Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Evolution (3)

At the unfamiliar word, the slime tilted its body slightly to the side kku-it!

‘What is evolution?’

The system answering the question asked in the heart.

[Evolution is a phenomenon where one can evolve into a higher individual.]

‘?’

Since the slime still did not understand, the system explained more easily.

[It is a phenomenon where one can become a stronger existence.]

‘?’

[Reviewing an explanation matching the target’s intelligence.]

[Selecting an explanation based on the target’s recent experiences.]

[You will be able to catch deer faster.]

‘Wa!’

This time, the slime was able to roughly understand what evolution is.

‘Deer! Catch faster!’

The slime jumping poyong! poyong! excitedly in place.

The deer’s head below the slime was being driven into the ground.

The slime immediately informed the newly known fact to the chat window.

▷Evolution! Evolution!

▶Evolution?

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Could it be that the evolution window has appeared, Squishy-nim?

▷I can evolve! Catch deer faster!

▶Did the evolution window really appear?

▶Why so fast?

[Squishy Queen]▶Has the evolution window appeared, member of my kind!

▶Ah! evolution damn!

The chat window that became noisy at the news that the evolution window appeared.

Because that speed was very fast!

Usually, after gaining intelligence enough to recognize the system window, it took at least more than 1 year for monsters to encounter the evolution window.

Comparing to such experiences, the slime’s evolution window speed was truly Mach-level speed!

However, the slime facing the evolution window quickly was not unnatural.

While other monsters grow to a certain extent and recognize the system, the slime recognized the system as soon as it was born, so there was no choice but for a difference in the experience needed for evolution.

And among the continuing questions, there was also a viewer who noticed this fact.

[Free Spirit]▶Isn’t Squishy-nim still a slime so that’s why? Originally the first evolution is mostly fast.

The one who spoke first was the joker.

After becoming a lich, the joker had never evolved, but he spoke as if he had experience.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Is that so?

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶We dragons are highest-ranking individuals from the beginning so we wouldn’t know.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Don’t treat the same as the guy who became a bone pathetically.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶What did you say?

[Squishy Queen]▶If you’re going to fight, dig another room and fight! Isn’t the member of my kind on the path of choice now!

▶Honest opinion) every time the old ones fight, a rotten smell remains.

▶222222

▶lmao

[Just Ram and See]▶Squishy! What can you evolve into!

At Fenrir’s question, the slime tilted its body.

‘Into what?’

[The target’s evolution choices are a total of 3.]

[1. Poison Slime]

[2. Big Slime]

[3. Bounce Slime]

[Would you like to hear a detailed explanation?]

‘Yeah!’

[Poison Slime: You will have toxicity in your body. You can secrete poison and spit it out to attack, and you can apply poison all over your body to attack the target.

Skill: Poison Generation is obtained.

Required coins: 25 coins]

[Big Slime: You will have an even larger body. You can perform attacks that crush the opponent using the enlarged body and weight. You can absorb opponents of similar or smaller size than yourself into your body at once.

Skill: Capture is obtained.

Required coins: 20 coins]

[Bounce Slime: You will have an even more elastic body. You can move even faster and it becomes easier to attack using terrain features.

Skill: Bounce Tackle is obtained.

Required coins: 15 coins]

‘?’

The slime that came to hear the continuing system’s explanation.

But even hearing the explanation, it did not understand. It also did not know which one to choose.

‘What should I do?’

To the slime’s question, the system answered firmly.

[It depends on your choice.]

The slime that felt it would not explain easily this time decided to ask the chat window.

▷Evolution! Choices appeared! Many!

[Free Spirit]▶What choices are there?

▶There are many choices? How many?

▷3!

▶Many with 3 lmao

▶3 is many.

▶If talking evolution, it is many ㅇㅇ

[Squishy Queen]▶Member of my kind! So what choices came out! Tell me!

‘Tell!’

The slime was about to say the 3 choices as is.

Then the slime stopped for a moment and thought.

Rather than just saying only 3 right away.

Wouldn’t it be better to say following exactly what the system said? such a thought came.

‘Everyone! Many words! Know many things!’

[Squishy Queen] who worries about it and gives caution, [Just Ram and See] who teaches body slam or hunting methods, and [Free Spirit] who recommended eating meat besides purple grass.

For the slime, the viewers of the chat room were existences that know more than itself.

Therefore, wouldn’t they be able to understand even the explanations it doesn’t know?

With such a thought, the slime said to the system.

‘Say it again!’

And the slime transferred the explanation the system said as is to the chat window.

The explanation that rose in the chat window surprised the viewers.

▶Squishy became an explanation bug!

▶That is transferring what the system says as is lmao

▶First time seeing one saying all of one’s own evolution explanation lmao

▶Similar to the explanation when I evolved.

▶What is Bounce Slime?

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‘This is the evolution window explanation that monsters talked about so much.’

In the empty eye sockets of the joker sitting in his secret workshop, light burned.

Light full of curiosity and exploration.

The joker who has never seen an evolution window always wondered what the evolution window monsters see and its choice contents look like.

But if asking about it in broadcasts, there was no way to properly know due to reactions like ‘why ask such a thing’ being unpleasant or ‘just choose as you feel like, why remember the explanation one by one?’.

But thankfully, the slime transcribed the content of the evolution window it saw as is into the chat window.

‘Not such a complicated explanation yet kind.’

