Balloon

A Balloon (バルーン) is an inorganic type of monster. Balloons are shown throughout Melromarc to be one of the weakest monsters and are said to spawn from Balloon Legions.

Overview
They are commonly found in the fields around Melromarc and come in a variety of different colors, with the currently known colors consisting of orange, yellow and red. Orange is the most commonly known color of the monsters and they are usually referred to as Orange Balloons.

When killed, they drop balloon skins which are commonly sold and bought at Castle Town in Melromarc. Their skin is used to make toy balls to be later sold again.

Despite having an overall weak defense, which makes them easily killable, they do pack a strong bite.

Depending on the color of the balloon, their overall strength is increased, currently Orange Balloons are known as being the weakest to with Red Balloons being the strongest. Despite their strength difference, each species still grant only 1 EXP.

History
In the past there was a variant of the balloon monster called a "Snake Balloon" which was available in various colors. They used to reside in Siltvelt and demi-human areas but were nearly hunted to extinction. They could be used as pool inner tubes or balloon art which was quite popular in the past. When absorbed into the Legendary Shield by Naofumi, they only unlocked shields forms with the same specs of a Balloon shield variant.

Holn Anthreya, a genius alchemist at the time had the ambitious goal of making balloons into the ultimate monster.

Trivia

 * Because the Balloons couldn't breach Naofumi's defense, he used them as a form of offence and a means of persuasion on several occasions. Naofumi even used them against Motoyasu in the one-sided duel to give him an upper hand.
 * Balloons have a counterpart beyond the dimensional rift called Boxes.
 * In the anime, one of the Balloons Raphtalia popped granted both Naofumi and herself 15 EXP.
 * They share a resemblance to the Bomb from Final Fantasy.
 * Naofumi owned a domesticated Balloon in the Web Novel named Ad Balloon.
 * Ad Balloon was already automatically named that when Naofumi checked because of the advertisements for Naofumi's business that were hung on them when they started to inflate and float due to leveling up on the road.