Re: Twilight Gamer ( Twilight / The Gamer )

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A split second later, the observe skill was used and the corresponding holographic screen appeared in his vision, floating there before him in the air, standing against the gruesome background.

[ Observe Skill has been used. ]

[ Analysing Opponent. ]

[ Opponent Analysis as completed. ]

[ Name: Crimson Slime ] [ Level 10 ]

[ Health Points: Infinite ]

[ Stamina Points: Infinite ]

[ Description: A carnivorous slime, a mutation of a green slime after it has first tasted blood and flesh, causing its genetic information to adapt and mutate it into it's current state. It releases an extremely foul rotting odour, has increased speed however consumption of flesh causes it to go into temporary hibernation. ]

[ Current status : Hibernating ]

[ Status Duration : 3 Minutes and thirteen seconds left. ]

Looking over at the information that had appeared before him, Alan felt himself slowly relax just slightly before his eyes hardened once more as his gaze turned towards the rest of the slimes, instantly using Observation on them, one after the other, it didn't take longer than ten seconds for him to have confirmed what he wanted.

'All of them are hibernating at different lengths of time, the one that just finished digestion has a ten minute timer whilst some of the others have been hibernating for a while more, the closest one to waking up… is that.' Alan thought as his gaze moved to the slime that was closest to the ground on his left side, taking the spear in his hand forwards and planting both feet hard onto the ground, widening his stance just slightly, he thrust forward with all the strength that he had.

The sound of the spear parting the air was heard as it was thrust towards the crimson slime, for a moment, it went well, until it finally hit the gelatinous body of the slime and that's when the first problem appeared.

'This damned thing.' Alan thought as the speed of the thrust was drastically increased, to the point where just before the tip of the spear reached the glass core inside of the monster, it fully stopped.

'Fuck, fuck, FUCK!' Alan thought as he tried to forcefully remove the spear and yet he couldn't even pull it out anymore, after a few more tries, he slowly relaxed his arms and just as he did so. He found his next discovery.

The spear… now that he wasn't trying to forcefully move it through the gelatinous slime so quickly, it was actually moving.

'Does it… meant that… I learned about this before… its a non-Newtonian fluid… or atleast some kind of variation of it, or something similar to it.' Alan thought as he slowly moved the spear tip further and further until it finally hit the glass core in the center of the slime body, at that point, Alan once more used all of his strength to push as much as he could.

The spear didn't move much, as the liquid substance instantly hardened however the force applied was enough that the spear tip that was currently touching the glass core, could shatter it.

*Shatter*

In an instant, the entire crimson slime body lost all shape as it fell down onto the ground before quickly transforming into red motes of light that floated up into the air before fully disappearing a few seconds later.

[ Ding! ]

[ User has defeated Crimson Slime ]

[ User has gained 500 Experience Points. ]

[ User has looted 10 Silver Coins. ]

'Ten… ten times the rewards.' Alan thought to himself in shock before he slowly turned his gaze towards the rest of the slimes on the wall.

Now that he had atleast defeated one of them, the fear that had been coursing through his body quickly changed into pure anger and hatred, he had been terrified out of his wits, he had been shaking, and the thing died, just like that, just like any other slime.

'This… this stupid fucking mother fucker. It's the smell, and the sight of them… that was the problem, these fuckers never were some kind of insane monsters, they just had that effect on me because of the image they portrayed, their like those god damned animals that try to imitate posinous species. But now… now im going to farm you… im going to make you all into my own fodder and nourishment.' Alan thought to himself as he gripped his spear tighter before walking towards the next slime, the one that was now the closest to waking up from hibernation, he simply lifted the spear tip towards its body and slowly pushed it until the tip reached the glass core inside and then gave it a rough shake, causing it to shatter and the slime monster to drop down onto the ground instantly.

[ Ding! ]
[ User has defeated Crimson Slime. ]

[ User has gained 500 experience Points. ]

Slowly, Alan's expression changed, more and more as his lips curled up further and further, to the point where his tense expression fully changed into a wide toothy smile that almost appeared unhinged.

It didn't take long, not at all.

[ Ding! ]

[ Ding! ]

[ Ding! ]

[ Ding! ]

[ Ding! ]

A mere minute and a half later, he had already defeated seven of the eight crimson slimes, that left the only one, one that he couldn't reach.

The slime had crawled up too far up the wall and thus couldn't be reached at all even with the long range of his spear.

'Though… if I was an archer or some other kind of long range projectile user… these things would have undoubtedly been a horror to fight, arrows likely wouldn't even pierce them because of how kinetic energy works inside their gelatine.' Alan thought to himself as he curiously used his mana perception skill.

He still had to wait for more than two minutes before the slime left hibernation after all.

