Slime Immortal.

Chapter 175 The Kingdom's Shield
Arno wanted to ask something more, but the next second he realized, "Didn't you leave not long ago? How come you're back so soon?"

Chen Yu was also very curious, but Bat Slime II told him that it had indeed encountered Nelly on the outskirts of Gore.

How did this guy manage to jump so far away and then jump back so quickly?

Suspicious, very suspicious.

Seeing this, Nellie simply shrugged indifferently and said casually, "It's nothing, I just ran into a friend I hadn't seen in a long time on the road and gave me a ride."

However, she didn't seem to enjoy discussing this topic much, and her attention quickly returned to the bulging bag in Arno's hand, her eyes sparkling with curiosity.

"Little envoy, is this the thing you said could help with training? It doesn't look particularly special."

“That’s right, they’re just ordinary glass marbles, nothing special about them at all,” Chen Yu said.

"Tch~ You're kidding me!" Nelly scoffed, not buying it at all.

As she spoke, she turned around decisively and walked straight to the old sofa that looked the most comfortable in the room. She lay down without any hesitation, put her arms behind her head, and comfortably crossed her legs, swinging her calves.

“If you don’t tell me, I’m not leaving today. Anyway, I have nothing else to do, so I’ll just stay here and watch what you’re up to.”

"Boss, should we go somewhere else?" Arno was getting a headache from this kind of shameless behavior.

Chen Yu remained quite calm. "It's alright, she won't understand anyway. Just continue your practice as usual, and keep the crystal ball in your mouth."

"Huh? So it wasn't eaten directly?" Arno picked up a crystal ball that emitted a warm glow, looked at it curiously in the light, and asked subconsciously.

Eat directly?
Arno is a real tiger.

"Eating it directly isn't a bad option, but if you want to be constipated tomorrow morning..."

When he was refining these elixirs, he used gray gravel crystals as a carrier to stabilize the spiritual essence and facilitate preservation.

This thing is essentially a rock, so it's not edible.

Upon hearing this, Arno shrank back sheepishly: "Then... then I'll just keep it in my mouth."

He glanced furtively at the girl on the sofa who seemed to be resting with her eyes closed, but whose ears were actually perked up, and decided to go to the yard instead.

He pushed open the door, sat cross-legged in the center of the courtyard, took a deep breath, and carefully put a shimmering crystal ball into his mouth.

At first, Arno didn't feel anything unusual, only that he had a slippery bead in his mouth.

But gradually, a gentle warmth began to seep out from the crystal ball, spreading along with his saliva, and then, like countless tiny warm snakes, burrowing into his limbs and bones.

The warm current grew stronger and stronger. He felt as if the blood in his body was being ignited, and it began to rush faster. An abnormal blush appeared on the surface of his skin, and fine beads of sweat even seeped from his forehead.

"So... so hot..."

Arno's face turned red, and he felt as if there was an inexhaustible force surging through his body.

He instinctively drew the broadsword stuck to the side with a "whoosh," disregarding any techniques or rules, and just swung it wildly, trying to release the surging, mysterious power within him.

The sword wind howled, stirring up dust and grass on the ground, creating an impressive sight.

Chen Yu jumped onto the steps of the wooden house and observed Arno's condition.

"Uh... the drug seems a bit too strong."

However, this also seems to prove the special nature of the warriors' physique. They have extremely high absorption efficiency of the medicine, and their reaction is much stronger than when he took it. The effect seems to have exceeded expectations.

At that moment, Nellie appeared silently next to Chen Yu and sat down on the steps, mimicking his actions.

Her gaze, a mixture of surprise and curiosity, was fixed on Arno, who was swinging his sword in the courtyard as if he were on steroids.

"This glass ball... seems quite interesting."

Judging from Arno's reaction, this is definitely not an ordinary thing.

Could it be some kind of alchemical item with peculiar effects?

There are alchemists in this slime kingdom? That's good information.

She couldn't help but turn her gaze to the slime that was squatting quietly beside her.

These mysterious slimes from the swamp are perhaps far more interesting than she imagined.

……

Meanwhile, deep within the obsidian mine.

The blazing flames illuminated Chen Yu's gelatinous body, turning it a deep red, like a ruby ​​about to melt.

He put the second batch of medicinal herbs into the refining process, skillfully controlling the flames to extract the spiritual essence and fuse them into a condensed pill.

With previous experience, this time the efficiency was much higher.

