Just a short one shot story idea I had for Reincarnated as a Slime. I do not currently have any plans of carrying this story on. This story uses four completely oc characters with slight mentions of characters in the show/light novel.
With that, Thank you to whoever may decide to read this story.
xxxTaking on the Dungeon of Tempestxxx
Me and my group were currently on the forty-ninth floor of the Tempest Labyrinth. I am a tall and quite skinny hobgoblin named Goberson. While I was skinny and didn't look like much to the eye, I was able to wield a sword with a level of expertise that had been drilled into me by my teacher, Gobta from my days in the tempest military.
For our defense we have an orc named Skorn, who towered over all of us. He always wore a full plate of armor with a giant shield, He was always able to take a punch from anyone or anything that we have come across. But while being great for our defense he was also able to give a punch right back that always seemed to hit ten times harder than the first attack. Personally, I think it is some kind of skill he has, but he won't confirm or deny anything when I ask him.
And our other main front-line attacker that helps to divide the enemy and separate them, was a dwarf that always wielded an ax in battle. He goes by the name of Mamnad. He was quite aggressive, always ready to pick a fight with anyone with a drop of a hat, but once you get to know him, you learn fast that he is really just a small teddy bear.
Finally, we have my closest friend since we met in school together when we were both kids, an average sized human man by the name of Yasuki. He was always mild-mannered, always going out of his way to try and aid those in need no matter the burden it brought to himself. Even taking up the effort to learn medicine and medical magic.
While some may say he was the weakest out of our group because he was the only human in our group, he was the most crucial part of our group and the reason why the four of us formed this adventure group in the first place. He also played as our de facto leader of the group. Coming up with strategies to take down the monsters in the labyrinth halls, as well as the bosses that were located every ten floors.
Currently we are running away from a massive sized slime that was chasing after us. While slimes in of themselves wouldn't pose too much of a threat to us, these ones that were thought of by our glorious leader the Demon Lord Rimaru a slime himself really knew how to make them into an actual threat.
Our main line of attacks wouldn't work as the giant slime that was currently chasing Mamnad and I. Both of our weapons would just bounce off the slime.
So, currently the two of us were running away from the slime that was moving far faster than a slime should be moving. Using the maze-like structure of the labyrinth that we had mapped out.
Mamnad jumped in hitting the slime with his ax, bouncing off it of course, before taking off running down the hall giving me the opportunity to duck around one of the corners to catch my breath.
Looking around as the slime took off full speed chasing down Mamnad. "Good now for the final stretch." Giving one last glance at the map of the floor we had drawn out, taking off down the hall for my final interception of the slime before Yasuki's trap would be set.
Getting into my final position, my sword out, as I stood silently at the corner where I would strike at the slime to have it start to chase me once again. As I watched Mamnad run past me at the intersection, I stuck out with my sword, as it bounced off the slime's body, I took off down the hall.
Looking back as the slime began to chase after me. A strained smile on my face as I turned right down a passageway and saw Skorn giving me a thumbs up before covering himself up with a magic suppressing sheat to prevent the slime from being able to use magic sense to see him.
As I ran past the corner a hand reached out from the other side of the corner pulling me out of the passageway, throwing on the extra magic suppression sheet that we had over me.
An excited voice rang whispering to me, "Great job Goberson, you and Mamnad did a great job leading the slime here, now it's all up to if Skorn is able to punch it hard enough into the dead end that it will destroy the slime fully."
Giving him a reassuring smile, before I remembered I was covered up and he wouldn't be able to see me, "If anyone can pack that kind of punch it would be Skorn, he's got this!"
As the slime passed us, by quickly clearly confused looking for me, a powerful blow forced a powerful air pressure that caused both Yasuki and I to fall to the ground.
Peaking around the corner to see Skorn Standing over the remeanents of the slime that was now covering the walls and floor. A wide smile lies on his face, as he turns over towards us. His deep and gruff voice spoke out, "It seems I might have over done that punch."
Sure enough, looking to the front of the wall that the slime had made contact with, the powerful air pressure from the punch had created a giant hole into the wall that had begun to slowly fix itself.
"My goodness Skorn that was quite the punch you had there." Came the gruff and deep voice walking up behind him. "Ah, Mamnad it was nothing Yasuki helped out a lot with getting my punch to that level it was."
Both Yasuki and I came around the corner saying at the same time ""Great job taking out that slime Skorn"" While I stood there with a smile Yasuki continued the happiness of the plan's success being heard clearly from his voice. "Now that the slime is no longer a threat to us, I think it is time to head to the stairs down and get some rest for the fight tomorrow!"
Coming to a set of stairs leading down to the fiftieth floor of the labyrinth, there was also a door next to it labeled inn. Opening it up and walking through the interesting into a bustling and busy city that was called Labyrinth city.
It was full of trees and an always beautiful blue sky above. The weather was always the perfect temperature. While you may at first think you were taking somewhere outside of the dungeon you are still technically inside of the labyrinth. Still under the fall control of the great Demon Lord Ramiris and her rims. Sometimes, you can see her just flying around the city causing havoc for the residents that called Labyrinth city their home.
Making our way into the tavern that our small group will be staying, one that was more upscale and quite a bit more expensive than what you would see on the surface, but the amenities weren't lacking and the convenience of having ease of access to food, water and comfort all but made the price worth it.
