‘Protect the Lis.h.i.+a leaves!’
‘Kill them all!’
The slimes cried as they surrounded the Greedy Boar .
Their eyes burned with hatred over the ravaged fields .
The Greedy Boar was large, as might be imagined for something that could eat so many crops .
I was pretty sure they were supposed to be C-Rank .
And now that the slimes faced this monster…
‘Yuji! Kill it!’
They called my name .
No matter how hot their rage burned, the slimes could not attack anything .
I had to unleash attack magic through Magic Transfer .
The slimes were very much aware of this .
‘Magic Transfer–Fire Ball!’
I answered their request and unleashed attack magic towards the Greedy Boar .
And then a Fireball shot out and burned the monster .
There was now a roasted boar in front of them .
‘Onto the next one!’
‘We’ll find them all!’
The slimes did not seem any less enthusiastic .
They were thirsty for blood, and so they spread out again to find their next prey .
‘There’s one!’
‘Over here as well!’
As they spread out further, more and more slimes asked for me to attack .
I answered them all and sent Fireball after Fireball .
And then…when about 50 Greedy Boars had been killed .
A slime made a report that was not about an enemy monster .
‘…There’s a strange ball here!’
‘There’s something strange in the forest!’
‘It looks like a magic stone!’
…Apparently, the slimes had found some kind of ball .
As I looked at it through ‘Shared Senses’…I saw that there was indeed a blue, glowing ball there .
It was 30 cm in diameter .
‘…Is it a cursed magic stone?’
‘Cursed magic stone . ’
The item that had been brought to the Dryad’s forest . It unleashed cursed energy and was the cause of a monster outbreak .
It had been brought in by the members of a crime organization known as the Blue Moon of Salvation… But this one looked different than that cursed stone .
And the trees around it weren’t dead .
Well, they didn’t look that great either, but the cursed magic stone had the ability to kill all trees and plants by just being placed on the ground .
There hadn’t even been a blade of gra.s.s around it .
So this was likely something different entirely… But it still felt eerie .
My gut feeling was that it was not good .
I could have the slimes bring it back so I could study it…?
No, I couldn’t make the slimes touch something I wasn’t sure about .
It would probably be best for me to go directly .
Thanks to the amount of magic energy I had, even the real cursed stone did not work on me .
‘Proud Wolf . I need you to take me to the place where this stone is . ”
‘Understood!’
I sent the order as I left the town .
After a while, the Proud Wolf came running towards me .
‘There’s another one here!’
‘Isn’t that the same one?’
While I was riding on the Proud Wolf’s back, other slimes told me that they had found stones too .
So there was more than one .
I wasn’t sure if they naturally occurred in nature or if they were manmade…but they probably weren’t natural if the slimes were so suspicious of them .
I thought about it until we arrived .
There were about 10 slimes surrounding the stone .
I couldn’t sense anything like danger from the blue magic stones .
There was a thin layer of snow covering it .
If this was a cursed magic stone, then the snow would have melted .
This meant it was probably safe to touch .
And so I stretched out my hand .
But…something unexpected happened as I was about to touch it .
The surface of the magic stone turned a little darker .
And it was just in the spot I was about to touch .