I’m not Goblin Slayer Chapter 041

The sudden attack caused the originally peaceful Slime tribe to instantly erupt into chaos!

“Puff, puff!”

“Puff, puff!”

Terrified and panicking due to their companions’ sudden deaths, the slimes began to show aggression, bouncing wildly in the mud.

Upon landing, their gelatinous bodies splattered into the muddy water, continuously making “puff, puff” squeezing sounds.

In an instant, the entire murky mud patch seemed to be boiling.

The slimes became restless, their emotions infecting one another.

They constantly searched for enemies with the two round black pupils distributed on either side of their bodies.

It is said that even bottom-tier monsters like slimes can produce more powerful individuals. Some can master the ability of magic perception, allowing them to lock onto enemies from afar even without relying on sight.

Besides magic perception, there are rumors that some advanced slimes can even master powerful abilities such as spellcasting, shapeshifting, energy absorption, gigantification, and fusion.

Some adventurers even claim to have seen slimes more powerful than dragons!

However, is it truly possible for the slime species’ potential to surpass that of dragons? Most people wouldn’t take such drunken boasts seriously.

Back to the present, this group of slimes were just the weakest common goo slimes.

After continuous observation with their naked eyes, the rioting slimes discovered Gauss and his two companions.

They somehow communicated with each other, and before long, almost all the slimes were looking at them.

“Puff, puff!” “Puff, puff!”

Perhaps realizing the scarcity of their enemies, the slime tribe, inherently “bullying the weak and fearing the strong,” immediately sprang into action.

They all leaped towards Gauss, and the 20 fiercely jumping mud monsters actually created a formidable commotion.

Seeing this, Gauss and his two companions calmly prepared their second wave of attacks.

Bows were strung, arrows notched, triggers pulled, and staves waved.

Another round of ranged attacks commenced.

However, this time, the arrows shot by Oliver and Meva did not successfully kill the slimes.

The arrows merely pierced the outermost gelatinous body of the slimes, failing to hit their cores.

Although this still caused the two slimes hit by arrows to sharply recoil in pain, it wasn’t fatal. After a brief twitch, they continued to follow the main group.

It was Gauss, who patiently aimed last, who once again used his world-slowing ability to successfully pierce the cores of two slimes.

“Splat!!”

The magic missile, flying close to the ground, pierced through two cores before exploding into the mud again, splashing up huge muddy water.

“Slime killed * 2”

“Total monsters killed: 28!”

This wasn’t due to Oliver and Meva’s poor archery skills; it was simply quite difficult to precisely hit the core of a moving slime.

Gauss was able to do it thanks to the slow-motion effect of his low-tier bullet time, as well as the magic missile’s faster flight speed and wider impact range compared to arrows.

Perhaps emboldened by the large number of companions around them, the slimes were not deterred by the trio’s second round of attacks.

Instead, they accelerated, quickly bouncing out of the mud and onto solid ground.

It was at this moment.

To avoid startling the slimes, the shield-bearer Levin and the swordsman Doyle, who had been hiding beforehand, revealed themselves.

The cleric Daphne also emerged from behind a tree, shielding everyone in front of her, ready to provide healing at any moment.

The team formation instantly took shape!

Seeing the number of people suddenly surge from 3 to 6.

The originally aggressive slime tribe was as if struck by a heavy blow, their charging momentum immediately weakened.

The two slimes, lagging at the back due to injuries and with arrows still sticking out of them, swaying, directly stopped bouncing.

They stood still, trembling uneasily.

This was also why only Gauss and his two companions were exposed at first; the goal was to feign weakness and entice the slime tribe to “bully the weak” and voluntarily leave the mud.

The mud was clearly not suitable as a battlefield for a proper team fight.

“Doyle, push forward with me!”

Without giving the slimes much time to react, Levin roared, fearing that the leading slime might escape and cause the tribe to scatter.

