Witch Special

Against such a dense enemy population, using ordinary magic was clearly inadequate. While individually weak, their sheer numbers were unbelievably vast. The wall Lin Zhenxi faced alone was infested with tens of thousands of eye barnacles. If all the walls of the Scarlet Devil Mansion ruins were covered in these barnacles, their total number would likely be in the tens of millions.

Lin Zhenxi took stock of his magic and found that none of it seemed to be able to deal with such a large number of enemies.

Wait, if normal magic doesn't work, why not start with other types of magic?

Since the opponent's only advantage is numbers, let's consider solutions specifically from the perspective of numbers.

Quantity... quantity...

Lin Zhenxi felt that he seemed to have a solution.

She first threw a flaming fireball onto the ground, burning away the dark layer of something unknown, revealing fresh, moist soil beneath. Then, Lin Zhenxi inserted a Burning Rain Pillar into the ground as a source of magic power. With this endless supply of magic power, Lin Zhenxi drew a slime-summoning magic circle nearby and connected the magic flow.

Thus, a simple assembly line that continuously produces slime was completed.

Moreover, the slime that emerged from this magic circle was a modified species. Its body changed from gelatinous to flowing water, and its mobility and attack power far exceeded the original.

The order Lin Zhenxi gave to these flowing slimes was very simple, which was to devour all the barnacles on this small island. Then he simply drew a range of movement for them and let the slimes do the rest freely.

After receiving the order, the flowing slimes did not hesitate at all. They catapulted themselves onto the wall of the ruins and firmly adhered to the surface of the barnacles.

The ensuing battle took place entirely within the water slime's body. It was clear that the barnacles were more than just scary; facing the water slime's attack, they extended a large number of long, thin tentacles from their shells and waved them wildly.

If a person approached these barnacles, they might be entangled by their tentacles, or even have them burrow into their bodies, sucking flesh and blood and parasitizing them, with disastrous consequences. Unfortunately, their current opponents were slimes, which barely even met the definition of living things. The tentacles swayed around in the slimes, but could not grab anything.

The slimes, on the other hand, were attacking directly at the barnacle's vital points. Since they were water currents themselves, they could naturally slide directly down the barnacle's shell into the deepest part, then harden and push up, prying the barnacle's flesh out of the shell in a very abrupt manner.

Then, fleshy balls covered with tentacles appeared inside the water slime. Each of these fleshy balls was the size of a walnut, and the eye that Lin Zhenxi had seen before grew on one of their sides, and on the back of the eye was a mouth full of sharp teeth.

These meat balls did not stay in the body of the flowing slime for long. The inside of the flowing slime was filled with sharp and rapidly flowing water knives. The meat balls, without the protection of their hard shells, were very soft and fragile. After entering the body of the flowing slime, they were minced into meat paste in almost the blink of an eye, and then excreted from the body of the flowing slime as impurities and waste, becoming a sticky puddle on the ground.

As the number of flowing slimes increased, the speed of clearing the eye barnacles from the wall became faster and faster. After all, slimes are relatively low-level magical creatures, and Lin Zhenxi can summon a large number of them at once. Moreover, this time she used magic circles and the Pillar of Burning Rain to summon these slimes, and didn't even sign a contract with them. Fortunately, these slimes are quite stupid; if she had summoned some disobedient creatures, they would probably have run away by now.

Although the number of water slimes is still insignificant compared to the total number of barnacles, they can still clear a large area. Moreover, the water slime's deformation ability is even stronger than that of ordinary slimes. Simply stick it on the wall and it will become a huge pancake. After a while, all the barnacles in that area will be pulled out and crushed. Then the water slime will move to another place and continue the operation.

In this repetitive cycle, the once frightening barnacles vanished at a visible speed, leaving only a large patch of sharp-edged barnacle shells clinging to the wall. Although still densely packed, the visual impact and sense of oppression they brought to others were much less significant.

I always feel that with the disappearance of the eyeball filling the inside, these barnacles seem to be missing something and become less scary.

Anyway, Lin Zhenxi no longer feels scared when she looks at those barnacle shells.

