“This is bad… this number.”
The president gritted his teeth. More than ten Varlin blocked their path in all directions.
“Yuma, can’t you use that power again?”
“…It’s no good. I seem to have used it all up!”
Varlin also stood in the way to the exit. At this rate, everyone would be killed.
“Yuma, break through here and head for the exit. I’ll take Aisha-san and follow.”
“Understood!”
The Varlin began to move all at once. Yuma and the president also split up and took action.
The president took Aisha-san’s hand, who was hiding behind a rock, and ran around to the exit. Yuma stepped and slipped past the two Varlin in front of him.
Although the monsters had abnormally strong arm strength, their speed wasn’t that great.
As long as he wasn’t caught, he could escape. That’s what Yuma thought—
“Gah!?”
Something hit his head. The strong impact made him squat down involuntarily.
—What!?
He saw fragments of rock scattered on the ground. When he looked back, the Varlin were lifting rocks and throwing them with all their might.
So, they have some intelligence. He immediately stood up and tried to escape, but stopping was fatal.
One Varlin grabbed his leg, and another grabbed his shoulder and arm.
He couldn’t shake them off with their incredible grip strength.
“Damn… Let go!!”
One that charged from the front punched him with all its might. The impact made his body lean back.
Because his hands and feet were grabbed, he couldn’t move an inch. Another one that approached from behind bit his shoulder.
His steel body wasn’t taking damage, but his ability would run out soon.
If the Metallization wore off, his body would be torn apart, resulting in instant death. Yuma felt the blood draining from his entire body.
“Yuma!!”
The president, who had gone near the exit, raised his Hexagonal Rod and came back.
He couldn’t possibly win against this number. Even so, the president fearlessly approached. The Hexagonal Rod shone blue, harboring the power of Water Magic.
“I’ll save you now! Hang on!!”
He struck the Varlin with the thick rod. Even the sturdy monster staggered back when it received a blow imbued with Magical Power.
Splashes of water flew around.
“UOOOOOOOOOO!!”
The president swung down the Hexagonal Rod with all his might. However, the Varlin grabbed it firmly and couldn’t move it.
“Damn it!”
The president punched the Varlin’s face. But the monster with steel skin didn’t even flinch. On the contrary, blood spurted from the president’s fist.
The Varlin stretched out its arm and tried to grab the president’s body, who was wearing a pained expression.
—At this rate, even the president will die! Is there anything, any way to be saved…?
Yuma desperately thought. Could he break through the current situation by using his abilities!?
He thought so, but he didn’t know what to do specifically.
The only thing that came to mind was that Deca Slime.
If he could use the power of that incredibly strong Metal Slime… In that instant, the image of the Deca Slime revived in Yuma’s mind.
—That’s right, with this.
An attack that he could do while his whole body was grabbed by the Varlin. Yuma’s entire body undulated, and Liquid Metal moved as if crawling on the surface of his body.
“Eat this!!”
Hundreds of spikes protruded from his entire body. He became like a sea urchin, and those slender spikes easily pierced the Varlin’s steel bodies.
The monsters that had been restraining his body groaned one after another.
Spraying blood, they released Yuma and took a step or two back. Yuma returned the spikes to their original form, and this time turned his right hand into a Dagger.
With a thinner and sharper image than before, it transformed into a sharp blade.
“Uwaaaaa!”
Yuma pursued the Varlin that was trying to retreat. He stretched out his hand, which had become a Dagger, and thrust it into the monster’s chest.
“Gaaaa!”
Yuma’s body was that of the Metal Slime, boasting the highest hardness. The “sword” made of that metal would cut through anything.
The Dagger in his right hand pierced the Varlin’s steel chest plate and stabbed into its heart.
While the agonizing monster writhed, he transformed his left hand this time. He made it into the shape of a black gauntlet, and imagined extending a Longsword from the back of that gauntlet.
Then, as he imagined, a Longsword protruded from the back of his left hand.
Yuma swung that sword and slashed the Varlin’s throat.
Blood spurted out, and the Black Monster fell backward. It turned into sand and disappeared.
There was a way to defeat them even if he couldn’t win with strength. A “Demon Ore” had fallen where the Varlin had disappeared.
Yuma picked it up and immediately headed to the president’s side.
Two Varlin were attacking the president. Yuma slashed one’s side with the Dagger in his right hand. Furthermore, he pointed the five fingers of his left hand at the other one.
The five fingers stretched out at once, becoming long spikes and piercing the Varlin’s back.
The monster raised a groaning cry and turned around. Yuma returned his fingers to their original form, extended a sword from his gauntlet, and slashed the Varlin’s throat with that sword.
The moment the hand holding the Hexagonal Rod released, the president struck the two Varlin with the Hexagonal Rod. The monsters staggered, scattering fragments of metal.
“Yuma!!”
At the president’s voice, he noticed something running from behind. When he turned around, it was that Varlin with one arm.
It jumped at Yuma and attacked. But Yuma was calm.
He put his right hand on the ground, crouched down, and braced himself. The moment the Varlin tried to pounce on him, he thrust out hundreds of spikes from his entire body.
The Varlin was pierced without being able to do anything, and stopped moving with a groan.
When he retracted the spikes, it swayed and fell down. Yuma pierced the monster’s chest with the Dagger in his right hand, and slashed its throat with the sword in his left hand.
The Varlin shed a large amount of blood, and finally disappeared into sand.
“I did it…”
He picked up the Demon Ore that had fallen at his feet, and ran to the exit with the president, who said, “Let’s escape!”