[ Mana Perception has been activated. ]

As soon as the mana perception skill was used, the slimes mana coating came into his view, it was a deep dark red with some small sickly yellow spots here and there.

'Two colours? I've never seen that before… is it because of the mutation?' Alan thought to himself curiously as he watched the slime more closely and soon noticed the reason.

The yellow spots were vanishing one after the other as the timer to the completion of the hibernation counted down.

'The yellow spots are the mana of the thing that it's digesting… but a regular human doesn't have yellow mana… So what exactly was it digesting?' Alan thought curiously to himself as he watched the sickly yellow mana get slowly but surely converted into the slime's own dark crimson mana.

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'No real way to know… at least not for now, maybe some kind of possessed human? Or some kind of sickness… I'm unsure, I'll have to actually find one of these humans that it's digesting before they're… well being digested if I want to find out.' Alan thought to himself with a sigh as he took a couple steps back just in case the slime woke up abruptly and decided that the first thing it wanted to do was jump straight onto Alan's face.



As the image of the gelatine going over his face appeared, Alan's expression changed to one of pure disgust and apprehension as he realised that was one of the deadliest ways that one of these slimes could actually deal with him.



'With the fact that I can't use force on them or their bodies harden… It would take more than enough time for it to start devouring me, my eyes, eyelids, and even getting inside of my own body through my orifices and reach inside to get to soft tissue that it would likely digest in a flash.' Alan thought to himself as he shivered slightly at the thought of feeling the gelatinous and viscous substance slowly going down his throat whilst it ate him from the inside out.



It was at that moment however as he was remaining completely guarded that the timer finally came down to a zero, the slime was about to awaken from hibernation.



Alan wasn't anywhere near as scared as he was before about the slimes however that didn't mean that he wasn't guarded, no, he had never once let his guard down throughout the entire time when he was killing the seven other slimes, as much as he saw how easy it had been to defeat the slimes, he had only done so whilst they were hibernating and not whilst they had been awake.



[ Status: Hibernation ]



[ Status Duration: 3 Seconds. ]



[ Status Duration: 2 Seconds. ]



[ Status Duration: 1 Second. ]



[ Status: Clear. ]



As soon as the status changed from hibernation to clear, the slime that had been stuck high up on the ball moved, and it seemed to have immediately sensed Alan who was below it.



Without waiting for a single second, the thing launched its entire body towards the ground, right at where Alan was currently standing.



'I fucking knew it.' Alan thought as he smiled, he had already anticipated this and had planned right before the slime had fully gone out of hibernation.



Standing right where he was, thrust onto the ground was an object, more specifically a weapon, another combat spear that he had thrust into the ground.



Because this alley had a much faster deteriorating speed than the others, the ground had already gone from concrete down to gravel and thus it allowed him to stick the bottom of the spear inside of it.



The slimes, as he had tested beforehand on the green slimes, didn't exactly know the location of objects, they could sense humans and other living organisms somehow and yet they couldn't sense or see inanimate objects. And Alan was banking on that aspect to work on the crimson slimes.



Instantly jumping backwards, Alan saw the slime heading directly down towards the spear, where Alan had been just standing a single moment before, and as the slimes couldn't fly and neither could they glide through the air, it couldn't change it's direction mid jump.



*Thwack*



With the sound of iron hitting iron, the crimson slime landed on the tip of the spear, it didn't suffer any real damage as the spear couldn't pierce through it much because of the gelatin, however as it stopped its movement, the spear started going inside, slowly but surely until it reached the glass core.



Without someone adding a shock, it wouldn't be able to destroy it however, but Alan had already thought of that already, as a wide smile appeared on his face as he looked down at his hand.



There it was, a thin rope that was connected to the middle section of the spear.



Tightening the rope once more against his fist, Alan moved his arm back with his entire strength, pulling onto the spear with it and causing it to shake, just enough that the glass core inside of the Crimson slime was hit by it and thus promptly shattered.



*Shatter* *Shcluurrp*



With the sound of jelly losing form, the crimson slime fell down onto the ground, losing its previous viscosity and rigidity completely and practically turning into watery gooey liquid that quickly transformed and disintegrated into red motes of light that floated up into the air.



[ Ding! ]



[ User has defeated Crimson Slime. ]



[ User has gained 500 Experience Points! ]



[ User has looted 10 Silver Coins! ]



'Alright… with that, all eight of these fuckers are gone.' Alan thought to himself as he walked towards the spear that he had thrust onto the ground for his trap and then pulled it out before opening his system inventory and storing both the combat spear aswell as the rope he had used into it, his hand disappearing inside the holographic screen for a moment with the items in his hand before appearing once more in reality without them.



Closing the system inventory screen, Alan turned his gaze to look further inside the alley.



