I Found Tiny Dungeon That Can Only Produce Metal Slime

Chapter 92: AAA-class Monster

　――I feel my body is overflowing with power.

Yuuma started running as soon as he landed on the ground. He raised his pickel, and swung it down at the fallen Chimera with all his might.

The giant hammer landed right on the abdomen of the fallen monster. Blowing away the mist with its shockwave.

The Chimera, whose body got torn apart by Yuuma’s violent blow raised its cobra-like head, glaring angrily at Yuuma and then rushed at him as if wanting to swallow him whole.

Yuuma dodged the rush by jumping to the side, the Chimera whose attack missed crashed on the ground.

Yuuma gasped as he saw the gouged rock.

――As expected, there’s still so much difference between our powers. Nevertheless――

Yuuma closed in quickly and arrived right in front of the monster, and then unleashed a deadly blow to its head.

His blow created a huge dent on the steel-like surface, the scrapped scales were scattered around in the air.

The Chimera counterattacked with its countless javelin-like legs while raising agonizing roars.

But, Yuuma dodged every single one of the incoming javelin and cut off a few that were stuck on the ground with the gauntlet sword on his left arm.

As if that wasn’t enough, he raised his left hand, pointing all the fingers of his left hand to the Chimera.

His five fingers then stretched, turned into a long needle, and lodged into the Chimera’s body.

「Gotcha!」

He turned his fingers into thorns with a “Barbed” tip and then returned the length of his finger to normal after the tip lodged into the Chimera’s body. Yuuma’s body automatically pulled in toward the Chimera once he returned the length of his fingers to normal.

Once he held onto Chimera’s body, he pulled his fingers, and turned the sole of his feet, growing countless spikes that drilled into the Chimera’s body.

And just like that, he ran up along the Chimera’s body.

He stretched the length of the sword’s blade on his left arm and pierced into the giant monster’s body. And ran all the way up to the Chimera’s head.

The steel-like surface that got cut up by his sword scattered countless sparks.

The Chimera raised a wail and then glared at its opponent who was climbing up its body.

――It had never expected to be beaten black and blue by mere humans, eh!

As Yuuma reached the head of the Chimera, he deactivated his hand-transformed sword and gripped his pickel with both hands.

「EAT THIS SH*T!!」

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The red lines on his whole body were glowing even brighter. Yuuma swung down his pickel with all his might.

A loud explosion sound resounded in the entire floor as the head of his hammer nailed right on the head of the Chimera. That strike smashed its skin and broke its bone, the recoil caused Yuuma to stagger for a few seconds.

The Chimera’s body arched backward and then sank slowly on the floor.

It fell on the ground like a sack of potatoes… Raising a tremor and cloud of dust. And then, silence dominates the floor.

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「Look! Yuuma just did it. He beat that freaking monster!!」

Kanzaki who looked at the situation from a separate place shouted happily while looking at Aisha. And Yet, Aisha’s expression was the exact opposite of Kanzaki’s.

「What’s the matter? Aren’t you going to celebrate Yuuma’s victory?」

「… What a naive man. Look again carefully.」

「Eh?」

When Kanzaki looked back at the battlefield, a truly unbelievable spectacle spread before him.

「W-What… What the hell is that?」

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The broken body of the Chimera started melting, turning into something like black liquid. That liquid then started moving as if it had its own life, and returned to the form of the Chimera.

The Chimera’s body that took in that liquid was then restored in the blink of an eye.

「O-Oi, are you telling me that is what I think right now!?」

「Yes… It’s said that the physical attack didn’t work on the monster on the deep floor, naturally, you also know the reason for that right? I’m talking about that.」

After all the liquid that returned back, the Chimera raised its head again.

There, the monster was back in perfect condition without even a single scratch on its skin.

「Something that all monster from the deep floor has, the 【Super Recovery】, and the only way to disturb that is by using “Magic”.」

「B-But, this is the damn 『Black Dungeon』!」

Aisha nodded at Kanzaki.

「Yes, many monsters in black dungeons have tough outer shells, it is said that monsters with self-recovery are rare even in the deep floor. Unfortunately, that guy is among that rare one.」

「No way…」

Kanzaki’s expression turned 180 degrees. If such a powerful monster had self-recovery ability, then Yuuma wouldn’t be able to defeat that monster.

And yet, the moment Kanzaki thought so, he noticed something else.

「W-Wait a minute! That monster’s body was restored like liquid metal. Isn’t that the same ability as Yuuma’s “Liquid Metal”?」

「It might be a different ability… Or something closer to liquid metal.」

「If that’s the case, Yuuma should be able to use “Super Recovery” too ain’t it!?」

Kanzaki spoke as if trying to find hope but Aisha just shook her head weakly.

「That’s impossible. I’ve never heard the story about the metal slime recovered from Yuuma-kun. It might have different characteristics.」

「Different characteristic?」

「The metal slime has an extremely hard shell but it has no ability to restore itself. Contrary to that, the Chimera might be less tough than metal slime but it has “Super Recovery” ability. This is a special trait of this monster.」

「Does that mean Yuuma won’t be able to recover once he got injured?」

「Yeah. He is unscathed right now since he uses 『Metallization』 but, that’s only a matter of time. Once his ability is on cooldown, the Chimera can kill him in one hit.」

「The heck! That’s absurd.」

「Moreover, if a Chimera’s true body is of liquid metal, they can adjust their form in accordance with their enemy. This is the most terrifying thing about this monster.」

「How can you still say those words with a calm face? Yuuma’s life is in danger!!」

Kanzaki looked at Yuuma with a desperate expression.

Yuuma, clad in metal armor heaved a deep sigh as he readied his giant hammer and put on his metal armor standing still in front of the giant monster.