Race Instinct triggered; Monster Instinct has been raised by 3%. [100%]

Foreign Element: Monster Instinct has been capped at maximum.

You now have 0% resistance towards your carnal desires as a Monster.

Title updated: Monster

Title acquired: Awakened Monster

Passive Skill obtained: Monster Evolution LV1

Passive Skill obtained: Monster Questline LV1 Passive Skill obtained: Slime's Sense World Function #17: Questline has been activated. Quest: Obtain Monster Evolution LV1, has been completed. Experience gained: 100 You have leveled up.

+10 Skill Points

The voice that sounded like Ruler continued to say stuff that I couldn't comprehend.

I also feel something changing inside of me...

But this isn't the time for that!

H-hello?

...

No response...

I can't talk to convey my thoughts without speaking...

I can't let go of this opportunity...

...I know there's something in front of me...

A mist...

Almost like... miasma...

But...strange... I don't feel discomfort when it approaches me...

Instead... It's drawing me closer...

...It smells... like me?

...If only... I could sense something else besides smell...

Keyword detected.

Now showing. Skill description: Slime's Sense

...Eh?

A translucent-blue window popped up inside of my head again.

But it seems smaller this time.

Slime's Sense LV1

[This ability is a passive, and cannot be deactivated with the exception of external interferences.]

Slime's Sense does not consume any MP, but will be disabled when the user reaches lower than 50% of their maximum HP.

While active, the user gains Spatial Awareness and Auditory Awareness equivalent to the current level of Slime's Sense.

[Spatial Perception grants the overall understanding of location of matter in a radius around the user. Radius increases progressively with level.]

[Auditory Perception grants an overall sense of hearing from all sources in a radius around the user. Level of filtering and Radius increases progressively with level.]

This time, I did not make the same mistake as I did when I first came to this world as a slime.

I did not move and continued reading the blue window.

I didn't know what triggered it to close after all. Obtaining any bits of information was important for me.

It was coincidental that I somehow managed to access a part of this weird screen again, but it's the only lead to understanding anything at all in this place.

... I see...

Since I'm a monster, is this a way to compensate for my physical inability to interact with my surroundings...?

It seems like my senses become sharper as I 'level up' too.

Level... up...

...As if, ... this entire situation is a game...

Whoever made this world...

...Is not right in the head...

...

... ...I should be grateful about it for now, at least... ...

Looks like there is indeed a distance limitation for Slime's Sense to be effective...

I'm also beginning to be able to sense my surroundings...

As expected, just rocks,and grass...

I'm probably in a cave...

...Then...

Who is that person... leaking so much miasma...?

As I began sizing up the presence of the newcomer, I could slowly detect another entity right behind him.

...The feeling is slightly different...

There is a weird smell coming from it.

Like blood...

But I could not thoroughly understand who they were until they came closer.

It's probable they reside in this cave... my instincts are telling me so... In that case, I'll wait until they get closer.

As expected, I could perceive that the miasma-like smoke was coming closer and closer.

Although I could not hear or feel how the thing that emitted it looked like initially, I finally got a good grasp when it was a few centimeters away from me.

I began sizing up the entities by their surfaces, so I could finally understand how their body structure looked like.

...But the one emitting the miasma felt... a little strange...

Its anatomy inside was all over the place, but the robe obscured that irregularity so it still retained the look of a humanoid externally...

...It's... It's... not a human...?

Since I can see the insides of people with the awareness I got all of a sudden, it's much clearer to me now...

That entity looks almost like a human with the top half being a very wrinkled person, and the other bottom half held together with an intangible skeletal frame...

This...

...is this a monster like me...?

Just as I began to sense the other entity as well, the monster lifted its right hand which was holding onto a staff with some circular objects attached to its tip.

It startled me greatly with its sudden movement, as I was very sensitive with the newly acquired perception abilities that I had received.

?! What is it doi-

But before I could comprehend its actions, the entity behind the monster crept up quickly in response.

-And stepped on me.

-Eh?

Something that felt like a marble cracked inside of me.

My vision from the awareness passive blacked out.

Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered.

HP loss resisted.

...Immortality...?

Huh...?

Although my awareness was gone, my senses wasn't.

I could feel my slime body getting stepped on again.

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That voice keeps saying that ...I have... immortality...?

Did Ruler actually meant it... when she said she would give me immortality...?

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...

I welcome voices talking to me, but this is getting a little incessant when it's repeating itself without paus-

"-You stupid slut, getting yourself raped like that. You should have seen it coming, dressing so scantily like that every day! Serves you right! Serves you right!"

A number of female students crowded around me in a circle, as they chanted the same words over and over again.

Serves you right!

Serves you right!

Serves you right!

Serves you right!

Serves you righ-

Anomaly detected.

-!!!

Foreign Element ; Monster Instinct has been activated.

Foreign Element: Monster Instinct has been capped at maximum.

Passive Skill obtained: Mental Resistance LV1

The repetition had caused some pretty unpleasant memories to resurface again, but it had triggered yet another set of speech from the inorganic voice.

I didn't have time to take notice of it, as I was still calming my mind.

...But if it's triggering my Immortality repeatedly...

Am I dying over and over again at the moment...?

Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered. Passive Skill ; Immortality triggered.

I wasn't affected by the voice inside of my head as much this time around.

