Translator: Simple MTL Editor: Simple MTL
A few seconds later, the rat stopped struggling. Only then did Bates feel he could relax.
He then used his enhanced fangs to tear off a large piece of flesh from the rat’s body and ate it slowly.
“Eat… gained 5 experience points…”
“Eat… gained 4 experience points…”
“Ding! You have swallowed rat meat, gained 1 rat gene.”
‘Eat… obtained 5 experience points…’
It took him half an hour to finish swallowing that fat rat.
Afterwards, new information appeared on his second panel.
[ gene points ] : 10 rat gene, 7 frog gene, 9 cricket gene
[ evolution points ] : 9
[ skill fragment ] : 0
After consuming the rat, Bates had obtained ten rat gene points and four evolution points, which meant he had a total of nine evolution points, only one away from evolving a second time!
Aside from his evolution points, Bates’s attributes had also increased slightly.
His strength had increased from 0.7 to 0.8, his agility from 0.4 to 0.6, his energy from 0.5 to 0.6, and his spirit from 1.2 to 1.4.
Even his length had increased from 5cm to 7cm.
‘I was so close to having enough evolution points, what a shame,’ he thought to himself.
Nevertheless, he only needed 1 more point, and he could easily kill one more frog or rat to eat, which would give him what he needed. Bates relaxed when realising this.
With the experience he now had, hunting a frog or rat was a very simple matter.
After finishing every last bit of flesh from the rat, he headed back to his nest.
It was already very late. Most of the creatures had fallen asleep, so now wasn’t the best time to continue hunting.
It was time for him to go back and rest.
A few minutes later, before Bates could return to his newly dug nest, he saw a creature outside his old ant nest. The creature seemed to be hunting the ants!
At almost 20cm high, the creature looked like a piece of dirty jelly!
It would occasionally jump up and stick its body across the exit of the ant nest, and with each hit, dozens of ants would stick to the jelly and sink into the creature, slowly dissolving.
Slime!
As an ant was considered an insignificant creature, there were no natural enemies in the forest. There were also very few creatures that even hunted ants for food.
The only exception was slime!
Slime could be classed as the natural enemy of all insects in the forest.
As a creature with no independent consciousness and only survival instincts, slime had excellent physical resistance. Most attacks against a slime were canceled out by slime’s soft body. Any physical attacks that exceeded what the slime could take, would cause it to split.
However, a split slime does not die. Instead, it would duplicate and continue to reproduce in the forest.
To all powerful existences in the forest, slimes were just food, but to insects, they were their biggest enemy in this forest.
The ‘extremely small’ and ‘tiny’ level insects would stick to the slime as soon as they got close to it. It would then slowly wrap itself around the insect, digesting and absorbing it. There was no way for an insect to cause real damage to a slime.
Even creatures like frogs, rats, and small birds could only run away from it.
Most importantly, the slime was already a real monster!
Even if it was only a low level 1 monster, the slime had already surpassed the minimum levels to become a real monster!
As for the slime that Bates had seen preying on his old ant nest, he did not know where it had come from. All he knew was that there were two ways this was going to end.
Either the slime would leave after the nest after it had eaten enough, which would cause the ants to be greatly weakened.
Or the slime would stay here forever, and the ants, without any intelligence, would constantly rush out to defend against the attacks, whilst continually being absorbed and eventually being wiped out!
To fight or not to fight?
After hesitating for a while, Bates decided to join the battle.
He had developed a fondness for the ant nest, and couldn’t bear to watch the worker ant that had taken care of him, be devoured by the slime.
As long as the slime continued to attack, it was sure that the worker ant would end up participating in the battle and die.
The slime’s stickiness could not affect Bates, as he was now resistant to its physique, which provided another reason why he should help.
His devouring evolution talent was also the natural enemy of the slime! No matter how strong the slime’s survival ability was, when it encountered Bates’ sharp fangs and his devouring evolution talent, it would be instantaneously converted into gene and evolution points, allowing Bates to become even stronger! It could even get him to his second evolution faster!
Knowing this, Bates didn’t hesitate.
He sprinted forward and pounced on the slime’s soft body. His sharp fangs fiercely tore off a piece of jelly-like meat and swallowed it.
Suddenly, a large amount of information appeared on his attribute panel!
“Eating… obtained 10 experience points…”
“Eating… obtained 11 experience points…”
“Ding! You have swallowed slime meat and obtained 1 slime gene point.”
“Ding! Your armor has been corroded by slime’s mucus and the strength of your armor has been reduced.”
“[ adaptability ] talent activated! You have obtained a skill fragment!”
Finally, Bates had obtained more than 10 experience points!
He had also gained a new skill fragment for the second time! Even though it was only a skill fragment, it was enough for Bates to decide to take the risk, and he continued to devour the slime. He knew he would definitely be able to evolve again after this!
As a result of the vicious attack, the slime secreted a corrosive mucus from its body that eroded away at Bates’ armor. However, that did not stop him even for a second, it only made him bite faster and fiercer!
His huge fangs kept swinging up and down, tearing off pieces of the slime’s body and swallowing them.
“Eating… obtained 11 experience points…”
“Eating… obtained 12 experience points…”
“Ding! You have swallowed slime’s flesh, obtained 1 slime gene.”
“Ding! Your armor has been corroded by the slime’s mucus. [ adaptability ] talent activated, you have obtained a skill fragment.”
‘Ding! Your armor has been corroded by slime mucus. [ adaptability ] talent activated. You have obtained a skill fragment.’
‘Ding! Your armor has been corroded by slime mucus…’