sights on him, making it easy to defeat them. Rika with a sword in her hand and Yayoi wielding dual daggers finished the unaware slimes that are focused on Keima, while he dealt with the few remaining ones. Slimes can be killed by destroying the little sphere called 'slime's core' moving inside their body, and since in this floor they're only level one, hitting them once with our weapon is enough.
"Such a perfect teamwork! Magnificent! Good work team!" I gladly complimented my party by clapping while slowly walking towards them.
"You didn't do anything at all!" Rika pointing at me shouted.
As soon as she said that, a slime jumped to my side which I easily dealt with using my staff.
"What did you say?" I asked while leaning my ear.
"That doesn't count." She pouted.
"Well, well, don't mind it too much, if you think about it, if the back line is not doing anything that means the vanguard is too strong." I explained as I tapped her shoulder.
In our party, we have two vanguards, Keima who is a shielder wielding a wooden shield and a short sword, and Rika who has a paladin and necromancer class. I who have a pyromancer class serves as the party's support and positioned at the back, while Yayoi who has an assassin class walks in-between us and acts as our guard, because she has the highest agility out of all of us, she can easily help whoever is attacked in our team.
Our initial tactic for leveling up that we planned earlier, is using Keima's skill [Lion's Roar] to attract the enemies and finish them while they're attacking him. Fio said normal dungeon monsters follows a certain rule, in which they get stronger the lower the floor you venture, under normal circumstances this rule can't be broken. That's why the slimes are weak here in the first floor and doesn't have any resistance against taunt skills.
"Is that so?"
"Yeah, that's why I'm counting on you, Dark Lord-sama." I patted her shoulder again and looked at the sky for dramatic effect, seriously, why is there a sky inside the dungeon?
"Heh..." She said while rubbing her nose. "Leave it to me, I've got your back, comrade." She then walked forward and then flourished her cloak, this girl's getting too full of herself because of a single compliment, she's too easy.
"Keima, can you follow her, make sure she doesn't go too far from our team." The girl's already running forward.
"Sure but don't expect me to drag her back, I can't control that girl." That's what he replied before following her.
"Alright, let's get this done and follow those two, it'll be difficult to find them if they get lost." Not really that hard since all I can see is grass in this place. I see trees and plants occasionally but they're too far from each other, that's why I'm sure spotting those two will be easy... right?
I started picking up the slimes' drop items [Slime Jelly] which has 100% drop rate, with Fio and Yayoi helping me. I'm the one responsible for handling our party's item drops that's why after picking up the remaining slime jellies, they gave it to me.
"You sure handle that girl easily, isn't it difficult dealing with people like her?" Resha the knight started talking to me after we finished picking the items.
"Really? In my opinion, I think it's easier to communicate with people like her than normal people."
"In the order, there are only single-minded people in our squad, I can't imagine a way on how I would get along and live with those people." She looks annoyed and frustrated, her squadmates is really giving her a hard time huh?
"It isn't really that hard, just use their single-mindedness on them." I said as I started walking but she only gave me a confused look. "Let's use a fish as an example... even with a perfectly delicious bait laid in front of them, a normal fish would think for a second and hesitate, maybe ask for other fish's opinions about the bait or create a plan that would take the bait easily but not risking itself... but a single-minded one would easily take a carefully crafted bait, not even thinking if it's a trap." For Rika, anything that would make her look cool and sounds cool will just work fine, she's that simple. "In other words, just create a specific topic that tailors to your target."
"A perfectly delicious laid bait that isn't suspicious at all, huh?" Why is she even thinking so hard about this? And there isn't anything suspicious about what I'm talking, right?..... She's not talking about my method of getting close to Rika?
"Comrade! There's a bunch of slimes here!" While Ms. Knight is contemplating and planning what to do with her squadmates, I saw Rika waving from afar with Keima besides her, it seems they found enemies we could use for leveling up.
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15 enemies for the second bunch, 21 for the third and 19 for the fourth, and it's all slimes.
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[15 INT Stats Points] Obtained
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INT: 100 (+70) >>> 115 (+70)
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Slimes only give 100 experience points per kill and since there's four of us in the party, it's always divided by four and we only get 25 EXP each per slime defeated. My Pyromancer Class leveled up earlier to level two and now in 700/2000 EXP threshold because of killing slimes, but the reward for leveling up is only 15 measly stats points. I don't have a problem with the reward because my party are the ones doing most of the work, I'm the one in charge of cleaning up the slimes who are trying to get away, for some reason my teammates are highly motivated. I still get the same EXP even though I'm not participating in most of the battles, is this what they call level boosting, a hooray for the system. Although, at this rate I don't know how many slimes we need to defeat in order to reach a level twenty or thirty class. If I was a certain witch with a long lifespan then I could do slime slaying all day long but I wasn't.
