As I thought those things, I ran. When we got closer to the abandoned mine, I called out to the slimes. Actually, I don’t really need to, but I feel like it, so yeah.
“Just a little bit more! This is the last one!” [Ryouma]
At those words, the slimes transformed into tire form, and accelerated. In order not to lose, I also sprinted.
Not long after, we arrived at my house by the entrance of the mine. I opened my ‘Dimension Home’ and I let loose the slimes, letting them do as they please. Recently, this has been our routine.
“Recently, these guys have started developing an individuality…” [Ryouma]
Lately, whenever I let the slimes out, most of them have been performing self-practice. Most of them would practice with their staffs or their spears, while the metal and iron slimes would mostly practice running around the mine. They tend to run a bit too fast, so there were some accidents in the past. So in order to keep that from happening, I created a race track for them.
The accidents happened because they sped up too much, and since their bodies were hard, they ended up flying. In other words, they didn’t have much grip. It’s only a given they’d get into an accident though, after all, they ran like the tires of those four-wheel drive cars that go off road in television back in my previous world. Jumping about, bumping into the mountain, and falling off a cliff… if it wasn’t for their hardness and physical attack resist skills, they would have already died long ago.
Recently those slimes have also started to moderately soften their skin, allowing them to absorb the shocks better. Also, from the looks of things, they’ve properly learned to grip the surface, and the instances of jumping about has become very rare. The ground of the race track is also pavement, so there’s really been little to no accidents lately.
… But still aren’t these guys growing up too fast? It’s not a bad thing, but lately I’ve been getting surprised so many times, it’s starting to be a little troublesome. If I try to relax and focus on my research, I’ll end up forgetting about the other things, so I have to be careful.
Incidentally there’s something I don’t understand. Lately, there have been slimes that do nothing but jump in circles nonstop in the same place. Are they bunny-hopping?
That aside, lately I’ve also been training the magic of the earth slimes and the dark slime. The other slimes can grow as long as I give them their training menu, but I enjoy studying with these slimes that can use elemental magic.
The number of slimes that can use elemental magic has also increased compared to before. Since the slimes managed to evolve into earth slimes and dark slimes, then I figured that they should also be able to turn into slimes of other elements. The result is that I got the wind slime and the light slime… But then a question came up. Why is it that the slimes I catch generally favor earth element and dark element magic power the most?
The slimes I caught number 10. The number of slimes that like the wind element is only 1. I couldn’t find any slimes who liked the elements: fire, water, ice, lighting, wood, poison, light, or space magic. And no matter how much I fed the slimes that liked neutral magic power, they wouldn’t evolve.
The wind slime evolved within 3 days, but the light slime who didn’t like the light element took 3 months to evolve. The remaining eight slimes haven’t evolved yet. But as expected, it’s best to feed them their preferred magic power as that’s the fastest way for them to evolve.
Also, although the wind slime and the light slime have different elements from the dark slimes and earth slime, their statuses are mostly the same.
Wind Slime
Skills:
Wind Magic Lv2
Wind Attribute Resistance Lv8
Wind Magic Absorption Lv1
Jump Lv1
Digestion Lv3
Absorption Lv3
Split Lv1
Light Slime
Skills
Light Magic Lv2
Light Attribute resistance Lv8
Light Magic Absorption Lv1
Jump Lv1
Digestion Lv3
Absorption Lv3
Split Lv1
When this magic absorption is hit with an attack magic, then provided it’s the same element as itself, its magic power will be sucked, and the force of the attack will weaken. It seems to be a skill used to nourish one’s self. With this skill along with the resistance skill, the damage received from the same element will be mostly negated.
Also, the magic the wind slime can use are ‘Breeze’ and ‘Wind Cutter’. The light slime can use ‘Light’ which lights up the surrounding area, and the low level light element attack magic, ‘Light Ball’. Its abilities seem to have an effect on skeleton and other undead class type monsters, but there’re no other effects aside from that. Right now, I’m receiving some lighting from it inside the mine. Overall, it’s an undead specialist slime.
“Well then, it’s time for training.”
As I began the day’s training, I thought to myself, “Should I keep the training light in preparation for tomorrow?”