Level 1 Strongest Sage ~

“Ultimate Thunder!”

Luke suddenly unleashed the ultimate magic spell.

You would never think that it was just a slime he was fighting against based on the severity of his attack.

The magic spells Youko and Seira casted were considerably strong, but the slime remained unfazed even after receiving their critical hits.

Hakua and Elmia’s physical attacks were strong enough to obliterate ordinary slimes.

Just as Seira said, their attacks didn’t work on the slime they were currently fighting against.

The Holy Sword that Elmia wielded was especially effective against monsters — her attacks should be effective against ghosts, slimes and other monsters with amorphous bodies.

And yet, it didn’t even work on this slime.

As for the attack speed of the slime —

It was also abnormal.

Luke didn’t manage to catch how the slime constrained Youko and the other girls with its tentacles.

He could somehow see the flow of mana so he knew that the slime had approached the girls, but by the time he noticed it, the four of them had already been bound.

This Slime was abnormal — Luke realized that.

He then recalled one of the veteran adventurers explaining that highest death rate among the rookie adventurers occured when they were caught off guard.

Luke wondered whether Johann deliberately brought a far stronger monster disguised as a slime to teach them a lesson for underestimating the monster just because of what it was.

Now that he thought about it, there was no way the guild would assign a harmless slime as their opponent for the advancement examination just because they had been diligently doing their job.

In that case, he should never go easy on it.

That was the reason why he suddenly casted the ultimate magic spell.

It was a no-holds-barred attack against a slime.

The arena ground shook because of the power.

“D-did I get it!?”

Somebody set up a huge event flag.

It was Ryuushin.

“Kyupi!”

“W-What!?”

“Oy oy, you gotta be kiddin’ me…”

The arena floor had been burnt black and a huge crater had been gouged out of it, but the slime just jiggled without any change on its appearance.

“Kyu.”

The slime vanished.

“I-It disappeared?”

“Luke! Behind you!”

Ryuushin had the best kinetic vision even among the Ernol family of Bakemono people, so he was able to see the slime charging towards Luke from behind, but —

“Ouch!”

He couldn’t stop the slime from punching the back of Luke’s head.

“.......”

“.......”

Luke had been punched with great force, but he was still standing there.

“O, Oy. Luke, are you okay?”

“Yeah… I wonder. It didn’t hurt at all for some reason.”

— Indeed.

No matter how fast it could move, a slime was still practically weightless. Attack power changed depending on the speed and weight, so it only had the same attack power as that of an ordinary slime.

In that case, there was no way it could inflict any damage to Luke, who was already beyond Level 100.

“Hey…These guys really aren’t anything much, don’t you think?”

The slimes couldn’t inflict damage, but they were resistance to their opponents’ attacks.

Thus, Ryuushin thought that they would be able to win against it somehow if they managed to constrain it somehow.

They were slimes in the first place.

They weren’t anything much, naturally, and yet…

This slime was different.

“Kyupipi!”

“Urk!? Ugh, Gah!!”

Ryuushin let down his guard, but the slime suddenly attack him at high speed and dealt several blows on him.

“Ryuushin-sama!”

“U, Uwu…W-Why…”

Each blow was obviously different in strength from when it punched Luke.

Hinata was worried, so she ran towards Ryuushin.

He had received considerable damage.

“Heal!”

Hinata’s Recovery Magic healed Ryuushin’s Damage.

“Sorry, Hinata.”

“It’s fine…Rather than that, you must never let your guard down.”

The slime in front of Ryuushin and his team had donned a magic suit before they knew it.

Its speed rose, and the weak attack power had also been fortified.

“O, Oy. That’s —”

“Yeah, that’s the magical suit that Halt and Merdie use.”

Actually, there was only one among the five slimes who acquired the ability to use magical suit.

These slimes received Halt’s protection and had been strengthened almost to a transcendental level, so this particular slime was on a whole different level from them.

It was something like a leader among the slimes.

And now, that particular slime was now blocking Luke and his party’s way.

“...Luke, Lielle, Hinata, lend me your strength.”

“Hey, don’t tell me you’re planning to do that?”

“Yeah. I don’t think we have a chance against this unless I do that.”

Ryuushin now believed that they had to go all out when fighting against the slime in front of them.

Moreover, he needed to fight this slime with the help of his comrades by drawing power that was beyond his own limit.

“...Got it.”

“I understand. Let’s do this!”

“Don’t be reckless.”

Luke, Lielle and Hinata touched Ryuushin’s back, then they poured their mana on him.

Fibers of lightning, wind and light enveloped Ryuushin’s body.

He dragonized his body while matching the inflow of those mana.

With the help of Hinata, Ryuushin — the Kokuryuu with the dark attribute and a dragonoid — managed to become resistant to the holy attribute magic.

Moreover, he requested Luke and Lielle to clad him in a gale-force lightning magic suit that would enable him to move and attack at the fastest speed possible.

Ryuusin would need to use his mana in order to morph into a dragon, so he couldn’t wear a magical suit whenever he dragonized. Thus, he came up with this tactical method in order to become stronger.

Whenever their party fought against powerful monsters, they would strengthen Ryuushin and support him to the best of their abilities. This had been their battle style.

Thanks to this technique, they had defeated countless monsters with only the four of them.

Ryuushin would be at the level of easily defeating the demon king after being strengthened by Luke and the others.

“Alright, let’s go!”

And that Ryuushin —

Tumbled even before the slime clad in magical suit made its move.

“Bftt, Ho!?”

One of the remaining three slimes who had been observing the situation in the sidelines suddenly grabbed Ryuushin’s leg with its tentacles just when he was about to turn to face the slime leader.

Ryuuhsin fell to the ground with a heavy thud after being stopped so suddenly in his tracks.

“Eh?”

Luke was shocked, but in truth, it shouldn’t be something that was too surprising.

The other slimes had been docile, so it appeared as if it was a one party vs one slime battle, but in reality, these slimes were still monsters, and no such arrangement existed among them.

Their leader seemed to be in danger, so it just acted in impulse to save it.

But then, that was also true for the other members of the Ernol family.

“Let’s go, everyone!”

“Yes!”

“As you wish, Danna-sama.”

Halt’s party moved at his command, and even Tina and Sitri’s parties also started moving.

A full-scale battle broke out between the House of Ernol and the slimes.