Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Birth (1)

A quiet, humidity-filled cave.

From the ceiling dew dripped drop by drop, and moss bloomed on the floor of the cave where a life was about to be born.

Among the mana that permeated the world, an infinitesimally small amount of condensed mana took form and conceived a ‘monster’.

[A slime has been generated.]

Slime.

A low-grade monster whose required mana for birth was infinitely close to zero.

The soft-looking light-green slime shook its body in place and searched for food according to instinct.

Wobbling and wobbling as it moved little by little, the light-green slime soon reached the moss.

Instinctively feeling that it was its nutrients, the slime absorbed and digested the moss of a similar color into its body.

At that moment.

The slime thought.

‘More... I want to eat.’

The first thought the slime had upon being born.

[Detected an individual with intelligence above a certain level]

That thought was noticed by the system that governs the world.

‘Huh?’

The newly born slime reacted to the suddenly heard sound.

[Criteria met. Granting broadcasting rights.]

[Granting viewpoint change rights.]

[Granting chat function.]

The voice continued to reach the slime.

But the slime did not recognize what it was.

Rather than worrying about something it didn’t understand well, the slime simply focused on eating the moss and filling its nutrients.

In the meantime, the system’s dry voice continued to sound.

[Target’s vision ability. Unconfirmable]

[Fixed to third-person viewpoint until vision ability is acquired]

[Would you like to start the broadcast?]

The slime did not answer the question and endlessly ate the moss around it.

Moss being absorbed into the slime’s body one after another.

And every time nutrients entered, the slime’s thoughts became more diverse.

‘Delicious... Full. I’ll stop eating.’

Not merely instinctual action, but properly recognizing its own state and limiting its actions with awareness.

The full slime finally took ‘interest’ in the voice it had heard.

Detecting the slime’s will, the system asked the slime again.

[Would you like to start the broadcast?]

‘What is... a broadcast?’

A natural question.

To the slime’s question, who had never heard the word broadcast itself, the system answered.

[A broadcast is showing your appearance to others.]

‘Show me?’

To the slime without vision, the concept of seeing does not exist.

At this rate, a proper explanation was impossible.

[Reviewing the target’s special situation.]

[Executing the injection of some knowledge.]

-Pababak!

A small spark jumped, and the concepts of ‘seeing’, ‘hearing’, ‘speaking’ and basic knowledge about broadcasting were injected into the slime.

The slime with newly injected knowledge immediately became curious.

‘Why is it dark?’

It was a question about why nothing was visible to its eyes.

To the slime’s question, the system answered.

[The target’s vision function is currently unavailable.]

[Vision function can be acquired through growth.]

Having given the answer the slime wanted, the system asked again.

[Will you start the broadcast?]

The slime could not understand in detail what a broadcast was.

Rather than that, it first wanted to feel the sense of ‘seeing’ directly.

Recognizing the system as a being that tells it various things, the slime vaguely agreed with the system’s words.

‘Yeah.’

[Starting the broadcast.]

[Please set a nickname.]

A nickname is the name that refers to oneself when starting a broadcast.

When watching other broadcasts, the anonymous function can be used, but when broadcasting, a nickname must be set.

‘What should I do?’

The slime asked the system without deciding.

Recognizing the slime’s special situation, the system considered the history of nickname inputs so far and gave the slime choices.

[Recommended nicknames are as follows. 1. Unconditionally put it in the mouth and see 2. Squishy 3. †Future Kaiser†]

Knowledge about broadcasting injected by the system.

Among them, besides how to use broadcasts, concepts related to nicknames included in broadcasts were also included.

And among the three presented names, the slime chose the name that sounded most interesting to it.

‘Squishy?’

[Will you go with Squishy? Nicknames can be changed later.]

‘Yeah! Squishy!’

[Nickname has been decided as Squishy.]

[What will the title be?]

The slime who received basic knowledge about broadcasting decided the room title.

‘I want to see.’

It was the desire it currently wanted the most.

And the slime’s broadcast began.

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-Huh, nothing worth watching.

A volcano with bubbling boiling lava flowing.

The fire dragon that reigned in a place where ordinary living beings could never live was bored today as well.

It had been a long time since it could not see those who invaded its territory and challenged it.

