I said as I looked towards where the slimes were hiding.
As the slimes were watching me with Shared Senses, they should be able to tell that the Lesser Fire Dragon could be defeated with magic.
âItâs okay!â
âWe can win!â
It seemed like the slimes understood now.
And so they entered formation in order to search for monsters as usual.
I used âWater Dischargeâ to hunt down the monsters whenever a slime found one.
âŚHunting them like this might have made me anxious about the effect on the ecosystem, but I had checked in before coming here, and was told that I could hunt as many as I wanted.
If anything, it would have a negative effect if you didnât. And so the guild regularly hunted the Lesser Fire dragons until they were close to extinction.
I didnât know what the reason wasâŚbut the fact was that they recommended the hunting of them.
âThereâs one!â
âRight.â
And then I covered the monster with Water Discharge.
âGYAAAHHH!!!â
The Lesser Fire Dragon quickly lost its strength and fell.
It was a really easy huntâbut it would not have been the case without water magic with such high output.
Thinking about those people who carried dozens of liters of water up the mountain with buckets, it was no wonder that Lesser Fire Dragons had a reputation of being hard to kill.
âŚBut users of water magic would be able to make a lot of money.
I thought about these things as I continued to huntâand then I had an idea.
What if I didnât use water? Could I also kill the Lesser Fire Dragons by just lowering their body temperature?
âHey, do you mind if I test something?â
âI donât know what you mean, but okay!â
The slime consented to the experiment.
And so I used freezing magic and fired it at the Lesser Fire Dragon.
This seemed like it would be faster than cooling them with water.
âMagic TransferâArea Freeze Medium.â
I saidâand then the Lesser Fire Dragon convulsed for an instant.
Then it let out a short cry before falling down.
âGyaaaâŚâ
It was completely dead.
So, I was able to do it like this as well.
âOhhh!â
âItâs dead! So fast!â
The slimes shouted with joy when they saw that the Lesser Fire Dragon was dead.
And this method was a lot faster.
But⌠The magic depletion was also faster.
Actually, it was mostly because the depletion for water magic was ridiculously low.
What would really be easy was if I could blast them all at once with fire magicâŚ
âMagic TransferâFireball.â
I chanted. This time a fireball came out of the slime and hit the Lesser Fire Dragon.
Butâit had no effect at all.
The Lesser Fire Dragon didnât even look angry. In fact, it seemed to have not even noticed the attack.
Even if they were strong to fire, I had assumed that it would at least do some damage.
But it appeared to be true that they were strong to normal types of magic.
âAll right, experiment over. âŚI think itâs best that I just continue to use water magic.â
âWhhhaat! But what about the ice one?â
The slimes started raising their voices in disappointment.
They had really taken a liking to the Area Freeze method.
âThat one uses too much magic energy. Water Discharge is better.â
ââŚBut will you use it if it gets dangerous?â
âYeah.â
I wouldnât be stingy about MP if we were in a bad situation.
If the slimes were ever in danger, I would use Area Freeze without hesitation.
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