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BOOM!
The Goblin Champion fell over the floor, covered in black flames.
These black flames were amazing, they didn't spread around the vegetation and would only affect their target, burning them until they ended in a crisp.
I think I was able to control them and was mildly resistant to them because I was the wielder of the cursed blade, I had touched them several times, but they didn't burned me at all.
And then I realized it… these black flames are more special than I had originally thought.
They actually didn't burned me nor burn plants or anything aside from the target because, much like a curse, they only affect the target I use them against…
I see. This makes it even more powerful… I could use it in many things, but the bad thing is that I can only use it with this blade, conjuring the black flames alone doesn't seem to work.
I felt a large amount of energy reaching me as the part of the souls of all slain goblins were reaching me as EXP… I was seeing a lot of glitched system messages showing numbers of Experience Points… sadly, I cannot level up yet.
I wonder if one day I will be able to finally level up… but that would mean that my Health Points and Mana Points wouldn't be endless as they wouldn't be frozen, and that's not a good thing…
Ah, I think I've thought about this a lot, I should stop reminding myself of it.
The other Goblins were mostly all slain, a few of them had attempted to escape, however, but they were quickly caught by Zack and Aquarina and finished off.
We have somehow made it out, I don't know if I can keep fighting, my entire body felt like it was at its limits, there's not much that a little girl girl body can do.
"Phew… W-We somehow did it on our own…" said Aquarina.
"Yeah…" sighed Zack.
The two were just as exhausted as I was, I could understand their pain, I had the urge of just going to bed and resting there for some hours. I just really want to take a nap…
Naturia and I conjured Life Magic to heal our wounds, I was scratched all over my body and Zack and Aquarian were not any better, Zack even got a slightly deep stab wound on his back, but his muscles blocked it from reaching any lethal area, of course, the wound was still there, so I decided to close it with magic and also disinfect it.
Aside from that, I quickly decided to collect the Magic Crystals out of the corpses of the Goblins, they were too heavy for us to carry them all around but putting the magic crystals in a bag would be easy to do.
"Pyuuu!"
Pyuku had helped on its own too, using its unexpected strength, it ended slaying a bunch of Goblins, it even knew how to use Bow Techniques and more Weapon Techniques, which surprised me greatly.
Because it was a pain to call Pyuku as "it" we all agreed to call it a "him" because it seemed like a boy to us. I don't know if Slimes have genders, but according to my eyes…
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[Blue Slime, Special Variant]
Blue Slimes are genderless beings made of slime similar to amoebas, they're capable of digesting things several times their size and bounce around at rapid speeds, they possess the ability to shape their body and size, and also to move even in the most stretch of places. As long as they have enough energy reserves, regeneration is possible at greater levels, even when most of their body mass has been lost.
Blue Slimes were once a pest in ancient times, but now they had become very rare beings across the Gallatea Continent and in the Demon Continent, they might be highly regarded.
Certain special variants have the power to gain Abilities, Techniques, and Magic Knowledge from the prey they devour, while also strengthening their Magic Crystals.
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That's what the Heavenly Sight was able to tell me, or well, its ability that worked like an Appraisal Artifact. The information I got was pretty great, it felt as if the Goddess of Light herself was giving me info right inside of my head.
Sometimes it gave me a bit of a headache, but most of the time I found all of this very insightful.
And well, it said that special variants could… absorb power from the prey they digested. It appears that Pyuku is not a normal Blue Slime, which are already very rare, but a Special Variant capable of growing stronger by eating!
I explained this to my friends, as they understood his abilities at long last.
"So that's why he got the ability to fight out of the sudden, and he was so obsessed with eating the goblins… Like now, he's eating the entire Goblin Champion's charred corpse…" said Zack.
"Wait, Pyuku, don't eat the Magic Crystal!" said Aquarina.
"Pyuuuu!"
Pyuku got angry that we were pulling him away from his half-digested meal, as I quickly used my knife to carve the chest of the Goblin Champion and extracted a beautiful, purple-colored crystal from it, it was emanating a strong blackish aura too, with a lot of miasma to it…
Pyuku looked at it as if he were drooling, this little crystal was the thing he wanted to eat the most. I guess it is where most of the magical and supernatural powers of monsters are gathered the most… but sorry buddy, this one is my kill, so I get to keep it!
"You can eat the rest of the corpse." I said.
"Pyuu…" Pyuku sighed, as if he had lost his motivation.
But he still devoured the entire thing and gained a glow of magic power over his body, so even corpses without the magic crystal still give some power to him.
We decided to quickly loot the rest of the corpses before any other goblin showed up.
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