Chapter 38

My Villains Episode 038

10. After the 4th basement floor (3)

is over.

Mr. Luke, who was holding a long quarter staff, stretched out his wrinkled hand in front of a pile of rat men.

“Vernut’sya vel pyl’......

Ashen magic radiated from Mr. Luke’s hand with a low incantation.

Tsutsutsu.

Like a flashlight whose batteries are running out, the gray magic began to flicker dimly and gnaw at the bodies of the ratmen. It was ‘Touch of Decadence’, a rank 1 spell of annihilation magic.

It was a powerful spell that rots and disintegrates anything that touches the light, but in the game, the range was too short, so it was a skill that was discarded after the very beginning.

It was only in the game, anyway, that the real Luke radiating gray magic felt quite meaningful.

Is it because of the fact that he volunteered to be a funeral director? Or was it because it was so strange that a necromancer would destroy a corpse?

Unlike me, who silently watched the rat men’s corpses slowly disappear, Ellen, who was standing next to me, pursed her lips and grunted.

“How long do you have to wait? Wasting so much time at a ratman funeral.”

Saying that, Ellen looked sideways at me.

He pretended to be talking to himself, but he looked like he wanted me to answer. Well, since he’s a guy who chews on everything other people say, he must have said it to me.

I also wanted to chew on it sweetly, but I remembered Mr. Luke’s advice to treat him kindly, so I reluctantly opened my mouth.

“If you leave the corpses as they are, other monsters might eat them and fill their stomachs. There’s nothing wrong with getting rid of it.”

“Ha, does that look like it will rot and disappear?”

“...then?”

“It is impossible to completely get rid of something. Does it seem to disappear? In fact, it is only divided into small enough to be invisible and scattered.”

...The guy who always talks nonsense about balance and contemplation talks about the law of conservation of mass.

But is it okay to say something like that about a wizard? Isn’t it magic to create something out of nothing?

Even as I thought so, Ellen continued.

“Eventually those corpses will become food and feed the little creatures. The ratmen will eat the creatures again to lay off their babies, and then things will go back to the beginning.”

“Well, that will happen after a couple of months. But should we care about that?”

“...You mean it’s effective in the short term? Heung, if that’s the case, I’d rather kill the other ratmen at a time like this.”

“Don’t think too complicatedly, let’s just say that we have something to look at while taking a break. It’s amazing.”

Still not convinced, Ellen continued to grumble.

After finishing his work, Mr. Luke turned around and smiled broadly when he saw Ellen.

“Sorry to keep you waiting Miss Ellen. I tried to get over it, but there were so many corpses that I couldn’t bear to pass by.”

“Don’t talk to me, grandpa. Upset.”

...To those who don’t know, it’ll look like wizard-like arrogance, right?

But even when he was a wand pedestal, he wasn’t this cheap. He’s a very consistent guy.

I swallowed my irritation and reprimanded him in a low voice.

“Ellen. Didn’t you say that?”

“What am I? You didn’t say he was an old man who smelled like a corpse.”

“hey! you really- whoa I’m sorry, Mr. Luke.”

I apologized instead of Ellen and turned to Luke.

“It’s okay. Isn’t it true that the time was delayed because of me? I’m sorry everyone.”

It was a heck of a laugh.

I’m sure you’ve all heard people talk about the smell of corpses... Is it an old man’s leisure?

Looking at Mr. Luke’s face, I admired him because he didn’t pretend to be okay, but he really didn’t care. If it were me, I would have cut the top of my head with the stick I was holding.

Arnal, who was stretching on behalf of me who was at a loss for words with admiration, trembled.

“It’s okay, Grandpa. *sigh* Thanks to you, I had a good rest. I wish I was like this every time I meet a monster.” “Thank you for saying that.” Grania, who was sharpening a torch, shrugged her shoulders and expressed her concern.

“I’m worried about Mr. Luke. If you cast a spell in a place like this and you run out of mana to fight...” “

Don’t worry about that. The training I’ve accumulated up to this age isn’t completely in vain, and I have enough magic power.”

“If so, what?”

Of course, Middle World was not a world where ranks were divided by a difference of one or two years of age.

However, as in other human societies, this gray-haired old man like Mr. Luke became an object of respect.

