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Chapter 12: Evolution (3)

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Squish! At the unfamiliar word, the slime tilted its body slightly to one side.

‘What’s evolution?’

The system answered the question in its mind.

[Evolution is a phenomenon through which you can evolve into a higher-level entity.]

‘?’

The slime still did not understand, so the system explained in simpler terms.

[It is a phenomenon through which you can become stronger.]

‘?’

[Reviewing an explanation appropriate to the subject’s intelligence.]

[Selecting an explanation based on the subject’s recent experiences.]

[You will be able to catch deer faster.]

‘Wow!’

This time, the slime was able to roughly understand what evolution was.

‘Deer! Catch faster!’

Boing! Boing!

The slime bounced excitedly in place.

The deer’s head beneath the slime was being driven into the ground.

The slime immediately told the chat about what it had learned.

▷Evolution! Evolution!

▶Evolution?

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Could it be that the evolution window has appeared, Malangi?

▷Can evolve! Catch deer faster!

▶The evolution window really showed up?

▶Why is it so fast?

[Jiggly Queen]▶Has the evolution window appeared, my kin!

▶Ah! Evolution s*x!

The chat became noisy at the news that the evolution window had appeared.

Because it had come remarkably fast!

Normally, once monsters developed enough intelligence to recognize the system window, it took at least a year before they encountered an evolution window.

Compared to that, the slime’s evolution window had appeared at nearly Mach speed!

Still, it was not unnatural that the slime had encountered it so quickly.

Other monsters grew to a certain extent before recognizing the system, but the slime had recognized the system from the moment it was born. Naturally, there had to be a difference in the experience points needed for evolution.

And amid the steady stream of questions, one viewer noticed that fact.

[Free Spirit]▶Isn’t it because Malangi is still a slime? The first evolution is usually fast.

Kkanjuki was the first to say so.

Kkanjuki had never evolved after becoming a lich, but spoke as though they had experienced it.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Is that so?

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶We dragons are top-level entities from the start, so how would we know?

[Noblesse Fire]▶Don’t put me in the same category as some pathetic pile of bones.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶What did you say?

[Jiggly Queen]▶If you want to fight, make another channel and fight there! Is my kin not standing at the crossroads right now?!

▶Hot take) Every time these old fossils fight, I can smell the rot.

▶222222

▶LOL

[Just Slam Into It]▶Malangi! What can you evolve into?

At Fenrir’s question, the slime tilted its body.

‘Evolve into what?’

[The subject has three evolution options.]

[1. Poison Slime]

[2. Big Slime]

[3. Bounce Slime]

[Would you like to hear detailed explanations?]

‘Yes!’

[Poison Slime: Your body will gain toxicity. You can secrete and spit poison to attack, or coat your entire body in poison to attack targets.

Skill: You will gain Poison Generation.

Required Coins: 25 Coins.]

[Big Slime: Your body will become larger. You can use your increased size and weight to crush opponents. You can instantly absorb opponents equal to or smaller than yourself into your body.

Skill: You will gain Capture.

Required Coins: 20 Coins.]

[Bounce Slime: Your body will become more elastic. You will be able to move faster and find it easier to attack by using terrain and objects around you.

Skill: You will gain Bounce Tackle.

Required Coins: 15 Coins.]

‘?’

The slime listened to the system’s explanations.

But even after hearing them, it did not understand. It did not know which one to choose, either.

‘What do I do?’

The system gave a firm answer to the slime’s question.

[It depends on your choice.]

Feeling that the system would not explain this one simply, the slime decided to ask the chat.

▷Evolution! Got choices! Lots!

[Free Spirit]▶What choices do you have?

▶Lots of choices? How many?

▷Three!

▶They think three is a lot LOL

▶Three is a lot.

▶For evolution, that is a lot, yeah.

[Jiggly Queen]▶My kin! Then what choices have appeared? Tell us!

‘Tell them!’

The slime was about to list the three choices.

Then it paused to think.

Rather than simply saying the three names right away, would it not be better to repeat what the system had said?

‘Everyone! Talks lots! Knows lots!’

[Jiggly Queen], who worried about it and warned it. [Just Slam Into It], who taught it how to Body Slam and hunt. And [Free Spirit], who had encouraged it to eat meat as well as purple grass.

To the slime, the viewers in the chat were beings who knew more than it did.

Then perhaps they would understand explanations it did not understand.

With that thought, the slime spoke to the system.

‘Tell me again!’

Then the slime copied the system’s explanations into the chat exactly as it had heard them.

The explanations posted in chat surprised the viewers.

▶Malangi became an explanation nerd!

▶They’re just copying exactly what the system says LOL

▶First time I’ve seen someone share their entire evolution description LOL

▶The description is similar to when I evolved.

▶What’s a Bounce Slime?

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‘So this is the evolution window explanation the monsters talked about so much.’

A light flared in Kkanjuki’s empty eye sockets as they sat in their secret workshop.

A light full of curiosity and inquiry.

Kkanjuki, who had never seen an evolution window before, had always wondered what the evolution windows monsters saw looked like and what their options contained.

But whenever they asked about it during broadcasts, people either found it unpleasant and asked, “Why are you asking something like that?” or responded, “You just pick whatever you feel like. Why would you remember every explanation?” There had been no way to find out properly.

Yet thankfully, the slime had copied the contents of its evolution window directly into the chat.

‘The explanations are not very complicated, but they are thorough.’

They told the evolving entity what traits it would have and what skills it would gain after evolving.

‘And Coins are used for evolution, too.’

