“Good, now then, you can raise your rank by doing requests. Requests, you can currently, do can only be your rank and either a rank up or down which for you currently is F or E rank requests, or if you discover or tame stronger monsters your rank can go up because your fighting power and strength increases.” She explained.
“Sounds simple enough. Is that just it?” I asked.
“Pretty much. All guilds are like that but with different requirements depending on the guild, oh and you might be wondering but those born in this world don’t get a class until we are 10 years old and it is dependent on what you know, what traits you have, what possible blessings you may get and most of all your achievements. Besides that, you can learn as you please for the time being. Also just because you have a certain class doesn’t mean you are limited to the skills from it. I am a tamer but as you saw I learned martial arts because I don’t want to be overly reliant on my tamed monsters. For you I would suggest mage as the main and do excercise so you aren’t too weak when you grow up.” She suggested.
“We can do that as I grow. For now let's leave since we did what we needed. Besides, I want to look around as well as get to discovering the mimic slime conditions. I think they can be the best pet.” I said.
Megumi laughed and picked me up. I was getting kind of fond of being carried. Maybe it's because my strength is weaker that I didn’t like to walk. Anyway we head out while thanking the reception girl and leave the man Megumi calls a father to heal up from the beating we gave him.
We teleport to the gate we came into the city and find the wolf lazing around.
“You need to tell me how you do that.” I said.
She giggled after I said that and nodded before putting me down and calling the wolf over.
She pulled out a large slab of meat and it started to wag its tail.
It looked a bit into space and suddenly a large pile of small purple balls appeared next to it. There was nearly fifty slime nucleus in there which took me by surprise. She holds the meat out and the wolf grabs it in its jaws and goes over in the shade of the cities wall before laying there and munching away.
Megumi take the pile of cores and looks them over. “All normal slime nucleus, good. So how should we do this?”
“Hm~?” I look up at the sky as I think a moment, “Maybe we can tame a slime and tell it to mix the nucleus with its own. Or we can find a slime that is splitting and push the nucleus into one side and see what happens.” I said.
We think a bit and decide to tame the slime. It was rather easy, for me. Animals seem to avoid Megumi which I found a bit strange, but I bet there is some history behind that considering when she spots something she wants she runs after it full speed.
Me on the other hand, just looks around and when I find a lone slime I go over and crouch. It's not aggressive and when I put my hand out it tried to climb in. It was much more slimy than the blue one on my head which is more squishy than slimy.
Still this appears very quickly.
You have tamed a wild Slime.
With a smile I have it let go then I pull out five nucleus and then holding out one, I tell it to merge it with its own.
I put the nucleus down and it surrounds the small ball before dragging it next to its own nucleus.
Your slime’s nucleus has merged its nucleus with a second one. New stat gained Intelligence.
+5 intelligence
So put simply, slimes don’t even start out with intelligence. No wonder they don’t advance that far. That means something has to push both the splitting slime cores to one slime for it to gain intelligence to start to become a mimic slime. Speaking of which how much INT does my mimic have? I call out loud for pet stats and my ID plate glows.
Status
Name:
None
Race
Mimic Slime
Level:
3
Health:
50/50
Hp Regen:
0.5 per/m
Mana:
60/60
Mana Regen:
1.2 per/m
Stamina:
125/125
Stamina Regen:
0.4 per/m
Strength
15
Intelligence:
50
Dexterity
10
Charisma:
10
Vitality
10
Leadership:
10
Agility
40
Luck
10
So his current intelligence is 50 and this new slime has what?
Status
Name:
None
Race
Slime
Level:
1
Health:
20/20
Hp Regen:
1.8 per/m
Mana:
5/5
Mana Regen:
0.1 per/m
Stamina:
45/45
Stamina Regen:
0.16 per/m
Strength
5
Intelligence:
5
Dexterity
4
Agility
5
Vitality
4
Luck
10
“You’re joking right!? There is such a difference between them?” I exclaimed in shock as I saw the difference of stats that couldn’t be compared.
I put down three more nucleus and tell the slime to merge them with its nucleus. It does it again and when it merges all of them a new window appears.
Your slime has reached all conditions to become a Gel slime. Do you wish to proceed.
Gel slime. Is this a form before it? No let's continue.
I deny the rank up and the window showing +15 intelligence appears. I have it merge with more one by one. Each one increases by five until forty intelligence were I finally got what I wanted.
Your slime has reached all conditions to become a Mimic slime. Do you wish to proceed.
I smile and accept. The slime in question then begins to change. I feel it absorbing mana in the air and thought it was interesting. The rank up of a slime makes it release mana and absorbs more back into its body. When it absorbs I make sure to pour my mana in and stop when it pushes it out.
