Kazemitsu

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.

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

As Asura drew himself back from his latest attack a sudden presence on his body made him blink for a moment. A dire rat just landed on him and was starting to attack him. "Cheeky bastard." He growled out, his tone low and agitated. He obviously wasn't afraid of the rat so he reciprocated by "melting" down into a kind of thick puddle. Surging up he made to clap around the rats head as hard as he could.

Hit or miss there'd be a loud wet clap and he'd pull himself back together to send another attack at the dire rat. He wouldn't even bother trying to dodge its attacks, melee against melee he needed the rat close. It was faster than him but it had no safe angles to attack from. Every time it'd go in for a bite or scratch he'd lunge in that direction to slam into its face.

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

Asura was surprised when another system message came up about him doing another skill! His body got more stable as he rolled deeper into the cave away from the cave boss and the goblins bonfire. He rolled around until he was on the other side of the main water source in the cave. His red and orange body was easily seen by anyone looking for him but given he was a slime, could they take him head on?

Once he figured he was safe Asura reverted to his man-blob form, it was much faster and easier now given his new skill. He'd have to try more complex shapes later on when he was actually completely safe. That means the goblins had to go since they were clearly the 'predators' of the cave. But he needed to get something to give him an edge. He couldn't use equipment like goblins could. So he shifted over to a large rock to practice using more force in his attacks.

Asura's mostly liquid body wasn't exactly ideal to use as a weapon. Again he tried to anchor himself with his pseudopods to pull himself into an attack while simultaneously lurching the rest of himself forward. He'd class himself as a warrior tank and all warriors in the video games tended to learn some sort of power attack fairly early on.

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

Asura continued to try and make his only attack more powerful. The anchor worked but he had to figure out how to move his liquid form to make the impact hit at maximum velocity. It was like winding up for a haymaker but also not quite. Humans are roughly seventy-three percent water but they're stupidly solid. This jelly body is hard to work with... He thought as he 'splatted' against the rock again with a liquid thump.

One of the lizards from the mook council approached and gave the slower two a warning that goblins and something bigger was coming. "Stay out of melee range, you lot are squishy." He replied before things got started with the lizards. He looked to the other slime who was still just a blob. "Sink or swim, time to get rolling." He stated before he lost his slime-man form and seemed to turn into blob.

He was already getting good at changing and morphing his body. He wasn't an expert but making and maintaining his blob-man form was good training. Now in blob form he was able to firm up a smidgen but not enough to actually keep a sphere. He's more like a flat tire but still he was able to start rolling away. Just not as fast as he wished but it was faster than the pseudopods and his undulating motions earlier. Despite fleeing he kept an 'eye' on the lizards behind him in case one of them needed assistance from a tank.

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

Asura watched the lizards interact with the still unnamed green slime. They weren't hostile but were in fact welcoming. This didn't make him lower his guard at all, this was how sales people got you before they robbed you of as much as they could. He stayed nearby but he didn't actively move towards the lizards, sole pixie, and the other slime. If he was needed the green one could yell for him. For now he examined himself. He got a new skill, Blunt Resistance 1! Considering most of the enemies in the cave were probably unarmed he imagined not much slashing or piercing being done.

Still as much of a tank as he could be it didn't hurt to get a higher attack capability. He had already attacked before, all he had was his body. He didn't want to copy the green slime, never mind the fact he never was one for ranged combat. Moving over to a rock he thought to himself for a minute. All he could do was shoot out a pseudopod or shift himself in such a way that he used his full mass. He tried going with the second bit. Shifting his liquid self back and keeping an 'anchor' to pull himself forward into the harder hit. This would be so much easier if he had picked goblin, at least they had arms and legs damn it...still maybe he could get something out of this.

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

Asura simply shook his head when the other slime talked about killing goblins with the new move. "Most likely not. Unless you get help." He stated, knowing they could actually use items which probably boosted their 'stats' beyond typical monster capabilities. When Green went to start shooting again Asura leaned into the flight path of the empowered stones. Taking as many hits as he felt he could before retreating out of the way.

A quick shift and a Healing Herb was devoured. Leaving him with eight herbs from his original ten. He wanted to see if one herb would fill his hit points completely when near death. If he wasn't healed to full he'd munch another herb before following after the Green slime. Neither slimes had introduced themselves, but maybe that was to prevent any emotion if one died? For some reason the other slime approached a group of fanged lizards that were doing...something.

The red and orange slime stayed back a bit, keeping a safe distance between himself and the lizards despite one of them acting amiable. It could be a trick, although Asura couldn't really do support given his lack of ranged capabilities.

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

Asura was surprised his slime body could carry so many herbs. His memory of various games always had healing items set to either nine hundred ninety nine, or simply nine. Ten was a good number and since it was held within him and not some backpack or belt pouch he could attack or dodge and eat one when necessary. But since they were plants he knew they wouldn't last forever and it'd take time for them to regrow, so he shouldn't just eat them all willy nilly.

That's why he took as many hits from the rock projectiles as he could before eating how many were necessary to return to full hp. "Can carry ten herbs." He burbled out to the other slime. Unsure if he discovered their carry limit on the plants. A brief blink and he was struck by an empowered shot from the other slime. That one actually hurt a bit, not the typical stinging or dull presence of getting hit. His 'arm' came to rub at the spot where he was struck but he was okay.

"That one hurt..." Asura gargled out. He was kind of curious how a being with no nerves actually felt things. Maybe that was just the magic of this world? If he ever got to the Demon King he'd have to ask. For now though he braced himself to be shot some more.