Chapter 374 - Black Miasma Liquid Metal Slime, Rust
Chapter 374 – Black Miasma Liquid Metal Slime, Rust
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What was in front of Chaos was… a strange being he had never seen before, a Metal Slime! But it had two Unique Skills, it meant that this being was really from Earth… Chaos decided to name it Rust, but then began to ponder what it required…
It was hungry, so it had to eat something, and its skills implied it wanted something inorganic… such as metals.
He quickly opened his Inventory and took out a few weapons and armors he had stored which were treasures from a dungeon he had yet to eat, and he began to feed them to Rust…
Chaos looked into the little blob, it quickly began to feast on the items he threw over its body, the swords, shields, armor, all of it, it began to devour it all and assimilate it completely, as if they were melting into its body. And as it ate, it slowly began to grow bigger and bigger in size.
"Abubah!"
The little slime then made a little sound, it seemed to be happy to have been feed now. Chaos didn't knew if it was related to him or not, but it seemed to have the power of Chaos within, but its own shape was very strange, it was different than Abyss and Rot.
"You're a mysterious creature… I guess you possess some interesting powers despite how weak you began… Huh?"
Chaos then checked Rust Stats once more, and found they had slightly increased.
"What?"
Chaos glanced at Rust with surprise, it appears that Rust had gained stats by eating those items, they were not that many, but they were noticeable nonetheless… It seems that Rust can grow stronger by eating all sorts of metals and other minerals.
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<Universal Origin Records>
[Name: [Rust]
[Race: [Black Miasma Liquid Metal Slime (Summon)]
[Existence Realm: [God: 2/9 (Initial Stage)]
[Faction: [Shared Faction With Summoner]
[Vitality: [40.020.000/40.020.000]
[Mana: [15.000.065.000/15.000.065.000]
[Strength: [30.032.000]
[Agility: [80.025.000]
[Stamina: [50.012.000]
[Magic: [20.011.000]
<Abilities>
[Unique Skill: Liquid Metal Body]
[Unique Skill: Inorganic Assimilation]
[Metal Slime Body: Level 1]
[Body Size Manipulation: Level 1]
[Absorption: Level 1]
[Digestion: Level 1]
[Spatial Stomach: Level 1]
[Anaerobic: Level 1]
[Fear-Inducing Aura: Level 1]
[Inorganic Infection: Level 1]
[Self-Duplication: Level 1]
[Cybernetic Hacking: Level 1]
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"Incredible…" Said Chaos. "Then feast yourself, I have way more from where that came from." Chaos began to quickly pour countless of items he had pilled inside his Inventory, which were too weak to give him anything and only had them there to be used as materials in crafting, but over time he can always get more of those from the dropped items from the dungeon anyway!
The items continued to pile up in front of the adorable Rust, as the black metal slime seemed excited, it quickly began to devour everything greedily, without leaving a single thing behind!
"A-Amazing…"
Chaos glanced as Rust began to devour it all and continued to increase its stats over and over again… and over again… and over again.
It seemed near endless, it had no bottom stomach, and could continue growing bigger and bigger and bigger… and its stats continued to increase, bit by bit, with each bite.
When Abyss finally returned, she found a gigantic black slime in the room, it was over ten meters big, and had a hardened metallic core inside, it seemed that such a core formed naturally when it devoured a lot of metal and crystals.
"Babuh!" said the little slime, greeting Abyss.
"W-What is this?! A new summon? It looks… powerful!" said Abyss, her eyes opened wide as she saw the gigantic black slime greet her, the power of Rust was yet to be seen completely, but it seemed that he would bring a lot of new possibilities and help in battle, it was actually, way more than Chaos could had expected… and just what he needed too.
"Rust, can you understand me? Do you have any other abilities? Can you show me what you can do?" asked Chaos. Now that Rust seemed to be satisfied, he nodded as Chaos saw how he began to slowly shapeshift his own body and then… BOOM!