With each pull of mana the loose slime bunches up and a thin film forms around it until it looks just like my slime. The final pull causes the slime color to change to a vibrant pink.
Your slime has ranked up into a Pink Mimic Slime.
With that I complete my mission. I pick up the now nice and squishy pink slime and put it right next to the small blue one on my head and call Megumi .
She sulks over and notices the pink slime.
"I guess I should say it was expected of you huh.” She said depressed.
“Sorry if this is mean but how are you a tamer?” I asked.
“That is mean.” She pouts and sulks.
"If you want to know what you’re doing wrong then I will tell you. Don't run after the animals with so much intent. Come over here and let me show you.” I pull her near a slime. I walk slow and stop about a half meter away and crouch and make Megumi crouch. “Put your hand faced up and don't show your intent to want it. Let it decide.” I explained.
She did as I said and slowly extended her shaking hand. The slime sees that and moves close and wiggles a bit before raising a slime tentacle and dropping it over her hand.
Her face shows shock before happiness. She lifts her hand and hugs me tightly.
“THANK YOU SO MUCH!” She exclaimed.
I guess she had it hard. She likes small things yet they avoid her because no one never corrected her approach.
I then tell her about the conditions being a slime having 40 intelligence. I also tell her that I got the pink color because I added more mana.
She feeds her slime and when it finally reached the conditions it ranke
d up and I helped out with my mana. It came out a pink color just like the other one.
Megumi was saying that this would make things even better because it was a princess so pink would suit her much more.
It seems pink is also a really rare color for a slime. I did check the amount of mana it had and because of my interference it had a trait called overdose which gave it 200 MP more than a regular slime.
Megumi says that blue ones like my first slime are ranked 4th most rare and followed by orange then Red and finally pink in that order.
No skin off my back. I was happy having a new pet that I hope to train with soon. Still I need to start doing physical exercises soon.
Because of this, I ask Megumi if a dojo or training arena exists. I told her it would be best to do as her father said and enroll me someplace that can help me with my physical strength condition.
She understood and doing like me put the slime on her head and unsummoned the wolf before we headed into town.
First off we went to the tamer's guild and dropped the slime off. The receptionist brought out a small box that emitted mana and the slime was put inside before it was closed.
I asked what it was and the girl explained that this was a magic item used to untame slimes. There were many sizes from boxes to cage which was used to untame since people sometime tame to sell monsters.
It's a perfectly legal market, though to me it felt like slavery. At least these were monsters that were retamed and not put up for summoner to summon.
Megumi received a small bag and when she pulled out the coins there was six gold coins. She picked up three and handed them to me.
“This is for helping me out. It's very little compared to the knowledge of how to make mimics not only that there might be a bonus if the princess likes the slime more.” She said.
“No problem. A gold coin is a lot so it will last.” I said.
Yep three gold will last me a while. The money here follows the traditional metal coin system. Copper, iron, silver, gold. Each coin needs 100 coins of the previous rank to form 1 of the higher coin so 100 copper makes 1 iron. Definitely the easiest system of currency in existence besides sci-fi games which us credits which is the same as the regular real world currency.
After that she takes me to an even bigger stadium but this one has a roof that opens and closes and currently it's closed.
She took me around until we finally stopped in a field with young kids doing martial arts and at the head was a beautiful and very fit tan woman wearing some short shorts for training gear and a tight sports bra. I could see the lecherous eyes staring at her.
“That is instructor Belladonna Getov. She is an amazon, a warrior tribe made of women only, who came to live in the city and ended up the instructor here. She is quite fond of kids and can tell apart each kid's strengths and weaknesses both physical and mental.”
“So she can tell if the kid is stupid or cocky and train them properly.” I asked.
“Bingo~!”
As we talked, the amazon noticed us and told everyone to continue while she is busy.
She then walks over with a smile and hugs Megumi who had her back turned before groping her massive boobs.
“So Megumi , back for some more training, kukuku.” Belladonna said while laughing in a mischievous manner.
“Kya~! T-t-t-t-t-t-teacher, p-p-please not here!” Megumi shouted embarrassed.
In moments she notices me and lets Megumi go and before moving her out of the way and crouching putting her at eye level with me.
Instantly I felt like I was being watched by a dangerous predator who was about to attack.
“Hello, my name is Belladonna Getov, I'm the main kids instructor here and you are?” She asked.
I was shivering at the intensity of her pressure that leaked. Suddenly a pair of hands picked me up. When I looked, it was Megumi who was beet red from both rage and embarrassment.
“Stop letting your pressure leak you lolicon. You're scaring her and the other kids.” Megumi shouted her rage out.
