These Familiars Are Strange

There was plenty of loot that dropped, the only problem was that none of them was anything good.

The way that dungeons worked was that after a monster was killed, the corpse of the monster would disappear after a certain amount of time and would be replaced with loot.

This loot would be related to the type of monster that was killed.

So in this case, the loot that was dropped by the slimes were small magic cores that all monsters dropped and what seemed to be bottles of acid.

These bottles of acid were made from the acid that came from the slimes, so they were quite corrosive. It was just that this kind of acid could be synthesized in other places, so there was no large market for this acid.

It was sold for a cheap price since it was a product that had plenty of alternatives.

Still, money was money.

After thinking about it, I said, "Get some of them to start carrying the loot over as well."

The Echo Bat once again gave a nod before letting out a screech.

Some of the slimes immediately reacted and started picking up the cores and bottles of acid that were on the ground. They were able to bring it over without a problem, it was just that I couldn't take it directly from them.

So they had to create a pile in front of me for me to pick up the loot.

It took no time at all for me to fill up the bag that I had brought.

It even took no time at all for me to fill up the back up bags that I brought.

I didn't think that there would be this many monsters here, but it seemed that this Slime Hole dungeon had been ignored for a while, so there were too many slimes to count here. 

Even if I continued to kill these slimes, there really was no way for me to bring all of the loot back with me.

After filling up all of the bags that I brought with me, I just looked at the pile of loot that was still in front of me before saying, "Alright, you can bring them…"

Before I could finish telling the Echo Bat to bring all the slime back, I felt something coming from under me.

It was a tremble.

The ground itself seemed to be shaking under me, as if there was something big that was coming.

All of a sudden, there was a large mass that suddenly came out of the ground in front of me.

It was so large that it sent several of the slimes that were already there flying, but it was a good thing that these slimes were all slimes that I controlled. So it was easy for me to get these slimes to harmlessly fall beside me instead of falling onto me.

I also took several steps back since this large mass was just too big.

When the large mass finished seeping out of the ground, it revealed its true appearance.

It was a slime, but it wasn't just any slime.

This was a slime that was far bigger than any of the slimes that had appeared thus far.

This was a slime that was clearly on a higher level than all of the other slimes.

This was a King Slime.

It was the boss of this dungeon.

I didn't think that I had killed enough slimes that it would summon the boss monster of this dungeon, but thinking about it…it seemed like that I had indeed killed quite a few slimes.

The proof of that was the pile of loot that was on the ground near me.

After this King Slime appeared, it didn't seem like it was going to do anything.

It just stood there as if it was in a daze.

It just stood there as if it was waiting to be activated.

It really seemed like the King Slime wasn't planning on doing anything.

When I saw this, there was a part of me that thought about just leaving the King Slime alone.

But that thought didn't last long as the King Slime suddenly moved.

It trembled once before squishing its body together.

The way that the King Slime did this, it was almost as if it was compressing its body to do something.

The response came soon after.

Once it finished compressing, the King Slime released that compression and flew into the air. 

It suddenly jumped up and it just as suddenly came down. 

The King Slime was planning on crushing me with this slam.

I quickly dodged out of the way while saying, "Attack."

As soon as this order was given, the slimes that had been idle suddenly started attacking the King Slime from different angles. They didn't hold back at all as they rained down acid splashes at the King Slime.

Unfortunately, it didn't seem like any of those splashes of acid did anything to the King Slime.

Then there were some slimes that jumped and body slammed the King Slime after it landed, but they just bounced right off the King Slime's body.

It didn't seem like the King Slime took any damage with the way that they harmlessly bounced off the King Slime's body.

It really didn't seem like the slimes were able to do anything to the King Slime.

"As expected of the dungeon boss." I said to myself before giving another order to the Echo Bat.

The King Slime ignored the slimes that were attacking it and seemed to focus only on me. It compressed itself once more and jumped up to slam down on me again, but I quickly dodged out of the way once more.

Using the slimes, I was able to slow down the King Slime a bit and dodge out of the way of the King Slime's attacks.

That was until…

I suddenly dodged out of the way and the King Slime fell down into the hole that was where I was standing.