On the way to find the slime nest, they fight to some of them, but they weren't strong even I, was managed to kill them with one hit.
Jona: "Gu, I have a question, if we find this ore, how are we going to mine it?"
Guberth: "Ah."
Adan: "Dwarf, Jona, you forgot to bring a pickaxe!?"
Jona: "HOW DO WE FORGET SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT?"
Guberth: "It is the kid's fault, he kept hitting on women in the village."
Adan: "Don't blame me you miniature of a living being, you forget it, is not my fault."
Jona: "Now there's nothing we can do! When we find the ore, we try something."
They searched the area around the village for a while, and it didn't take long before they found a small cave entrance hidden under a tree on a mountain climb.
Jona: "So Gu, do you think this is it?"
Guberth: "Well, it's not far from the village, and it's a cave."
Adan: "Wow Sherlock, did you find the clues by yourself?"
Guberth: "Yes, and my name is Guberth, not Chery Rock."
Jona: "(Sigh) Let's just enter the cave."
Jona: [As I thought, Adan is a reincarnate like me, at least I'm pretty sure that nobody in this world knows who Sherlock is.]
Guberth: "Hey kid, can you use fire magic to make light?"
Adan: "Well, I never tried it before."
So Adan concentrates a little, and in his hand appears a small flame that was used to light the way.
Guberth: "Look, this kid can be useful."
Adan: "More useful than you."
Upon entering the cave, there is goo everywhere, and it continues in the cave's wall, this makes them sure that this is the cave of slimes
Jona: "Gu, what does black iron look like?"
Guberth: "I'm not sure how to explain it to you, but if I find it, I'll show you."
While they were going deep into the cave, some slime appears, and that made Jona question.
Jona: "How are we going to eradicate this nest?"
Guberth: "Killing the queen."
Jona: "How killing the queen will eradicate the nest?"
Guberth: "Remember when I said the queen was a hermaphrodite? So, as she is responsible for increasing their numbers, she ends up having total control of her children."
Jona: "Wow, so does she produce children over and over again? It's not a problem?"
Guberth: "The queen notices when her nest is starting to overcrowd, and then stops producing children, and waits until her numbers decrease before repeating this process."
Adan: "And how defeating the queen will help us dwarf? Can't they just go out and continue to attack the villagers?"
Guberth: "No, as I said, the queen has full control of her children, so ordinary slimes have no reasoning, they just follow the queen's order, because of that, they don't run away when you are going to kill them, so killing the queen, the slimes will stay without someone to tell them what to do, and in time, they will starve to death, for other adventurers, etc."
Jona: "Like an anthill."
Guberth: "It can be said like that, but unlike ants, slimes are immortal, they don't die from diseases and old age. If a nest can live for many years, the slimes adapt and evolve to become incredibly strong creatures, and that's why there are gold rank missions or more for slimes."
Jona: "You understand a lot about monsters."
Guberth: "(Proud) I used to study a lot about them."
Adan: "Sorry for disturbing your conversation guys, but I think we have arrived in a big place."
After hearing that, Jona and Guberth looked at Adan, and the cramped cave, which you could hardly walk in it, opens up to become an enormous place, with several 50cm tunnels in diameter on the wall.
Jona: "Wow, what an incredible place, it looks like a dungeon."
Guberth-"It doesn't look like, it's a dungeon! You see these holes in the wall, they were caused by Soil Eaters, a type of giant worm, a group of silver-rank adventurers is required to kill this monster."
Jona: "WHAT? AND HOW DO THE SLIMES LIVE HERE? "
Adan: "(AFRAid) I DON'T WANT TO FACE AN MONSTER LIKE THESE, DWARF."
Guberth: "Don't worry, the holes look like they were made a long time ago, there are probably no more of them around here, let's move on."
Adan: "I don't know about that, Jona."
Jona: "Well, let's trust in Gu."
Walking through the cave it seems like there was no end, and the more they walk, the more the cave increased, and the number of slimes also got bigger, until, after a while, the group arrived at a huge open door with different symbols and drawings, drawings that resemble creatures like dragons, demons, and angels. Jona approached to look more closely and noticed that in the drawings, these creatures seem to be fighting.
Jona: "What is it?"
Guberth: "It is a representation of the primordial war. As you will probably ask, the primordial war was a war that took place thousands of years ago, between these three beings that dominated the world. "
Jona: "And who won?"
Guberth: "Nobody, this war was just a massacre for both of the races, leading to the extinction of dragons and the weakening of angels and demons, they say that the rise of other races came from demons and angels after losing their powers. Just like the lizardmen who are direct descendants of the dragons."
Jona: "So there are demi-humans here too."
Guberth: "Yes, but demi-humans are different from lizardmen! Demi-humans are descendants of demons, and humans, elves, and dwarfs are descendants of angels, that's why in some places, being a demi-human is reason enough to suffer from racism and even to become a slave."
