kamero: “The Slime drops… interesting.”
He fell into thought for a moment.
Kamero: “We should head there immediately.”
Hitori: “I have absolutely no idea what the two of you are talking about.”
Yashina: “I’ll explain.”
The three adventurers left the Guild Center and walked through the streets of Elvrin.
Yashina: “There’s a shop in Elvrin that buys Slime materials, from slime goo to Slime cores.”
Crossing a bridge, she continued.
Yashina: “The place we’re heading to has a high Slime respawn rate. Many guilds hunt there. It’s a dangerous area because we don’t have the protection of a guild yet. We could easily be attacked just like…”
She stopped mid-sentence.
Hitori: “Like what happened to me because of your friends in the cave.”
Yashina: “Like what happened between my former companions and you…”
Kamero: “Now I understand that commotion at the Guild Center.”
Hitori: “Only now?”
Yashina: “Anyway… we’re here.”
Location: Lake Surrounding the Slime Dungeon
Yashina: “Hitori, pay close attention.”
She pulled out a document.
Yashina: “There are five types of Slimes in this area.”
Water Slimes
They drop slime goo that can be sold for 100 gold coins per kilogram.
Grass Slimes
They drop ingredients used for healing potions, though they have little market value.
Electric Slimes
They drop Electric Cores worth 1,000 gold coins each.
They’re difficult to defeat and reside in the underground sections.
Lava Slimes
Highly dangerous.
They drop Magma Cores, which can be used to enhance weapons.
Depending on their size, they can be sold for up to 10,000 gold coins.
Stone Slimes
The most common type in the area.
They drop minerals, common or rare, depending on luck.
The higher the quality of the ore, the more money it sells for.
Kamero: “Our focus will be the Water and Stone Slimes.”
He complemented Yashina’s explanation.
Kamero: “They are the most common around here. However, we have plenty of competition, so we’ll have to split up. Since we’re not officially a guild, our points are all individual.”
Yashina: “Exactly.”
Yashina: “We can’t stay together. Otherwise, the system will detect unauthorized association and penalize us inside the starting city.”
Hitori: “Got it. Doesn’t sound that hard.”
Kamero: “Indeed.”
Kamero: “The troublesome part is how much time crafting everything takes.”
Yashina: “Let’s get started before this place fills up with adventurers.”
She put the paper away.
Kamero: “Since we’ll be working together, I need to know your abilities.”
Kamero: “My class is Mage. I wield Ice Magic.”
Yashina: “I’m a Paladin.”
Yashina: “My power revolves around Crystals of Light.”
Hitori: “I don’t really understand my class, but I guess I’m an Assassin.”
Hitori: “I can create Black Spheres and throw them…”
Hitori: “That’s all I’ve figured out so far.”
Kamero: “Unlike Yashina, we’re not very high-level.”
He glanced at Hitori.
Kamero: “Especially you.”
Kamero: “We have to be careful.”
Yashina: “Hitori, we’ll head toward the dungeon entrance. That’s where the Slimes with better mineral drops usually appear.”
Hitori: “Alright.”
Kamero: “My abilities work best against Water Slimes.”
He observed the lake.
Kamero: “See you two at the exit.”
Yashina: “Right.”
Drawing her dagger, she smiled.
Yashina: “Let’s go, Hitori.”
Hitori: “They seem awfully worried.”
He thought to himself.
Yashina: “Just as I expected.”
Yashina: “Other players are already here.”
Hitori: “Looks like they’re having trouble with the Slimes.”
Yashina: “They’re low-level players.”
Yashina: “Stay close to me.”
Yashina: “Don’t leave my sight.”
Four crystals of light appeared around her.
Yashina: “Luminescence!”
Four beams of light shot out from the crystals and pierced the Slimes.
The nearby players were startled and quickly moved elsewhere.
Hitori: “Wow…”
Hitori: “If I were them, I’d never want to come back here while she’s around.”
Yashina: “These Slimes are dropping large minerals.”
