"Phew..."
The crusade and meal ended somewhat quickly today.
All I have to do is wait for you Niki...
"Brother! I'm done with my job!
And I hear his work was done early.
"Ooh..."
"? What's wrong?
"No... I have one thing to tell you today. Actually..."
Firstly, tell them without falsehood that the wire slime has evolved.
"What!? Has it evolved yet!?
"That's right. Niki, thanks to you and everyone in the village, we've been fed a lot of food."
"Show me! Let me see that!
"Of course. So if I collect garbage today, I'm going to find out what I can do to that slime in the woods..."
"Okay! Well, let's get going, then!
So I leave the dining room where I met you.
Niki, you seemed to want to see the wire slime faster and the garbage collection was faster than usual.
Thanks to you, the collection will be over in no time.
Move to the entrance to the woods where you picked up firewood and actually let the wire slime out.
"That... doesn't look the same?
"Yeah. Does it look subtle, really subtly smaller? That's about the difference. But"
Have your body stretched out into long, ultra-fine filaments.
"Ah! Heh, I can do this now... the bait was a net, and can I use this like a net? Change in thickness or something? How much further can you stretch?
"Then let's find out first."
Ask the wire slime itself, the thickness of the thread to be stretched is adjustable. Except it doesn't seem to stretch long when you're fat.
As for the limit distance that could be stretched, I expected the volume to be relevant as of morning.
When I had the yarn stretched cylindrically and at a constant thickness to try it, the limit distance was about 40 m.
I calculated the volume from there and also the volume of wire slime in the sphere, which is almost a match.
However, the nucleus seems to be different even if the body is stretched freely, and when I had it stretched to its limit, the sphere that seemed to be the nucleus burst out...... in fact it was wrapped in a thin body, but the place was at a glance. Although the error range is fine for the volume, it is likely that the steep point will be well understood.
Furthermore, Niki, I also looked at the changes in shape such as whether you can be a net as you said, and the yarn can come out of anywhere in your body, and multiple copies can come out at the same time. It was also possible to intertwine the threads put out, thereby knitting nets and thick ropes.
Even before evolution, it is not possible to change the shape worn during metal slime. However, it was limited to changes in yarn + α, such as making the stretched yarn look like barbed wire or like a yarn saw with a fine blade on the side of the stretched yarn.
"... I guess this is the place. Now the next thing... Niki, don't you want to see the moment the slime evolves?
"I want to see! Can you see it?
"Oh, actually, there's only one kind of slime that can evolve quickly"
Now let's get out the slimes we captured or received the other day.
"Slime not only reacts to a variety of baits, but also to magical powers to use magic. And once you give the magic of a particular attribute, massively, it evolves into a slime that can use the magic of that attribute."
"Speaking of which, you said you evolved your brother's magic slime. That's how you evolved it."
"It was a coincidence at first. I think it depends on the living environment which attribute you prefer the magic of. I found very little in the place where I'm based, except for the attributes of soil and darkness, and I've heard stories about fireslimes that use fire magic being found in volcanic areas.
So, here's the thing... I found out which attribute magic the slimes caught near this village preferred, and most of them preferred the magic of the water attribute. "
"So you can be a slime that can use water magic?
"Right. I can supply the magic to evolve, so I can evolve it now. I want it because I don't have the slime to use water magic either, and I'm actually going to try it."
Release the magic of the water attribute from your hand and place one of the earliest stops between you and Niki.
And make sure he's paying attention, gently pouring out the magic of the water attribute.
"Sounds like you're trying to suck it on hand..."
Niki, you saw the slime and said that feeling. Slime may also look that way because he is stretching his body to hand in an attempt to capture the magic I poured.
And while I'm convinced, Slime seems to have absorbed enough magic.
Return the body you were stretching and look for a good place to sit with a jelly body.
A few vibrations and fine tuning? After repeating, the movement stops completely and begins to emit trace magic.
"... don't move..."
