Leveling
To level, one has to absorb enough mana in his body. It is not possible to absorb anymore mana passively if the density of mana in your body is higher or equal to that on the outside. There are various techniques to absorb more mana, but the most commonly used is to absorb the mana of killed creatures. The higher your level the more mana your body has to absorb.
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Argul felt great!
That is because he already felt great before the level up, which he really didn’t notice. No godly feeling of being empowered or some other nonsense.
Argul opened his status to see its level two glory.
Status
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Name |
Argul Agren |
Stats |
|
Race |
Mana core |
Str |
8 |
Age |
40 d |
Int |
8 |
Level |
2 |
Wis |
9 |
Structural integrity |
100% |
||
Mana |
8/107.21 |
||
Mana generation |
1.08/min |
Skills |
Active |
Passive |
uniphone |
Knowledge domain |
|
ribm |
Core regeneration |
|
Mana manipulation |
Learning (3) |
|
Magic missile |
Sense Mana |
|
Identify (2) |
accelerated [s] growth (all) |
|
conjure Water |
accelerated [m] growth (small) |
|
Water manipulation |
Sense space |
|
fake Tears |
|
Floor |
Template |
Size (radius) |
Area/ Volume |
1 |
Luna (moon) surface |
100 km |
31,400 km² |
2 |
Luna (moon) warm cave system |
110 km |
5,600,000 km³ |
He did some quick math for his stats. “So a level up gives 3 stats?”
Alyra’s avatar hovered into his view in a lying position. “Yes, even though you are a bit of a special case in things involving mana.”
She looked really relaxed and was even having a stalk of weed in her mouth. “Your core is built of pure mana and mana has it a lot easier to enhance and build on what is already there. I think that’s also why you only have three stats as they got somewhat combined.”
Alyra really took her acting seriously, to Argul’s great amusement.
The avatar sat up and looked at him. “Normally you would have 6 stats and 3 of them would get enhanced. So compared to the average organism you get 3 stat points more per level up.”
So Argul got preferential treatment. “Let me guess one can not choose where the stat points go?”
Alyra laid back down, put her hands behind her head and crossed her legs. “Yup! I made the system to balance things out, because you may have all the strength of the world, but if you can’t control your body it’s just useless and I really don’t trust people to be able to do it themselves.”
He smiled in his mind. “You sure are nice to the common potato.” He would really like to be able to express himself more without his voice.
The avatar waved him away haughtily. “Yes of course! I’m a strong supporter of equal starting points!”
Argul couldn’t help himself and immediately had to point out how that was not the case. “Sure, sure. That’s why hereditary evolutions are a thing.”
The avatar spluttered. “...”
Making Argul aware that she had spluttered without using her speech bubbles and not being able to communicate verbally sure as hell was impressive.
Now knowing that he did not have to put his thoughts to his stat build, Argul told his floor to continue growing like before and waited for his mana to regenerate.
It was time to conduct his experiment with his sense space.
Once he was ready he tried to view his dungeon like one of these 2 dimensional games.
What Argul got was weird as hell. His second floor was inside his first, but also not?
He had no idea how to describe what he saw, but not wanting to get a mindache from looking at it for too long, he activated his space sense.
He did in fact not get a headache as he lacked the necessary head.
What Argul saw made some more sense now.
If he had to describe it, space is entropy given a structure and his two floors were two different structures in the same, well, space, that had a connection at one point, his entrance to the second floor.
His problem was that the structure constantly changed in a way that made him think going 4 dimensional might give a conclusion to that.
Argul changed his perception back to 3 dimensional and wow.
Now he could make some sense to what he saw. His skill seemed to agree, as it got a lot easier. Argul could see a bit more of the structure now and how it turned and twisted.
Still, sometimes parts of the structure appeared or disappeared in a weird fashion, as if sinking in or rising to the surface of an ocean. Argul concluded that his problem was at least 4 dimensional, but didn’t believe it would stop there.
In a sense Argul would never be able to perceive the entirety of space.
