Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Whoosh!

The mountain wind, thick with the stench of blood and decaying flesh, was now mingled with the sour odor of spoiled food.

The sound of retching, 'Wah, wah,' echoed in their ears.

Young adventurers, who had never seen a battlefield, some who had barely experienced a fight, were now all sprawled on the ground.

Their bodies trembled, their faces were pale, and their eyes were filled with endless fear and dread.

A few, overcome by terror, had collapsed onto the ground, their faces and heads covered in vomit.

"Hmph! Newbies, stand up!"

At that moment, a man nearly three meters tall, carrying a sword as large as a door, stepped forward.

He looked at the slumped newbies and snorted coldly.

He kicked a still-vomiting girl flying with a single blow, raised his greatsword, and roared at them.

The murderous aura, honed through countless battles and slaughters, combined with magical power, pressed down on them.

"Newbies, this is the real battlefield!

If you want to survive, give up your ridiculous fantasies!"

As he spoke, the man mercilessly stomped on the head of a young adventurer in front of him.

Caught off guard, the person plunged headfirst into the vomit.

The sudden turn of events caused the already terrified young adventurer to scream and struggle.

Much of what he had vomited out was now being eaten again, but his small body was like a chick before the nearly three-meter tall man, utterly defenseless.

"I know that most of you guys are participating in this mission because of the generous rewards from the Yst Kingdom, but… looking at you cowards, you might as well go home and find your mommy to suckle!

Don't you dare go and throw your lives away!"

With that, the nearly three-meter tall man spat at the many young adventurers who glared at him with a look of mockery.

He then stepped on the young adventurer under his feet and returned to his own team.

Nearby, the many soldiers acted as if they hadn't seen anything, completely ignoring everything that had just happened.

They waved their hands, leading everyone towards a city below, which was the main base of the Yst Kingdom in this area.

"Damn it!"

"That bastard dares to look down on us!"

"…"

One by one, the young adventurers who had gotten up glared at the man who had looked down on them earlier, resentfully chasing after the departing group.

However, more young adventurers simply lowered their heads, silently following behind.

Some had even begun to quietly leave the group and depart from this place.

War… was completely different from what they had imagined.

The ground covered in corpses, the scene of flying limbs and flesh, rivers of blood, had completely shattered their fantasies.

"Kalan, you're still so gentle."

Towards the rear of the group, a man wearing leather armor, a black dagger dancing up and down in his hand at his waist, approached the three-meter tall man.

He looked back at the young adventurers who were leaving on their own, chuckled softly, and said.

"Hmph!

Santi, if you dare say I'm gentle again, I'll split you in two with my sword."

Kalan glanced at Santi, who had approached him, and snorted unhappily.

He said he would cut her down, but his body didn't move at all.

He just glanced inadvertently at those who were leaving, smiled, lowered his head, and walked forward.

"You really haven't changed at all…"

Santi looked at the man walking away with his head down, a smile appearing on the corner of her lips as she skillfully followed him… as if she were the man's shadow, forever guarding him in the dark.

Half an hour later, the group arrived in front of a huge city.

The black city walls were covered with all kinds of claw marks, and even the soil at the edge of the city walls had turned dark red.

The entire city was filled with the stench of blood.

Squeak!

As the soldiers at the front stepped forward and said something, the heavy, pure steel gates slowly opened.

Everyone entered the city under the command of the soldiers.

The leaders of the three major mercenary groups were taken away by the soldiers, and the rest were instructed to go to the Adventurers' Guild, where they would find specific missions.

"Minghao, what do we do now?"

While following the other adventurers towards the city's Adventurers' Guild, Sally began to inquire through mental connection, asking Lu Minghao what they should do next.

"Let's go to the Adventurers' Guild first.

We'll collect information about the battlefield and then just take on a random mission."

Lu Minghao lay on Sally's demon horns, looking outside through the gap in his hat.

Every street had a large number of soldiers constantly patrolling, and from the moment they entered the city, Lu Minghao felt that eyes were fixed on them, with no intention of hiding at all.

Most likely, it was the people of the Yst Kingdom monitoring them through magic.

The reason for doing this was to prevent adventurers who had been bought by the opposing Edras Kingdom from infiltrating.

After all, the existence of adventurers was, to put it nicely, adventure; to put it bluntly, it was working for money, and they would do anything for money.

Once, a stronghold of the Yst Kingdom was infiltrated by adventurers bought by the Edras Kingdom.

As a result, the stronghold's city walls were blown up by the Edras Kingdom's adventurers using magic bombs the next day, causing the magic barrier to lose its effect.

Subsequently, the entire stronghold was breached by demons and slaughtered.

Since then, every time the Yst Kingdom's front line, whether it was the main base or major strongholds, had adventurers arrive, they would be monitored until they took on a mission and left.

Before long, Sally led Lu Minghao into the city's Adventurers' Guild.

Compared to the Adventurers' Guild in Grant, the mission boards here were all related to the battlefield.

The highest rewards were for frontal battles and assassinations behind enemy lines, with different rewards depending on the number and status of enemies killed.

The remaining tasks were things like intelligence gathering and resource transportation.

In addition, according to information obtained from the Adventurers' Guild staff, both sides had mobilized a large number of soldiers in this war.

The Yst Kingdom had gathered nearly 150,000 soldiers on the entire battlefield with the Edras Kingdom, and had also summoned a large number of adventurers with generous rewards.

The battle that Lu Minghao and the others had seen earlier was just a small-scale probing between the two sides.

On the other side, the Edras Kingdom, in addition to a few high-level and mid-level demons, almost perfectly exploited the demons' fast breeding speed and large numbers, directly gathering nearly 100,000 low-level demons and millions of lower-level demons.

Moreover, after each war, they would once again summon a large number of low-level demons to replenish the losses.

It could be said that every war was a suicide attack launched by a large number of low-level and lower-level demons under the control of high-level demons against the Yst Kingdom, using tidal waves of numbers to overwhelm everything.

"So, what exactly is the Edras Kingdom waging this war for?"

Inside the Adventurers' Guild, after hearing the information about the battlefield between the Yst Kingdom and the Edras Kingdom, Sally suddenly looked at the Adventurers' Guild staff in front of her and asked.

"Probably to survive.

After all, the Edras Kingdom's food cannot feed so many people.

They can only plunder through war, and in the process, consume the old, weak, sick, and disabled, leaving only the healthy and powerful demons."