If these nearly 20 slimes were to disperse like birds and beasts, it would be truly difficult for a 6-person team to chase them down individually and keep all of them in the forest.

“Thump, thump, thump!”

Levin charged forward with several large strides, activating a skill simultaneously.

“Great Shield Charge!”

With a loud shout, Levin, his face flushed, raised his oak greatshield, holding it in front of him, and charged fearlessly towards the slime horde with heavy footsteps.

Doyle, holding a small wooden shield, followed behind him, charging together.

Their “fearless” frontal assault, however, seemed to enrage the leading slime.

“Drip, drip, drip!”

It leaped fiercely, taking the lead.

A mouthful of thick, dark green viscous fluid spewed out from its mouth.

A large blob of slime arced through the air.

“Splat!”

It heavily splattered onto Levin’s oak greatshield.

Fortunately, Levin’s wooden shield had a large enough protective area, and during his charge, he hadn’t exerted his full strength, instead keeping his body protected within the shield’s range.

So, this mouthful of thick slime only splattered onto the oak shield, evaporating into faint white smoke on the shield’s surface, causing him no harm.

Levin did not stop, continuing to charge forward with his head down, enduring the slime.

One step!

Two steps!

His massive shield finally collided with the leading slime.

Although the slime, over 50 centimeters in size, was also pressing forward at a rapid pace, it was significantly inferior to Levin in terms of strength.

“Thud!!”

The 50-centimeter diameter slime hit the shield with a “thud,” and under the compression of bidirectional forces, it was flattened by the powerful impact in just a brief moment of contact.

The two forces clashed and held their ground in an extremely short period of time!

Ultimately, Levin, who had activated his skill, had the upper hand.

“Hraaaah!!!”

He charged a second time, pushing the several dozen-kilogram leading slime!

“Boom!!”

Levin, carrying his greatshield and charging head-down, carved a path straight through the slime “army.”

The slimes along the way were all knocked flying by his immense strength.

Doyle, who was following behind him in the charge, also drew his longsword and engaged the slimes.

The ranged group also didn’t stand idle, quietly moving to the flanks of the battlefield, beginning to aim, attempting to snipe isolated slimes from a distance.

Gauss should have been part of the ranged group, but he had already used two magic missiles and now only had enough magic for one last shot.

Furthermore, with his teammates pushing to the front, he couldn’t rashly launch a magic attack.

So he chose to follow in Levin and Doyle’s footsteps, holding a small wooden shield partially obscuring his face with his left hand, and carefully following with his right hand clutching a rapier.

“Splat!”

Doyle was clearly not killing slimes for the first time.

After his shield slapped away a small blob of slime spit by the enemy, his other hand, gripping his longsword, swung down.

“Cross Slash!”

“Swish! Swish!”

The longsword cut through with a white gleam, two rapid slashes, one horizontal and one vertical, precisely intersecting and cleaving the core mass at the very center of the slime.

“Gurgle, gurgle!”

As the core was cleaved into four, the slime melted once again!

“Be careful to block the slime with your small wooden shield. Slimes cannot continuously spit slime, so once you block it, you can seize the opportunity to attack.”

“But also watch out for attacks from other slimes!”

“Don’t let them swarm and surround you!”

“Oliver, Meva, provide ranged support as needed!”

Levin yelled out, reminding them.

In fact, his first wave of charge had already knocked away nearly half of the slimes, directly breaking up the slime’s attacking formation.

So, the most dangerous initial offensive had been defused.

Now was a good time to kill the slimes.

Gauss naturally heard Levin’s voice.

He imitated Doyle and engaged a slime.

It was a goo creature, only 30- 40 centimeters in size, exuding a strong, putrid odor.

It had probably taken the full brunt of Levin’s strongest impact.

It was now wiggling dazedly, and its core was violently trembling within its body, moving irregularly left and right.

This was an instinctive self-preservation reaction, to prevent enemies from easily hitting its core while it was stunned.