Quest completed:
- Space mage (2)
- You made some sense of what pace is, but now you realized no matter how much you ever know about space, you will never know all about it. INT +2
New Quest:
- Space Mage (~)
- Requirements: Space Mage (2) | realization to never know it all
- Who said you should stop if you wouldn’t ever be able to know it all? Isn’t that what makes life even more exciting? You are immortal and now you have found something to spend your eternity on. Depending on the information you learn about space or the things and skills you create related to space magic you will be rewarded.
Achievement made:
- Purpose for eternity
- Immortality always brings with it the possibility to lose one's purpose in life or to lose oneself to time. You found yourself a possible purpose for eternity. As such your mind holds even in the darkest nights and the strongest storms. It will be harder to influence your mind through skills/spells and to affect your mind negatively. May your mind be your last bastion to withstand any coming onslaught and grow ever stronger. (skill: Mental fortitude) STR +1, WIS +1
The new quest was a surprise for Argul. “You have endless quests in the system?”
Alyra was still lying in her chill position, but seemed to be distracted by something. “Yeah, but they are really hard to get. You only got one right there because becoming a space mage and being immortal is already hard enough.”
She did have a point there.
Argul read through his notifications again and had to admit that it was good that endless quests were a rarity. They sounded really rewarding.
As for the achievement, honestly he hadn’t put much thought into being immortal, but he could see the skill becoming a great boon and a necessity later on.
Now that Argul understood how his floors worked somewhat, he made the only reasonable thing one could do.
He designed the entrance to his next floor as inconspicuous as possible. People wouldn't notice that they were on the way to the next floor until halfway through, where the temperature would start to get colder.
His entrance to the next floor would again be in the outer 10km reach and looked exactly like all the other tunnels on his floor.
His third floor would be a cave system again, but this time it had a mild temperature and mid-sized to small caves. He checked his floor options once again and then let the floor start growing.
Floor 3
- Natural caves
- Cave size: small to medium
- Eternal night
- Temperature: 0°C to 15°C
- Events:
- Tunneling
- Caves form randomly with a minimum distance of 50m and a maximum distance of 1000m between each other. Each cave has to be at least connected to one other cave.
- Earthquake
- There is a chance of 5% of small localized earthquakes to happen each month.
- Cold wave
- For 5 to 15 days the temperature will decrease to -5°C. This event has a chance of 10% to occur each month.
- Tunneling
Argul really wanted to call the last event Ice Age, but it just wasn’t long enough for this in his opinion and he didn’t want to carry it too far on the first few floors.
He knew that his floor settings were really similar to his second floor, but he followed a motto. There really wasn’t a lot he could do with his Luna template, at least as long as he didn’t actively create new environments and doing so with caves was a lot easier than on the surface in his opinion.
He mentally left his floor to grow and started training his sense space again.
Argul trained for 10 days. At the end he was nearly able to hold the skill indefinitely, so he took a break on the tenth day.
When he looked - or more felt as there wasn’t really any light there - at his third floor he was flabbergasted. How in the hell Lunagrass got there he had no idea, but it enabled the cave crickets to spread there too.
Argul looked at the maze that was his second floor and noticed some batches of Lunagrass here and there. It wasn’t dominant, but used every place the other plants didn’t grow in.
Whoever managed to make a map of his cave floors would get Argul's congratulations and pity the moment it changed because of an earthquake.
One of Alyra’s chat bubbles popped up in front of him. “Hey mom there is going to happen something interesting in the portal room of the second floor in a few minutes!”
That got Argul’s attention as this was the first time Alyra wanted him to look at something.
One of the diggers was currently eating in the portal room, while one of his cave stalkers crept up and got ready to kill its prey.
The spider jumped and injected its venom in the worm. After a few seconds of wriggling in agony the worm died and the spider waved its pedipalps in happiness.
That moment a slime wobbled into the room. It most likely looked at the spider and copied the movement of the pedipalps.
Argul had no idea how to discern where something without eyes but a special sense of sight was looking.
The spider noticed the slime and stopped. It slowly turned to face the slime while making creepy clicking sounds.
The slime answered, making wet slop sounds by forming bubbles of air in its outer membrane and bouncing up and down, which seemed to greatly confuse the spider.
