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Chapter 47: New Skill
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▶? Why is Malangi sucking human blood?
▶Has it only now acquired a taste for humans?
Since Malangi had acted immediately without explaining, most viewers could not understand what it was doing.
But one viewer knew poison very well.
Arachne.
Threadwork Madam was different.
[Threadwork Madam]▶Malangi, are you perhaps detoxifying it?
▶Detoxifying? Malangi already has the Detoxification skill, doesn't it?
[Threadwork Madam]▶There was also an Antidote Generation skill in the Shop last time. I think Malangi bought it and is using it?
[Noblesse Fire]▶Why would it buy such a useless skill?
▶LOL it has to get on the good side of the human that feeds it LOL
▶True LOL
[Jiggly Queen]▶Do you fools really think one of our kind would buy a skill for such a pathetic reason?!
“Sa, Saint!”
The priest looked at Amelia in alarm.
They wanted to pull it away immediately, but this was the Slime the Saint kept with her. They could not lay a hand on it carelessly.
“Budeul, you can't massage that person right now!”
Seeing the Slime quivering, Amelia thought it was trying to massage someone in pain.
The thought was sweet, but that would only hurt the patient more.
She hurriedly reached out and pulled the Slime away.
In that time, the Slime absorbed the blood, along with the poison inside it.
‘Antidote Generation!’
It immediately created a substance that could neutralize poison.
Mana was consumed, and antidote formed inside the Slime's body.
Then.
Pshht!
The Slime sprayed the antidote onto the calf covered in bite marks.
“Budeul?!”
Amelia had never seen it do anything like this before.
The Slime had suddenly spat a mysterious liquid at a patient, leaving her even more flustered.
“Q-quickly, wipe it off!”
Worried that bodily fluid spat out by a monster might worsen the wound, the priest hurried to wipe away the liquid.
That was when it happened.
“Could you please wait a moment?”
Paulen stopped the priest.
“Paladin Paulen?”
“Paulen?”
‘Considering everything it has done so far...’
If the Slime had not shown anything unusual until now, Paulen would not have stopped them.
But the Slime had done too many unexpected things.
It understood human speech, possessed strength that suggested it had defeated a Lesser Troll, and could emit light.
That was why he wondered if it might display something unexpected again.
Then.
“Ugh, ngh! Huh? Nn?”
The patient's groans, as they endured the pain while the Slime quivered, gradually began to lessen.
“The pain... It's fading. Saint, the pain is gradually going away.”
“What? Really?”
“How can this be...?”
Amelia blinked, while the priest stared in disbelief at the liquid covering the wound.
The liquid the Slime had spat out was gradually being absorbed into the injury.
“Could it be... Budeul, did you do this?”
‘Yes!’
Brrrrr!
Pshht!
The Slime quivered and sprayed more antidote over the patient's wound.
This time, the priest did not try to wipe it away and simply watched.
A short while later.
“It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt anymore!”
The patient spoke in delight as the pain from the Stone Snake's venom faded.
The paralysis had not completely healed, but the pain was gone, and the patient had recovered enough to sit up alone.
“This can't be...”
Even seeing it with their own eyes, the priest could not believe it.
Stone Snake antidote was difficult to make, and even gathering its ingredients was no easy task.
Yet that troublesome venom was being neutralized by the mysterious liquid spat out by a Slime.
‘Is it because this is the Slime chosen by the Saint? Of course! The Saint would never keep an ordinary Slime with her!’
“As expected of the Saint!”
“Huh?”
Amelia was bewildered by the sudden praise.
Meanwhile.
“Of course the Slime chosen by the Saint is special.”
“Right, I could tell that Slime was extraordinary from the moment I saw it!”
The patients Amelia had treated interpreted the priest's words however they liked and cheered.
“Saint, could you come over here? There is a patient suffering from poison.”
A nun tending another poisoned patient even asked Amelia, who was holding the Slime, for help.
“Ah, all right.”
It was a confusing situation, but Amelia thought saving people came first.
After that.
The Slime and Amelia performed great deeds throughout the clinic.
Amelia treated patients with physical injuries using Holy Arts, while the Slime spat out a substance that neutralized poison for poisoned patients.
It sucked blood from the wounds of patients suffering from poison and generated an antidote. From the outside, it only looked as though the Slime had climbed onto their wounds.
Yet the conditions of the poisoned patients immediately improved, and they promptly thanked Amelia.
“Thank you, Saint.”
“No, it wasn't me. Budeul did it.”
“I see. Thank you, Slime.”
Brrrrr!
The Slime was happy to hear people thanking it.
Of course, that was not the only benefit for the Slime.
It absorbed tiny amounts of poison from the patients' blood.
As it created antidotes, the Slime gained immunity to those poisons.
Information about the poisons was also stored within its body. If it acquired the Poison Generation skill, it would be able to create the poisons it had neutralized.
But the Slime's thoughts did not reach that far yet. It was simply happy to be praised.
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After leaving the clinic, Amelia had lunch inside the Great Church, since it was time to eat.
“Budeul really is more amazing the more I see it.”
Paulen, who was dining with her, spoke as he watched the Slime eating food on the table.