Smiling, she gathered the drops.
Hitori: “Yashina!”
Hitori: “Nice jo—”
Suddenly—
Hitori stepped on what he thought was a loose rock.
But the “rock” was actually a Stone Slime.
The creature dragged him underground.
Yashina: “HITORI!”
She watched in horror as he sank into the earth and disappeared.
Hitori: “AAAAAAAH!”
Hitori: “LET GO OF ME!”
Hitori: “Black Spheres!”
One sphere sliced the Slime in half.
Hitori: “I thought I was done for…”
Hitori found himself inside an underground cavern.
Lava Slime trails could be seen everywhere.
Hitori: “Oh no…”
Looking upward, he noticed the hole had vanished.
Hitori: “Looks like I’m alone now…”
Outside—
Yashina desperately dug at the spot where Hitori had disappeared.
Yashina: “No… no…”
Yashina: “Hitori!”
Hearing her screams, Kamero rushed over.
After listening to her explanation—
Kamero: “This is bad.”
Seeing the panic on Yashina’s face, he remained calm.
Kamero: “Calm down.”
Kamero: “We need to find the entrance to the lower dungeon.”
Yashina: “You’re right.”
She slapped her own cheeks.
Yashina: “We need to act quickly.”
Yashina: “That’s where the Lava Slimes live.”
Yashina: “If he falls into the wrong place…”
Yashina: “We’ll lose Hitori.”
Kamero: “Let’s move.”
Meanwhile—
Hitori wandered through the underground passages.
Magma flowed around him.
Yet strangely—
Not a single Slime appeared.
Hitori: “Something’s wrong…”
Hitori: “I’ve been walking for all this time and haven’t seen a single Slime.”
Entering another tunnel—
He suddenly stopped.
Hitori: “What’s that sound?”
Gripping his dagger tightly, he listened.
Hitori: “It sounds like someone sharpening knives…”
Slowly, he approached a hole in the rock.
And what he saw—
Left him utterly stunned.
Peering through the hole in the rock, Hitori saw something that left him speechless.
A woman with long crimson hair and a skin-tight outfit was throwing small knives at the Slimes emerging from a boiling magma pool.
With every movement, she leaped and smiled gracefully.
Her motions were so fluid and alluring that it almost resembled a seductive dance performed solely for the Slimes.
Hitori remained hidden, watching her for some time.
Until—
Hitori: “What’s climbing up my leg?”
Looking down, he froze.
Hitori: “Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me.”
An Electric Slime had attached itself to his leg and was preparing to unleash its electric discharge, which would send Hitori straight to the Return Zone.
Hitori: “Black Spheres!”
He launched his spheres.
But he was too late.
The slime’s attack partially struck him, sending his body flying straight through the hole where the mysterious woman was fighting.
???: “My, my.”
The woman looked down at Hitori.
???: “You sure know how to make an entrance, boy.”
Hitori had landed directly on top of her.
More precisely—
On her ample chest.
???: “Couldn’t you find a better place to land?”
Slowly opening his eyes, Hitori realized where he was.
Hitori: “Whoa…”
Without realizing it, he squeezed.
Hitori: “Soft…”
The woman smiled teasingly.
???: “Normally, I charge by the hour.”
Hitori: “W-Whoa!”
Hitori immediately jumped away.
Hitori: “Sorry!”
Hitori: “I didn’t mean to land on you—or squeeze your breasts!”
The woman stood up, sweat dripping from her body due to the heat below.
???: “By the way…”
???: “What were you doing spying on me?”
???: “Trying something funny, kid?”
She brushed the dust off her clothes.
Hitori: “It’s not like that!”
Hitori: “A Slime dragged me down here.”
Looking down, he noticed blood flowing from his leg.
The electric discharge had wounded him.
Hitori: “Just my luck…”
The woman smiled.
???: “You survived an Electric Slime’s discharge to the leg.”
???: “You must be very lucky.”
Then she crossed her arms with a grin.
