0005 - 2nd Tier Slime Evolution [Edited & Fixed]

As time continued to pass and the slimes continued to do eat away at a tunnel and I mined away at ore, I began thinking about one of my skills, specifically [Mana Body], a hidden skill that associated with [The First Dungeon] title.

And upon trying to use it, a system prompt appeared before me.

[You have insufficient Mana to cast this skill

Please raise your mana to 50,000 before you attempt to use this skill again]

That's...a lot of Mana...

How am I supposed to even increase my Mana Capacity?

Especially to 500 times its current size?!

Calming myself down, I put that thought away and focused back on my task at hand, designing my dungeon.

From what I can tell so far the border's shape is that of a Circle, meaning since the radius is two miles, with my core at the center, it should make the circumference a little over 12 1/2 miles long, giving me a bit of room to design my floor.

It also means it's going to take a while for the slimes and me to mine out everything, but it also gives me time to prepare and sort all of the information given to me by the system, which was quite a bit.

For example, turns out since the Slimes are created via mana, meaning I can 'resurrect' or recreate them so long as I give them a Name.

Turns out, Names have powers to them, so long as my monsters have names they would truly never die which is great for me.

Although, if I do have to remake the slimes, they would have lost a level of experience as a price, luckily they can't devolve, meaning that they can't lose their evolutions.

It also means it's going to be even harder to level the slimes with how weak they are...

I also spent quite of time creating a couple more slimes and fell unconscious every time, raising my Mana Exhaustion Resistance to 4, giving me 10 System Points from leveling it twice.

So far the slimes have passed the halfway point in eating around the border back to the begging.

I have also leveled all of the new slimes to become greater slimes, which then split off and created new slimes, I had around 20 slimes at this point which made it look like an oddly colored blue wall with some patches of other colors was slowly expanding the tunnel around the border.

That's right, they seemed to have attached to each other to increase the speed and area in which they could consume making the tunneling a little faster.

Of course, when it came to the ore veins they stumbled across, I mined them myself and had the slime go around the valuable ore.

I also found through an experiment that the evolved slimes could consume the materials they evolved after at a faster rate than the other slimes, meaning Metallic Slimes were the best at consuming Metal Ore while the Dirt Slimes could consume dirt at a faster rate, but while these evolved slimes could consume their relative material at a faster rate, something like the Greater Slimes would still consume everything at the same speed as before but slightly faster due to their slightly larger sizes.

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As even more time began to pass, my slime count multiplied to 60 in number with almost half of that number evolving to be Greater Slimes to continue to increase the number of slimes at an exponential rate.

I have also been giving all of the slimes numbers as 'names' and made sure to include their evolutionary route just so I remember the paths they have taken so far.

This brings up my first two Slimes, Metallic Slime #1 and Greater Slime #1, both of which have reached max level once again, allowing me to evolve both even further.

[A/N: Metallic Slime #1's current status]

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Name: Metallic Slime #1

Race: Metallic Slime

Race History: Slime(Level 1-10), Metallic Slime(Level 11-25)

Titles: [Dungeon Monster]

Level: 25/25 (Evolution Available)

Overall Level: 35

EXP: 525/525

Class: N/A

HP: 300/300

MP: 0

SP: N/A

HPR: 150 Per Hour

MPR: 0

SPR: N/A

Strength: 10 (+4)

Perception: 5

Intelligence: 5 (+1)

Dexterity: 1

Endurance: N/A

Vitality: 30

Willpower: N/A

Charisma: N/A

Luck: N/A

Free Attributes: 0(-5) (+1 Per 5 Levels)

Skills: [Slime Core], [Metallic Slime Body], [Consume]

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[A/N: Greater Slime #1's current status]

Name: Greater Slime #1

Race: Greater Slime

Race History: Slime(Level 1-10), Greater Slime(Level 11-25)

Titles: [Dungeon Monster]

Level: 25/25 (Evolution Available)

Overall Level: 35

EXP: 525/525

Class: N/A

HP: 200/200

MP: 0

SP: N/A

HPR: 100 Per Hour

MPR: 0

SPR: N/A

Strength: 3

Perception: 5

Intelligence: 9 (+7)

Dexterity: 2

Endurance: N/A

Vitality: 20

Willpower: N/A

Charisma: N/A

Luck: N/A

Free Attributes: 0(-7) (+1 Per 5 Levels)

Skills: [Slime Core], [Slime Body], [Consume], [Split]

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I was focusing on trying to make my first Greater Slime as intelligent as possible as an experiment to see if it can gain sapience and think for itself.

I also wanted to experiment to see if it's possible to get evolutions due to specking certain attribute points, either way, let's have a look at their evolution options.

[A/N: Can't think of many evolutions, please feel free to help by leaving your suggestions in the comment section!]

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Name: Metallic Slime #1

Greater Metallic Slime (Common)

Conditions for unlock: Metallic Slime Evolution

Evolution Rewards: +10 Vitality, +4 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, and [Split]

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Iron Slime(Uncommon)

Conditions for unlock: Consumption of Iron

Evolution Rewards: +7 Vitality, +2 Dexterity, +1 Intelligence, [Iron Slime Body], and [Iron Spikes]

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Copper Slime(Uncommon)

Conditions for unlock: Consumption of Copper

Evolution Rewards: +6 Vitality, +3 Dexterity, +1 Intelligence, [Copper Slime Body], [Copper Spikes]

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Steel Slime(Rare)

Conditions for unlock: Consumption of Iron and Coal

Evolution Rewards: +10 Vitality, +2 Dexterity, +1 Intelligence, [Steel Slime Body], and [Steel Spikes]

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Metal Eater Slime(Ultra Rare)

Conditions for unlock: Consumption of several different types of metal

Evolution Rewards: +15 Vitality, +5 Dexterity, +1 Intelligence, [Metal Eater Slime Body], [Sense Metal Lv 1], and [Metal Eater Acid]

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Name: Greater Slime #1

Giant Slime (Common)

Conditions for unlock: Greater Slime Evolution

Evolution Rewards: +10 Vitality, +4 Strength, +1 Dexterity, +1 Intelligence, and [Greater Split]

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[A/N: This option is available due to the slime now being smart enough to know that attacking invaders directly would not be the smartest move]

Greater Slime Ambusher (Rare)

Conditions for unlock: 5 intelligence

Evolution Rewards: +5 Vitality, +5 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +1 Intelligence, [Camoflauge], [Constrict], [Acidic Slime]

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Slime Captain (Ultra Rare)

Conditions for unlock: 5 Intelligence

Evolution Rewards: +5 Vitality, +3 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, [Slime Link], [Telepathy], [Magic Spell: Greater in Numbers], Mana Unlocked, +50 Mana

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