There was bright pink and purple dust floating in the air. My body was falling through these yellow rings with points at the edges of them. I was barely conscious… my vision slightly blurred as I fell.
Why was I falling…
I don't remember.
||An Entity Calls Out!: Hm? A soul…||
||NOTICE: Analyzation of your soul has started…||
||NOTICE: Match Found! '01' has been located! Preparing body syncing…||
||An Entity Calls Out!: This will hurt a bit. Don't die~ well, you're already dead anyway so it doesn't really matter.||
What…?
||NOTICE: Body syncing has started! Pain rate at the maximum!||
I felt a bone in my left leg snap in half, blood started dripping from my ears as I felt more cracks.
"A-AUUGHHH—"
My bones started crushing into dust. My body parts ripping and being crunched together. My lungs were pierced by my rib cage, I coughed up blood as they shriveled up. I started suffocating, almost a drowning-like feeling in my throat.
"S-STOP–"
||An Entity Calls Out!: No~ also make sure to grow strong for me alright~?||
Blood started pooling up in my eyes as my body collapsed into this pooled red liquid. It started warping creating this body-like shape. These liquidated clothes started forming over the shape; a trench coat, jeans, shoes…
The liquid started solidifying and smoothing out, color started appearing. The coat filled in with black, a lime green color outlining its edges. The red liquid made a red streak in my hair and the rest filled my eyes into pure red. Slowly this yellow-gold number started carving itself into my left eye as I continued to fall.
||NOTICE: Body syncing complete! World transfer—||
…
Everything went black.
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"…"
I can't see…
What happened?
Huh-
I- feel something weird.
Where am I?
Everything is black…
I can't move my body. Am I alone?
"Ah…- it's bright…"
"Why's… my vision blurry?"
My eyes refocused and I looked down at my hands.
They were different.
Similar in a sense, but different.
I was in a forest… but how did I get here? I was on the beach… and then the-…
"Wait a forest?"
That's not right… there should barely be any trees left on the planet. Let alone an entire forest. We had no need for them since we had oxygen ventilators cleaning everything for us. Though it hurt the wildlife a ton which is why we lost out on nature as a whole.
This is Earth right?
I looked for some nearby water to check my reflection.
I was wearing a black trench coat, with a lime green outline around my wrists and the edges of it. I also had a dark blue pair of jeans on and black gloves. A red streak of color was on the right side of my hair, and my eyes… were purely red? I didn't have pupils. My eyes as a whole were just red, and in a vibrant yellow-gold color was the number '01' engraved on my left eye.
That's me… so reincarnation? Is this another world?
There's forests so…
"Well, shit."
"How can I get my… make them pay for what they did-"
My eyes started glowing red as my emotions started intercepting my thought process.
"FUCK!"
I punched a tree as hard as I could. It shook for a second as a slight crack started forming.
"Actually wait. It was practically impossible with my knowledge-"
The tree broke and went flying backward making a giant pathway.
"Heh…"
"I- what the hell is this strength…"
"I just- punched a fucking tree and-"
Wait, why didn't it hurt?
I looked at the pathway…
"Holy shit…"
I turned my view to my hands.
"Do I…? Try it?"
I cleared my throat.
"Status." I said firmly.
Nothing happened.
"Fine then…"
"Status Window."
Nothing.
"Stats."
"Window Open?"
"Inventory!"
Still nothing…
"Now this shit is pissing me off."
I threw my hand out and yelled.
"STRATUM!"
Nothing~
"I know no one is here but that self humiliation for it to not even work-"
DING
"Heh-"
"Wait…"
Why did that work…
"What the fuck does 'Stratum' even mean again…?"
I looked at my status window.
"Let's see, [Species: Slime]… slime? Not human? Well I guess my eyes are weird… and maybe that's why I'm stronger? I shouldn't have been able to destroy that tree let alone be completely unfazed by the hardness of it."
I lightly poked at my face.
I thought slimes were supposed to be weak though…
"What else? [Level: 1]…"
I looked toward the path I had made, then back at the screen.
"Bullshit."
I then clicked this separate tab button toward the top of the screen. It switched all the info to these different stats with numbers next to them.
"[Strength: 164]… why so high? [Perception: 200]… [Speed: 189]…. [Heath: 250,000]….. what the fuck… that's insane. Why do I even need health? If I get stabbed in the heart I die right?"
…
Wait.
"I'm not human. So I don't have a heart, maybe a core since I'm a slime?"
I looked back toward my screen.
"[Mana: 2]… this shit is so unfair. Why… IS MY MANA SO FUCKING LOW?!"
"Fuck man... really? The coolest part about a fantasy world is the magic! What else is here?"
I clicked another tab which showed three options.
"Titles: [World Ender], [Monster in Human Clothing], and [Otherworlder]."
"I like the sound of the first one quite a bit, but what is this? [Monster in Human Clothing]?"
Well slimes are supposed to be little blobs or something right… and I look human-like…
"Did I kill someone?"
I looked at my hands again, staring at them deeply.
…
"Pfft. Fucking loser!"
I started laughing my ass off. I don't really know why. I guess my sympathy for humans fully disappeared after becoming a monster. Not that I really had much to begin with though.
"If that's the case I can change my body right? I wonder if I can do it just by thinking… What's the limit to it?"
"Oh- skills?"
