Chapter 39
“Tsuki’s power”
Tsuki immediately tried to scratch the slime but instead of piercing his new enemy with his claws, his paw was absorbed by the slime, and as much as Tsuki tried to get away from him, he couldn’t. And he had to watch sadly as half of his cupcake began to fall apart in the slime’s stomach. Before the slime tried to do the same to his paw, he started rubbing against the grass, trying to get rid of the small but very sticky creature.
And as soon as he was able to separate his paw from the slime, annoyed by the loss, he attacked it again.
Meanwhile, Kalysto, who couldn’t even breathe, tried to shake off the annoying creature that was covering her nose and mouth, but the gelatinous slime seemed to slip through her fingers like water, not giving her a chance to catch it and throw it away. To either of them, she annoyingly clasped her hands together, approaching both creatures, and taking advantage of the fact that her mana was almost at full strength, she chanted in her mind:
Sleep well, sleep well, sleep well, sleep well, sleep well, sleep well, sleep well!
Almost a minute later both slimes fell to the ground asleep as she coughed and struggled to get some air. She immediately pulled out another bottle with water and rinsed her face and the next second she pulled out the club she had stolen from the goblin on the ground and hit them hard, until the round stone inside both of them cracked.
Four windows, two blue and two violet opened before her.
[You have gained 20 experience points.]
[You have gained 20 experience points. ]
Without thinking of anything else Kalysto turned around with the intention of helping Tsuki, only to find that the little puppy was throwing thin beams of electricity at the slime, until it stopped moving.
Surprised by what she had just saw, she asked.
“Can you use magic and you didn’t tell me?” Tsuki, instead of looking like a duly scolded puppy, whined while sniffing the slime’s body and digging with his paw, as if he could recover his lost cupcake. “Agg! Stop that. It could be poisonous!” Tsuki whined again, this time louder. “I’ll give you another cookie if you behave.”
He immediately fell silent, and like a good puppy, sat on his hind legs, waiting for her next command.
Kalysto had to try hard to hide the smile that played on his lips. So she shook his head and put the club away, then pulled out another cookie and gave him half.
Moving closer to look at the remains of the other slime, noting that unlike the two that had attacked her, the round stone inside the slime’s body was intact. Curiously, she picked it up, but the instant her hand made contact with the stone, a violet window opened before her.
[Does the user wish to absorb this core?]
Kalysto blinked, completely surprised by what was happening.
What if it’s something bad?... it could be poisonous... What if I get sick? She hesitated. Then she remembered the bottle of holy water she still had unfinished, and the other two bottles of low concentration she still possessed.
But it could also be an opportunity. So she decided she could take a chance.
She took out the bottle her new boss had given her and after uncorking it she put it back in storage uncapped, so in case of an emergency she could drink it straight away without wasting time. She did the same with the two small ones and put their corks in one of the pockets of her backpack, to avoid losing them.
She took a deep breath, and when she felt ready, she pressed the accept button.
[The user has acquired 0.005% of the regeneration skill.]
“What?” She frowned.
If a core barely gives you 0.005% of the ability, that means I have to hunt twenty thousand slimes in order to get the full skill?... Wouldn’t that label me as a genocidal? It would practically be the same as extinguishing their population, right? She was surprised, feeling a little sick at such slaughter. But at the same time, another idea occurred to her. But that means I wouldn’t have to worry so much about dying at any moment or about the third mission.
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And the instant she thought that, all traces of guilt disappeared.
Excited at the new possibility that opened up before her, she ran to pick up the other two cores, wanting to test her theory. But unlike the previous one, these two were not whole, so she picked up the split halves, trying to form them again.
“Absorption!” she shouted, but nothing happened. So she tried to think of what else she could call the ability and after several failed attempts, and after checking her ability window and still seeing a bunch of question marks, she finally came up with what it was. “Absorb!”
A violet window opened before her.
[The user wishes to absorb the remains of these slime cores?]
“Yes!” she exclaimed. And a minute later, which seemed like an eternity, another violet window appeared in front of her.
[The user has acquired 0.0025% of the regeneration ability.]
