Kazemitsu

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Asura shook his head, she had made herself to spherical. She was holding to rigidly to the thought of an actual ball. Sighing he watched her roll until she hit the water. "Hurry up and get out of that. Who knows what's in a cave pond around monsters." He called down to her while he traveled along the sloped shore. Using his body to cling to the surface as he moved. He kind of wondered if he could eventually do a wall cling since his body could find tiny...body holds that others would never be able to touch.

Edith called up from the water saying she was good but who knew how long that would last in this world. As he met up with her she must have heard something and called out to it. "You do realize just because you're a tank doesn't mean you should go calling out to random voices. Not everyone is as nice as I am." He stated, agitation was clear in his voice. They were slimes, melee units. Neither had trained in anything ranged related so a wisp with those crystals could be a problem. For her anyway, he was already building a magical resistances.

Shaking his 'head' he looked at the trails near the pond while he put a pseudopod in it. Might as well get a drink as he looked about. There were many trails but one stood out more. It was like his own, large and moving towards the back of the cave away from the goblin bonfire. "Do you want to wait around for your mysterious voice, or do you want to continue with our objective?" Asura questioned while he drank his fill of the water. By now all that was left of the rat from earlier was bits of bone. Could he digest bone? Didn't hurt to find out.

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Asura gave a non-descriptive wobble when she said slime mom. "Probably. We didn't just come out of thin air. We had to inhabit something. What better than a fetus or...egg or something that doesn't have a soul yet?" He questioned as he rolled along. When she complained about their form being useless he gave a low sigh. "Just concentrate hard on the form you wish you take. Nothing complicated like fingers and legs. He said as he rolled to a stop and took his man-blob form.

"This was after a few hours of testing. But the simpler the shape the more easy it is to take. Like the ball so we can roll more effectively." He continued on, the wobbling and undulating movements were good when you weren't really aiming to do something. But now he kind of had a drive since it was morning to do stuff. Almost like back when he was doing his work.

She talked about mold on the floor and that they hadn't introduced yet. "Asura, and yes I'm aware we're basically mops. I wasn't looking for anything yesterday. Just examine the surroundings, learn the items, and try not to die. Also train." Asura stated before 'turning' towards her. "Start training to change your shape. It'll click after a little bit." The larger slime burbled out.

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Asura's goo-brow rose up when he noticed that she had tried to eat him in her sleep. She had enveloped him partially but when she woke up she pulled back with quite the sound. "That was me." He growled out, a tad grumpily. He wasn't annoyed that she was sleep eating but he wasn't pleased about it either. He'd have to put her in a bowl or something if they slept near each other again.

Pushing the rest of the dead rat towards her he gave a shrug. "Eat that. No point letting it rot. As for a plan...explore more, possibly find our progenitor, and see what a goblin is capable of. I've been attacked by a wisp and rat so far and received more damage from the rat." He said, explaining what he knew of the battle capabilities of the creatures he's fought.

She went into her history which got him to shake his head. "I don't think our past lives had anything to do with our current bodies. I chose to be a slime. But either way we can wobble and talk." He said before forming into a slightly deflated sphere. He rolled out, but kept a slow roll so she could keep up without issues.

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Asura gave her a non-committed burble in response to what the other slime said. He had been up and about all day, it took energy to change his shape, and he had been in two solo fights. Never mind the amount of...wobbling? he did to get around the damn place. He zonked out pretty easily despite the other slimes presence. Namely her touching him. He wasn't afraid of her trying to absorb him, he was the larger of the two and her...freshness, made him think she was new to the game.

The Following Day!

As lights started to brighten in the cave he 'opened his eyes' and gave a gaping yawn. He gave himself a good stretch, extending upwards as far as his gel body would allow before settling back down and going back to his man-blob shape. He shifted a little and enveloped the upper half of the dire rat from yesterday. Letting his digestive juices burn through the skin and meat slowly. He was cutting it in half using his own enzymes.

It only took a little bit and he started digesting what he could of the rats meat, skin, fur, cartilage, and the bones if he could. No point not trying to eat all of it! He glanced around, looking for the smaller slime that had bubbled about so excitedly the day before.

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Asura 'glanced' back when she mentioned goblins looking vivisected. A complicated word. "There are other soulled beings around I guess. There's you, there's me, undoubtedly there are others. Like another slime I met earlier." He said as he found what looked to be a good enough nook. A gesture of his 'arm' and he had her settle in there while he remained more in the open. She was small so he ejected the rat he was holding before using some strength to twist off a limb.