Unsure about its opponent and unwilling to give up the corpse, the spider took hold of it with its pedipalps and jumped away, vanishing in the darkness.
The slime, now allone, fully entered the cave and moved in the direction of the portal. Then it jumped through the portal, only to jump back a moment later to do it again.
Argul had to laugh and it took him a few minutes to calm down again.
Alyra’s avatar appeared again and stared at him accusingly. “Why did you have to create such damn cute slimes?”
Now, Argul could answer by telling a story for hours that had nothing to do with the question, but why would he? “Do you remember Rimuru from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime?”
Alyra thought about it for a second and then nodded. “That’s a valid point. Now I have to ask if you thought of Rimuru while creating them?”
He could only hope he had done nothing stupid again. “Maybe. Is that a bad thing?”
Alyra just shrugged. “No, not necessary, it just means that the slimes will probably have a high chance of reaching sapience upon evolution.”
He sighed relieved. “I don’t think that’s going to be a problem.”
Argul didn’t think of it as a problem. What could possibly go wrong?
For other sapients a lot, but for him it hopefully didn’t really matter that much and sapient slimes sounded interesting.
Now, you could call him a pervert right there and would be completely right, but at least it wasn’t his main reason and you can’t fault him for it as you thought of the same thing yourself if you are honest.
Argul moved to his third floor and got ready to create a bunch of plants and animals.
Moon slime girls when!?
Also what color are they?
the slimes base color is silver, but they still look different from each other. Slime girls will take a while (maybe chapter 90 or so, I have no idea.) how they would look like who knows. The results of each rank up are different from each other.
@Otjag Noice. I am on chapter 9 now. Love the story so far
Also have a melon
@GigaDotti Thanks melons are tasty
Slimes making spider friends? I love it, Have a cookie
Thanks.
You made some sense of what pace is,
Space
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!
what pace is
Space?
Now, you could call him a pervert right there and would be completely right, but at least it wasn’t his main reason and you can’t fault him for it as you thought of the same thing yourself if you are honest.
Argul refers to calling slime a pervert due to the classic armor and clothing dissolving attack, right?
Thanks or the chapter
yees of course... for what else should he do that?
@Otjag In the case of slimes that get inside the target's clothes to eat the dirt and excreted body fluids?
@Gin_Otamegane Yes! I am definitely not talking about the slimes that form tentacles to ravage and fill up their victims making them their eternal breedmothers. (Please help me)
@Otjag How about slimes that take the form of tentacles to tickle or massage their victims as a foreplay, and then slowly and gently stimulate them sexually in order to make them secrete love nectar and cum, which for them is a delicacy?
@Gin_Otamegane What about slimes that eat you to modify your body into that of a woman with huge breasts that lactate, only because it loves breast milk?
@Otjag Interesting, but I would prefer the breasts not to be too exaggerated, and if I'm going to breastfeed someone I prefer them to be lolis. I think a slime loli would be nice.
When you said "eat" was it in the literal or sexual sense? I hope it's sexual, as I don't like gore.
@Gin_Otamegane I meant eat in it will kind of swallow you whole and then inject some magical fluids into your body while providing you with O2 so you don't die
How large the breasts become depends on the slime
@Otjag I see.
Well, as long as the breasts are not individually equal or larger than the head, that's fine.
Slime could turn me into futa, right?
The slime would not only play with my breasts and milking, but would also play with my genitals, right?
What would the slime's reaction be if after she finished suckling and released me, instead of running away I went to snuggle her?
@Gin_Otamegane She would snuggle you back of course. And why wouldn't she turn you into a futa? more parts to milk...
@Otjag Glad to hear she likes cock milk too.
What would her reaction be if I tried to get her to use an enchanted pacifier so as not to interfere with her speech, since she likes to be breastfed just like a baby?
@Gin_Otamegane I am going to assume that a pacifier is the thing you give babies to suck on (I didn't know the word before and that's what google says) and I am not quite sure why the slime would need one? Nothing comes out of it and you can carry her around near your chest so she can constantly suck on your breasts if she wants to. Also, if she is a slime that can speak, can't she just form a second mouth to talk?