As we entered the tavern, we were assaulted by the loud cheering that came through the room. Up in several places were TVs playing live clips of willing participants adventures in the labyrinth. And up one of the screens was a replay of our fight with the giant slime.
Our group walked over to one of the tables, waving at the hosties an extremely beautiful elf. Our rooms were already paid for, a month in advance, so we took our seats at one of the empty tables and waited for one of the waitresses to take our order.
After taking our order and getting our food brought to us, Yasuki spoke up, interrupting a conversation between Skorn and Mamnad.
Clearing his throat "I think we should come up with a plan for how we will take out the boss on floor fifty, and sense we won't know which one of the two we will get before we enter the battle arena, I think it will be best to come up with a counter to both of their fighting styles.
Spending the next few hours eating and drinking, we were working on our plans to fight against Gazul and Mazul. Once we were all satisfied with our battle plan, we went to bed for the night to get the needed rest to win tomorrow.
It was the next day, and we had excited the labyrinth city, back through the door that dropped us off at the stairs that would lead us to the battle. Yasuki gave us all one last look, screaming out in excitement, "We have prepared for this! We have a strategy that will surely work out for us! Now let us do this!"
Skorn, Manman and I all yelled out in excitement as we made our way down the stairs to an imposing door. Opening it up and walking through the door.
Standing in the center of a large open arena was a large humanoid horse with a dark mane. Chains wrapped around his neck. "I whispered to Yasuki as we walked in. "Ah it seems we got Mezul."
Nodding his head at my comment, the Horse spoke up. "Welcome Challengers to my domain that I co-reign over with Gozul! Today, I'll be your challenger! Come at me with whatever you have!"
With that Mezul took off running towards us quickly slicing his sword at us. Thankfully Skorn's quick reaction was able to lift his shield and successfully defended us from the incoming attack.
Mamnad, using the opportunity, ran around Skorn holding his ax firmly as he brought it down quickly, forcing Mazul to jump back towards the center of the arena avoiding taking damage.
Yasuki cast a defensive buff spell on us, as he quickly shouted out orders in a coded language that we had come up with to be able to effectively give out commands to each other without giving away our plans.
Me and Mamnad were currently going back and forth keeping Mezul distracted with our attacks hitting Mezul one after another. Continuing to guide him to a position that was directed to us by Yasuki.
Once in position, Skorn would jump in quickly slamming his fist towards Mezul, but Mezul's quick speed was able to continuously dodge all our attacks, while delivering a brutal blow to Skorn each hit.
But with our constant bombardment of attacks on Mezul we have for the most part sense the fight had begun, and we have managed to keep him on the defensive. But we still couldn't land a single hit on him.
Half an hour into the battle, as I was about to swing my sword down on Mezul, he jumped out of our way, and sprinted off towards Yasuki unopposed of Mamnad who was waiting for him to chase him towards him.
"Crap, he figured out our plan?!" I shouted out in shock, as I started chasing after the faster Mezul. As he beared down his weapon towards Yasuki, who had casted a defensive barrier that would only at best spare his life but wouldn't stop the injuries that were sure to come from the swing.
Yasuki closed his eyes, stiffing up bracing for the impact of the strong iron sword that was coming down towards him, I was still too far away from them to stop the attack.
Coming to a stop running I began to smirk, as a loud booming sound bursted past my ears. Fighting to stand up against the pressure of the air. Over the knocked down body of Mezul, was Skorn using his powerful legs to keep him down.
"What?! How!" Mezul screamed out of shock at being beaten, finally giving up his struggle to escape from being pinned down.
"It was all Yasuki's plan," Came the reply of a gruff but happy voice of Mamnad. Coming up behind Mezul holding his ax just over the back of his neck reading to cut his head off.
Kneeling so, Yasuki could look Mezul in the eyes, "You see we knew that you would be faster than all four of us. So, we used a three-prong attack, Goberson would be there to strike with his sword to keep you away from us, while Mamnad would wait by, where you were being pushed to add pressure on you. Finally, Skorn would jump in to play as if he was attacking only to purposefully take a hit from you. Once he built in enough, we created this fake opening to me, knowing you would try and take out me as the leader of the group giving out the command."
"Damn, congrats on beating me." Came the cold voice of Mezul who was disappointed in the clear defeat before Mamnad lifted uhis ax and cut straight through Mezul's neck decapitating him completely. His corpse vanishes quickly to bring him back for the next competitor.
In the center of the arena a golden chest appeared shining bright going over having Yasuki opened up the chest, inside there was a legendary sword made from the finest Magisteal. Two holes were drilled into the handle of the sword.
Handing it over to me to examine, I smiled brightly at my new sword. Pulling out an orb that we had found in one of the previous floors slotting it into the sword. The power coursed through the blade as I swung it. A line of fire burst through the air of the arena.
"That is a mighty fine sword you have now Goberson, congrats." Came the excited voice of Mamnad as he looked at the masterfully crafted sword. While not being a blacksmith himself he still had a keen eye for telling apart the weapons we picked up. It really did save us a ton of money on having to get our gear appraised.
"Way to go everyone! We have defeated Mezul and can now pass through floor fifty! What say we head to the inn and celebrate our victory!" Yasuki yelled out in excitement with the rest of us all cheering on in unison. Heading to the door for the inn. All of us were talking amongst ourselves in excited chatter.