Forgot to say this in earlier chapters.
For those who wanted to purchase Clockwork volume 1 but found the price to high, It was lowered. I didn't know the proper price range so i unknowingly put it high. Sorry.
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Standing in front of Shai's dungeon entrance, Kawi-san, Kumi and I looked around.
The regular grasslands that make up the area was rather wide.
The only things you could see were Owen and Asher's dungeon entrances which were exactly 100 meters away from here.
When we reached the dungeon field each maid took it upon themselves to split up and stay with a pair of kids. The method to decide the groups were simple. Roommates.
Once that was done we split up.
Asher was chaperoned by the half elf with Margaret following.
Owen was followed by the dog demihuman with Zachary behind him.
The elf went with Stephanie with Emily following
And lastly the cat demihuman followed Nova who dragged Eleonora to her dungeon.
Once we split up our trek was slower than the others, because i kept searching around for tree sprouts, bush sprouts, and other plants, while asking for help from the two of them.
Finally done and all the sprouts stored, i led them inside.
Inside was the same small one person lift which i slightly frowned at.
"Shai, can you slightly improve the lift to be able to handle a basic six man party?" I said out loud and received a reply in my head.
"Yes mistress but it shall empty my reserve of mana" she replied.
"I've got stored mana in the ring so don't worry." I said.
With my reassurance the lift began to shine.
The old rotten looking lift began to expand and becoming larger with much newer wood boards. The crank wheel vanished and a single lever appeared at the back of the of the lift.
On the corner of the lift a half meter tall wooden fence appeared for small safety measure against falling. There's also a small gate at the front.
The last part that changed was around the lift which made from a refined wooden platform about a half meter out from the lift. Probably some kind of anchor or area used for the gears.
"There *huff* mistress." Shai said exhausted.
"We will go straight to give you the mana so hold on. Come on jump in guys." I said and called the two guests.
With them aboard i push the lever that was situated on a large gear. The lift rocked as it began lowering.
Below the platform you could see many gears turning and on all corners were metal support beams holding the the lift as well as giving a location for smaller gears to work as they make the ones on the lift turn and push us down.
It's a lot safer now since it added safety measures in case of breaking.
All the support beams were built like elevator shafts so many are slightly jagged and should the lift start falling, those jagged parts will open and grab the lift.
In no time at all we reached the room and i find the previously unsummoned Rama, Peach and Glop waiting for us. When we got off the lift, the two slimes ran over.
“Master...love!” Peach said as she came running. I quickly turned bright red.
“W-Wait!! Unsummon!” I shouted.
The two slimes vanished and were transported to my pocket space.
I breathed a sigh of relief but my face was still bright red at what was about to happen again.
"Ok, let's head off to Shai's crystal, i need to replenish her mana before anything can go wrong." I said.
The two girls nodded and we started to follow both wearing wary smiles.
The corridors were complete now. A full three meters high and two wide with somewhat smooth walls that had most of the jagged points chipped away and the floor being the same. At the very top of the ceiling were glowing white rocks every five meters which lit up the corridors, making it easier to traverse.
After walking a bit we reached the room that had Shai's core. It had a pale yellow green shine contrary to the normal bright glow it gave off.
I ran over and with my right hand in a fist i touch the crystal with my ring's stone.
At once the shine in the core regained its vigor even greater than before as she greedily sucked up my gathered mana.
When the ring was empty i heard a sigh from Shai who felt relief after gaining mana again.
With my current mana capacity being 6700 at this moment gathering an entire week's worth everyday loading the crystal at full capacity, it holds quite a scary amount of mana.
"Ah~! Thank you mistress, the lack of mana is really uncomfortable." She said in a warm tone showing her happiness from having her mana regained back.
"Good, now for the first order of business. I had my father breed a boss monster for you." I said and summoned the pink mimic slime.
"Ara? Isn't that the slime i brought you this morning?" Kawi-san asked.
"Yep, i had Dalton search for two specific races for this one." I said and gave an order for it to transform into the animal form.
The slime expanded greatly until it was nearly three meters tall. Its body grew bulky and muscular. His arms grew long and reached his short knees. The last thing to form were the very sharp claws on the hands and feet and the fangs that appeared from his mouth.
“Kuroko...sama, this is a war bear isn’t it?” Kawi-san asked
“Yep, not only that, I had dalton go out of his way to make this slime especially special, which is demi human form. Show them!”
On my order the body of the bear began to compact. The arms grew shorter to human length and his height went down to 240 cm tall as his face and his large build became more human like. The short legs grew longer and human like as well and were very muscular. On his head was the small ears of a bear.
