It Started with Slime - Part 1

Chapter 74 - Language Savant

Now that he could understand some, if not most of the words spoken except for particularly long or complex expressions, he was a little more sure that these people did not mean to kill him outright. They would have done so already if that were their goal. Whatever was going to happen was going to happen after they got to this destination, wherever it was. That meant he had time to make his escape!

Who says you can't go from zero to hero in ten seconds? Are there any other languages I know? Clearly, the more languages he could work on, the better. That way, he could keep getting boosts to his capability. He did know one phrase in Dutch but even saying it made him feel a little embarrassed, something he had learned from back in the day. A friend in some of the foster care homes he had lived in...." Melk asteblieft..." Aarav said it quietly. Thank god no one would understand it, but it was the only phrase in Dutch Aarav knew. Aarav was a little mortified as to what people would think if they heard a grown man asking for. Well, anyway. It was done, and the benefits were reaped.

Language Mastery: Dutch, you have 1% mastery. Keep using it every day to master it.

Bonus 12,000 Exp for reaching 10% in Dutch, Earth Language

Bonus 12,000 Exp for reaching 20% in Dutch, Earth Language

Bonus 12,000 Exp for reaching 30% in Dutch, Earth Language

Congratulations on reaching Level 70! Your Skill Language Aficionado has improved to Language Connoisseur! Your bonus per level has increased from 0.4% to 0.5%. You are clearly well on your way to becoming a master of languages. You may be in a situation where the moment you speak a word of a language, understanding and inspiration flood you. You have almost perfected this ability to understand languages. Keep pushing forward.

Aarav racked his brain for any other languages he might know of. Even a single word would be enough. But right now, trapped here, he was feeling blocked. He could see that he was a few per centage points away from having another language breakthrough. That owl program was finally paying off. He just needed to keep going with it, and he would be able to acceptably speak any language almost instantly. He was already almost there.

Of course! Anime! He had watched some when he got a chance. How could he have forgotten? He hadn't spoken a word of Japanese yet! "Konichiwa." It was again mumbled, though he was struggling to contain his excitement of this situation. There was no point in alerting these people in front of him that he could understand what they were saying. That was an advantage that he needed to keep closely guarded; also, he didn't fully understand everything they were saying yet anyway. That was about to change, though!

Language Mastery: Japanese, you have 1% mastery. Keep using it every day to master it.

Bonus 13,000 Exp for reaching 10% in Japanese, Earth Language

Bonus 13,000 Exp for reaching 20% in Japanese, Earth Language

Bonus 13,000 Exp for reaching 30% in Japanese, Earth Language

Bonus 13,000 Exp for reaching 40% in Japanese, Earth Language

Language Connoisseur has increased to Level 85!

That's what I am talking about! Now I can understand them. It took a while, and who knew there would be this fantastic cheat code built in that would help me know languages. This is way more fun than just learning all languages instantly from the beginning. This feels more earned!

From zero to eighty-five in the space of five minutes was quite overwhelming, luckily he was not made paralytic by the process of magical language learning, but it was going to take him a few minutes to adjust to the massive amount of new information. His new Skill level automatically taught him over forty per cent of any new language. Not only that, but it also would boost his overall language learning capability. The rest of the linguistics he would need to learn through effort and work, but that was still an impressive amount of system assistance. No complaints here!