Chapter 238 - How to Raise a Companion (2/2)
Continuing with its statement, an aura of slight inferiority emanated from it as it continued, ”I'm still too weak.”
”You won't be weak for long, Blob. Trust me,” Argentum said to bring Blob's morale up. Surprisingly, those words were enough to return Blob to its original self. Seeing that, he went ahead and started to move towards the Fire Slimes, gesturing Blob to follow him, to which it did.
While the two of them were heading towards the Fire Slimes, making sure that the first one they went up against was far away from the others, Argentum could not help but ponder over something. After some time, he found out that he could not come to a conclusion, prompting him to ask the system on this one.
”System, is it possible for me to allocate Blob my unused experience points just like in the Ally feature?” This was the thought that was plaguing his mind right now. If he was able to do so, then it would just be a matter of allocating enough points for Blob to grow strong enough before going ahead and allowing it to fend off for itself.
Ding!
It did not take long for the system to respond to his question, the system's feminine-sounding voice resounding in his mind as it said, ”Due to the user's companion being made from a skill and not from the system itself, the user cannot allocate unused experience points towards the companion.”
”I guess it was worth a shot,” Argentum muttered to himself as they continued to traverse the area for a stray Fire Slime, eventually finding one after a few minutes or so.
The two of them stood quite a distance away from this stray Fire Slime, making sure to not alert it of their presence. Looking at the Fire Slime in front of it, Blob could not help but compare its size to the Fire Slime's, pondering as to how it would be able to deal damage to such a large creature. On the other hand, Argentum ignored Blob's internal queries for now as he focused his sense of vision towards this Fire Slime, prompting a screen to appear in front of his field of vision not long after.
Only taking a short time to skim through it, Argentum could not help but imitate the sound of a being clicking their tongue as he thought, 'So I was actually dealing too much damage to it, huh?'
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[Fire Slime]
Existence Level: Animate (Rank 0)
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[HP]: 1/1
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Although he could not check its stats, Argentum was incredibly sure that its defense leaned more towards the physical side rather than the magical side, allowing him to deal tons of damage to its core through an elementally disadvantaged spell.
He then started to mutter to himself, thinking out loud as he said, ”Due to the difference in existence level, I must treat the Fire Slime's HP bar as 100 points instead of 1. I shouldn't use [Zephyr Ascendance+] and the stronger spells of [Lower Tempest Magic+] and [Lower Blaze Magic+] since that would just kill the Fire Slime in one shot, thus rendering it this outing to be useless.”
With that being said, he then went ahead and pondered over the remaining portion in his mind, which prompted Blob to look at him with slight curiosity, wondering what its creator was currently thinking about. Fortunately, it did not take long for him to finish formulating a strategy in mind to whittle down the Fire Slime's HP to a level where Blob would be able to kill it in one shot.
Thinking that there was a great chance for this strategy to be feasible, Argentum looked at Blob and said, ”Stay here for a while. I'll give you a signal on when to attack the Fire Slime, okay?”
”Alright, Argentum,” Blob said with a tone of slight uncertainty. ”Are you really sure I can fight against something like that?”
”I'm sure,” Argentum responded with a tone of slight elation and expectation. ”Just make sure to aim for the red orb in its center.”
”If you say so, Argentum,” Blob said in response to his words, only for Argentum to hastily dash towards the stray Fire Slime he was eyeing a while ago.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
In a matter of a few seconds, Argentum was able to decrease the gap between the two of them as he raised his right hand, conjuring a ball of fire not long after. Unsurprisingly, this action of his attracted the attention of the Fire Slime, incurring its wrath as it went ahead and leaped to its fullest extent, wanting to crush Argentum with the weight of its body.
Seeing that the Fire Slime took the initiative to leap and crush his body, Argentum radiated an aura of slight elation and glee as he adjusted the position of his right hand, making sure that the fireball in his hands would collide with the Fire Slime's core.
At the very instant the Fire Slime's body collided with Argentum's fireball, he shouted, ”[Lower Blaze Magic: Fire Ball]!”
”Burst!”
Fwoosh!
In an instant, the fireball Argentum was holding exploded, dealing a lot of damage to the Fire Slime as its momentum was abruptly halted and even reversed, flinging the Fire Slime closer to Blob.
Ding!
'You have dealt 99 HP damage to [Fire Slime]!' Obtaining a notification that the Fire Slime only had 1 HP left, Argentum could not help but let out a chuckle as he thought, 'I guess luck is on my side!'
”Blob, go and attack the Fire Slime!” Just before the Fire Slime could land on the ground and retaliate from his attack, Argentum shouted at Blob, to which Blob hastily responded, ”Alright, Argentum!”
Whoosh!
Since the trajectory of the Fire Slime was heading was somewhat close to where Blob was, Blob only adjusted its position by a bit as it sent out a small ball of flame towards the red orb inside the Fire Slime, just like how Argentum instructed it to do so.
Fwoosh!
At the instant the two collided, the gelatinous body of the Fire Slime instantly transformed into a puddle as the red orb inside it shattered into pieces. On the other hand, after the Fire Slime died from its attack, Blob instantly felt like it had grown a few notches stronger as its size swelled by a few notches as well.
Ding!
'Blob has dealt the last blow to [Fire Slime].'
'Blob has obtained 1000 XP.'
'Blob has leveled up to Level 5!'