Slime are simple creatures. Pysically and spiritually they operate on the level of a bit. 1 means go forward. 0 means stop.
As the world dungeon needs simple creatures to fill it up, the top stratum is full of these. This is because the core of a slime only holds 1 gene, of which has only 16 characters. In short, a slime is a cell of giant proportions.
This is why the traits of a slime also mimic this. As a slime only has one skill, mitosis. A skill allowing the user to split. Due to the entire species relying on this skill, natural adaptations have made this skill reach the maximum level at the start.
This means every slime multiplies by five when they reach maximum level. Which in this case is five.
Since every generation multiplies by five, the species can never really be killed, that is also why they are reared by some sentient creatures above the surface.
Yet what happens when a slime has never had the genetic information passed down to itself, only knowing how to use biomass?
That is where it starts to get intresting.
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Void, the definition of no purpose or existence, it's warming yet it brings a sense of crushing hoplessness. The only thing to keep going is the light the blue boxes bring.
Generation 0
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At what point does a creature gain the ability to control what it does. Is it when they finally realized that they were the one behind the vision, that it was their body not the simple instincts controlling it. To a slime, nobody thinks about it, there is no reason to, for they have no control nor senses for them to even remotely be able to remember, let alone think.
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[Status
Slime Lv.1
State (1) Wandering
Might 0
Cunning 0
Adaptations- None
Skills- Mitosis Lv.5
Biomass 0-->1]
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A glowing invader entered the abyss. It radiated information of which it never had before, deep within this creature it's instinctual answer was chose the "skill" but due to a mutation it was supressed, it didn't know what to do, for the first time it needed to do something.
To Think Something.
So it waited and waited until something happened. Long story short it didnt.
During that time the instinctual part had caused it to find more of this "biomass" as each time it got one the same thing would happen, a new intruder would come and replace the old one, at this point it had 6 biomass, it didn't't even have the capacity the know what that meant but it seemed good, as it gave a way to distract it from the never ending void, and at that realization a miracle happened,
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[Status
Slime Lv.1
State (0) Resting
Might 0
Cunning 0-->1
Adaptations- None
Skills- Mitosis Lv.5
Biomass 1-->6]
Something other than biomass gained a value, it was a true miracle!
One thing that sparked it's newfound curiosity was the state, before it was one yet now it is zero, it wanted it to be one, mostly because it always seems that biomass appeared when the state was set to that, it felt that was the correct state, why zero when you can be one, 0 simply had less value.
Clearly this state was useless, it didn't produce anything of worth! It felt insulted that this simple value was in peeing on what it wanted for it must be above the value zero, and turns out, after thinking really hard it changed values! It simply was better than zero and controlled it, if something dared to get in the way it would just thing really hard about it and it would go away, it had the power, no more waiting,
It Was In Control
Something else clicked in its tiny nucleus, what if it where to think really hard about the screens that distracted it? Could it also control them?
So it tried and failed, it did nothing no matter what part of the blue it focused on, why not foucus on the symbols and focus it did, on all of them, with the luck it had it took the third to last word for it to do anything.
[Would you like to purchase adaptations or use skill Mitosis Lv.5?]
[Purchase Adaptations-
Nucleus- +1,+2,+3
Cytoplasm- +1,+2,+3]
It was proven, It was big brain.