"No guarantees I can help you. Some beings seem abnormally vicious. The floating wisps being one of them. The rats being another." He stated before continuing on. "We're the 'tanks' of the starting monsters. Highest defensive and life capabilities. As for food, eat what you want. The plants heal so don't just mow into them recklessly." He explained while settling down. He seemed to spread out as he relaxed. He was a bit tired now and it showed in his body language. Well what little body language a slime had.
@ShwiggityShwah

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

@ShwiggityShwah

Asura gave a slow blink. The little slime was talking to him now, which meant...maybe it was like him? It had a feminine lilt to the tone but he kept his assumptions to himself. "It's about time you ran into another slime? He questioned while the smaller slime wiggled about excitedly. Such a weird little creature. The other slime he had met was more serious and straight forward. Looking around he was curious what this big stuff was.

"Big stuff? The goblins?" He asked, they actually hadn't bothered him. Neither have the pixies or lizards. It seemed the wisps and the dire rats were the most aggressive of the newbie lot. A mental shake and he brought himself back. "Come on, we should find some place safer to rest. It's night and it's dangerous for you." He said while partially enveloping the rat. Carrying it off without the slightest hiss of digestive sounds. Despite his coloration she could see the herbs floating about inside of him while he moved along.

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Asura huffed to himself when the body didn't respond to anything. Guess he needed to get better at his Limited Shapeshifting to be able to make puppets out of bodies. Or maybe it wasn't something he could do without magic? Considering the system message didn't come up he only had assumptions. He didn't like making assumptions, even in his past life. Shaking off that he went about digesting the organs around him. The soft tissue dissolving easily minus the stomach which was built to withstand acids.

When he started to settle in a bit he felt a tug on the body of the rat. Figures, it's free meat he should have left it to sleep elsewhere. Surging out of the body with startling speed he spied another slime trying to drag the body by the tail. This one had to be fairly new considering he was larger than it by a decent bit. It was of similar color to him but it was just a blob while he subconsciously took on his 'man-blob' form.

Raising a goobrow he huffed again. A younger slime wasn't a threat and he probably had higher defenses than most in this cave. For now he waited to see what it would do. Maybe it came from the same...mother as him? Possibly? How did slimes reproduce?

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Coulda bred another goblin, so might have gob babies.

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Asura was pleased to know what allocating the skill points did net him something. Magic Resistance I, something that would undoubtedly be very useful. Especially against wisps who had already attacked him. The piercing resistance made him think. It said regeneration required, but blunt resistance hadn't required that. Maybe he needed to fully heal? Unfortunately his thoughts were interrupted by the strange feedback trying to call up his hit points had caused.

Gurgling angrily his body ached after that, it was like getting hit with an immediate migraine! He had unfortunate run ins with those every so often back when he was human. No pills to help him now, only time and potentially sleep. He wasn't quite tired enough to sleep despite his exploration and the two kills under his jelly belt. He had one experiment left to do and it had to do with the rat corpse. He was slime, mostly liquid, could he possess dead bodies by forcing himself into them?

Considering he couldn't get dirty, not really anyway, he did what he wanted. Which was pushing his goo body into the dead rats mouth. Any opening within its body he pushed his liquid body through, sometimes with difficulty. Slightly complicated shapes were tough but not beyond him thanks to Limited Shapeshifting I. Once all his sludge was inside he tried moving the body in any way he could. He was making a big assumption with this but hey, he could technically sleep in the body if he wanted to. A sort of shelter if his experiments failed and an alarm system if something started to eat the body.

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

Asura remembered that the dire rats had the highest physically damaging stat. He was banking on his physical damage resistance and high hit points to hold out under its assault. He knew his damage wasn't as high but the rats hit points and defenses weren't as high as his. It was sort of a mutual exchange, two high stat creatures picking away at each other.

After an exchange it backed off then came again, but it was faster than him. Those teeth hurt a a good bit damn it! He kind of wondered why it even attacked him in the first place honestly. Without a mind he probably just turned into a literal puddle of liquid. Or was he like poro's in a game he played before that were like literal jelly. He didn't want to experiment with his own demise.

Another exchange and something clicked. An odd red energy crackled over him and his next attack was more powerful. By a lot. Enough to crush the rats fangs, then its skull. It bounced and laid still, lifeless. "Yay... He garbled out as he consumed two herbs within his body. These system messages were interesting and now he had a level up "screen". "Call up hit points? He said, curious to see if he could see his own life force. Maybe he could somehow get a permanent viewed lifebar.

But he had five skill points to play with now and some abilities that could prove to be useful. "Uh...allocate two skill points to Physical Damage Resistance. Allocate two skill points to Magic Resist. Allocate one skill point to Smash. He said, unsure if this would work or not.