Devil's Chosen

Lvl 2

Standing face to face with the slime, my eyes were locked on the creature's gelatinous form. It vibrated slightly as it slowly retracted its spike. The creature moved, and at the same time, so did I. It rolled slowly towards me, melting whatever was in its path—backing away slightly, preparing for the slime's next move. Once it got within striking distance, it shot a sharp jelly spike towards me. Quickly, dodging out of the way, extending my leg out, and striking it in the side. It slid across the floor for about half a meter before halting and sending a new spike towards me.

It left me no time to recover from my attack, and it retaliated almost instantly. While being left unbalanced from the kick, I did not have time to escape the attack. The spike pierced directly through the middle of my foot, causing my body to get wrapped up and fall to the ground. Acidic blood quickly dissolved the slime, but the damage had been done. My foot throbbed, and blood dripped onto the beautiful ground.

Putting pressure on the injured foot was not impossible, but it was not without pain. My speed had been greatly reduced. Before being able to think for any longer, another spike came rushing towards me. It did not give me enough time to react, so at the last moment, I fell, causing the gelatinous spike to miss my head by just a few centimetres.

The big slime wiggled in glee as my butt hit the ground. It rolled towards me fast, retracting its spike, and then sending out another one. Rolling to the side, dodging the new spike, the creature jumped at me. kicking out the creature's body, which spread across my leg, causing my skin to melt. Screaming, I whipped my leg to the side, sending the slime flying. Small chunks of its form had been ripped out as my leg moved fast, and the slime ended up hitting a tree, causing gelatin to splatter across the bark.

Pulling myself up and biting my cheek, I felt as the skin on my leg began to reform along with the hole in my foot. The creature also began to reform, its separated jelly flowing back towards its core. The slime's mass had reduced slightly, to around twenty-three centimetres. It jiggled in anger, rolling faster than before towards me. Lashing out, the slime sent another spike towards me, which I narrowly avoided. As the spike began to retract, my hand turned into red jelly, and I grabbed onto the creature's spike.

Quickly, my acid dissolved the trunk of the spike, causing the rest of it to lose its shape and fall to the ground, forming into a puddle of goo. As I did this, the creature wiggled violently and shrank to a tiny size. Quickly, I rushed towards the slime, kicking it hard in the side and sending it toppling over itself. It rolled aggressively against the ground, losing some mass to the grass.

While running to attack the slime again, the creature shot a well-aimed spike towards me, piercing my leg and causing me to topple forward into the high grass. The acid did not affect me, but the slime's sharpness had pierced all the way to my bone, making me immobile for a moment. The slime, sensing my weakness, rolled fast to get on top of me. While watching the slime due to this, I put my arm between the creature and my face.

The slime, not wasting a second, attached itself to my arm, burrowing towards my muscles. Amused by the creature's futile attempt, I quickly tried to whip my arm and send the creature flying. But to my horror, the inside of the slime began to form small spikes that were each the width of my arm. The slime shot out the spikes, piercing my arm through in multiple locations. Wincing in pain, my mobility in my hand had vanished.

It clung to me, climbing closer to my head; with each centimetre it traversed, more spikes it would discharge. My bones creaked where they were struck, and my muscles trembled from the multiple holes that were being left in them. My blood dissolved the little spike almost instantly, but as more and more holes were made in me, the harder my heart had to pump, causing the acid to become weaker. After a few moments, the slime had reached my shoulder, sending a larger spike piercing through it.

Looking down, my arm skin had vanished, leaving only exposed, ruined muscles visible. The sight was disconcerting, as blood spurted from the torn, unstable muscles. Using my unharmed hand, I converted it to slime and grabbed at the creature sliding up my body. My acid had weakened, so it took much longer to melt through the creature. And on the other hand, it seemed that after devouring my skin, the slime had returned to its original size of twenty-five centimetres.

As it climbed higher, it almost felt as if the slime were stronger than at the start of the battle. My eyes widened as the creature reached my neck, sending a large spike piercing through the centre of it. Air escaped me quickly, causing me to collapse to the ground. Falling on my back, the creature continued its advance, closing in on my head. Holding onto my neck, I felt my vision darken slightly as it took great effort to breathe.

Forcing myself to continue fighting, my red slime hand dug deeper into the creature, causing it to wiggle on top of me. If it weren't for the multiple holes in me, it would have actually been an enjoyable sensation.

Feeling its gelatin begin to dissolve even quicker, I realized my wounds across my arm had healed, allowing for more acid to be focused into my blood. Burrowing deeper into the creature, it tried to send a spike into my gelatin, hoping to dissolve it instantly. But it was no use; the creature stopped its ascent, now writhing in pain. Digging deeper, a smile appeared on my face before being replaced by a pained expression. I began to choke as air did not reach my lungs.

My head began to go blank, my vision darkened, and my push inside the slime dwindled. My other arm fell to the ground, releasing the grip on the hole in my neck. It clambered to the ground, rustling the strands of grass that rested below it. Wind rustled my hair and sent a shiver down my spine. My eyes shut for a moment, and the giant ball of fire I had seen in that tunnel flashed through my mind.

Gasping, my eyes bolted open, examining the scene. Air began to fill my throat as the hole had healed, but it was soon quickly cut off when the slime planted itself onto my face. It cut off my breathing and began to dissolve my skin. Quickly, I pushed my hand harder, trying to dissolve the creature and break its core. The creature, realizing what my plan was, sent a spike down into my mouth, piercing deep into the flesh before getting stopped by my bone. Pain shot through me as the spike held my mouth open, leaving it agape.