'The difference between the green slimes and this… it was around five levels, so, does that mean that each alley has that difference? I'll head out after I reach level fifteen inside of here and then go and check the next alley… hopefully… this will go faster now, if this theory is correct at least.' Alan thought to himself as he released a soft sigh and slowly started walking further and further into the darkness of the alley, further away from the main tokyo road and deeper into the alley that was quickly turning more cavelike than street-like.



'And hopefully… I'll be able to find out what exactly… is happening with these human body parts.' Alan thought as he disappeared into the darkness.


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It was tomorrow morning, the sunlight was filtered through the dark heavy clouds of Forks, the roads were starting to see cars moving around as people headed to their own workplaces, or to their school.



Driving towards Fork's Highschool inside a silver volvo, were the Cullen family, Alice Cullen, Emmet Cullen, Jasper Hale and Rosalie Hale.



The Cullens usually took two cars, a red jeep as well as the volvo however since Edward wasn't around, they didn't see the need to.



Inside the car, Alice was practically jumping on her seat, unable to hide her excitement for the day, meanwhile Jasper who was seated next to her on the car's backseats, looked like he was so very close to having a full blown migraine.



"Alice… can you calm down?" He asked softly with that southern drawl to his voice as he turned his head slightly towards her.



"Oh, right. Sorry Jazz, It's just that I'm totally going to make him spend more time with me today and then I'm gonna make him go shopping with me after school and maybe even like go to…" Alice said as she started practically rambling her mouth of at the hundreds of ideas that she had about her day, causing Jasper to raise his hand up, his palm facing her.

"Stop… we get it, I shouldn't have even said anything." Jasper muttered softly as he released a sigh and turned his head to gaze out of the window.



"It's weird though, I had this really bad premotion last night, it's why im a bit frantic right now. I didn't see any visions… but it's just a bad feeling. I'm sure its nothing." Alice muttered under her breath as her excitement slowly dwindled as she turned her own head to gaze out of the window on her side of the car.



"Bad premotion? You? That… let's just hope it's nothing." Jasper replied softly, he and the other two had heard Alice speak clearly even though her voice had been barely a murmur under her breath.



Around twenty minutes later, the four of them arrived before the parking lot as Emmet drove the car inside and parked it at their usual spot before turning the engine off as the four of them got out of the car.



Bella Swan seemed to have arrived before they had, as she could be seen standing by her orange truck on the other side of the highschool parking lot.



"That's Bella right? Edward's blood singer, she's early today." Emmet muttered as he gazed towards her, he wasn't one to usually care about anyone besides his own family and so he hadn't really bothered to even learn much about the girl, and Edward himself hadn't said much before he had decided to simply head to Alaska at the denali to deal with his own bloody urges.



This was the complete opposite of Alice who had rambled her mouth off so much that every single Cullen, Carlisle and Esme included already knew even the smell of Alan's hair, his exact eye colour, how apparently his voice was sent by the heavens themselves just for Alice and a lot more frankly quite useless information that they had been forced to hear because Alice couldn't simply shut her mouth for a single second.



"He's a bit late isn't he?" Alice muttered softly to herself as she looked around and yet she couldn't see Alan anywhere.



"Maybe he just overslept? You worry too much." Emmet said as he stretched his arms behind his back, making his already large figure look even more gigantic.



"I… don't know, maybe? I mean he did miss first class like two times just this past week. I'll stay here." Alice said in turn as she turned her gaze towards the entrance of the parking lot where the students who came on foot would enter from.



"You're seriously going to skip for a human?" Rosalie finally spoke up, her tone cold as ice as she narrowed her eyes towards Alice, her gaze seeming to almost pierce into her.



"Yes, I am. It's not like we are actually learning anything are we?" Alice replied instantly.



The two step sisters had been fighting and making comments about eachother ever since the day when Carlisle had given Alice the go about Alan, Rosalie didn't particularly hate Alan, she simply hated the fact that a human was getting involved into matters that they had no place in. Alice knew this, she knew that Rosalie hated her own existence and that Rosalie wished no one else had to ever suffer the same fate as she had.



Alice however had no such problems, to her, her existence as a vampire, as a cold one, was natural, as someone who didn't have the memories of her human self, being a 'Cold One' was simply her base state, her 'normal.' And so she didn't see the reason as to why Rosalie was so against her getting Alan entangled with their world.



Minutes passed and soon enough the bell signaling the start of the classes rang, as Jasper and Emmet gave Alice a nod of understanding before turning to head towards the front entrance of the highschool whilst Rosalie remained behind for a bit longer.



"Alice… you're making a mistake, you're going to put all of us in danger, all of us. Is a human… even if he's really special to you… worth losing the entire family? The Volturi always thought of us as a thorn to their side, they just need a single excuse…" Rosalie muttered softly towards Alice, her voice calmer and softer than the previous icy tone that she had used all week.



