“Damn, it’s hard. My Dissolving Liquid can’t melt it?”
After the Forest Turtle left.
I was thinking of eating the leftover Red Oni for the time being. I hadn’t had breakfast yet.
Well, as expected, the Red Oni’s body was too hard to melt.
It’s only natural since its Toughness doesn’t drastically decrease just because it’s dead.
“Guess I’ll look for something else.”
There’s no point in dwelling on something I can’t eat, so I leave the Red Oni behind before another Demon Beast shows up.
I doubt there are many brave enough to approach after hearing such a battle, though.
I thought about lying in wait here and hunting any Demon Beasts that came, but it’s too risky in my current state, so I’ll save it for another time.
That’s because…
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Life: 9/30
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My Life is pretty bad.
My body volume has also shrunk by about one or two sizes compared to usual.
“Ugh, it’s starting to hurt now that I’ve calmed down…”
I had been gradually losing Life due to the aftereffects of the battle.
I was too excited to notice the pain at the time, but as I regained my composure, a piercing pain started to spread throughout my body.
Do Slimes also release adrenaline-like substances in their brains…?
No, I don’t even know if I have a brain in the first place.
At least, I don’t seem to have the concept of skin, so it doesn’t hurt particularly when my injured areas touch the ground or air.
Thanks to that, I can walk without any problems even with a serious injury that has shrunk my body by about two sizes.
“Besides, it’ll heal if I just leave it alone.”
~Skill Details~
Self-Regeneration: Constantly and automatically recovers from injuries and losses.
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It’s a Skill that Slimes have from birth.
The recovery speed is slow, but it still recovers completely in about an hour.
After that, I continued to move away from the battlefield, ate some berries along the way, and stopped when my Life had mostly recovered.
“Alright, let’s do this!”
I pumped myself up.
I decided to become like those giant Demon Beasts. To do that, I have to train.
That said, the fastest way to get stronger is to Level up.
If I use the Crush tactic, I can easily hunt Lesser Beasts.
But that’s not enough. It won’t work against higher-level Demon Beasts.
I need to acquire abilities that allow me to attack more proactively, or I’ll eventually hit a wall.
So, I’m going to start training to acquire attack Skills.
The Forest Turtle from earlier showed me what kind of attack Skills I should get.
“Sla…”
I focused and extended a part of my light blue body.
I focused on making it as thin and long as possible.
–A Slime’s body is usually a slightly flattened sphere, like a curling stone.
If you don’t consciously do anything, it naturally takes that shape, so I guess that’s its natural state.
But that doesn’t mean it can’t take other shapes.
The further it deviates from the flattened sphere, the more difficult it becomes, but if you try hard enough, you can still transform to some extent.
Whether it’s because my Level has increased or because of the Evolution, it’s easier to transform than before, which is a good thing.
“(Guh…)”
So, I kept trying to transform, and somehow managed to get it into a shape I was satisfied with.
I made a long, thin whip. I added a small lump at the tip as a weight.
Ideally, I wanted it to be as thick as the Forest Turtle’s vines, but if I made it that thick, my body volume would disappear.
In that respect, the whip I made this time, which is a little thinner than a water hose, didn’t use up that much volume and was able to secure a decent length.
Due to the fact that I can’t stray too far from the flattened sphere, I have to maintain half of my volume as a sphere, but it’s still long enough to be called a whip.
“(Alright, let’s begin…!)”
I desperately controlled my body, which was trying to return to its spherical shape, and swung the whip.
I swung it back as far as I could, then slammed it into the tree in front of me.
Pesh.
It made a terribly weak sound.
The whip just brushed against the surface of the trunk and didn’t even leave a scratch.
“(Hmm, guess the first one was a failure.)”
Unlike ordinary Slimes, Jewel Slimes’ bodies aren’t elastic. In other words, they’re hard.
I can freely change its shape with my own will, but its shape hardly changes from external forces.
That’s why, if I can properly build up speed, I should be able to scrape off some of the bark.
The reason for this failure was simply my lack of skill.
Since a Jewel Slime’s body can only be moved by its own will, simply swinging the grip (base) like a normal whip won’t move anything other than the area near it.
I needed to smoothly link the base of the whip to the middle and the tip.
Well, I didn’t expect to succeed on the first try.
From here on out, it’s just a matter of training!
After that, I kept swinging the whip for a while.
Gradually, I got the hang of it, got used to maintaining the transformed state, and even acquired a Skill.
With these changes, the sound of the whip had changed completely before I knew it.
Zupan zupan zupan zupan!
When I swung the whip in quick succession, the satisfying sound of the trunk splintering also came in quick succession.
The speed of the whip and the interval between swings had improved dramatically.
The wood chips that scattered with each swing told the story of the whip’s power.
“Slaaa…”
But I’m not satisfied with just that.
My goal is to be the strongest! I have to train more and more.
With that in mind, I devoted myself to whipping for a while.
I heard a disturbing cracking sound, but I didn’t notice and continued practicing with the whip.
“(Uooooooo!)”
Let’s sort out the situation for now.
I’ve been scraping away at the tree from one direction.
As a result, a large hollow has formed near the base.
It’s not hard to imagine what will happen if I keep digging into the hollow in this situation.
“(Gyaaaaaaaah!?)”
I was so engrossed in whipping that my Escape activation was delayed, and I ended up hitting my head on the collapsing tree.
~Unrecorded Information Area~
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Fue Toukouya (Jewel Slime) has acquired the Skill: Flexibility Exercise.
Acquired the Skill: Whip.
Acquired the Skill: Rapid Fire.
Acquired the Skill: Concentration.
Acquired the Skill: Compact Whip.
Acquired the Skill: Combo. Rapid Fire has been integrated.
Acquired the Skill: Folly.
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