They're just some barnacles, nothing to be afraid of.

The summoning magic circle continued to produce a steady stream of clear water slimes, with one popping out every few seconds. However, if they were just clearing the barnacles from the Scarlet Devil Mansion ruins, the existing slimes seemed more than enough, and summoning more didn't seem to be very useful.

But it seems that the enemies that Lin Zhenxi needs to deal with are not just these barnacles stuck in various corners and crevices on the walls, ceiling, floor and the ground?

Lin Zhenxi almost immediately thought of the giant tentacle he had seen in the Mist Lake. It was certain that there were enemies in the Mist Lake as well. Unable to adapt to the underwater combat environment, Lin Zhenxi had previously led his puppet army away from the surface of the Mist Lake.

So, is there anything more suitable for underwater combat than the water slime, a creature composed entirely of a magic core and water?

Hmm... we still have to consider the issue of contamination. Slimes have a very unstable life form, otherwise there wouldn't be so many subspecies. Chaos is known for its ability to pollute and corrode. If slimes were placed in a body of water that's been thoroughly corrupted by chaos, who knows what they would mutate into.

We have to fix the current appearance of the slimes, and let them self-destruct if they become deformed, otherwise they will become aids to the enemy.

So Lin Zhenxi needs a magic to monitor the degree of slime distortion.

But then, Lin Zhenxi realized that she didn't need to go to such lengths. The composition of the water slime was very simple: a magic core and the water surrounding it. The key part was the magic core, not the external water that made up its body. So, Lin Zhenxi only needed to add a water-generating spell to the water slime's magic core, and it would be able to produce the water it needed to form its own body, without having to absorb polluted water from outside.

Moreover, running water itself also has a purifying effect. As long as Lin Zhenxi continues to wrap the magic core with clear running water, the pollution of the magic core can be greatly reduced, and it may even keep the magic core clean.

The next step is to set up a self-destruct mechanism. Once the magic core becomes contaminated and begins to distort, the magic core will be exploded immediately to eliminate future troubles.

This step wasn't difficult. After all, the slime's magic core was simple, with plenty of free space for transformation. This was perhaps the reason why this type of creature was so unstable. Lin Zhenxi quickly completed the transformation of a flowing slime's core, then deactivated the magic circle that summoned the slime and replaced it with the magic circle that nurtured it.

Slimes can, of course, be bred artificially, and this is much simpler than any other farming method. All you need to do is feed them enough magic power, and once they're full, they'll divide and multiply. While this is a last resort when you're unprepared, it's not completely unusable.

Lin Zhenxi placed the water slime he had modified into the magic circle, and then increased the magic concentration of the magic circle. The slime continuously devoured the scattered magic in the environment, its body constantly expanding, and the magic core in its body also visibly increased several times in size.

Then, starting from the splitting of the magic core into two, the slime began the process of self-splitting, and soon turned into two completely identical slimes, and began to repeat the process.

After all, it is exponential growth, so the speed at which it occurs is not too slow. It just takes some time to develop.

Lin Zhenxi didn't bother with this place anymore. She set up a fence around the magic circle. If the slimes inside exceeded the fence and fell out of the magic circle, they would slide down a slide into the nearby misty lake. Then, they were free to do whatever they wanted. Lin Zhenxi didn't give them any specific instructions, just let them attack anything underwater.

The instructions were too complicated for Slime to understand with his single-digit IQ, but that wasn't a big problem. As long as he could execute the sacred F2A, that was enough.

Then Lin Zhenxi brought his puppet soldiers into the ruins of the Scarlet Devil Mansion that had been cleared by the flowing slime and began to clear out the enemies in the ruins.

Slimes are actually quite a rogue life form, as their entire bodies can be separated and reassembled at will, and as long as their magic core is not destroyed, they will not die. This gives them a strong resistance to all types of attacks, especially physical attacks, to which they are almost completely immune.

Unfortunately, the enemies inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion seem to rely mainly on physical attacks.

So when Hayashi Maki went deeper into the Scarlet Devil Mansion, she saw some very funny scenes.