CH 130

Bushy, pure white fur.

I’m guessing it’s mushroom hypha. It grows from the part of Rihalzam’s body that’s touching the ground. It keeps growing until it’s about the length of the hair of a short-haired man.

Slime starts writhing, as if being lifted by this hypha.

They take the form of four-legged animals and detach themselves. They’re about as big as small dogs.

The parts covered with hypha are like their heads, and this part is about the size of a human head, with the rest being about the size of a small dog.

It looks twisted.

These four-legged slimy bodies with heads of hair are aiming for Taula and Ahri, who are done with the slimy gums.

They also move faster than the slimy gums, probably because of their four legs.

“Do we just need to cut their hair?”

Taula asks while swinging her sword at a slimy body that’s jumping at her. The tip of her sword cuts the hypha.

But it keeps moving.

Taula calmly dodges.

“The mushroom that’s the core of this slime body is in the back of their heads! And they’re pretty small.”

Says Roa, who is next to me.

I peek over at her, and see the glitter of magic elements. It looks like she’s using her transparency and long-distance sight at the same time.

“Thank you. How about this?”

Taula swings her sword like she’s trying to cut the enemy’s head to shreds.

I don’t know how many slashes there were, but she caught the mushroom hidden behind the hypha, and the slime body melts.

“Ahh. Something that small and fast was quite troublesome. And I couldn’t see its weak point. But of course, cutting it to pieces solves that problem.”

“I’m not good with this. Roa, change.”

“Yes.”

Ahri and Roa switch places, meaning Ahri is coming to me.

Roa swings her spear while using her transparency power, and sends the hair of the enemies flying everywhere.

“M-my hair! How dare you how dare you!? More! More, food. Bring me. Anyone there?”

Rihalzam sounds panicked as he sees his slime bodies get destroyed one after the other.

Is the main body getting smaller as more slime bodies detach from it?

I observe Rihalzam as he panics.

He covered the entire wall when we first walked in, but now I see a gap between his body and the ceiling.

I see, so it’s a good idea to just let him detach more and more slime bodies. But why doesn’t the main body move? Did he actually eat so much he can’t move anymore…

All the mushroom people around here have been purified by my Potion Rabbits, so no one is coming no matter how much Rihalzam screams.

The giant man giving orders also lost the mushroom controlling him, and is probably passed out somewhere.

Still, as I see Rihalzam panicking, and the repulsive thing he has become, I can’t help but feel a little sorry for him. But I try to focus.

Although he’s a demon, he’s lost his mind, probably because he’s a freshly turned demon. It would be easy to just beat him. In fact, Rihalzam would give me more trouble back when he was human.

But I need to deal with the mushrooms infesting the whole country in one fell swoop. And that’s why I transmuted this bloody potion.

I touch the bloody potion attached to my belt, looking for the right time to move.

Demons are subject to the principles of primordial magic, so there is a path of primordial magic between the main body and its followers. If I hit Rihalzam’s core with this bloody potion made with a hybrid of primordial magic and transmutation, it should go through these paths and purify Rihalzam’s followers all over the country. The problem is that I only have one.

“I really have to make sure it hits.”

I mumble. Ahri looks at me, but I wave my hand as a way to tell her it’s nothing.

I do feel sorry, but we’re going to have to keep fighting and scraping away at that body.

It keeps losing mass, until it’s the size of half the wall, and about twice the size of a person.

I figure the time is now, and get moving.