As I felt my body rearrange itself back into a more human shape, I groaned in relief at the cool air that Dave keeps in his space. After the mess that was the last world, I was more than happy to be 'normal' again.
"Welcome back, how was life being a slime? You died a bunch this time, don't know how you were able to pull it off." Dave yells from where he's making a small house for himself.
After the first time I appeared here, Dave has been using all the excess mana and psychic power to completely revamp his entire realm. Since then, he has reinforced the barrier to keep unwanted guests out, but the best part was the small kitchen, where I was able to get meals in between worlds.
"I feel like crap, man, everything feels weird," I said, lying on the floor still, as everything hurt more than usual.
"Any way we can find another creature for me to be? I'm pretty sure there's more dragons or chimeras stuffed away somewhere, right?" I asked hopefully as Dave cackled, walking over and shaking his head.
"HA, you wish!" Dave laughed as he set his new contraption down on the table. "I know how you feel about certain things, but humanity isn't all that bad, plus you've already filled out most of the available genomes. So either man up and go human, or start stealing again."
Neither option sounded great, but I'd rather not tangle with any bounty hunters searching for me right now, especially after that last world.
"Fine, I'll go human this time." I sighed as Dave celebrated.
"Great! What kind of human? I know a few worlds back, you had internet access, and I couldn't help but notice a few interesting worlds. Something with large machines shaped like dinosaurs, or maybe you'll finally man up and go to Marvel or DC. Maybe an anime like Black Clover would be cool!"
Dave rattled off more names and realities that I vaguely recalled reading about, but the only ones that really stuck in my head were My Hero and 40k. Neither of those was an option for now, though, since one was a ruined world and the other was a ruined galaxy.
"Tell me about that Black Clover one, aren't clovers supposed to be green?" I asked as Dave threw his hands up dramatically, as a puff of smoke covered him.
He emerged looking like an ancient wizard, bent spine and staff all together. "It's a world of magic and grimoires, young padawan!" He said dramatically as I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, I get that. This is the world with the buff kid, right?" Dave jumped, discarding his disguise, and did a so-so gesture.
"A lot of shows have buff kids, but this kid is born into a world full of magic, and he has none. How twisted, huh!" Dave laughs as I almost feel sorry for the kid.
Most realities place a lot of importance on how strong your magic is, how much mana you have, how much money you have, and who you are related to. Some of those can be gained, but several worlds have been taken over by people who had little to no mana and were forced to innovate because of it.
Those worlds were fun since they really forced him to use his brain more than his brawn. Still, he'd rather not tangle with a scary smart human right off the bat.
"So what's the kicker, this kid is crazy smart?" I asked as Dave grinned and shook his head. "Nope!" He popped the p loudly and continued, "This kid is battle smart and decently adaptable, but has next to no love smarts, plus he sucks at social cues."
See that I could work with, fighting this guy might be tricky late stage, but if I can get my hands on him early, then it's over with.
"A word of caution: don't underestimate this world. Ever." Dave said as I motioned for him to continue.
"Since you've been going crazy, dragging world after world into the boss's realm, others have started to notice and are beefing up security in this sector and the ones around it, so this world will be different from the base world. Plus, you won't start where you think you will."
Dave then turned into a blur as he went around frantically drawing the ritual circle to take me to the next world, as I tried to remember as much as I could about Black Clover.
I was too late as the circle flared to life, and I was dragged through. The only thing I remembered before blacking out was that this world had Anti-magic.
A/N-Welcome back nerds