Chapter 57

It Was Very Strong

The meeting continued for a few hours before ending.

The guild decided that they would gather Adventurers together and attack.

However, it would take at least five days to form the hunting party.

Had they wanted to make the ideal hunting party, it would have take close to 1 month.

Currently, they were going to take 10 days to gather men to hunt down the Blue Dragon of Delight… But considering the pace at which it grew, that seemed like it would be too late.

“What should we do now?”

Tina asked as she carried her share of the reward.

What indeed…

“I’m going to participate in the hunt. It’s for the best.”

“…But they won’t leave for 10 days. Won’t that be too late?”

“We’ll have to pray that it won’t be.”

Of course, this had already been debated back in the meeting room.

No one truly knew how fast it would grow. But it wasn’t as if they could gather Adventurers together any sooner if they wanted.

So there was nothing to be done.

…Or so I would make them think. In fact, I was thinking about provoking the dragon from afar before joining the hunting party.

If I used the slimes, I could attack it remotely with Hellfire of Obliteration, and then just run away.

Maybe it would be enough. And even if it wasn’t, I would get an idea of what kind of damage it would take.

“It’s true that we are out of options. …Alright. We’ll meet you again if they call us to join the party.”

“But I don’t think they will want us.”

Tina and Lisa said as they returned to their own inn.

This was because this party was called the ‘Advanced Special Hunting Party,’ and there were standards for who was accepted.

In this case, most of them would be at least C-Rank.

That meant that we 3 could be disqualified.

…But who knew how large the dragon would be after 10 days?

If we were really unlucky, it might be fully grown by then and destroy the continent.

I thought about this possibility as I returned to my inn.

If the enemy grew stronger with time, then I should act as soon as possible.

‘Slimes. I want all but one of you to leave the area. I’m going to launch an attack on the dragon.’

‘Okay!’

‘Okay!’

‘Okay!’

Usually, I would have cast a barrier so as to keep the others safe, but the dragon was now in a forest where there were no people.

I could attack it without worrying about anyone.

‘Magic Transfer—Hellfire of Obliteration!’

I felt my MP drop away as the shared vision turned red.

…It felt like it was stronger than before.

There was nothing about damage levels on my status, but perhaps it went up if you killed more monsters.

In any case, the problem was whether or not it was effective…

“It doesn’t seem like it.”

When the Blue Dragon of Delight appeared in the flames and smoke, it was practically unharmed.

Parts of its body were burned, but they were very light, and its movements hadn’t slowed at all.

Still, it seemed to be quite annoyed now, and the dragon roared as it tried to find its attacker.

Clearly, it did not know where the slime was.

But who would have suspected that such flames could come from a slime?

…That was fine, but I wanted to know how effective it had been.

I could see the HP status on most monsters, but it seemed to be hidden with the Blue Dragon.

I didn’t know why, but perhaps mythological monsters were exceptions.

However, it would make it much easier to fight if I could see its HP.

Even if it looked unharmed, it was possible that I had done decent damage.

Thinking this, I looked for magic that would allow me to see the dragon’s status.

But…unfortunately, I could find no such magic.

It was not an easy problem to solve then.

‘Yuji. It’s not working!’

‘The dragon is really angry!’

In any case, I knew that ‘Hellfire of Obliteration’ was not going to work.

It wasn’t as if it did nothing, and perhaps if I used it repeatedly within a barrier, I could do more damage, but that seemed like a far cry from defeating it.

‘Hellfire of Death’ had a wider range, but it wasn’t going to make much of a difference against a single enemy.

I needed magic with a narrower area of effect and higher attack power.

That would be magic that worked well against a dragon.

Though, Hellfire of Obliteration was magic that focused on a small area, so it would fit into that category.

I wanted to try using some other magic, but the magic that was in the same class as Hellfire of Obliteration all used a lot of MP. So I couldn’t use them casually.

It was very inconvenient when you didn’t know the effect of your own magic.

I had acquired them through the slimes reading some books, but I didn’t know what they did until I actually tried them.

So in order to find good magic quickly…it might be good to search for the right attribute.

I remembered there was magic that allowed me to do that.

‘Magic Transfer-Determine Attribute!’

In this world, the monsters were not conveniently categorized as ‘fire’ or ‘shadow’ types.

However, magic had attributes, and so there were attributes that were more effective than others.

…Or so I had read in the book.

Up until now, I had just been using Hellfire of Death without much thought, but perhaps the time had come for me to care about attributes as well.

After all, dragons seemed like they would be strong against fire.

I thought this as I waited for the results.

However-what appeared a few seconds later was not what I was expecting.

‘Blue Dragon of Delight.’

Resistance against: Earth, Wind, Water, Shadow.

Weak against: Fire, Light.

…Fire had been its weakness.