A giant slime was rampaging below them.
　The wizards who were nearby were fighting.

　But none of the magic they unleashed seemed to be working.
　On the contrary, the slime seems to be getting bigger every time it eats magic.

''Hyahahaha!　You're wasting your time!　Magic is counterproductive to that!　--Buggy?

　He plucked up the head of the messenger who was laughing loudly beside him.

''Idee-dee-dee?''
Hey, you know that slime thing?　Speak up.
Get the f*ck off me before I do.　No, let go of me, master.

　Matty told me with tears in his eyes.

''........That guy is the strongest and worst slime that is feared even in the demon world, Death. It's called the Gratney Slime, and it absorbs everything and anything that's possible and grows infinitely huge. Magic is no exception to this.

　It looks like he's eating magic, but he's actually eating magic.

'How do you defeat it?'
Sirimasen. Oh, it's true!　So don't try to grip it!

　Matty screams and struggles to escape from my hands.
　Then, as if remembering something.

'Keh, but I can't absorb physical attacks, so I guess I can handle that...'

　Oh, right, a physical attack.

　I take out my magic wand.

'No, no, no, I don't think that's going to work, right?　It'll just melt away easily, that's all. I'd rather he was dead....
Do you hear me, Matty?
What are you doing here?

　Hmm.
　It's true that this staff is not very reliable.
　If it's just a simple demon, a proper sword would be better to deal with that slime.

"A simple demon...?　You treat me, a high-ranking nobleman, like an equal demon........

　With Matty muttering something, I decided to use alchemy magic to create a sword on my own.
　This is a magical city, and it would be hard to find a sword even if I looked for one.

　The sword blade is slowly appearing.
　With a metal that wouldn't easily melt with that slime mucus, it would indeed take a little time.

　In the meantime, the deans of the academy had begun to engage the slime.
　All of them are [Highest Position] wizards.
　They are unleashing magic with a bang of power as expected.

　But it was completely counterproductive.
　More and more, the slime became huge, already almost double its original size.

　Apparently, they too had noticed the characteristics of that slime and stopped attacking and stood there aghast.

''Alright, it's done!''

　Finally, the sword is finished.
　It's not bad for the first time to make it by myself.
　The sensation of holding the sword feels good in my hand.

"No, stop!
'Oh no!

　Then I heard a loud scream from below.
　When I looked, I saw that the two deans had been caught by the slime tentacles and were about to be preyed upon.

　Bang!

　Kicking through the air and swooping down, I slice through two tentacles with my freshly made sword.

''Hm. You managed to cut them properly.''

　The trial slash was successful, and the severed tentacles waited in the air and blurred to the ground.

''Nah, nah........''
Oh, are you?

　The two freed deans are on their asses and look up at me as if they are stunned.

''What, why the sword...?''
You'd be better off staying away from that.

　I turn towards the slime.
　Since I have no sense of pain, I was unperturbed by the slashing of my tentacles.

''Mm?''

　I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
　The two tentacles that I had cut off seemed to have approached the main body while slumping on the ground, but they went straight back inside my body.

　There were no marks left.
　In other words, the body was completely restored to its original state.

I see. It's nasty. Then why don't we take it apart?

　The slime shoots out its tentacles and attacks me.
　I ducked it as I approached and slashed into its body.

''What's that body language!　I can hardly see any movement on my part!
Wow, me too...
''And he's slicing through a slime with a high level of physical resistance with his sword with such ease!
Isn't he a wizard?
'Body strengthening magic...?　No, that's not enough to get you there...

　If it's body strengthening magic, I didn't use it.
　It's not that I don't need to use it, but this is an excellent trick.

　The part you cut off will stick together quickly if you leave it intact, so I'll kick it away as far away as possible.
　I stole the skills of the Sword Fist Fighter in the City of Swords, so I'm reasonably confident in my kicking as well.

　The huge body of the slime was cut into pieces as I looked at it, and before I knew it, there were chunks of blubber lying everywhere.
　Each chunk was smaller than the size of a fist at most.

''As expected, if we shredded them to this size, they would have died.

　Wow, people around me cheered.

'That's awesome, dude!　He took down that giant slime all by himself!
'He's probably a famous swordsman!　I don't know why we're in a magical city!
No, I've seen you at our school.
Nonsense, you can't use a sword if you don't know how to use it.
Wait, isn't that guy the Triple Crown champion of flying?

　Such voices could be heard from all over the place.

　........but in the next moment, the cheers froze.

　The countlessly scattered masses on the ground began to move at once.
　They gathered in one place and then regained their huge bodies in a flash.

''Hm. You can't defeat it even with this?