Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 415 Top-Tier Assassination
What is best suited for stealth assassination?
Some might say that it needs to be sufficiently secretive, since the prerequisite for a stealthy assassination is being able to get close to the target. If you can't even get close to the target, then the so-called assassination is impossible.

However, some might argue that sufficient power is required to achieve this. If the power is strong enough, the target, along with everything around it, can be obliterated, eliminating the need for further trouble.

Of course, there are many other ideas besides these two, but to summarize, all ideas are ultimately extensions of these two approaches.

So, is there a life form that can do both?
If it were someone else, they might say no, since hiding oneself and exaggerating one's power, to some extent, also imply conflict between them.

However, for the well-informed Upo Salas, nothing truly does not exist.

"rely on you."

What Upo Salas brought forth was a jelly-like creature.

It's less of a living creature and more like food. Just looking at its clear, soft body, anyone would be curious about what it tastes like. Its round body also makes it seem completely harmless.

However, all those who treat it as a weak creature will eventually pay the price.

Simply because this thing is unexpectedly strong.

"Go."

Patting the limp body, Upo Salas tossed it toward the aquamarine planet.

Askeladd, the King of Slimes, will deal with that giant serpent.

After all, it has solved many other problems.

So, naturally, this thing that looked like a water ball fell all the way into the sea. Throughout the process, not even the planet's own stress response was triggered—simply because this thing looked so weak that there was no need for it to retaliate.

Such a weak creature doesn't even require the earth to react; any fish can easily devour it completely.

And that was indeed the case. As soon as it landed in the sea, the blue sphere was swallowed whole by a passing whale, along with a large school of fish.

The fish swallowed by the whale did not die. They could survive for a while in the whale's stomach. Under the pressure of life and death, they instinctively felt that eating something might make them feel better. The light blue sphere next to them seemed to be the easiest to eat. So the King of Slime was quickly devoured by the fish.

However, just as the slimes that fell into the whale's belly did not die, the slime king that they devoured also did not die.

Even though it has been divided into hundreds or thousands of small pieces, the King of Slimes is still alive.

Not only does it survive, it even begins to draw nutrients from the fish from within.

From their internal organs to their bones and even their outer skin, these fish, which had once devoured the King of Slimes, quickly turned into a pool of pale blue liquid.

Then, these pale blue liquids re-aggregated and returned to their previous round, spherical shape.

The whale's digestive fluids washed over us, just like the fish had done earlier.

So, in just half a day, the whale itself turned into a pale blue liquid. The huge blue sphere drifted in the ocean, its entire body having become one with the water. Occasionally, fish would try to come up and take a bite, but they would soon become part of the pale blue liquid.

As an extremely special creature, the King of Slimes has no individual consciousness of its own. It is more like an aggregate of some tiny organisms whose sole purpose is to constantly find new breeding grounds and continuously replicate itself.

If wisdom brings advancement but also shackles, then the King of Slimes can be said to have no wisdom, but it also has no shackles whatsoever.

It can spread unchecked, reaching anywhere.

As long as someone wants to eat it.

Just like now, in just a day and a half, it has already spread to the land. However, in order to spread further, it did not choose to quickly turn the parasitized organisms into seedbeds. Instead, like it did with the fish before, it first turned the parasitized organisms into food.

Thus, along with fish, shrimp, and crabs being eaten, a portion of them also ended up in the stomachs of terrestrial animals in coastal areas.

At this point, the animals only felt that something was wrong, but these clueless animals only thought that they had eaten something bad—but eating something bad comes at a price, as the loss of energy makes them easier to hunt.

As a result, they also became food for other creatures, such as tigers, leopards, bears, and other stronger carnivores, who ate them as well.

However, these tigers, leopards, and bears were clearly stronger and had no natural enemies, which directly led the slime kings parasitizing their bodies to take action early.

These apex predators of the food chain silently turned into skeletons, and even in death, they did not understand what had gone wrong with them.

The pale blue liquid flowing from the bones, like rain, nourished the grass and trees on the earth.

This allowed the King of Slimes to fully integrate into the local community.

The grass and trees are devoured by cattle and sheep, and then the cattle and sheep are hunted by tigers and leopards. After the tigers and leopards fall, the grass and trees are nourished once again. In this cycle, the area covered by the King of Slimes is rapidly expanding.

In just two days, the Slime King's reach had extended to human settlements and even threatened the outskirts of Taheris City.

All living beings on this land are completely unaware of this.

Aside from the Seed of Creation, I vaguely sensed something.

As a sapling, besides absorbing nutrients from the septic tank, it also needs to replenish water occasionally. However, because it once made a pact with the earth itself, it is inconvenient for it to insert its roots into the earth. So it can only separate some roots and extend them directly into the river.

This can be considered a compromise solution. The earth beneath our feet doesn't really care about this approach. In the end, the earth only rejects the seed of creation taking root, not the seed of creation drinking water.

But today, the Seed of Creation suddenly sensed that the water it was drawing from its roots seemed a little off.

"It's as if this water is alive?"

The moment it sensed something was wrong, the Seed of Creation severed its connection with the water-drawing roots.

(End of this chapter)