017. Exploring
"Damn, Damn, Damn, I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again!"
ROAR!
At this moment David was using his slime body and hiding in the roots of a large tree that looked like a cross between a willow and a fur-tree about 2km to the left of the entrance of his Dungeon. He was feeling regret and wishing that he had never left his comfy and cosy little Dungeon, or that at least Mimi was here instead of him because he sure as hell didn't want to be here right now.
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After David had gotten his body he decided to explore the lands around his dungeon to see what he could find out about the local area. After he came out of the entrance to the Dungeon he just went off in a random direction. He had no plans on what to do, he just wandered aimlessly. Occasionally he would come across a new tree or other plants he hadn't seen yet, but he never came across any animals bigger than bugs. He tried eating a few of them to get any meagre LF they would provide, but after a few, he noticed they gave even less than the bugs around his entrance.
"Hey Mimi, I just ate some bugs with my Slime body, kinda tasted like chicken by the way even though I don't have a tongue..., and for some reason, they give even less LF then the ones around here, just like you said before."
"Yep, yep, I told you so. The bugs around our Dungeon give WAY more LF then normal bugs for some reason. They even seem to breed faster than normal too since Jiggly Jiggly and our oh so cute Speket have been eating them non-stop for days now and they seem as plentiful as always."
"Hmm, I guess I shouldn't bother going out of my way to catch any of them out here then. If I run into any I will, of course, eat them without any hesitation for their LF, well some, I was a Human before and eating bugs is still kinda Eww. But now that you mentioned it I should probably Use some of the LF I still have and send out another Slime since the bug population around our Dungeon doesn't seem to be decreasing no matter how many my monsters eat. The more monsters I have eating them the faster I get LF, and the faster I get LF the sooner I can get more monsters, exponential growth baby!"
Just like the first time he summoned a monster, a beam of sparkling light appeared in the area David designated for it, and a normal sized and coloured Slime came into being. After it finished materializing David sent it outside with its two brother monsters and told it to eat everything that moves.
"Now with that done and me only having 35 LF left I should get back to exploring the outside world and find some more LF. Come on Super cheat Item Find!"
"Good Luck, Good Luck, you will never find a Super Cheat item out there, how common do you think they are? This isn't some random novel written by some hack that will just give out cheat items on a whim to the MC, this is real life. It's more likely you will find something that wants to eat you out there."
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As David was lightheartedly bickering with Mimi Back in his Dungeon he was also using the skill [Parallel Thinking 1] and controlling his Slime body out in the wilderness to explore. As he was in the body of a slime his speed was not all that fast, and as he was in no hurry after 2 hours he was only 1 and a half kilometres from the Dungeon.
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He currently was oozing up to a particularly strange looking flower that had a neon pink stalk and pastel blue pettles when he noticed a kinda vibration in the ground. At first, he couldn't figure out what the vibration was so he just stopped moving. After a moment he still couldn't figure out what the vibration was but he could vaguely discern where it was coming from. So he let his curiosity get the better of his reasoning and started in the direction of the vibrations thinking to himself 'Well with how fast I move whatever it is will probably be over by the time I get there, so I might as well see if anything interesting is left over.'
It took David in slime form almost 30 min to reach where the vibration was coming from. But as he got closer and closer to the source, and the vibrations were getting stronger he started to hear sounds too. The sounds did not sound like they were being made by someone having a good time, they sounded like a beast was being tortured to death. Then as David was thinking of turning back he came around the edge of one of the massive trees that this forest was filled with and he saw it. Only a few meters ahead of him there was a Dinosaur! Not only was it a dinosaur it was the king of Dinosaurs, a T-rex, that's right a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
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"Holy crap Mimi, I just found a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the middle of the woods! What the hell is a T-rex doing out here! How is a T-rex out here! They should have gone extinct millions of years ago!"
"Huh? Huh? Why would they be extinct? They are a rather common monster. They are one of the more well-known evolution paths leading to Wyverns."
"... Sigh, this is another world after all. Wait, if they are monsters here, I wonder if Earth used to have Dungeons too. Well, their is no use in thinking about that now since Earth went KABOOM with the rest of my old universe..."
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Back in the forest, David was looking at the T-rex, It was around 6 meters tall, 12 meters long from head to tail tip, had brownish red feathers on its body that kinda looked like scales and blood dripping from its tooth-filled maw. But surprisingly this blood was not from its most recent meal, it was its own blood. This King of Dinosaurs had blood flowing from several long gashes all along its body and was missing chunks of meat from several spots. It was constantly roaring in pain and running around causing vibrations in the area. Every few meters it ran it would suddenly stop and a new wound would appear on its body, then it would try and run away in a different direction only for the same thing to happen once more.
"What the hell is going on here?!" David was terrified. He couldn't see what was happening to the King of Ancient beasts but he sure as anything knew whatever it was he COULD NOT deal with it. So he decided to do the only thing he could do with his slow slime body, he found the smallest hole he could fit into with his amorphous body and hid between the roots of a nearby tree.
"Damn, Damn, Damn, I don't want to die again. I don't want to die again!"
ROAR!
Then with one last earth shattering roar the beast finally fell to the ground exhausted and near death from loss of blood. It was then that David was finally able to see what was accosting the Tyrannosaurus Rex, sitting on the head of it was a small totally white except for a pair of antlers which were dripping with red blood, a rabbit or more accurately a Jackalope.