High Ground

With limited energy however he had to do this quickly or he would run out of energy, throwing the pots in his comm space along side the tarp in the water to fill up he cups one of his hands to put water in while the other holds his dagger. Waiting for the slimes to get as close as they will they approach 20 feet and stop, knowing they won't get closer and won't leave a cornered prey he rushes forward and throws the handful of water on a slime once he is only 5 feet away to coat it in as much water as possible before rapidly retreating scrapping past 10 slimes that had managed to get behind me using the energy as a barrier in order not to get acidic burns. 

He only had about 5 minutes before he would be completely devoid of energy and that is with only a thin coating, fortunately slimes are the lowest ranked for a reason being slower and their acid not overly potent a thin barrier is all he needs.

Putting the now full pots in his comm he once more rushed out of his stream splashing three of the slimes that had got around behind him the first time he rushed forward. Pulling back once more he watched as all the slimes retreated back to their 20 foot safety distance, throwing the pots back in the water he once more gathers water in his palm and rushes forward.

Slimes aren't intelligent and work purely on instinct, meaning you can use and reuse the same tactic and they will fall for it all the same.

And so for the next 3 minutes he slowly cut their number from thirty to six, killing 4 slimes each time he used the tactic and it taking thirty seconds to complete one round of the tactic. Now with a more manageable amount he decided to experiment slowly he put his hands in the water and adds a pulling force to the energy slowly lifting his hands out there was a small thin coating of water. Feeling the energy rapidly deplete he releases his hold on it immediately dropping both the water and his barrier, to much energy was used for what is simply a round about way to kill the slimes meaning it was completely inefficient.

Sighing he gathers the tarp in his hands and the filled pots in his comm he rushes the last 6 slimes before promptly dumping the tarps contents at them from 5 feet away, all but one was killed leaving him to dump the contents of a pot on its head after getting close enough to it.

Tired and depleted of energy he returns back to his cave, fortunately the slimes hadn't felt like entering a location with large amounts of water. Or he would be out of his future food supply.

Watering the plants, eating a meal and once more sitting down to meditate he begins to plan how to hunt large slime groups without having a river to hide in, although his energy can last five minutes that is only using it as a barrier not to attack.

He needed more items to carry water in when he headed out, the comm space is built to hold about five feet by five feet fitting 2 clothes set, a one person tent, 3 camping pots, basic camping cooking utensil, a mini water distiller, and 6 months worth of nutrient bars meant to be consumed twice a day while only being an inch thick and 2 inches long, and a sleeping bag. He had left most of the stuff in there because he had no need for them but no he may need to remove all but the pots to maximize the amount of water he can bring.

  Before he was to weak to break the stone of the cavern in a dungeon but using his energy he should be able to break off some pieces to make bowls to put more water in. Starting by putting all the gear in a corner allowing the space button to be unoccupied he then began to coat just his hands in energy, taking more focus he had to coat more energy in his hands than he did earlier with the water to break off a chunk the size he wants

Grabbing a chunk of rock sticking out of the side of the cave he broke it off, being about 14 inches thick and 12 inches round it would make a good test rock for practicing making a bowl. Having used almost half of his recently filled energy to just break it off however meant it was going to take a while to carve even this one out however he can still kill stray slimes, practice his martial arts, and cultivate while waiting for it to refill. It would even be good practice for him on how to regulate and control his energy to limit wasting energy.

And so like that he passed yet a another month inside the dungeon, he had not yet condensed the energy in his veins again as it was simply to dangerous however the potatoes had officially come in and he was going to be getting more food soon. He had also had a few more group fights against the slimes by the stream allowing  him to gather excess energy cores.

Now with food and his comm guaranteed he turned his attention to martial arts practice along side bowl making.

  Despite a month having passed he had only managed to complete one bowl, having used to much force leading to breaking that attempt or not enough and wasting a chunk of energy he had slowly found a middle ground for how much energy to use to just barely break off small chunks. That didn't mean his struggles were over, because he broke off chunks he can only pull and see what fell off and if a small hole on the outside appeared he would again have to throw the attempt away.

Without carving tools you can only pray the bowl breaks how you want it to and if it doesn't you are simply out of luck.

However with the slimes numbers rising slowly he doesn't have time, so he can only try and see how far he can go with only energy when fighting them.