???: “Still…”
???: “Fresh meat is always welcome around here.”
???: “I’ve been lost in this dungeon for two days.”
???: “So I’ve been crafting Slime materials ever since.”
Hitori: “Two days…?”
He stared at her in disbelief.
Hitori: “You’ve been trapped here that long?”
???: “Yep.”
???: “It was getting lonely.”
???: “Then you showed up.”
???: “That’s fate.”
She crossed her arms, emphasizing her generous chest.
???: “You know…”
In a sweet voice—???: “My body has been craving some affection.”
Hitori: “That came out of nowhere…”
Hitori: “This woman doesn’t have a shred of common sense.”
The woman pouted.
???: “Don’t be shy.”
???: “If you’re a virgin…”
???: “I’ll teach you how it’s done.”
???: “Come here.”
???: “Aysa will show you that life isn’t only about RPGs.”
Hitori: “GET AWAY FROM ME, WOMAN!”
His scream echoed through the cavern.
Yashina: “Hitori!”
At that moment, Yashina arrived at the entrance to the chamber.
Kamero: “What in the world is going on here?”
Seeing the scene, Kamero stood frozen.
Yashina: “Hitori…?”
Hitori: “Yashina…”
Hitori: “Kamero…”
Hitori: “Thank goodness you’re here…”
He was currently lying in Aysa’s arms.
Aysa: “Who are these two?”
Aysa: “Your friends?”
Hitori: “Please help me.”
His body had gone limp.
Hitori: “I don’t know why, but I can’t move properly.”
Hitori: “I think it was that Slime.”
Aysa: “Oh, that?”
She smiled casually.
Aysa: “That’s my sweat.”
Aysa: “It paralyzes my prey once it enters their bloodstream.”
Immediately—
Four crystals of light appeared around Yashina.
Yashina: “Let him go. Right now.”
Aysa: “Oh?”
She looked at Hitori.
Aysa: “Is she your girlfriend?”
Beside her, Kamero summoned an ice spike.
Kamero: “So you’re a Witch…”
His eyes drifted to the pointed hat lying nearby.
Kamero: “Release Hitori.”
Aysa smiled.
Aysa: “A mage…”
Aysa: “And an Ice Mage, no less.”
Aysa: “That’s pretty rare in this game.”
Picking up her hat and placing it on her head, she smiled seductively.
Aysa: “I wasn’t looking for trouble…”
Aysa: “But now that you’re here…”
She licked one of her knives.
Aysa: “I’ll use your bodies to attract even more Slimes.”
Hitori: “Ugh…”
Aysa: “If you want the boy…”
She smiled alluringly.
Aysa: “Come and take him.”
Yashina: “Hitori…”
Suddenly—
Hitori: “Stop being stupid, woman!”
SMACK!
He slapped Aysa on the back.
Aysa: “Ow!”
She fell to her knees.
Aysa: “How did you break free from my paralysis?!”
Aysa: “Seduction Witchcraft: Sweat Paralysis!”
She hurled mucus toward him.
Hitori: “Cut it out!”
Hitori: “You’re disgusting!”
He wiped the slime off his body.
Aysa: “N-No…”
Aysa: “Impossible…”
Aysa: “It’s…”
Aysa: “Not working anymore…”
She stared at him with her mouth wide open.
With Aysa defeated and now sitting in a corner muttering to herself, Kamero and Yashina finally understood the situation.
Kamero: “So you’ve been trapped down here this whole time…”
Yashina: “Don’t do something like that again…”
Yashina: “You could’ve gotten hurt…”
Hitori: “That’s right, woman!”
Kamero then turned his gaze toward the mysterious woman, who moments ago had been energetic but was now hanging her head.
Kamero: “We don’t have time for this.”
Kamero: “We need to leave and get back to crafting Slime materials.”
Yashina: “Kamero’s right.”
Yashina: “Let’s go, Hitori.”
Hitori: “Alright…”
He glanced toward the red-haired woman.
