When I regained my consciousness I was in a world of darkness. I couldn’t see anything. I couldn’t feel anything. I was surrounded by nothingness. I swear I will get my revenge on that God for turning me into a slime.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have been congealed! You are a Nucleus Slime]
What is that? Is that like being born for a slime?
Hmm… I can’t see anything… I thought the reason I couldn’t see was because I was like a puppy that couldn’t open their eyes after they are born, but after thinking about it for a bit… slimes don’t really have eyes.
My nucleus doesn’t have any sense of touch either so I can’t tell what I am doing.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have been awarded the title ‘Dumb Slime’ for failing to do anything for 1 hour.]
What is this a game? How did I just get an achievement and it… I think God is insulting me again…
[Ding! Congratulations! Your title ‘Dumb Slime’ has changed into ‘Is it Dead?’ for failing to do anything for 1 day]
Damnit! I have tried everything I could think of but I can’t do anything. I don’t have any of the senses I had when I was human.
[Ding! Congratulations! Your title ‘Is it Dead?’ has changed into ‘Yep, it’s Dead’ for failing to do anything for 2 days]
I feel like crying, but I can’t even do that. I get it now. This isn’t a different world, it’s hell. I have been cast into the abyss. It's probably because of that one time I stole that kids bike to pursue that rogue cosmonaut. I told her that I would return it back, but it got crushed because I was too slow in noticing the meteorites. Damnit! If only I had just apologize rather than buying her parents a new lamborghini murcielago as hush money.
[Ding! Congratulations! Your title ‘Yep, it’s Dead’ has changed into ‘Slime Who is One with the Nothingness’ for failing to do anything for 3 days]
Fuck! Why can’t I do anything! I wouldn’t even know how much time has passed if it wasn’t for these damn achievements.
[Ding! Congratulations! Your title ‘Slime Who is One with the Nothingness’ has evolved into ‘Ethereal Slime’ for succeeding to do nothing for 1 week. You have been awarded with the unique trait [Hidden] and the unique trait [Hidden]]
What the hell! I have been here for an entire week? It feels more like an eternity. What is this? I have got two hidden traits? I now know that God is screwing with me. I give up. I am sorry God, I won’t take vengeance so please spare me.
Days pass until I hear God’s voice again.
[Are you okay? You haven’t been doing anything. The other slimes your age are already starting to evolve.]
“How am I supposed to do anything? I don’t have any senses.”
[Oh… didn’t you read the slime manual?]
“What manual?”
[Oh. Did you forget…]
“Who forgot? You just didn’t tell me…”
[Next time you reincarnate remember to read the instruction guide. Can you even imagine the difficulty to understand a world without it. Well, anyway… here you go.]
“Arguh! Hu, hu, hu.” Large amounts of information poured into my mind threatening to rip it to shreds.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have been awarded the title ‘One Who is Forsaken by God’ for God forgetting your existence!]
Ignoring the achievement, I learn that slimes see by using mana to perceive the world. After focusing for a while I notice that there seems to be colored wisps of something permeating all around me. I guess this is mana.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have learned the racial skill: Mana Eye]
--- Mana Eye ---
Description: Allows the user to see via mana.
Level: 1
Mana Usage: ~
--- --- ---
Suddenly, the world became clear and I could see the world around me. The Mana Eye skill is far better than my previous eyes. I can see in every directions and even behind things! I have no blind spots, but I can’t see nearly as far, only about 100m.
After a while of testing I am able to level up my Mana Eye skill and can see much farther now. It appears that levels are more like milestones as my vision continued to increase. Level Ups appear only when notable gains are made.
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I decide to pull up my Status and take a look at my stats.
[Ding! Congratulations! You have opened the Status for the first time!]
--- Status ---
[Nameless]
Race: Slime; Nucleus Slime
Health: 1/1
Mana: 100/100
Traits:
[Limitless Potential] [Mana Affinity] [Create Slime] [Slime Manipulation] [Mana Manipulation] [Hidden] [Hidden]
Skills:
[Mana Eye Lv2]
Titles:
[Ethereal Slime: Awarded to the slime who has become one with the abyss.]
[One Who is Forsaken by God: Awarded to those whom has been forsaken by God.]
--- --- ---
Oh. I can see all my stats. Why do I have two hidden traits? I guess the must be related to the ‘Ethereal Slime’ title.
“I don’t even know what to say to you any more...”
[Er... um… sorry… How about I give you a special reward for you forgetting about this...]
[Ding! You have obtained the divine trait God’s Channel]
[Ding! You have joined God’s Channel [420BlazeIt2Cool4U]]
“Um? What the...?”
[Ding! God’s Channel [420BlazeIt2Cool4U] has changed to God’s Channel [Gidros]]
[You saw nothing, aight?]
[Ding! Congratulations! You have learned the divine skill: Oracle]
--- Oracle ---
Description: Allows the user to communicate with the Gods.
Level: 1
Mana Usage: ~
--- --- ---
I feel like there is something fishy about this God.
[Grow strong. I will be going now. I am very busy.]
“How can you be busy? Can’t you control time and space? Doesn’t that mean that if you lacking in time you can just create more time? I don’t understand how you can be busy?”
[Well, yeah. I could do that, but there are like… um… rules, yeah rules...]
“You’re not very convincing.”
[Shhh… what do you know? How could a mere mortal understand the ways of Heaven.]
[Ding! God Enera has joined God’s Channel [Gidros]]
[Gidros, what are you doing? I told you to stop playing around in the moral realm. You haven’t even completed the Heavenly Education System yet, it is still far too early for you.]
[Yes, mom.]
[Ding! God Enera has left God’s Channel [Gidro]]
“Oh so that is it… fu fu fu ah ha ha”
[Grrr. Damn, mom always ruins my good times...]
[Oh yeah! I have a task for you. I need you to dominate the world as a slime.]
“Um. Why?”
[Well, to be honest, slimes where the first creatures I created. I wanted them to have unlimited potential so I gave them the capacity to grow indefinitely and to have no limitations. But, because I didn’t want to restrict their future growth I only gave them a minimal evolution tree. Now everyone thinks that they are weak and uncool because there hasn’t been any truly supreme slimes. I want you to change the way people think about slimes.]
Hmm. Well it wasn’t like I have the personality to submit to others. Even without him asking me I would climb to the summit of this world, so “I accept.”
[Good, then I will be off.]
“Wait! Wait! Damn.” I wanted to know what are those hidden traits. Well, first thing is first, I begine to inspect my body. I appear to be a spherical bean. I guess this is the nucleus. My body is covered with some viscous material; that should be the slime. It isn’t a lot, just enough to cover my body with it.
I am in an empty room. No, there is a puddle in the corner. My instincts are telling me to go towards the puddle. I use the thin slime coating around my body and slowly roll to the puddle.
[Ding! You have learned the racial skill: Roll]
Oh! I am moving much faster now. I finally reached the puddle. After I reached the puddle I begin to take in the water into my nucleus and turn it into slime.
After a few hours have passed I get a notification.