Translated by iseuli
Edited by ira
Sli
One of Demon King Great Ron’s failed attempts at the creation of a fairy.
Acidic by nature, this monster takes on a water droplet or ball like form. Their bodies are made of clear jelly like substances and do not have arms or legs. To move, they bounce and slither on the ground like snakes. Their body does not have a concrete form, so those who are not masters of the sword may have great difficulty in defeating these creatures.
The archer and mage’s powers are greatly effective against slis. Fire and ice mages can kill slis within a single second.
Slis are classified as one of the weakest mob monsters.
Slis can consu anything, including many forms of precious tals. The slis, however, may be unable to fully digest precious tals. Often tis, precious ores are dropped upon death.
Favorite foods: Bugs, vegetation, and corpses.
Dislikes: Fire and ice.
Kalgilm read the ‘Monster Encyclopedia,’ over and over.
“Favorites are bugs, vegetation, and corpses.”
‘Slis do like bugs, like I thought. This perfectly describes the Bouncy that I rember. I’ve prepared centipedes, spider mites, nine legged fire ants, and red cockroaches. I especially caught all of Bouncy’s favorites, but why is it not eating?’
Kalgilm never bothered with such things like bugs ever in his life.
In his dragon form, humans, elves, and dwarves appeared similar to bugs. To a dragon, bugs are but microscopic existences. He couldn’t even see them with his naked eye, and never thought they were worth his ti.
Kalgilm only started caring for bugs after Bouncy ca into his life.
He used bugs to reward Bouncy whenever it correctly listened to his commands. It used to eat bugs while shivering with pure joy just two hundred years ago.
Two hundred years felt like an afternoon nap to Kalgilm, but to a sli it had been a very long period of ti. He was trying to catch as many bugs as he could to properly reward Bouncy for its two hundred years of hard work.
He stuck his head on the dirt floor while catching the bugs even though he was a prideful dragon. How could Bouncy refuse to even eat one bug? It was too cold hearted.
Kalgilm kept doubting himself and beca curious whether sli monsters had evolved during the period of ti he had been asleep. The monster encyclopedia he kept automatically renewed itself and after every hibernation, he made sure to update himself on the goings on of the world.
Kalgilm crossed his arms while reading his encyclopedia. He stared at Bouncy, who was bouncing in circles all around him.
“Bouncy, it’s ti for your al. Today, I got so roses for you.”
Bouncy darted to Elkiesel’s call and opened its mouth. Elkiesel fed a rose of just the right size to Bouncy. Its body transford into a pastel pink color as it continued to obediently nibble on the roses happily.
“Yummy?”
Pu-Ring. Pu-Ring!
Bouncy hopped up and down for Elkiesel. Kalgilm’s mood suddenly took a turn for the worse.
‘Why does it enjoy everything Elkiesel feeds it, but refuses to eat anything from ?’
Bouncy was feeling so happy that it began rolling all around the lair.
“Bouncy, stop rolling around, it’s making our master dizzy. Co.” Elkiesel stopped Bouncy from approaching Kalgilm. He knelt down and opened his arms. Bouncy lightly hopped into Elkiesel’s arms. This ti, Elkiesel took out a fresh tea leaf. Bouncy nibbled and its body gradually turned into a light green color.
A sli’s body would change according to what it eats. Therefore, you would just need to see the color of the sli to understand its diet. He wanted to punch Elkiesel who was making Bouncy’s body change into all sorts of colors.
‘It’s eating perfectly fine.’
A black aura began to seep from Kalgilm’s body.
Elkiesel beca incredibly nervous because Kalgilm looked to be in an intensely bad mood upon his awakening, if his black aura was already starting to show up.
‘What’s wrong?’
Nad monsters, sotis called familiars, usually had a difficult ti tending to black dragons because of their temperantal nature. Normally, this wasn’t the case for Elkiesel because Kalgilm found everything and anything too troubleso, to the degree that his laziness was on a whole new level. Even with a black dragon as a master, Elkiesel had absolutely nothing to do.
The lazy master that Elkiesel was so familiar with and taken care of all this ti was giving off a different vibe and it was putting him extrely on edge.
Dragons were naturally aggressive. The world creator made dragons for the sole purpose of protecting this world, and so they naturally loved fighting. They reflexively seek battle, and their dark properties work to intimidate the gods and demons of the world.
Bouncy stiffened feeling dark energy seeping in the air.
“Shhh, Bouncy, it’s okay.”
Elkiesel comforted Bouncy and asked Kalgilm carefully, “Master, is sothing bothering you?”
“No. It’s nothing.”
As a prideful dragon, there was no way he could admit he felt jealous of Elkiesel, a re nad monster. Kalgilm shut his monster encyclopedia.
‘Maybe she hates it because the hardness of the bugs makes the digestion process very long. I should go catch so worms.’
Kalgilm set aside his laziness and left his lair.
