Volume 1 Chapter 9 (1/2)

Translators :

GoldenOwl

Editor/TLc :

Meteor

Indra

Chapter 9 - Ways to attain power, and the feeling of loneliness

Taking a single breath once the battle was done

『Level has been increased to 9

For reaching the specified level, 「Basic Liquification」「Basic Self-Liquid-Manipulation」have now been acquired

In turn, you have co level-based skills for this species

For having met this criteria, 「Slime Murderer」「Slime Killer」「Same Race Murderer」 have now been acquired

Due to having defeated a Slime (common species), you have now partially usurped its abilities

「Physical Defense - Small」 has now been acquired

Due to the superior skills 「Sli acquired, the inferior skills 「Slime Murderer (provisional)」「Same Race Murderer (provisional)」「Slime Murderer」have automatically been overwritten』

The announceh as always It seemed there were no Neo Slime skills left for me to earn anymore

Still though; it happened back then with the goblins too, but what the hell did usurping their abilities even ” should be so correctly, and since the skills I'd gained included skills I'd learned offin the first place either

T/N: For the sake of an easy-to-understand translation, this usurping of abilities was translated as si the ene isn't that common a word in japanese either, and that it was supposed to be a word our slionist wasn't fae of later chapters

This toldeneo up But then, as even up with how eating eneaveat all the rest of the time?

I caht work To testa part of that slime I just defeated

The last enee on had, perhaps due to some particular characteristic of its body, quickly turned to nothing after I'd splashed poison on it This Charge-defeated ene rele portion for razed it though

It would've turned to otten crushed into water, rather) if that had hit otten any powers out of eating that, so getting the iotten the result I was aiet any powers fro it anyway

Thisto do with species or individual If it was, then I don't think there would've been much difference between me and these slimes I'd lived in the same den with

There had to be another cause if that was the case, so I started to wonder if whether or not I took down the enemy myself first here the difference came from

My reason for thinking so was that it felt like I'd gotten a pretty big power-up when I'd defeated the goblins, whereas even eating all those sliiven me less of a powerup in co the rest of the slimes

Fro that there were perhaps two different ways of getting abilities from an enemy

The first one was to defeat/kill eneest powers out there And it seeive me the enemy's skills too in some cases

Second was to not defeat the enemy, and either eat it whole or eat just a part of it The abilities gained fro skills from the enemy this way didn't look too possible either It clearly wouldn't be possible for me to usurp any abilities this way, and the fact that I hadn't gotten so those few dozen slimes earlier stood as proof of that Of course, it was possible I'd just had bad luck, but looking into that was best saved for later

Besides, this was just a possibility, butabilities froet some more abilities out of the latter et any ot them all the first time around

It was ulti I'd seen so far, but I got the feeling that it was ht somehow

Well, I'll just think this over again if it does end up being wrong

Next, I decided to check the skills I'd gotten now and see what they did, but the only one I understood was the liquid o by, it was so off of that, it'd be possible to extend tentacle-like things from this body too, and that would alsolike hands and feet out of them

Well, it was easy enough to tell soh, so I decided to just carry on like normal outside of when I'd actually need it

Once I got all that done with and turned to look behindthere

To tell you the truth, I was honestly wanting to run away that instant instead of standing there and thinking about them, but it seee of tears like this Right now, the thought of turning back and putting more and more distance between us simply wasn't an option

「怪我は無いかな？」

”You're not hurt, right?”

Once I said that, I couldn't help but shrinkthose two I did all I could to make sure I didn't scare them, but it was still barely any use

I round it was probably better to say slither by slither), and the two of theot close It was clear that I wasthem terrified

Even once I got close to them, the two simply held each other and were still unable toto hurt theotten the skill to be capable of huh to theotten any response

That being so, I decided to show theesture that even children would be able to understand

Quickly using that skill I'd gotten just before, I made two tentacle-like cylinders from my body and reached out with them

Seeing that, the two of the

Since I couldn't bear to let the er, I rested those two cylindrical tentacles on top of both of their heads

” Eh?”

… And began to gently stroke their hair That voice of confusion had co surprised bythemselves like that

Going slow and easy, I stroked their heads as gently as I possibly could I would've made some hands too if possible, but it'd be hard to work at that level of detail when I wasn't used to working with this It seemed there were so them

The persistent brushi+ng radually became less and less tense until they eventually opened their eyes and started to look towards me There was still some uncertainty left in those eyes of theirs, but it was a world of difference compared to before

It seemed like it'd be more or less fine for me to move a little now, so I pulled those tentacles away from their heads, and somehoorked them into as possibly an arrow mark

If I couldn't talk ords, then I'd have to use body language I waved those two tentacles around in an atteo

”Are you o to?”

The two of them had blank stares at first and had no idea what I ive up and kept trying until she figured it out She caught onto stuff well, if anything

When I gave her a big nod to tell her she was right, the girl slowly raised her hand and

” That way”

… Pointed out the direction They didn't seeoing I anting to ask why and how they were here, but I kneouldn't have h to theave up on the idea

Quickly getting these kids soht now We couldn't just keep staying here in a place where they could get attacked at any moment

I expanded to a somewhat smaller extent and then used those tentacles of mine to pick the two up and lift them up onto my head For safety's sake, I made sure to wrap those tentacles around them like seatbelts too

And then I jumped just like that

”Kyaaaaaaaa!”

They both screamed at the same tiht though Well, they did just get carried up all of a sudden and then found theh the air on top of that - pretty much anyone would be startled

I stopped after the first juht or not Their landing had been properly cushi+oned, so I guessed it was only the height that had scared them then