A vial of salty water and blood

Walking past Tomi and back above deck, Mizuki was wondering something that interested her when she saw it.

'Some skulls of the decapitated ones were still in the cells. I guess that healing both body and soul just regrew their skull, leaving the old one on the ground.'

Standing at the top of the stairs, she glanced down.

'I wonder what my skull looks like.'

"Natyr."

"Yes captain."

"The ship is mostly repaired for now, after nearing the location of the hydras retreat set sail towards the nearest mass of land."

"Yes. May I know where Tomi is? His cooperation would be helpful."

"Maryse is dead, he's mourning."

"Ah.. I understand."

"Then-"

"Ah captain. If I may ask." Salon then butted in before Mizuki could take her leave.

"I remember hearing something about prisoners below deck, is it fine to leave Tomi near them alone?"

"It will be fine, the entire floor holding the cells has a layer of mana draining water. There is close to no chance of escape."

"Oh. I get it, sorry for interupting."

"Anyway. I'll be in my quarters. Call me when we near the location."

"Understood captain."

Opening the door to her quarters, walking in and closing it behind her, Mizuki took a glance at her status screen as she planned to experiment a little while they were moving.

[Name: Mizuki Murasaki

Race: Slime of Silver and Obsidian

Bloodline: [Ancient Techno Demon]

Title: [True Demon] [One of a Kind] [Curious One] [Dungeon Lord] [Researcher] [Curse Weaver] [Emotionless]

Lv: 62

Class: Arch Demonic Moon Slime

HP: 487,500/487,500

MP: 1,150,000/1,150,000

STR: 2730

VIT: 1950

INT: 4600

AGI: 3605

DEX: 3475

DEF: 1925

AP: 5000

Element Affinity:

[Fire - tier 3]

[Water - tier 3]

[Wind - tier 3]

[Earth - tier 3]

[Ice - tier 3]

[Lightning - tier 3]

[Light - tier 3

[Shadow - tier 3]

[Moon - tier 4]

[Sound - tier 3]

[Gravity - tier 3]

[Space - tier 3]

[Time - tier 3]

Skills: [Dissolve] [Bloodline Infusion] [Synthesize] [Inspect] [Regeneration] [Resist] [Humanoid Transformation] [Assassination] [Slight Agility Increase] [Empowered by the Moon] [Eyes Touched by the Moon] [Advanced Elemental Mastery] [Basic Dagger Mastery] [Absolute Memorization] [Hyper Intelligence] [Invent] [Create] [Comprehension Rate Increase] [Arch Demon Physique] [Words of the World] [Ancient Elemental Language] [Magic Circle Customization] [Poison Resistance] [Dark Ice Seal] [Dome of Hell] [Conceal]

Special ability: [Technomancy]]

Seeing a possibility to fuse 3 similar skills that she did not notice before, Mizuki used [Synthesize] on [Assassination] and [Basic Dagger Mastery], then fused the outcome with [Slight Agility Increase].

The outcome was..

[Agility Based Assassination Arts (Basic) - When equipped with a dagger or other light weight weapon, the agility stat is increased by 50% and all attacks have a 1.5% chance to instantly kill a lower level entity. Arts similar to assassination techinques can be both created and learned. Passive increase to Agility stat growth (8%).]

Along with this she decided to also fuse [Identify] and [Eyes Touched by the Moon], creating [Eyes That See Through the Moon].

The skill was mostly the same exept for having a slight increase in full status identification success chance.

'Hopefully nothing unidentifiable like that fairy is going to show up.'

But the newest benefit the skill now gave her came as an unimaginable suprise. The explanation of the skill now contained one extra sentance.

[Can follow any movement with the users eyes, no matter how fast.]

This was definetly an extremely good boon to get this type of skill. No mana cost and can follow any movement no matter how fast. There is no need to explain how helpful this can be when fighting higher tier opponents.

'Although even with this skill, I need to be fast enough to react, not just watch.'

With that in mind, Mizuki... poured every single stat point into agility. Her status screen now looked like this.

[Name: Mizuki Murasaki

Race: Slime of Silver and Obsidian

Bloodline: [Ancient Techno Demon]

Title: [True Demon] [One of a Kind] [Curious One] [Dungeon Lord] [Researcher] [Curse Weaver] [Emotionless]

Lv: 62

Class: Arch Demonic Moon Slime

HP: 487,500/487,500

MP: 1,150,000/1,150,000

STR: 2730

VIT: 1950

INT: 4600

AGI: 8605

DEX: 3475

DEF: 1925

AP: 0

Element Affinity:

[Fire - tier 3]

[Water - tier 3]

[Wind - tier 3]

[Earth - tier 3]

[Ice - tier 3]

[Lightning - tier 3]

[Light - tier 3

[Shadow - tier 3]

[Moon - tier 4]

[Sound - tier 3]

[Gravity - tier 3]

[Space - tier 3]

[Time - tier 3]

Skills: [Dissolve] [Bloodline Infusion] [Synthesize] [Inspect] [Regeneration] [Resist] [Humanoid Transformation] [Empowered by the Moon] [Eyes That See Through the Moon] [Advanced Elemental Mastery] [Absolute Memorization] [Hyper Intelligence] [Invent] [Create] [Comprehension Rate Increase] [Arch Demon Physique] [Words of the World] [Ancient Elemental Language] [Magic Circle Customization] [Poison Resistance] [Dark Ice Seal] [Dome of Hell] [Conceal] [Agility Based Assassination Arts (Basic)]

Special ability: [Technomancy]]

'I have waited long enough. It should be time-'

A knock at the door.