Hitori: “You can come with us if you want.”
Hitori: “Let’s all get out of here.”
Suddenly—
Aysa’s eyes sparkled.
Aysa: “Really?”
Aysa: “You actually want me to come with you?”
Hitori: “Yeah.”
Hitori: “But don’t try anything weird with us.”
The four of them crossed the dungeon and finally emerged outside, following the same route Kamero and Yashina had taken to find Hitori.
Hitori: “Finally…”
He inhaled deeply.
Hitori: “Fresh air…”
Exhausted from the journey, he nearly collapsed.
Kamero looked up at the sky.
Kamero: “It’s already night.”
Yashina sighed.
Yashina: “We missed today’s Slime respawns.”
Hitori: “And now what?”
Hitori: “How are we supposed to create a guild without money?”
At that moment, Aysa calmly crossed her arms.
Aysa: “I’m willing to join you.”
Aysa: “Together, we can gather the fifty thousand gold coins needed to establish a guild.”
Kamero and Yashina exchanged glances.
Hitori: “You?”
Aysa smiled proudly.
Aysa: “My name is Aysa Giulans.”
Aysa: “The Witch of Seduction.”
Aysa: “And after two days of farming, I earned the equivalent of thirty-five thousand gold coins from Lava Slimes.”
Whenever she wanted to, Aysa possessed an overwhelmingly intimidating presence.
Her long ruby-red hair flowed gracefully.
She wore a tight black outfit accented with red.
Her neckline was extremely generous.
Her lips were crimson like blood.
Her amber-red eyes gleamed mysteriously.
Her skin was pale.
A pointed witch hat rested atop her head.
And several hidden blades hung from her waist.
Kamero narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
Kamero: “I assume you want something in return.”
A slow smile appeared on Aysa’s face.
Aysa: “How perceptive.”
Aysa: “Yes…”
Aysa: “There is something I want.”
She slowly approached the group.
Passing by Kamero.
Passing by Yashina.
Until she stopped directly in front of Hitori.
Everything around him seemed to blur.
Gently, Aysa lifted his chin.
Aysa: “You.”
Hitori’s eyes widened.
Then—
She tried to kiss him.
Yashina’s entire face turned bright red.
Kamero stood frozen in disbelief.
But just before their lips met—
Hitori moved aside at the last second.
Hitori: “WHAT THE HELL, WOMAN?!”
He stumbled backward, breathing heavily.
Meanwhile, Aysa remained standing motionless.
Kamero: “You just hurt her feelings, Hitori.”
Hitori: “WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!”
Slowly, Aysa raised her head.
Her eyes were moist.
The confident and seductive woman had vanished once again.
Now—
She seemed genuinely hurt.
Aysa: “Th-This…”
Aysa: “This has never happened before…”
Looking at Hitori in confusion—
Aysa: “Twice…”
Aysa: “How…”
Aysa: “How did you do it…?”
Hitori: “Huh?!”
Kamero quietly looked at the knives around her waist.
Kamero: “You attract your victims.”
Kamero: “Paralyze their bodies.”
Kamero: “And then finish them off with those knives.”
Kamero: “Correct?”
Aysa looked away.
Aysa: “Y-Yes…”
Hitori immediately pointed at Kamero.
Clearly impressed.
Kamero sighed.
Kamero: “Don’t look at me like that.”
Kamero: “Hitori isn’t exactly intelligent.”
Kamero: “Perhaps he’s simply too dense to understand seduction.”
Hitori: “DID YOU REALLY HAVE TO SAY IT LIKE THAT?!”
Timidly, Yashina raised her hand.
Yashina: “Well…”
Yashina: “It’s true…”
Hitori: “EVEN YOU?!”
Suddenly—
Aysa lifted her head with a brilliant smile.
Aysa: “SO THAT’S IT!”
Her confidence instantly returned.
Hitori became frightened.
Hitori: “Seriously…”
Hitori: “How can you recover that quickly?”
Aysa immediately leaned toward him again.
