Chapter 54: Chapter 54: Intelligence overwhelms instinct

Following Kain's instructions, Mera used [Earth Wall] to create shelters scattered in different locations and arranged them as a line of defense.The purpose of these shelters, other than to shield against monster attacks, was to conceal the fact that Myra was accumulating the power of [Fire Magic].

Just as Kain had predicted, as long as Myra's [Fire Magic] had not been released and Mera was only focused on defense, the monster would not pay too much attention to the two sisters. The evidence here is that the Slime only used one of its four tentacles to attack them, while it used the remaining three to chase Kain.

Even so, the intensity and power of the attacks left Mera terrified. The attacks were so fast and cutting, it made Mera feel like she was facing a Magus who was continuously using the mid-class magic skill [Water Slash].

And that was just one tentacle, but for someone like Kain who was fighting three tentacles at once, how much pressure would he have to bear?

Myra also felt the pressure, in her opinion, to defeat this monster without losing any lives, a high-level Adventurer team of at least ten members would be needed to work together. Meanwhile, they only had three members, two of whom could not expose themselves to the monster or they would be killed instantly.

"Hope your plan works, Kain."

Myra thought to herself, then she immediately jumped out of her hiding place.

On her palm was a ball of fire that was twisting with such intensity, even the light around the area where the ball of fire existed became visually distorted.

And when this fireball was no longer restrained by Myra, it immediately exploded and shot towards the monster at a speed far surpassing the [Fire Bullet] shots she had performed before.

And without deviating from the plan, the Slime's instincts warned of a strong danger that could threaten its very nature, causing the monster to even stop attacking Kain.

The Slime's four tentacles began to move, releasing bubbles of water to block the [Fire Bullet] that was being fired at it fiercely.

These bubbles were not ordinary, as shown by the fact that they were able to render Kain's [Thunder Magic] powerless.

But faced with the absolute high temperature, many of the bubbles evaporated before even being able to erode a portion of the power from [Fire Bullet].

This is the restraint between the elements. It's not simply that one is stronger and the other is weaker.

As for Kain, he knew the moment had come when he had to act.

At this moment, [Thunder Summon] which had been accumulated until now was finally released.

The perfect vision that the monster possessed had indeed detected this "surprise" attack. But the monster chose to send only one tentacle to block the lightning from striking.

While Kain had already known from before that the monster would need to use at least two tentacles to completely block the threat from [Thunder Summon]. Meanwhile, the remaining three tentacles continued to try to block Myra's [Fire Bullet].

The monster's fighting instincts dictated that this was the best outcome, but for Kain, this was the worst outcome.

The remaining lightning struck the Slime's body, causing the gray liquid that formed the monster's body to even emit a flickering light. However, the monster did not die because it still possessed a certain level of resistance to magic.

But the Eyels symbiotically living within the Slime's body were not so lucky.

Eyel was already a monster that was extremely weak to any kind of impact. So without the protection of its symbiotic partner, Kain's lightning could easily fry all of the Eyels in an instant.

In other words, Slime abandoned Eyel to preserve itself.

Even though it looks like the same monster, symbiosis is just symbiosis.

For a Slime, abandoning its symbiotic partner for its own preservation is a natural thing. That is the harm of instinct.

But how could the Slime think that if it was hit by [Fire Bullet], it would only lose a part of its body. The damage was high, but it could still continue fighting.

If it has lost its Eyel, it means the monster's most terrifying weapon - perfect vision with no blind spots is completely gone.

What could the monster do then? Wave its tentacles wildly and hope to hit the enemy? It's obvious that Slime is very poor in sensory perception, otherwise it wouldn't have had to coexist with Eyel.

If he were that Slime, he would rather lose a part of his body than lose his sight. Besides, Slime was a mollusk-type monster, losing a part of its body wouldn't have as big an impact on it as it would on a normal organic creature.

It can be said that instinct makes this monster dangerous, and also makes the monster destroy itself.

"Intelligence is a more terrible thing than that. Instinct, no matter how powerful, can become weak before intelligence."

That was what Kain had always believed, as a hunter.

Losing sight, the monster's movements became chaotic and irregular, like a fish struggling when being pulled to the surface.

"Now! Attack!"

Kain shouted loudly, lightning appeared in the palm of his hand.

Myra and Mera also stood up from their shelters, both of them preparing their own [Fire Magic].

What followed was a torture, a monster desperately fighting against the three Magus. In the end, it ended up turning into a puddle of water.

The battle is over.

Myra looked at what was once a mighty monster, not knowing how to describe the feeling in her heart.

Her previous assessment was not wrong, at least a group of ten high level Adventurers would need to work together to take down this monster, without taking any damage.

But Kain was able to do this with just three members.

Myra glanced at Kain with a gaze filled with complexity, but also an indescribable determination.

As for Kain, he was extremely happy, because the result he achieved this time was really quite great. Searᴄh the NôᴠeFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

[Level]: 15

[Ability]:

-[Thunder Magic ★ ] 0/1000 (+):

+[Thunder Bullet level Max]

+[Thunder Summon level Max]

+[Thunder Navigation level Max]

-[Enhancement Magic ★ ]:

+[Enhancement Body level 6] 6/15 (+)

+[Enhancement Tool level 1] 0/12 (+)