Chapter 201: Summon (1/3)
Fuu…” [Ryouma]
Today’s hunt and lunch went by in the blink of an eye for so reason.
All that’s left now is to wait for Niki-kun…
“Onii-chan! I’m done with my work!” [Niki]
Nikki-kun finished his work early too.
“Ohh…” [Ryouma]
“? What’s the matter?” [Nikki]
“No, it’s nothing… There’s sothing I need to tell you today. Actually…” [Ryouma]
I honestly told him about the evolution of the wire sli.
“Huh!? It evolved already!?” [Nikki]
“That’s right. It’s because you and the village helped so much. All that food really helped the sli evolve.” [Ryouma]
“Show ! Show !” [Nikki]
“Of course. We’ll go to the forest after collecting garbage to see what the sli can do.” [Ryouma]
“Alright! Let’s get going then!” [Nikki]
And so, we left the cafeteria.
It seed like Niki-kun wanted to see the Wire Sli as soon as possible, so we went to the garbage collection space earlier than usual.
Because of that we were also able to collect the garbage quickly.
After collecting the garbage, we went to the entrance of the forest where we gathered firewood, and I called out the Wire Sli.
“Huh? It doesn’t look any different?” [Nikki]
“Yep, but it did get a little bit smaller, and also…” [Ryouma]
I ordered the sli to turn itself into a really thin and long thread
“Ah! Wow! So it can do this kind of stuff now? …It did eat nets too. Can it be used like a net? Can you change the thickness? And how far can it stretch?” [Nikki]
“Let’s find out.” [Ryouma]
I asked the Wire Sli and it told that it can change the thickness of the threads. But if the threads are thick it can’t extend itself very far.
I hypothesized this morning that the maximum range it can extend might be related to its volu.
To test that I had it extend its threads at a fixed thickness into the shape of a cylinder. From that I was able to judge that the maximum distance it can reach is roughly 40 ters.
I calculated the volu, and it was pretty much the sa as the volu of the ball-form wire sli.
But while the body could expand and contract, the nucleus couldn’t. When the wire sli extended as far as it could, the location of the nucleus beca obvious. After all, the body thinned out so much. One glance is all anyone would need to spot it. The volu is within the margin of error, but the location of the nucleus becoming obvious is sothing I have to be careful about.
I also checked if the wire sli could beco a net just as Niki-kun asked, and it turned out it could extend threads from anywhere on its body. It could maintain several threads at the sa ti too. The wire sli could also entangle the threads, so it was possible to make a net or a thick rope with it.
It can also change into the shapes it learned when it was still a tal sli, but when I had it changed its thread to sothing like a barbed wire or had it add thin blades on the side of its threads like a coping saw, its transformation was limited to thread α.
“…Sothing like that, I guess. Niki-kun, do you want to see the mont when a sli evolves?” [Ryouma]
“I do! I do! Can I watch a sli evolve?” [Nikki]
“Yeah. Actually, I have a sli that can evolve right away.” [Ryouma]
This ti I took out the new slis I got in the past few days. So of these I caught on my own and so were given to by the village.
“Slis don’t just react to food, they react to the mana that’s used to cast spells too. If you feed a lot of a certain type of mana to a sli, it will evolve into a sli that casts magic of that type of mana.” [Ryouma]
“Co to think of it, you did ntion that you evolved your own slis to be able to cast magic. Is that how you did it?” [Nikki]
“It was just a coincidence at first. What type of mana the slis like depend on their environnt. There were only earth and dark types back at my base, but I hear slis that cast fire magic – fire slis – have been spotted in volcanic regions.
So first, we have to find out what type of man the slis living around here like. I already tested it actually, and it seems the slis here mostly like water type mana.” [Ryouma]
“So if the sli evolves, then it will turn into a sli that casts water magic?” [Nikki]
“Yeah. I can provide the mana the sli needs, so I can make it evolve imdiately. I also don’t have any slis that can cast water magic, so it would be nice if I could get one. Let’s give it a try.” [Ryouma]
I released water type mana from my hand, then I placed the sli that reacted the quickest between and Niki-kun.
Nikki-kun watched the sli with rapt attention as I poured water magic into it.
“It looks like it’s trying to stick itself to your hand.” [Nikki]
Niki-kun remarked. The sli is also trying to absorb the mana I’m pouring into it, so it might look like it’s extending its body toward my hand.
While I was realizing that, the sli finally absorbed enough mana.
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