Chapter 22. Slime Rain
Ten minutes after the urgent quest broadcast.
The Adventurer's Guild was full of adventurers in no time. In the bustling
guild, many adventurers, including myself, are looking out the window.
The scene outside the window was...
"Kyukyu!"
"Whew!"
"Kyukyu!"
A mysterious phenomenon was occurring, with a large amount of slime falling from the sky. Slime rain is a weather phenomenon in which slime rains down like water.
"What does this mean?"
I don't understand how much slime affects the weather, so I can't help but ask Lucia next to me.
"I've explained before that slimes are magical creatures born from puddles of water or something, right? A high concentration of magical power accumulated in the rain clouds, and the rain itself turned into slime. It's a common extreme weather here."
"It's ridiculous."
It's a fantasy isekai, and the range of extreme weather is beyond imagination.
"But since the adventurers were gathered like this, is it also a countermeasure against the Slime Rain?"
"I guess so. Because of the slime rain, the whole town will be full of slime if this continues, so we need to get rid of it."
If we leave it like this, the whole town will become a sea of slime...
"But slime extermination seems to be a lot of work."
I remember the last time Lucia struggled with a single slime.
Slime is hard to kill with physical attacks, and even if you get rid of it with magic, more slime is raining down. Defeating each slime roaming around the town will be a painstaking task, even with magic.
"It certainly sounds like a lot of work to deal with Slime Rain, which is why all the adventurers in this town have been gathered. But maybe this time it will be easier than you think."
"Why?"
When I asked Lucia, she smiled and said,
"I don't know."
"Because there's Akira, isn't there?"
"Huh?"
Maybe it has something to do with what Lucia and Noelle said earlier, that I'm useful just by being here.
Just as I was about to get more details from Lucia, the voice of a guild official echoed in the Adventurer's Guild.
"Thank you, Akira, for joining us! The quest is to exterminate and repel the slimes that fall on the town with Slime Rain. The order rank does not matter, so please join as many adventurers as possible! The reward is 5,000 mina per person. From there, you'll get an additional reward of 2,000 mina per slime!"
5,000 minas just to join. And 2,000 mina per slime is a pretty good deal.
After all, with slime raining down, if you are skilled, you can defeat 10 or 20, maybe even more than 100 slimes.
"I'm going to kill the slime!"
"I'm going to make about a million minas!"
The excitement of the female adventurers increased with this good deal, and they were all shouting triumphantly. We must make money by killing slimes so that we don't lose to them.
"Alright, Lucia, Noelle, let's come up with a plan to kill as many slimes as possible!"
Just when I was getting excited.
"Is Akira here?!"
For some reason, I heard a guild staff member calling for me.
"What? Me?"
There are so many adventurers here, and I don't know why I'm being singled out.
I looked at Lucia and Noelle in bewilderment, and they nodded in agreement.
"Akira, it's finally time for you to be active!"
"Akira's role is finally revealed!"
Well, I don't know. There is nothing but anxiety.
I have a bad feeling about this, but I can't ignore the fact that the guild staff is calling me.
I reluctantly decided to head to the guild counter.