Suddenly, a golem emerged! Yes, a golem made of black metal! Rust was not made of slime but of liquid metal, when his liquid metal hardened, he could shape himself to any other metal he had devoured before, and now, he suddenly became a golem made up of all the equipment and weapons he had eaten, it looked quite bizarre while standing in two feet, but it looked strong.
"A… That's… That's a golem? Made of weapons? Spears, axes, swords, shields, all sorts of armor pieces… Can this new summon transform in what it eats?" asked Abyss.
"Yes, that seems to be the case, it comes with his two Unique Skills. I believe that's where his power comes from…" said Chaos.
"Unique Skills?" Asked Abyss, as she realized that the only ones with those were very special cases. One of them was her, Rot, and Chaos, all of them reincarnated people from Earth! "Could Rust also be from Earth?"
"I honestly don't know if he's from Earth… But I think he might be from Earth, perhaps another experiment… like you and Rot, and me… Like you two, he has a strong connection with my own primordial chaos, so through that connection, he came to me very quickly." Said Chaos. "It seems to be a being made of miasma and liquid metal, a black metal smile."
"I see, I see…" said Abyss, as she nodded in comprehension over the situation while smiling back at Rust, who was confused about what was occurring by now. "What more can you do, Rust?" Abyss wondered what more could Rust do than just transform, and Rust quickly showed her what he was able to do!
F F F F L A A A A A A S S S S S S H H H H H H H H H !
Suddenly, Rust used Self-Duplication and his entire body composed of metallic weapons and armor pieces suddenly separated while floating in midair, and began to fly around independently from one another! Chaos saw that his stats had decreased after he did that, but his ability to move and attack had been multiplied even greatly than before…
It wasn't something that he could take so easily though, as his stats reduced based on how much he divided, as each divided body was like a clone of him, or him itself… so they had an equal amount of stats, and the more he had, the more distributed the stats were, until they could fuse back into one.
"Baaah… Buuuh!" said Rust, he didn't knew how to speak, and Chaos and Abyss began to speculate he might had been a child that was never taught how to even talk on his previous life, but he was very adorable and innocent nonetheless… the two were willing to adopt another baby, they already had a two in Erebus and Rot.
Rust, similar to Rot, has no original ability to speak, unlike Abyss, the two seemed to have gone through similar experiences back then in Earth. Rust's life started in the slums of Earth, in some Asian country's streets.
He was born amorphous, his body was filled with tumors, and his mother found him hideous. Because she was a woman that lived out in the streets, and was cold-hearted and even less maternal, she ended throwing him into the trash to die out of starvation and asphyxiation.
The life of a small children, hopeless, and without being able to help itself at all, the little and aberrant baby cried in fear and hunger, as it saw the last moments of its life confused of what was occurring, wondering where could be those warm hands that held him before, and why was in such a dark and fetid place now…
Out of desperation, the baby continued screaming loudly, until suddenly, its powers awakened…
People in Earth had suffered mutations over the miasma falling over their world, and children often were born with some sort of supernatural ability and even magic.
The baby's power manifested as it screamed for his mother. Anything that was metallic began to gather around the baby and aid him. The metallic pieces, all the scrap in the trash turned into a floating mass of metal, and people that day saw a screaming baby being carried by a mass of scrap elsewhere.
Somehow, the baby was able to find his mother, only for her to be terrified of the powers he had, and ending up escaping from him…
Before he knew it, the baby found itself captured by mysterious people, that ended putting him inside a laboratory. Once more, a new specimen for this secret organization had emerged, this time a specimen capable of manipulating metals.
The entire organization and the scientists working in experimenting with miasma and chaos-attribute mana decided to immediately do all sorts of experiments with the weeks old baby, forcing miasma into his system and trying to find if it was possible to combine such powers with his innate magnetism…
The results, over time, were catastrophic.
BOOOM!!!
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