"I know… I know Rosalie, but to me… he's already the one for me, It's already been decided before I ever even met him. He… already holds the same importance as the rest of us." Alice replied, her own tone softer than before, as she tried to explain just what she felt, hoping for at least a little understanding from Rosalie.



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Soon after, Rosalie similarly walked away from her after exchanging another look before walking away towards the front doors of the Forks Highschool.



Alice remained alone as she watched the front gates of the highschool, waiting there, waiting for the one person who had been able to somehow bring colour into her world without even trying. Waiting for the one that had completely filled her thoughts over the past few days.



Minutes passed into an hour, the sky darkening further as the clouds rumbled overhead, light drops of rain starting to hit the pavement and yet Alan Walker was nowhere to be seen.



'Please… please.' Alice thought to herself as her desperation slowly started to show, her usually amber eyes having already darkened into a pitch black colour, leaving her eyes almost pupiless as the colours reached almost the same pitch black darkness, both the iris and the pupil inside the eyes.



More time passed and the rain started increasing in intesinity to a full blown downpour as Alice stood there, in the parking lot, she was entirely drenched in water by this point and yet she refused to move even a single inch.



Her body already cold, somehow becoming even colder, meanwhile her eyes that before had slightly showed her desperation, were now almost fully wide, it was like an animal that was on full alert, and yet the alert it was waiting for, wasn't coming.



'I… I can't take this anymore.' Alice thought as she turned and in an instant, her body became a blur as she vanished from the parking lot.



She knew that she shouldn't do this, she knew that it was likely that Alan was simply skipping school, that maybe he had simply overslept more than usual, she knew that she shouldn't head to someones house just for them being late an hour and a half and yet she couldn't stop herself.



Every instinct of hers was telling her, screaming at her that something wasn't quite right.



It didn't take her long, in fact it merely took two minutes to reach Alan's apartment, what took Alan almost half an hour, merely took her a few minutes, the speed was blinding, it was a level at which regular people and even most supernatural creatures could never hope to achieve.



She finally stopped as she arrived to stand before the apartment building and looked upwards, without hesitating even a second longer, she jumped as she quickly started climbing up the side of the building easily until she reached Alan's apartment floor and peered inside through the window.



Everything… looked normal, too normal. There was nothing wrong, the bed was made and no one was inside, the front door was also locked and the key wasn't inside, so it was clear that Alan had either left or hadn't come home, but everything was pointing that he had already left, and she currently didn't have anything to go off of that would make her believe otherwise.



'Was I over-reacting? Maybe he just went somewhere with those kids… damned, and I told him that he shouldn't go and do drugs… haah… I'll have to get Carlisle to get Charlie or someone and imprison them, I can't have them corrupting MY mate.' Alice thought to herself as she almost released a feral growl at the mere thought of someone else stealing 'her' time with Alan before she shook her head to clear her thoughts for a slight moment and then she jumped down towards the ground, from a multiple story high positon and onto the ground.



And yet she didn't make a single noise once she landed onto the ground, as if she was lighter than a feather, before she turned around and vanished in another blur of speed.



Meanwhile, inside of Alan's apartment… the scene that could be seen from outside the window abruptly changed as the clean apartment… vanished into one that looked almost completely ransacked and ran through.



The three corpses of Jeannie, Adrian and John could be seen on the floor, the smell of rot already permeating the air, meanwhile the black haired, blue eyed, beautiful man was sitting on Alan's bed, his gaze directed towards the window as a soft smile slowly appeared on his face.



"Alan… oh Alan, you just keep getting more and more fascinating, A vampire mate… how… utterly beautiful. It just makes me want you… so much more." The man muttered in that soft posh voice to himself before releasing a soft chuckle and closing his eyes and taking a deep breath of air.



"Aahh~... the smell, it's getting quite nice. A bit more and it'll be simply excuqisite… I wonder If you'll appreciate my… welcome home gift. Alan Walker." The man muttered to himself as the smile slowly started widening.



Hours kept passing, the downpour of rain stopping a few hours later, the sun having already reached its peak although as always it was completely hidden from sight by the dense clouds that were as always present on Fork's skyline.



Alice had gone back to the highschool and started attending her classes… and yet even as the second portion of classes started after the lunch period, even after the sun started to slowly descend, Alan… didn't arrive at all.



'That… I'll have to teach him a good lessson…. If only he wasn't so easily manipulated by pieces of…' Alice thought to herself obliviously whilst she was in her Art class, her hand holding the pencil so tightly that cracks had spread all over it, and yet she didn't notice at all.



*Crack* *Bang*



The pencil finally cracked enough that it exploded in her hand, sending small splinters and small chunks of wood flying, and yet she still… didn't even lift her head, whilst her classmates that were seated at desks closeby to hers turned their heads and looked at her with pure shock and confusion.



