Mr. Nobu’s Otherworld Chronicles Chapter 78

The girls retreated back a tiny bit to see me grinning at the rice bags .

Now then what to do now . Right when I thought that .

ZU ZU ZU ZU ZU ZU ZU

What!? It's shaking? Looking around, I realized that only the area around the marsh was shaking .

BWOOOOOOOOSH

A wave of mud suddenly gushed out of the marsh . The mud caught my legs, was.h.i.+ng me away . Yes, I had relaxed my guard after getting the rice, loosening my focus on the high mobility magic .

"NUOAAAAA" "YAAAAAAN" "GINYAAAAAAA" "HIAAAAAAA"

The four of us screamed as our whole bodies got washed off and covered in mud . It's making it hard to move, and worse of all, the mud drenched the inside of my pants, it feels so gross . I'd love to get in bath as soon as possible if I could, but the thing in front of us doesn't seem like it'll let us .

A gigantic monster that's taken position in front of us are staring at us with dead-fish-like eyes .

It's what looked like a small island in the center of marsh . I didn't think twice about it since I thought it was just a geographical feature, turned out it was a monster . Its whole body looks to be around five meter long . A tadpole gigantic enough to necessitate looking up is towering over us .

Uwaah, it's using its two legs to forcefully support itself and stand up, but that should be physically impossible . More importantly, its muscly legs look so raw it's disgusting . Mitama and the girls behind me are looking at it like it's a filth .
Its gleaming slippery looking l.u.s.trous dark body is making it worse . Its puckered-up mouth and rotund eyes are specially of note, but as mentioned above, those eyes look like that of a dead fish .

Evil Tadpole Lv32
HP: 245/245 - MP: 23/42
A gigantic tadpole monster . Produce Shut-in Frogs and Shut-in Venom Frogs by consuming mana . Its skin is covered in mucus that halves physical damages .

I think after seeing Discerning-sensei's appraisal results . This is not about chicken or egg problem . Why is a tadpole producing frogs . What the heck .
What I understand is how absurd so many things are in this world .

Looks like that's it for pondering time . The other side has no intention to let us escape it seems .

First, I'll use stone wall to stop its track, though I'm not sure how long it'll last .

"Stone Wall!!"

BOOM, I constructed a stone wall that covered us completely . Alright alright, we're under construction here, this place is off-limit to non-authorized personnel .
I also produce plenty of warm water that I pour into everyone from head down . Should be better than being all muddy .

" . . . Thanks, n.o.bu . "

"Yeap, but err, what're we gonna do with that thingy? Don't think we can fight well on these footholds . "

"Futsuno-san, shoot fire magic around to dampen the moisture and stabilize our footing . Kagursan, Mitama, you two are Futsuno-san's bodyguards . Once the area around here has dried up, join in the fray . I'll buy us some time until then . "

Tamchan, you're with them . As I think that, she nodded (?) by shaking her body, scattering water everywhere .

I focus back on high mobility magic and run on top of the mud like sliding . I'm panicking after confirming the situation over there .
Yup, the stone wall is about to be broken down . Cracks are running on it . That wall is one meter thick though .

BAAAAAAAM

The stone wall was destroyed by its ramming attack, splinters that got scattered about in the surroundings turned back into mana element .

My current capability allows me to only cast one simple type of magic while I'm focusing on high mobility magic . I thought of shooting a huge one from afar, but using stuff like electricity would result in disastrous collateral damage, what's with mud all around us .
I've got to turn the monster's attention to me away from the girls .
I construct a magic while going around it and activating Provocation .

">!"

I shot out a compressed spinning flame bullet toward Evil Tadpole .

Skid

Juwa

OMG . The flame bullet was easily extinguished the moment it touched its l.u.s.trous slippery skin . Oy oy, just how thick that layer of mucus is . That magic is strong enough to pierce through an iron plate and melt it down in the process though .

I observed the Evil Tadpole's movement while circling around it . Then as it began putting strength into those already thick legs, blue vein-like things surfaced on them before those legs turned twice as thick . It then stares at me in a forward-bent posture . A moment later, Evil Tadpole was already up in the air, aiming to land right on me .

"Uwawawawawawawa"

I accelerated myself with 『
The gigantic figure made an impact on that spot, BOOM . With such a huge ma.s.s landing, the surrounding area wasn't left unscathed . To the point that the girls couldn't stand .
Half of the Evil Tadpole body has been sunk into the ground, I felt a chill thinking what'd happen if I hadn't got away from that spot .

Now then, what should I do . Normally speaking, you'd want to target those legs . If I just cut either of the legs supporting that body, it would surely lose its balance rendering it immobile .