Aysa: “You’re fascinating, boy.”
Kamero folded his arms.
Kamero: “‘Fascinating’ isn’t exactly the word I’d use.”
Yashina silently looked away.
Slowly licking her lips, Aysa stared at Hitori.
Clearly—
The fact that her abilities didn’t work on him had only made her more interested.
Before things became even stranger—
Yashina interrupted them.
Yashina: “The registration…”
Yashina: “If we’re doing this, let’s do it now.”
Kamero nodded.
Kamero: “Yashina is right.”
Without hesitation, Aysa removed a bag filled with coins from her waist and handed it to Kamero.
Aysa: “Take it.”
With the money gathered—
They finally managed to officially register their guild at Elvrin’s Guild Center.
Guild Created EXO
Immediately, Hitori made a face.
Hitori: “Wow…”
Hitori: “What a terrible name.”
Kamero frowned.
Kamero: “Really?”
Kamero: “Then why didn’t you come up with something better, my dear comrade?”
Hitori: “Nice excuse.”
Kamero: “Watch your tone when you speak to me.”
Aysa laughed.
Aysa: “These two…”
Yashina smiled calmly.
Yashina: “Yeah…”
After registering, the four headed toward the plaza where Hitori and Yashina had first met.
Aysa: “My room is at that inn.”
She smiled seductively.
Aysa: “Want to come with me, Hitori?”
Hitori: “Get lost.”
Yashina: “I should probably change inns…”
Kamero: “Well, I don’t have one yet.”
Kamero: “How about we all stay in the same building?”
Hitori: “Fine by me…”
He immediately pointed at Aysa.
Hitori: “As long as it’s far away from her.”
Aysa: “Wow…”
Aysa: “That hurts my feelings.”
Suddenly—
BOOOOOOM!
A massive explosion of light erupted in the center of the area.
Immediately afterward, a metallic platform rose from the ground while thousands of luminous particles danced through the air.
Every player in the plaza fell silent.
Then—
An energetic voice echoed throughout the region.
???: “It’s wonderful to see all of you here!”
???: “It is with great pride that we begin the first official event of MMO: Isekai no RPG!”
The crowd erupted in excitement.
???: “Good luck, everyone…”
???: “AND…”
???: “LET’S GOOOOOO!!!”
Players: “YEAHHHHHH!”
Players: “WOOOOOO!”
Players: “FINALLY!”
Cheers, laughter, and celebrations filled the air.
Hitori widened his eyes in astonishment.
Standing atop the platform was an incredibly famous woman in the gaming world.
Dressed in futuristic clothes mixed with medieval elements, she waved energetically at the crowd.
It was Uziha.
One of the most famous presenters and gaming content creators in the world.
Hitori: “Whoa…”
Hitori: “It’s really Uziha…”
Kamero crossed his arms.
Kamero: “Looks like TSM invested heavily in this launch.”
Yashina watched with sparkling eyes.
Yashina: “This is amazing…”
Aysa smiled excitedly.
Aysa: “This is going to be fun.”
Uziha raised both arms toward the sky.
Gigantic holograms appeared behind her, displaying battles, castles, monsters, and cities from the game.
Uziha: “Today marks the beginning of a new era in gaming!”
Uziha: “From this moment onward…”
Uziha: “Season One of MMO: Isekai no RPG is officially open!”
The ground trembled slightly.
System windows appeared before the players.
INITIAL EVENT UNLOCKED GLOBAL RANKINGS ACTIVATED EXCLUSIVE REWARDS AVAILABLE
Thousands of players stared at the messages with shining eyes.
For any gamer—
This was truly a dream come true.
Some people cried.
Others laughed.
Some trembled with excitement.
At last—
The entire world could enter this universe.
Hitori quietly observed everything.
And for the first time since arriving in this world—
His heart was racing with excitement.
A smile slowly appeared on his face.
Hitori: “So…”
He looked up at the sky.
Hitori: “The real game begins now.”