My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 9

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 9

Episode 9. Tower of Recording (3)

Hunt the slime.

What an easy mission this was.

And the number I had to catch was just one.

This was such an easy condition that it could replace the 1st floor of the Tutorial Tower.

“Come to think of it, there’s no way it would be an ordinary slime.”

Just look at the Bloody Mantis – I thought it was just a regular mantis.

Who would have thought it would have such a hard exoskeleton and gigantic size?

Considering that, there was a high possibility that this slime wasn’t an ordinary slime either.

“But this is strange.”

I had been seriously injured and wandered around the forest.

Yet strangely, I wasn’t tired at all.

“I clearly remember being quite tired when I returned home.”

Now I was surprisingly fine.

I wasn’t tired, nor was I hungry.

My body was annoyingly healthy.

At this rate, it seemed like I could continue climbing the Tower without any problems.

‘That aside, I’m a bit curious.’

Tower of Recording.

At first, I purely thought it was a place that would increase my compatibility rate.

But after reaching the 3rd floor, I began to wonder purely what the end of this Tower might be.

“Don’t tell me the top of the Tower is also a forest?”

Judging from what I’d seen so far, it was worth suspecting.

Nodding my head seriously, I stepped into the forest.

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Step, step.

Several hours had passed since I started walking through the forest.

Letting out a long sigh as I sat down on a rock, I frowned and glared at the empty air.

“Where the hell is this slime supposed to be?”

No matter how much I walked, I couldn’t see the slime.

No, to be precise.

“Squeak!”

I could see them.

I lightly kicked the slime rolling around at my feet.

An attack performed with my right foot, not my right hand.

Unable to withstand even such a light impact, the slime burst apart.

Even though I had dealt with another slime like that, the system still wasn’t sending me to the 4th floor.

“This is driving me crazy.”

I realized this after wandering around the forest for hours.

This place was a slime paradise.

Behind rocks, among flower beds.

Even up in the trees.

Wherever I turned my head, there were slimes, and I was dealing with them every time I encountered one.

Yet the ‘slime’ the system wanted still hadn’t appeared.

“What kind of slime is it that’s causing all this trouble?”

I caught my breath and quietly turned my gaze.

The forest where slimes were rolling around everywhere.

I even wondered if I had taken the wrong path.

But I soon dismissed such thoughts.

Why?

“They’re definitely increasing in number.”

The further I went forward, the more slimes began to appear.

The slimes that had rarely appeared at first were increasing in number as I progressed.

Look even now.

“Squeak?”

Another slime that had been rolling around bumped into my feet.

After watching them for two hours straight, I was getting attached to them, and it was starting to weigh on my conscience to kill these creatures that looked cute.

But I had no choice.

I had to survive too.

Closing my eyes tightly, I bent down and lightly flicked my right middle finger.

“Sorry.”

Pop!

The slime burst from a single flick.

Having sent another slime to the Lord with one shot… no, that’s not right.

Having sent another slime to the Black Dragon’s side with one shot, I turned my head again toward the direction where slimes were increasing.

“Let’s hurry.”

I wasn’t physically tired.

I was just mentally exhausted from encountering nothing but rolling slimes, trees, grass, and stones for two hours straight.

Getting up from the rock, I stepped toward the place where slimes were becoming more numerous.

As I headed toward the source where slimes were increasing, I was suddenly hit by a gust of wind and reflexively raised both arms to block my front.

My clothes fluttered in the wind.

In the strong wind that made it hard to even open my eyes, what faintly entered my vision was.

“Squeak!”

A black slime flying toward me.

And I reflexively.

“Squeal!”

Swatted it away with my right hand.

With a splat! sound, the black slime got embedded in a nearby tree.

Seeing the slime fluid spread widely, cold sweat trickled down my back.

“…”

Something was wrong.

Otherwise, the slimes that had been rolling around wouldn’t have all stopped their actions at once and started looking at me.

I could feel gazes from all directions.

Slimes were looking at me from all around.

The problem was that I couldn’t feel any emotions like malice or hatred from those gazes.

They were just, simply.

Just looking at me.

I carefully took a step back.

‘Hey. I dealt with it.’

I just caught that obviously unusual slime, didn’t I?

Then send me to the next floor right now.

What are you doing right now?

I shouted at the system in my mind.

But the system didn’t even give any response.

‘…Don’t tell me that one wasn’t it either?’

That guy who was obviously a different color?

I opened my eyes wide and looked at the slime.

The black slime that got hit by my hand and was no longer moving.

It looked unusual to anyone who saw it…

“…Squeak!”

Boing!

The Black Slime lifted its head up from among the mucus.

Soon after, the mucus that had been spread wide gathered in one place, returning to its original slime form as it had been flying.

It stared at me intently with its yellow eyes, then turned its body around.

Then it lightly bounced its body.

“Ugh!?”

With a tremendous gust of wind, it returned in the direction it had come from.

What the hell was that.

I stared blankly at the direction where the slime had disappeared for a moment.

What kind of slime moves that fast.

I didn’t understand much else, but one thing became clear.

“That’s the slime.”

That slime I just encountered is the one the Tower wants.

I can’t let it escape.

