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‘My mom told me not to go close to strange leaves!’

 

I see. So there were monsters that trapped slimes.

They got evaporated by Lesser Fire Dragons and trapped by others—life as a slime could be hard, it seemed.

 

As I mused over that—a giant dark shadow appeared in the water.

It was the same shape as the Maneater Bass I had seen at the guild.

 

‘A monster!’

 

‘It took the bait!’

 

It seemed to be going well.

I should have done this in the first place.

 

I wouldn’t even have to transfer magic at this distance.

Still, magic involving bullets seemed like they wouldn’t reach it…

 

“Area Freeze–Medium.”

 

I chanted. And then a giants sphere of ice grew in the area that the shadow had been.

The river water within the area of effect had all turned into ice.

 

So now I knew that the area of effect for Area Freeze was a nice sphere.

 

And with that thought, I pulled out the sphere of ice from the water.

 

“All right, mission accomplished.”

 

That being said, I couldn’t bring the entire block of ice with me.

I had to break it somehow…

 

It was while I was thinking this, that cracks started to appear on the block of ice.

 

“Huh?”

 

Perhaps it would just break naturally.

I thought hopefully—and then the cracks began to spread.

 

Then there was a loud cracking sound, and then the block of ice cracked in half completely—and the Maneater Bass jumped out.

 

‘It’s alive!’

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