Musou Slime 31

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31. Party Leader, Apologize Deeply

"Oh no, this is bad! The Giant Spriggan has started destroying the buildings! If we don't do something, there will be casualties!" 

Someone shouted. All adventurers were looking at Dan.

"............!!"

A moment of hesitation. Dan ruffled his hair and stomped his foot on the ground.

"Because of useless people like all of you... Why do I have to face such a situation..."

Muttering to himself, Dan suddenly turned forward.

"I get it!! I'll go! I'll go and deal with it!!"

He started running. Rolling up his sleeves, he faced the Giant Spriggan alone.

"I can't afford to die here! You oversized blockhead!!"

After swinging his arm in circles, he delivered his signature right straight. The attack hit the Giant Spriggan's leg directly.

...However, such an attack didn't faze the giant body at all.

"No... way..."

In the next moment, the Giant Spriggan grabbed Dan's right arm like a toothpick.

"Ah, ah, aaaaaah!!"

The Spriggan then slammed Dan's arm onto the ground, lifted him into the air, playing with him like a toy.

Completely toyed with, Dan kept diving into the ground.

"Ugogogogogo..."

Spinning Dan's body around, the Spriggan tossed him like draining water. He crashed through a building upon impact with the wall.

"Ha, ha, ha..."

Dan crawled on the ground like a baby, desperately trying to escape from the Giant Spriggan.

His usually neatly arranged blonde hair was now tousled as if blown by a storm, and his elegant clothes were riddled with holes and torn in places.

"H-help me... I'm going to die... I don't want to die yet..."

It's an incredibly pathetic sight, completely contradicting Dan's usual arrogant demeanor. The adventurers were left speechless watching it.

Now, it should be about time.

"Slime!"

"Squeak!"

First, summon a slime. The slime swiftly moved towards Dan like a mouse.

While the Spriggan approached, the slime carried Dan back to us.

Dan, trembling like a wet puppy, is in a bowing position.

"Alright, what will you do? Have you thought about what I said earlier?"

Bowing on the ground, seemingly a joke, but Raize and I were serious.

"D-don't joke... Why should I... for the likes of you..."

"I see, then it's round two."

"Aaaaaah! Wait, please! I got it! Just don't take me over there anymore!"

Dan trembled like a wet puppy, his posture bowing.

With wide-open eyes, in a humiliating expression, he rubbed his forehead against the ground.

"I apologize for my disrespectful attitude towards both of you! I'm the one who pressured the Adventurer Guild! I won't oppose you two again! So, please help me!"

Dan bows in a clean posture. To expose such humiliation in front of other adventurers must be incredibly degrading.

After receiving the apology and clearing things up, shall we defeat the Giant Spriggan?

"Arx. You made a big show, but do you have any plan?"

"No, not yet. I'll think of something now."

The opponent is a super-sized monster that an S-rank party would usually defeat. Frankly, its strength is of disaster level.

There's no chance of winning in a direct fight. That's why we need to come up with our own way of fighting.

"First, let's find the opponent's weak point!"

I summon an appraisal slime and activate the <Appraisal>. As usual, the weak points are displayed.

"Darn it, the vital points are almost the same as a human's!"

This won't work. If I keep swinging the sword aiming for the heart or head, it'll turn into a normal fight.

I don't have the element to win in a simple power struggle. Isn't there any other strategy?

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Target: Giant Spriggan Level 32

Guardian of nature. Stores energy through photosynthesis. During the active phase, it consumes 3 tons of trees per day.

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Additional analysis information flowed in from <Appraisal>. Giant Spriggan is herbivorous.

Huh? Doesn't that seem strange? Why is it coming down to the human settlement if it only eats trees?

Moreover, it's usually peaceful and coexists with nature. There doesn't seem to be any reason to deliberately defeat such a monster. Something's not right.

"Hey Raize, why is the Giant Spriggan a target for subjugation?"

"You should understand that by looking. If we leave such a ferocious monster alone, the town will completely get destroyed."

"But the Giant Spriggan only eats trees and has no reason to attack people. So, why..."

"Wait a minute. Did you say trees!?"

Raize caught onto the word 'trees'.

"Giant Spriggan is a monster that lives deep in the forest area. And some have developed the construction industry using the trees from that area."

"Who are they?"

"The Orteze family. A family that rose from near ruin to becoming the lord solely through the construction industry."