Chapter 988 The Origin Of Slimes
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We tried giving Pyuku a System Seed after that, to see if we could help him grow even stronger… However, he rejected it. His soul seemed incrediblyrge, because it was the fusion between fifty Slime Souls. He had a lot of untapped potential, and that snack ended making him even stronger.
Powerful souls that have already enough power cannot receive a System; they end up rejecting the seed naturally. As if their souls are protecting themselves from it… Maybe it thinks they''re like a parasite or something? In a way it feels like one, but has no negative side effects, it simply helps someone grow faster and develop theirtent potential fully.
For now, Alice absorbed the seed back and got the EXP points back too, it is a useful way to try if it works and I don''t lose any EXP if it doesn''t either.
The lizard steaks were almost done too, I brought out some potato sd and tea, and we started digging in while being in front of that strange mural, its very presence felt slightly eerie.
However, the atmosphere we exuded as we ate and talked together easily eased everyone''s hearts, and so did Pyuku''s too.
"Ahhh, the steak''s so good!" Mist was munching on it as she made a big sandwich. "Hmmm! I never thought this lizard would taste this good! Surprisingly delicious!"
"Yeah, multi-limbed lizard meat is delicious and tender most of the time, they''re godly ingredients that sell for a fortune down there." Ninhursag pointed out.
"Ah, this potato sd goes well with it!" Zack was happily eating at Mist''s side. "Ah, can I have a bite of that sandwich? Did you add cheese?!"
"Hehehe, no it''s mine! Make your own!" Mist giggled as she didn''t allow her boyfriend a bite.
"Zephy, do you like these cupcakes I made?" Celica was offering my little brother a sweet pastry she made.
"I do! It''s so fluffy!" Zephyrus couldn''t be happier, the two had been growing even closer thesest months. My brother is trying his best after I rmended him a few things.
"Hehehe, I''m d you like it! My golems can''t eat so they can''t tell me how it tastes." Celica giggled.
"Hey Luck, taste my bread too! I baked it with spirit fire!" Lara gave Luck her bread.
"I ate a few already! They''re too burnt!" Luckined. "I don''t want any more, Lara!"
"Eat them!" Lara kept stuffing them on his mouth.
"Graargh!" Luck was suffering, but this was also part of their love.
I think…
"Anyways, as lovely as this atmosphere has be, I am still curious what the hell happened with our fellow slime friend." Celeste broke the ice. "Pyuku, right? Can you exin yourself?"
"Eep…!" Pyuku seemed a bit intimidated by her intense re, her eyes glowed bright red, as Celeste''s sharp tail was mming the ground like a whip angrily.
"Hey, don''t be so rude! He has gone through a lot." Aquarina said. "But… yeah, can you tell us now?"
"I-I guess I could try." Pyuku nodded. "It''s just that… Ah, well, I… It''s a long story. Are you willing to hear it?"
"We will." Ninhursag nodded. "Please, open up to us."
"Yeah bro! …Or sis? Just say it." Said Zack.
"Is Pyuku a girl or a boy?" Wondered Mist, now that Zack said that.
"I-I don''t know, we slimes possess no real gender, we reproduce through division." Said Pyuku. "But I have yet to mature to reproduce myself, in several more years… Maybe."
"Alright you guys are quite interesting I suppose." Celica nodded. "So you''re genderless, huh?"N?v(el)B\\jnn
"I-I guess?" Pyuku wondered. "I never thought about it, you can call me a girl or a boy, I don''t really mind." He shrugged.
"Well that makes things easier then." Ninhursag said. "Now, boy, tell us."
"Okay…" He said, as he slowly started eating a piece of steak. "Hmm, so good- Ahem! Anyways…"
He slowly told us what we heard beforehand, but with much more detail than before.
First of all, how the slimes escaped from the main continents into the Demon Continent, where thest survivors created an underground vige.
They cooperated with other, simr demons with different problems, which were not epted in the surface, and working together byplementing each other''s weaknesses, they lived in harmony for hundreds of years.
However, ultimately, nothingsts forever. The vige was eventually attacked when thetest war urred, both human armies and demon armies ended destroying it, piging what they could find, and killing the demons inside.
Indeed, even the demon army used to pige viges of other demons, usually using the excuse of them being "cowards" for not joining the war and using them of being traitors to the Demon King.
The Demon King allowed this to happen too… Maybe I don''t feel bad about his death anymore.
And in theirst moments, as they were being hunted and taken away as precious materials, both demons and humans blinded by greeding in turns one after another, thest Slimes gathered in the depths of the ground.
In there, they underwent a special ritual, one they''ve been preparing for their whole lives, one they prepared to ascend… and be closer to the creations the gods favored better.
They felt both resentment and frustration for this, for having been made… unequal to the rest. They cannot speak, and they couldn''t change their forms too much, other than being liquid. Theycked eyes, mouths, noses, everything that made others identify each other.
People thought they were monsters, even when they are a race of smart beings, made to… clean things efficiently. Although we are all the Gods'' creations, they thought they were the most unfortunate, cursed with bodies that couldn''tmunicate with others, and that couldn''t grow stronger no matter how hard they tried to cultivate.
They could not develop a Physique, nor their Souls could harbor Magic Circles. Their cores could have Mana, but it was a limited amount from birth that only was restored when they ate filth, and it could not grow farther than their maximum amount, or they would risk their cores breaking.
They thought of themselves as truly cursed beings.
And this ritual they prepared… was what would bring them to evolve into a new being.