It informs what characteristics the individual one is evolving into has and what skill one obtains if evolving.

‘Moreover, coins are also used when evolving.’

Coins that accumulate when a monster has specific experiences.

The use of coins the lich knows was only purchasing skills using the ‘shop’.

The skills that can be purchased in the shop are various but there is one rule.

That is that only skills that the corresponding individual can use can be purchased.

For example, no matter how many coins, a monster like a slime could not learn the breath that dragons use.

One cannot buy all skills, but if purchasing the skills one can use well, one can become even stronger.

Therefore, among monsters that just recognized the system and opened the shop function, there were cases of opening broadcasts and begging for coins.

-Please! Please give precious coins to this humble octopus that just opened the shop!

Begging by lowering oneself humbly.

-Everyone likes this, right? It’s my shed.skin. Next time I’ll shed more boldly so please support coins~

Following other provocative broadcasts.

-If you give coins, I will do anything! Come! What will you order!

Rather creating challenging content to obtain, etc.

Monsters in intermediate positions craved coins to become stronger.

Putting aside the joy of obtaining new knowledge about the evolution window for a moment, the joker entered the Squishy induction operation.

‘Must avoid only Poison Slime.’

Like when worrying when the slime ate poisonous grass, if it becomes a Poison Slime holding poison, contacting Nellin will become difficult.

The joker first entered from a natural question.

[Free Spirit]▶Squishy-nim! How many coins do you have now?

▷Coins?

[Free Spirit]▶If you ask the system, it will tell you!

▷37!

‘No problem evolving.’

The joker quickly analyzed the choices the slime can evolve into besides Poison Slime and was about to speak.

It was then.

[Noblesse Fire]▶If evolving, big is good! Hey! Do Big Slime!

Fire dragon.

Noblesse Fire typed the chat first.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶What is that ignorant words.

[Noblesse Fire]▶What ignorance! Ah! Have to be big so not looked down on!

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶That is being ignorant. But size is important though.

The fire dragon and Bone Dragon who usually argued put out the same opinion.

[Yarn Lady]▶Oh my, don’t you know how useful using poison is? Cute~ Squishy-nim would also be good as Poison Slime~.

Arachne.

Yarn Lady recommended Poison Slime since she frequently uses poison.

[Just Ram and See]▶What are you saying! What Squishy learned is body slam! To do body slam well, Bounce Slime is the best!

Fenrir.

Just Ram and See recommended Bounce Slime that can utilize his teachings.

As they recommended each other and heat was applied, other viewers also joined that discussion for fun.

▶Not Bounce Slime. Least coins.

▶Exclude because few coins? tsk tsk tsk

▶Not all good because many coins.

▶Even if there is poison, if can’t hit it’s a miss lmao

▶What’s good about bouncing?

▶Even if big ignorantly, attacks all hit.

▶But coins are damn few.

Of course, most were trolls participating for fun.

Those who enjoy the chat room becoming noisy while criticizing other choices.

‘Uuuung...! I don’t know!’

And the chat window continuing this is good that is good made the slime ponder even more.

Then.

[Squishy Queen]▶Noisy! These troll guys! What is important about your opinions! The important thing is what the same kind wants!

▶Who cares? lmao.

▶Ah lmao fun lmao.

As the talk about the same kind slime’s important evolution became half a joke, the Slime Queen got angry.

[Free Spirit]▶ㅇㅇ Squishy Queen-nim’s words are right, what Squishy-nim wants to become is the most important.

The joker rode on that anger and immediately asked the slime.

[Free Spirit]▶Squishy-nim! What do you want to become?

▷How?

The joker, when the chat window was noisy, utilized his experience as a former mage and explained the characteristics of each evolution individual in a way easy for the slime to understand.

[Free Spirit]▶Poison Slime can use poison.

▷Poison?

[Free Spirit]▶You can make water that hurts and easily catch deer.

▷Wa!

[Free Spirit]▶Big Slime Squishy-nim’s body becomes bigger.

▷Becomes big!

[Free Spirit]▶It will become slower but can eat more.

▷Eat a lot!

[Free Spirit]▶Bounce Slime can move quickly.

▷Quickly?

[Free Spirit]▶ㅇㅇ and if happy you jump in place.

▷Yeah!

[Free Spirit]▶You can jump more

▷More!

The joker who explained as much as possible so the slime can understand said to the slime.

[Free Spirit]▶Among these, choose what Squishy-nim wants to become.

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‘What I want to become...’

Hearing the joker’s explanation, the slime thought carefully.

Poison Slime.

The slime could roughly understand the act of using poison.

The pain felt after eating purple grass for the first time.

It understood the concept of attacking using that pain.

But it could not properly imagine itself using poison to attack.

Big Slime.

On the other hand, becoming bigger in size and being able to eat more was easy to imagine.

The deer that has a larger size than itself.

If becoming Big Slime, it would be able to eat deer more, faster.

And finally Bounce Slime.

Can move quickly, can jump more.

Can catch up to rabbits or deer that run away without ambushing.

What it wants to do more.

The slime that thought that endlessly made a decision.

The most familiar to itself, the one it hoped for the most.

‘I want to evolve!’

The system reacted to the slime’s heart.

[Which individual will you evolve into?]

‘Bounce Slime!’

[You have selected Bounce Slime.]

[15 coins will be consumed.]

[Starting evolution.]

Uuung!

‘Waaaa...!’

The slime’s entire body was enveloped in light.