Kalytso wanted to complain about how little she had managed to obtain despite being two cores, but realized that doing so would be a complete waste of time. Instead she turned to Tsuki. With a better strategy drawing in her mind.
“Inspection!”
[The user’s skill is still too low to see this target’s stats.]
Kalysto cursed, and as if Tsuki could understand everything that was happening, he made a particular sound, which almost sounded like a laugh. Earning a frown from his mistress.
“Very good! Since I see you’re in such a good mood, I’m going to make a deal with you” Tsuki’s ears, whose tips were dyed sky blue, stood up. And Kalysto took out a knife and a nede from her inventory, and broke it into eight pieces, “for every four of these cores you bring me, I’ll give you a piece of this” keeping in mind that this will help him recover the mana he spends hunting them, it will be something necessary. “And since you helped me catch a whole core, take a piece for you to taste what you will receive as a prize,” she added, pretending she was being magnanimous.
Tsuki, at first, didn’t seem very convinced and looked at the piece of fruit suspiciously. After hesitating for half a minute, he very slowly approached her and began to sniff the fruit. Then, careful to bite Kalysto, he licked the fingers that held the fruit, tasting its flavor, realizing that it didn’t taste bad, he continued licking, this time with more force, making Kalysto drop the piece of fruit on the ground which he didn’t take long to eat.
As soon as he finished, Kalysto asked him.
-So we have an agreement?
“Arff!” He replied, wagging his tail from side to side.
“Very well, I’ll take that as a yes. Now go find me some more of those slime cores!”
And leaping up a bark, Tsuki sniffed at the remains of the slimes she had hit with the club and then went into the forest, followed by his mistress, who again drew a bow.
At least this will serve Tsuki as training. She excused herself.
Ten minutes later, they found their next prey. And Kalysto used the Inspection skill.
[Slime. Level:1]
Why don’t you give me more information? She lamented. And she immediately shot an arrow that stuck in its target without hurting it. What the hell are the bodies of these things made of?
Seeing that her bow was useless, she saved it.
“Tsuki, attack!” She ordered, and immediately Tsuki did so, but while thin lightning bolts came out of its body and immobilized its prey, another slime came out of the bushes that surrounded them and threw itself against the body of the small wolf.
Kalysto immediately took the club out of her inventory and hit the slime’s body hard against the trunk of a tree, but the monster instead of being crushed against the thick trunk, it bounced as if it were made of rubber.
Kalysto frowned at the bouncing creature and put away the wooden club, then pulled out one of the swords. And ran after the slime, matching its agility and with one sharp motion cleaved it in half before it tried to attack Tsuki again.
Annoyed, for another wasted core, she picked it up.
”Absorb!” she said. And a violet window opened before her.
[The user wishes to absorb this core?]
“Yes!" she exclaimed. A few seconds later, another violet window appeared before her.
[The user has acquired 0.0015% of the regeneration ability.]
Then she picked up the one that Tsuki had electrocuted and pulled out its core.
[Does the user wish to absorb the remains of this core?]
“Yes!”
[The user has acquired 0.005% of the regeneration skill.]
Then she opened her skill window, excited to see that a new one had been added to the list.
[Skills]
Active skills:
Inspect: level 2
Mana detection: level 1
Mana Sense: level 1
Mana Control: level 1
Mana manipulation: level 1
Dispel: level 7
Sleep well: level 1
Purification: level 10
Ezhil Purification: level 1
Blessing: level 1
Jhil: level 8
Passive skills:
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Languages: : legendary level (User can understand, read, speak and write any language that has been used or is still used in the world of Elinor. This is a bonus given by the administrator) (The skill has been upgraded by administrator so that the user can also understand the native fairy language).
Regeneration: 0.014% of acquired skill.(Incomplete).
Innate skills:
Focus: level 5
Empathy: level 3
Mental defense: level 40
Pain resistance: level 30
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“This is going to be a long afternoon," she whispered, as she watched the sun begin to set on the horizon, above the canopy of the leafy trees.
I might as well take advantage of it to keep raising my other skills.
“Ezhil Purification! Inspect!” She said, and two small windows opened before her, giving her information about the large tree whose trunk she was touching.