Chapter 4 (1/2)

Translated by iseuli

Edited by Meira

Slime

One of the Demon King Great Ron's failed attempts at the creation of a fairy.

Acidic by nature, this monster takes on a water droplet or ball like form. Their bodies are made of clear jelly like substances and do not have arms or legs. To move, they bounce and slither on the ground like snakes. Their body does not have a concrete form, so those who are not masters of the sword may have great difficulty in defeating these creatures.

The archer and mage's powers are greatly effective against slimes. Fire and ice mages can kill slimes within a single second.

Slimes are cla.s.sified as one of the weakest mob monsters.

Slimes can consume anything, including many forms of precious metals. The slimes, however, may be unable to fully digest precious metals. Often times, precious ores are dropped upon death.

Favorite foods: Bugs, vegetation, and corpses.

Dislikes: Fire and ice.

Kalgilm read the 'Monster Encyclopedia,' over and over.

”Favorites are bugs, vegetation, and corpses.”

'Slimes do like bugs, like I thought. This perfectly describes the Bouncy that I remember. I've prepared centipedes, spider mites, nine legged fire ants, and red c.o.c.kroaches. I especially caught all of Bouncy's favorites, but why is it not eating?'

Kalgilm never bothered with such things like bugs ever in his life.

In his dragon form, humans, elves, and dwarves appeared similar to bugs. To a dragon, bugs are but microscopic existences. He couldn't even see them with his naked eye, and never thought they were worth his time.

Kalgilm only started caring for bugs after Bouncy came into his life.

He used bugs to reward Bouncy whenever it correctly listened to his commands. It used to eat bugs while s.h.i.+vering with pure joy just two hundred years ago.

Two hundred years felt like an afternoon nap to Kalgilm, but to a slime it had been a very long period of time. He was trying to catch as many bugs as he could to properly reward Bouncy for its two hundred years of hard work.

He stuck his head on the dirt floor while catching the bugs even though he was a prideful dragon. How could Bouncy refuse to even eat one bug? It was too cold hearted.

Kalgilm kept doubting himself and became curious whether slime monsters had evolved during the period of time he had been asleep. The monster encyclopedia he kept automatically renewed itself and after every hibernation, he made sure to update himself on the goings on of the world.

Kalgilm crossed his arms while reading his encyclopedia. He stared at Bouncy, who was bouncing in circles all around him.

”Bouncy, it's time for your meal. Today, I got some roses for you.”

Bouncy darted to Elkiesel's call and opened its mouth. Elkiesel fed a rose of just the right size to Bouncy. Its body transformed into a pastel pink color as it continued to obediently nibble on the roses happily.

”Yummy?”

Pu-Ring. Pu-Ring!

Bouncy hopped up and down for Elkiesel. Kalgilm's mood suddenly took a turn for the worse.

'Why does it enjoy everything Elkiesel feeds it, but refuses to eat anything from me?'

Bouncy was feeling so happy that it began rolling all around the lair.

”Bouncy, stop rolling around, it's making our master dizzy. Come.” Elkiesel stopped Bouncy from approaching Kalgilm. He knelt down and opened his arms. Bouncy lightly hopped into Elkiesel's arms. This time, Elkiesel took out a fresh tea leaf. Bouncy nibbled and its body gradually turned into a light green color.

A slime's body would change according to what it eats. Therefore, you would just need to see the color of the slime to understand its diet. He wanted to punch Elkiesel who was making Bouncy's body change into all sorts of colors.

'It's eating perfectly fine.'

A black aura began to seep from Kalgilm's body.

Elkiesel became incredibly nervous because Kalgilm looked to be in an intensely bad mood upon his awakening, if his black aura was already starting to show up.

'What's wrong?'

Named monsters, sometimes called familiars, usually had a difficult time tending to black dragons because of their temperamental nature. Normally, this wasn't the case for Elkiesel because Kalgilm found everything and anything too troublesome, to the degree that his laziness was on a whole new level. Even with a black dragon as a master, Elkiesel had absolutely nothing to do.

The lazy master that Elkiesel was so familiar with and taken care of all this time was giving off a different vibe and it was putting him extremely on edge.

Dragons were naturally aggressive. The world creator made dragons for the sole purpose of protecting this world, and so they naturally loved fighting. They reflexively seek battle, and their dark properties work to intimidate the G.o.ds and demons of the world.

Bouncy stiffened feeling dark energy seeping in the air.

”Shhh, Bouncy, it's okay.”

Elkiesel comforted Bouncy and asked Kalgilm carefully, ”Master, is something bothering you?”

”No. It's nothing.”

As a prideful dragon, there was no way he could admit he felt jealous of Elkiesel, a mere named monster. Kalgilm shut his monster encyclopedia.

'Maybe she hates it because the hardness of the bugs makes the digestion process very long. I should go catch some worms.'

Kalgilm set aside his laziness and left his lair.