She blinked and looked back to see all the kids had backed away. She laughed a bit noticing the trouble she caused and told them to go back to training before looking back, this time less predatory like.
“Well then, introductions please.” She said.
"I'm Kuroko Ginshiro.”
She glared at Megumi , “And why have you brought this doll to this sweaty gym?”
“She has a fragile body and her physical stats are five points. She needs special training fit for her fragile construction.” Megumi explained my situation.
The amazons eyes grew sharp as she asked Megumi to put me down. She crouched and then pulled my head and rested her forehead against my own while her eyes were closed.
After a while her eyes opened and she stood up, "I see, you can't acquire strength by normal means. Your body is highly fragile so we can't do unorthodox training yet. Hm~! The most I can offer which is out of the ordinary is gravity weights. They adjust to the wearer's strength up to 40 points in both strength and agility.” She said.
“That is more than enough. She will aim for tamer anyway and will probably end up like me using martial arts after getting some strength.” Megumi said.
The amazon nodded and yelled out to one of the old men gawking at us. She made him go to the storeroom and return with two small black wristbands and a small metal ankle weights.
“They look strange but what you need is something practical use gear than beautiful gear.” She said.
"It's no problem if you want something well done, you got to give something up. Also I don't really care about looks.” I said.
“Not exactly what I want to hear from a young girl but I still have time to teach you properly fufufu.” She chuckled.
A sudden shiver ran down my spine as I look at the smiling amazon.
When I looked at Megumi she looked at me with pity which only worked to make me more scared to the point of hiding behind her like a real five year old.
“Ok, miss Bella-san, we know you like the girl now stop scaring her and all the others before we need to close the lessons here.” Megumi said to rescue the situation from collapse.
Just like me, all the kids were hiding behind the adults. A few of them just chuckled while some were laughing out loud at what happened. Getting me out was quick though. She simply took the wrist and anklets and then picked me up before leaving.
I want to stay away as much as possible. No! I never want to go back, this place is too scary. It makes my old martial arts masters look like a joke. That woman, without a doubt in my mind, is a walking apocalypse. I pity any man who tries to seduce her and ends up pissing her off.
Megumi teleported us to the gate again and then walking outside she straps the small metal ankle weights and wrist bands. With each on I felt my body get heavy. It’s at the point where I need to put a bit of force to lift the limb.
“This is going to suck.” I said with a scowl.
“Suck it up. You are her target now and she won't stop until she makes you ‘beautiful’.” Megumi said. I look at her with a worried expression which begged for an answer I didn't want to know. “Amazon logic, someone beautiful is someone who looks good and is also physically powerful.” I could feel my eyes well up with tears of despair knowing that monster had targeted me. “Nothing we can do, let's just walk for now. We can take the time to train those two as well. Since you’re like this, let me teach you how to train a monster.” She said holding my hand and helping me up.
Chapter 4 Mimic Capabilities
My legs~! My arms~! The pain~~~! My arms and legs feel like they are going to fall off!
Well I guess I should explain what happened. A few hours ago Megumi took me walking around in the grasslands were the newbies were hunting.
Yep, just a walk nothing more, for her at least. On the other hand I was told to directly command my slimes to hunt some rabbits to train them and to get a form they could mimic.
First off, I
was against it because I didn’t like killing animals but after a talk I relented because I needed to train my slimes. I tested out their strength and speed first though. They have 40 agility so I wanted to see exactly how good it was.
We sat down about 100 meters from the road leading into the woods. There was the main road were the cars were moving and then a paved walking trail. We were near the latter.
I told both the slimes to bounce as fast as they could to the pave then return.
Well let's put it this way. In the old world the record time for an athlete running a 200 meter run is around 20 seconds.
The slimes, when putting their squishy bodies behind it could cover jump 7 meters in one hop. The stats of both show 40 agility but it was clear that their bounce skill made a huge differences. They covered the 200 meters to and from the road in 13 seconds.
That was much more than I could ask really. With this in mind I could very well say slimes and rabbits were easy pickings if they got in by surprise. Fox would only fall if they were young still.
So because of that I had them hunt a bit. The problem you noticed at the beginning starts now though. Their target was rabbits. As you can guess they would run from attackers and try to group up or hide.
So I tried to set up a trap. The Blue slime, which I have formally named Glop, would be the main damage dealer since he was the current stronger one. The pink one, I named Peach, has similar stats but hers are 3 points less in all stats.
With that I stay about 10 meters away and guide the slimes. Though they have 40 intelligence each that is in proportions to a slime. Compared to human, someone with 10 intelligence is still smarter than a slime with 100. The reason is their lack of wisdom. Wisdom can be thought of as thinking process. The higher the wisdom the easier it is to think of something and process what is going on.
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