Coins accumulated when monsters underwent certain experiences.

The only use for Coins the lich knew of was purchasing skills through the Shop.

The skills available in the Shop varied widely, but there was one rule.

An entity could only purchase skills it was capable of using.

For example, no matter how many Coins it had, a monster like a slime could not learn the Breath used by dragons.

Not every skill could be purchased, but buying skills one could use wisely could make one stronger.

That was why some monsters who had only just become aware of the system and unlocked the Shop function opened broadcasts to beg for Coins.

-Please! Precious Coins for this lowly octopus that has just unlocked the Shop!

Some humiliated themselves and begged.

-You all like this kind of thing, right? This is my. Shed. Skin. Next time, I’ll shed more boldly, so please send encouragement Coins~

Some copied other suggestive broadcasts.

-Give me Coins and I’ll do anything! Come on! What would you have me do?!

Others took on challenges to earn them.

Monsters in middling positions craved Coins to become stronger.

Putting aside the brief joy of gaining new knowledge about evolution windows, Kkanjuki began steering Malangi.

‘Poison Slime is the one to avoid.’

Just as they had worried when the slime ate poisonous grass, becoming a Poison Slime that carried poison would make it difficult to contact Nellin.

Kkanjuki began with a natural question.

[Free Spirit]▶Malangi! How many Coins do you have right now?

▷Coins?

[Free Spirit]▶Ask the system and it’ll tell you!

▷37!

‘There will be no problem evolving.’

Kkanjuki quickly analyzed the evolution choices other than Poison Slime and was about to speak.

That was when it happened.

[Noblesse Fire]▶If you’re evolving, bigger is obviously better! Hey! Become a Big Slime!

The fire dragon.

Noblesse Fire spoke in chat first.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶What a crude thing to say.

[Noblesse Fire]▶What do you mean, crude?! Huh?! If you’re big, people won’t look down on you!

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶That is exactly why it is crude. Still, size is important.

The fire dragon and the bone dragon, who usually argued, shared the same opinion.

[Threadwork Madam]▶My, do you not know how useful poison can be? Our cuuute Malangi would make a lovely Poison Slime~.

Arachne.

Threadwork Madam, who often used poison, recommended Poison Slime.

[Just Slam Into It]▶What are you talking about?! Malangi learned Body Slam! To get better at Body Slam, Bounce Slime is obviously the best!

Fenrir.

Just Slam Into It recommended Bounce Slime, which could make use of their teachings.

As the recommendations heated up, other viewers joined the discussion for fun.

▶Bounce Slime is not it. It costs the fewest Coins.

▶You’re ruling it out because it costs fewer Coins? Tsk tsk tsk.

▶More expensive does not automatically mean better.

▶Poison is useless if you cannot hit them with it LOL

▶What is so good about bouncing?

▶If you just get bigger, you’ll get hit by every attack.

▶But it costs so damn few Coins.

Of course, most of them were trolls joining for fun.

They enjoyed the chat growing noisy as everyone tore down the other choices.

‘Mmm...! I don’t know!’

And as the chat kept saying one option was good, then another was good, the slime became even more troubled.

Then.

[Jiggly Queen]▶Quiet! You trolling bastards! Why should any of your opinions matter?! What matters is what my kin wants!

▶Who cares? LOL.

▶Ah LOL, it’s fun though LOL.

The Slime Queen became angry when the slime’s important evolution became half a joke.

[Free Spirit]▶Yeah, Jiggly Queen is right. What Malangi wants to become is what matters most.

Riding the wave of that anger, Kkanjuki immediately asked the slime.

[Free Spirit]▶Malangi! What do you want to become?

▷What do I become?

While the chat was noisy, Kkanjuki drew on their experience as a former mage to explain each evolved entity’s traits in a way the slime could understand.

[Free Spirit]▶Poison Slime can use poison.

▷Poison?

[Free Spirit]▶You make water that hurts and can catch deer easily.

▷Wow!

[Free Spirit]▶Big Slime makes Malangi’s body bigger.

▷Bigger!

[Free Spirit]▶You will be slower, but you can eat more.

▷Eat more!

[Free Spirit]▶Bounce Slime can move quickly.

▷Quickly?

[Free Spirit]▶Yeah. And you jump in place when you are happy, right?

▷Yes!

[Free Spirit]▶You can jump more.

▷More!

Having explained as clearly as possible for the slime, Kkanjuki spoke.

[Free Spirit]▶You just choose what Malangi wants to become from those.

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‘What I want to become...’

After listening to Kkanjuki’s explanation, the slime thought deeply.

Poison Slime.

The slime could roughly understand the act of using poison.

The pain it had felt after first eating purple grass.

It understood the concept of attacking with that pain.

But it could not properly imagine itself attacking with poison.

Big Slime.

On the other hand, it was easy to imagine becoming bigger and eating more.

The deer was bigger than the slime.

If it became a Big Slime, it could eat more deer, and eat it faster.

And finally, Bounce Slime.

It could move quickly and jump more.

Even without ambushing them, it could catch rabbits and deer that ran away.

What did it want to do more?

After thinking endlessly about that, the slime made its decision.

The thing most familiar to it, and the thing it had wanted most.

‘I’ll evolve!’

The system responded to the slime’s thoughts.

[Which entity would you like to evolve into?]

‘Bounce Slime!’

[You have selected Bounce Slime.]

[15 Coins have been consumed.]

[Beginning evolution.]

Vwoooom!

‘Waaah...!’

The slime’s entire body was engulfed in light.

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