Chapter 62—Death!
"Roar! Roar!" The howls of monsters echoed through the hall.
’This world... doesn’t let me stay calm,’ Slime#47 muttered, irritated, as he glanced at the magic-sealed door. "What do you think, Elder? Should we break in?" he asked.
Elder Slime replied, "It’s not just an ordinary magic seal. It’s a magic array. Let me check it once."
Wob! He bounced near the door, stopping just a little away, and tried to poke it with his right index finger.
In a moment, a violet-colored barrier manifested as his finger neared the door, spreading from that point to cover the entire area like ripples in water when a stone is thrown. ’Hmm, quite strong,’ he noted.
The barrier covered the entire section of wall with no visible cracks or weakness. It vanished as soon as he pulled his finger back.
"What do you think, Elder?" Red Slime asked as Wob! he bounced over as well.
"Just a moment," Elder Slime replied as he poked the barrier with his index and other fingers on both hands in a row, multiple times.
This time, the barrier stayed manifested while Old Slime kept poking it, trying to get closer to the door.
"That’s it," Old Slime grinned.
Puk!Young Slime also didn’t back down as he touched it. "Hmm, feels solid, almost like Mana Shield, and it’s quite strong... I cannot break it," he muttered, sensing its strength just from that contact.
He stared at the disappearing barrier with interest, ’This...an array—the kind mostly shown in cultivation novels, like formations, and it also appears in some anime, and manga.’
"It should be somewhere... here," Elder Slime muttered as the barrier vanished. He turned his eyes to the floor and scrutinized the entire area.
"There... it is," he said, spotting something a little behind them, covered by a rotten, moldy carpet.
He pivoted, lifted the carpet, and a large glowing light violet magic sigil appeared in their view.
’It’s... too complex to an illiterate like me...’ Slime#47 thought, feeling he didn’t even fully understand the language, much less magic glyphs.
Since Old Slime had not asked him to break it by force, he knew he couldn’t just smash it apart.
Elder Slime knew his full battle prowess; the fact that he never suggested brute force implied Slime#47 could not tear down the barrier and enter.
As Red Slime scrutinized the symbols and the mana flow, he spotted a two striped blue mana crystal at the center.
But Old Slime pulled it out before he could get a proper glimpse of what it did.
’It should be the energy source for the array,’ Young Slime mused, drawing on all the novels he’d ever read.
The magic glyphs, having lost their energy source, stopped glowing and turned into black scribbles.
The barrier behind them stopped functioning; when he tried to poke it, his body simply passed through the air.
"Roarrrr!" The monsters inside the room were still roaring relentlessly.
Suddenly—Crack!
A thick tentacle burst through the door and pierced straight through Elder Slime’s core. Puk!
’Elder, no...’
He glanced at the incoming red tentacle, dotted with tiny eyes, as it shot toward him.
He reacted quickly and Wob!—leapt aside to dodge, but the tentacle twisted in mid-air and rushed at him instead.
"Mana S—"
Before he could finish his spell, it pierced straight through his core—Puk!—while he was still in mid-air.
[ Ding! Your core has been destroyed! ]
As his vision darkened, he spotted three silhouettes inside the room—blurry and immense.
"Sta—"
He tried to activate his skill, but consciousness slipped away instantly.
[ Ding! You have died! ]
He failed to even glimpse their true power.
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In the Black Void.
He opened his eyes to nothingness.
’I have to get very strong...to defeat those three..whatever they were,’ He mused, but he grinned.
"That was the best loop... out of all," he muttered.
He had not only come close to reaching the place Old Slime had pointed toward, but had also escaped the slime farm, killed the slime farm owner, the noble kids, and others—taking the revenge he wanted.
Soon, however, bitterness rose. He had lost his favorite skill combo, Blue Flames and Fire Body, and all his stats would be reset.
He had lost his racial skills and many other abilities.
"Let’s try a new class and master new skills," he decided with a grin—a new hope for a new loop.
He knew he’d beaten the slime farm owner largely because of that combo, but now he wanted to become stronger without relying on it.
While he was lost in thought, golden rays fell on him from above.
’So relaxing,’ he grinned, feeling energy surge through him.
[ Ding! Curse has been eliminated! ]
[ Ding! Timeline 78521452224.24 has ended! ]
[ Ding! Start Timeline 78521452224.25? ]
[ —Y— or —N— ]
He started the new timeline.
[ Ding! Starting Timeline 78521452224.25! ]
[ Reincarnating Slime#47! ]
[ Ding! Trait — Eternal Mastery {Mythic} — activated! ]
[ Locking Skills — Acid Fist {Lv.Max}; Evade {Lv.Max}; Human Tongue {Lv.1}; Demon Tongue {Lv.Max}; Fireball {Lv.Max}; Mana Shield {Lv.Max}; Meditation {Lv.Max}; Iron Body {Lv.Max}; Appraisal {Lv.Max}; Aura Meditation {Lv.2}; Residual Pain Tolerance {Lv.1} ]
[ Locking Masteries — Fist Mastery Tier 1; Fire Magic Rune Tier 1; Aura Mastery Tier 0: 25% Proficiency carried over! ]
He’d trained Aura Meditation to Lv.2 while rushing on Bull#1.
’Yup... no skills,’ he felt bitter at losing almost everything at once despite knowing he’d.
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In the slime farm...
He opened his eyes to Mama Slime’s warm squeeze. "I am your mama, child," she cooed.
[ Name: Slime#47 {Temporary}
Race: Slime ★
Class: N/A
Trait: Eternal Mastery, Viscous Body, Amorphous Being.
Titles: N/A.
Level: 1
Strength: G-
Endurance: G
Will: F
Wisdom: G-
Dexterity: G
Perception: G-
Agility: G+
Vitality: G+ ]
’A weak start, like always...even my demon colonel title is... Wait, my hard work paid off... I don’t have to suffer,’ his eyes almost had tears as he glanced at the Will stat.
He’d been tense, thinking he’d have to get burned again by Elder Slime’s fireball, but apparently he didn’t have to this time.
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All events proceeded like the previous loop, with him declaring to Old Slime that he had a trait that let him go back to his birth point.
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"So, Elder Slime..."
End of the Chapter.