Spring 7 – month 1 – year 2001
Ron, Rob and Ria were busy hunting blue slime because they need the blue pillow for some easy cash.
"How long are we going to do this? This is the fourth day," said Ron. He got tired hunting blue slime. It was not easy to find them too because too many people hunting them at the same time.
"Ron is right. Doing this is boring," Rob agreed with Ron.
"Well, if you guys don't want to do this anymore, let's find another one and we can stop after that," said Ria.
"Okay, let's find the last one," said Ron. There was actually another reason why they were hunting for blue slime. Ria wanted the blue pillow for herself. She wanted to sew all the blue pillow and made a big, soft and comfortable huge pillow.
The trio walked for few minutes to find another blue slime. Along the way, they met a lot of people doing the same thing as them, hunting blue slime. After about 15 minutes, they found a lone blue slime.
The blue slime was by itself and happily bouncing around the prairie. The trio walked like usual towards the blue slime. The blue slime saw them and happily went to them. Ron wanted to end this fast and he drew his sword.
The blue slime was getting nearer and Ron slash the slime like usual. However, Ron was taken aback when the blue slime evaded his sword. The happy blue slime surprised and upset about what Ron did. The blue slime face changed from happy to angry.
The blue slime body emitted a faint light around its body and bounce and hit Ron on his stomach.
"Kuhakk!!" Ron was sent flying a few meters back.
"Ron!!!" both Rob and Ria shouted at Ron. Ron got back up and held his stomach in pain. He did not wear any protective equipment because they were hunting for the harmless slime.
"Are you okay?" Ria supported Ron.
"That is a skill and from the strength, that guy is an elite grade," said Ron while looking at the angry blue slime
"Ria, equip your gear," said Rob. "This thing won't be too strong. It was still a slime."
Rob dashed forward and used his sword to slash the blue slime but the blue slime managed to evade the strike and just like before, the blue slime used bounce and strike Rob. Rob barely managed to evade.
An arrow suddenly shot at the blue slime. It was Ria. The blue slime again evaded the attack. The blue slime rushed at Rob and this time Rob's sword emitted a faint light. Rob used a skill.
"Sword Art: Slash!" the skill activated and it quickly slash the blue slime faster than before. The blue slime tried to evade again but the skill managed to hit the blue slime. However, the blue slime was still alive. The slime was still in midair when Ria used her skill next.
"Bow Art: Fast arrow!" Ria released the arrow and the arrow travelled fast and hit the blue slime's nucleus. The blue slime's face was in pain and it fall to the ground and died.
'Elite grade blue slime killed. Elite grade blue slime core obtained' Rob, Ron and Ria looked at each other and they smiled.
"This will become really painful. How can an elite grade monster this powerful?" said Ron.
"Let's put this in the forum," said Ria. She took a picture of the dead slime and went online.
"The slime species starting to evolve. And they are much stronger than their lower grade. The stats seem to be around peak elite grade. A 6 to 7 stat… Around the same as us…" said Rob.
"A slime with the strength almost the same as us who already max our normal and elite data," said Ron.
"Guys, there is no need for me to post anything. The thread is in chaos now. And your analysis seems to be true. Everyone inside the forum said the same thing. Peak elite grade," said Ria.
Just a few days ago, the world was shocked with the appearance of a new slime and now the world was shocked again with the appearance of the elite grade blue slime. Apparently, there were quite a few weak people died at the hand of the elite blue slime. The elite blue slime had become a threat to people that had low amount of normal data as well as people with low amount of elite data.
There were many suggestions said that they should max their normal and elite data before they tried to kill the elite blue slime.
Dean was inside his room and he was shocked with what people said about his elite blue slime.
"Sys, are they suppose to be this strong?" asked Dean.
'Yes. Do you remember you use 100 blue slime cores with 10 data inside and 100 blue slime soul to upgrade your blue slime? With 100 blue slime cores with 10 data insides will give the slime an average 2 stat point for each stat. 1 normal grade soul will increase 1 stat by 1 point. 100 normal grade soul will give 100 stat points divide by six, it will give about 17 point to each stat. However, most of those stats are used to evolve it further and that left them a stat of about 7 points each' explained Sys.
"Uwaa~ I am far from able to kill them. My highest stat is my vitality at 1.3. They will kill me in a second," Dean got scared when thinking about that. "You should have told me earlier and how will this helping me to become stronger if they are that strong?"
'You can absorb lots of soul so you will be fine. Create lots of slime and absorb their soul. You can use the soul on your equipment too, so you will totally be fine. You have lots of soul in your storage' said Sys casually.
"I really need a skill, or I can't survive long. I should have wait before I upgrade the blue slime," said Dean. "Sys, is there a way for me to create a normal grade slime with skill?" asked Dean.
'You can but not now. The function for that is unavailable," said Sys.
"When can I do that?" asked Dean again.
'When you max your normal grade data,' said Sys.
"The it will take me at least another 9 weeks before I can get my first skill," said Dean disappointed. "Sys, I already collect everything possible from the blue slime what should I do now? There is nothing to do other than hunting for money," said Dean.
'There are lots of thing to do. There are many monsters in the wild. You can hunt them and register their core, item and soul in the system' said Sys.
"What is the point of collecting something that I can't use?" asked Dean.
'You should remember, there are two more functions that are still lock. The more things you register in the system, the more you can create in the future,' said Sys.
"…" Dean fell silent.
'…Dean, what is wrong?' asked Sys.
"Is one of the locks functions a fusion?" asked Dean.
'Sorry, I can't tell you that' said Sys.
"So, it is a fusion function. Nice, just what I want," Dean was excited when he thought of that. Sys never said no so Dean was confident that one of the lock functions was monster fusion.
"Hehehe, I have lots of ideas I can use with the fusion function," Dean was smiling happily.
'…We should go hunt some other monster now' suggested Sys.
"Let's go… but what if we meet the blue slime? That guy is freaking strong," asked Dean.
'I told you yesterday no need to worry. I will show you something I create using the system' said Sys confidently.
"You can do that?" asked Dean. He never knew that Dean can tempered with the system but this somehow meant that Sys was the system.
'I can. I create a mapping function for you' said Sys.
"Mapping?"
'Yes, with this function, you can determine the location of any monster that you register. You register the blue slime both the normal grade and elite grade and with this mapping, we will know their locations and we can stay away from them'
"Only the one that I register?" asked Dean.
'Yes, so now, it will be better if we try to register as many monsters as possible so it will be easier to determine their location' said Sys.
"Do I need to register everything or only one thing?" asked Dean again.
'Just one thing is fine. The mapping function range is quite small for the moment but when you become stronger, the range will increase' said Sys.
Dean stood up and prepare to go to the prairie and hunted some new monster to register in his system.
"I need new weapon," said Dean and he went to search for a weapon first.