Kalgilm’s territory was vast. It included the Adarune Mountain Kingdom of the dark elves who reside in the Oaktree Forest all the way to the Karhine dwarf tribe territories.
Kalgilm collected a total of thirty fat, juicy worms from the wetlands in a single bowl for Bouncy. Every ti he caught a worm, he began to wonder about his life choices and beca frustrated.
‘It’s okay. This is better than the ti I continued to repeat the sa command for over twenty-four hours.’
He needed to endure and continue to be patient. Patience was bitter, but the fruit of his hard work would be sweet.
Currently, he desperately required a bug that would be juicy and rewarding enough for his sli’s two hundred years of hard work. He looked down smugly, satisfied with all the squirming worms he’d caught.
‘Bouncy will be happy with this much, right?’
Kalgilm humd a tune while returning to his lair.
“Let’s eat, Bouncy.”
Kalgilm almost snatched Bouncy out of Elkiesel’s arms. He presented the wiggling bowl of worms to Bouncy. The mont it laid its eyes on the bowl of worms, it let out an indescribably horrifying sound and bulleted back to Elkiesel.
Kalgilm felt his pride being stomped on.
‘What went wrong? I’ve practically bathed in mud to catch the worms, why won’t it eat them? It used to be so ecstatic for worms just two hundred years ago.’
It would probably eat well if he collected flowers and leaves like Elkiesel. However, he had his pride as a dragon, and this was unforgivable.
Kalgilm thought he was the one who understood his Bouncy the best in the world. As a dragon, he was on a different level than his familiars.
‘What do slis like other than bugs?’
He imdiately passed on copying Elkiesel with flowers and leaves, and deliberated.
‘Should I capture so humans for it?’
Slis easily consu corpses, bones and all, and are commonly referred to as the corpse clean up squads. Kalgilm thought it was probably the best choice to capture so humans, since other monsters seed to love them so much.
Slis varied in size depending on the amount of magic they stored in their own bodies. They could be as small as a walnut or a big as a waterlon. So slis grew as large as a boulder.
Slis nibbled on flowers, leaves, and ants like crackers. Slis didn’t have teeth, so actually they just smooshed things in their mouths to consu them. For sothing as big as a human, they would need to swallow it whole before digesting it.
‘How many hours would I need to travel before finding a human? I’m so lazy. I should just find sothing similar to humans. It should be happy with orcs as well, right? I should capture one of the orcs under Elkiesel’s command or from my surrounding territories. I’ve never given it orcs as food yet. Bouncy is smaller in size, so it probably can’t eat a whole corpse. I should drain the blood and slice it into smaller pieces.’
Kalgilm traveled quite a distance outside his lair and returned after capturing a single orc. Kalgilm tore it apart into a pile of limbs for Bouncy. Before taking it to Bouncy, he decided to test out whether slis prefered to consu such foods.
Kalgilm found the sli field by NeAffronti’s lair. The slis recognized Kalgilm’s presence and scattered in fear. He randomly threw a piece of corpse into the sli field. The slis gobbled the corpse pieces as quickly as they could
‘As I thought, they love it.’
Kalgilm imagined how happy Bouncy would be to eat the corpse. He wrapped up the orc at in cloth and walked over the Elkiesel who was playing with Bouncy.
“Bouncy, it’s ti for your al.”
Bouncy ran over to Kalgilm on his call. Kalgilm unrolled the piece of cloth in front of Bouncy. The orc’s body parts rolled out in all directions. The at wasn’t dripping with blood because it had been drained well, but a sliced body part rolled just before Bouncy’s eyes.
Bouncy, who had been round suddenly narrowed. Bouncy’s body elongated in shock so high that it could reach Kalgilm’s hips, then began to violently shake. Bouncy, who had been forest green, suddenly turned clear.
“GGGIIIIIIKKK!”
Bouncy let out a horrible scream and seed to lt.
“Bouncy? Bouncy?”
Kalgilm hugged Bouncy in his arms.
‘Slis can faint? Why would it faint when I brought it so delicious orc at?’
“Bouncy!”
Elkiesel ran to Bouncy.
He had grown very attached to Bouncy while they protected the lair together all this ti. He had never seen it behave in this way, and he felt like he was witnessing Bouncy’s death. He burst out in anger toward his master.
“Bouncy is a vegetarian! Of course it would get scared if you shove a chopped up corpse in its face all of a sudden.”
“Slis eat corpses.”
“Bouncy is different from other slis. Bouncy, wake up. Bouncy.”
Elkiesel hugged and shook Bouncy. Kalgilm took Bouncy back to his own hands and shared so of his own magic with it. Black light surrounded Bouncy’s body. However, Bouncy didn’t wake up.
Kalgilm looked at Bouncy who turned into a sli puddle. He carefully hugged it, and flung the pieces of orc at into the sky.
‘Maybe it’s the shape? I should have roasted it.’
Kalgilm felt regret for the first ti in his life.
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