novelraw Chapter 198 : Stormy Growth
Chapter 198 : Stormy Growth
"The 1st Demon World?"
"What's that?"
"Tsk, it's not something to eat."
"No way! Is this the 1st Demon World I've only heard of?"
Landfall, who seemed to know something.
"Landfall, do you know something?"
"It's strange not to know! This is the original form of the 7th world that was destroyed during the Holy-Demonic War!"
"What's that?"
"Explain it a little easier."
"So it's the previous world of the current 7th world!"
Murong Yoo simply compressed the explanation.
"So the place we are in is a parallel world of the 7th world. Is that the feeling?"
Landfall slightly frowned and agreed.
"To be precise, it's not, but it's similar."
"Hmm... Then why did the words of the world teach us this place?"
At Murong Yoo's question, everyone fell into serious thought.
"Maybe."
Namgung Cheon looked at the world without a single blade of grass and opened his mouth. Everyone's gaze gathered on Namgung Cheon.
"Yoo, you said you summoned a slime for the first time since coming here and led to the regeneration of the world."
"Yeah, I did. Although I don't know if that's regeneration."
"According to Landfall, this is the 7th world where the Holy-Demonic War took place in the past."
This time, Landfall answered.
"That's right."
"Maybe the world wanted us to restore the 7th world."
Paeng Yoo-ran, who had been keeping her mouth shut until now, looked at the empty scene in front and said.
"Everything in this world follows a great flow called causality. If you change the flow of the past, it also affects the future. Is that what you want to say?"
Namgung Cheon answered.
"Maybe that's what the world wants from us, no! from you, Murong Yoo."
The most certain way to confirm this.
Paeng Yoo-ran, Namgung Cheon, and Landfall look at Murong Yoo.
Murong Yoo slightly nodded.
"Summon."
"Kyuu!"
As soon as the slime was summoned, the words of the world were heard.
[A 'King Slime' is summoned to the destroyed world. The registration of a new entity in the 7th hierarchy begins.]
Murong Yoo did not end it here.
"King Slime, divide."
"Kyuu!"
The King Slime began to divide wildly. The number exceeded hundreds.
"Scatter!"
"Kyuu!"
The first day, the visit to the Demon World ended like that.
A month after Murong Yoo's party returned from the Demon World.
A great storm was brewing in the Golden Ivory Tower.
* * *
"It's been found!"
Slovan, one of the professors of demonic beast studies, was a person who was leading the restoration of the 7th world's ecosystem more than anyone else.
"My head is ringing, so please speak in a smaller voice."
His eyes, which had not slept for seven days and nights, were so black that one would suspect he was a corpse.
He pressed his temples and said to his assistant, Ellie.
"If you want to sleep, go and sleep quietly. You don't need to be mindful of me."
"That's not it! Professor! They say a slime has been found in the eastern region!"
"Isn't the slime here?"
"Kyuu!"
Slovan pointed to the King Slime in front of him.
"Another slime!"
"What? Really?"
"Why would I lie!"
It was at that moment.
Bang!
The door opened as if it would break.
"Breaking news! Information has come up that a slime has been found in the western region!"
Normally, at the appearance of a teaching assistant who had no manners, Slovan's scolding would have fallen immediately, but no scolding fell from Slovan.
"Hahaha!"
He was laughing.
Another teaching assistant comes in. His breathing was heavy, so he must have rushed here.
"Gasp, gasp! In the southern region!"
Slovan, cutting off the teaching assistant's words, opened his mouth.
"Has a slime appeared?"
"No!"
Slovan's smiling mouth turned into a blank expression. At the same time, the atmosphere sank in an instant.
And at the following words.
"A kobold has been found!"
"Jesus!"
Slovan fainted.
The 1st Demon World.
The former 7th hierarchy.
For a month, Murong Yoo had come here and had summoned many things.
"Summon."
Today was the tenth summon.
[An 'Ogre' is summoned to the destroyed world. The registration of a new entity in the 7th hierarchy begins.]
"Phew."
Murong Yoo, who had finished his work for today, sat down on the spot.
Because after summoning like this, all the true qi in his body would be drained, and he would experience exhaustion.
Especially these days, he felt overwhelmed every time he summoned.
And the three friends were now looking at a single demonic beast.
"But don't you think the kid has gotten a little bigger?"
"He's been big since the old days."
"No! Don't you think he's gotten bigger than before!"
"Kyuu!"
Thump, thump, thump!
The ground rumbles every time the slime bounces its body.
"Look at this. It seems his weight has also increased. Yoo, isn't there something different about him?"
At Paeng Yoo-ran's repeated questions, Murong Yoo looked at the King Slime, which he had no interest in. Come to think of it, there was something different from before.
"It seems he's gained weight."
Something new was visible next to the King Slime's name.
[King Slime] [Level 10]
"Level?"
"Kyuu!"
When you don't know something, the fastest way is to ask the person involved.
"Slime, what happened?"
"Kyuu!"
The slime bounced more than usual and headed somewhere.
Murong Yoo's party, seeing such a slime, nodded and followed.
"Kyuu!"
The slime was standing still and staring somewhere.
"Goblin!"
That was a demonic beast called a goblin that Murong Yoo had summoned a while ago.
"Kyuu!"
The slime turned to Murong Yoo's party and shouted something. Of course, he couldn't understand the words, but it seemed as if it were saying, 'Watch carefully from now on.'
The slime jumped in front of the goblin.
The goblin, who had found the slime, took a battle stance.
"Kyuu, kyuu!"
