Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Squeak, squeak, squeak!

A giant rat, the size of a house cat, emerged from the shadows.

The humid, foul-smelling wind unique to the sewers blew past it, causing its glossy black fur to ripple constantly.

However, the giant rat was completely oblivious to this, diligently raising its head and sniffing.

In the air, the stench of rotting garbage was mixed with a tempting odor.

It was this scent that had lured it all the way here.

Relying on its keen sense of smell, the giant rat quickly spotted an inconspicuous pile of garbage in the corner.

Squeak, squeak!

Confirming the source of the scent, the giant rat eagerly ran towards it.

However, upon reaching the garbage pile, it discovered that the scent was emanating from within.

Due to the obstruction of numerous pieces of garbage, the giant rat was unable to proceed and squeaked anxiously.

In the next second, driven by instinctive desire, the giant rat thrust half of its body into the garbage pile.

Using its sharp teeth and nimble claws, it forcibly pried open a gap.

Smelling the increasingly intense odor within the gap, the giant rat, almost driven to madness, twisted its body and squeezed in bit by bit.

As the giant rat's body gradually disappeared into the garbage pile, the shadows outside began to twist and contort, forming a bizarre face.

The round face slowly split open in the middle, its jagged teeth paired with a gruesome smile, creating an indescribable sense of eeriness.

As a chilling gust of wind howled past, the eerie shadow vanished without a trace.

Meanwhile, inside the garbage pile, the giant rat, completely consumed by madness under the lure of the mysterious scent, disregarded its bloodied claws and continued to forcefully claw away at the garbage in front of it.

When the giant rat finally cleared the last piece of garbage blocking its path, a cave, roughly one meter high and two meters deep, appeared before it.

Inside the cave, a sky-blue slime lay in the center, emitting a faint glow.

Upon closer inspection, it could be seen that the glow was composed of countless points of light, which revolved around the slime's body as the center.

The scent that had driven the giant rat mad emanated from the slime.

Seeing the slime, an overwhelming hunger instantly destroyed the last shred of reason the giant rat possessed, and it lunged towards the slime, its mouth full of fangs wide open.

Crack!

The instant the giant rat bit down, a grating sound rang out, somewhat resembling the clashing of several kitchen knives.

The originally crazed giant rat was now rolling around frantically on the ground, scarlet blood and broken teeth falling from its mouth onto the ground.

"Let's end the new skill test here; after all, I've learned almost everything I need to know at this stage."

At that moment, the giant rat's shadow began to twist and distort, and a slime identical to the one in the cave earlier emerged from the shadows.

However, the only difference was that this slime's body lacked the special effects and the madness-inducing scent.

"Still, this skill is really convenient; it'll make finding prey a lot easier in the future."

As he spoke, the shadows beneath Lu Minghao began to writhe wildly.

The originally formless shadow transformed into a series of jet-black spikes, and at the tip of each spike were tiny barbs, making it necessary to cut off the affected part of the body to remove the spikes after they had pierced an enemy.

"Shadow Kill!"

In the next second, the sharp spikes completely pierced the giant rat's body.

In an instant, the giant rat's body was torn to shreds, and chunks of meat of varying sizes littered the cave.

"Well then, it's time to hunt.

I don't know how long I've been asleep, but Gluttony has long been unbearably hungry."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Minghao's talent panel appeared in his vision.

Name: Lu Minghao

Rank: Lower Demon

Race: Slime

Talent: [Encounter in Another World] (Red): As someone from another world, you possess truly limitless potential.

Ability 1: Plunder the world's origin.

When a certain amount has been accumulated, you can expend the world's origin to travel to other worlds.

Ability 2: Upon traveling to a new world, you will randomly gain a new purple talent.

[Gluttony] (Purple): You possess a bottomless stomach and digestive ability.

Due to your racial characteristics, you can devour both living and inorganic matter, and you will completely absorb the nutrients of what you devour, accelerating your growth and potentially gaining a portion of its abilities.

Ability 1: Bestow Gluttony's endless hunger upon your enemies.

[Slime Constitution] (Blue-White): As a slime, you possess a naturally fluid body and can freely manipulate your body to change shape.

You do not need to breathe or sleep, and you can eat with any part of your body.

You are immune to some weak physical attacks and possess the ability to reproduce asexually.

[Magic Essence] (Blue-White): This is the symbol of a demon's power.

You have taken the first step of evolution.

Although still weak, the ladder of evolution has been opened.

Branch Skill: [Shadow Stealth]: Use magic essence to transform your body's attributes, granting you the ability to move in shadows and control shadows.

[Phantasmal Bait]: Emits an irresistible alluring scent to those weaker than yourself, driving them into madness.

After advancing to a Lower Demon, Lu Minghao gained the 'Phantasmal Bait' ability in addition to the 'Shadow Stealth' he had previously acquired from the giant rat.

This ability allowed him to emit an irresistible lure to demons weaker than himself, driving them to madness.

However, Lu Minghao saw this skill as merely a way to clear cannon fodder and hunt at the current stage.

After all, as a demon's strength increases, their resistance to abnormal states also increases.

Combined with their own skills, this little bit of allure could be completely ignored by powerful demons.

In addition to these two abilities, the [Gluttony] talent had also spawned a new effect as Lu Minghao grew stronger, which was the means by which Lu Minghao had previously subjected the giant rat to endless hunger.

By the way, [Shadow Stealth] and [Phantasmal Bait] were skills born from Lu Minghao's Magic Essence talent, while the ability of Gluttony was completely different, being an effect derived from the [Gluttony] talent.

One is a skill, and the other is a derived effect; the two are completely different entities.

"However, now that the [Slime Constitution] and [Magic Essence] talents are only blue-white, and only a trace of color has been added to the bottom layer, then by this calculation, if I want to completely transform the two talents into blue, I'll at least have to wait until I become an Upper Demon, and if I want to turn them into purple talents like [Gluttony], what stage will I have to reach!"

At this point, Lu Minghao felt a bit of a pain in the ass (meow)...

Oh! That's not right, as a slime, he doesn't have that thing yet, so he can't feel pain even if he wants to.

"Forget it, this at least proves that what the talent panel says about me possessing truly limitless potential is true."

Finally, Lu Minghao raised his head and glanced at the demon name at the top of the talent panel.

He smiled softly, and the talent panel instantly disappeared.

As for the change in the demon name on the talent panel, Lu Minghao didn't feel the slightest bit strange.

Although Lu Minghao called it the talent panel, it was actually his talent, a part of himself.