Chapter 3 The Quest

The pink haired lady looked at the strangest guild card she had ever seen in her life. The man had no last name, he was registered as a "Slime Summoner" and the guy put a smiley face as his signature. Then she looked up from the window to meet a fairly young man with lime hair, green robes, and a terrifyingly adorable smile. Those green eyes are also super creepy with that smile, geez. "Is that my card, ma'am?" The guy immediately poked his head on the receptionist's window to see the card. "Yeah, Jacko right? Who's kid are ya?" The receptionist asked. "Well, I don't have parents you see, I lived with Mr. Vines til now." Jacko answered. "Vines, so you're the infamous Slime kid." The lady groaned, recalling an incident. "Sorry...I didn't think my slime would cause that much trouble." Jacko said with a sorry tone. "That's why this guild's been established. To have someone to stop all that immediately." She then gives him his card. "And I doubt you're guild material anyway. Go back to being an errand boy, Jacko." The receptionist warned.

"I still am, Vines told me to apply anyway." Jacko said honestly. "Oh my god he's sending you to die." The receptionist sighed. "Well...I'm sure he's got a reason! A good reason." Jacko said enthusiastically. "Just get out there and do your shit I guess, pick a quest and head to the quest secretary to confirm the quest." The receptionist recited.

Jacko turned to search for the quest bored, looking at all the different people chatting to one another around the Guild Lobby.

The Honey Guild was recently established a year ago here in Honey Village. It was funded by a man named Trax Hound from Greyhold, for it attracted many adventurers to the Vines Tavern to see the famous Slime boy, Jacko. Vines hated the attention just because of Jacko showing off his Fairy Slime, because it made him feel like he could be a target. As Vines recalled that Jacko was already 18, it was best for him to be sent to the guild and refrain from doing his little shows in his tavern.

Jacko looked at the quests on the board, he wondered why there were no ranks at this guild as Vines told, he plans to tell him about this discovery later as he picked a green note with a quest that interested him.

Collect a Slime Crystals in Slime Grove.

Reward: 2000Gold

These Crystals are rare for they appear when a slime dies of old age(a month). Slimes consume these crystals to evolve into Giant Slimes, and if Giant Slimes consume enough Slime Crystals, they may evolve into Elder Slimes.

Please collect 5 of them and visit my shop beside Petal Nurse's house. My name is Dandy Lione.

Jacko smiles as he knew Dandy. He is a researcher who started researching slimes thanks to Jacko. He helped him many times in his research about slimes. Dandy wrote about the natures of Fire, Water, Grass and Fairy Slimes in a book. They were also the slimes that Jacko can currently summon.

He then heads to confirm the quest he picked at the blonde man managing the Quest Confirmation system. "Good luck on your first quest, kid. If you don't come back within the day, I'll tell Vines you died." He said cheerfully. "Thanks Boey." Jacko said, a bit nervous by his statement.

As Jacko turns to head to Slime Grove, he felt a fleshy and stinky barrier slam his face, then slowly looked up to see a bald man with a smiling beard with 'golden' teeth.

"Oi! It's Fookin Jacko! The hell you doing here!?" The man laughed. "Good morning...Broff, I was gonna do my first quest...would you mind getting out of the way?" Jacko asked nicely... slightly worried that the smell would poison him. Broff began to laugh his chest out, letting the other adventurers know that he's gonna beef with the small Slime boy. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YA GONNA DO!? MAKE YA SLIME DANCE AND SHIT!? YOU FUCKING STUPID OR SOMETHING!?" The barbarian laughed, not even noticing Jacko slipping out of sight and is walking out of the guild. He then gets annoyed and grabs him by the hood of his green robe and makes him turn to him. "W-what do you want, Broff!?" Jacko asked in fear, while his hands began to show Slime Runes. "Oh what I want? I'll teach ya a lesson not being a dumb brat wanderin' in the world of men!" He then grabs his hammer from his belt, then suddenly he felt his leg get singed by a painful burn. He dropped Jacko as he held the burnt skin tight. Jacko immediately picked up the fire slime that he summoned. "Sorry! But Vines told me not to be a bitch!" He says, as he began to run out of the village.