When it was done, he looked like a massive body builder or a really tall lumberjack.
“Woah…” Was all we all could say. The massive figure expelled a lot of power as he looked down at us.
He bowed towards me as his master.
“Well, from now on you are going to be my pet, and your job is to become the boss monster of my dungeon. If the need arises i will also summon you outside.” I said and the order was received with a nod. At once, tables of messages appeared before me.
You have made the Elite monster Pink Slime into a boss monster of your dungeon.[tds][tr]
[tr][tds]Your dungeon has leveled up. Concentration of mana has risen to 1.2Due to being designated as a boss monster of a dungeon, Pink Slime has ranked up.
All at once, I could feel and saw the changes.
First the quality of the mana in the air grew a bit and second was the slime. He began to release and absorb the greater amount of ambient mana.
After a minute the pink color changed. Like a wave, from his nucleus that was in the place of his heart, a wave of silver came from it and covered the body.
Seeing him like that, we were all shocked.
What do you expect, when what you know is that pink mimics are supposed to be the final color in rareness, you got to know that there's a colour higher higher than that.
I really didn’t expect this but i kind of should have. Peach was an elite monster while being a pink slime so obviously a boss class had to be higher but my thought process was that a boss monster would still be pink but stronger and with the title of boss.
The slime let out a yawn and turned into his monster form and went over near the crystal and let his body fall and went to sleep.
“Well...he sure is relaxed.” Kumi said earning a nod from both me and Kawi.
“Um...maybe we should just leave and get started with whatever you wanted to do Kuroko.” Kawi-san said.
“Yes, let's go. Shai, can you gather all the new mimic slimes you have been breeding at the door of the slime room?” I said.
“Of course mistress, it's my pleasure!” She said in a cheerful tone.
We leave the room and head to the intersection that led to her room and turn right straight into the slime breeding room.
In the room were many slimes and near the left side near the back of the room was a small hole where the slimes were coming and going as they entered the mushroom farm and returned.
Waiting near the door were around 30 green mimic slimes.
“Ok all of you, from today onwards, in daytime you are all my tamed pets, but once the day ends you will return to Shai’s command.” I said simply and at once thirty messages of mimic slimes being tamed appeared.
I unsummon them sending them all into my pocket dimension and we leave the dungeon to get the slime traps ready.
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I resummon them all outside after we spread all the plants around.
"Okay, let's see here, you in the front absorb this tree and choose a nearby location and try to mimic it." I said while ordering the slime to absorb an apple tree sprout.
It walked over, jumped on top of the sprout, went to spread over it, and absorbed the sprout in one go.
Mimic slime has absorbed an apple tree and taken that as its main transformation.
I smiled and nodded.
“Good, it can properly mimic plants, now to see how it turns out.” I said.
I order the slimes to stay in place and make the one that absorbed the tree to follow me.
About 10 meters in front of the entrance, i stop.
“Ok, this seems as good as any, transform here.” I order the slime and it began to transform.
The slime firstly digged the ground out, making a small hole that fit half of its body, and then it began transforming.
The slime spread straight up for about half a meter but soon, i see it swaying after it finished. At the base was still quite a lot of slime.
“Don’t forget to mimic the roots. Also absorb nutrients from the ground to grow like a real plant.” I said.
At once the small ball of slime began shrinking and i could see through its transparent body. The heavy swaying quickly stopping as the roots spread.
The mimicked tree was half a meter tall with six branches and slime leaves that look just like real ones, though transparent.
As I examine i noticed how the tall grass around it started to dry out and crumble and saw how the slime had begun to get bigger.
“He is killing off the grass around here to grow! Change of orders. Grow only to adult size of a real apple tree and defend the domain of Shai’s dungeon. Don’t attack monsters of this dungeon or humans unless they are hostile and don’t attack my slimes or other slime trees.” I said quickly and just as i said that the growing speed decreased but still spread. The rooms spread out in a circle of 2.5 meters in radius around the slime tree. Even then it didn’t stop growing until it was a little over nine meters high and wide.
The wind blowed through its leaves and even made the same sounds as real leaves. As we watch the tree reach its full size, i saw something that i couldn’t help but to smile at.
Rapidly gathering on its branches and forming small balls of slime.
As soon as it got to the size of a real apple, the slime bubbles turned red coloring the tree with red dots.
“Well, i guess it's a success.” I said with a wry smile.
“Yeah, you should also make sure it doesn’t suck up all the ground's nutrients and instead uses mana to make the fruits. It would be bad to kill off the land here.” Kawi said with a worried look at the ground.
We looked as well and frowned. The ground looked really dry and ugly with all the dried grass.