...I don't feel any pain at all... but I feel extremely nauseous...

...Is this what it's like... to become a slime...?

I have no perception of pain... but it's messing up with my bodily senses that I might puke from this...

...Where do I even puke anyway...

...My body is already squashed like a pancake...

...

... It stopped.

...Finally...

Hidden Quest: Receive lethal damage more than 100 times, has been completed. Quest-?

Passive Skill obtained: Abnormal Status Nullification LV1

Experience gained: 100,000

You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up.

+80 Skill Points

You have reached the maximum level capacity for Lesser Cave Slime.

99,200 excess EXP is now stored.

Passive Skill ; Monster Evolution triggered.

Wh-what...?

Everything happened extremely quickly without me getting any proper comprehension from the string of words thrown out inside of my head.

Another window appeared.

[Cave Slime]

A larger and more aggressive species of the Cave Slime. Has 30% increased increased attack, size, reach and health.

Can learn Headbutt and Earth Elemental abilities.

Can Evolve into Greater Cave Slime.

[Choose]

[Lesser Elite Slime]

A more defensive variation of the Slime race. Has 5% increased defense, magic defense and health.

Can assimilate gender of next living creature.

Can learn Slime Guard, consuming a portion of health to raise defense.

Can Evolve into Elite Slime.

[Choose]

Probably becoming disinterested in me as I turned into a motionless puddle of liquid, the two stopped harassing me and began to leave further into the cave.

!!! Ahhh! They're leaving! Those two are leavinggg!!!

Becoming slightly frantic at the departure of my newly-discovered company, I realized that I could not move. It seemed like I could not control my body until I resolved the blue window before me. I quickly skimmed through the details. Evolution...? Is this like... a power up...? ...Attack? Why would I need attack?! Defense, I'll take defense! Lesser Elite Slime has been chosen for Monster Evolution. Monster Evolution has begun. Something began to transform within me, as more pieces of information entered my mind. A few seconds passed by within my impatient mind, as I slowly lost the presence of the two; I was unable to move an inch at this time. AaaaAHHHHHHH HURRY UP!!! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY UP! HURRY U- Monster Evolution into Lesser Elite Slime has been completed. Monster Evolution LV1 has leveled up to Monster Evolution LV2. Slime's Sense LV1 has leveled up to Slime's Sense LV2.

Quest: Complete first Monster Evolution, has been completed. Monster Questline LV1 has leveled up to Monster Questline LV2.

Experience gained: 500

And then, a series of level-ups started again.

You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up. You have leveled up.

Until it said something else finally.

You have learnt Slime Guard LV1.

+100 Skill Points

You have reached the maximum level capacity for Lesser Elite Slime.

98,700 excess EXP is now stored.

Passive Skill ; Monster Evolution triggered.

?!!!

Not AGAINNNNNNNN!!! STOP! STOP! STO-

Another selection window appeared again, and I was once again prompted to choose.

At this point, I could not no longer feel that the two were around anymore.

... ...

I felt like crying.

[Elite Slime]

A larger species of the Cave Slime. Has 50% increased defense, magic defense and health.

Can create lower-grade slimes as summons.

Can Evolve into Greater Elite Slime.

[Choose] [Cancel]

[Queen/King Slime]

The most defensive variation of the Slime race. Has 100% increased defense, magic defense and health, and 100% increase in size.

Can learn abilities of up to 3 Elemental Attributes.

Can further evolve when you have met the hidden requirements.

[Assimilate a Gender to Choose]

I don't even... know what's happening anymore...

...why is one of them blanked out...? ...Assimilate... a gender...?

...Does that mean I'm genderless...?

...

...I'm so confused, can someone explain things to me...

I don't play games, what does 'assimilate gender' even mean?!

Ahhh, ahhh... It's probably impossible to find those two now... my only hopes of people to talk to...

...if I don't even know what is my current situation is right now...

...What is my status exactly...

Keyword detected.

Now showing. Skill description: Status Check

Status Check

Target identity to reveal their Status Window. Non-targeted Status Checks will open the user's own Status Window.

Status Window contains all the information for identification.

Status Windows can be protected and obscured with Status Protection, but will still be unconcealed by a targeted Status Reveal.

...Keyword...

...I see...

...Sense...

...Status...

They were all part of the names of my abilities...

I would praise this system for its convenience... if I had known about it earlier...!!!

...

Status Check.

Name Lesser Elite Slime (Hikari Shinkawa Lestia) Level 20 (98,700 excess EXP is now stored.) Unused SP 190 Rank 2 Race Slime (Pending Evolution) Gender Undetermined (Potential Assimilation.) Occupation Undetermined Alignment Neutral Class Undetermined Health 1/200 Mana 200 Strength 200 Dexterity 200 Luck 2,200 Intelligence 201 Defense 210 (+10) Magic Defense 210 (+10) Equipment Traits Leader, Undeterred Titles Transmigrated One, Miracle of a Goddess, Awakened Monster, Isolated One Passive Skills Partially Intangible LV1, Acidic Body LV1, Immortality, Potential Absorption LV1 [Herbalism Potential], Monster Evolution LV2, Monster Questline LV2, Slime's Sense LV2, Mental Resistance LV1, Abnormal Status Nullification LV1 Active Skills Status Check, Slime Guard Foreign Elements

Monster Instinct [100%], Chaos Serum