Chapter 435: Descent of the Phoenix
Iridescent colours spread over the expanding slime. The colours shift to warm shades as the slime swells up to become a bright red bird. From the bird’s neck, a human’s upper body sprouts in place of a head.
…This is probably the original owner of [Life Mana], the borrowed form of the [Fallen Phoenix]. B-but, the slime had to have defeated the phoenix that owned [Life Mana]. In other words, there must be a weakness to this skill. If I can find that and use it…!
“…It’s pitiful, God-sama said. It seems I really am a special individual in this world. In exchange for gaining [Life Mana] on evolution, the phoenix has an extremely low HP for an A rank – that was its weakness. Even so, it was annoyingly tenacious. But you see, among all the different kinds of monsters, only I have no weaknesses. That’s because only I am nonstandard, only I am the monster that God-sama desired, only I defy the rules of this world.”
Behind the slime, four bright red wings spread out. Simultaneously dark red flames shoot from the wings. The space behind the flames seems to warp from the haze of their extreme heat.
S-sorry… Lilixira, it doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to win. Or was I meant to be a sacrificed piece?
I step back reflexively. The damage from the repeated [Dark Spheres] is too heavy. I can’t fly properly since one of my wings got blasted off, and part of my arm is missing. A large portion of my partner’s neck has been gouged out, and blood is flowing out.
The slime walks towards me, one step at a time, slowly pointing its fingers at me. Our eyes meet. The moment I try and flee, it’ll attack.
『H-hey, don’t give up! There's got to be something!』
Right, there has to be something. If [Life Mana] really was a no-weakness skill produced by the slime’s cheat ability, it would be strange for it not to have used it from the start. It could have blasted indiscriminate [Dragoflares] to kill me without ever getting close. The chamber might have collapsed, but I’m sure it would have been able to get away. So then I’m certain it’s not an omnipotent skill.