The hunt for the kilo slime went on until evening. Even after increasing his endurance, the hunt did not go on easy. Dean still had a hard time fighting the kilo slime. He only able to kill 10 kilo slime that day. He ran away from three fights as his life was in danger.
Dean went back to his room and absorbed the data from kilo slime core increasing his elite data collection to 20/100. He used the data to increase his vitality from 3.7 to 6.7.
Dean hunt for the kilo slime went on for two weeks until he was able to upgrade the slime core and soul to legend grade. During the duration of the two weeks, Dean did not practice the water absorb skill and heavy tackle skill. He did however read the skill book to understand it.
Summer 27th – Month 1 – Year 2001
Dean went back to his current home, the small house inside the palace vicinity the night before. It has been almost three weeks since he came back. He found out where Yuri went missing. She went to school. He forgot that they were still high school students due to him quitting school.
After he came back, he also got news that King Rion failed to persuade Cloud Luke. Cloud Luke got annoyed with King Rion pestering and release the news about Dean to the media himself. That caused a huge uproar. More people hate Dean more.
* * *
Glitz Family
The Glitz family was shocked by the news themselves. They never met Dean after Dean quit school. Even when Dean in the hospital, they never came to visit him. News about Dean marrying Princess Yuri was a total shocked to them.
"That kid must have been trying to elevate his social status because of his uselessness," said Elder Dee. Elder Dee was the third elder of Glitz Family. He was not the strongest person in the family but he contributed a lot for the family.
"The masses are looking at us badly. They thought we were the ones who paired him with Princess Yuri. That ugly brat," said Elder Serii. Elder Serii was the fourth elder of Glitz family. She was an old woman but did a lot of plastic surgery to look young. She even on the hunt of monster with transformations skill.
"Should we get rid of him? He is living inside the palace right now," said Elder Buin. Elder Buin was the second elder of Glitz Family. He was known for his high strength. Even though he was old, he was bulky and muscular.
"We can't assassinate him while he is inside the palace. Doing that will incur the wrath of the royal family," said Elder Hugh. Elder Hugh was the first Elder as well as the strongest person in the family. He was a phase 7 human. Though he was not as strong as Cloud Luke, he was one of the top ten strongest human in the world. He ranked ninth.
Hugh was thinking of something and decided on something. He told the other elder about his plan and the other elder all showed a sinister smile.
* * *
Dean's house
Dean woke up early because he wanted to start training the water absorb and heavy tackle. During the time he took to hunt the kilo slime, Dean successfully maxed his bounce skill level. He used the limit breaker crystal and upgrade the bounce skill from normal grade to elite. The skill was not yet finished upgrading thus he was unable to use it.
The night before, he checked the internet and there was still no news about the rabbit coat slime and rubber.
He wanted to have some breakfast first before he started training the two new skill. He walked towards the kitchen and saw Yuri was having her breakfast in the dining room.
There were three palace maids and two chefs standing behind her watching her ate. Dean was stunned to see that she was home. He remembered that it was Saturday and there was no school that day. He passed through them and went straight to the kitchen.
While Dean was passing them, Yuri suddenly stopped Dean. She looked at Dean and Dean looked at her.
"Let's have breakfast together," said Yuri. She ordered the maids to serve the food for Dean and continued eating. Dean was looking at Yuri strangely. She never tried be nice to him before and she suddenly invited him having breakfast with her.
Dean walked to the dining table and sat on the chair in front of Yuri. Dean asked Yuri, "Why so suddenly? Is there anything you want to talk about?" Dean was looking at Yuri waiting for her to answer. Dean thought that there must be something Yuri wanted to say.
"You are not going to enroll back into our high school? I can ask my father to help you enroll back. It is a waste if you miss high school," said Yuri. She continued, "Since you can't become stronger, isn't it better if you study properly?"
When Dean heard what Yuri said, his face changed. "Who said I can't become stronger? Don't look down on me," said Dean with serious voice. "I thought you will be different from what I read online about you but you are the same as everyone else."
Dean stood from his chair and left the Yuri alone. Yuri tried to stop him but Dean did not even care about that. Yuri just watched Dean walked away from her.
"I did not mean it like that… Maybe I should say it in a different word?" Yuri's face was apologetic when she saw Dean like that. She really did not mean it that way.
Dean went to the house backyard. He stopped and took deep breaths. He looked around and sat on the ground.
"Why did I snap like that? I am use to this treatment. I should stay calm. Idiot," said Dean to himself. He regretted that he did that. He never thought that he was still sensitive about it.
