Overpowered Sword Chapter 23

Level up with swords (23)

The free city of Blaine is always busy.

The commotion caused by thousands, sometimes more than 10,000 people coming and going every day was beyond imagination. And the purposes of those who came to Blaine were truly diverse.

An adventurer trying to make a name for himself somehow.

A mercenary who came looking for an opportunity to make a fortune.

A merchant trying to make a fortune with rare goods.

An artist who wants to impress merchants from all over the world… . All kinds of people passed through the gates of the Free City with big dreams, but it was fortunate that only three out of a hundred people achieved their goal. Most people disappear without even a single letter of their name being remembered.

In some ways, it was a natural thing.

The more people there are, the easier it is to become famous, but the number of people with that goal also increases.

In particular, fame fades if it is not at its peak. Earning a reputation in Blaine was a more complicated goal than just grabbing a lot of money.

“Hey, ≪Cat≫!” “Are we going to subdue the Rat Man today as well?”

But someone who saw Leon waved his hand.

“That guy is ≪Cat≫? “You’re young.”

“What does age have to do with adventurers? All you need is enough skill. “I heard they build a mountain with rat man corpses every day.”

“Aha, so it’s ≪Cat≫? It suits you well.”

The adventurers gathered in the guild hall are talking about him. There were few negative reviews, and the majority of people were interested in a ‘different species’ that had appeared for the first time in a long time.

It was true that subjugating rat men would not attract anyone’s attention, but Leon’s case was an exception.

Blaine is a fairly large city.

Additionally, the size of the sewage facility is proportional to the size of the city. Ratman was like that too. The sewer overflowing with a large amount of sewage was like paradise to the Rat Man. If the subjugation had continued, the number of rat men had increased to an immeasurable level because adventurers were avoiding them so much.

In the ratmen’s paradise, an evil god named Leon appeared.

“How many animals did you kill in 10 days?”

When an adventurer who became curious about what he heard asked, another adventurer tilted his head and answered.

“Well, I stopped counting them after there were over a thousand.”

“They say they catch at least 200 a day. So you probably killed about 2,000 of them?”

“There must have been a pile of Ratman tails in the guild warehouse.”

Even though he was a rookie, it was a number that would give him a nickname.

If you catch 1,000 monsters of one type, you are often given the title ‘Slayer’, but because Ratman Slayer seems so rare, he is given the nickname ‘Cat’.

His tendency to wander alone rather than socialize with others also contributed to his nickname. Since they don’t aim for lucrative commissions, there’s no need to keep them in check, and they’re not competitors. It was natural that there were many people who mentioned it favorably.

thud!

When Leon put down the full sack as always, Rize was no longer surprised and weighed it.

14 kilograms.

It was still a ridiculous amount, but considering that it always exceeded 20 kilograms, it was a fairly small number. Rize said with a puzzled expression whether she thought so too.

“Are you writing something down today?”

“Yes, it wasn’t long before we found the Rat Man. The number of people who attack first has also decreased. “It looks like he was scared of me.”

“but… .”

Rize nodded as if she deserved it.

Even though Ratmen were stupid monsters, they were not unintelligent. It was natural for him to save his life as there was a being that slaughtered hundreds of animals every day. Even the cleaners complained that their backs would buckle while cleaning up Ratman’s corpse.

After receiving the money from selling the tail and the request fee, Leon spoke without turning around like usual.

“So, I’m looking into some other requests… .”

“Oh, you see! wait a minute.”

Before Rize finished speaking, Rize moved.

She took out the papers she had gathered in my desk drawer, picked out a few and handed them to him.

It was clear that it had been prepared in advance. Although he had heard that they would accommodate him, he had no expectations, but looking at Rize’s attitude, it seemed that it was not just a formality.

‘What do you think?’

Leon asked El Cid while looking through the documents. He wanted to select the most suitable requests for training.

There are four options given.

<Subjugation of Cave Kobolds>, <Submission of Rock Slime>, <Investigation of Abandoned Crypt and Subjugation of Undead>, <Submission of Living Armor in Abandoned House>. None of them made any money, and they were cumbersome requests to process.

[It would be okay to fight in a cave, but… The rest is good too. Subtract the fourth. Living Armor is still difficult to deal with. Because it is difficult to completely destroy plate armor without an Auror.]

‘Aren’t the undead okay?’

[It will be a good experience, but there is nothing to gain. If I use my power, it becomes too easy, and if I don’t use it, it becomes too difficult. Let’s go only after manifesting the aura.]

In the end, only <Cave Kobold> and <Rock Slime> remained.

El Cid pondered over the two options, and then chose <Rock Slime>. It may have been judged that it was more appropriate.

Leon accepted the choice without saying anything.

And when he chose the request form for <Rock Slime>, Rize nodded with a strange expression. I read the mouth muttering ‘as expected’, but I didn’t know what it meant.

‘Oh, the request is quite old.’

[I guess that means it’s a request that doesn’t go out that much. It would also mean that there was no need to update.]

‘The habitat is an underpass near the castle wall. Due to its tendency to gnaw away at stone, if left for a long period of time, it can have a negative impact on the durability of the castle wall. The client… ‘Is he Blaine’s guard?’

If so, there was no need to waste money or anything.

The request form has turned yellow because no one is already doing it, and if your credit rating drops, who will take on this request?

In other words, even though it was a request made by the garrison commander, no one took on it. There were records of disciplinary measures being imposed on adventurers who made mistakes, but no one volunteered.

