Finally Found

Several hours after that.

‘Yuji! I found a blue one!’

‘Good work!’

A single slime had noticed the presence of a blue Lesser Fire Dragon in the forest.

It was, without a doubt, the dragon we were looking for.

‘Are the blue ones strong?’

‘They’re supposed to be—but I guess we’re about to find out.’

According to Master Gaiger, they were quite a bit stronger than normal Lesser Fire Dragons.

But I didn’t know how much stronger—but it was probably best to request backup.

‘Can 10 of you gather over here before we fight?’

‘Okay!’

And so the slimes gathered close to the Blue Lesser Fire Dragon.

When there were 10 slimes gathered together, I could transfer magic to all of them at once, which would make the attack 10 times more powerful.

Like that, we should be able to avoid a situation where there wasn’t enough power behind the attack.

‘All right, let’s go! Magic Transfer—Water Discharge!’

I chanted. And then all at once, the water was discharged from all 10 slimes.

“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

Thick steam rose from all over the Blue Lesser Fire Dragon’s body as it screamed in pain.

However—it did not fall.

Not only that, but it started moving against the torrents of water like it was going to attack the slimes.

‘Ahhh! It’s coming towards us!’

‘Yuji! Help us!’

From the looks of it, Water Discharge would take a long time to take down a Blue Lesser Fire Dragon.

In fact, it didn’t even look like it had been weakened by much.

…I guess this was the time to use it.

‘Magic Transfer—Area Freeze – Medium!’

I said. And all 10 slimes activated it at once.

And then—The Blue Lesser Fire Dragon let out a scream before it started rolling around on the ground.

It had looked quite strong even when being blasted by water, but now its movements were becoming very slow.

This time, it was working well.

“GYAAAHH!! GAAAA!!”

…But this attack would have killed a normal Lesser Fire Dragon instantly. But this one was still alive after being hit by 10 of them.

With this realization, I sent another round of Area Freeze – Medium.

‘Magic Transfer—Area Freeze – Medium!’

“Giii…”

And then the Blue Lesser Fire Dragon finally collapsed.

It was really tough–but Area Freeze – Medium was able to do quite a bit of damage to it.

‘Yay!’

‘We won!’

The slimes cheered loudly as they started to poke the fallen Blue Lesser Fire Dragon.

‘…Hey, it might still be hot.’

‘It’s fine!’

…Well, if they said so, it was probably fine.

Apparently, the dead dragons were not hot.

And so I had the slimes store the Blue Lesser Fire Dragon with Slime Storage.

I had used up quite a bit of MP, but at least I had achieved my mission for the day.

…And it was just starting to get dark.

‘All right, gather around the area where you found the Blue Lesser Fire Dragon. We’ll do a little exploring before going back.’

‘Okay!’

‘Got it!’

And so we headed for the area where it had been discovered.

While we walked, one of the slimes raised its voice.

‘I found a blue one!’

So there were more after all.

If there was one monster in an area, there was a good chance that there was another one as well.

This was a rule that applied to strong monsters as well as weak ones.

‘Right, let’s go kill it!’

‘Okay!’