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Chapter 35: Godrick's Party (7)
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Two weeks had passed since the request to subjugate the Moon Kobold was posted.
At first, many adventurers had eagerly set out to hunt it.
But after a week, that enthusiasm gradually faded.
The adventurers searched diligently for the Moon Kobold.
They thoroughly searched every area near where its roar had been heard.
But in the end, they could not find the Moon Kobold.
The most suspicious trace had been found on the first day of searching.
When they saw a tree deeply gouged with claw marks, they thought their prey had to be nearby.
More importantly, there was even a cave nearby!
So the adventurers thoroughly investigated and searched the area.
They entered the dark cave and even waited around it for days, but the Moon Kobold never appeared.
Other adventurers quickly widened their search, thinking it might have moved its lair, but they did not catch even a glimpse of it.
They had hoped to make a quick profit by hunting a relatively easy monster, but their time and effort went to waste.
Unaware that the Slime had defeated the Moon Kobold on the night its roar had been heard, the adventurers had come up empty-handed.
Meanwhile, over those two weeks, both Godric Party and the Slime had achieved great results.
While the other adventurers were distracted by the Moon Kobold, Godric Party diligently built up their record by hunting Orcs and other D-rank monsters.
They had not fought many monsters directly, but Godric Party had gained all sorts of experience as mercenaries.
And with the Slime assisting them, D-rank monsters were not particularly difficult opponents.
As a result, Godric Party was on the verge of taking the C-rank promotion test.
And as for the Slime's great achievement...
[The Shop function has been unlocked.]
The Shop function had been unlocked.
Besides the Moon Kobold, Kkanjuki introduced the Slime to monsters near the city and guided it to them, especially monsters from which it could earn coins.
Of course, the Slime only went out in the middle of the night.
And considering the Slime's speed, they only targeted monsters close enough to defeat at midnight and return from before morning.
The Slime was happy to quickly find monsters that could give it coins.
‘Just as I thought! My knowledge hasn't become obsolete!’
Kkanjuki celebrated the fact that, even after thirty years, they were not an old fogey.
The monsters were not rare like the Moon Kobold, nor did they give many coins, but the Slime kept defeating monsters that gave two or three coins each in the middle of the night.
At last, the Slime's cumulative coins reached one hundred, allowing it to open the Shop.
The Shop-unlocking notification that appeared in the middle of the night made the Slime happy enough to bounce around again and again.
▷I got the Shop!
▶Oh lolllll
▶Grats grats grats
[Noblesse Fire]▶What, you only got it now?
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶You should be praising it instead. This is why shut-in loser dragons with no empathy are hopeless.
[Noblesse Fire]▶You haven't been here in forever, so why are you picking a fight, asshole?!
[Jiggly Queen]▶My kin! What! What skills can you buy?!
The viewers were curious about what skills the Slime could buy from the Shop.
That was because the items available in the Shop differed greatly from monster to monster.
The Shop allowed one to use coins to buy possibilities they had not chosen, or skills they had failed to acquire because they did not meet some minor condition.
The Slime opened the Shop and examined the list of skills inside.
[Poison Generation: 5 coins]
[Antidote Generation: 5 coins]
[Devour: 10 coins]
[Bounce Jumping: 10 coins]
[Hardening: 15 coins]
[Tentacle Generation: 20 coins]
[Luminescence: 5 coins]
‘There are so many!’
Boing! Boing!
There were more skills available from the Shop than it had expected, so the Slime was excited.
▶What's with all the bouncing?
▶Looks like it got more than expected?
▶Tell us, tell us, tell us, tell us, tell us.
At the viewers' request, the Slime happily told them the list of skills in its Shop.
▶Those are exactly the kinds of skills a Slime could get.
▶What's Hardening?
▶Hold on! Hardening is a skill that hardens your body, letting you inflict greater wounds when attacking with something like Body Slam!
▶Thanks for the explanation nerd.
Looking over the skill list, the Slime thought about what to get.
‘Should I buy them all?’
The Slime currently had eighty-five coins.
Buying every skill in the Shop would cost seventy coins in total.
It could buy them all.
But rather than immediately buying everything, the Slime decided to ask the chat first.
The viewers chatting with it would know more than it did.
▷Should I buy them all?
▶Buy them all? Go go go.
▶Lol spend big!!!
[Jiggly Queen]▶What do you mean, spend big?! Shut up, you fools! My kin! You must never rashly buy every skill!
▷Why?
Though innocent, the Slime had watched the chat long enough to distinguish between messages that were simply messing around and messages that offered advice for its sake.
That was why it responded to the Slime Queen's words.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Because you do not know how many coins you will need when you evolve next! You must not overspend when thinking of the future!
[Threadwork Madam]▶That's right, Malangi! You could pick about two skills you like for now and buy the rest later!
▶The most fucking frustrating thing is running out of coins before evolving and having to grind your ass off lol.
‘I see!’
Taking that advice to heart, the Slime decided to choose the skills it wanted most.
But to do that, it needed to learn exactly what the skills did.
First, aside from Poison Generation and Antidote Generation, whose effects were obvious even at a glance, and Hardening, which the chat had explained, the Slime opened the detailed descriptions through the system.
[Devour: Expands its volume to absorb entities larger than itself.]
[Bounce Jumping: Consumes mana to increase elasticity when jumping. You can jump very high.]
