Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

“Waaah!”

On the violently shaking ground, Yuri, who had just finished dealing with a few adventurers, waved her hands and feet, shouting in surprise at the sudden change.

Crack!

Suddenly, the ground beneath Yuri's feet split open, revealing a bottomless crevice. The surrounding graves also collapsed and fell into the ground. Just as she was about to fall into the crevice, the clothes on Yuri's back began to writhe, and a pair of black wings sprouted directly.

“What's happening?”

In mid-air, Yuri stared with wide eyes at the graveyard below, which had completely turned into a sinkhole. If she hadn't reacted quickly and twisted her soul to grow a pair of wings to fly up, she would have already been buried deep underground.

“Could it be that Master is fighting someone?”

The next moment, Yuri turned her head to look at the cathedral that had completely collapsed into ruins in the center of the sinkhole. Lu Minghao was standing there expressionlessly on top of the cathedral. For some reason, Yuri felt that Lu Minghao was a bit off at this moment, as if he was trying to destroy the evidence.

“I want to know!”

A suicidal thought instantly appeared in Yuri's mind. She really wanted to know, but the moment Lu Minghao turned his head to look at Yuri, Yuri immediately threw this thought to the ground and stomped on it forcefully.

After all, when Lu Minghao looked at her just now, Yuri felt a stinging pain in her head again. Her instinct made her put away this suicidal thought.

“Let's go, Yuri.”

“Yes, Master.”

Lu Minghao's voice came from a distance, and then he flew directly towards the slum where they had come from. Seeing this, Yuri quickly flapped her wings and followed, looking obedient as she followed behind Lu Minghao, not mentioning a word about the graveyard.

Before long, Lu Minghao and Yuri returned to the city wall of E-Rantel. The soldiers on the wall were still drinking and living in a dreamlike state. Even if someone noticed Lu Minghao and Yuri flying over, they quickly lowered their heads, pretending not to see them.

As for stopping Lu Minghao and Yuri, they had no such thoughts at all. As ordinary people, they should act like ordinary people. This is also the wisdom of ordinary people.

“Master, are we going back to the royal capital now?”

After leaving the city wall, Yuri flapped her wings and cautiously asked as she approached Lu Minghao.

“No, there's still one thing to do.”

As he spoke, Lu Minghao lowered his head and looked at the slum below. In the 【King of Evil】's perception, the slum below was filled with all kinds of evil thoughts. At this moment, these evil thoughts were constantly gathering into Lu Minghao's body, becoming a part of him.

“Found it.”

The next moment, Lu Minghao's gaze locked onto a dilapidated warehouse in the slum. There, nearly thirty young boys and girls of different ages were gathered. The few leading ones were the boys that Lu Minghao had seen before.

“Let's do an experiment with you first.”

As he spoke, Lu Minghao flew directly into the warehouse through the broken roof. Below, wisps of smoke were slowly rising. Young boys and girls of different ages were gathered around a rusty pot, in which the food that the boys had bought with the money they had snatched was cooking.

“Can we eat it, Brother Endri?”

In front of the pot, a skinny little boy who looked only seven or eight years old stared intently at the food boiling in the pot, sucking on his finger. He hadn't eaten anything for almost three days. Beside the little boy were several other children who looked about the same age as him, each holding a chipped, broken bowl in front of the pot.

Beside them, the boy called Endri looked at the children in front of him with a smile. His scarred face, which originally looked fierce, now gave people a sense of gentleness.

“Wait a little longer, it will be ready soon.”

As he spoke, Endri carefully took out a small paper packet from his arms. After opening it, he took out a little bit of the yellowed salt and put it in the pot. Then, he stirred it with a spoon and tasted the spoon with a trace of soup in his mouth.

“Brother Endri, is it delicious?”

At this time, the youngest girl in the group, Sona, who was only four years old, ran to Endri's side, raised her small head, and asked with a cute smile on her tender face.

“Sona, you'll know when you taste it yourself.”

As he spoke, Endri filled the spoon again, carefully blew on it to cool it down, and put it to the mouth of the little girl named Sona. Seeing this, Sona quickly stretched out her small hand to grab the spoon, and took small bites from her small mouth.