Brrrrr!
The Slime did not even hear Paulen's praise, too busy enjoying its food.
“...”
Amelia silently watched the Slime.
Looking at it like this, it was simply a quiet and cute Slime.
Yet today, the Slime had shown something truly unbelievable.
A Slime that secreted a liquid capable of neutralizing poison.
She had never seen or heard of such a Slime.
Too many impossible things kept happening.
From Amelia's perspective, they were almost too convenient.
‘Could it be...?’
A thought suddenly came to her.
‘Could Budeul be an angel sent down by God?’
It was a fantasy born from Amelia's low self-esteem.
Since she was so unreliable, perhaps God had turned an angel into a Slime and sent it down to help her.
‘Th-that can't be true!’
Even Amelia shook her head and denied the thought, finding it too absurd.
‘It seems Amelia is imagining something strange again.’
It was a familiar sight to Paulen.
The next day.
Amelia stayed in her room.
She had gathered the courage to go out into town, but with her low self-esteem, she could not find the courage to go outside again so soon.
She spent the day as usual, practicing Holy Arts in her room.
The following day.
“This time, I think we should properly see what Budeul can do.”
With a mischievous grin, Paulen made Amelia a suggestion.
“See what Budeul can do? Didn't we already see it once?”
“That was only a taste, Amelia. Besides, Budeul will enjoy exercising too, right? Exercise is good for mental health as well!”
“Biceps!” Paulen shouted, flexing his biceps.
“But what if Budeul gets hurt while sparring just to test its ability?”
“What on earth are you so worried about, Amelia? Please trust in my strength as the strongest in the Holy City!”
“...All right.”
After they moved to the training ground, Paulen took his main weapon, a greatshield, out of his Inventory.
“You're even taking out the Holy Spirit Shield?”
“I think a wooden shield has its limits.”
‘Wow! A new shield!’
The Slime fixed its gaze on the shield it was seeing for the first time.
It was the Holy Spirit Shield, made specifically for paladins and imbued with a blessing, with the church sparing no expense in its creation.
Even the viewers could tell at a glance that it was no ordinary shield.
▶That thing looks tough as hell.
▶Humans have stuff like that too?
[Noblesse Fire]▶Hmph! My scales are harder.
▶Why are you flexing your scales here?
▶Looks like that's all you have to flex about?
[Noblesse Fire]▶That's not true!
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Ho ho ho, please do not scrape away at the pride of a paltry, shut-in loser dragon.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Shut up! You're just a bag of bones whose scales have all rotted away!
Thud!
Paulen planted the Holy Spirit Shield on the ground.
“All right, Budeul! Show me the strongest attack you can use! I'll take all of it!”
Boing!
Understanding Paulen's words, the Slime leaped down from Amelia's shoulder and landed on the ground.
‘Something strong!’
Boing! Boing!
The Slime bounced in place several times as if warming up, thinking.
The strongest attack it could use.
It was an attack that combined the two skills it had used when Godric, Seugol, and Def were in danger.
It had used them unconsciously at the time, but after replaying that moment over and over in its mind, the Slime instinctively knew how to use them.
It drew out the elasticity of its body to the utmost with Mana.
Then it aimed itself at the shield and used Bounce Tackle.
Boooiiing!
The tackle that had crossed the distance in an instant and sent a Lesser Troll flying over a cliff slammed into Paulen's shield.
Booooong!
A sound like a massive bell being struck reverberated throughout the training ground.
It was the strongest blow the Slime could deliver.
Yet Paulen received the attack perfectly.
The title of Paladin, a holy knight called the strongest in the Holy City, was only bestowed upon someone with skill worthy of it.
‘This is even more incredible than I expected!’
Even Paulen found the Slime's attack remarkably powerful.
It was powerful enough to make even Paulen, who was normally unfazed by ordinary monster attacks, feel his arm go numb for a moment.
‘With this much power, even a B-rank monster would be seriously hurt if it were hit.’
Meanwhile.
‘Huh? What was that? What just happened?’
Amelia only blinked and stared ahead.
The Slime's strongest strike had been too fast for Amelia's eyes to follow.
All she saw was the Slime suddenly disappear, followed by a heavy reverberating sound.
Before she knew it, the Slime was in front of the greatshield.
And the one who had launched the tackle was...
‘Wow! Amazing! So tough! Amazing!’
Boing! Boing!
The Slime hopped around Paulen in admiration after seeing him block its attack.
“What? Why are you so excited? Are you surprised because I'm amazing?”
Boing!
The Slime bounced in place as if affirming it.
It somehow looked like a child admiring him, making Paulen's chest tingle.
“Hahahaha! Budeul, do you want to become strong like this too?”
‘Yes!’
Boing!
“Then you just have to exercise every day without skipping, like me! Then you'll grow strong too! Hup! Biceps!”
Delighted by the Slime's reaction, Paulen flexed his biceps.
Boing!
‘Biceps!’
Paulen was so strong that he could block its attack without being bothered at all.
Paulen said exercising would make it strong.
And judging by Paulen's actions, getting strong through exercise gave you muscles.
‘I want biceps too!’
The Slime had found a new goal.
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