“[Absorb]”

The hunters all thought that the slime would finally become aggressive or something. 

John, who was the closest to the slime, also held his breath, afraid that he would scare the little slime and force it to become aggressive. 

Other hunters silently raised their guards and were about to touch the dagger they put on the ground when they saw the slime crawled towards John's dagger that almost disintegrated on the spot. 

John put the dagger on the ground right in front of him. Since he was sitting, he could reach out to the dagger in just a second. 

But he didn't do that. 

He watched as the golden slime stopped in front of the dagger, wondering what the slime wanted to do. 

Everyone else thought that the slime was hungry and wanted to eat anything it could eat. 

But why not attack the hunters and eat? Or eat the slime corpses that Charlie was processing? 

Under the hunters' confused gaze, the slime didn't immediately gobble up the dagger on the spot. 

The slime actually turned its "head" up towards John, as if it could see him and recognized that the dagger was his. 

Then, it just stretched its small "hand", a ball of jelly, towards the dagger— 

Pa! Pa! Pa! 

The slime patted the dagger with its small hand before pointing at John with another "hand". 

"Chi! Chi!" The slime screamed while patting the dagger. 

At one point, it even came closer to John and patted the man's shoes. 

The slime repeated the motion a few times and then it started to point at the dagger before pointing at the slime itself. 

The next moment, the slime slowly laid on the dagger, "hugging" it tightly. 

It was "looking" at John, as if wanting to say something. 

If it had eyes, John felt that it must be looking at him with a pair of watery eyes, saying:

'Hooman, can I eat this dagger of yours?' 

John was sure that he was possessed by something. 

At the spur of a moment, John nodded at the slime with a blank gaze, and the slime visibly became excited. 

"Chi! Chiiii~ "  

The slime screamed at John once again, and its voice became much softer than its piercing cry. 

Thank you, hooman! You're such a sucker! 

If John could understand the slime's language, he would probably strangle the slime to death. 

But he knew nothing, so the slime swaggered without any shame. 

Right after "thanking" the hooman, the slime immediately activated the [Absorb] skill that he had never used before. 

DING! [Absorb] skill is activated. 

[Absorb] 

(Skill level: L) 

A familiar white light shrouded over the little slime, and soon, the slime started another exaggerated skill's special effect. 

Neo was already prepared with whatever the system would do to him, but what he didn't expect is that the whole slime suddenly had a tiny vacuum cleaner on the right hand! 

Neo was caught off guard. 

Hello, where did the vacuum cleaner come from?? 

And why vacuum cleaner? He looked like a cleaning service! 

The special effects even considerately gave Neo a tiny round hand to hold the "vacuum cleaner", even if he could already do so by imitating what the unknown slime did before. 

Then, under Neo's strange gaze, the vacuum cleaner turned on automatically and a strong wind sucked the dagger several times its size straight into the mouth of the vacuum cleaner! 

The huge dagger moved strangely inside the vacuum cleaner's hose, heading towards a certain direction. 

Strangely, the end of the vacuum cleaner was not a storage tube or anything like that, but Neo's belly. 

....yes, it was his tiny slime belly that might only be the size of a mochi. 

The mountain-like dagger smoothly entered Neo's belly through the vacuum cleaner's hose. 

Then, the little slime's belly wriggled, slowly dissolving the dagger bit by bit, breaking it down to smaller pieces.  

After the debris was small enough to absorb, the slime's core, the black bead at the center of the body, immediately absorbed the digested dagger debris cleanly. 

In no time, the huge dagger disappeared into Neo's slime core, leaving nothing behind.  

The six hunters were stunned silly. 

They were used to the slime's strange special effects, but how did the slime digest such a huge dagger in a few seconds?  

That dagger was not big for human beings, but for a palm-sized slime, it was like a mountain! 

Yet it disappeared so easily. 

Everyone suddenly had a chill down their spine, but then, before they could be afraid of the slime, the slime actually...

Burped with a milky voice. 

And then it hiccuped. 

When it hiccuped, its body shook, almost spitting out a small remnant of the poor dagger. 

But the slime didn't seem to care about this and slowly crawled to other daggers on the ground. 

One by one, it would pat the dagger and "look" at the owner, while screaming in a milky voice. 

Hooman! Gimme your stuff! Yes, or yes? 

Once the stunned hunter subconsciously nodded, the golden slime would immediately jump happily and start another round of special effects. 

Eat! Eat! An all-you-can-eat knife buffet! 

The buffet lasted until the golden slime digested all four daggers, mainly John's badly damaged dagger, Remy's slightly damaged dagger, Lina's half-damaged dagger, and Daniel's perfectly-fine dagger. 

Tom's daggers were on his waist, and Charlie didn't even use a decent dagger, so the slime "cleverly" skipped these two trashes. 

But it purposely targeted Daniel's perfectly-fine dagger as a form of revenge. 

Don't think that he doesn't know what this scholar guy is thinking. 

It must be this bastard who has a strange idea about him. 

This bastard is coveting his body!