10 Nine

After a harrowing journey back up a tunnel Deal finally settled into a slightly ok section of the ruins.

The whole ruins were quite large but he managed to find what seemed to be a small office-like space. It wasn't really one but Deal just called it an office as he needed a base for the moment and there was an escape route available that only he could fit through.

The room was surrounded by four walls and a ceiling covered in writings that Minu told him was simply decorations. The entry was a small cracked corner which Deal conveniently fit through.

He needed a plan. Theodore had kept him inside like a lab rat and Deal only escaped to find these ruins and that followed by being almost killed with an influx of knowledge about space, time and spirit. Cheat codes are what Deal considered having gotten but now he had the dilemma of having to create an organic body for himself.

Space, Time and Spiritual knowledge are amazing. He could technically just live as he was and be some sort of freak monster that lived in one of the danger zones on this world like all the novels he read where he would domain over a certain region filled with beasts.

However, to Deal that didn't sound as fun as running around causing chaos to humans, beasts and whatever other creatures existed with a humanoid body. He was after all a young human man.

"I have to learn biology or go to some magic school. Damnit. This isn't going to be easy. The only good thing is once I manage to get some practical skills out of Minu, I could probably teleport left and right and escape whenever or even reverse time and avoid danger. Probably." Deal thought out loud as he was contemplating.

The skills he got were very very useful but knowing that Minutrians were a race that had such legacies, he couldn't deny that there may be other races with such amazing skills.

The world itself was a new one for both him and Minu and knowledge was a must but he didn't know how to go about getting said knowledge.

Without knowing really what else to do. Deal decided to sort out what knowledge he had and started meditating.

He didn't really care for the world around him right now as there was no danger for the moment and he had a lot of different pieces of knowledge to sort through.

Days passed which followed by weeks.

"..."

"SCREW IT ALL! I'M GOING TO BE A TERRORIST!" Deal raged as it took weeks to digest but the elementary knowledge on space alone.

The benefits, however, were surprising.

Short distance teleportation through bending space.

Spatial slash which was the size of a two feet long sword scar that could tear.

These two moves alone took two weeks.

Minu finally came around after two weeks, as he really couldn't find a reason to reject Deals offer of a new body with a chance at rebuilding his once-great race.

Minu agreeable to the partnership still thought Deal was a total idiot for taking so long on learning but the basics of knowledge but Minu's standards were extremely high.

While Deal himself did not have any foundation in such knowledge so he just guessed about with the information he had until he found two practical moves. Deals processing speed due to his crystal network was still leagues faster than humans back home but he still underestimated the difficulty of concepts such as time especially with the energy levels he had to use his powerful processing mind.

Deal having spent weeks as such was feeling restless and a little hungry for the first time.

Theodore that mad quack at least fed the poor slime every day with overly exquisite materials.

Deal started venturing out after his little seclusion since he at least some form of protection now.

Having started rolling towards the forest again heading south. Deal started noticing the fantasy of where he was for the first time.

Mystical looking plants, with an abundance of colors and stems. Flowers that looked alive and trees that resembled ancient art.

"Really brought back to fantasy, huh." Deal couldn't help but mutter.

Finally getting over the fantasy for the third or fourth time since his soul transplant. Deal finally found a three-bladed grass that grew on a rock with an odd little blue ball growing at the extremities of each blade.

"Minu is this something special?" Deal asked in curiosity as it was his first time seeing such a special looking plant.

"No clue, the only similar one in my memories is a ferocious ant creature that grew two blades on its head with small red fruits at their extremities," Minu replied with interest at the new plant even his vast knowledge did not contain. Reminding him exactly how long it has been since he saw the outside world.

"Think I can eat it?" Deal asked again as the scent given by the plant was similar to the smell of sweet strawberries for some reason.

"Don't know. Give it a shot." Minu replied without much worry as after Deal had given Minu a description of his "new body's" birth, Minu considered the slime body to be resistant to quite a bit of things considering the extremely accurate recap of the "feeding" process Deal had suffered through.

"Ok" Deal said as he loosened the thickness of one side of his round body to allow the plant to enter within.

Once inside, Deal discovered the toxicity of his body as the plant almost instantly crumbled into nothing but its basic components. The little blue balls were the exception as they kept floating within him.

Deal having had a flash of inspiration decided to use his spirit as a control tool to try and analyze the little blue balls.

The results were that he could see thoroughly through the entire structure of the little blue balls. It was an amazing discovery as he could see how the blue ball kept from being disintegrated into nothingness.

The blue balls had spectacular energy levels that forced out the toxicity of Deal's "blood" from entering and the blue balls seem to have an affinity with ice as they were extremely cold from the sensation within Deal.

Playing around with the blue balls, Minu eventually gave Deal the idea to absorb the energy. After fumbling through different spirit control exercises, Deal managed to create a small tendril that linked with his innermost core and started absorbing the icy energy that the little fruits were emitting.

It took him a full six hours per little ball, which showed how interesting the plants of his new world really were.

"What the hell, I feel amazing right now!?" Deal yelled in bouts of gurgling.

"What did you expect you, idiot. That was most likely a tier-three ice fruit plant. Considering the energy you had just took in, I'm more surprised you haven't exploded but I guess whoever made your body really didn't want you dying." Minu grumbled at how easy going Deal seemed.

"Oh, tier three must be good stuff. Ice powers!" Deal laughed as he was happy to discover such a gift when he was hungry, he was also almost thankful for Theodore's perverse skills at creating his body, but only almost considering the torture that came along with it.

"By the way Deal, what is a Terrorist?" Minu asked as the question was bothering him earlier and he forgot considering he finally came to terms with his current situation.

"Oh, they go around terrorizing the different groups and peoples around the world for personal and selfish reasons most of the time." Deal replied.

"So you're going to be one?" Minu asked surprised at the answer.

"Maybe, why?" Deal questioned.

"Isn't that a dishonorable way of living?"

"Could be but why should we care?" Deal asked again.

"Well isn't that just evil?" Minu retorted.

"Yes, but is it evil if we only terrorize evil people?" Deal asked again.

"Well, I guess that would be a form of justice but how would you terrorize?" Minu seemingly more curious about his new partners thought patterns.

"I guess I haven't thought that through. I could just go become a pinnacle level existence that terrorizes the hearts and souls of all his enemies through trickery, slavery, deception, face smacking, and theft of all property?" Deal said with a hint of anticipation.

"So we're bandits?" Minu asked shocked.

"No, Minu. Let's be terrorists!" Deal said with a righteous tone.

"I. Don't. Want. To. Be. A. Bandit!" Minu spat out each and every word.

" TERRORISTS IT IS! ONWARDS FELLOW COMPANION OF MISFORTUNE!" Deal declared to the new world that was totally unaware of the monster like existence that decided on a whim to become a ban..Terrorists.