[Tentacle Generation: Creates tentacles that can be freely controlled. Regenerating tentacles consumes mana. Increasing the tentacles' length beyond a certain point also consumes mana.]
[Luminescence: Creates light above a certain brightness. You can consume mana to emit a stronger light.]
Thanks to the detailed descriptions, it could understand what kind of skills they were.
And after reading them, the Slime chose the skills it wanted.
‘I want these!’
+++
Having gained new skills, the urge to show them off quickly welled up inside the Slime.
Of course, it did not want to show them off to just anyone. It only wanted to show them to people it considered close to it.
While Godric Party was traveling after accepting an Orc-subjugation request, the Slime used Perception to confirm there were no humans besides Godric Party, then jumped down from Def's head.
Boing!
“Hm? Tongtong, what's wrong?”
“What? Is a monster coming?”
When the Slime suddenly got down from Def's head, Def was puzzled and Godric guarded the surroundings.
Whenever the Slime suddenly climbed down, a monster often appeared nearby.
But this time, the Slime had climbed down not because a monster had appeared, but to show off its newly acquired skills.
The Slime bounced in a circle around Godric Party.
“What? What's gotten into it?”
“Pfft, does it want to play?”
“Tongtong, let's play later. We're on a request right now.”
Once it confirmed that all of Godric Party's attention was on it, the Slime stopped still and jumped in place.
Boing! Boing! Boing!
After jumping around three times to warm up...
‘Bounce Jumping!’
Using mana, the Slime increased its elasticity and sprang high into the air.
Booooing!
The Slime suddenly shot upward.
It soared far above the trees, easily clearing them.
“Wha?!”
“To, Tongtong!”
“What is that?!”
“A flying Slime...”
“Is this the time for nonsense, Hawein?!”
Everyone in Godric Party gaped in astonishment at the Slime jumping so high.
It usually jumped well and launched fast Body Slams at monsters, but they had never imagined it could jump this high.
Then, a moment later...
Boing! Boing! Boing!
After landing from its high jump, the Slime bounced in place several times from its own elasticity.
‘Amazing, right?!’
The Slime leaned its body back slightly, as though asking for praise.
Def was the first to understand what it wanted.
“Th, that's amazing, Tongtong!”
As soon as it heard Def's praise, the Slime immediately climbed onto Def's shoulder and shook.
Brrrrr!
“Hehehe, th, that tickles, Tongtong.”
Normally, the Slime would have climbed right back onto Def's head, but it was not satisfied with just one compliment.
The Slime climbed down from Def's shoulder and went up onto Hawein's shoulder instead.
“Hm? Why are you on my shoulder...?”
“Hawein! I think Tongtong wants praise!”
“Pfft, from me too? All right. That was amazing, Tongtong.”
Brrrrrrr!
As if Def's words had been exactly right, the Slime trembled atop Hawein's shoulder.
Then the Slime moved to Godric's shoulder.
“Yeah, yeah. That was incredibly impressive.”
Understanding what was going on, Godric praised the Slime as he stroked it perched on his shoulder.
Brrrrrrr!
Only Seugol remained.
Boing!
“Do I have to do it too?”
“It won't hurt you to give a compliment, so hurry up and get it over with, Seugol.”
“Tch, fine, Boss. Look at you, you're so great! So amazing!”
Brrrrrrr!
“Ah! That tickles!”
The Slime was very happy to be praised for its new skill.
But it was not enough yet.
It still had one more skill to show them.
That evening, Def hurriedly knocked on Godric, Hawein, and Seugol's doors.
“Boss! Hawein! Seugol! Come out!”
“Huh? What is it?”
“Hehe, did something happen?”
“Fuck! What is it now?!”
“C, come to my room!”
After gathering the three in Def's room, Def pointed at the bed.
“Look at this!”
Def slightly lifted the bulging bedsheet.
And, naturally, the Slime was underneath it.
Since Def had suddenly shown them the Slime under a blanket, the three could only be puzzled.
“Why is Tongtong there?”
“Tongtong! Th, that thing you did earlier! Do it again!”
‘Okay!’
Responding to Def's words, the Slime...
Hummmmmm!
Lit itself up.
The skill it had chosen alongside Bounce Jumping.
Luminescence.
“Look at this! To, Tongtong is glowing!”
Jumping high was one thing.
But they truly had not expected it to be able to emit light as well.
“What the hell is this thing?!”
Unable to comprehend it, Seugol was astonished.
“...Pfft. It's a glow-in-the-dark Slime.”
This time, even Godric could not rebuke Hawein's comment.
Godric merely said honestly,
“I can't tell whether it's a Slime or some other monster anymore.”
+++
The next day.
‘I showed them off a lot! I got lots of praise!’
The Slime was in a very good mood after showing off its new skills and receiving praise for them all the day before.
It had chosen Bounce Jumping because it wanted to jump higher and see more of the world for itself.
It had chosen Luminescence because it remembered Jessie turning on a light and reading books to it at the Ludendion estate.
After receiving praise, the Slime wanted to gather even more coins.
If it gathered more coins, it could buy more skills.
In other words, it had reached the conclusion that showing off more skills would give it more chances to be praised.
The people it wanted praise from included not only Godric Party, but Jessie, whom it would meet again someday.
And while the Slime was lost in happy thoughts...
“Today's finally the day, everyone.”
““Yes, Boss!””
“Let's make it to C-rank!”
Godric Party was fired up for their C-rank promotion test.
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