Niki, you don't seem to feel any magic, so tell them that the slime is emitting magic.
"Heh... I can't use magic, and I just look like I'm standing still... hey brother, what's it like to be magical?
"Mm-hmm... it's hard to put it into words... but it feels like a wave... there's a fine wave coming out of the slime, and it's flowing, and it's back into the body of the slime... it's also like breathing in the exhaled breath myself.
It's hard to see evolutionary moments, not too much...... not only magic slime, but also this magic in and out when it evolves into metal slime? Maybe it's a necessary action for the evolution of the slime. "
"Oh well... ah"
The color of my body is gradually changing. Even so, to the extent that the clear body has become a little blue...... the slime changes slightly, really slightly, to a blue sky-like color, eventually stopping the release and absorption of magic.
Upon appraisal,
Water slime
Skills Water Magic Lv2 Water Attribute Resistance Lv8 Water Attribute Magic Absorption Lv1 Jump Lv1 Digestion Lv3 Absorption Lv3 Divide Lv1
"You've evolved safely."
When I told him I wanted him to magically produce water to try, Waterslime gained more momentum than I thought, spraying water up like a fountain.
"Ooh, I really used magic! What else can you do?
If you go on and let go of the offensive magic waterball or something, Niki will be happy to touch your hand. And after enjoying the magic of slime all the way through, he ran me around the woods for slime capture to use for future experiments.
Today's achievement is 15 slimes.
"Is that it? What's going on?"
"Is that some kind of noise?
Back in the village, Niki is right. Usually the villagers start going home, or at times when it's not strange to be starting to prepare dinner, but there are a lot of adults out on the side of the road, and that also seems to be discussing something with someone who was nearby.
"Let me ask you something. Auntie!"
"Huh? Oh, you're Lyoma to Niki. Were you in the woods again?
"That's right. So, I'm back now, is something wrong?
"Well, the lord came to the village, and the lord will come to the village tomorrow."
"The lord!? What, suddenly again?
"That's it."
Niki, the sight of the aunt you were talking to turns to me.
"Lyoma wants to see you."
"What!? Is that for me?
"Apparently. I don't know the details... but if it's true, I think I've been contacted by Mr. Hoy, and what do you say we visit the village chief's house? It was the village chief who dealt with your knight, and you must know the details."
"Thank you. I'll go."
I have no idea why I get a call from the lord here...
I've heard a little about the lord, but he doesn't know me.
Why the hell... anyway, let's go to the village chief's house before it gets dark.
I thank my aunt, and Niki and I will break up on the way and head out quickly.
Then I ran into the village chief in front of the front door. Looks like he just got back from somewhere.
"Oh, Mr. Lyoma. Just fine, I've just been to Hoi's."
"You're talking about a lord coming to the village tomorrow. I heard a few rumors earlier, too. Lord wants to see me... why not?
"Let's just say it's active in daily fishing and crusading. The lord will come to see you in battle. Not only you, but Kai Boy and Kai Bo are called."
Oh, my God, you know what...
"Good... I didn't feel like getting a call, so I thought I'd done something before I knew it"
"Ha, don't worry too much. The lord here is easy and gentle. If you keep it normal, it'll be over soon."
"Really? Thank you."
Oh, speaking of which...
"Mr. Village Chief. I, a certain person, have received a letter of introduction if I ever see the lord..."
That is a letter of introduction from the present Duke, or Mr Reinhardt. It was given to me by the Duke's house before I went back to Gimru to use anything in Fatma territory. I didn't plan to meet with the lord, and I didn't think he'd ever use it... but I'm glad I put it in the item box.
"Hmm... if so, I'll take care of it right before the meeting"
"Okay. Thanks again tomorrow"
"It's a pleasure to meet you for tomorrow's fishing. Then stay warm and sleep."
I get to go home while the village chief drops me off.
And on that road, as I tried to pass through the usual square, a temple in the corner of the square was concerned about my eyes.