Jona: [Oh, that's a lot to hear, so there is a thing like this in this world too.]
Adan: "(Surprised) Damn dwarf, I understood that you knew a lot, but I didn't expect you to be that smart."
Guberth: "I learned all this from my wife, she was an archaeologist."
Jona: [The conversation led him to remember his family again.]
Guberth: "Anyway, let's continue."
Entering the door, a corridor took place, the number of slimes had decreased, in the walls have more drawings about this war, until, at the end of the corridor, there was another door, this time closed and with only three creatures depicted.
Jona: "Who are these, Gu?"
Guberth: "Zaramos, the first dragon, and God of Lizardmen, Dululan, the first demon lord, and considered the demon of war, and Milos, the lord of angels, and the God of love, dance, and beauty."
Adan: "Dwarf, so were these three who fought in the war?"
Guberth: "Yes."
Guberth puts his hand on the door, a sad face could be seen, all this history has remembered him about his family.
Guberth: "Let's open the door."
Adan: "Right."
Jona: "Ok, Gu."
The group pushed the door with all strength, and after a while, it started to open, they opened it just enough that they can pass without problems, and the place to which the door gave access was completely dark.
Adan: "Hey, look here, I found a torch attached to the wall, I'm going to light it."
Jona: "Watch out, Adan, it could be a trap."
Before the words could reach Adan, he lit up the torch on the wall, and then, the whole place started to light, it was like a domino effect.
Adan: "(Proud) See! You can thank me later."
???: "WHO IS IN MY NEST?"
A female and very angry voice yells echoing throughout the room, it is impossible to understand where the sound is coming from, until, in the back, near the end of the room, a slime begins to form, but it grows more and more, taking a humanoid female appearance, and was about 200cm tall.
Slime Queen: "HAVE YOU COME TO ATTACK MY NEST AGAIN?"
Jona: "Gu, have you seen a slime like this?"
Guberth: "A humanoid slime? No, I think it is the only one in the world."
Adan: "Wait a minute, you are telling me that she is stronger than those gold-ranked slimes you said."
Guberth: "Well, the queen of gold-ranked slimes is not humanoid."
Slime Queen: "STOP IGNORING ME."
The slime throws a giant goop in the group's direction, but they avoided it by jumping to the sides, the goop hits the door that they came from, destroying it, and preventing them run.
Jona: "Gu, there is no way we can defeat this."
Guberth: "But now there is nothing more to do, we have to defeat it."
Adan: "Ehh guys, there's come another one."
Again the slime throws a goop in the group's direction, but this time the goop explodes in little pieces before it gets close to us, they have no way to avoid it, Jona tries to defend but some goops hit me.
Jona: "Ahhhh, it burns, are you okay?"
Gu protected Adan from the gooes, the ones that hit Jona completely melted his chainmail and burned his skin,
Jona: [If it wasn't for the armor, I would probably have holes in my chest now.]
Jona: "I need to think!"
After Jona says that, Guberth advances toward the slime, delivering an attack, but when the blow hits her, his ax melts.
Slime Queen: "YOU INSIGNIFICANT BEING!"
The Slime Queen concentrates a goo in her mouth and prepares to spit it out at Guberth.
Jona: "GU, GET WAY FROM HER!"
Adan: "FIREBALL!"
Adan casts a spell toward the slime, canceling his attack and giving Guberth time to retreat.
Adan: "Shit dwarf what did you have in your head moving forward like that."
Slime Queen: "YOU BASTARD WIZZARD!"
Jona: [Damn it, I need to do something, or we can't get out of here]
Jona-"Slime, please let us go, it was a mistake we have come here."
Slime Queen: "YOU ALWAYS SAY THAT, AND WHEN I ALLOW YOUR EXIT, YOU COME BACK TO DESTROY MY NEST! DESTROY MY CHILDREN!"
Jona-[She isn't wrong, probably after our report, a larger group would come to defeat her.]
Slime Queen: "YOU HAVE IDEA HOW MANY TIMES I NEEDED TO LEAVE, HOW MANY TIMES I HAD TO SEE MY NEST BEING DESTROYED BY YOU."
Jona: "But you also steal the food that humans plant."
Slime Queen-"OF COURSE I STEAL YOU, YOU'RE DOING IT LONGER THAN ME, AND WHEN SOMETHING STOPS YOU, YOU KILL."
Jona: [I can't argue with her, I'll just buy time to find a way out.]
Jona: "But not every human is like that."
Slime Queen: "YES, BUT I DON'T WANT TO RISK OF LOOKING FOR A GOOD BETWEEN YOU, NOT AFTER WHAT YOU DID TO ME, I'LL KILL ALL THOSE WHO INVADED MY NEST, INCLUDING YOU THREE."
The slime raises her arms, they stretch up to the cave ceiling and start spreading, then a shower of goo falls across the room, there is no way to avoid it.
Guberth: "WHAT THE HELL."
Adan: "FIRE COCOON."
