"I can't do anything about it now, that place's really far from here. I don't think I even know the way back."
"Sigh….whatever, just get the money and go for now" She handed him the 2000 gold coins. Seeing the amount, Amil finally felt like a rich guy. Bidding farewell, he went to the tribe's center trying to find something. The other kobolds were feeling very uneasy with Amil looking everywhere with a frown. Finally, he saw Gaghan coming out of a house. He went there running coming in front of her in an instant making her shout.
"B-Bastard! Hahh…what a scare" Gaghan exclaimed looking at Amil with narrowed eyes.
"Sorry, I was waiting for you for a while now."
"Hm….waiting f-for me?" Gaghan was taking it somewhere else imagining many things in her mind.
"I just came here to give you this, a gift from me." He handed her the copper sword under Gaghan's blushing and surprised face.
"Use it carefully! I will be going now" Amil left after giving it to her not minding getting a big reaction. Gaghan on the other hand was looking at the sword as if it was a treasure, Amil forgot that she was a dagger user. But his move made her reconsider her fighting style.
Amil went to the forest, directly to the innermost area he ever went to. He saw many kobolds fighting with centipedes and boars in a group on his way.
Ignoring them, he kept going deeper, the pressure always increased with how deep a person went in the forest, the beasts also had an instinct of going there after leveling up aside from the intelligent species.
He didn't know how deep he was, but what he knew was that no pressure assaulted him. After looking around, he finally found a creature, Amil looked at it with disgust. The creature was slimy brown color with waves of mud or turd moving downwards.
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Earth Slime
Level 8
HP- 160/160
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'That's a slime? Woah, that's not what I expected to see' Amil thought, the slime was just too disgusting. It looked like a mud monster.
He went near the slime thinking it was an easy target. He didn't know if the slime even noticed him coming, with no eyes on its body or even a mouth.
What he knew was that the slime was blobbing a lot vertically, Amil finally stopped not reaching closer, the slime's body started forming pointy spikes of about 4 inches. There were about a couple hundred spikes on him within seconds. Amil went on guard with his iron nails activated.
The slime was blobbing a lot, but finally went stiff, about a second later, it shrank a little, and all the spikes went inside. Amil had a gist of what was happening, he stepped back a little and went on guard. The slime inflated again; all the spikes came out of it in every direction. Amil guarded his face from the 10 or so coming towards him. With the fiery aura activated in the hand, the spikes aiming at the face broke on contact. The others just went flying and hit Amil on the gut and shoulders. With the spikes half inside his body, Amil coughed some blood.
He looked at the slime again who was blobbing normally, he gave a huge grin to the slime.
"Hahahaaa! Finally! Something good to fight!" Amil laughed like a madman, the slime had no idea what was happening but one thing he knew was that the kobold's battle spirit increased a lot.
Amil dashed to the slime with his nails ready to attack. The slime was not dilly-dallying, it blobbed a little, and soon big spikes materialized out of the ground around it. Amil had no reaction seeing them.
'Hah…weak bitch, I can just smash them with my fists.' Thought Amil while activating the fiery fists again, he smashed the spike in front of him with one go making the slime appear before him.
It was again just blobbing, it hadn't moved even a little since the fight started, just blobbing vertically without any jump. More spikes came out of his body hitting Amil who did not care about it. The slime was in a dilemma, never in its whole life did he see someone like Amil, the spray of spikes was always enough to kill anything.
Amil went for the swipe with his nails hitting the slime, the nails went in as if going in dense water but came out making the slime just jiggle a little.
"What the fuck?" Amil was surprised by the results. He inspected the slime again and saw its HP at full. The slime kept blobbing with layers of brown water coming down like usual.
Amil still close to the slime took out all the spikes from his shoulder and chest. His HP was more down than the slime.
He didn't stop and kept swiping at the slime not making any progress.
Until realization hit him, activating the fiery aura, he punched again just this time it didn't jiggle and melted a little. Its HP went a little down. The slime couldn't do anything but watch itself get beaten, it was not a melee fighter but long range.
Time passed as Amil either hit it with a fireball or his fists coated with fire. All this didn't satisfy Amil even a bit, it was not a fight filled with thrill as he expected.
[EXP +68, +1 dexterity, +1 mana]
The slime at last melted making all the liquid on its body satisfyingly mix with the ground. Only one thing was left where its body was first. Amil picked it up and did the inspection.
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Mana core
An orb filled with the mana of the creature it belonged to. The mana inside can be used to increase one's mana cap.
Can be used as a crafting material.
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Amil looked at the orb with confusion, he didn't know how to use the orb to increase his mana stat keeping it inside his ring, and drank a potion.
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Just like that, 2 days passed, and nothing more happened aside from family reunions and Amil killing various beasts. Amil even asked his mother how to use the orb but to her demise, she brought 20 more from her space ring asking the same thing. It seemed Amil had to look into it on his own. Even Makeena who was a great crafter did not know how to use it nor did it has any market value.
After so many days, Amil finally got the order to meet the leader, in a happy mood, he went there looking for good news.
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