“Slime Neo— Transform!”

Maybe the whole movement was just a prequel of the special effects because soon, a lively and cute music rang in the quiet cave, almost scaring other slimes to death. 

Lalalala~ 

A pretty girl saves the world~

Hold my bling bling wand~ 

Amidst the background music, the slime swirled like a princess as it floated in the air.

Soon, it grew a round "hand", and a tiny princess wand appeared in its tiny hand. 

Tringggg~

The wand sparkled, and the white glow around the slime's body slowly turned pink, and then red, and then a colorful rainbow, shining from head to toe.

Unknowingly, the dim golden light residing inside the slime's core spread throughout the body, slowly dyeing the slime golden.

After that, the rainbow light quietly transformed the little golden slime.

The first to change was the head. A cute blonde twin tail wig suddenly grew on the slime's bald head. 

Once the slime firmly wore the wig, the tiara was dropped on top of the wig.

With every swirl, a pink skirt appeared on the slime's belly, down to its "leg". 

But apparently, this was not the end. 

After the slime princess got a full-body transformation, it still had one thing to do. 

Pose! 

The slime grew another round hand and this time, it even had a pair of round blue eyes. 

Just like a foreign princess. 

Then, the slime found itself waving the sparkling wand with a heart-shaped stone on top of it cheerfully, as if about to do some kind of magic. 

After the princess waved its wand, the princess raised the wand high and winked at the slime "spectators" far away. 

A strange cutesy voice belonging to a loli came out of the slime princess's anime-like mouth. 

"Slime Neo— transform!" 

Neo heard what he said against his own will with a strange voice that didn't belong to him. 

He didn't dare to lower his "head" to see what he had become. 

He didn't even want to get close to any smooth rocky wall that might reflect his current appearance. 

He only had one thought in mind. 

Thank God no one is here! 

If someone is here...

He would have to commit suicide on the spot! 

After the system finished its duty to add special effects, the decorations on Neo's body slowly disappeared. 

Inadvertently, the slime started to wriggle like a worm.

Then, under the sporadic sparkling powder, it slowly transformed into the appearance of the slime that it just devoured—

Or so Neo thought. 

Once the colorful halo of the special effects completely disappeared, Neo quickly looked at its own body, hoping to see an adult slime the size of one basketball and a half. 

But what came into his sight was still the same old palm-sized body. 

Oh. At least he suddenly turned golden without him knowing!

As if to remind Neo belatedly, the system panel popped up the next second, pouring cold water to the little slime's excited mind. 

DING! [The system detected that the skill user is in a cub state.] 

[All future transformations will follow the user's cub state.] 

Neo remembered some restrictions about the slime transformation skill, and it did mention something about the cub state. 

And when he recalled what would happen if his future transformations were limited to a cub state...

Neo wanted to die for the n-th time. 

Ahhhhh! What's the use of this legendary skill then?

He only changed his race from a slime to an unknown beast, but he would still be in a cub state. 

In a cub state, all the skills, status and other data belonging to the copied beast would be cut by half! 

And how come he turned golden when the devoured slime was transparent? Side effects of awakening?

Neo rolled on the ground in frustration, venting all his emotion towards the system.

Fck you, system! 

Why couldn't he become an adult beast when he transformed? 

Where's the fairness? 

He wanted to snitch to Rimuru senpai in another universe. Let senpai beat up this bad system for him!

Neo sobbed as he lamented the wasted chance to transform. 

He transformed into a slime race...so nothing changed— except for his skin color.

At most, he actually had a slime race card stored in the [Transformation Data Library] that he could use three times in a lifetime before he couldn't transform into a slime anymore. 

But he's already a slime! 

What's the use then?? 

And he could only transform into a new body once a day.

He just wasted this opportunity for a SLIME!

Wait. Don't get him wrong. He love Rimuru sempai and slimes, but actually becoming one yourself...

Hahaha. 

Neo banged his head onto the cave wall next to him, not knowing that many slimes had already fled from his territory. 

These slimes had to endure the attack of a white halo and just now, the light became colorful, like a disco lamp. 

Which slime could bear to have such a neighbor? 

Move! Must move out overnight! 

Unknowingly, Neo was safe from other slimes who might devour him. 

But after the wasted transformation chance, Neo had a new idea. 

Since he could transform, although the skill couldn't let him directly transform into a human because it only worked on beasts....

As long as he was strong enough, one day, there might be a time when he could transform into a human, right? 

Rimuru senpai also shapeshifted into a human, so why couldn't he?

He didn't want to become a slime for the rest of his life! 

He also wanted to leave this strange place and see the world!

As for finding a way to go back home? Well, this transmigration was okay. 

As long as he's not a slime.  

With a goal in mind, Neo studied his three linked skills [Devour], [Beast Taming] and [Slime Transformation].

Just like [Devour] could only work on beasts, [Slime Transformation] also only worked on fellow beasts, so he couldn't take a short cut by devouring a human being and transform into their appearance.

But surprisingly, the [Beast Taming] skill worked for both beasts and humans!