The old temple has been exposed to rainstorms for many years, or the stone is festived, which appears to be a statue of a god whose surface is slightly heavily worn.
"... let's pray a little"
If you think about it, tomorrow is the second time you've been involved with nobility. He sounds like a good guy as far as rumors go, but no way he's gonna come alone without an escort, and I hope nothing happens...
I hope so, hand in hand in front of the temple.
My eyes glowed white.
You don't have to be a church to be called...
"Ugh!?
A floating feeling that I felt unexpected.
When I opened my eyes in surprise at the unprecedented way they called me, Nanica was spreading in front of me.
- Water!?
Falling into it, almost at the same time that I was able to recognize it.
I don't know how high it fell, but the impact isn't that high.
But the water hits the body heavily and sinks more and more. There's no sign of a rise.
"Don't worry about it. You can breathe, do it."
I felt anxious, I was about to scratch the water, and my voice arrived.
... True. Body freedom corresponds underwater, but breathing is not surprisingly painful.
Calm down, follow the voice you hear from above, and turn your gaze.
There's a shadow of a middle school student drifting underwater, with a dazzling light on his back.
The shadow slips into the water with sulli next to me, and here I finally see him clearly.
"Hey, hello"
"Hi, I'm Lyoma Takebayashi....... Excuse me, sir, but is it Saleripta, the god of water and fishing?
"Is that it? Did I say my name? I get it. You know, my statue is just supposed to look like a tough guy."
Apparently, it suited you personally, no, God.
Indeed...... I am told that his appearance in the general myth in knowledge, as I have just said to myself, is also an ideal image of a nasty man of the sea.
But now, speaking in a somewhat loose and neutral voice in front of me, he has long hair with the impression that he can stretch all he wants first. Also because of that, instead of one eye, the right half of your face is completely hidden, and the left half you see is white as snow, with a neat neighborhood under your eyes, and no healthy image.
Loose clothes, or cloth? luxurious enough that the hands visible from the bumped sleeves are likely to break easily, although I don't know the lines of my body because of the multiple wraps around me.
He doesn't look like a very rough guy, more like a girl.... and rude, but not half the pull.
What I could have predicted about him was that the place I prayed for was a temple that was festived in the fishing village, and above all,
"Because I fell in this water"
"Oh, sure, when it comes to God about water, it's me."
He's laughing, drifting underwater.
The edge of the cloth wrapped around him flickered like a fishy tail.
"Haha, you don't have to move your hands and feet to sink, do you? More like this, pull yourself out and let yourself go. It's easier. Come on."
If you pull yourself out like you were told, it certainly doesn't sink and your body is easy thanks to just the right buoyancy.
"Yeah, well, you can make it easier. Never mind the language... by the way, you've been called here a lot by Guys, haven't you?
"Yes, sometimes, but I'm interrupting"
"I'm basically not a trustee or anything, but I wanted to see you."
"Did you want to see me? That would be an honor, but why... oh, you were looking at me like the Gaines and something was funny or something?
"No, that's not it. From what I saw, it wasn't funny at all."
"Oh, really..."
"Because come on, you didn't just normally live in a fishing village. There's not an unexpectedly dangerous warcraft out there, and no, there's plenty of other villagers if it's just a villager's life.... you say it's redundant, you say it's not mellifluous... you like that kind of serene life and you're happy too, no, of course you don't say it's all about fighting and adventuring. Oh, even if they dazzle you with your normal life... I'm tired of being good at first. Don't you think?
"Ha, no..."
"I'm not saying it's the exact same thing, but it's a repetition of something similar. Thinking about doing something more flashy anyway, or feeling better watching it?
"... Indeed, I was not aware of the fun I saw from others in my daily life..."
"Was that? If you ask me if that's funny. First of all -"
He throws other sharp words of thought, relaxed and uninterrupted.
And I'm listening to that.
Sure, just something I didn't care about in my daily life. But how come I'm getting no credit from a first-time god, like an editor against cartoonists and novelists?