NOVEL NEXT Chapter 58: The first tamed beast & New Functions!
A bunch of notifications rang out in Ray's ears as soon as he captured the Metal King Slime!
♦️ New functions have been unlocked as you have become an official Tamer.
Four new features were unlocked. Skill Sharing, EXP Sharing, Efficient Hunting, and lastly, Inventry. Their effects are mentioned below.
♦️ Skill Sharing: Allows you to use the skills of your battle companions.
♦️ EXP Sharing: Allows you to share your EXP with your battle companions to help level them up!
♦️ Efficient Hunting: Everytime your battle companion kills someone, you will get EXP!
♦️ Inventory: A subspace where you can store items. Items stored inside the inventory can be taken out with a thought. Items stored inside the inventory can be directly equipped if you will it.
♦️ Congratulations, Host. You have met all the requirements to complete the quest assigned to you. You will now be rewarded.
By taming a beast, Ray had completed the second quest issued by the system!
♦️ You have gained +100 EXP.
♦️ You have gained the Basic Rune Creation Manual. It has been stored in your inventory.
♦️ The information of the Metal King Slime is as follows:
A semi-transparent screen opened up before Ray, showing the following information.
[Name: Metal King Slime]
[Race: Demonic Monster]
[Rank: King Type Iron Rank 4]
[EXP Required to Level Up: 200000]
[STRENGTH: 15]
[AGILITY: 10]
[STAMINA: 10]
[Soul Quality: 15]
[Magic Power: 1500]
[Skills: Solidification, The King's Aura, Metal Magic, Devour, Mimic!]
The details of its skills were also given.
[Solidification]
♦️ Effect 1: The Iron King Slime can metallify any part of its body. The metallified parts become impervious to Level 1 attacks and reduce the damage done by Level 2 attacks.
♦️ Cost: The larger the targeted area, the greater the cost. Full-body metallification costs the most.
♦️ Effect 2: The Metal King Slime can use magic power to maintain its transformed state.
♦️ Cost: The longer the transformation is maintained, the more magic power is expended.
[The King's Aura]
♦️ Effect 1: The Metal King Slime can command lesser slimes by releasing its kingly aura. The range of this skill depends on the amount of magic power used. For every 1 unit of magic power, the king's slime aura can spread in a 1-meter radius.
♦️ Cost: The range determines the cost.
♦️ Effect 2: The Metal Slime King's kingly aura has a deterrence effect. Enemies weaker than it have their strength reduced by 25%.
[Metal Magic]
♦️ Effect: The Metal King Slime can produce Level 1 metal as solid as iron within its body. The produced metal can be used for weapons, armor, projectiles, or other creations.
♦️ Cost: Demonic Cores, Corpses of Demonic Beasts.
[Devour]
♦️ Effect: Allows the Metal King Slime to devour others to gain their memories.
♦️ Cost: 2000 Magic Power.
♦️ Warning: If there is resistance, the skill can fail and may lead to the death of the user.
[Mimic]
♦️ Effect: Can take the form of the creatures it has devoured, replicating their physical appearance and basic traits.
♦️ Cost: 2000 Magic Power.
Ray felt shocked, gaining a proper understanding of the Metal King Slime's strength.
"Holy! Its strength is actually 15, comparable to initial stage demonic creatures specializing in strength. It's considered impossible for Iron Rank Demonic Creatures to possess the same strength as Bronze Rank Creatures. Did it manage to do it because it's a King, the rarest type of demonic creatures?"
"In its base state its strength and soul power is comparable to initial Bronze Rank demonic creatures, and its agility, strength, defense, and magic power is comparable to Peak Iron Rank Demonic Creatures. In its transformed state, its defense surges to the same level as a Bronze Rank Demonic Creature specializing in defense. In both states it can command an army using its Kingly Aura and lessen the strength of all beings in its surroundings that are weaker than it. No wonder it managed to survive a 2v1 against Bronze Rank beings despite being at the Peak of the Iron Rank."
"As expected of a King Type monster. It's truly terrifying."
"If its magic power capacity was 500 units better, the Ash Legion wouldn't have stood a chance against it. The Devour and Mimic Abilities can be abused in so many ways. It faced danger before it could get to the bronze rank. Otherwise, few below the silver rank could rival it. It's good that it happened. If not for Shinma and his Leviathan Pup weakening it, I wouldn't have gained the chance to tame it."
These were Ray's thoughts about the Metal King Slime, his newly tamed demonic creature.
"Every effort I put into obtaining the Metal King Slime was worth it," Ray thought, feeling giddy, happiness seeping from his every pore. What did it feel like to be rewarded for your hard work? This was exactly what it felt like!
"Metal King Slime, let's escape before Shinma and his Ash Legion notice what has transpired," Ray commanded.
"Muri."
The Metal King Slime acknowledged weakly as fighting with Shinma and his Leviathan Pup had left it exhausted.
In an instant, its colossal body dissolved into a brilliant beam of light, sinking into Ray's forehead, vanishing from sight.
The very next moment, it appeared within his Niwan Palace.
There, it curled into itself like a wounded titan while uttering "Muri" thrice.
All the battles it had endured before being tamed had left it injured and greatly exhausted; now it wanted to rest, lick its wounds, and recover.
Settling the Magic King Slime in his Niwan Palace, Ray hurried to get out of the steam-choked valley as Shinma's enraged voice roared out from within the steam-choked valley.
"Who dares strike at me from the shadows?! Levi! Strip the valley of its haze. I wish to see the coward's face!"
VOOOOOM!
At Shinma's command, a resonant and deafening whale-like cry thundered out of the Leviathan Pup as it opened its mouth wide and erupted with a monstrous suction force.
A howl like a world collapsing into a black hole was produced, the steam filling the valley ripping away in great swaths, getting sucked into the Leviathan Pup's gaping maw.
With the valley cleared of its suffocating haze, visibility returned, and Shinma's scrutinizing, bloodshot eyes swept across his scorched surroundings, searching for the culprit who had ruined his greatest plan yet.
Immediately, he noticed two things.