After taking a few bites, the little girl took the spoon away from her mouth, took small steps, raised the spoon with a little bit of food left in it above her head, and ran to everyone around her, handing the spoon to them so that they could eat together.

After running around, Sona hugged the spoon with at least a little bit of food in it, and sat obediently on a large rock, carefully drinking from it. The other older boys and girls around her smiled as they looked at Sona.

“Okay, it's time to eat.”

Looking at Sona's face full of satisfaction, Endri, who was standing in front of the pot, smiled and patted the children who had been waiting in front of the pot, announcing that it was time to eat.

“Yay, it's time to eat!”

“Brother Endri is awesome!”

Instantly, cheers rang out in the dilapidated warehouse. Starting with the youngest child, they lined up in front of the pot, waiting for Endri to put the hard-earned food into their bowls, and every child who received the food would sweetly thank Endri.

“Is it delicious?”

At this time, Sona, who had been sitting on the rock, licking the food in the spoon with her small tongue, suddenly felt a pair of gentle hands stroking her hair, and then a gentle voice rang in her ear.

“Big brother, do you want to eat?”

Sona raised her head and realized that a handsome but unfamiliar big brother was sitting next to her, looking at her with a gentle smile like the sun on his face.

“Can I?”

Lu Minghao looked at the little girl in front of him, who was holding the spoon full of food in her hands to his mouth. He subconsciously touched her head, and then ate a little bit of the food in the spoon under her expectant gaze.

Opposite him, Sona showed a big smile on her dusty, tender little face after seeing the unfamiliar big brother eat her food. Then, after seeing that Lu Minghao didn't plan to eat any more, she started eating the food in front of her again.

“They really are some strong children.”

Lu Minghao looked at Sona, who was shaking her little head and slowly eating, and the boys and girls around her, each with a satisfied smile on their faces. But the food that made them so satisfied was just a pot of stew made from unknown wild vegetables, wheat bran, and some rat meat.

“Sona!”

At this time, Endri, who had just finished distributing the food to the others, turned his head and saw a stranger sitting next to Sona. Especially when he noticed that Lu Minghao's hand was on Sona's head, Endri instantly became nervous and subconsciously took out his weapon and aimed it at Lu Minghao.

Nearby, the young boys and girls who were eating also noticed the sudden appearance of Lu Minghao. One by one, they quickly took out their weapons and looked at Lu Minghao warily, while a few girls took the younger children and hid behind.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

Ender tightly gripped the weapon in his hand and looked at Lu Minghao, trying to keep his tone as calm as possible, for fear that a wrong tone would cause Lu Minghao to kill Sona.

"He's Yuri's master, but Yuri doesn't know what Master wants to do."

At this moment, Ender, who was staring at Lu Minghao warily, suddenly heard a voice behind him. When he turned his head, he found a girl in a maid outfit squatting in front of the large pot where they were cooking, eating the remaining food with a broken bowl.

"Wait! You were with those adventurers earlier."

When he saw Yuri, Ender instantly recalled seeing Lu Minghao's group passing by in the alley when they ambushed and killed the gangster a while ago. However, at that time, Lu Minghao and Yuri were surrounded by several adventurers.

Ender was able to recall Lu Minghao's identity because of the maid outfit Yuri was wearing. After all, in a place like the slums, it was impossible for someone wearing a maid outfit to appear twice in one day.

"Young man, do you desire power?"

Facing Ender's question, Lu Minghao did not answer. Instead, he raised his head and looked at him, looking at the face that looked only sixteen or seventeen years old but was full of scars, and asked.

".... Who exactly are you!?"

Across from him, Ender stared at Lu Minghao intently after hearing his words, his eyes filled with extreme vigilance. Having grown up in the slums since he was a child, he knew very well that there was no free lunch in this world. Moreover, he once had companions who were deceived by adventurers or mages with such reasons.

When he saw them again, they had already been tortured and experimented on beyond recognition.

"Big brother, are you a bad person?"

