Just in front of Jack was a slime, although he was familiar with what slimes looked like it was a whole different story when one was just a few step away. It was just a green blob that was full of acidic slime, Diver's that awaken have a resistance to it but un-awakened people do not. The only problem with is that Jack the strength and resistance of an awakener is dependent on both their rune slots as well as the runes in the slots.
Jack unfortunately only has one slot and that was filled up by his innate rune leaving him around the same resistance as a normal human and strengthening his muscles enough that he would be as strong as a person who had been lifting for a few years.
Luckily the years training while in the orphanage have given him a good understanding of combat and fighting with various styles. The one they trained the most was MMA and he liked to think that he was quite a force to be reckoned with.
'[Lesser Fireball]'
He thought the name of the rune and it appeared hovering above his hand. Immediately he threw the fireball with all his might at the slime.
To his surprise the slime was quick and dodged, but this was within expectations and he had already summoned another fireball. Launching this fireball towards the area where he expected the slime to land he dashed towards the same spot.
Fortunately, he did not have to worry about getting into a brawl with the slime as it had caught on fire and was quickly burning to death. Finding a Window where he fire was useful was a good idea.
"HahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
His laugh echoed through the cave and Jack's mouth formed a smile.
As he looked down on where he burnt the slime there lied a small triangular blue gem.
"Are the gods making fun of me or what, a [Silver] rank body strengthening rune. Any rune drop from a slime is rare, but for it to be a rank higher than the monster is akin to winning the lottery 100 times."
"If I sold this I would have enough money to get by for a couple years."
He initially entered with the thought of dying, but now all he could think about is living and selling the rune. If he could manage to get out of the Window he would be able to afford a place to live and be able to find a job where he wouldn't need to use his pitiful powers.
"Well, at least I can kill a slime. No clue how long this cave will go on for, I should have read more about the Window before deciding to charge to my death."
He summoned another fireball and continued down the cave, this time with a steady jog. It took a few minutes before he came across another slime, but his luck had finally run out and it was two slimes.
If it had been two normal slimes it would have been fine, but one of the slimes had mutated into a blue slime. Blue Slimes are resistant to all types of magic runes like his [Lesser Fireball].
He didn't hesitate for to long and threw a fireball at the normal slime who was unable to dodge it and caught on fire. Jack thought that he had quickly disposed of the less problematic monster, but the blue slime just wrapped itself around the normal slime and extinguished the flames.
'There goes that plan. I'm going to have a hard fight ahead.'
Jack summoned another fireball this time he threw at the ground in front of the two slimes. His hope being that if he kept catching the normal slime on fire he would be make the blue slime give up on dealing with the flames and focus on him. He would not be able to win 2v1.
He continuously formed and threw fireballs. It was almost like a rapid fire cannon except it took 5 seconds to shoot each time.
The Blue Slime eventually moved in front of the normal slime and started to head for Jack. He used this opportunity to throw a fireball at the ceiling above the unprotected slime and managed to burn it quickly.
Without its partner the Blue Slime becomes around 1% easier to deal with. If he was able to used the weapon rune he would have been able to end this battle way before it started.
The slime jumped at him with quick speed and hit his arm, instantly the pain in his arm caused him to scream and tears filled his eyes.
"AHHHHHHAHHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH"
Before he could move the slime jumped again at his legs. It missed his leg, but some of the slime caught his pant leg and it disintegrated rapidly.
The slime that coated his arm continued to burn him and all that Jack could do was deal with the pain or burn it off. If he burned it the pain would stop, but he would end up with nasty burn scars all over his arm.
He chose the latter option and inflamed his arm. Quickly the pain of the slime faded away and was replaced by the burning of the fire.
He fell to the ground and rolled around to put the fire out. In the same moment the slime had dashed at his head which Jack luckily dodged with his attempt to put out the fire.
The fire was put out, but his arm was coated in burns and went numb. His right arm which was still intact was his dominant arm to begin with and allowed for him to still use the fireball, but he just didn't know how that would help to begin with seeing as his fireball didn't effect the slime.
Before Jack got back up the slime had already leaped into the was coming down on top of him with crushing speed. It took no time at all for his whole body to completely swallowed by the slime.
The pain made body go numb and before he passed out he could only think about the fact that this was his death before he heard a noise.
[Host Found]
[System Activating]