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*Bulk-bulk*
A large black slime hopped beside me, accompanied by smaller blue and pink slimes.
Yeah they have a hive here... hmmm, if you feed their bodies to Ram and Rem, will they be able to evolve? I'd have to find out, but I'd be dead before I could attack them. If the black ones are dodgy and slow, the pink and blue ones will be faster. And that's not taking into account possible Hylevel slimes, for example, like those two blue ones near the doorway to the other room. Where no one goes in.
Oops, almost hit a slime. I had to be careful, or that was close,' I stepped back against the far wall, trying not to hit anyone. With the danger of being found gone, I began to look around the room and come up with a plan to clean it up.
The approximate number of slimes here, by my count, is a hundred or more, plus the two big hai that the estimate doesn't reach. They're too far away, and getting to them without stepping on anyone would be a challenge. The blue and pink ones are always jumping and crawling and resemble a metropolis of passing cars.
The room itself has a high ceiling and maybe I could jump over this crowd, but what next? I have nothing to grab onto, and if I use my weapon as a climbing tool, there will be a lot of noise.
Bottom line: fight and die. And they are... more dangerous than goblins. Not only are their bodies a viscous substance, but the black ones will be all over me while the little ones distract me. And there's... one... ten... twenty-six of them, plus the ones that came into the room between the Haya. Plus the ones that went... to get water.
Speaking of water and the lake. They're dumping water in there... and why? It's not clear yet.
Hmm... a very difficult task. You can't kill with a sword - it's not like mowing down goblins. Magic, then? More than five Runes of Fire will be hard to hold... if I knew how they would react to a possible attack, it would be easier... eh....
I'm not a tactician, I'm not a tactician. Wait a minute though...
Why would I fight in this room? What a fool I am... hehehe, has experience clouded my head and I've stopped thinking rationally? Once again, the undead skill isn't working!
Why should I risk it when I can catch them outside the lake? That way I can learn their habits and weaknesses, so I can also learn my own... and will they absorb? They should, judging by their skill set, they're good at it.
Decided, I'll watch them for a few more minutes just in case and leave the lake....
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I left the lake cave the same way I entered it - easy and simple. The Slimes didn't smell me, and that's a good thing. Skills are working properly.
I followed them, sometimes feeling my body being studied. Ticklish at times, but amusing and enjoyable... damn - no distractions.
This group consisted of five blue slimes and two pink slimes, and there was one black fat guy with them. Watching them, I realised that he was a water miner of sorts, or a warehouse of... useful substances extracted from organic fauna.
And as the most dangerous, I chose the blue ones, which were clustered around the black one, who was now in the centre of the formation, with the pink ones in the rearguard....
Hmmm... their formation is clearly well practised. In principle, I can launch a fireball at them from the back... when I'm weightless, that is a bomber tactic... heh... Only I'm not an aeroplane and the ceiling can play a bad role for me. But now, before we get too far into the narrow passage, we have to act fast!
I clutched my sword with one hand and prepared the other for the spell: in the usual way, the first runes of fire appeared in my imagination, followed by the second and third. They began to swirl swirling between each other, forming the first signs of the spell already. The wind began to gather in my hands, as if clutching it, the first tongues of flame appeared.
The Slimes had not felt anything yet. The cloak of darkness was beginning to ripple, a little more and it would disappear, but while there was still time I made a dash diagonally, flying over the bodies of the slimes.
The cover of darkness was already gone and even the slimes were frozen and this was a chance.
A decent fireball was already hovering near my hand, burning me with its temperature and covering half of my view, and then it got a jolt and hit the crowd of slimes, burning out the oxygen.
*Bang* The loud sound of the explosion rang out throughout the cave, deafening me a bit. A pillar of steam rose into the air as the explosion rang out. I could no longer see what happened to the slimes.
Experience +1900
It's a good thing there's no methane in the cave, or it'd be fucked. And air... I don't need it. The target was hit and the experience... was decent. Did I kill them all?
As I landed on the ground and rolled over my back, slowing down, I looked back - at my handiwork.
There was nothing where the black slime had been, and around it were distinctive patches in blue and pink splotches...
Yeah...overdoing it, obviously overdoing it. Who do I use to find out the habits and weaknesses? And who do I hit with the sword? Checking souls and stuff? That's a waste of souls! In the cave, the fireball's fire potential was much more powerful than outside, so even the black slime was vaporised. Alright, it works and good. Quickly standing up and putting on a cloak of darkness, I waited for the reinforcements and was going to do the same thing to him, but reducing the spell by one Runes.
One minute of waiting...
A second...
I even managed to feed Ram and Rem the leftover slimes, those willingly scraped the leftovers after them....
Really, at this point I looked creepy, really! Imagine you are walking down the street, you are naked and wearing only a wide coat, and then you stop near a girl and say to her: 'Hey, beautiful! Look what I'm gonna show you! - and you open your coat wide, exposing your body to her. Naked, but there were also tentacles that quickly wrapped around the girl, who tried to run away with a shriek....
That's the girl I was when I saw WHAT came out of my chest! Two (one pink one blue) metre long tentacles... they were quickly scraping up all the leftovers and I felt... no, not me, but... them - satiation and gratitude and great love for me for such a tasty treat!
Master tag skill enhanced!
Damn... my fantasy of cute and cuddly slimes is crumbling before my eyes... hopefully in the future... they will take humanoid form, just as I had hoped at first when I found... my cuties....
Or can become them, because the metamorphosis skill I've recently seen in my Ram and Rem already indicates their rapid evolution as a species?
Good thing I had time to check them with an evaluation.
Ram is a newborn monster.
Danger level: Medium.
Attitude towards you: Love, Affection, Leader, Desire to get closer.
Relationship to Rem: Mate, Affection, Younger.
Leap-4, Metamorphosis-4 Digestion-3, Omnivore-4, Absorption-9, Physical Damage Resistance-6, Magic Damage Resistance-3, Healing-2
Monster's progression to a new evolution is 55%.
Strength - D+
Dexterity - B+
Stamina - S+
Intelligence - B+
Rem is a newborn monster.
Danger Level - Medium
Attitude towards you: Love, Affection, Leader, Admiration
Attitude towards Rem: Mate, Obedience, Elder.
Leap-4, Metamorphosis-3, Digestion-4, Omnivore-5, Absorption-8, Physical Damage Resistance-7, Magic Damage Resistance-2
The monster's progression to the new evolution is 52%.
Strength - D+
Dexterity - A+
Stamina - S+
Intelligence - B+
Nada... the hierarchy is in. And... both their personalities and strengths are rapidly evolving! On top of that, experiencing new emotions for each other, and for me. It's...nice...really I was even wondering what the characteristics of that HAY slime that was standing at the entrance to the other room were!
So, where are the enemy reinforcements? I've been waiting for three minutes and still no new slimes. Was it the loud explosion? Sure, it was a big bang, but it wasn't enough to suddenly engulf the entire lake... or was it? Fuck...I hope not! - Excitedly, I ran forward, hoping I was wrong.....
My experience... don't die!