Kapitel 481: Settling In

"They're close to the border," he said, drawing his blade, "--if they touch even a single blade of grass, we're not getting paid."

"They won't," Iris responded confidently before gathering her breath, holding her staff outwards, "Hyperion: Bound Gate!"

Once more, her words gave rise to a barrier of light that stood at the border of the plains and barren wasteland, kicking up a cloud of dust in its awakening, preventing the group of fire-formed slimes from pushing further. 

As they bounced off of the wall of light, their attention shifted to the adventurers behind. 

"That's right," he smiled, "eyes on me." 

They aren't exactly dangerous, in the conventional sense, that is. However, what most people don't know–and what leads to fire slimes being one of the most lethal of their species–is that they explode after being killed, he thought.