Alice was known to be… quite a weirdo if anyone had anything to say about her, but she wasn't known to be aggressive or an angry person at all, the current her left everyone befuddled, it was a sight none of them had ever seen on the pixie woman.



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Hours continued to pass, the moon rising up into the sky and then slowly falling back down again, It was now friday, and yet Alan Walker was nowhere to be seen. The man however waited, he waited patiently, having not once even moved away from his spot on the bed, that same smile ever present on his face as he simply gazed at the window out of the apartment room… and waited.



Alice meanwhile had already gone back to the Cullen mansion, and as the next came came, she once more arrived at the Fork's highschool early in the morning, and then she waited… once more, she waited by the parking lot, the first class hour passing, the second and third quickly following and yet she refused to move from her position at the front of the parking lot.



Waiting for that familiar figure to walk through the front gates of the school… and yet it never came.



Finally, lunch period arrived, and Rosalie Hale, Jasper Hale and Emmet Cullen, walked towards her.



"Alice… you should go home, we'll help you find him later, even get Carlisle to check and maybe file a police report if no one has seen him. I asked around, and no one's seen the three that he hung around with either." Jasper Hale said softly with that southern voice as he softly placed a palm on her shoulder, he was using his gift to the maximum of his capabilities and yet he could barely hold her back.



He could sense it, Alice… Alice was really close to practically going feral. It was an emotional range that he had never seen from the woman, something he couldn't even believe until now that she was capable of feeling.



Alice didn't turn her head, her gaze still fixed onto the road outside the school parking lot, her body stiff as rock and cold as ice.



"Alice… You can't be here with how you are at the moment… you could put humans at danger." Rosalie said softly as she walked closer to her, even she, who would have usually been glad that Alan wasn't coming around, knew that she couldn't push, not when her sister looked ready enough to rip someone apart with her bare hands, and the fact that she could actually do it, didn't help the matter at hand at all.



Finally, at her voice, Alice's eyes narrowed slightly before she nodded and started walking towards the road and out of the school grounds, she didn't vanish in a blur of speed, she didn't take the car, she simply walked out, at normal human speeds.



The three others were left there standing watching her walk away, knowing that they had to find a solution, before Alice decided to take matters truly into her own hands, and that could cause potentially catastrophic outcomes. None of them knew what an enraged and utterly feral Alice would be capable of, and none of them wanted to find out or let the matter get that far.



"Call Carlisle, right now." Emmet muttered under his breath as he turned towards the other two.

Jasper nodded in an instant as he took his phone out of his pocket and brought it to his ear.

*Ring* * Ring* * Ring*



The phone rang three times before Carlisle picked it up, he was in his office at the Forks Hospital, checking over some medical documents when he had recieved the call.



"Alice, she's not well. Her 'mate' Alan Walker hasn't been to school yesterday or today, and neither have his friends." Jasper said simply, he didn't need to explain anything further than that, Carlisle would understand the gravity of the matter instantly, they weren't ones to usually call each other unless it was an extreme circumstance, and currently… it seemed like one.



Meanwhile inside a completely different dimension, a certain boy could be seen sitting on a large rock inside what appeared to be some kind of cave, he was almost entirely covered in leather gear, besides his head, on which he had a pair of black nightvision goggles and a gas mask.



He seemed to be staring at the air infront of him, if someone was able to see his eyes inside the night vision goggles they would notice them swervering side to side… as if he was reading something on the air itself.



All around him, the cavernous area was covered in what looked like yellow and purple viscous slimy liquid that was splattered all over the floor and walls.



'Finally… not much time left now… just a bit more.' Alan thought to himself as he read a certain line in his status menu, his expression under the gas mask slowly changing into a wide almost unhinged grin of pure excitement.



[ Status Menu ]



[ Name: Alan Walker. ]



[ Age: 18 ]



[ Race: 88% Human, 12% Elf ]



[ Level: 28 ]



'I hope… that this is enough… I could go all the way to fifty… but with this much, with atleast level thirty… I should be able to survive an encounter long enough that… I'll be able to atleast get back inside the dungeon. Otherwise… if the gap is truly that large… twenty more levels… won't really effect it much, and the truth is… that I'll have to leave this dungeon if I want to join the next one whenever its unlocked.' Alan thought to himself as he released a soft sigh, his excitement dampening slightly as he rose up from his seated position and gazed at the splatters of the remains of the slimes that he had killed which were quickly disintegrating into small motes of light and floating up into the air and vanishing out of existence.

'These guys… were quite annoying to fight.' Alan thought as he remembered the battles that he had done for the past few days inside of the dungeon. Just as he had suspected, every five levels, he could go and enter a different alley without it being too dangerous, and every alley either had a larger number of the same type of slimes as the alley before it, or it had a smaller quantity of slimes but a stronger more mutated version.



