Stronger <C6>
"Are you kidding me?! These stats are crazy."
He did expect to meet much stronger monsters from the pack but this was ridiculous.
His physical stats (STR, AGI, DEX) were just 1 while the Elite monster had all of its physical stats above 5... So the chance of winning in a direct combat was a BIG ZERO.
"Maybe it will make the same mistake as others." He thought while carefully looking at the Elite monster.
The Elite monster moved to Bob Bait then did what he expected, it stood up after it got near the slime.
"Yeah, it's still a dumb monster...Wait, what?"
"Smash" Instead of opening its mouth, it directly crushed the slime and killed the slime, also destroyed the core.
It then lowered its body and started eating. Seemed like even if the core was destroyed into pieces, the monster still ate it with no care.
"Forget it, better go back and prepare a new plan." He was horrified. He imagined himself in Bob Bait's shoe and for sure, death would be fast and swift for him.
He silently moved away, afraid of gaining its attention.
"RAAAR" Suddenly, the monster roared which made him turned back.
The first thing he saw was a long stream of green liquid flew to him.
"CRAP" He used *Burst* the moment he realized what it was and barely dodged it.
(Burst is the dodge skill that he got from his first battle. The system won't acknowledge it as a skill because it was just a skill created by failing to perform Slime Bullet skill)
Some of it got onto him and it started burning small parts of his slim body. It was the acid spit and the Elite monster had noticed him.
"Damn it" He shot out 2 bullets at the rushing Elite monster.
But it was futile, its AGI was too great so it easily dodged all the bullets and when it got near enough, it attacked him.
The attack was insane, it created a small hole but there was no slime there because he dodged at the last second.
In the mid-air, he shot bullets at the monster but this time he shot without caring about his body, meant that he lost a large mass of his body in exchange for a rain of slime bullets.
The monster couldn't dodge in time and get hit multiple times. Most of the bullets hit the hard armor shell while only 4 shots hit the soft body.
The monster backed down and stared angrily at him, it was an Elite so it understood the pain and got many injuries throughout its life in the pack but got hurt by a slime never crossed its mind.
Due to using too much of his mass, he was down to 35% size of his normal size. But that didn't bother him now as he also stared at the Elite monster with hate, he didn't want to die here so he either killed it or died because of using all of his mass.
Both sides waited and stared at each other, wanted to kill the enemy in front.
"RAAAR" The Elite monster roared then...
It ran away?!
He was shocked, the monster ran away after it roared at him. In a normal situation, he should be the one who ran away while it chased him.
But he wouldn't be here to found out why because he immediately ran away. He needed to get back to his normal size and waited for the Elite monster to come back would be a death sentence.
After a long journey, he safely returned to the safe zone and jumped into the water. It took only a few seconds for him to get back to normal.
"That was a close one. I thought I was done for." He moved to the higher ground where he hid his food from other slimes.
There were 14 bodies of Giant Centipede around and a lot of stones. Stones were good but he decided to eat Centipede bodies instead. He liked to chew something while thinking about the battle.
Why did the monster stopped and ran away?! That was the only thing in his mind.
There was a chance that there was a higher threat around so the Elite monster decided to run away because of that. But the battleground only had 2 ways and there was nothing around.
He was also sure that it was smart enough to notice the difference in strength and it only received 4 injuries but none of them seemed to be serious.
Wait... Maybe he did hit a vital spot but which one?! He started to focus more on his memories. Even if he was in a panic state in the fight, he had to observe how much damages he dealt.
In the memories about the fight, there were 4 injuries and 3 of them leaked red blood while the last one leaked green liquid along with some blood.
"So I hit the organ that produces acid!! Lucky." This was good, now he had found another weakness that could help him in the future.
He then started to bring out a fresh Giant Centipede body and aimed at the area around the spot where the acid liquid organ maybe located at.
And it was a success. With 2 out of 4 holes leaked acid and blood, he managed to locate the vital spot. So if he shot the organ, it could kill the monster from inside or it would feel an unimagine pain until the wound healed. Either way, it would benefit him.
With this new weakness he found, he could take on an Elite Giant Centipede...but there was on one problem.
Its Physical Stats were crazy high, especially the AGI. It could dodge his bullets easily and the only chance he did hurt it was he shot a rain of slime bullets but would it be the same as last time?!
