(Slime’s POV)

Alright, it’s time to get out of this pit on the cave. I start to focus and create a pair of tentacles with some difficulty. Eventually, I manage to control them with average precision, as they follow my movements with certain ease.

I have no idea of how much time has passed, but it surely has been a long time. Alright, time to go to the next stage. With a lot of difficulty, I split the tips on three, since I can’t split in more, or else I won’t manage to control it, forming pseudo-hands.

Thickening a bit the tentacles to have a bit more strength, I use my new jelly arms to pull myself out of the pit where I’m stuck. It was hard. My strength is too low, and my body too soft to make any strong movement.

I’ll have to rely in my agility and cunning on this body or raise my strength in some way. After getting out of the small pit, I look around with my new vision. My mind is already adapting, so I’m able to look around and actually able to comprehend what I’m seeing now.

I’m on a dark cave, without any light, although I can clearly “see” the wall, made of irregular stone. I’m also able to perceive the color, that is dark gray for the walls of the cave. There’s also some bats hanging from the ceiling.

First, I learn how to move by rolling my body. It’s quite easy. Alright, next is food. I don’t know if I need food or water, but better not to take any risks. I also need a way to hunt, and I’m aiming for one of those bats. I doubt that I can feel any taste, and I’m also not picky at all with food, since I follow the Chinese proverb, that “everything that has it’s back turned to the sky is edible”.

I also ate some insects while I was alive in emergencies, and I neve was sick of it. Some tasted pretty good after being roasted. Anyway, I need to take one of the bats down. I should get an attack that I can use at distance.

I roll over a stone, one of the many in the ground, taking it inside my body. Instantly, I understand that I started to digest the stone, and I understand that it’s fine for me to eat it. I see… so it’s like this. As long as it enters my body, I can digest it, and it seems that it doesn’t matter what is that I “eat”.

Alright, time to trial and error. I try several times to throw the stone, by pressing my body in different ways to make pressure on the stone, I try to rely on physics rather than my strength. That way, I can spew the stone like a cannon, and hopefully, kill a bat.

After several tries, I finally manage to find the right way of making the stone be ejected of my body. For that, I inflate my body, filling it with air in one section, and pressing it as hard as I can, forcing the air to propel the stone, shooting it like a pressure gun.

Although my strength isn’t great, my endurance allows me to force my body without tearing and allowing for a good shot. The speed isn’t that considerable, but it’s definitely better than an arm throw. This will be enough to kill or severely injure one of the bats that isn’t that big.

As soon I manage to do the technique, a window appears on from of my “eyes”.

Slime Stone Shot Type:TechniqueTier:Beginner Description: A technique developed by a slime to propel stones at high speed, with moderate accuracy by a smart use of the properties of the slime body and air.

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I see… alright, let’s test it on a bat. However, before shooting, I immediately have an idea to raise the accuracy of the shot. Focusing, I can raise the rate of my digestion, and, after a few tries, I manage to digest the stone, changing its shape to the shape of an average bullet.

And then, after e few tries, I manage to make the bullet rotate as I shoot it, and surprisingly, it gives the bullet more penetration power and raises the accuracy by a lot, being way easier to shoot. As soon as I master the technique, a new message appears.

Slime Stone Shot has changed into Stone Bullet

Stone Bullet Type:TechniqueTier:Beginner Description: A technique developed by a slime. By shaping the stones with its digestive capabilities, and adding rotation to the mix, the accuracy is high. The air pressure allows the stone bullet to fly at high speed, with high penetration power.

Great! I take a lot of stones, digesting them in the shape that I want. Eventually, after some tries, I manage to hit almost all the times. Taking aim, I shot and kill a bat instantly, breaking it’s back. Immediately, another message appears in front of my face:

You have leveled up by 2! STR +4AGI +5INT +9END +10

Great! So killing stuff levels me up! And now, I’m 3. For now, the objective is to attain level 100. I hope I can evolve into something, if there even is this kind of mechanic. I eat the bat, and notice that my body has grown a bit. For the first time, I decide to look at myself.

I’m just a black blob of slime, and judging by comparing my size to the size of the bat… I’m around thirty centimeters in diameter. And why black? Well, I was in a small pit… so, I was a puddle then? Well, whatever, back to eating the bat.

After digesting the bat completely, I continue hunting bats. And, after a few minutes, I achieve level ten, and my progress stops. No matter how many I kill, so I guess that I’ll have to level up on my prey.

Status Name:NoneLevel:1Race:Slime Parameters Strength:17Agility:22 Intelligence:80Endurance:98

My stats skyrocketed until level five and rose slowly from them on. Whatever, I don’t care about that right now. I’ve also grown more ten centimeters in my diameter. And now, I want an easier form to move in rather than my sphere form. Or blob form, I dunno.

Now that my stats are higher, I find easier to control the shape of my body, so I easily create copies of arms. After that, I slowly start to transform, taking a humanoid form. I also manage to create hands with five fingers.

With this, I may be able to use tools in the future. Of course, I don’t have any features, not even a sex, although I was a male in my previous life, and I’m not palling into being a woman. Well, it may be useful to turn into one to fool someone, so I won’t discard the ability.

It also takes a long time to form the humanoid body, but in the end, I manage to do so. I’m stronger now, so supporting my weight is easy now. I look at my jelly arms, and open and close my hands.

There’s a lot of stone bullets floating inside me, now in my head and stomach area, so it won’t compromise the movement of my body. Taking a stone from the ground, I throw it with all the strength that I can muster.

It flies a short distance, but it isn’t much, and wouldn’t har anything that much compared to a child’s throw, that’s how weak this body is. I also try to make my arm even softer, using it as a whip to throw a rock, so the results are way better.

Just for fun, I split my left arm into several tendrils, around twenty of them, the limit amount that I can split. I then try to weave them as a muscle, without letting the tendrils turn into one, resisting against each other.

I do feel some strength on the arm now. I take a stone and throw it, gaining more distance and power from when I just used my arm, but still weaker than when used my arm as a whip. Returning my arm to normal, I make a stone bullet go to my arm, stopping on the elbow area.

I fill my biceps area with air by inspiring it through the hole that I made in the neck. I change the shape of my forearm into a cylinder, changing its shape to make the bullet rotate. This will give more power to the bullet.

I then shoot against the wall, and the bullet explodes with the impact, making a small crack on the wall. Good, it has a good amount of power! I should be able to kill something big with this. Time to leave the cave!