The slime also swelled its body.
"It seems they're going to fight!"
At Paeng Yoo-ran's words, Murong Yoo's party held their breath and watched.
"Goblin!"
The goblin ran towards the slime. And he swung the stone axe he was holding wide.
The stone axe cut the part that was presumed to be the slime's stomach. The slime was split in half.
"It's division."
Murong Yoo's calm explanation followed.
The goblin, who thought he had won, was careless, and the two divided slimes swallowed the goblin.
"G-G-Goblin!"
With the goblin's desperate scream, the goblin was digested in the slime's stomach without even leaving a bone powder.
At that moment, the slime's level changed.
[King Slime] [Level 11]
"His level went up?"
At the same time, a light shone on the slime's body, and the slime's size grew bigger.
"Does his level go up when he catches a demonic beast?"
Murong Yoo then conducted an experiment of catching various demonic beasts using the King Slime.
And he was able to find out two facts.
First, when you catch a demonic beast, something called experience points accumulates, and when it fills the quota, the level goes up.
Second, when the level goes up, various physical abilities increase.
Today's last experiment.
The King Slime's level is 30.
The demonic beast in front, the ogre's level is 25.
The ogre's huge arm grabs the King Slime. The intention is to tear it apart.
Crack, crack, crack.
The King Slime was split in half. The ogre, realizing that this was due to the King Slime's division, threw the King Slime held in his two hands on the ground.
Boom!
And he lifted a huge stone next to him and threw it at the King Slime.
One of the split halves was crushed by the stone.
Thump, thump!
The ogre ran and struck down his huge arm several times at the remaining half of the King Slime.
The other half of the King Slime was torn to shreds and became a dough.
"Ogre!"
The ogre let out a cry of victory.
A single voice was heard in Murong Yoo's head.
[The divided King Slime begins to digest.]
The King Slime, which had been divided into several pieces, began to eat and digest itself.
The King Slime soon regained its original slime form. However, its size was much smaller than before. But the number was dozens. Dozens of small King Slimes all attacked the ogre at once.
"Kyuu!"
Although the ogre tried to tear off the King Slimes stuck to his body, the bodies of the King Slimes that had been on the floor stuck to him and covered the ogre's entire body. Soon, the ogre's body began to melt, and the ogre was completely digested.
The King Slime's body shone.
[King Slime] [Level 31]
His level had gone up.
With this, Murong Yoo, who had finished all the experiments, looked at his party and began the final real battle.
Murong Yoo cut down the demonic beasts wildly.
* * *
"What? They suddenly disappeared?"
"Yes! It's not just the kobolds. The orcs, goblins, and other demonic beasts that were occasionally found have disappeared again!"
"The already discovered individuals?"
"They couldn't adapt to the new environment and all died."
"N-No way! It was a hope I had found after so long!"
Slovan was frustrated. Because the clue to the restoration of the world he had barely found had disappeared so futilely.
"I can't end it like this. Find them even if you have to search the whole country!"
"Yes!"
The teaching assistants of the Golden Ivory Tower scattered throughout the country.
Around that time, Murong Yoo found out a new fact.
"Awesome."
[You have exceeded the experience points. Your physical ability increases.]
The phenomenon of the level going up like a slime did not occur. But when a certain condition was met, he could see the improvement of his ability with his own eyes.
This was a huge discovery.
"Hey guys!"
Murong Yoo called his party and explained the phenomenon that had happened to him. The party nodded. Because they understood what they had to do.
The first to react was Landfall.
[You have exceeded the experience points. Your physical ability increases.]
Landfall, who was doing push-ups, could tell that the strength in his arms had increased.
And at the same time as the words of the world were heard, all his consumed stamina returned at once.
Murong Yoo's party, seeing the light shining from Landfall's body, all devoted themselves to training.
Namgung Cheon took his sword and went out to hunt demonic beasts.
Paeng Yoo-ran lifted a huge stone and repeated sitting and standing.
Murong Yoo did a slightly different training.
"Summon."
[A 'Black Orc' is summoned to the destroyed world. The registration of a new entity in the 7th hierarchy begins.]
"Summon."
[A 'Black Wyvern' is summoned to the destroyed world. The registration of a new entity in the 7th hierarchy begins.]
"Summon."
[A 'Hobgoblin' is summoned to the destroyed world. The registration of a new entity in the 7th hierarchy begins.]
With three consecutive summons, Murong Yoo consumed all his mental power.
"Phew."
The training of the physical part was simple. It was to consume the body to the limit, and when the limit was broken, the physical ability would increase with the words of the world.
Then wouldn't the mental part also be the same?
Of course, unlike the body, the mind might not be that important.
But Murong Yoo had not forgotten the words his father had told him.
-Yoo-ya, mental growth is the fastest way to increase the size of one's vessel. It's a kind of enlightenment.
Murong Yoo continued to push himself in a situation where he felt like he was about to collapse.
He ran and ran. When he was about to give up, the words of the world were heard.
[Your physical ability increases.]
Only his body recovered, and his mind did not.
Murong Yoo pushed himself even more.
When demonic beasts appeared in front, he cut and cut.
[Your physical ability increases.]
After the words of the world were heard a few more times.
[Your mind has surpassed its limit. The size of your soul increases.]
Words he had never heard before.
The words he had been waiting for were finally heard.
Murong Yoo could tell what this meant.
Because he couldn't not know, both physically and mentally.
The vessel had grown.
"Peak of the Transcendent Realm."
3 years have passed.
(End of Chapter)