It Started with Slime - Part 1

Chapter 8 - Consolidating Better

Resh knew that there must be useful things to get from the Treabers...maybe. It could be useful for it to look for more. It needed to become stronger and have better weapons in its arsenal. Otherwise it was going to get destroyed by everything that it encountered. Slime Club was great... as a starter weapon, but it was hardly useful. Just to beat something as small as the Treaber, it had needed to hit it almost 30 times!

Maybe it could find something better as it continued to move around? It had yet to absorb the foliage of the tree it was sitting on, so it went to work. With so much Health to regenerate and its Stamina at around half, it was in no great hurry to move so it just kept slowly Absorbing and Digesting. Photosynthesis also continued working passively. Over the next 24 hrs it made some reasonable gains.

Odour Alteration has increased to Level 5!

Camouflage has increased to Level 5!

Photosynthesis has increased to Level 9!

Through Digest and Photosynthesis, you have gained 188.4g of Weight. Your Weight has increase to 342.35g; your Volume has increased 163.02cm3.

It was now above what Wings of the Fly could handle so moving to the next tree was out the question unless it used Consolidate. The tricky thing with Consolidate was that it did not know what stats would change until it completed the process and while it would gain there was also a chance that it would lose some as well. The only way it would know was to try it.

No point messing around.

It again entered the meditative state that allowed it to rest and use its abilities at the same time.

You have gained the General Skill Meditate Level 1! Improves your HP, SP and MP recovery. This skill can only be used while stationary.

Yes!!

Its celebration was short lived as the meditate skill did not seem to be doing much. It should improve with levels, all of its abilities seemed to be slow to grow and improve. It was difficult and none of its skills had even reached level 10 yet.

It would need to consolidate if it wanted to fly again so it checked.

You are planning to use Consolidate! This is irreversible and will take 5hrs and 42min at your current Weight of 335.02g and Volume of 163.02cm3 after the process is concluded you will have a Weight of 17.12g and Volume of 7.78cm3 your new Density will be 2.2g/cm3, while Consolidate is happening you will be unable to perform any further actions, you will not be able to use any passive skills related to movement or growth, only those related directly to your safety, at this time there are Camouflage and Odour Alteration. Do you wish to go ahead with Consolidate? Yes / No?

No. Not yet.

If it became a little bigger then when it Consolidated, it would take longer but it would not be left so weak like it was last time. It had taken it a long time to get back to its original size. If it had been attacked during that time, it might not have survived. It was too big of a risk to take now.

Another day passed, and it grew and expanded more. As its size increased, it also spread itself out to try to absorb more sun. It didn't know if it would make a difference to Photosynthesis which used the sun to make mass. But the warmth on its body felt nice, like the manure had except this was dry. Another day passed and it grew larger and heavier.