The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 178: "Skeletal Ghidorah"

"Call them, but make sure not to leave holes in your defenses."

Deas and Queen Beetle are instructed to be on alert, just in case.

Then, 30 red skeletons were summoned in the square.

The three fierce Dragontooth were also summoned. These three seem to have no need for anything extra, but that's not for Rare to determine.

Sieg's Skeleton Knights step back as if under pressure. It seems that the Spartoi are more prestigious than the Skeleton Knights.

"All right, let's give it a try! Come on, hurry up and lay your egg!"

"Blanc, your choice of words!"

"...Fine. [Philosopher's Egg]."

As soon as a large crystal egg appears, Blanc gives instructions to the Spartoi.

"All right, everyone, dive in!"

"Eh? Everyone?"

Following Blanc's instructions faithfully, the nearly 30 Spartoi gather around the Philosopher's Egg.

The egg swallows the red bones one after another, and inside the egg, Spartoi who had relaxed are floating.

"Do you know a mouse called 'lemming', Rare-chan?"

"...I was thinking the same thing. Anyway, it's not stopping, is it? I think it's already over 10 bodies. Perhaps the recipe varies with different species."

The crystal egg that swallowed all the spartoi swelled up to a much larger size than with the skeletons earlier. Perhaps to about the size of Ururu.

"Huh? All of them... Hey Blanc, what about the Dragontooths?"

"Eh? Ah? Where'd they go?"

"If they're gone, there's only one place they could be."

Inside the egg with the Spartoi.

"Is it okay? Well, if they got in, there should be no problem with the fusion."

It's clear from the incident with the skeletons that unnecessary parts won't get in.

"If you think you can do it, that probably means you should do it! Just go ahead and do it!"

Blanc is overwhelmed with excitement, losing her ability for calm decisions.

But honestly, I'm interested, and if we stop now, the MP for the [Philosopher's Egg] will be completely wasted. Whether MP consumption depends on the egg's size or the number of fusion materials is unclear, but at this point, it's much more than the time with the gashadokuro*. (T/N: the big samurai skeleton that was fused earlier)

"Then the Philosopher's Stone."

"Ah! Use my blood for that!"

Blanc bites her finger, and with the injured fingertip, she approaches the egg.

"Ohhhhh? It's sucking, sucking, sucking!"

Blood pours from Blanc's fingers, from what seemed like a small wound, and it's all being absorbed by the egg. Along with that, Blanc's light, visible with the [True Eyes], gradually fades.

"Hey this is bad! [Medium Heal]!"

"It's not catching up!? [High Heal]!"

Lyra and I cast as much Healing Magic as we could remember, and since it wasn't enough, we took turns using [Treatment] to somehow avoid her death from blood loss. If it were Blanc's bare LP, she would have died five times from this.

I hand Blanc a potion as she collapses and looks at the egg.

Inside the egg is dyed reddish black, and I have no clue what's happening.