The sloshing noises were ear piercing. I don't know how it works, but the sound of it was too intense for me to bear. I collapsed on the ground motionlessly covering my ears in the excruciating pain. The slime approached me in a jiggly motion. This was the biggest slime I have ever seen. I didn't think slimes of this rank would be able to hold themselves together at this size.
That was it! Slimes can't hold themselves together in this position for long. They were smarter than I thought, but they weren't smarter than me. The plan of the slimes was simple: Bluff. It was fascinating how slimes could come together and create plans like this to try and fool me. There is only one thing that continues to poke at me. Why am I being approached if this is a bluff? It took me a moment to come up with the realization, but it wasn't a bluff.
The slimes were already beginning to engulf me and I was sinking into the soft squishy body of the Omega Slime. It felt great (like a massage or a warm bath), but it wasn't time to think about that right now. I was dying because I was being absorbed at a rapid pace and I wouldn't be able to last that long inside of a slime this huge. I wasn't able to move or even use my organ manipulation until my head was inserted into the slime's massive body. The sounds diminished and I was able to function again.
Cold and moist was all around me. The slime's insides were hugging around me tightly while pulling me apart at the same time. All of this while not being able to breathe. The feeling was not that new to me and it happened to me before, at a certain cave, just that time was worst. Since that slime was a lot smaller than this one and I wasn't completely emerged, this feeling was somewhat new.
My movements were restricted and sluggish inside of it. It was like swimming in slow motion while someone was holding your leg. I opened my mouth and began to absorb whatever entered my body. I didn't get skills, but it helped with my inability to breathe. The slime's absorption was weaker and slower than over time because I was alive after 10 seconds in the body.
*5 seconds.*
Oh, thanks! As I was sitting in the body for five or so seconds, I felt little pain, but I had to float in an uncomfortable position. The slime was still moving, but I couldn't see through the thick liquids clearly through the inside of the body. I could only make out vague shapes, but everything was blurry.
My absorption wasn't doing much to the slime and it was also adding to my uncomfortableness so I stopped. I closed my eyes and started thinking if there was a way to get out of this situation before I got absorbed. Nothing. I couldn't come up with anything.
*User can check their skill window.*
Oh, You're right.
[ Skills ] [ X ]
Zendu Slash Lvl 3(active)
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Hyper Arrow Lvl 2(active)
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Slime Sensation Lvl ∞(passive)
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Blow Lvl 1(active)
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Organ Manipulation Lvl 2(active)
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Absorption Lvl 1(passive)
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Slime Shot Lvl 1(active)
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Slime Communication Lvl 2(passive)
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[Stats]
Slime points:0
5/10 Slime Communication
2/15 Body Duplication
[Pets]
Irregular Cute Slime Lvl 2
Skills: Basic Slime Skills
[Slime Missions]
You Currently Possess no Slime Missions
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It listed other information that was unneeded. All I looked at was the skills that I could use. My sword was dropped during my collapse and I don't bring my now to hunt slimes anymore, so I can't use Zendu Slash or Hyper Arrow. The slime currently isn't talking and if it is or was I can't understand it inside of the body or over the loud noises. Slime Communication is useless right now so all I have left is God's Pleasure, Organ Manipulation, and Slime Shot.
Slime Shot! Now that I mention it, I have never used Slime Shot to attack yet. I wasted the last few slimes I encountered and forgot to test it out on the cute one back at my house. I want to see if the poison from my body has any effect on it.
ACHH!
I tried to yell out Slime Shot. I know, I'm an idiot. My mouth was filled with the slime liquids and I quickly used Absorption. At the same time, the black slime exited my hand. It merged with the slime around me, which started turning tan. It was originally a bluish color just like the pond, but now it is becoming darker. The grip the slime had in my body began to loosen, but I was slowly losing my ability to see.
I closed my eyes and swam out of the slime's body and fell on the ground facedown. I scrambled to my feet and turned around to look at the slime. Its body was becoming more liquid-like, in the fact that it was losing its shape. The slime that used to have a sphere-ish body turned into a moving puddle on the ground. That's weird. The fatherless slime, that I put in my stomach area didn't have this problem.
It must be because the slime was no longer able to hold its shape. The poison must have weakened the bond between the slimes and caused them to become fatigued. That's what they get for trying to absorb me! My trap didn't backfire and it actually helped me learn something about slimes. It so sad that they didn't form a monster core. I would have made so much money!
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BLOW!!
I decided I should kill the slime by weakening its structure severely. I don't know how to kill a fully liquid slime, but it won't be able to do anything if I separate its body into millions of pieces.
BLOW!! BLOW!!! BLOWW!!!!
I continuously cast the low-level wind skill until my body exhausted. I wasn't stupid and was able to replenish my magical energy by eating dirt, grass, and water. Well, I didn't eat the water I drank it. The slime was separated into plenty of different particles, but I wasn't able to kill it. The liquid came back together before trying to pursue me. I had to move on to Plan B.