Keima can use his taunt skill a few more times and he'll need to rest for a day to recuperate his mana, it's kinda ironic that his class is a shielder but the first skill he got is a skill that attracts enemies and not a skill that can protect his allies, but his taunt skill is what's helping us the most. In Days/ series, every class at level one only has one skill, the next skill will be unlocked at level 5, 10, 15 and so on and so forth. Rika who luckily received two classes at the appraisal, has the [Judgement Slash] for her first skill on her paladin class and [Resurrection] for her first skill on her necromancer class, an offensive skill and a skill that revives the dead to use as a minion, doesn't need mana but can only be used once a week. On the other hand, Yayoi's assassin skill is a movement type [Swift Steps] that multiplies her AGI by four.
So our only crowd control is Keima but that's not the problem. Our problem is finding a bunch of slimes actually takes a lot of time in this grass field, locating monsters takes at least 30 to 45 minutes but fighting only lasts 5 minutes at most, the place is just too big.
"There's only slimes here." I said with a sigh.
"Didn't I tell you? 99% of the monsters that spawns on this floor are slimes." I wish, you could've told us that information earlier. "Sorry, I forgot, I thought you're having fun hunting slimes." Fio said with teary eyes.
"You're cute, so I'll forgive you... just this once." Seriously, I'm not that easy. Guys, don't look at me with those pitying stares. "Ahem, we've already been here for almost four hours, Team! I think we're practically ready for the next batch of enemies, let's proceed and find the entrance to the second floor, Dismissed!" I can't see any people here other than us anyways, I guess they went to the next floor after getting bored fighting these weak monsters.
"Hehehe... let's go, it seems new enemies are waiting for the great me." At least Rika is going along with my farce..... or maybe not, she basically plays at her own pace.
After convincing our party to search for the entrance to the second floor, at least that's what it looks like since they easily get distracted.
"Comrade, comrade, look at those." Rika waves at me to come and I looked at where she's pointing. "Aren't those better enemies than the little ones?" She's pointing at three slimes that are slightly bigger than normal. Normal slimes has the same size of an adult cat but these ones are even larger than normal humans.
"Let me try my skill, I want to confirm something."
"Hmmm???"
With the slimes as my target, I tried activating the fireball the same way I did yesterday. The fireball manifested in front of my hand and shoot, it traveled at a fast speed and hit the slime's bubbly body. It perfectly hit the slime's core and exploded, leaving a large amount of smoke in its midst. After the smoke dissipated, the only thing remaining in that spot are three drop items.
"Whoaaa!" Fio and Yayoi excitedly clapped at the same time.
"Hey, you didn't left at least one for me." That's what you're noticing.
"So there's a reason you're not using your skill." Keima said.
"Actually, I saw someone earlier using a skill similar to my fireball, must be a mage or something, but his fireball only burned the slime and didn't leave any explosion."
"I don't know much about pyromancers since this is the first time I've seen one but they're basically treated the same as mage in this kingdom, I didn't know there's much difference in a skill used by a normal mage and a specialized one." Resha said, her serious expression not changing.
"Yeah, it basically functions similar to a cannonball, that's why I can't just throw it anywhere without thinking, isn't Sir Elias ridiculous for parrying those?"
"That's true." She nodded with my statement. "That guy's practically a walking legend so you don't have to worry." About what?
Pyromancer Class in the game is a burst type that works well on the beginning and middle part of the game because it's possible to one shot any monsters with this class. At the end parts, it doesn't work well since monsters sometimes gains immunity from burn and heat effects. Using this class for the end game is basically useless but it might be different in this world.
"If there's any way other than using Keima-kun's skill to attract enemies, it would make your skill more useful." Fio's right, if there's only a way to avoid the explosions and isn't risky to Keima or us.
"Comrade, comrade, can I use my skill too?" Rika said while tugging at my shirt.
"Let's think about a solution later." I said while being dragged by Rika without explanation, she's too strong that she can even move me easily without breaking a sweat, her STR is too high.
The slightly larger slimes gave me 250 EXP for each kill, 1000 EXP for one, a total of 3000 EXP for our party, not bad, let's just find these slightly bigger slimes rather than the normal ones. Rika brought me to the explosion site, some of the grass are charred but the spoils didn't change, just a slightly larger slime jelly.
"Hey, the system said I need a keyword for the resurrection, how about the word 'arise'?" Stop slapping my back.
"Change that, you'll be mistaken with that other necromancer guy."
"That's a fast answer and who?..... How about 'Rebirth'?" After thinking she chose a word she can't even properly pronounce.
"That's fine." I don't want to argue with her choices, she gave me a nod and a thumbs up.
"Now, citizens of hell, wake up from the darkness and heed my call, REBIRTH." Wow, she even prepared an incantation phrase and a pose.
The bodies of monsters in a dungeon instantly disappears after being defeated, but her skill still worked even without the bodies. A black-colored slime three times higher than a normal human appeared from the bubbling shadows on the ground, with a menacing aura..... that's too big.
"That's right, from now on, your name will be Thanatos." Don't casually give a slime the name of the greek god of death, what's wrong with this girl?
