The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

"Zun Zun, it's been three days already, and no one has invited us to team up. What's going on?"

"It can't be helped. Who told us to be so unattainable?"

Faced with his companion's complaint, Zun Zun sighed and rubbed his forehead, secretly lamenting his miscalculation. He hadn't anticipated things would turn out this way.

It was similar to blindly developing a product without conducting market research. In the end, his high-end product had no audience in this low-end market.

"But who said we have to team up with others?"

Zun Zun stood on the guild's long chair, raised his right hand high, and shouted: "The path of the Archmage is one of invincibility, why borrow the strength of others?"

"That's right, we are the Crimson Demons, never inferior to anyone!"

Megumin echoed with passionate shouts.

Yunyun, on the other hand, looked like she wanted to team up with others, but soon seemed to think of something, blushed, and lowered her head, saying nothing more.

Megumin slammed the table and said, "Then let's not delay, let's go accept a quest!"

"Yeah, let's do it."

Zun Zun nodded.

Although the caravan boss had paid for two weeks of their inn fees and also gave them a generous reward, they couldn't just sit around and do nothing.

Zun Zun hated doing nothing the most, because it reminded him of the wealthy people's simple, unadorned, and boring lives from his previous life.

They arrived at the quest board.

There were many quest requests on it, including subjugating Kill-Bears, Horned Rabbits, Giant Slimes, as well as finding runaway young ladies and seeking cross knights with high heat resistance, or sword masters who could serve as home tutors, etc. In short, the quests were varied.

However...

【Recruiting party members. Recruiters are a Cross Knight and a Thief duo, recruiting degenerates with guro XP. Ideally, they should be able to watch me being played with by enemies in battle while constantly scanning me with lewd gazes and saying XXOO things.】

Are they looking for companions, or are they looking for masters?

I really don't understand how such a quest request could be posted on the board. Don't the guild's receptionists care at all?

Forget it, that's not important.

As combative Crimson Demons, the trio's main focus was naturally on subjugation quests.

The mainstream leveling method for new adventurers seemed to be hunting Giant Toads to increase their levels first. After their levels were high enough to stably hunt toads, they would enter the forest to do more difficult quests.

Megumin pointed to a quest request marked as extremely dangerous and shouted excitedly, "That's the one! Subjugate Kill-Bears, let's do this!"

Kill-Bears were dangerous for adventurers in the newbie village, but ordinary for the Crimson Demons. Even Komekko would hunt a few Kill-Bears in the Crimson Demon Forest every day after learning magic for fun.

Three Archmages should be safe, right?

"Okay, let's do it."

Zun Zun tore off the quest request.

Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't be allowed to accept such a high-difficulty quest because of their low levels, but thanks to Zun Zun's adventurer card having a record of defeating a high-ranking demon, he easily accepted the quest.

"Oh right, since you're going to the forest, why not take on the Slime subjugation quest as well? Slimes have been rampant lately and need adventurers to subjugate them, and the reward is considerable."

"We'll take it too."

The receptionist lady immediately showed a happy expression when she heard Zun Zun say that.

In a typical fantasy otherworld, Slimes are actually the weakest monsters. "Konosuba" is similar, but the difference is that their size will increase if they devour a large number of things, and even high-level adventurers may not be able to defeat them.

After accepting the quest, the trio headed to the vast forest near the town.

Megumin seemed very excited, after all, her magic could finally be unleashed, while Yunyun looked worried, because she knew how powerful Explosion magic was. Using it in the forest might cause even greater disasters.

"Listen carefully, Megumin, don't use magic unless absolutely necessary, remember that."

So she kept urging Megumin.

However, Megumin retorted rather unhappily, "Yunyun, what do you mean? Are you just going to have me watch from the side? What do you take me for!"

"I-I don't mean that..."

"It's okay, it's just a few slimes, can't we three just slaughter them easily? We'll do the slaughtering, and Megumin, you'll be in charge of the sound effects."

"Hey!"

Zun Zun's comfort had the opposite effect.

Soon, they encountered a large group of slimes. They were similar to what they remembered, blue transparent spheres with a transparent core inside.

Slimes were not afraid of physical attacks and had high resistance to magic. They would continue to move until the part inside their body called the core was destroyed, making them somewhat tricky monsters.

The moment she saw the numerous slimes, Yunyun used magic with zero frames of startup.

"Fireball! Fireball! Fireball!"

Although it was an intermediate magic, it had the power comparable to a high-level magic, simply because Yunyun had a lot of magic power. A large number of slimes were blown away, their bodies scattered in the sky.

Very strong.

But the application of magic power was too crude.

The power of high-level magic is strong, but how can you use high-level magic on trash monsters? Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

So he thought of a solution.

He put his index and middle fingers together, aimed at the slime in front of him, and then a wisp of electric arc emerged from his fingertips.

"Hado No. 4: Byakurai."

With a snap, a beam of electricity shot out from his fingertips, hitting the slime's core in one shot. Its body paused, and soon dissipated.

One of the applications of magic power control.

The magic Zun Zun used was still the high-level magic Light Sword, except that he adjusted the output of magic power, turning the originally powerful high-level magic into a weak low-level magic.

Hmm, not bad.

Seeing him use this move, Megumin was a little surprised and said, "Zun Zun, did you learn low-level magic?"

"No."

He told Megumin the principle, but Megumin immediately lost interest after hearing it.

She liked powerful magic. What use would she have for this kind of skill that would reduce the power of Explosion magic? Besides, she didn't plan to learn any other magic.

There was no way, so he had to teach this move to Yunyun, and Yunyun quickly learned it.

"Take this! It's high noon!"

Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!

A real-life shooting game, the two of them were having a great time, while Megumin, who was being neglected, leaned on her staff and pouted as she watched them.

People's joys and sorrows are not connected; her teammates were laughing wildly, but she only found it noisy.

Just then—

A huge slime jumped out, its size was about that of a small warehouse. No one knew how much it had devoured, and who knew what impact it would have if it was left unchecked.

"Megumin, don't attack, we'll—"

"Who cares!"

Megumin began to chant the spell. A bright ball of light condensed at the tip of her staff, and she shouted with glowing eyes, "You guys were so happy just now, neglecting me, how could I possibly endure it... Watch me blow you all away!"

Huh, who did she say she was going to blow away?

It's the slime, right? It must be the slime!

"——Explosion!"

The powerful magic fell from the sky and exploded instantly after entering the giant slime's body. The powerful impact, along with the slime's mucus, blew the three of them away together.

Slime mucus rain fell from the sky, and even Megumin was not spared.