Adan casts another spell, this time, the fire appears around us like a shield.
Jona: "Adan, where did you learn this magic?"
Adan: "I just tried, but I can't hold on for long."
Guberth: "I'm sorry."
Jona: "What are you sorry for, Gu?"
Guberth: "It was me who brought you two here, it's my fault you're going through this."
Adan: "Shut up shit dwarf, just think of a way for us to get out of here, then you'll be sorry."
???: "Now, now, what do we have here?"
A calm voice says those words, Adan's magic is dissipated, as the slime attack, so looking up I see a figure taking shape.
???: "How dare you attack my precious experiment?"
The figure takes the form of a humanoid creature wearing a butler costume with a monocle, a small horn comes out of his forehead, and his blood-red eyes stare at us, the group could move a single finger because of overwhelming fear.
Slime Queen: "Master Aknurb, what are you doing here?"
Aknurb: "What do you mean, my dear? I came to visit and see your progress! "
Guberth: "Ak...nurb!"
Gu falls to his knees on the floor, his face is completely pale and his eyes are wide open.
Guberth: "We are dead."
Jona: "What do you mean, Gu? Who is he?"
Aknurb: "Wow, it looks like have someone who doesn't know my name, so let me introduce myself, my name is Aknurb Von Lestrof, and I'm a commander of the demon lord Osnoff Von Lestrof."
Jona: "Is he a commander of the demon lord?"
Jona: [I am dead, I will die again, after receiving a second chance?]
Adan: "FIREBALL!"
Adan tries to cast a spell, but nothing comes out.
Aknurb: "Calm down my dear wizard, I have magical nullification."
Jona: [I need to think about something, I can't die now.]
Jona: "Did you say you're experimenting?"
Slime Queen: "HOW DO YOU DARE TO TALK INFORMALLY WITH MASTER AKNURB."
Aknurb: "Calm down dear, human boy, I know what you are trying to do, I will tell you, but it will make no difference, I will kill you anyway."
Jona: "Well, It doesn't hurt to try, right."
Jona says those words with a fake smile, trying to hide his fear.
Aknurb: "(Laugh) You are interesting, so this slime is my experiment to see if a slime can gown strong enough to become a commander or even a demon lord."
Slime Queen: "Master Aknurb, please don't compare me to your greatness."
Aknurb: "Don't worry, I want you to be strong, my dear."
Slime Queen: "I will become, to be at your side Master."
Aknurb: "I'm flattered by your words."
Jona: [He doesn't seem like a bad person to his subordinates.]
Aknurb: "You must be thinking that I don't look bad, but I don't think that's the right thought for someone who is going to kill you."
Jona: "Aknurb, shall we make a deal?"
Aknurb: "A deal?"
Jona: [I need to bargain.]
Jona: "If you let us live, we guarantee the protection and development of the slime."
Aknurb: "*Giggles* You have courage, human boy, even though you are the weakest of the three."
Jona: "How do you know?"
Aknurb: "I can see your status, I can't believe you became an adventurer with these points."
Jona looks around, and both Adan and Guberth were frozen with fear.
Jona: "A test, let me do a test."
Aknurb: "A test? Boy, what's your name? "
Jona: "Jona."
Aknurb: "Okay Jona, I will give you a test, I allow you to hit me with all your strength, if you manage to make the least possible injury to my body, I accept your proposal."
Aknurb approaches Jona, his presence is gigantic, even though Jona could move again, his legs were shaking, and could hardly stand.
Aknurb: "What are you waiting for? Attack me!"
Jona takes his frying pan and strikes a blow with all his strength in Aknurb's face, it was the strongest blow he could have ever dealt, a shock wave is made behind Aknurb, and the frying pan breaks into pieces, and the impact made Jona's hands break completely, his fingers bones came out and he falls into his knees in pain.
Jona: "AHHHHHH."
Jona looks up and thinks [Aknurb didn't even move with my blow, we are going to die.]
Aknurb: "INTERESTING!"
Jona: "What?"
Aknurb: "INCREDIBLY INTERESTING!"
Aknurb was smiling and laughing out loud, in his chin was possible to see a superficial wound deep enough for a little bit of blood to come out.
Aknurb: "I SUFFERED DAMAGE TO A HUMAN WHO HAS MINUS STATUS! HUMAN, WHAT'S YOUR GOAL?"
Jona: "I will ... Defeat the Demon Lord... Using the strangest weapon possible."
Aknurb: "(Still laughing) THAT IS THE MOST STUPID THING I HAVE EVER HEARD, BUT IT MEANS THAT WE WILL FACE EACH OTHER AGAIN. Very well, I accept your proposal, but if something happens to my experiment, I will know, and I will kill you."
Slime Queen :"But Master Aknurb."
Aknurb: "Are you against my decision?"
Aknurb looks at the Slime with his blood-thirsting presence, the slime just looks down and accepts her fate, and Jona faints due to the extensive pain, what would happen now?