The only way to kill time was to watch the appearances of other monsters broadcasting through the system.

However, there was no broadcast that the fire dragon liked right now.

It couldn’t be helped.

Having been stuck in the volcano for over 600 years and only watching broadcasts, it was abnormal to feel freshness.

-They’re all the same. No fun, no fun.

With a whir, the fire dragon operated the system window and looked at the broadcast list.

In the list, most were broadcasts of miscellaneous monsters hunting prey.

Or broadcasts of eccentricities because there was really nothing to do occupied the list.

-This stupid troll is breaking ice again today.

The fire dragon frowned upon seeing the title 【Today’s Lots of Ice Breaking Challenge】 of the blizzard troll in its eyes.

-Seems like there’s really nothing to do. These days’ guys have no spirit, no spirit.

In the past, there were monsters that jumped into the middle of two warring countries and broadcast wiping them out and got subjugated, but since there were no monsters doing such broadcasts recently, the fire dragon continued exploring broadcast rooms with a bored expression.

Then a strange title it saw for the first time entered the fire dragon’s eyes.

-I want to see? What is this.

A room title made of only four characters.

A puzzling title.

Usually, broadcast room titles attach outlandish titles or special symbols like ☆★＠ thickly to attract the interest of other monsters. Among such broadcast rooms, that simple title caught the fire dragon’s attention.

-Could it be... a new pervert has appeared? No, why put that here!

What came to the fire dragon’s head was the bizarre broadcast content of one of its own kind that made it click its tongue, and.

『Hehe, what I’ll show today~ is my reverse scale~』

▶Ook! Oooook! Noona! Noona!!!

▶Heueung, I’m dying~

▶I’m dying is yes lmao looking at that scale and getting excited lmao

▶Go!!!!!! Coward anonymous, how dare you pick at the beauty of the reverse scale!!! Since ancient times, the reverse scale of a fresh virgin dragon is like faith itself!!!

▶What faith for a monster lmao

▶You gtfo

▶[Anonymous 563 has been kicked]

[Noblesse Fire]▶Tsk tsk tsk these days’ young ones, ah! Don’t know shame! Exposing reverse scale carelessly somewhere...

▶Old man also get kicked together!!!

▶[Noblesse Fire has been kicked]

『Oh my, oppas~ thank you~ but since reverse scale is visible... I’m shy~』

▶Aaat! Noona is good! Good! Really good!

▶Wing dance let’s go~!

▶[Gentleman Phoenix has donated 50,000 coins]

『Kyaak! Phoenix oppa! I like it so much!』

And the reactions of the pathetic and idiotic ones who were enthusiastic about that broadcast.

Of course, that kind of broadcast that catches the eye of other races had an implicit agreement to be displayed only in a specific broadcast list.

However, what the fire dragon was looking at now was a broadcast that broke that implicit agreement and entered the general list.

-How dare some guy!

It does not forgive insolent broadcast stuff in the sacred general list.

Burning with a sense of justice to enter and immediately give a sharp ‘advice’ accumulated with experience, the fire dragon entered the 【I want to see】 broadcast room.

And what entered the fire dragon’s eyes was.

-...What? A slime?

It was a video illuminating the slime in the cave from a third-person viewpoint.

For a moment, the fire dragon doubted its eyes, wondering if it had misseen the broadcast settings.

At the right end of the broadcast room, a picture is displayed so that one can know whether the current viewpoint is third-person or first-person.

First-person appears based on the broadcaster’s vision, third-person appears centered on the broadcaster’s appearance.

Third-person setting screen.

But what was visible in the broadcast was one very small slime.

-Could this slime be the one broadcasting?

It’s amazing and hard to believe.

Because it’s a slime.

There’s no way an ordinary slime, neither slime king nor queen, can broadcast.

To broadcast, usually a certain degree of intelligence is needed.

However, an ordinary slime is a creature that lives almost by instinct and has almost no intelligence.

‘But that slime is broadcasting?’

The fire dragon immediately used the chat system.

It’s a system where if you write words, a translucent window visible only to the broadcaster floats in front of the broadcaster and conveys the words.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Catching some damn concept like this, are you retarded?

The fire dragon immediately scratched.

According to the fire dragon’s 600 years of chat experience, a slime broadcasting is absolutely impossible.

