Odd was standing in an empty space in the castle's laboratory, which Odd found remarkably similar to the one he had been born in. The laboratory was furnished with beakers, and little bittaly bobs, but the thing that really cinched it for Odd was the fact that garbage was everywhere, you couldn’t walk a step without your shoe meeting some strange substance.
“Sorry milord, I uh didn’t know you were coming so soon.”
This was Albert, Sandra explained, the Head Magician for the castle and an aspiring Alchemist. Sandra warned Odd not to touch anything, as Albert wasn’t very good. Odd took one look at the King's shoes which were currently melting and quickly agreed.
“Can we get this over with already.”
“Sorry sir, right away”
Albert looked away from Julius and took an assessing look at Odd.
“Right, now you’ve got to beat one of my Greater Summons so I'll set up the summoning circle, pop one out and you're on your way.”
Sandra leaned over and whispered in Alberts ear.
“What are you doing Albert, a Greater Beast , not even I can beat that without support from my party:
Albert shrugged.
“Sorry, that's what Julius said, and you know I can’t defy him, besides if he really is the Hero he should easily be able to beat him, the other one could flatten one in seconds.”
Sandra looked at Odd with worry and started whispering to him.
“Listen I’ll distract them, say something about you not being ready now.”
“What is that Princess Sandra, you’ll have to speak up, my ears aren't as good in my old age.”
Julius looked at Sandra like a snake would a mouse.
“Well I was talking about how Odd won’t be able to.”
That was all Odd heard as a loud explosion burst from another direction and Albert looked proud, smiling at his work.
“Here we are one Chaos Slime at your service.”
“Wait, I haven’t yet told you.”
“Let’s see how you handle this boy.”
Odd was about to retort when the slime launched itself against Odd and hit him square in the gut.
THUD
It was like a cannonball hit his gut, and Odd toppled over, he could feel bone’s inside him broken, twisted, in all kinds of wrong angles. Odd groaned in pain wondering how he was still alive, when the slime launched itself towards Odd again. Odd quickly threw himself away tumbling into a pile of trash.
“You're lucky it’s a Chaos Slime, they don’t have much attack power, but they're nearly impossible to kill.”
Odd was sure Albert meant it as a good thing, but all it did was put Albert on his To Eat List. The Chaos Slime was approaching Julius ready to pounce, but Julius kicked it and it went flying towards Odd.
Odd seized his chance, he tried sinking his teeth into the Chaos Slime’s squishy body, but his teeth and dead went through the Chaos Slime’s skin until it was fully enveloped. Then the burning started. Odd felt like his face was on fire as the slime slowly dissolved his face, he tried screaming but his voice was muffled.
|Notice: Skill [SOUL_LEECH] qualifications has been met would you like to use,[SOUL_LEECH]|
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Sandra looked on with horror as the Chaos Slime latched on to the Hero’s face, she could see him try to scream.
“Stop this, he’s going to die”
“What you don’t believe in your little ‘Hero’”
Sandra looked at Julius with eyes of contempt, what had become of the old man who used to let her ride his shoulders, who taught her how to fight. Sandra was about to step in and kill the slime when something happened. She looked on in horror as the Hero's skin turned semi translucent and his body and his flesh turned to liquid. He started sliding down towards the potion drain until there was nothing of him left. Everyone was in shocked silence.
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“I didn’t know a Chaos Slime could do that.”
“They can't, it's impossible.”
“Evidently it is.”
Some more stunned silence followed until Julius spoke up.
“I told you he was weak.”
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Odd was in the sewer system walking along, his head still entirely engulfed in slime.
[SOUL_LEECH],huh
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If the User's nervous system connects with any living creature's core, the User may use this skill to gain all stats and skills of the creature.
Current Effects
* VIT (+40)
* STR (+10)
* DEX (+10)
* INT (+30)
* WIZ (+0)
SKILLS GAINED
* [ACID_TOUCH]
* [PERMEATION]
(Applied Weakened on Chaos Slime)
|Notice: Chaos Slime must remain in contact with the User's nervous system and remain alive for the enhanced state to remain.|
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Odd was happy to be away from those weird humans, he needed some time alone to think, and now was perfect. Finally relaxing he wondered what he was going to do in life. His purpose, to kill the hero, was already completed (in a way) and now what was he going to do.
Stop thinking Odd, you're not meant for such things, for now let’s just focus on getting stronger and then eating some humans.
Odd, renewed with new purpose, decided he would find his way out of these sewers, but first he had to do something about the slime. The Chaos Slimes shivering mass was still on top of Odd’s head, it was considerably paler, and looked sick, but it was still in the way of his view. After some experimentation with the [PERMEATION] skill he found he could push the slime into his head overlapping space. The slime was now out of Odds vision, only a bit of the slime was sticking out above Odd’s eyebrow, like a giant cyst or mass of oozing goo. Odd didn’t mind though, he could feel his head shaking as the Chaos Slime quivered.
Well with that out of the way let’s go find a way out of….. What is that?
Standing in front of Odd was a dog sized rat with thick fur and sharp teeth it chittered hungrily at Odd.
Well I know what I’m eating for dinner tonight.
Odd walked cheerfully towards his food but the rat wasn’t having any of it. It dashed towards Odd taking a chunk out of his arm.
“That does it rat, I was going to make it quick and painless but you’ve just earned yourself a nice, slow, death.”
The rat dashed at him again, going for the leg this time. Odd dropped on one knee watching the rat. When the rat came at him again, Odd’s body turned semi transparent and, whap, the rat’s head was inside Odd now the rest of its body squirming and thrashing outside. Odd felt the rat bite one of his organs and yelped.
Come on, Come on, pop up already.
Just before Odd was going to take it out of his body the screen popped up.
|Notice: Skill [SOUL_LEECH] qualifications has been met would you like to use,[SOUL_LEECH]|
Odd mentally affirmed and felt the rat go limp in him.
“There you go, that wasn’t so hard.”
_____[SOUL_LEECH]__________________________________________________________
If the User's nervous system connects with any living creature's core, the User may use this skill to gain all stats and skills of the creature.
Current Effects
* VIT (+40)(+20)
* STR (+10)(+20)
* DEX (+10)(+30)
* INT (+30)(+10)
* WIZ (+0)(+0)
SKILLS GAINED
* [ACID_TOUCH]
* [PERMEATION]
* [RAT_FEET]
* [RODENT_TELEPATHY]
(Applied weakened to SERVANT OF THE RATHOS)
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What’s a RATHOS ?
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