@Otjag I'll admit she wouldn't need one, but the baby pacifier would make her look even cuter, and it would be an obstacle if someone tried to steal a kiss from her without permission (while I wasn't looking), right?
And if that's not enough, how about the pacifier having the function of acting as a reservoir of mana that she can use to replenish her MP in emergencies? Just like Yu Yu Hakusho's Koenma pacifier.
I admit carrying her is a tempting idea, but if she's going to suck my tits constantly the stimulation and arousal will leave me exhausted, not to mention the erection. I wouldn't dare walk in public like that.
I prefer humanoid slimes using a single mouth to talk and a pacifier I think it's cuter and funnier that way.
Not to mention that girls with multiple mouths are kind of scary, right?
@Gin_Otamegane Here you are talking about a weird gelatinous creature but say multiple mouths are scary xD. I can understand your point though and public would be a real problem, but what if you had clothes that would create an illution around you, showing you as if you were and sounded normal? It would of course be 100% safe. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. I don't understand what others find so exiting about the possibility of being found out doing something considered inappropriate by and in public. (That sentence is kinda confusing)
@Otjag It's not that extra mouths scare me too much, it's simply that I want her to be as cute as possible from most people's point of view. But on second thought a little extra mouth on her chest might give her a little gapmoe, and it wouldn't be that scary as long as she didn't have a lot of sharp fangs, right?
And when I said that many mouths are scary I was referring to girls like these below:
NSFW
1- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/25757528
2- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/6509473
3- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/6271239
4- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/6975686
5- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/6493507
6- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/1022683
Does she look scary to you or not?
Even if I had these enchanted clothes I would probably only breastfeed her in public if I couldn't help it, as I'd rather have no distractions so I can fully focus on her.
@Gin_Otamegane Yeah makes sense.
So, the first one I would rather not meet because of her mouth
The second is only scary because of her eyes
what is wrong with the third?
4. f*ck no!
5. something is seriously wrong with me (maybe its all the hentai I've seen)
6. that's a very nice tongue, but her mouth looks like it has been inflamed for a month. She needs to take more care of her body
I honestly meant without the fangs because its a slime, she doesn't need fangs
@Otjag 3. The third is that a kiss or blowjob would be dangerous because of those teeth.
5. I understand you.
6. In my opinion it looks more like she was possessed by something.
Truth. And without teeth she is also cuter.
Would you rather breastfeed a slime girl in a place and situation with or without distractions?
@Otjag What do you think of these slime girls?
1- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/29067847
2- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/21638211
3- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/29334945
4- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/24462929
5- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/28831502
6- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/17704657
7- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/20667599
8- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/16844720
9- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/16844713
@Gin_Otamegane without distractions she needs all my attention anyways
@Gin_Otamegane 1 is cute in a childish way
2 is even more cute
3 could be argul in small and as slime
4 this one has a knowing look I have never received in my life (cries in virgin)
5 smash (things I will never say in real life lul)
6 is quite cool
7 I am going to be honest. She looks nice but is not my type. The slime in the background is nice though pillow rating 10/10
8 if that ain't a quite feisty treasure than I don't know
9 the yellow color makes her look much softer and less erotic in a weird way. Don't know how to phraze it
@Otjag Yup. After all, that way you can better enjoy the moments with her, especially the intimate ones.
@Otjag 1 Truth. But what did you think of 1's hardened slime equipment?
2 Undoubtedly.
3 So what would Alyra's reaction be if she saw Argul experimenting with a form like 3's?
4 ..."knowing look"? You mean she looks like a relationship savvy girl?
5 I didn't know this slang before. You mean she looks seductive?
8 Did you say "feisty" in a horny or bad mood?
@Otjag What do you think of these slime girls below?
10- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/24943831
11- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/21638235
12- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/21640432
13- https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/pt/post/show/28831479
@Gin_Otamegane 1. the equipment is nice
3 I don't think she would be suprised to see her experimenting with it. She knows everything about her last life afterall. If Argul were to walk around in public like that then Alyra would ask her if the reality was dying right now.