My saliva broke down the slime's spike slowly, but as my eyes caught another spike beginning to form, I reacted out of instinct. Using all my strength, I forced my mouth shut and bit the spike off the creature, swallowing it quickly and opening my mouth again, chomping into the creature. It wiggled as I did this, and, from my sudden action, the spike it had been forming fell apart as it lost concentration.

Swallowing and preparing to take another bite of the slime, it tried to jump away, but with my slime hand being wrist-deep within it now and using Sticky Slime lvl 1, the monster had no chance of escaping. It vibrated violently and even tore itself apart as it tried to escape my grasp. Unfortunately, after a few more moments, the creature stopped struggling and tried to form a spike once again, but it was too late. With a final push, my hand breached its defences and made contact with the slime's core.

It suffered for a few seconds before halting as the small sphere dissolved. It cracked and then bubbled before finally disappearing into my hand. The slime lost its form, falling atop me and allowing me to take a deep breath. Coughing for a moment, I threw up some of the slime's liquid before getting to my feet.

Gelatinous Form lvl 2->3

Acquired 20exp

You have reached lvl 2

Looking at the screen, my mouth opened in delight; my skill had levelled up, and I had become level two! What does levelling up even mean...

The words quickly disappeared, and as they did, a heat rushed through my body, but unlike getting a new skill, this did not hurt. The heat dispersed through me, and it felt as if my body were changing. My muscles ripped and reformed stronger; my clarity had increased, and without even using them, I knew the mastery of my skills had improved slightly.

Flexing my arm, the sight surprised me; it was not a big difference, but my muscles seemed to have more definition to them. Examining myself more, even my skin had gotten slightly brighter. Wanting to test out my new body, I hopped up and down, and the difference was definitely noticeable: I jumped slightly higher than before. Looking at a nearby tree, I shut my eyes to prepare myself, then opened them, and my legs exploded forward, reaching a speed faster than before. After a few seconds, my hands reached out, taking the input as my momentum carried me into the tree.

Breathing raggedly for just a few seconds, even my endurance increased! Levelling up is great! After testing my new strength, I opened the Demon System.

Name: ####

Title: ####

Race: DemonBorn (Mythical)

Tier: 1 (fledgling)

Class: Devourer (Mythical)

Lvl: 2 (0/200)

Blood: (18/150)

Skills:

Intrinsic:

Gluttony lvl 1

One With Acid lvl 2

World's Knowledge lvl 1

Gelatinous Form lvl 3

Tier 1:

Demonic Regeneration lvl 7

Heightened Perception lvl 4

Earthen Sense lvl 1

Sticky Slime lvl 1

Tier 2:

Pain Nullification lvl 6

My level, the number, had returned to zero, and the one hundred had become two hundred. Does that mean that I have to get the first number to reach the second to level up? I will keep better track of it for next time.

Looking to the next part, my blood had increased to the maximum amount and the amount that I had accumulated over the kills as well. I wonder how that works... Is there blood inside the slime cores? Anyways, with eighteen blood, many of my skills could be upgraded. Well, first I'll kill the rest of these slimes and then look at that.

After killing that level three slime, my Gelatinous Form had levelled up to three. Thinking about the skill, my hand morphed into red slime. It seemed as if the slime flowed more smoothly, and the colour was darker. Moving the slime slightly, the form that it was in, which was of my hand, broke and transformed into a small spike that protruded from my arm. Smiling at the sight, I tested out the upgraded skill.

Thrusting my hand forward towards a nearby tree, it pierced through about half a meter of the tree before stopping and slowly melting the tree down. It was definitely not as sharp or as dense as the level three slime spikes, but it was still effective. Due to its small, more condensed size, it melted things more slowly, but it made up for that drawback with its initial power. As my arm was stuck in the tree, I released the spike, causing the slime to melt the tree from the inside out.

That may be useful.

Slowly, my arm retracted, pulling my jelly out from the deformed tree. Walking away, my arm turned back to normal, my skin glowing as the light from above hit it. Looking up at the sky, I realized it had grown darker; the giant ball of fire had drifted away from the centre of the sky and was now beginning to descend behind the horizon. On the other side of the sky, something began to appear, but it had not fully emerged, so I could not see it properly.

Looking back into the field, the sight surprised me; there were only around five slimes remaining out of the initial two dozen or so. Taking a few steps, the first two slimes noticed me and began to roll over to me. Smiling and transforming my hand into a slime spike, this was the perfect test for this ability. Winding back my arm, I waited for the first slime to reach me.

Once it was within around a meter of me, it jumped up trying to grab onto me. Before even a piece of its jelly touched me, I thrust my arm forward, aiming the sharp part of my spike directly towards the monster's core. With a swift lunge, my spike pierced through the creature fully, completely penetrating the slime's core. It's goo that fell from the air onto the ground, causing a patch of grass to char and die.

Acquired 5exp

Smiling, I brought my arm up and hung the core above my mouth. My acid melted the sphere, causing it to drip slowly, landing upon my tongue before eventually flowing down my throat into my stomache. The melted core tasted slightly sweet but had a rough texture, which I did not enjoy.

Gaining no skills, my arm raised again as the next slime approached me. With a cruel smile plastered across my face, I thrust at the blue monster.