Frostfire Legacy

The Mega Green Slime's body was made of an acidic gel-like substance, which corroded any weapons that touched it. As such, Kali's daggers, which she was using directly to scrape off its "meat," ended up the most battered.

"Leave the rest to us, Kali!"

Aster called before sending another Mana Slash. With his current amount of mana, he could fire Mana Slash hundreds of times without running out.

He was getting used to using his skill by now, allowing him to aim to get the most volume out in one go. Kali followed Aster's command and sheathed her weapons, praying that they could still be repaired, while moving to the large section that he sliced off and kicking it away.

Whenever the duration of Taunt ended, Liz took over the job and used Knight's Challenge. During that time, Tina would rest and wait for her taunt's cooldown to end before switching again. After all, while tanking, Liz wouldn't be able to effectively swing her mace to attack.

A certain regularity was building with their cycles, making it easier and easier as time passed. Within five minutes, the boss's body was merely half of what it was before!

*JIGGLE!*

The slime moved angrily, jumping straight up, planning to body-slam Tina once more. Of course, such a big move was full of openings and easy to dodge, so she moved to safety quite easily.

*PSHEW!*

"...!"

But as soon as the slime landed, it started to spit acid at her. It happened so fast that she couldn't dodge; she could only raise her arms to block!

The acid spit landed on her gauntlets, which quickly started dissolving from the powerful acid. Having no choice, Tina removed the gauntlets and threw them away. If she insisted on wearing those, then her arms would literally fall off after the weapon melted!

*SIZZLE!*

A few drops also hit her face, which she quickly poured a potion over. The liquid potion quickly washed away the drops and also healed her slight burns, returning her to perfect health in a moment.

"You rude bastard! How dare you spit on me!" But thanks to that attack, Tina got angry!

"METAL BODY! HASTE! ENRAGE!"

She applied all the buffs she could in one go and rushed forward, punching the slime directly while dodging its whip-like tentacles!

*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*

A three-hit combo landed, causing the half-sized Mega Slime to float for a bit. The strength of her strikes was beyond imagination!

Of course, the direct blunt impact was useless against the slime, but it did manage to stiffen its large body, albeit for a short moment.

*BANG!*

Kali, who was waiting for a chance, pulled the trigger of her revolver!

A bullet flew at subsonic speeds, reaching the slime and going into its body. However, the bullet could only travel a full meter before stopping. It was still far from reaching the core.

"Stupid Rabbit! Go and pull that idiot out of there!" She shouted a command in panic.

After all, despite all her buffs, she was still punching a body of acid with her bare hands! Metal Body did harden her skin, but the acid was potent enough to melt metal in seconds. In fact, the state of her fists was already something hard to look at.

"Got it!"

Cassy, who had been on standby since the beginning, ran to Tina's side. She forcefully dragged her away by the collar as Liz timed her Knight's Challenge perfectly, pulling the boss's attention to herself.

Tina was still flailing around, but Cassy didn't let go. While her patient was trying to return to battle, she was busy chanting a more powerful healing spell, enough that it could recover the melted meat and bones from Tina's fists.

"Secundi Sirreo Cura! Intermediate Heal!"

It was her current best healing spell, so she prayed that it was enough to fix Tina's wounds. Thankfully, the faint white light that covered her body congregated around her wounded parts and slowly filled the missing sections.

"Purify!"

Right after healing her, Cassy used a skill that she learned after upgrading to Healer (II), Purify, which removed the acid and other foreign objects in Tina's body. This included the debuff from her Enrage skill.

Tina came back to her senses and realized what she had done.

"... Sorry, I will be careful next time." She apologized even before Cassy could ask her.

Cassy smiled, patting Tina's back. "Good! I only have one more use of purify, so be careful!"

After that, Tina returned to the front and took over, attracting the boss's attention. Now that it was smaller, the tentacle whips were also becoming shorter, so it was a lot easier to dodge. The acid spit that came after didn't even touch her shadows! Without the element of surprise, it wasn't something that could hit her anyway.

Just like that, another five minutes were spent, and the boss finally shrank enough that Kali's bullet reached the core. After five hits, the core broke into pieces as the Mega Slime dissolved like a deflated water balloon.

They all watched it, careful not to touch the green liquid that streamed out while keeping their vigilance. However, the monster didn't move anymore after that.

"It's over."

Kali declared, sighing deeply.

Aster also walked toward the slime corpse, but no matter how he looked at it, there was nothing that could be looted from it. After all, the only materials they could harvest from it were the slime's contents and its core.

The contents were acidic, and they didn't have specialized containers for them, while the core was destroyed in the process of hunting it. In short...

"... What a loss." Aster sighed.

Kali and Tina lost their weapons in the fight, meaning they were in the red. After all, Tina's gauntlets were brand new, costing them almost 500 thousand Tels for them! For Kali, her daggers seemed specialized, so he couldn't even guess their price.

"There's nothing we could do about it." Liz sighed, patting Aster's shoulder. "For now, let's head to the next floor and return for the day!"

"I guess..."

As Aster was just about to move, he then remembered something. "Wait, you were going solo before coming to our party, right? How did you defeat the boss?"

"Oh, that?" Liz smiled, puffing her chest in pride. "It's a fair one-on-one battle against the Hobgoblin boss! I panicked when it called other goblins at the end, but I still managed to pull through!"

"..."

Aster felt like he had just heard something ridiculous. But as if forced by his curiosity, he turned to Tina next, who was nearby and listening, and she answered with a shrug.

"I did the same. Though my enemy was just a Big Slime, so it wasn't even a fair fight."

The two of them were brave enough to fight the first-floor boss one-on-one! Insane!