However, what was about to happen overturned everything he knew about how a world should be.
The hyped, excited witches actually began doing their experiments right there and then, using the slimes to begin training in their sexual meditative methods. Their psychic powers spiked during the meditation process, causing the slimes to die one after another.
The slimes did not have any psychic properties like that of the Evil Eye. They were simply the weakest of monsters. As such, like those pitiful men the witches used as tools, the slimes were rendered one-time-use consumables.
"Oh my god! These are witches! This world is actually a world ruled by witches…"
Li Shengjiang, who was hiding among his slimes, trembled in fear, being afraid that those witches would come up to him.
He was quick-thinking enough to sneak past them eventually when they were being busy, and hid among those ravaged and dead Slimes, playing dead to evade that horrifying torture that was possibly going to fall upon him. He would have been ravaged by a witch otherwise, and his pride was such that he might actually kill himself on the spot when that happened…
Despite the fact that being a man meant that he loved the idea of beautiful girls throwing themselves at him, but he was at the moment, a Slime.
I'm just a slime!
What are you gonna do to me??
Those witches discussed matters among themselves.
"Hmm, not bad with the rate of progress. I feel like the bottleneck at level three being loosened already. Despite being a one-time-use consumable, they still work better than that sticky disgusting Evil Eye… we can't afford to kill too many of them. We need to bring these creatures back and breed them."
"This is one huge discovery. We actually found something capable of replacing the Evil Eye." The witches chatted away, feeling very excited. "Our great teacher, the level five witch Adeline, would definitely reward us for this."
The bunch chatted away in glee as they left.
The place was filled with dead Slimes, looking awfully harrowing.
Li Shengjiang was the only one who was not ravaged due to him playing dead.
"Those girls are wearing sorcerer's robes. Is this a world of witches? Those are definitely evil witches. Uncouth, evil, dark, and definitely shameless! They actually dare to pull something so vile to creatures that are so cute!
Li Shengjiang lamented the loss from inside out.
He never expected that the slimes, being newcomers to the world, were already all taken away and him being left a general with no one to command before the slimes were able to make it to the top of the world and reign supreme.
He recalled something that a player had said before.
Who said that the big guy has forgotten his original goal!? Just look at that muscular arm of his, isn't that arm of the creature over ten times more powerful than all others that exist now? This is what I call the true Hunyuan Thunderbolt! But then again, don't let the streamer girls get a look at such a powerful arm, for they wouldn't be able to contain themselves after that ROFL.
He was devastated.
Are you telling me that this is all work of fate? If I knew this would happen, I definitely wouldn't have named myself such!!
I will never tell anyone about this part of my life. Never!
It was written in the 'Spear of the Thriving Witch' over 100 years later.
[Year 301 of Kingdom of Babylon. One of the greatest and most mystical witches of all the time, the mysterious Great Lord who reigned over alchemy and the Gate of Truth, Grantham, appeared first in the Great Forest of Boldera. No one knew how the Great Lord of Alchemy's true race was, and no one knew why the Great Lord of Alchemy hated the evil witches with such fervor!]
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Pfftt!!
Well, that's tragic.
Xu Zhi was unable to help but laugh out loud until he felt his stomach cramping. "Dude, a dreamy start just like Lilith eh… her lover got taken away, your race got taken away… I sure hope you'd remember the grudge, and that you would learn to forge on despite the insult. No one reigns supreme forever and one should never belittle the underdog, they say."
After those evil witches left, several women who wore sorcerer's robes with black stripes appeared in the lush forest. "Damn those witches from the Rose Witch. They actually did something like that to such cute creatures. Wait, there is actually a survivor, no?"
Not another bunch!
Oh gosh, my cover is busted!
I'm done for!
I'm about to be defiled!
Li Shengjiang had completely given into despair. However, it was clear at that moment that the bunch who emerged later were different from those who left. They sneaked him back to their place.
Those witches looked haggard, curling up in some small, dank house. They chatted and kept him around, truly treating him, a Slime, as just a mere pet.
He used his time as pets of the witches to watch their interactions, learning the native language of that particular world in secret.
He was not Xu Zhi after all.
Xu Zhi had the Insecta Nest mind to help with translations, not him. As such, he had to learn from scratch, and he found that there was a type of mystical power in that world—sorcery. It looked surreal to him seeing those women use all manner of magical powers.
Three years passed just like that, and he gradually picked up the local language of the natives.
However, his days were difficult, given that he was just a pet.
"Gosh, this game really is hardcore. Not only do I have to eat, sleep and sh**, I actually have to learn the language of the natives from scratch, just like how anyone would with a foreign language. It sure feels like I have crossed over to another world…"
"Worse still, I have discovered something else even more hardcore. The sensation of pain and all five senses are automatically cranked to 100 percent! This is already a second life in the truest sense! If I were to die here, it would hurt just as much as it would in real life. If I were to be tortured and flayed and being done whatever by the natives, I…"
All that realization meant that he dared not leap before the coast was clear, and he gradually learned of the structure of that world.
The evil witches ruled over that world and the status of men was horrifyingly low. There were only seven of the conventional kind witches living in squalor. They called themselves the member of the 'Freemasonry of Witches of Elizabeth'.
That place was their secret lair, and they kept him around as and treated him like a pet.
They formed their own private witch sisterhood, helping each other out while swearing to overthrow the tyranny of the Rose Church.
However, the way Li Shengjiang saw it, those girls were just having delusions, nothing more. He knew just how weak those witches were after all. Even the strongest among them—Elizabeth—was but a level two sorcerer.
One day, all seven of the cute little witches sneaked up to the freemasonry lair and had their discussions.
Myrlie was a cute little witch with blonde hair and bright blue eyes. "Elizabeth, have you heard that the Slime was completely integrated into the Rose Kingdom as the second pet beside the Evil Eye, and they could serve to further the evil witches' training?"
Elizabeth, a witch who had black hair and brown eyes, was unsettled. "While they are only treated as one-time-use consumable, being such cute creatures mean that they are incredibly popular. Furthermore, despite being so unbelievably weak, they are really, really at breeding. Massive numbers could be found hopping all over the place and there is no worry of them going extinct like men. They are being sold 10 Rose Coins per Slime."
"Ain't they super cheap then? There are many sorcery materials that cost only over a dozen Rose Coins. My apprentice sorcerer's staff cost me only 300 Rose Coins. I could buy 30 Slimes with that!"
"I've also heard that the situation with the contribution of men of Kingdom of Babylon getting relieved somewhat, due to the discovery of the Slimes. The Great Lilith even said that the discovery of the Slimes actually saved the kingdom."
"Yeah, the Slimes are like our savior. The biological structure of that creature is simple and they breed like nobody's business. It's like they are born to be used for training by the evil witches."
The group of girls chatted away.
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My pack!
The race that I've brought to this foreign world, to make myself king. I never imagined…
Li Shengjiang was feeling so hurt that it felt like someone had just gutted him.
The usually calm and collected middle-aged man listened to everything in secret and was utterly devastated.
Transported to a foreign world with his race and reduced to being bottom-feeders. His race was treated like slaves, traded around like merchandise while being tortured all the time…
I might as well die.
What kind of a savior is this? Using my race to ease the predicament of your men in your Kingdom of Babylon, and suffer in your stead?
I do want to become a savior, but definitely not like this!
Li Shengjiang finally felt that the time was right and was unable to help but spoke up, "If you could help me, then I shall lead your resistance against the evil witches and save you conventional witches, as well as my race of Slimes."
The Slime is actually talking??
Every single one of the witches who were chatting were completely dumbfounded and confused.