I carefully made my way back, careful of any presence.


    I first looked for my dead eye bat.


    If its corpse is still around, I should be able to revive it.


    I easily found it, there was not a single injury to it.


    How did it die!?


    --<Likely that one of the attackers threw some dirt into its eye>--


    EXACTLY LIKE YOU SAID!!!!?


    --<Its the most common method to deal with eye bats>--


    Nevermind, what do I need to do for this little one''s revival?


    --<In the treasure''s there is an item called the ''World Tree Dew''. this treasure is capable of resurrecting mortal-class monsters>--


    I look in the treasure''s section and found it immediately.


    [World Tree Dew]


    Use - Splash target with the Dew


    Function - Revives beings of C-rank and below


    Cost - 10,000 DP


    "Exactly what I need, now please return to my side, eye-bat!"


    After splashing the dew on to the corpse, it begins to glow in a soft light.


    Soon the eye bat begins to open its eye again.


    It looks at me and I understood what was before it.


    My eyes begin tearing up, I felt joy and happiness just seeing one revive like this.


    I cradled it in my arms, happy to see one of my children revived.


    Maybe this was something all dungeon spirits felt.


    "I don''t care how pricey it is, I will revive my children"If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    After happily cuddling with the eye bat, I release it and begin new orders.


    "I need to see if Oozer''s corpse is still intact, please go scout the area."


    After speaking these words eye bat flew up into the sky.


    Oozer is gonna be Important after all if I want to suppress this copy slime.


    I immediately connect my vision to my eye bat and see the remains of my Dungeon.


    "Only rubble left"


    Nothing but rubble, No signs of that Elf.


    "There"


    Despiteall the rubble, I can tell which piece of rock is my earth slime corpse.


    The unnatural shape of a rock, shaped in a way that looks to be for covering holes.


    I head over there.


    I thought the rubble might be a bit heavy for the current me, but I was wrong, even some of the heavier pieces of rock I can pick up with no problems.


    As I was clearing away the rubble, eye bat lands and rests on my shoulder.


    I purchase another dew and splash it over my dead Oozer.


    Just like with eye bat, it glowed for a moment.


    It first changed from its rocky constitution back to a vicious one.


    I begin looking through the treasure section, and I found it.


    "Philosopher Stone"


    I can select the quantity of it, but just a single gram of this stuff already cost 10,000 DP.


    "I can only pray that it works"


    I purchase it and have Oozer consume it.


    Oozer easily takes it into its body, but nothing happens.


    "...Oozer, do you feel anything different?"


    ...


    Nothing, no response.


    "So it was useless"


    --<Not necessarily. Monster Oozer gained 2 abilities>--


    I was hoping for a small evolution at least, Why?


    --<Idiot. Do you think it''s that easy? If it was then dungeon spirits would have taken over the world>--


    Mr.Tutorial is getting harsher as well.


    But 2 new abilities?


    [Earth Slime] Base Form


    -HP: Average


    -MP: Minimal


    -STR: Weak


    -DEF: Average


    -MAG: Minimal


    -AGI: Minimal


    -Innate Abilities: Restructure, Conceal


    -Abilities: Compression, Expansion


    mm?, Compression?, Expansion?


    --<With these abilities, Monster Oozer can get overall increases in size by absorbing earthly matter and have certain stats increase when compressed>--


    I wasn''t expecting these two abilities to be a bit O.P. but this works in my favor.


    I have Oozer compress itself to be the size of a pebble and carry it with me.


    For eye bat...what should I do? It stands out a lot and not like I can hide it under these clothes.


    --<You can have it rest within your Body. Inventory is capable of storing only certain kinds of monsters that feed on mana>--


    --<However you will need to periodically send mana to Eye bat during its stay within your Inventory>--


    Well, if that''s what Mr.Tutorial says.


    "Eye bat"


    I change part of my body back into that of a slime and envelop eye bat.


    "Please rest, for now, I need to be careful"


    As if understanding me, it relaxes and as I told it, it starts to rest.


    The eye bat disappears into my body, but I can feel it inside me.


    The copy slime instincts didn''t activate which is a good sign.


    [Inventory]


    - Eye Bat


    Unexpectedly a new window popped up, but it confirms what that eye bat has been stored.


    "Let''s Go, I might have failed in my starting dungeon but next time will be different"