4 yeah that's what I meant. never had any female friends since elementary school for reasons unknown
5 yes she looks seductive a
8 feisty in a horny mood. She doesn't look like she is in a bad one
@Gin_Otamegane
10 that one is also cute, though I don't like that she is imitating the feathers of a bird with her legs, it looks a bit weird and off.
11 she is a trap for all horny and asshole adventurers, for all the nice people out there take this picture to heart and lock it away there for eternity. The goddess will surely come one day xD
12 not sure about this one. while she looks innocent, there has to be some kind of important backgroundstory. Has she eaten the solar system because she was hungry or to safe it? We will never know.
13 kinda already said that I think those solar system sized ones are a bit weird. If they were more condensed sure, but otherwise their slime would gather around the planets moons sun usw because of gravity
@Otjag 1 a slime who managed to make her equipment like this could earn a title as a crystal knight?
3 ...why would reality be dying for Argul to use a slime loli avatar?
8 Yes. And she also looks ready to seduce someone, to get into her mimic cosplay chest, turn them into a lactating futa girl and then passionately feast on her victim's milk and love nectar, right?
@Otjag 10 ...legs? What are you talking about? the harpy slime's legs and tail are separated.
11 Does this mean that she could also be worshiped as a guardian deity?
12 As for me, I prefer to think that perhaps she is incubating a solar system within her own body.
13 I see, this is certainly logical, but mana can also be a variable in this situation, right?
@Gin_Otamegane for the title as crystel knight others would have to see her as such. Titles are given as achievement and depend on how the people see you. There are special exceptions such as Origin of Mana or Space mage.
You could for example be the next King, then you wouldn't earn the title for some time, but once there is a popular opinion of you you could become the cruel king of asgard or whatsoever.
3 It was sarcasm. Argul is a bit shy when it comes to costumes or more exotic things.
8 yes, exactly that
@Gin_Otamegane 10 I mean the way the legs suddenly get a lot thicker. It's the same for birds because they have feathers there, but their actual leg stays thin
11 you can get worshipped as a guardian deity yes, but you have to meet a few somewhat hard criteria to become one the deity stuff comes a lot later in the book, the part is neither published nor written right now, though I get near with the writing.
12 yeah that makes a lot more sense
13 yes mana can also be a variable but the slime would have to control it to do something. Mana without intent input tends to do nothing but moving to the edge of the universe and create new space and stuff.
@Otjag What would Alyra's reaction be if Argul dressed up as a goth loli and used an enchanted sword/shield umbrella?
@Gin_Otamegane She would shake her head, get out her phone and then take pictures. These pictures will then be used as a black mailing cough I mean nagotiation tool.
@Otjag In negotiations with Argul or her fans?
Now that I thought about it, would an umbrella gun be more to Argul's taste?
@Gin_Otamegane Hmmm, later maybe? Right now you have to take into considerations that she still has a few charachter traits of her last life and she has been a gamer that loved sci-fi and fantasy back then. I don't think she would go for an umbrella, at least she herself wouldn't get the idea.
Only in negotiations with Argul. Alyra would tease her mom with it for eternity, but using it for the fans would hurt Arguls feelings and while Alyra is playful and cheeky she still cares, so she wouldn't do that.
Damn, maybe I should do a Q&A...
@Otjag So Argul has never watched or read "The King's Avatar"? If she saw everything the MC umbrella turns into and how he uses it in any situation, I doubt she wouldn't want one.
I see.
Would this Q&A session be to organize questions asked by readers and reduce the chance of repeated questions?
@Gin_Otamegane Well I watched The King's Avatar and I kind of based Argul off of my own person (It's easier to this for the first story tbh), but still I don't know about an umbrella. Why bother yk? If she where to create such a technology sure, but there are other things you could use like a mobile phone or something.
Well the first one yes. I think it would also help me in finding issues in my story. Though if I start with Q&A's than I am going to do some for the chars too (maybe I would make those only for my patrons, don't quite know yet)
WTF is this thread?
@Rebeliousgamerz A random discussion of fetishes and hypothetical scenarios, I guess.
@Gin_Otamegane A discussion between two very cultured individuals
@Otjag Truth. It can also be seen that way.