'Maybe you are too stress about not finding your new slime,' said Sys who always listening and watching what happened to Dean.
"Maybe that is the case. I should just make a new slime and not be stubborn about finding the new slime first before making a new one," said Dean. He did not create any new slime because he wanted to find the rabbit coat slime and rubber slime first.
'You know, I think the princess did not mean it like that. Her face did not have that kind of intention at all' said Sys. Dean did not say anything and silently listened to Sys.
'She did not say the wrong things. Education is important. You can self-study all you want but the thing you learn by yourself and the thing you learn with a teacher is different' said Sys.
"If we are talking about teacher, you can be my teacher. You are smart, right?" asked Dean.
'I won't deny that I am smart but I am not a good teacher. Smart people do not mean they are good teacher,' said Sys.
"Then, should I enroll back to high school? You know my reputation. So many people want me dead and with news of me becoming Yuri's partner fuel that more intensely," said Dean.
'No one will try anything to you. You have different status now. You are currently part of the royal family. No one will dare to mess with royal family' said Sys.
"But I still don't feel that I have that privilege…" said Dean. He stood up and did not want to talk anymore. He then started learning the heavy tackle skill. In order to learn water, absorb, Dean needed to be around water. So, he decided to learn it at night inside the tub.
Both the heavy tackle and water absorb were elite grade. It will take more time to learn them than learning a normal grade skill. An elite grade skill usually took about one month maximum to learn. So, in order for Dean to learn both the skill, it will take about 2 months. There was nothing Dean can do because there was no normal grade slime with these two skills.
Dean was just starting to learn the heavy tackle when Yuri came to him. Dean stopped himself and looked at Yuri. "About what happened earlier" both Dean and Yuri said the same thing at the same time. They both stopped and looked at each other awkwardly.
"You can talk first," said Yuri. She sat on a chair that was present at the backyard to listen to what Dean wanted to say.
"I am sorry that I snap earlier. I never thought that I still mind about people looking down on me," said Dean.
"Don't worry about that. I also want to apologize with what I said. I did not mean it that way. I just think that you can learn a lot at school," said Yuri. "If you don't want to do that, I won't force you."
Dean smiled at Yuri and said, "I have decided that I won't enroll back to high school. Thank you for worrying about me."
Yuri heard Dean's decision and decided to accept his answer. She left Dean alone and went back inside the home. Dean continued learning the heavy tackle skill.
* * *
Far north of camp 7, there was a snowy mountain with three different peaks called the Trice Mountain. It was a high as Mount Everest. The mountain was always snowing even during summer. It was cold with harsh landscape and weather.
Due to the difficulty of exploring in the mountain not many people came to this mountain. Monsters in Trice Mountain was strong and most of them higher than elite grade.
On each three peak of Trice mountain lived three different supreme grade monsters. Peak 1 was occupied by the White Lion. Just like the name suggested, white lion was white in color. It was huge with its height reached 400 meters. Every monster that lived on Peak 1 was ruled by the white lion.
Peak 2 was ruled by the Six Arm Yeti. The six-arm yeti had six huge arm and had the highest strength among the three supreme monster that ruled the three peaks of Trice Mountain. It was as huge as the white lion. No human ever tried fighting the six-arm yeti because the strength of it was comparable to monster from second dimension.
Peak 3 was ruled by the Green Wolf. Green wolf did not possess a body as huge as the white lion and six-arm yeti nor it possessed the strength of six-arm yeti but green wolf was the fastest and smartest among the three supreme monsters. Many people try fighting the green wolf in the past but they met a bad end. The green wolf was fast and always striking at the fatal point. Most of its enemy was killed in one strike.
Firl was a rookie photographer and writer. He worked at one of the most popular magazines, The Magna. The Magna was a weekly magazine that covered everything about the dimensions. When the new slime appeared, The Magna made a special column in their magazine just for the news about the slime.
Firl had been working as a photographer and writer at The Magna for a year. However, none of his pictures and articles were chosen to be include inside the magazine. He was at wits end because the HR had warned him that if he can't produce any results in the next month, he will be kick out of the company.
Firl had been going everywhere for the past week to photograph and find stories about a lot of things. He never went back to his company to showed his pictures or stories because he cannot find any good things worthy of news.
Firl found out that there were not many people that went to Trice Mountain. He thought maybe there will be some good story if he went there. So, Firl decided to go to Trice Mountain.