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A few hours earlier…



Walking out of a dark alley and back onto the main tokyo street, Alan looked around before releasing a soft sigh of pure exhaustion as he started heading down the street.



'Groups of red slimes, a minimum of five of them each time, and not all of them were hibernating… not hard… just had to be on guard constantly… damned, I really wish that I could sleep.' Alan thought to himself as he walked further down the street.



Ever since entering the system dungeon, he hadn't slept a single time and he was quite sure that it had been over twenty four hours already and yet he was still stuck in here, still fighting constantly to the point where he felt like he was some kind of low wage slave inside of a black company in a third world country.



'No… they likely sleep atleast a little bit just so they can survive… fuck… I can't complain, can't complain… I already complain a lot… god damn it, I have a reason to complain.' Alan thought to himself as he released a long tired sigh and kept walking until he finally arrived to stand before another alley.



This was the supposed… level twenty alley, or atleast he thought it was, he still wasn't sure that his information and theory about the alley's was completely correct however considering the past four alley's had followed the same logic, he assumed that It wouldn't change.



'Just a new slime… it's just a new slime that likely has different attributes and is also much more annoying to fight… can't they atleast be something…. Nope, yeah let's just always stick to slimes, I'll take slimes over zombies or dragons or whatever the fuck else.' Alan though as he entered the alley, his hand frimly gripping the spear at his side as he walked further and further into the darkness.



Just like in the other alleys, he quickly noticed that the rate of deterioration had increased multiple fold, it didn't even take more than a few meters for the entire walls to start getting cracked and have moss all over them, as if the buildings had stood there for hundreds of years already.



Walking further and further inside, the scenery changing quickly from an urban back alley into what could only be called a small passage through two broken stone walls that were utterly covered in all kinds of plants that he didn't recognise at all and had never seen in person in the real world.



'A yellow… flower?' He thought as he turned his head slightly and gazed at the yellow almost shining flower next to him, located slightly above his head on the left wall.



It looked like some kind of rose or at least a variation of it.



Alan lifted his hand slowly towards the flower before stopping as he brought his hand back down to his side.



'Yeah… that's how every dumb protagonist dies in a horror movie, it's a damn flower that's shining and I was just about to touch it. Intelligence ten my ass.' He thought before using his observation skill.



[ Observation Skill has been activated ]



[ Analysis of the target in progress. ]



[ Analysis Complete. ]



[ Name: Screaming Yellow Rose. ]



[ Age: 132 Years and 3 Months Old. ]



[ Description: It is said these flowers once crowned wedding ceremonies, symbols of union and joy. But after a nameless catastrophe, an untold time ago, something changed, something seeped into their petals and their roots, changing them. They drank in the souls of the newlyweds, binding them within them. Now, at intervals no one can predict and caused by sometimes a mere touch, the flowers tremble and release the muffled, agonized screams of those condemned to remain trapped inside them forever. ]



*Gulp*



'Aaanndd… yeah, I am not touchin the creepy flowers.' Alan thought almost instantly as soon as he read the description that the system had given them.



'Though… I wonder just what that catastrophe was? What happened that caused these flowers to mutate… is it just a vague description about them, something more like a myth, that doesn't actually mean anything or are there really any souls inside them. And the description is written as if this is a myth or a legend… and in that case, who created it? What group of people believed in these stories and myths?' He thought as he pondered and yet he couldn't come up with any kind of explanation and as such, he shook his head, clearing his thoughts once more as he tried to remain as vigilant as possible.



Turning his head forwards once more, he continued walking down the alley, the amount of flowers slowly but surely increasing every couple of meters as he went inside deeper and deeper.



And that's when he saw it, or rather he heard it before he saw it.



A shining yellow slime that was stuck on the wall further down the alley, on the right side of the wall, currently attempting to digest one of the special shining flowers inside of its stomach.



That wasn't the only thing however, it seemed the flowers were as said in the description, screaming, the muffled screaming sounds coming out of them even as they were being digested inside the slime's body were loud and shrill, and utterly impossibly horrid, it was as if a human was being tortured right before him, as if someone was taking a peeler and skinning a humans skin off, atleast that's what Alan thought, he had never once in his life heard any screams that sounded as agonising and terrifyingly horrid as the one he was currently hearing.



Raising his one free arm that wasn't holding the spear, he brought it to his ear, as he felt a small headache already forming simply from the screaming that was occurring infront of him.



Thankfully, it didn't seem to last long as the flower was fully digested by the shining yellow slime and the harrowing screams came to an end.

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'Observe' Alan thought instantly as he quickly used his skill as he gazed at the shining yellow slime that was now slowly sliding down the wall and onto the gravelly ground.