‘It seems like a very tricky monster.’

Leon clicked his tongue and put the request in his arms. Ratman was pretty annoying, but he wasn’t as bad as rock slime. Still, I liked the fact that, unlike Ratmen, he could be defeated regardless of day or night.

“For now, let’s focus on <Rock Slime Suppression>. “If no one comes forward to do the rest of the requests, please leave them to me.”

“yes! “I’ll take care of it!”

“Then again next time.”

All business at the guild has been completed.

After leaving a short greeting to Rize, Leon began walking along the route indicated in the request.

They said it was near the castle wall, so it was quite far away.

He waves to the people who greet him and walks down a path that has become quite familiar to him over the past few days. The nickname ≪Cat≫ was a bit harsh, but it wasn’t a bad feeling to be recognized.

* * *

“<Rock Slime Subjugation>? “You haven’t even applied yet?”

“Is that possible?”

The guard who greeted Leon at the entrance to the underpass asked. In his experience, this cumbersome task required the direct urging of the garrison commander to attract a few unlucky bastards.

So the two argued for a while.

Because our opinions were so different, we thought the other person was mistaken.

Fortunately, the dispute was soon resolved. This was because the garrison commander who was passing by happened to spot the two.

“Oh oh! Are you that ≪Cat≫? “A new adventurer who cleaned out the rats in the sewer?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Hahaha! Excellent! There should be more adventurers like you. Those guys who only eat sweets and avoid bitter ones are adventurers, that’s ridiculous! “Isn’t that right?”

It was a difficult question to answer.

The garrison commander probably knew this too, so he didn’t respond and just patted Leon’s shoulder a few times.

“Then, please take good care of <Rock Slime Subjugation> as well. “If you get results, I’ll take care of it, so work hard.”

“Thank you for your concern, Captain.”

When the garrison commander, who had asked the soldiers to take good care of him, left, Leon was barely able to enter the underpass.

The inside of the underpass was as expected.

The damp air tickled my nose, and the lanterns hanging on the wall cast long shadows.

There was a musty smell, a mixture of dirt and moisture. Unlike sewers, there was no need to purify it with El Cid. It wasn’t difficult to breathe.

‘The ground is a little soft.’

It’s not at the level of mud, but it’s not hard either. If you are not conscious of the <step method>, your feet will slip a bit.

That too was no different from training.

Leon walked forward without leaving any footprints. You have to shift your center of gravity at the right time. If the knee is off by even an inch, excessive force is applied to the knee and optimal balance is lost.

‘Tch, it’s a lot harder than I thought.’

Even though the ground was only slightly soft, the difficulty level increased significantly. It is impossible to maintain this balance during combat.

His <Bobeop> was still only level 1.

I learned something in the narrow space of the sewer, but it wasn’t enough to take me to the next level. The fight in this underpass will become a stepping stone for that progress.

How many steps did we take like that?

‘there is.’

I saw something wandering out of the corner of my eye.

Rock Slime.

It is a target of subjugation. As soon as he recognized its existence, Leon’s consciousness sank. Suppress emotional fluctuations and direct all concentration to the organs necessary for battle.

[Three of them?]

Three, as El Cid said.

Leon’s eyes stared at the writhing figure. It wasn’t my first time seeing slime, but it was my first time seeing rock slime.

If it is like an ordinary slime, there is no reason for adventurers to avoid it. In order to find out the reason, Leon thoroughly examined the rock slime’s body with <Eye Method>.

[How do you understand?]

‘Roughly.’

I raised my sword while answering with my thoughts instead of my mouth.

Holy sword El Cid.

The blade, which never breaks and is sharper than any famous sword in the world, slashes at rock slime. There was no way that the soft-looking slime could withstand that.

Cough!

However, the holy sword dug into the guy’s body and bounced out with a loud noise.

The reaction was like hitting a rock.

“also.”

Leon, shaking off that repulsion, narrowed his eyes.

The purpose was to see through the obstacle hidden inside the rock slime, a round slime-like shape. Blocking the holy sword. There was something hidden in the cloudy mucus.

Leon soon recognized its identity and was impressed.

“… This is why it’s called ‘rock slime’!”

Slime’s representative weakness is its core. If you destroy the core at the center, whatever abilities you have will disappear.

However, the rock slime’s body contained countless pieces of stone, protecting its core like several layers of armor.

It was a very well thought out approach to the subject of monsters.

Ultimately, the defense power of the slime is that it can only be eaten by blunt weapons, so it is easily pierced by blades or arrows. That weakness was compensated for with stone fragments. It has become a monster that is difficult to deal with with cold weapons.

‘Indeed, it’s worth avoiding all adventurers.’

To easily subdue rock slime, you needed to know how to use an auror or a magic powerful enough to evaporate the slime.

It was a skill that was difficult to find in D rank.

Moreover, even if he used his skills to defeat the rock slime, the only material he could obtain was stone fragments. The garrison is also not a request worth paying a large amount of money for, so people have no choice but to ignore it.

Grumpy… Rolling… .

The slimes wriggle in response to Leon’s attack.

In general, slimes have two attack methods. Throwing the body and hitting it, or expelling digestive juices from the body.

But rock slime was neither.

The three slimes twitched for a moment, then shot out all the rocks contained within their bodies!

Pew pew pew pew!

Leon’s eyes widened at the sudden sling.