Since he is an old man, of course, rather than respecting him, he thinks that he is a person with a special corner because he survived until he became an old man in this harsh world. This is probably the reason why the two mercenaries treat Luke well.

However, looking back, I don’t think it would have been much different if Mr. Luke had been a young man.

Who doesn’t like someone who casts mysterious and powerful spells but is always humble and kind? If there is someone you don’t like, that’s stupid—

The left arm, which had been splashed with a particularly large amount of acid, had melted down to the leather and was bubbling to the skin.

“Turn it off!”

“Grania!”

Arnal and I started throwing torches and shooting arrows to attract the slime’s attention.

In the meantime, Mr. Luke, who had thrown away the pole, succeeded in grabbing Grania, who was groaning in pain, and hurriedly dragging her back.

As the slime, which spat out the half-melted shield, staggered towards me again, I gritted my teeth and pulled out the pulse.

At that time, Mr. Luke, who had evacuated Grania, stepped forward again.

“Dusha plot’ plamya!” Blue flames soared above Luke’s head at the three powerful words. The goblin fire, which shimmered in the air, attacked the slime following Mr. Luke’s gesture. The

goblin

fire, with its long tail, wrapped around the body of the slime with a holo-long sound, and it began to twist the body and turn the inside and outside.

purr.

It is to resist the demonic fire by hiding the dried and burned side inside and sending the wet side to the outside.

Contrary to the appearance of burning blue like a gas fire, the heat emitted by the demon fire was not very strong.

Mr. Luke summoned more goblin fire, but it didn’t seem like he could kill the slime.

By the time I blocked the slime with a torch and stood in front of Ellen, he was also calming his surprise and aiming his crossbow.

“Flame Arrow! Shoot the flaming arrows!”

“Huh huh. No, that’s not enough.”

“What are you talking about? Are you lacking?”

“Slime’s weakness is fire, but *heuuu* it’s not even possible to say that it’s quite hot when it’s that size. With only flaming arrows.”

As he said that, he groped inside the sling bag, and I noticed his intentions and quickly grabbed the crossbow.

“I’ll do it, you memorize the spell!”

“But-”

“Quickly!”

I skillfully searched through the sling bag and took out a bottle with red aura.

“Influ-unt flammae.”

Right before the spell was completed, I aimed the slime with a Molotov cocktail on my crossbow. I narrowed my shoulders as much as possible, fixed the handle, put my hand on the trigger, and waited for his order.

“satus!”

Just as the slime, which had swallowed the demon’s fire before he knew it, was about to leap towards Mr. Luke, the flaming arrow from Ellen’s fingertips pierced him in an instant.

As soon as it burst into flames, I quickly pulled a protest.

Tung.

The fired Molotov cocktail landed exactly in the center of the slime. By the way...

it’s watery.

“uh?”

“...Hey you idiot! what are you doing!”

Buried in the slime body of the crazy slime, the bottle didn’t break!

Kim Seung-soo, you idiot! You should have shot it at the nearby floor to break it, or set it on fire and shot it!

I’m going to have a good time. Enveloped by the fading flames, the slime twisted ferociously and pounced on us.

Then a sharp shout was heard.

“Back off!”

It was Arnal who shouted.

She drew her bowstring with her eyes bloodshot, and after a brief silence, she fired an arrow. An arrow with an exquisite trajectory is not enough to pierce the slime.

Brilliant.

It hit and shattered the Molotov cocktail covered in slime!

The distance wasn’t too far, but to hit the erratically moving slime accurately. Aren’t you usually good at it?

Anyway, as a result, flame flower oil mixed with sugar etc. burst out from inside the body of the slime.

Hwaaak.

Orange flames instantly soared to the ceiling.

The slime, engulfed in such fierce flames, began to shrivel with a ‘kud deuk kud deuk’ sound.

The slime let out a silent scream and began to die. The black lustrous body melted and the contents that were digested inside spilled out.

“Uh woah.”

Seeing that repulsive figure, Ellen turned her head away in vain.

Ugh, what kind of slime is so disgusting? Slimes from places like Xapple Story look so cute. That’s why I have to play domestic games...

I hate this world all over again.