I went to the skill section of the window.
"Let's see! Let's see!"
I sounded like a ten year old kid going to an amusement park.
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Passive Skills:
-Quick Learner, MAXED;
-Sentient Mind, MAXED;
-Chantless, MAXED.
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All of those seem to be pretty good. I get to learn quickly, and I don't have to chant magic.
"Now the active ones!"
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Active Skills:
-Absorption, Lvl 4;
-Form Shift, Lvl 2;
-Spell Creation, Lvl 1;
-Storage, Lvl 1;
-Language Master, Lvl -20.
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"Is this a joke… my level… in languages… is negative twenty?!"
Other than [Language Master] all of the other skills can be really useful.
"[Absorption] lets me... well absorb things."
That's… fucking obvious.
Well, actually all of them are fucking obvious.
[Form Shift] lets me change my body… I guess that answered my question from earlier. [Spell Creation] lets me make new spells… wait spells?! So maybe my mana can rise, so I won't be stuck with shitty mana? Solid~ and finally [Storage] was just a game inventory.
With these abilities I might be able to go back to Earth and maybe I can get a better revenge than I originally anticipated!
I clenched my fist tightly.
"This is what I'm talking about!"
"…"
"Ah- I'm tired now… let's… get going~"
I started walking through the vast forest.
Hmm…
What was the last thing that happened before I woke up anyway?
…
Yeah I can't remember~
It feels like this forest is going on forever though. The same rinse and repeat trees… grass… bush… It was underwhelming.
When the fuck can I leave this forest?! When am I going to find some sort of path!
"P-pleh!" Someone yelled.
"Huh?"
"The fuck was that?"
"AAAHHHH!" yelled the same voice.
"What a pain."
I walked toward the yelling. There I was. In the most generic situation, a merchant with his wagon… was being attacked by bandits.
The merchant had a jade green cloak over one shoulder and he had a small jade cap on his head. He was overweight and had a white beard. The merchant had white clothing with some gold chains and other jewels. His eyes were a blue shade and he had short whitish gray hair.
"Heheheh~ I. Just. Had… A. Great. I-D-E-A."
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"H-help me! Please! Somebody!" Yelled the merchant.
"No one is saving you old man, now give us everything you have!" The bandit put his blade to the merchant's throat.
"I won't have to use force. Right?"
"Ah... N-no uh-"
CRACK
"Huh?"
The bandit's head was obliterated. His corpse fell to the ground lifelessly.
Blood pouring out onto the ground.
"Captain?" Whispered one of the bandits.
"Ahhh. No~ someone died! Hahaha. Who's next~?" I said as I pushed my hair up and to the side. My eyes slightly glowing that red color again.
I then picked up and threw a small rock, one that could fit in the palm of my hand, at another bandit piercing his heart. The bandits were in complete shock at what they saw while watching the brutal scene unfold.
"Hey! You s-stop there! Or we'll kill you!"
What they said ^^^
"Uoy llik ll'ew ro! ereht pots-s uoy yeh!"
What I heard ^^^
"Huh? I can't understand you nor do I care."
I shrugged the remark off and ran up to him thrusting my fist forward annihilating his upper body, his arms and lower body falling to the ground. Then I swiftly jumped between each of the bandits slowly killing them off in brutal ways. I can't lie, it was pretty fun~
"AAAAAH! I'll kill you!" Screamed a bandit.
He tried slashing me with his sword.
"Futile~" I whispered.
I then dodged his sword and struck his jaw, blowing his head off. Blood splattering onto the merchant and the ground around him as the head rolled.
"Bye bye~"
The scenery I just made was brutal. Blood was pouring out from all of their corpses, limbs scattered across the ground. The scene didn't bother me though, and my personality seemed to be molding over my actions.
"Uoy era tahw…" said the merchant, his eyes struck with fear.
I glared at him, "I never said you were safe either."
"'Let's try it out… shall we~?"
||ABSORB||
This red slime-like substance started rising out of my body and moving toward the Merchant. It was a shade of red similar to the streak in my hair and the color of my eyes. They were almost in the shape of tentacles…
"Ooooon-n!" Screamed the merchant as he tried crawling away.
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"Hmm…"
"Mmmmmm…."
"Uuuuuh…"
"Alright. Now I understand."
After absorbing the merchant I found out a lot about my current world. First of all, I'm on one of the seven continents just like my old world. This is the human continent of 'Dynanimus'. There are separate continents for each race. Including Elves, Dwarves, Demons, Beastmen, Fairies, and Dragons. However, there is another. The island of the monsters called 'Hellion's Purgatory' all the races gather here to hunt the monsters for money. On top of that it's apparently everyone's goal to reach the top because some form of "Gods" are waiting to grant that being a wish. Honestly it piques my interest. It could be a one-way ticket home.
Hmm…
"The merchant was also head of a powerful guild and his name…"
I hit my head trying to absorb the information.
"...was Percide Oxenbull?"
"I knew this would be useful~ now I can get information anytime I want along with money!"
"Now why don't we test another skill out?"
||FORM SHIFT||
The slime started coming out and wrapping around my body. Taking the shape of what I had imprinted onto it… which was Percide's corpse. The colors started filling in making me look like a perfect replica of the original.
BWERRRR
A horn?
"Perfect~" I said with a wide smile.