I took a deep breath, opened my eyes wide and concentrated . Fortunately, my opponent is still half embedded in the ground, unmoving . I decided to deploy high output Mana Clad .

With a loud booming sound, my body turned into a bullet, charging at high speed toward Evil Tadpole . Using the momentum, I swing Lunar Cat horizontally level to cut its leg . . . not!?
I almost dropped Lunar Cat but regained myself and ended up circling to behind the monster .
It did suffer a wound on the cut part, but the cut didn't even reach its bone . What st.u.r.diness, it stopped my slash not with bone but sheer muscles .

Evil Tadpole turned around to face me .
It seems to have been enraged by the cut, dull lights dwell in its dead fish eyes . It was trying to do something, then from its rear, b.a.l.l.s of light came out en ma.s.se like popopopopo . Those b.a.l.l.s popped open as they touched the ground, with frogs jumping out of them .

20 of them frogs . Oy oy, so this guy really is the source then .
Those frogs all went after me . . . not, they all rushed toward the girls .

It kinds of feel like Evil Tadpole's puckered-up mouth grinned, looks like it's trying to strand me here alone . It's intelligent enough to do hara.s.sments huh . I don't believe those girls would fall behind mere frogs . So I can just fully focus on bringing this thing down .

I'm groping for the one card among my repository to accomplish that .
That Weapon Skill would be best if I want to finish it off . However, I'm not sure if it can pierce through that slippery mucus . I've only wielded that skill a few times too . Gotta somehow stop it on its track and pierce through that mucus . . . huh .

Evil Tadpole looked puzzled to see me stop moving . This monster is pretty expressive .
It's putting strength into its legs like before, seemingly thinking that I've given up . The spot where I cut at isn't even bleeding, it must be forcefully closing down the wound with its muscles .

BOOOOOOOOM

Evil Tadpole pressed the ground with its legs, lifting its body up in the air .

And that's exactly what I'm waiting for .

"『

I turn all four thrusters toward the ground, sending me flying high above . I release the magic I've put on the spot where I was just as that thing lands .

(『

Evil Tadpole fell down on the spot just as I left it . I'll make it your grave, right under me .

"Graviton!!"

I reduce the area of effect and put on several times gravity on Evil Tadpole . It managed to endure this one as expected, but its legs gave in and knelt down .

Next I turn

"Funnununununu"

The air resistance is warping my face, but this is just the beginning .
I control Graviton to make it also affect me . Then I fell down even faster, at a speed incomparable to roller coaster .
Then I knead my mana and cast that one spell I had prepared beforehand .

"Dry!"

Right at that instant, the slippery mucus sticking on top of Evil Tadpole evaporated all at once . A spell of life magic, Dry . As I've modified this particular one into Freeze Dry among all other already easy to use life magic, this is far and away the most frequent magic I've used . Never would have thought that I would use it in the heat of battle though .
Now I just need to pierce through it!

"Vibrating Blade - Destruction!"

saku
meghosaaaa

Lunar Cat silently pierced through the exposed black epithelium . My legs also landed with the added gravity + acceleration, or to be more precise, made an impact . Eyeb.a.l.l.s flew off its cranium . Whoops, obviously an  overkill . . .

Adadadadada

Uwaoo, I could feel shocks running down my legs . My bones have surely at least cracked . This is some crazy recoil despite the Mana Clad . These bones have been broken so many times during my training with master, and healed back to get even st.u.r.dier, and yet that impact still proved too much .

The gigantic body of the blown Evil Tadpole vanished into mana element .
Geez, I managed somehow .

I was gonna head to the girls, but they seemingly were about done themselves . Mitama was waving at me .
Guess I'll go collect the drop items while putting high heals on my legs .

Tendon of Evil Tadpole x 2
Quality: Good - Enclosed Mana: 13/13
Tendon obtained from Evil Tadpole's legs . Turns into a very high quality bowstring after getting processed .

Mucus of Evil Tadpole
Quality: High - Enclosed Mana: 8/8
Mucus generated by Evil Tapdole . Will turn into fine face lotion when diluted with Dense Mana Water .

The soul gem was green colored and quite large of pretty high quality .
I'll put the tendon aside for Mitama, but really, that thing's mucus for face lotion huh . Could this be a good source of income if I play this right and sell to n.o.blewomen? After all, it's huge so we've got a lot of mucus here . Enough to completely fill a whole big garbage bucket . Stone buckets I made to collect garbage in dungeon proved its use here .

Since everyone is covered in dirt and all, think we're finished for today .