Increase his own Stats to solve the problem? If it was that easy then he wouldn't think about it. He was a slime which meant that he couldn't "train" his body and the system would not help him with increasing his Stats.
He could increase his STR if he got bigger but that would drain his mana faster. In his normal form, he could stay for 2 hours without eating but in bigger form, it would double or even triple the consumption rate so he would die faster than fighting.
While he was thinking, the system suddenly summoned and showed something new.
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Due to long exposure to low-density acid liquid, the core had got enough information and sample to produce its own acid.
+Skills:
<Acid Conversion>
*Convert mana to acid liquid.
*Can be applied to the body and some skills.
*Can not be level up.
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"Holy cow, I am on a row right now. This must be my lucky day...Of course, except for meeting the Elite Monster."
He used the skill immediately and produced some acid from his core which didn't hurt him at all, like it was meant to adapt to his body.
Some part of him turn green but soon to fade away and changed back to blue color.
"So there is a time limit. Crap, I was hoping to become an acid slime." But that didn't discourage him because there was still one test.
Aimed at a Giant Centipede and at it armor shell, he then shot a slime bullet. Usually, the bullet couldn't penetrate it but this time was different, he added the acid onto the bullet and it successfully penetrated the shell.
Imagined the powerful penetration forced of a bullet plus melting power of acid, and you would get the perfect penetration bullet for killing living things.
"...Next time I meet an Elite, it will become my prey."
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At the same time, the injured Elite Giant Centipede got back to its pack and they were staying in a bigger place than the slime zone.
Despite it wasn't a thousand monster pack but there were at least 200 around but all of them were normal while it was the only Elite around.
And something was happening, all of the normal was looking at the Elite and looked like they wanted to kill it.
"RAAAR" The injured Elite monster noticed the gazes so it let out a tyranny roar which scared off the normal ones.
"RAAAR" Another roar came again but it was from another Elite monster.
The Elite seemed to also have the same feeling as normal ones, wanted to kill the injured Elite.
The injured Elite let out a roar and looked angrily the Elite, it was ready to kill anything that stood in its way. There was only 2 Elite in this pack and only one of them could be in charge while the other had to die.
The Elite wanted to take this chance to get rid of the injured Elite and controlled the pack.
It wasn't long as they charged at each other and clashed. The stats weren't much different but because of the injuries, the injured Elite was in disadvantage.
Both of them fought for a long time until the Elite struck down a hard blow on the injured Elite which broke its one of the mouth claws and made the injured Elite more stood out from the rest.
Now injured Elite was One Claw Elite Giant Centipede.
The Elite let out a roar as it was a sign of victory and all other normal ones also roared along.
It was ready to kill One Claw but it didn't expect that it was trying to fight back.
The One Claw started to roll around the Elite and locked the Elite body then opened its mouth.
It was the first time any of them saw such type of attack. One Claw spat a large amount of acid into the Elite mouth. The fatal injury on One Claw also leaked acid and blood but it didn't care and spat out more.
The acid that One Claw spat out melted everything inside of the Elite.
After 5 seconds, One Claw stopped and let the Elite go which it fell down on the ground and a small stream of green acid and red blood spew out from the Elite mouth.
It was a cruel death and One Claw didn't need to roar out as the normal ones backed away as fast as they could. it was the winner and no one would dare to challenge the new leader.
One Claw didn't care about them and started eating the Elite. Yes, their physical stats were almost equal and One Claw was injured so the Elite was the one that supposed to win but there was one thing different.
The INT.
One Claw-INT: 6.
The Elite-INT: 3.
How One Claw had 6 in INT?! And it was 4 INT not too long ago.
Because it had something special.
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Name:____
Race: Giant Centipede (Elite)
Age: 4 years and one month.
Level: 5 --> 6.
+Status:
*STR: 7.
*AGI: 10.
*INT: 4 --> 6.
*DEX: 5.
*Will: 2.
Mana | 57 |
+Skills:
<Acid Spit lvl 5-max>
<Battle Elvolve>
*The Skill was created by an almost godlike gene, cannot be passed down.
*In a pressure battle, the host will get stronger to adapt to the battle.
*Can not be level up.
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It was Battle Evolve that pushed the INT up by 2 points but it wasn't from the battle with the Elite, it was from the slime that managed to injure it.
Right now it was getting smarter and smarter by the seconds in order to cope with its new INT.
And it started to think more but the first thought it had was very...
"Slime. Strong. Danger. Kill Later"