Therefore, it started immediately lowering the damn concept broadcast while scratching the opponent.

However, the slime was just quietly moving its soft body.

It was difficult to think that it was answering the fire dragon’s chat as a natural reaction.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Pretending not to know lmao you think someone will watch you doing this kind of thing?

Even if it wrote words that would scratch more to get a reaction, the slime did not react to the fire dragon’s words at all.

‘Ignoring even this?’

Since there was no reaction at all even to the chat that scratched right away, the fire dragon was even more puzzled.

It couldn’t be helped.

The words written in the chat are clearly displayed in system characters that monsters can understand.

In other words, something that can be understood only if seen.

It was impossible for the slime whose vision had not yet opened to see the chat and react.

At that time.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Hehe, the ondol room hikikomori old geezer virgin dragon is going crazy in a small room.

A chat appeared that pointed out and roasted the fire dragon indirectly.

The fire dragon noticed the opponent’s identity just from the speech.

Broadcast nickname: Gothic Luxury Bone.

Bone Dragon, an undead dragon.

Since it doesn’t need to eat, sleep, or defecate, it was an even more veteran viewer who always goes around broadcast rooms and spends time, more than the fire dragon.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Lmao the real old tooth with only bones is going crazy?

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Been in the ondol room so much that the head got cooked? I’m a full set of teeth that never fell out once

[Noblesse Fire]▶Full teeth is crazy lmao what is a guy saying who is stubbornly staying without dying.

That, even arguing that it’s undead discrimination, was the usual conversation.

But for Bone Dragon, there was a more important matter than that.

That was securing a fresh newbie.

For Bone Dragon who felt boredom more than the fire dragon, a newbie was soon a new stimulation and a very precious possibility.

Therefore, Bone Dragon immediately started soothing the newbie

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Mr. Squishy, I’m sorry. That hikikomori loser dragon originally has a shit personality, so don’t mind it too much...

Of course, Bone Dragon’s chat was also not conveyed to the slime.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Mr. Squishy?

[Noblesse Fire]▶No matter how much I scratch, it completely ignores.

Bone Dragon wondered if it was a new monster newbie with orichalcum mentality? and only now recognized the fact that what appeared on the screen was a slime.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶??? No, slime? A slime is broadcasting?

[Noblesse Fire]▶You just realized?

-Tsk tsk tsk, head is empty empty so no mental capacity like this.

Even while Bone Dragon was surprised and the fire dragon clicked its tongue, the slime started moving while wobbling purung purung.

It was to digest the moss absorbed in the meantime and obtain the next nutrients.

The fire dragon and Bone Dragon first watched that scene.

After 1 hour of that.

[Noblesse Fire]▶It’s a real slime.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶It’s just a slime.

Bone Dragon and the fire dragon acknowledged that the slime was just a slime

-Did the system go bad?

When the fire dragon was raising questions in another direction.

In the chat room where there were only 2 people, guys who came to look around the new broadcast room appeared peeking.

▶???? Why a slime?

▶Who is transforming?

▶Ah! Damn!

▶No, what slime is broadcasting lmao

Strange room title and strange room owner slime

The newly entered ones did not leave the broadcast room out of curiosity and were watching the slime.

While various words and guesses were exchanged, the slime that wobbles purung purung softly and eats moss at regular intervals.

Looking at the appearance of such a slime, one viewer said.

▶...Ah, it’s healing.

Healing.

Not healing the body’s wounds, but the meaning of healing that gives peace of mind.

The moment one person opened the words, other ones who empathized also started typing chats.

▶fr

▶agree so cute.

▶Hmm... is it that much?

▶Doesn’t a wild animal come and gulp the slime?

▶Ah, get lost you chaos bug a bit

▶Don’t wanna lmao

While one, two were just looking at the shaking slime, a person who made a proper guess appeared.

▶Maybe the chat window is not visible?

▶No head? How did it open the broadcast without seeing?

▶Yeah~ but it opened? Can see like this?

▶Yet another self-proclaimed expert has arrived

▶Ah! Damn!

Trivia about slime ecology that other races didn’t properly care about.

When the most credible guess came out, a person with quick action said.

▶Wait, I’ll go ask the Squishy Queen and come.