Upon Russell's activation of his summoning skill, as he held the Scythe of '???' with his two hands, a complicated blue magic circle with unknown symbols written on them appeared on the floor of the training ground, at least a meter away from where he was standing.
It's a fluid-like creature with a light blue circular body. It has no eyes, no nose, no mouth, and no limbs. Then, a core (not a Monster Core or Magic Stone), acting as its source of life was hidden in its body as the body was opaque in nature.
One could only know about it when they studied the creature's biology or they previously encountered such a creature.
Russell then inspected the summoned creature.
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[Blue Slime]
The considered weakest creature known in existence. It possesses the water element attribute and is a very flexible creature.
Rank: F+
Classification: Slime of Water Family
– STATS:
HP: 220
SP: 220
MP: 240
STR: 2 (+20)
DEX: 2 (+20)
CON: 2 (+20)
AGI: 2 (+20)
VIT: 2 (+20)
MANA: 4 (+20)
Skills:
Water Blast (Lvl. 0)
A skill commonly possessed by slimes that belongs to the Water Family.
Rank: F-
Cost: 10MP
Effect:
Fires a circular water blast made from mana
...
Russell looked at the blue slime that was bouncing with its body on the ground as though it has a trait of buoyancy. It looked at him with its nonexistent eyes, awaiting the order of its master.
As he inspected it, he admired the stats of the summoned creature as it was something that one could barely see with his current rank. If he summoned the blue slime with its current stats while he's in the Obelisk Academy, it would undoubtedly cause an uproar due to the stereotype that exists against the players with Summoner professions.
Summoners weren't highly regarded in this world with multiple and seemingly countless professions. They were like Beast Tamers in general, but the only difference was that Beast Tamers were only limited in controlling Monster Beasts.
There were various reasons for such a stereotype; first, raising a Summoner was a very costly thing to do as the summoned creatures needed a Monster Core or Magic Stones as their food for their growth, and second, although it's a profession that's called Summoner, the summoned creatures, if they died in battle or any other possible reasons, would not be able to be summoned again.
The difference between the Monster Cores and Magic Stones was that Monster Cores could only be acquired upon defeating a "Boss Monster", while the Magic Stones could either be acquired from defeating Normal monsters or discovering a mining site inside the Strayed Dungeon — which only happens with a very low chance.
The two above-mentioned reasons were the causes why even most Guilds barely to never recruit a Summoner. The only way a Summoner somehow gets inside a Guild was when the player has another profession just like how Russell was previously a triple-profession player.
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After almost a minute of being lost in thoughts, Russell ordered the blue slime to fire a Water Blast to the Elderwood Training Dummy which he labeled as ETD 1.
Due to the increase in stats of the blue slime, its Water Blast power was unordinary compared to other normal slimes in general.
Bam-!
Preparing for the reaction of ETD 1, Russell raised his wooden sword, but his deep blue eyes constricted as the training dummy didn't react in any way.
He then checked its information to see if there were any changes happened just like how some of his acquired equipment has been unlocked due to a certain Constellation.
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[Refined Elder Wood Training Dummy]
A training dummy once used by the [Night of Primordial Chaos]. It can withstand a million slashes unless you're the Goddess of Night that can break this in one swing without even touching it.
Rank: Mythical
Enchantment:
– Infinite Regeneration
Effect:
The training dummy will infinitely regenerate unless it breaks from one swing.
– Counterattack
Effect:
The dummy is an inanimate object with a consciousness that will counterattack the moment you attack it. Be careful!
Intrinsic Effect:
– Defense Mechanism
Effect:
As the elder wood's mana conductivity is one of the highest, it can absorb attacks with mana.
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"The hell...? Nothing changed..."
Russell didn't let his guard down, assuming that he'd get attacked if he let his guard down. He then ordered again the blue slime until its Mana was completely depleted, but still, even with the Water Blast that's been used with the help of Mana, the Enchantment: Counterattack of ETD 1 didn't trigger.
"Recall."
He quickly recalled the exhausted blue smile with a frown on his face before taking out the Crude Shortsword (Normal) that he bought from the Player General Store, and brought to the Hidden Dungeon, but didn't manage to use.
He wasn't notified by the System about whether or not it's recommended to use the Crude Shortsword. Russell thought that it was maybe because the sword was a trash item that was only meant to be discarded.
This time, with the help of his Mana Control with his Skill: Calm of the Shadows (EX), which increases his proficiency of controlling Mana by 300% (+300% due to his Title: Resident of Chaos), he imbued Mana in his Crude Shortsword.
Taking a proper sword stance, along with his 1200% sword proficiency, he cleaved down the sword towards the ETD 1.
Bam-! Bam-!
He jumped back up after he hit it several times, waiting for its reaction as he posed in a defensive stance. But, after a few seconds... that became a minute... then a minute and thirty seconds... nothing happened.
"The f*ck is happening?!"
He strongly muttered in confusion as he felt like getting pissed off.
'...This-'
Ding-!
A System message appeared in front of him, cutting off his thoughts.