"Captain. We are at the place where the hydra retreated." Eric could be heard shouting.

'Honestly I almost forgot Eric was here. Oh well.'

Walking out of her quarters, Mizuki looked towards Eric.

"Eric, take these vials and fill them with any blood that the hydra might have shed. Take a rowboat down and just scoop."

"Ah.... on it?"

"Don't awnser with a question and just follow the captains orders." Natyr commented from the bow of the ship.

"I get it Natyr! On it captain."

Even if Mizuki could get the blood herself rather easily, giving the crew a job to do once in a while isn't bad, besides it's not like the captain would go on a rowboat to scoop blood out of the ocean voluntarily when they have a crew to do that sort of dirty work.

After a minute or so Eric returned with 3 vials.

Each vial only had a few drops, not enough to get the full bloodline but rather only a fifth of it.

So Mizuki just used her dissolve skill to place them in storage, maybe she could find a use for it later.

The hydra was still alive so getting more blood wouldn't be a problem when she gets stronger.

'Since I was planning on getting at least another bloodline today, I'll have to make do with that so called Hinami. She did say she was from a royal family.'

Without even thanking Eric, Mizuki turned around and made her way below deck yet again.

"Although I said I'd give you a day, this is more important."

Hinami and her crew were yet again disturbed by Mizuki.

"Hinami Atland. Fill this vial with your blood."

"And why would I do that?" she asked as she stood up from her sitting position.

"Because the lives of your crew are in my hands."

"...Kill them then. They'll come back to life in a matter of time anyway."

"That is only if either a part of their soul manages to survive or I give them premission to return to life."

"Tch."

Cutting her wrist and filling the vial Mizuki gave her, Hinami sat back down with a worse mood than before.

'For all I know she could be binding me to a slave contract. I shouldn't have introduced myself the way I did.'

Was what was going through her mind.

"Wasn't that hard was it."

Taking her leave again, Mizuki returned to her quarters and absorbed her new bloodline and the benefits that came with it.

[Bloodline Absorbed]

[Do you wish to use [Bloodline Infusion]?]

"Yes."

[Identifying bloodline..]

[Bloodline Identified]

[Epic Tier Bloodline: [Royal Deep Arctic Mermaid] extracted]

[Benefits of bloodline include the following]

[High increase to VIT, STR, AGI per Lv up]

[Moderate increase to DEF per Lv up]

[Substancial increase to pressure resistance]

[Increase to Ice and Water elemental affinity]

[Skill: [Mermaid Form]]

[Skill: [Siren Voice]]

[Bloodline Infusion commencing]

[Bloodline Acquired]

[Name: Mizuki Murasaki

Race: Slime of Silver and Obsidian

Bloodlines: [Ancient Techno Demon] [Royal Deep Arctic Mermaid]

Title: [True Demon] [One of a Kind] [Curious One] [Dungeon Lord] [Researcher] [Curse Weaver] [Emotionless]

Lv: 62

Class: Arch Demonic Moon Slime

HP: 737,500/737,500

MP: 1,150,000/1,150,000

STR: 3730

VIT: 2950

INT: 4600

AGI: 9605

DEX: 3475

DEF: 2425

AP: 0

Element Affinity:

[Fire - tier 3]

[Water - tier 3]

[Wind - tier 3]

[Earth - tier 3]

[Ice - tier 3]

[Lightning - tier 3]

[Light - tier 3

[Shadow - tier 3]

[Moon - tier 4]

[Sound - tier 3]

[Gravity - tier 3]

[Space - tier 3]

[Time - tier 3]

Skills: [Dissolve] [Bloodline Infusion] [Synthesize] [Inspect] [Regeneration] [Resist] [Humanoid Transformation] [Empowered by the Moon] [Eyes That See Through the Moon] [Advanced Elemental Mastery] [Absolute Memorization] [Hyper Intelligence] [Invent] [Create] [Comprehension Rate Increase] [Arch Demon Physique] [Words of the World] [Ancient Elemental Language] [Magic Circle Customization] [Poison Resistance] [Dark Ice Seal] [Dome of Hell] [Conceal] [Agility Based Assassination Arts (Basic)] [Mermaid Form] [Siren Voice]

Special ability: [Technomancy]]

'For... some reason I..... feel..... tired.'

Mizuki fell on her bed as her body adjusted to the new blood.

[Mermaid Form - When activated, legs turn into that of a mermaids tail. Gain 20% movement speed increase while in water. Gain gills to help breathe under water. Immune to sudden changes in pressure.]

[Siren Voice - Passively have a beautiful voice. Singing can enchant any male.]