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Young Jacko collected was collecting some apples from the trees in Slime Grove, he took some for himself as well. As he climbed down the apple tree, he saw the Giant Slimes again, he gulped as he saw one, the trauma still fresh in his mind. He immediately tried to summon a slime. Before he could, a large man's fist blasted the slime into goo juice, ripping the Giant Slime apart easily, then looked up at Jacko. He sighed and picked him off the tree and let him ride his shoulders. "You summon them too slow, Jacko." The man told. "If ya want them dead, you better know that you want them dead." He continued. "Well, I was trying to do that." Jacko explained. "Try doing it faster." Vines told once more.

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Jacko wandered the Slime Grove with the Fire Slime resting on his head, figuring out that Vibes meant that he should have always had a slime summoned at all times. "Thanks again, Slime." Jacko said, as he was getting quite bored from walking around. The slime shook happily, understanding it's master's praise.

Jacko then saw something shine within a familiar clearing, he rushed to pick it up and gasps as he realize how lucky he was to obtain one of the Slime Crystals. Suddenly, he heard multiple blubbering sounds of slimes around him. Jacko turned in fear as he saw five Giant Slimes coming out of the trees.

Jacko trained for this. He knew what to do now, he was older...and had very good legs.

He began to run towards a giant slime and bounces on its head as he gets launched to the trees, grabbing on the branches. He then sees the Slime Blasts being shot at him and he screams as he needed to drop to the ground to dodge the blasts. He then begins to keep running from the Giant Slimes, away from the clearing and to hopefully return to Honey Village.

Unfortunately, he bumped and bounced back to the ground, looking up and seeing a Giant Slime. "Oh god...Not again!" He said, hopelessly...

Then the fire slime besides him jumps into the Giant Slime's body and explodes it from the inside. Jacko yells out at the gory slime scene...it's just slime. He immediately grabbed the pieces of the fire slime to absorb them back into his body, then he notices that he began absorbing the Giant Slime's goo too. Jacko sighed in relief, knowing that he could resummon once more...then his relief is broken as he saw the Giant Slime's catching up to him. Jacko stood up, readying his arms once more to summon a slime. Then his heart froze as he saw a larger Giant Slime suddenly consuming a tree right in front of him.

"No way...an Elder Slime!?" He yelped, shaking in his robes, panicked. He then tried to compose himself, remembering the wise words of Vines....

"Don't be a bitch."

The Elder Slime then blasted a large Slime Blast towards Jacko. Jacko screamed as he held both his arms out at the Slime Blast. Jacko's mind was blank, as he saw that his arms were being covered by the Slime Blasts, then his chest...then his face...

And suddenly, he yelled louder, the slime on his body disappearing, being absorbed into his own body. Taking advantage of this, he started to walk forward to wards the Elder Slime as he was being blasted, Slime Runes appearing all around his body and then screaming once more. He then slowly redirected the Slime Blast's torrent to the Elder Slime, this time...it was all covered in flames. The Elder Slime blubbered as it began to melt. The slime all around Jacko turned to red with flames adorning the slime body, then soon it began to dissipate, as the Elder Slime itself was being disintegrated. Jacko breathed heavily, checking his body...it was almost back to normal, but the horror of knowing that he himself could turn into a slime...

"That was... awesome." He then looked up and saw the Giant Slime's fleeing as the Elder Slime fell. Jacko blinked, as he then laid eyes on a large slimy pulsing object on the Elder Slime's corpse. It looked disgusting, slimy...yet captivating. He completely forgot about the mission and picked up the slimy item, it then began to glow and suddenly jump into Jacko's chest. Jacko screamed as he feels an intense pain being shoved into his very heart, crying and yelling, before passing out from the pain...