[ Observe Skill has been used! ]



[ Analysing target. ]



[ Target has been successfully analysed. ]



[ Name: Slime ( Yellow Rose Mutation ) ]



[ Health Points: Infinite ]



[ Stamina Points: Infinite ]



[ Description: A green slime that has mutated into it's current state after continuous consumption of 'Screaming Yellow Rose'. The mutation is highly unstable. ]



'An unstable mutation? What does that even mean? Like is it just going to explode randomly?' Alan thought to himself in confusion as he slowly lifted his spear higher and slowly went into position as he started walking slowly towards the shining yellow monstrosity infront of him.



Thankfully because of the neon brightness of the slime, the black glass core at it's center was clearly visible, something that he had sometimes struggled to find whilst battling the dark crimson slimes especially before he had gotten his night vision goggles.



*Fsshh*



Thrusting his spear forwards, towards the yellow slime at as much speed as he could, Alan narrowed his eyes in pure concentration, he didn't know if these slimes would have some kind of special characteristic like the crimson slimes, but he expected it atleast and this he was waiting for any surprises.



And indeed, just as he had thought, the yellow slimes did have something special about them… just like their food, the slimes themselves screamed.



"Aaaahhhhh Saveee meee!" The slime screamed, its voice disturbingly human, disturbingly harrow and agonising sounding, and more importantly at such a loud volume and high pitch that it didnt take more than a few seconds before both of Alan's ears were bleeding, however he didn't stop, he couldn't stop the spear thrust now, or he knew that it would all be over, he wouldn't be able to aim and get in a good enough position again with this screaming going on, and he would end up inside the damned things belly, that much he was sure of.



*Shatter*



With the clear sound of glass shattering, the slime lost form instantly and then screaming stopped just as abruptly as the dark alost pitch black alley returned to almost absolute silence once more.



The only sound being heard was the deep breaths that Alan was taking aswell as the small plinking sound of the blood coming out of his ears dropping down in droplets to the ground.



'Fuck… fuck.' Alan thought as his body swayed side to side before he fell onto his ass, his entire equilibrum system was gone, it had been severely damaged alongside his ears and thus he had lost his footing completley, the spear falling to the ground next to the sickly yellow goo that was slowly but surely disintegrating into yellow particles of light that floated up in the air.



'Need… to get up and get out of here.' Alan thought as panic started creeping it's head up from the depths of his mind.



Putting his hands onto the ground, he tried lifting himself up, and he managed to… for a few split seconds before vertigo hit him as he fell down onto the ground once more.



Gritting his teeth hard enough that they almost cracked, Alan felt like releasing a scream of pure rage, and yet he couldn't even do that, he couldn't risk attracting anything else to his current position, not with how he currently was.



'It damaged my equilibrium system… in the ear… fuck… and I'm not even that close to a level up.' Alan thought to himself as he slowly crawled to one side of the alley and put his back against the wall as he closed his eyes for a brief moment before taking one long deep breath, holding it in for a few moments before releasing it out once more, as slowly as he could.



The process continued for almost an entire minute as he slowly but surely managed his own panic and cleared his mind, it was one of the most important things to do, panic was even more dangerous in these kinds of situations than the wound itself sometimes was. If he made a mistake, he could potentially just bring himself an even earlier death.



It was at that moment as he fully calmed himself down, that an Idea hit him, an Idea about using something that he had almost completely forgotten even existed, it was something that the system had offered him and yet he had considered it practically useless.



But now… now, it could be the most useful thing in his entire arsenal.



Snapping his eyes open, Alan didn't hesitate even for a single second as he opened the shop.



'System shop' He thought and instantly after, a blue holographic system screen appeared right before his eyes, floating there before him on thin air.



[ System Shop ] [ Level 2 ]



[ Equipment. ]



[ Items ]



[ Potions. ]



'God damned, potions.' Alan thought as he instantly thought of opening the potion category and the system, reading his thoughts instantly responded, if not even faster than he had voiced out his own thought inside his mind.



And there it was, the only potion that he actually needed, the only one that he now realised if it worked as he thought… would be extremely useful atleast in times like these.



[ Low Quality Potion of Healing ] [ Level 2 ] [ 10 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Description : Heals 5% of the User's total Health pool ]



'Five percent of my total healthpool, if I take my entire body as one hundred percent, then my vital spots obviously are the ones that take the most percentages, with the brain and heart taking the most percentage compared to the rest… however the equilibrium system whilst extremely useful… it isn't vital… that should mean that…' Alan thought as he lifted his hand slowly and pressed the buy button with his index finger.



A single moment later, green motes of light appeared out of the holographic screen and started gathering in his hand.