“Guess the orders need to be very complex to keep the damage at its lowest.” Kumi said.
“Yeah, it's best to experiment with this first.” I replied and they both nodded.
After that we spent an hour working out the complex orders with Kawi telling us pro’s and cons of each thing we thought of. I had the slime stop sucking up nutrients so the damage doesn't grow.
What we came up was this list.
1) Use both nutrients in the soil as well as the mana released by Shai and keep a balance to not lay waste to the soil.
2) Don’t kill off the grass, leave it unless told to kill them off.
3) Don’t amass too many fruits, instead make enough to attract monsters into the domain and hunt them.
4) Allow the fruits and seed pod to fall and replenish the soil's nutrients and help revitalize the earth.
5) Every month, drop the leaves on the branches to cause quicker revitalization of the earth and grow new ones at a slower pace as well as implementing a plants proper food production method, photosynthesis, which was explained to us by Kawi-san who believes we don’t know about it since we are kids.
6) Finally, cover the trunks and branches with the dirt that is pushed out of the way for the roots. This is so the trees look as close to a natural one as possible.
With these rules, also passed on to Shai so she can implement them as well, we go about making the slimes eat the trees and planting them after we tell them the list of orders. Obviously the ones related to fruits only applied to the slimes that grew fruits but it's better to be cautious since other trees grow nuts and other stuff.
Anyway, soon the slimes buried themselves and spreading the roots first, they began growing quickly upwards until they were about a meter tall before it slowed down.
As all the slimes returned to Shai’s command following my own order, so they can access the mana of her domain.
As soon as that was accomplished the speed of their growth accelerated again and soon the underbrush flora was grown while the trees were still rising high.
“It will probably take a while but i have told Shai to breed the slimes. I can see the tree seeds being used as a way for releasing the slimes.” I said as i looked up at the large slime trees. From inside the tree you could see the dirt that was dug out from underground being brought up and a crust was being built over the trunk.
“Well, let's get down into the dungeon, Shai should have made several more mimic slimes and gel slimes, i need to make digging tool slimes for the animals as well as make a few animal slimes as well and have them begin breeding. The mushrooms and bugs will probably play a huge part in the growth of the slimes.” I said and walked in with the two following me.
“Sometimes i feel like Kuroko is an older person than her age. Don’t you Kawi-san?” Kumi suddenly said as we stand on the lift that was lowering us into the dungeon.
“Yeah, i feel that sometimes when i talk with you. Still, i have met kids called geniuses and most of them act abnormal or with much more maturity then they should. I took to thinking of Kuroko as one of those people it’s easier to think like that since it makes it easier to accept stuff she does that is too strange for a child to do.” Kawi said.
“You guys are mean. At least say that stuff when you're not in front of me.” I said with a frown.
“We aren’t afraid to say it in your face. We are friends so you should at least know what we think of you.” Kumi said with a smile.
I could only return a wary smile at this.
Kawi-san simply sighed at that.
Down in the dungeon we pick up the new slimes. There were twelve mimics and twelve gel slimes already made but the slime population suffered for it.
I have Shai spawn six rabbits and they are absorbed by six mimics and the same happens to the fox.
With that done, i have the remaining twelve slimes absorb the digging tools and attach them to the mimic that corresponds with the proper tool and have Shai order them to become part my own tamed creatures. I then order them to be summoned by the rabbit or fox depending on the tool they took up.
This is how Peach summoned her own armor when Dan grabbed her.
“Ok, with them equipped, it’s up to you now Shai, you can expand the dungeon as you like. I suggest you go for a maze formate. I’ll return in a little while after I take a look at the books I bought and eat lunch ok.” I said
“Yes mistress, I shall begin breeding them but can i breed the goblins and pickaxe slimes as well?” she asked.
“Of course, you need workers. I don’t know if you need it at this moment but once you start branching off you will need more workers so for now maker at best 30 goblins and at the least 16 slime animals of each type. I also think a place they can call home or a spawning ground would be good. Oh, and if you make a few mimic mushrooms you can set up traps in the mushroom farm so that is a heads up as well. Lastly, try and make a few small ponds or at least a spring or two around. We need to make space for living creatures and water is a necessity that all creatures need including slimes.” I finished off saying.
“Yes mistress and thank you for the advice. I shall begin at once.” she replied in a tone befitting a maid.
We leave my dungeon and the trees shaking in the wind. Looking close i could see some unnatural movement but for the most part the three slimes have gotten a poorly built crust which keeps expanding. Once it drys up it will possibly look more like a real tree.
With nothing else to do we head over to Stephanie’s dungeon which was where we agreed to go to have lunch.