Slime taste gross and I only eat it in a situation where it is absolutely necessary. Right now was one of those situations. I got down on all fours and used Organ Manipulation to adjust. I crawled at max speed around the slime and went on a slime-eating marathon. I tried to do it as fast as I could so I wouldn't have to taste it, but it didn't work out that well.
BLARGH!!! EW!!!
I made throw up sounds because I had no stomach and had to rub the excess slime that wasn't absorbed off of my tongue.
[Slimes Killed. 57 Slime Points Earned.]
[3/10 Fusion Learned.]
[Slime Shot Level Increase.]
I still felt God's Pleasure even though I killed the slime through absorption. The system recognized the monster as "Slimes" instead of a singular slime. Maybe because of their incomplete bond. That can also explain why I didn't completely learn fusion. I wonder what it does.
*Thirty-Five Slime points can be used to learn this low-level Slime Skill*'
No! Stop trying to make me use my precious SL.P to learn skills. I don't care if you're helping me, I really just want to evolve God's Pleasure right now!
*User can quickly get more Slime Points by learning more Skills. More Skills equal more power. User made it a goal to become more powerful.*'
You're right. I should learn this fusion skill and become more powerful. Then slimes will know of my power and fear me for the Slime Hunter I really am! 57 minus 35 equals 22 right! I won't be losing that many points, so learning this skill won't be so much of a problem. I used the points to learn the skill as I was heading home.
*Gained Skill: Fusion Lvl 1(active). Read Skill Description for more information.*
"Skill Description!!!"
[Fusion Lvl 1(active): Allows User to combine two things(current possessions, organs) and create a new object that carries the benefits and flaws of the previous two objects. Depending on the items being fused the process can fail or take a long time. The result of the fusion will only consist of an object. Different results can be obtained through the increase of skill's level.]
I thought the skill would involve me fusing with other things to make me more powerful. Hopefully, the skill will upgrade into something like this into the future. I was happy with the contents of the skill and wasn't displeased at what it offered me. I could experiment with this skill at my house.
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I didn't have any problems with the SNICR guards and entered my home effortlessly. I never really explained my town in detail and I really feel like doing it right now.
As I said before, my town is called Astasia. Astasia is not that poor because it is supported by another town called Charition. If our town was not supported it would fall face flat and wouldn't be able to support itself. It would eventually lose merchants and hunters or adventurers that help the economy and become the lowest level village.
The reason we are supported though is that we were known in the past for helping in some great war against monsters. The war ruined our economy and Charition is supporting us until we can stand up on our own. The town is built in what used to be part of the Quaking Fields. The ground here was perfect for farming and growing crops so a certain part of the land was domesticated. The rest was left to the monsters so hunters can have jobs.
Hunters here weren't very successful and didn't help that much with bringing in goods. They also traveled a lot so the economy was mainly based on farming. The problem was that over the years the land was becoming weaker and weaker and less suitable for farming. The monsters in the quaking field were increasing and the energy they produce was corrupting the land.
The remaining farms were around three, and one of them was my father's. My father was trying to come up with natural ways on how to heal the land and needed my help. My father would say things like "Loyd do some farming" and I would be like "No! Farmings lame!" He believed that I would always be able to come up with an alternative for hunting monsters, but he was wrong. I will never stop hunting monsters(slimes). There's nothing better than killing slimes and there is no natural alternative.
*There is.*
Wait really! Can you tell me?
*Sorry. I have to keep it PG*
Aww. Well whatever, I can still kill slimes. I walked into my bedroom and recognized that little slime was still in the same spot.
"You didn't want any food," I said.
"My fellow slimes are not food!" The Cute Slime replied angrily.
"This sentence was more fluent than your previous ones," I said. "Are you practicing?"
"No. Maybe you're just understanding me better."
"Well anyway, I think I should come up with a good name for you. How about Goo-goo."
"No. Absolutely not, I'm never going to allow you to call me Goo-goo!"
Goo-goo was shaking furiously and I could tell they weren't enjoying their new name. Well, that sucks for them because I'm not changing it. I continued calling them Goo-goo until I remembered what I wanted to experiment. Fusion. I decided that all I had in my room was bottles of slime. If I were to fuse the bottle with the slime what would it make? My curiosity was higher than when I wanted to put my brain into my stomach.
I walked over to a bottle that contained the normal blue slime and grabbed it. I held onto it tightly and yelled-
FUSION!!
Just as I expected, Goo-goo was staring at me. I was paying more attention to the slime in the bottle and realized that nothing was happening. No, I was wrong something was happening it was just working very slowly. I could feel my body using up energy to fuel the fusion process. I was slowly falling asleep and the sounds around me faded. Goo-goo was asking me questions, but I ignored them because I was tired.
I started to fall asleep because my body wasn't strong enough to stay awake. I lied there on the floor as the sounds around me became quietly. The bottle in my hand was still reacting to my fusion skill, but I couldn't see the result because I fell asleep.