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As the green motes of light gathered in his hand, slowly converging upon one another as an object was formed.



Finally, a few seconds later after the motes of light had dissipated, the item sat on the palm of his hand, its style closely resembled a potion flask from some kind of roleplaying game, it had a slim thin tube top that expanded at the bottom to hold all the liquid.



The liquid inside was almost fully transparent with an extremely thin red sheen to it that was barely visible, although currently Alan had no way of checking the colour, he had his night vision goggles on and everything appeared in a green hue to him.



Taking the bottle with both hands, he quickly grabbed the cork that was at the top and took it out, throwing it away as he brought the potion to his mouth and quickly chucked it, swallowing as fast as he could, the liquid had appeared to be like water however it was quite a bit more viscous than it seemed, as he struggled for a moment before finally downing it all in one go.



"Haaaah…"



Alan released a long winded breath as he felt it almost instantly, the effects took place as soon as he had lowered his hand as a slow stinging sensation started at his ear and then quickly spread all over his body, scratches that he hadn't even known he had gotten were being healed at the same time as the damage to his ear was being repaired.



In a mere three seconds, the stinging pain stopped as he slowly raised himself from his seated position near the wall and shook his head lightly and yet he maintained complete balance, the vertigo was gone, his equilibrium was back.



Slowly his expression changed as a grin appeared on his face.



"Guess I was too harsh on the potions huh? Ten silver for one? That's a damn steal." Alan said to himself as he turned to face further down the alley, where he knew many more of the shining yellow slimes would be waiting for him, before he did however… he opened his system shop once more as he quickly located a pair of ear plugs and bought them for three silver and put them on.



'That's much better, though I'll lose the ability to detect the slimes from afar as well as I did previously… It's much better than having my entire equilibrium system broken, that's basically a death sentence in the middle of a fight.' Alan thought as he started walking further down the road.



That had been hours ago. After having continued his hunt of the shining slimes, he had moved on to another alley and now he was here after having defeated a combination of the shining yellow slimes and the newest variation of purple slime.



Getting up from his seated position on the rock, he slowly started moving further down the road until he finally was met with the sight of a group of two yellow slimes aswell as a singular purple slime.

Alan didn't hesitate even for a single moment as he ran directly towards the purple slime, the yellow slimes he had found out were mostly supportive types, and on their own, if someone had already dealt with the sound attack, were frankly quite useless, the mutation had given them a special ability however it had also slowed them down, to the point that without the ability they were almost easier to deal with than the green slimes.



The purple slime meanwhile… that was another deal entirely.



'Observe' Alan thought as he gazed at the purple blob a dozen meters away from him.



[ Observe Skill has been used! ]



[ Analysis is starting on the target! ]



[ Analysis Complete! ]



[ Name: Amethyst Slime ]



[ Health Points: Infinite. ]



[ Stamina Points: Infinite. ]



[ Description: The Amethyst Slime, a green slime that has mutated heavily only managed to reach thirty five percent of its true evolution. It is said that they're absorption and digestion could potentially even destroy steel. ]



In comparison to the green, crimson and yellow slimes, the amethyst slime was on another level of power completely and thankfully it seemed that the system also agreed with it as he had yet to meet a single group of purple, he only every found them in groups of one with other colours surrounding them, almost as if it was acting in a leader position.



'Thirty five percent of its true evolution… does that mean that by the end… I'll be fighting… a perfectly evolved slime? Food for later thoughts.' Alan thought as he jumped over the yellow slime that had gotten infront of him before doing a complete frontflip in the air and gathering as much force as he could and slamming the steel spear straight towards the purple slime's midsection.



*Claangg!*



A loud clanging sound rang, as if steel with steel were hitting together and for a moment the spear stopped completely, it seemed that it would be unable to slice through the slime's gelatinous body, atleast for a moment.



In the very next second, bubbles started appearing where the spear had hit as the viscous gelatine like substance that the slime was made of parted and the spear was able to push through it until it met with the glass core at the center of its body, and just like any of the other slimes, without any real force, it shattered in an instant.



*Shatter*



With the loud cracking sound, the Amethyst slime lost its form completely as it started disintegrating into purple motes of light.



[ Ding! ]



[ User has Defeated Amethys Slime! ]



[ User has gained 50000 Experience Points. ]



[ User has looted 50 Silver Coins. ]



Turning his head towards the two remaining yellow slimes, Alan didn't hesitate for a single second as he brought out two small steel daggers and threw them, both of them somehow hitting their targets perfectly and shattering both of their cores at the same time.



'I don't need perception… If i just get lucky.' Alan thought as a smile slowly appeared on his face.



[ Ding! ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has gained 5000 Experience Points! ]



[ User has gained 5000 Experience Points! ]



[ User has looted 25 Silver Coins x2 ]



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