Slime Evolution Chapter 14 - Carnage

[Organism absorbed.]

[Bio-Mass 4.7 Units]

[Experience: 1]

[New Matter Detected — Body Density Lv 1]

[Analysis available at next evolution.]

[Efficient Digestion Lv 6 → Lv 7]

Looking at that data, Lohan beca even more excited!

The increase in Efficient Digestion didn’t even need to be explained. With a 10% increase in his base digestion speed, he would consu Biomass even faster, practically increasing his attack damage by 10% instantly and saving 4.76 Biomass!

With this increase, his absorption rose from 3.15 Bio/h to 3.46 Bio/h! Adding in the bonuses from his other Skills, his total absorption rose from 5.76 Bio/h to 6.22 Bio/h, an increase of 0.46 Bio per hour from a single Skill upgrade!

Another advantage was the new skill he received!

[Body Density Lv 1 - 2.7 Bio]

[Consus Biomass to increase body density by 10%.]

Curious about the effect of this skill and with enough Biomass stored, Lohan began to repair the exoskeleton and increase his body density.

As he imagined, the cost of increasing his own body density was very high, probably because his body was now 60% larger than its original size.

Although only a small hole had appeared in his exoskeleton, the entire part that the enemy Sli had touched had been greatly corroded, to the point of almost disappearing, which caused Lohan to spend 4 Biomass just to repair this damage, and to increase his body density by 10%, he had to spend another 5 Biomass, almost completely draining the biomass he had obtained by consuming the core and gelatinous body of the Sli he had devoured.

Sure, he wasn’t wasting it on nothing, since only 4 Biomass were used to repair the damage, while the 5 Biomass used to increase density were investnts, not to ntion the savings of 4.76 Biomass from evolving Efficient Digestion and 2 Biomass to learn the new Skill. When he bought this skill, he would still have to spend the 5 Biomass to beco denser anyway, so his profit was enormous.

Feeling his own body after increasing his density, Lohan was still a little disappointed to realize that he was still not as dense as his opponent.

’I think his Body Density was at least Lv 3... but with the amount of Biomass I have now, I won’t be able to buy the upgrades for this Skill and still keep my reserve Biomass bank for the next battles...’

But that didn’t discourage Lohan, he still felt much stronger than before this battle, and with his spirit renewed, he went in search of other Slis.

This ti he was having trouble finding the enemy, taking almost two hours to search.

During that ti, he accumulated another 12.44 Biomass by consuming the surrounding plants, and finally completely refined his body upgrades, in addition to maintaining a satisfactory safety reserve.

Upon reaching 15 Biomass stored, Lohan felt that he had reached a limit, unable to store anything else, so he invested again.

Noticing how useful each of his Skills had been in recent battles, Lohan upgraded two Skills that did not require additional investnt beyond leveling up.

[Hemolymphatic Tissue Lv 2 -> Lv 3 - 3.93 Bio]

[During combat or under active damage, the conversion of absorbed matter into vital energy is accelerated by 20%.]

[Structural Stability Lv 2 -> Lv 3 - 2.34 Bio]

[Improves control over one’s own body.]

-- BOOOOOOOOMMM!!

Spending only 6.27 Bio, Lohan kept a large stock of Biomass in case he encountered an opponent along the way, and increased his combat efficiency by a large margin.

[Hemolymphatic Tissue] did not change much other than how much it amplified his absorption speed, but with the upgrade of [Structural Stability], Lohan felt a big change in controlling his own body.

Instead of only being able to make small, fragile tentacles a few centiters long, or being able to deform enough to beco flatter or rounder, Lohan was now able to stretch his tentacles even further, and most impressively, he was also able to slightly control his exoskeleton!

By concentrating, Lohan was able to make small spikes appear on the surface of the exoskeleton! These spikes were less than 0.5 centiters long, but if he used them in a battle of attrition with another Sli, having parts of his resistant exoskeleton penetrate his opponent’s fragile skin would be a huge advantage!

After all, his exoskeleton was made of Biomass, just like the rest of his body, and also possessed digestive capabilities, which he used to attack other Slis while taking less damage.

Unfortunately, maintaining these deformities was extrely tiring, causing him to have to return to bubble form to move, reserving this only for combat.

But this raised a question in his mind.

’If at this level I can control myself better this way, in the future will I be able to replicate limbs such as mouths, teeth, claws, or even wings?!’

This was still a very distant idea, but visualizing the possibility, Lohan got excited, and when he saw another Sli a little bigger than him devouring grass ahead, he decided to be a little more aggressive. Instead of waiting almost an hour for the Sli to fall into the trap he would set, this ti Lohan didn’t slow down at all and just kept rolling at full speed toward that poor, unsuspecting Sli.

Seeing a smaller Sli rolling aggressively in its direction, this Sli was also fearless and rolled towards Lohan.

Having survived for so long, the little creature had already killed several other Slis and developed a little pride, not admitting that it was inferior to any other Sli that did not appear to be several tis larger than it.

Unfortunately, with a simple and foolish mind, it did not notice the characteristics that showed that a Sli was several tis more powerful than it, even though it was not larger.

It did not see the greater speed with which the enemy was rolling, did not realize that the thorns of the plants did not pierce the skin of that Sli, did not realize that the stretching and rounding movent it produced was artificially increasing its speed even more, and when it noticed the small sharp thorns appearing on the opponent’s body, it was too late, the two were already very close.

A slightly larger, fragile, gelatinous Sli bubble was hit by a small, resistant, spiky Sli bubble, with much of its own body spreading around it, while his opponent showed no signs of slowing down and continued to advance, taking advantage of the greater external density of his body to make his way inside the enemy’s body, extending a small tentacle out of his body and touching the core of the larger Sli in a few seconds.

Unlike the previous exhausting battle against the Sli with greater body density, this battle was much simpler, brutal, and gelatinous.

With his "blood" boiling with excitent, Lohan wasted no ti and, after absorbing this Sli, went out in search of other Slis in the region to continue the carnage, unaware that more than 10 hours had passed with him still in Elysium.