I immediately kicked off the ground and sprinted in the direction the slime had flown.

With each step forward, the number of slimes increased.

The more slimes there were, the more irritating the ground beneath my feet became.

Before I knew it, the surroundings had long been filled with trees.

The sky was blocked by densely packed leaves, making it impossible to see anything.

The surroundings had become dark like night.

As I continued running like that, I spotted light coming from far away.

The moment I reached that place.

“Crazy… what is this?”

I could only stand there dumbfounded with my jaw dropped.

I stared at something visible in the distance, my pupils trembling finely.

A massive black mass as large as a two-story building.

It stood still, constantly chewing with its mouth without rest.

And around such a creature, hundreds and thousands of slimes were surrounding it.

“Wait. What is that thing eating?”

Chomp.

The Giant Black Slime put something that the surrounding slimes had handed over into its mouth and began chewing.

I narrowed my eyes and stared intently at what the slime was eating.

“…Steel?”

Something glittering silver.

Besides that, whenever they brought various ores, the Giant Black Slime would gulp them down eagerly.

“What the hell.”

Do slimes eat ores?

The ones I encountered in the F-Rank Gate used to graze on grass.

“How strange.”

No matter how unknowable the world beyond the gates is, this is the first time I’ve seen something like this.

But that’s that and this is this.

The fact that I have to kill that thing to advance to the next floor doesn’t change.

I clenched my right hand tightly and took a step toward it.

As I moved forward, the slimes that had been blocking the way split to the left and right.

Then the slime that had been eating ores stopped eating and began staring at me.

Whoo.

I exhaled briefly and raised my right hand.

At the same time, bundles of tentacles burst forth from the Giant Black Slime’s entire body and began rushing toward me.

“Crazy…!”

Why is a slime shooting tentacles.

I frowned and kicked off the ground backward to dodge one tentacle that was stabbing down.

But that was just the beginning.

One, two…

Before I knew it, dozens of tentacles began rushing toward me simultaneously.

I can’t dodge them.

The moment I thought that, dozens of tentacles struck me.

“Hm?”

It didn’t hurt at all.

What the hell.

I tilted my head and touched the tentacle stuck in my side with my left hand.

It’s squishy.

Disgustingly bouncy.

“It doesn’t hurt at all.”

This is supposed to be an attack?

I tilted my head and looked at the Giant Black Slime.

It seemed momentarily confused, opening and closing its triangular mouth.

‘I guess it’s still a slime after all.’

I thought it might be dangerous because it was huge and a different color, but a slime is still a slime.

I chuckled and walked forward with big strides, throwing a punch at its body.

And.

“Huh?”

Nothing happened at all.

I opened my eyes wide.

I definitely felt the sensation of hitting the slime’s plump body with my fingertips.

But the slime was completely fine.

[Mist]

I must have unconsciously held back my strength thinking it was just a slime.

I repositioned myself and threw another punch at the slime.

And.

“…”

Again, nothing happened at all.

At this point, I had no choice but to realize.

I looked up at the slime that was looking down at me with a displeased expression, my pupils trembling finely.

The Guardian of the Tutorial Tower, the Bloody Mantis too.

They were all equal before the Black Dragon’s fist.

But this one.

This Giant Slime whose entire body was made of bouncy mucus.

“…My punches don’t work?”

The fact that it was an enemy immune to physical attacks.

This situation was completely unexpected, so I was flustered.

I thought it would be a slime as strong as the Bloody Mantis at most.

But a slime with no hostility that’s immune to physical attacks.

As I was racking my brain about what to do, I saw the slime’s mucus rippling in my field of vision.

“…Rippling?”

Its black mucous body rippled roughly.

The moment the rippling mucus settled down, a tentacle formed from its body.

“That’s my right arm-.”

The tentacle rushed toward me in a familiar form.

My instincts screamed.

Dangerous.

I have to block it right now.

I gritted my teeth and raised my right hand toward the trajectory of the incoming tentacle.

“…!”

I can’t believe it.

There’s no way.

Staggering backward, I looked at my right hand that was trembling violently.

My right hand that had blocked even the Bloody Mantis’s attacks.

That Black Dragon’s hand that had withstood even the Guardian of the Tutorial Tower’s attacks.

‘…It’s tingling?’

It was trembling finely from the pain.

I thought physical impact wouldn’t work on it.

But that wasn’t the case.

That thing.

The slime.

It could store physical impact in its body and release it back in reverse.

I gripped my still-tingling right hand with my left hand and raised my head to look at the slime.

It was looking down at me with an unreadable expression as I was pushed back by the impact.

“Squeak.”

Not a chance!

Was it just my imagination that the ordinary deflating sound the slime made sounded like that?

With my vision blurring, I bit down hard on the flesh inside my mouth to regain my focus.

[Synchronization Rate 1.4%]

The Giant Slime created multiple tentacles once again.

But perhaps it didn’t think I was that dangerous.

It was leisurely chewing and eating the ore that other slimes brought to it.

Looking at it, I twisted up one corner of my mouth crookedly.

‘Physical attacks don’t work on it?’

Then I just need to tear it apart, right?

I chuckled lowly in my throat and spread out my right hand.

Sharp claws were positioned at the tips of my fingers.

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