While talking to Dean, Owen's office phone rang. Owen answered the call and his face changed. He ended the call and looked at Dean suspiciously.
"The higher ups said that you will be excuse from the military and given a new residence. You can change your name if you want to," said Owen.
"I will only use my given name. Please erase my family name," said Dean.
"… You will stay at the dorm for few days before you get your new residence," said Owen.
Dean left Owen's office and went to his room. Few days later, he was transferred to his new residence. It was a small bungalow in a middle of a forest. Dean did not mind about the location. He preferred to be in this kind of place. It was safer.
There was teleporter inside the house connected to the first dimension. Apparently, the military also change his room in camp 7. Dean decided to hid his identity from others. The military provided him with the mask that can change his face. He can use that whenever he went outside and inside the dimension.
After he finished unpacking, Dean sat on his bed. He looked at his system and there was new locked menu. Sys said that was the reward he got. Sys knew what it was and he said it will be beneficial for him. The new menu will greatly help Dean. In order to unlock it, Dean needed to fill his normal data.
Spring 1 – Month 4 – Year 2001
"I waste a lot of time and miss a lot of days to create new slime," said Dean while he was fiddling with the system.
'Well, here is good news for you Dean' said Sys. Dean was listening.
'You can currently create 12 new monsters. Even if you miss the right time to create, it will stack :D Surprise' said Sys while laughing. Dean was shocked that the created count will stack. Dean was smiling.
"That mean I can create all the normal grade slime I want in one go! Whoa! Thanks Sys!" said Dean.
'Don't thank me. Thank the system. I don't do anything' said Sys. Dean immediately stood up and checked his stats. When looking at his data, Dean found out he needed 70 more normal data before he maxed it.
Since he can get 10 data in the core for every monster he created, he only needed to create seven more normal grade slime. Dean decided to complete his color variant slime. He already created the blue slime, red slime and green slime. He already upgraded all three to elite grade.
Dean then created seven more color variant slime. He created yellow slime, purple slime, orange slime, brown slime, pink slime, white slime and black slime. Dean was giggling at all his new slime creation.
Spring 2 – Month 4 – Year 2001
Ron, Rob and Ria were going out early to hunt. They went out of camp 7 at 3 am. There was a reason why they went out that early. They needed to hunt the bloom rabbit.
Bloom rabbit was a rabbit with flower on its back. They were not particularly strong but the flower at their back was valuable. It was used in making many kinds of potions. Bloom rabbit can usually be found early in the morning.
The trio took a quest of getting 10 bloom rabbit's flowers. They were supposed went hunting for legend grade monsters for themselves, however, there were none they can find so they decided to do some side jobs.
"Ria~ why in the world did you take this kind of job. I am so sleepy," said Ron. He was too sleepy to walk.
"This job paid a lot. No complaining," said Ria but her face was smiling weirdly.
"You just want to buy that handbag, right? Why drag us into this? Just do this by yourself," said Rob annoyed.
"What bag? I take this job because we need it," said Ria.
"Yeah, right…" said both Ron and Rob with mocking face. The trio went around the prairie searching for bloom rabbit. They managed to find three and with their ability, they easily killed the bloom rabbit.
They walked more and saw a group of slime bouncing around in the prairie. The trio looked at the group of slime and they smiled.
"Do you guys remember we were the ones who discover the blue slime first?" said Ria.
"The way you said that like we found them years ago when it was just 3 months ago," said Ron.
Ria pouted and said, "But it is true that we find them first. We are really amazing, right Rob… Rob?" Rob not answering Ria and was looking at the group of slime. He suddenly raised his arm and pointed it towards the slime.
"Hey, I think we did it again," said Rob with his eyes wide. Ron and Ria was looking at the group of slime and they were stunned.
Colorless, blue, red, green, yellow, purple, brown, orange, pink, white and black slime were playing around in a group. Ria eyes were sparkling and she immediately open her system and use the video function. She recorded the colorful slime.
Ron and Rob happily ran towards the colorful slime and played with them while Ria was recording them. Ria immediately uploaded it into camp 7 forum.
[BREAKING NEWS!!! Rise of the slime!!!] the thread title sound. Below it attached a video of Ron and Rob playing around with the colorful slime. In a second, comments flooded the thread.
[Whoa!!!] @popo replied
[Color variant slime!!!] @me456 replied
[It is the rise of the slime.] @iamstrong replied
[Damn! Will their elite appear soon too?!! The elite slime is freaking strong] @ohnotagain replied
[Are they dropping colorful pillow too?] @66bear replied
[They are cute] @iknowyouloveme replied
[I want that pink slime] @mostpopulargirl replied
[@mostpopulargirl What are you talking about? The black slime is cooler] @123ie replied.
The news of all the colorful slime appeared at the same time were reported in every media channel and #riseoftheslime trending worldwide on social media. Many people went hunting the new slime and the dropped item was colorful pillow based on the color of the slime.
Demanded for new slime pillow color exploded. Everyone wanted the pillow of their favorite color. Shop that sell pillow hired many people to hunt the new colorful slime due to high demand.
People with slime compatibility were overjoyed with the news. When no new slime appeared for two months, they lose hope again but now they were so happy that they can become much stronger. No one can belittle them again.
Ron, Rob and Ria became popular due to them again found more new species of slime. Many people with slime compatibility dubbed them as their lucky charm. The trio was obviously happy with all the spotlight they get though they did not do anything other than posting their accidental first encounter with the new slime in the forum.
Professionals also predicted that more and more will appear in the future. They came out with many theories about the sudden mutations of the slime but none of them were right. The slime did not appear naturally, Dean was the one who create it.
Dean was watching every news about the slime and he just laughed at all the theories. They were not wrong with their theories because it can happen like that but sadly that did not happen.
"I don't think I can get anything hunting them now. Too many people were hunting them right now. What should I do?" asked Dean to Sys.
'Hmm~ how about hunting other monsters?' suggested Dean.
"The prairie will be pack with people. You know that with my strength right now, going further than the prairie is too dangerous," said Dean.
'Then, just stay at home until everything calm' said Sys. Dean also thought the same. Dean decided to stayed at home for another week before he went hunting all the new slime.
There were exercise room in the house the military prepared so Dean used the one-week time to train his body. He also used that time to read book. The same syllabus from high school.
Outside Dean's house, there were people watching him. Dean knew about them because he can detect them using the map function. Sys was the one who told Dean about them. Dean did not know about that at the beginning.
Sys also told Dean that they were there to guard him if there were people who found his location. They were harmless, however, Sys said that they were not from the military. He tried to find out about them but he cannot find anything about them on the internet.
When Dean was frozen, Sys found out he can breach the internet security with ease and can find any info he wanted. He tried to find ways to heal Dean and that was how he found out about his ability. But the info about the guys guarding Dean was unbreachable for Sys. Sys told Dean that if Dean became stronger, it was possible for Sys to breach that.