At this moment, Sona, who was sitting next to Lu Minghao, raised her head and looked at Lu Minghao curiously with her innocent big eyes. In Sona's simple understanding, she didn't think Lu Minghao was a bad person, because in Sona's young world, the only people she considered bad were those who usually snatched her things and beat her sisters when she and her sisters went out to beg or dig for wild vegetables.

"Strictly speaking, I'm not a bad person, because I'm not a person, but an evil slime."

Looking at the innocent little one beside him, Lu Minghao smiled gently, rubbed her little head, and said slowly. However, Sona, across from him, didn't believe Lu Minghao's words at all, because she had seen slimes, which were round and soft and not evil at all.

"Ender, is that your name?"

Looking at the little one who didn't believe him, Lu Minghao couldn't help but rub her thin cheeks, then raised his head and looked at Ender in front of him and asked. These young boys and girls were Lu Minghao's target for this experiment.

After all, Lu Minghao planned to turn the entire world into his own shape this time. If Lu Minghao were to do it alone, even with his Cataclysmic-level strength, it would be almost impossible to accomplish.

For this reason, Lu Minghao planned to use the passives of his two major talents, [Gluttony] and [Lust], especially the [Gluttony] talent, which had almost become a 'meme' after sublimation. As long as someone knew or understood any information about Lu Minghao.

This information, whether it was memory, words, or knowledge, could become the source of pollution and erosion. Moreover, as long as he relied on this power, Lu Minghao was confident that he could transform and erode everything in the entire world.

At that time, the entire world would become Lu Minghao's shape, and then, with the power of the same source, Lu Minghao could easily devour and suck the entire world to become his nourishment.

"Yes, sir. May I ask what you want?"

Across from him, Ender had no idea what Lu Minghao was thinking at this moment, and just stared at Sona beside Lu Minghao intently. No matter what, he had to save Sona.

"From my observation, if it were just you, you could completely leave this place and live a better life. Why don't you leave?"

As he spoke, Lu Minghao glanced around at everyone in the warehouse. Except for the few young men who had gone out with Ender before, the rest of the people had missing body parts, some were seriously ill, and some were young children with no strength.

It could be said that the thirty or so people in the entire warehouse were completely supported by Ender and the others. Children like Yuna could only go out to find some edible wild vegetables and catch some rats and insects.

"... No matter who you are, this is none of your business. They are all my family, and I will never give up on them!"

Across from him, Ender was silent for a few seconds before looking at Lu Minghao with incomparable determination and saying word by word. He had no parents since he was a child, and grew up with children who had the same experiences in the slums. Now, everyone gathered here had the same experiences as him.

In this desperate world, all they had was each other, and each one was an irreplaceable family member.

"Family... Very good!"

After hearing Ender's answer, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Lu Minghao's mouth. This kind of firm will might be able to give birth to a powerful existence under his power. Lu Minghao was full of desire and anticipation for this unknown.

Moreover, without such a firm will, he was afraid that his heart and soul would be instantly distorted and corrupted after obtaining Lu Minghao's power, and his body would be completely distorted into a gluttonous monster.

"Then, as a reward for satisfying me, I'll give you this."

As he spoke, Lu Minghao raised his hand, and specks of light the size of rice grains floated in the center of his palm. The tiny specks of light danced in Lu Minghao's hand like fireflies, and the brilliant light instantly attracted everyone's attention.

"Big brother, what is this?"

Beside him, Sona looked curiously at the specks of light dancing in Lu Minghao's palm with her big eyes, and subconsciously stretched out a hand to poke at a speck of light. The moment her finger touched the speck of light, it directly integrated into Sona's body.

"Huh? It's gone."

Looking at the disappeared speck of light, Sona quickly put her little hand in front of her eyes and looked carefully, trying to find the disappeared speck of light.

"Sona!"

Across from him, Ender looked at Yuna with a worried expression. He had just seen a speck of light integrate into Sona's finger with his own eyes.

"Don't worry, everyone will have one."

Looking at Ender with a worried face, Lu Minghao waved his hand, and all the specks of light flew out and integrated into the bodies of everyone in the warehouse. After confirming that there were no problems, Lu Minghao directly pulled Yuri, who had returned to his side, and [teleported] back to the royal capital.

The seeds have been sown, and it will take time to witness what kind of fruit will be produced.