Chapter 113 - Surprisingly Strong Fish (2/2)

However, I had a use for it.

‘Like this.’

I said as I defrosted the monster rat—and then I cut it lightly to draw blood before tossing it into the river.

The slime seemed to understand then.

‘Bait?’

‘…I’m surprised you knew about that.’

You didn’t use bait without a trap or a fishing pole.

So I hadn’t thought that the slime would know.

‘Yes! Scary monsters use delicious leaves as bait! And then they eat slimes!’

‘My mom told me not to go close to strange leaves!’

I see. So there were monsters that trapped slimes.

They got evaporated by Lesser Fire Dragons and trapped by others—life as a slime could be hard, it seemed.

As I mused over that—a giant dark shadow appeared in the water.

It was the same shape as the Maneater Bass I had seen at the guild.

‘A monster!’

‘It took the bait!’

It seemed to be going well.

I should have done this in the first place.

I wouldn’t even have to transfer magic at this distance.

Still, magic involving bullets seemed like they wouldn’t reach it…

“Area Freeze–Medium.”

I chanted. And then a giants sphere of ice grew in the area that the shadow had been.

The river water within the area of effect had all turned into ice.

So now I knew that the area of effect for Area Freeze was a nice sphere.

And with that thought, I pulled out the sphere of ice from the water.

“All right, mission accomplished.”

That being said, I couldn’t bring the entire block of ice with me.

I had to break it somehow…

It was while I was thinking this, that cracks started to appear on the block of ice.

“Huh?”

Perhaps it would just break naturally.

I thought hopefully—and then the cracks began to spread.

Then there was a loud cracking sound, and then the block of ice cracked in half completely—and the Maneater Bass jumped out.

‘It’s alive!’