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[The Elderwood equipment is in total harmony that was designated by the 'Night of Primordial Chaos'.]
"What's that supposed to mean?"
He spoke firmly and in confusion as he hadn't had any idea about the indication of harmony that was designated by the Goddess of Night.
"Whatever. If you are not going to react, I'm going to beat out of you."
He spoke at the inanimate object, a seemingly introverted personality that he inherited from his previous life.
"Hup-!"
Bam-! Bam-!
After just a minute or two, a System sent him a message.
[The Crude Shortsword (Normal) has been destroyed.]
The sword that he was holding started to crumble and turned into pieces like broken glass.
...
"Sigh... I guess it's time to try it."
He realized that nothing would happen or he won't be able to move forward when he didn't try the unknown that's meant to be tried, a very different scenario that a total unknown that's not meant to be touched.
With the broken trash weapon on the ground, he took out the Scythe of '???', a prerequisite to use a summoning skill.
'Alien Call.'
He then muttered in his mind – another way of activating a skill aside from verbal. Russell designed it this way in his unpublished novel because if the person needed to mutter the skill name, it could be counterattacked by the opponent who heard and knew the said skill.
This time, as if the System wanted him to rethink his decision, it sent him a message.
[Proceed to summon a Chaos Slime?]
[Yes or No?]
'Alien or Chaos... it's probably the same.'
Russell thought as he chuckled before he nodded in agreement.
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[Activating Skill: Alien Call (EX)]
Suddenly, as though the cold atmosphere of the Chaos Training Grounds turned colder, a dark blue magic circle with intricate symbols appeared in front of him.
'That's freaking ominous.'
He thought as he watched what was happening in front of him.
The dark blue magic circle emanated dark blue smoke that resembled the Chaos Miasma, covering the magic circle itself that blocked Russell's vision.
After some time, the dark blue smoke dissipated and revealed the creature that came out of it.
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[You have successfully summoned a Chaos Slime.]
[Warning! You have not subjugated a Chaos Slime yet, so the creature will not be tamed.]
[Please, subjugate the Chaos Slime to bring it under your control.]
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Russell remembered one of the problems for Summoner professions aside from being costly and being not permanent summons when they died.
A Summoner would need to first subjugate a creature at least once before they could be tame, then summon or recall. But, when a Summoner has riches unimaginable, they could request or hire a high-rank player to first injure the creature to be tamed.
Many accidents took place from this method because, even though the rich kid Summoner has successfully brought the creature under control, once it was summoned by the Summoner himself, there was a high chance that the Summoner would be attacked because the one who brought the creature to the brink of death wasn't the Summoner himself, but rather the hired high-rank player.
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Whoosh-!
The cold wind that seemed to get colder brought Russell back to reality from his stupor as he looked at the creature in front of him.
He got chills running down his spine as he scrutinized the appearance of the Chaos Slime that he needed to subjugate.
The Chaos Slime has a dark blue round body, that's "not" fluid-like, and this time, unlike the blue slime, it contained dark blue, sharp, and pupil-less eyes as though they're a starless night sky. It has no nose and limbs, but it contained a half-moon-shaped big mouth as dark blue smoke was leaking out of it.
The Chaos Slime opened its mouth, seemingly smiling at its puny master.
'What the f*ck!? Ugh-'
Russell retches at the sight of the Chaos Slime, but he didn't let his guard down. When the Chaos Slime opened its mouth, it revealed long, shark-like teeth along with its excessive dark blue saliva as though it was hungry.
The information about the creature then appeared in front of him.
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[Chaos Slime]
A slime that is tainted by "Pure" Chaos that lives in a certain dungeon in the Chaos Realm made by the [Night of Primordial Chaos].
Rank: F+
Classification: Chaos Slime of ???
– STATS:
HP: 550
SP: 550
MP: 550
STR: 35 (+20)
DEX: 35 (+20)
CON: 35 (+20)
AGI: 35 (+20)
VIT: 35 (+20)
MANA: 35 (+20)
Chaos Power (CP): 35 (+20)
– Unique Skill:
[Predation]
Effect:
The beings it eats can either grant the Chaos Slime a skill or randomly distributed stats with 1% and 99% probability respectively.
– Skills:
[Elemental Blast (Lvl. 7)]
Create a circular blast of any desired element using Mana.
Rank: A+
Cost: 5 MP/5 CM
[Short Blink (Lvl. 4)]
Teleports to the desired location with a maximum range of 40 meters.
Rank: A+
Cost: 5 MP/5CM
[Slime Bite (Lvl. 6)]
Jumps to the target and bites them severely. The wound caused by the skill would not heal easily.
Rank: E+
Cost: None
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He was just about to curse at the seemingly unbalanced Chaos Slime's information when it just disappeared from its location, appearing behind him at least two meters away from his spot as it used the Skill: Short Blink (A-).
As though it couldn't wait to take a bite from its master's to be burned flesh, it used the Skill: Elemental Blast (A+) using the Fire Element as its set attribute.