After about three minutes, Caelan, with his Summoned Slime, stealthily returned to the grassland.
The stone he had used for cover was now surrounded by Slimes.
"Strange, is this stone a bit smaller than before?"
Caelan looked at the stone from a distance, unable to help but curl his lips.
This group of Slimes really just kept eating and eating!
"Little Mu, the time has come for you to show your worth!" Caelan patted the Slime beside him and whispered, "Go!"
"Squeak!"
The Slime Caelan called Little Mu squeaked and hopped towards the group of Slimes.
Brainless creatures like Slimes couldn't possibly know that this jumping Slime wasn't one of them.
Little Mu, without any hindrance, arrived next to a Slime that was rolling around on the grass.
The nearest Slime to this one was five meters away, making it perfect for a quiet takedown.
"Little Mu, fire!"
Caelan, from a distance, excitedly gave the command.
"Biu~"
A stream of Acid Spray hit the playing Slime.
Against an Acid Spray attack from its own kind, the Slime's fragile body couldn't withstand it and was directly corroded, creating a hole.
From Caelan's perspective, the hit Slime was afflicted with a bleeding status, losing 2 HP per second!
Caelan, from afar, saw that the attacked Slime seemed to shrink, but because it was in the grass, he lost sight of it and didn't know the exact situation.
Just as Caelan was about to sneak over to check, he suddenly wondered if, since he could control his Summoned creatures, he could also have the Slime's Perception.
With this thought, Caelan immediately tried it.
When Caelan used his will to connect with Little Mu, he suddenly felt a dizzy spell in his head.
After two or three seconds, the dizziness disappeared.
But Caelan found that he couldn't open his eyes.
No, it wasn't that he couldn't open his eyes.
It was that he currently had no eyes.
"It seems I've taken over Little Mu's body. I can perceive the surrounding terrain and creatures."
Caelan experienced this entirely new perspective.
In his Perception, everything around him was as clear as if it had been scanned by an X-ray.
In front of him, there was also a Slime that was continuously shrinking.
It was the one attacked by Little Mu's Acid Spray.
As that Slime's mucus drained away, leaving only a Slime skin, Caelan saw a ball of white substance appear above the corpse, floating towards a nearby spot.
His experience also increased by 5 points.
"It worked!"
The delighted Caelan immediately exited Little Mu's body and returned to his own.
[Obtained Slime soul x1]
The Slime's combat power was much weaker compared to the Goblin's.
However, the current Slimes could still be used for now!
Once his level was high enough, Caelan planned to clear out the Goblins in the forest.
He hadn't forgotten the scene of the Goblins dragging away a female.
Caelan didn't immediately rush over to collect the Slime skin but instead ordered Little Mu to continue attacking the surrounding Level 1 Slimes.
[Obtained Slime soul x1, Experience +5].
[Obtained Slime soul x1, Experience +5].
...
In less than two minutes, Little Mu exhausted its magic, killed five Slimes, and cleared out a small area.
"It could have killed six!"
Caelan, secretly collecting Slime skins, was still thinking about the wasted shot from Little Mu earlier.
Five Slimes provided Caelan with 25 experience points, plus the previous 25, he only needed to kill 10 more Slimes to level up.
Caelan remembered that Spirit Offering could learn monster skills by consuming monster souls.
However, when Caelan wanted to learn Acid Spray, he found that it required consuming 100 Slime souls.
"One hundred Slimes, huh!"
Caelan glanced at the grassland ahead and tightened his grip on the cudgel in his hand.
"It's just a hundred, it can't be that hard, can it!"
Saying that, he grabbed his wooden club and snuck up to a lone Slime.
...
In nearly half an hour, Caelan, being cautious, smashed 7 Slimes to death without taking any damage.
During this time, Little Mu's recovered magic also fired two shots, killing 2 Slimes.
Now, with just one more Slime, Caelan would level up.
Since there were no lone Slimes, Caelan didn't dare to rush in himself and had to wait for Little Mu's magic to recover.
When Little Mu's magic reached 10/60, Caelan immediately commanded it to charge into the group of Slimes and use Acid Spray to kill a Level 1 Slime.
[Obtained Slime soul x1, Experience +5].
Caelan impatiently opened his panel to check the changes.
Name: Caelan.
Race: Human
Level: 2
Experience: 0/200
Class: None
Magic: 10/20
Skills: None
Talent: Spirit Offering!
"Wuwuwu, my magic limit has finally increased!"
Caelan was incredibly excited.
When he leveled up from 0 to 1, his magic limit hadn't increased, and he was worried it wouldn't this time either.
Fortunately, it increased by 10 points.
Not only that, Caelan also felt a warm current surge through his body.
"I feel like my strength has increased a bit!"
Caelan gripped the wooden club, feeling the changes in his body.
Was this the positive feedback that leveling up brought?
Turning to look at the larger Slimes in the distant group of Slimes, Caelan saw new information.
Race: Slime
Level: 2
Health: 20/20
Magic: 100/100
Skills: [Devour] [Perception] [Acid Spray]
Its health doubled, and its total magic increased by forty points, but it was as squishy as ever.
Using the recovered 10 magic points, he Summoned another Slime, and Caelan found that Little Mu #2's information was now the same as a Level 2 Slime's panel.
"It seems my Summoned creatures' levels are the same as mine and are not affected by the quality of the soul."
He first let Little Mu #2 instantly kill a Level 1 wild Slime, and Caelan found that the experience gained dropped from the previous 5 points to 2 points!
The income was greatly reduced!
To reach Level 3, he would need to kill 100 Level 1 Slimes.
He had Little Mu #2 fire Acid Spray at a wild Level 2 Slime, and found that although the opponent's health only dropped by 2 points, its skin was burned through by the acid, and its health kept decreasing!
Before long, all 20 health points were gone.
[Obtained Slime soul x1, Experience +5].
"Is it 5 experience points for killing creatures of the same level?"
Caelan pondered for a moment, then had Little Mu #1 jump next to a Slime whose information he couldn't see.
Since a Slime's outer skin, once burned through by acid, would continue to bleed until death, why not directly attack Level 3 or even higher-level Slimes?
Killing enemies above one's level should have an experience bonus, right!
Thinking this, Caelan ordered Little Mu #1 to use Acid Spray on the Slime whose information he couldn't view.
He originally thought things would go smoothly, but unexpectedly, the possibly Level 3 Slime suddenly jumped up just as the acid was about to hit it.
When it landed, it also squashed Little Mu #1!
"Nani?"
Seeing this, Caelan quickly told Little Mu #2 to stop and move away from the suspected Level 3 Slime.
"I didn't expect it would actually attack its own kind." Caelan felt a pang of regret.
Little Mu #1 was just gone like that.
Settling down, Caelan no longer dared to provoke high-level Slimes and instead had Little Mu #2 ambush Level 2 Slimes.
He himself, with his club, only picked off lone Level 1 and Level 2 Slimes.