The strange warm current quickly spread from the whole soul to the slime's little bead.
Then, it spread throughout the whole little slime that was still being "digested" inside another slime.
When the energy completely enveloped Neo's body and soul, the system's familiar voice appeared, but this time, it sounded more lively than before.
DING! [Detecting a new soul's awakening...]
[Scanning the awakened soul— ]
[New awakened human detected: Neo Cromwell]
[Awakening in progress ••• ]
DING! [Congratulations for awakening a talent.]
[Generating a suitable talent ••• ]
A series of panels kept popping up in Neo's mind and soon, only a few lines of words were left behind.
The words were glowing in a golden light, looking like a sacred poem.
For you who were born a new
For you who were neither a human nor a beast
For who were unyielding in life and death
For you who refused to obey fate
For you—
Who were untamed.
The system set out the last sentence and a new panel dyed in gold immediately appeared in Neo's already blurry vision.
DING! [Congratulations on your awakening, dear Beast Tamer]
[Please check your talent's basic skills and personal skills!]
DING! [Detecting another set of racial skills ••• ]
[Linking two skills •••]
A pair of square brackets popped up, tied with a glowing golden chain.
[Devour] — [Beast Taming]
DING! [Successfully linking two skills]
[Please read the system panel for more information]
After a series of DING DING DING noises, Neo finally snapped awake from that mysterious state!
Neo's body was still slowly dissolved inside the ambitious slime's belly, but a layer of golden light firmly protected his body.
If other hunters were here, they would definitely know what kind of golden light that protected Neo's body firmly.
That was the light of the awakened.
A one-time opportunity, a gift that this world gave to the hunters when they first awakened their talent.
This thin golden light was like a thin wall, separating life and death for many newly awakened hunters.
Thanks to the golden light, Neo's body wasn't too badly damaged and he gradually broke free from the ambitious slime's paralyzing liquid.
However, the golden light started to lose its glow second by second.
In no time, this protection would disappear, and the little slime would still end up in the ambitious slime's belly.
What to do? What skill to use?
Neo's mind quickly worked hard to break free from the current situation.
The little slime remembered that somehow, he awakened as a [Beast Tamer] and got the main basic skill belonging to a beast tamer—
[Beast Taming]
Neo was in a hurry and didn't see his skill level.
He quickly opened the system panel in his mind and saw the perquisites to use the [Beast Taming] skill on beasts.
Use [Devour] skill and after successfully paralyzing the target, the linked skill [Beast Taming] would be activated.
Even when Neo was already inside another slime's belly, he didn't give up on the thought of devouring the slime.
Since he wanted to devour, wouldn't it be faster to devour the slime's core?
No matter how smart the ambitious slime was, it followed the instinct of its race— gnawing the body of the slime bit by bit until it reached the slime core.
That's why it needed the paralyzing liquid to numb the prey.
The ambitious slime didn't think of ripping the core away from the slime because only humans would do that.
But Neo immediately thought of that and without any hesitation, he moved bit by bit to the ambitious slime's core!
The closer to the core, the faster the golden light lost its luster, but right before the golden light completely disappeared....
Neo opened his "mouth" wide.
The moment Neo opened his mouth wide and thought hard about devouring the target, the system finally sent another notification that sounded more beautiful than any other sound in the world.
At least for Neo at this precise second.
DING! [Devour] skill is activated.
[Devour]
(Skill level: A)
The golden light completely disappeared, replaced by the white light from the special effects.
The special effects quickly took over Neo's body and the little slime suddenly opened its mouth wide.
The mouth was opened even wider and bigger than the size of the slime itself!
The huge mouth rushed towards the ambitious slime's black bead, like the man-eating plant in a certain plant vs zombie game.
With one gulp, the entire black bead disappeared into the little slime's big mouth.
Chomp!
Neo quickly swallowed the slime bead and soon, his mouth secreted a paralyzing liquid, just like what the ambitious slime was doing to him.
If Neo chose to swallow the slime's entire body and not just the slime bead, he would only be able to eat a part of the slime, not a whole.
No matter how exaggerated the special effects of the skill, in reality, Neo's mouth was still small.
But it was enough to swallow the entire slime bead in one bite.
If this was the usual eating process of a slime, the slime would have to digest the prey's body bit by bit.
The prey would be eaten alive without them knowing.
For slimes, they would still continue to regenerate until they exhausted their energy and the big slime devoured their slime core.
But Neo, the sly and cunning human being, skipped all the steps and went straight to the end game.
The moment the slime bead was devoured whole, the ambitious slime, who was still digesting Neo in its belly, suddenly stopped moving.
Then, the paralyzing liquid and the acid liquid used to digest the little slime slowly evaporated into the air.
The whole slime "melted" like an ice cream in summer, releasing the trapped little slime inside.
However, Neo didn't even notice all of this because the moment he successfully used the [Devour] skill and paralyzed the ambitious slime, a system panel with two options suddenly appeared in his vision.
DING! [Successfully paralyzed the target]
[Linking to other skills •••]
[Slime Transformation]
[Beast Taming]