Pet Acquired!

Instead, the humanoid hops back a step. Using both it's arms it swoops down to get a grasp of some part of Zheng Da. The part is soon absorbed and assimilated into the body. The part has the distinctive purple of Zheng Da though, so as its moved through the body into the remaining black slime a darker patch of white could be seen.

Though I can't really tell what happens after I could only assume that more of white is created as the body stabilizes a bit after. The black slime moves between two locations within the white mass: the head whenever it nothing is being processed and the stomach whenever a part of the Zheng Da appears within itself.

The first arm missed by a hair, while the second caught onto something tearing a chunk off and absorbing it into itself. Zheng Da had visibly shrunk for a second until some more slime appeared to fill up the missing parts. I think when that happened I saw the core within shrink by a small fraction as well.

The Zheng Da rolled towards the ankles once again getting a few hits in before backing up just before a hit landed on it. Zheng Da seems to have some sort of plan fighting the thing, though it couldn't flawlessly execute it.

The was an attack pattern to the humanoid's movements, whenever it raised it's arms up, then it was going for a double handed attack probably down; If it was a single arm pulled away from itself then it was probably a sweeping attack.

After some more repetitions of attacking the ankle Zheng Da changed it's attack plan. Instead of just going for the ankles it started jumping every once in a while, attacking the chest and attempting the head as well whenever it could.

There seems to be some sort of attraction to the black slime for Zheng Da. Sometimes it even purposely left itself open to attacks, just so the humanoid's black slime would descend to the chest.

The wounds it sustained to itself compared to the first time it was hit was miniscule. Even though the humanoid won't get much from those hit's it was still something, so the black slime still went to the chest cavity to process it.

At that moment Zheng Da jumped up with it's arm and punctured the chest, tearing a part of the black slime with it. The humanoid buckled and it's attacks became more aggressive, wildly swinging them in Zheng Da's general direction.

Yet somehow Zheng Da consistently dodged rolled most of them until the final attack came. One which cancelled her chain of dodges and got a huge hit off. The amount taken from from her was the most so far; just a little over 20% of Zheng Da's current slime mass was swiped away from her.

The humanoid must have been so angry from part of the black slime within being taken, when swinging it's arms at Zheng Da it didn't even think of taking the mass and absorbing it. Instead it just swatted the mass away in the distance. When it noticed the damaged that it actually achieved it realized the massive waste of material by just flinging it away.

After a brief moment it decided to try and scavenge the mass by dashing towards it, or at least trying to "dash" for it. It was extremely clear from the movement that it had probably never used such a form or at least not often as it struggled to really comprehend bipedal movement at the start.

Zheng Da of course didn't wish to lose the mass nor let it fall into the humanoid's hands. It probably realized the momentary lapse of judgement the humanoid slime was producing. It was a step faster then the humanoid and promptly headed over towards it.

It's a shame for Zheng Da though that the humanoid had legs while the former could only roll or make little jumps. While Zheng Da had been moving towards it's missing mass the humanoid was figuring out how to use it's legs.

When Zheng Da reached around halfway the humanoid started walking to the mass at first. Slowly but surely it began to pick up speed; from a slow walk, to a moderate jog, and finally a full on sprint. But it was still around the size of a toddler so the speed wasn't really incredible.

Soon it caught up to Zheng Da around the 90% mark and passed it as well. Making it to the mass it used it's arms, which by now it had a good amount of control over from all those times attacking Zheng Da earlier, to grab ahold of the mass. Just as it was about to entirely assimilate it Zheng Da appeared at the other end of the mass of slime and connected it back to herself.

The humanoid didn't pay it much mind and just started to absorb the piece. It didn't immediately get sucked in though as Zheng Da somehow held it back. Using more suction the humanoid slowly sucked it in and even started pulling Zheng Da in too.

The purple slime seemed to start panicking for a good few moments at the suction until it thought of something. Just a little bit before the hand the slime connection was cut off. Zheng Da had lost 10% of it's body mass in exchange for that small amount of black slime.

All of a sudden, "So, do you think your little purple slime is going to win?" Yao Ya came beside me and spoke in my ear.

"It's name is Zheng Da! And of course its going to win!" I proudly declared to her, expertly hiding the fact that she scared the shit of me.

"Oh? What makes you say that "Zheng Da" will win?" She asked with a bit of intrigue.

"I've already named it! I've developed an emotional connection to this little slime already, so I'll be devastated if it loses!" I spoke, staring at the little slime which fought the toddler silhouetted slime.

"Well, if it does lose then you don't need to worry about it at all! I'll be here with you to lessen that pain and make you forget all about it! You've still got me after all!" She spoke with a reassuring tone while hugging my left arm.

Turning back to the face off they both just seemed to look at each other at the moment. Normally Zheng Da would be attacking the humanoid while it processed the piece it took. Instead it seemed to be watching the humanoid with it's nonexistent eyes.

The humanoid figure wasn't moving either instead taking the time to process it's new mass. A darken part of white slime moved from it's right arm slowly to the black slime which once again descended to the chest cavity. When the darkened mass entered the black slime I thought that was where it would end and the humanoid form would once again stabilize itself.

Rather than that happening the black slime slowly inflated initiating an expansion. It expanded towards the front of the chest and out through the back until it pushed too far. Black slime bits exploded forward and backwards exposing a bit of purple inside. When that explosion took place Zheng Da Rushed forward to the open cavity.

The humanoid figure at this point couldn't seem to hold it self together anymore. First it fell over on it's knees before it's head drooped backwards and it's figure began to melt as gravity finally took hold over this thing. If it wasn't magic the fact that it had nothing as structural support, such as bones, gravity would have caused it's down fall long ago.

Zheng Da went up and took the final parts of the black slime inside. It seemed to the be the final straw for the slime humanoid as it seemed to just give up after that and let itself be eaten. After five minutes of the slimes fighting each other it finally ended with a desired outcome no less!

"See what did I tell you? Zheng Da had it all in the bag." I pointed at Zheng Da, which from the outcome cleansed myself from anxiety. As soon as I saw that those two slimes from earlier fought back and even could transform into something together, I was honestly scared for what might happen.

"Of course, I believed you!" She concisely responded.

Soon Zheng Da finished absorbing and assimilation the rest of the slime figure. It didn't leave anything part untouched and fully cleaned the area including the bits of black slime which exploded outwards.

When it's final part was taken into itself It was once again huge. It compressed itself on it's way towards us though, returning once again to the size it was previously. This time the opaqueness that was only in the center or core section encompassed it's entire being.

Two dots emerged from the slime which were parallel with each other which appeared as it's eyes. As it came closer I crouched down without Yao Ya, she still stood. I reached out with my right hand, palm facing up for it to climb on.

"Your name is now Zheng Da. Do you like that?" In a gentle voice I spoke to the slime like it could understand me.

Hopping onto my hand it seemed filled with energy as it bounced up and down in my hand. I think it even nodded to it's new name when I told it, the "eyes" on it's body moved up and down.

'Wait how am I supposed to hide him from others? Anything found in this realm could be some treasure and unless I could trust them they might try to that Zheng Da from me! How about hiding it in my robe, they won't notice him there right?'

"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to put you in here for the time being ok? It's for your safety and also so others won't notice you." Using my other hand I opened up my robe a bit so the slime could go inside and gently placed him in.

Even then though, it was obvious that I had something from the shape that was made on my chest.

"Could you please reshape yourself so that it looks natural?" Once again I asked the slime expecting it to just be able to understand me all of a sudden.