‘A slime..a slime? I am a Fucking slime?’
He couldn't believe what he just heard.
Slimes are known to be the one of weakest monster species, they have 0 combat ability which puts them at the bottom of the food chain.
‘Why tf did it have to be a slime!?’
He played many games in his past life, slimes are only used for Exp farming, nothing else.
[As i said-]
‘Yes yes, my soul is weak but A SLIME?’
[.....my apologies, i didn't expect you to have such a hatred for slimes, after judging the potential-]
‘Haah, forget it, nothing can be done now. Can you at least help me move and see?’
[Since your soul is from a world without mana, you have to start from scratch. Lucky for you, you are a monster, specifically a slime, they are better at sensing mana than most species.]
‘.....well, that's a good thing…haha, i guess i judged too soon. So, what do I do to sense this mana stuff?’
[It's simple, relax and dig deep inside, you should be able to sense your core.]
He followed the instructions and patiently sensed his core which didn't take him long since to monsters, cores are their hearts.
‘It feels so warm and cosy.’
[It should, that's your heart after all.]
‘........so what's next?’
[Feel the energy emitting from your core, it goes outwards.]
He began concentrating again and slowly he began sensing his core energy going outwards throughout his entire body.
‘Ohh, this is so interesting, so this is mana?’
[No, mana comes from the outside, what you are sensing is simply your pure core energy. To sense mana you will need to send that energy out of your body, make contact with mana and then pull it back inside, this will open up your mana pathways.]
‘I can't tell if i am stupid or you are a bad teacher.’
He gave it a shot but failed to not only control his energy but also send it out. He was missing something, there has to be a better way of doing this.
‘This won't do, your way is too complicated, i will figure it out on my own.’
[It would be best if you hurry then cause we are in a very dangerous forest.]
‘You know…..i did not need to know that information.’
Now he just had to do something complicated fast or he might get eaten, no pressure at all.
He began thinking of a simpler way to understand controlling his energy but nothing was coming to mind.
‘Shit, i can't think of anything-.......hold on, i am trying to control my energy as a whole but what if i start from the source.’
When a gas, water and electricity are being released, they are always stronger and more concentrated at the source. This makes it easier to control the amount and direction. The same logic can be applied here, instead of trying to control all the energy in his body, he will just concentrate on controlling the energy new the core.
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If he could control it from here, where the connection was strongest, he could no doubt control it as a whole.
He felt it, like water pouring into a pot, his understanding had grown. After that he began controlling droplets and this number kept growing until finally he had full control of his core which meant all of the energy around his body was not his to do as he pleased.
He was no time and leaked out the energy not too far from his body and immediately he could feel the enormous amount of mana in the air.
‘Wow, it's so….pure and vast, so this is mana. So to see and activate my other senses I just need to absorb it?’
[Yes but not too fast or you might overload your core which can kill you.]
‘.......you are a terrible teacher you know that?’
He slowly began absorbing the mana and the change was instantaneous. He felt as though his body was submerged in warm and cold water, he felt so good.
It took a few minutes but he began hearing the winds and birds chirping. Not long after that his other senses also activated, he could now see the massive trees, he could feel the sunlight, everything was now working as it should.
‘So this is the new world, everything is so massive, too massive, those trees are taller than skyscrapers.’
He turned around, noticing that he was surrounded by many dead slimes. He went over to one of them and poked it.
“So I look like one of these little guys?”
He finally spoke but his voice was…different.
“Why do I sound like that? How is anyone going to take me seriously with this voice?”
He moved around looking at everything, it was all so fascinating.
[Achievement accomplished, activating system…….]
“What are you up to now? Can't a guy have some peace and quiet?”
As he continued he could feel his senses getting stronger, his range of detection was increasing but that came too late, a monster was already standing behind him watching.
“Don't look back…dont look back?”
He was panicking, should be make a run for it? In a slime’s body? He wouldn’t make past 5 feet.
The monster began walking towards him and he could tell just from the mana around it that this was not something he should mess with.
“A-ah, system, help?”
He slowly turned around seeing the massive orc towering over him. its muscled frame blocking out the sunlight and its tusks gleamed as it tilted its head, studying him.
“Lovely day isn’t it?”
His high-pitched voice made the attempt at casual conversation sound even more ridiculous.
The orc didn’t respond which made him sweat bullets but to his surprise, the orc grunt-laughed, a sound like rocks tumbling down a mountain. He was confused about what was going on, he just wanted to escape but there was no way to do that.
“Never seen a blue slime talk before," it rumbled, kneeling down on one knee to get a closer look.
‘Man, this guy is massive. So monsters can talk? I mean obviously, even back home, dogs, cats and other animals had their own language system so it's nothing that shocking but damn, look at that face, bro is never getting a girl.’
“Little slime, how are you able to talk? Blue slimes are not an intelligent species so this is very interesting.”
He wondered if he should talk back or just remain quite.
‘Yeah, let’s just talk, he might kill me if i piss him off.’
“Evolution?”
“Evolution ? Blue slimes can evolve? Strange, very strange.”
“I don't know either, all I remember is being on the verge of death and the next thing I knew I was conscious, fully conscious.”
“In that case-”
A hiss sound cut him off. The orc looked up seeing the massive snake that is even bigger than some of the trees appeared behind Vell and it hissed violently, ready to devour them.
“Oh crap oh crap oh crap.”
His mind was mess, not only is the monster massive, way too massive but the mana around it was unbelievable.
“Stay hidden little one, we will resume one talk after I slay my prey.”
‘prey ? that thing?’
He hid behind a small rock, staring at the stare down that both interested and terrified him.
[activation completed. Displaying stats.]
Name: Vell
Level: 0
Title: None
Race: Slime
HP: 10/10
MP: 0/0
Attack: 0.1
Defense: 0
Agility: 0.8
IQ: 250
Skills: None
Soul Threshold: 0/1
“I am so fucked.”