After all the elixirs were refined, he secreted several talent orbs containing specific talents, which Bat Slime II swallowed along with the newly refined elixirs, and then sent them to Arno again.

Judging from Arno's performance, the effects of elixirs and martial arts on a warrior's physique are indeed significant.

An idea came to his mind.

If we could cultivate more slime alchemists, refine pills on a large scale, and combine them with suitable martial arts... wouldn't that create a knightly legion belonging to the slime kingdom?
Ok……

This idea seems quite plausible.

However, to practice martial arts, one must at least be a humanoid creature, if not a human.

You can't expect a soft, limp slime to train this thing, but the kingdom is full of all sorts of strange monsters, so where can you find suitable humanoid subjects?
Chen Yu thought about it carefully and realized that there might actually be one.

Lizard people!
Those lizardmen who inhabit the eastern side of the swamp.

Since the elf Sergash left, he had indeed not paid attention to his neighbors for some time.

Lizardmen possess humanoid bodies, strong physiques, and have lived in swamp environments for generations, making them natural swamp warriors.

If they could be absorbed into the kingdom and nurtured with elixirs and martial arts... raising an elite legion of lizardmen knights would not be a problem.

"Yes!"

Chen Yu's small eyes lit up instantly.

If successful, the Slime Kingdom's control over the swamp region will be greatly enhanced with this powerful swamp army. They could even consider taking the initiative to drive away the annoying goblins entrenched in the Rift Pass.

Now that he had already impersonated a messenger of the gods, he planned to return to the Eastern Swamp in person and use the nascent "faith" and the lure of food to try and recruit the lizardman tribe into the Slime Kingdom.

There's probably nothing that would be more appealing to these swamp-dwelling lizards than an abundance of food.

He squeezed hard, and the gel trembled slightly like jelly. With a "poof," a pair of gel wings grew from his back.

He flapped his wings a few times, then flew unsteadily towards the outside of the mining area, passing through the winding and deep mine tunnels, and returned to the surface.

The midday sun barely penetrated the hazy mist above the swamp, forming beams of light that fell down.

Amidst the lingering mist, the sounds of bustling activity, like "pat-pat," drifted from the distant fortress construction site, as the slimes continued their diligent work to build their new home.

Chen Yu flew into the air and looked down.

The fortress's massive outline was already clearly visible, with walls stretching out into the forests on both sides, seemingly without end.

Inside were rows of domed wooden houses with a distinctive slime style and rudimentary defensive structures. The spirit-gathering array charging station in the center was basically completed, with a small mountain of gray gravel piled up next to it, slowly absorbing spiritual energy.

A strange scene unfolded near the city wall. Metal slimes were carefully using drills to dismantle a section of the already constructed wall.

Several slime scholars wearing miniature glasses were gesturing with tiny gel hands, directing the slime engineers to embed something shiny inside the city wall.

"What are they doing?" Chen Yu wondered, and landed on top of the city wall.

A slime scholar immediately spotted him, happily hopping over and affectionately rubbing against Chen Yu with its soft body, making "slap slap slap" sounds, calling out "brother."

Chen Yu patted the little guy's bouncy head with his gel-like hands and asked, "What are you doing here?"

The slime scholar immediately jumped around excitedly, and the other scholars gathered around, gesturing with their gel hands.

"Set up a magic circle! A super-large magic circle!"

"It seems...it seems to be called something like Eight Gates..."

"No, no, there are eight locks!"

"It's a door lock! A lock on all eight doors!"

Chen Yu chuckled upon hearing this.

"It must be the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation."

"Uh-huh!"

The slime scholars swayed their bodies up and down. "Yes, it's some kind of door lock array."

Chen Yu felt a surge of relief.

I didn't expect these young scholars to progress so quickly. They've already been able to apply the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation to actual construction. It seems the Slime Academy wasn't established in vain.

The name of the formation is still a bit of a mouthful for them.

A thought struck him: "Let's rename it. Since it can protect the kingdom's fortress, how about calling it 'The Kingdom's Shield'?"

"The Kingdom's Shield?"

"Kingdom Shield!!"

The slime scholars were stunned for a moment, then burst into cheers, bouncing excitedly on the ground to celebrate the birth of the new name.

"Shield of the Kingdom! Protect the Kingdom!"

In the Void Profound Heaven, this magic array is enough to serve as a protective array for some small sects. Now it is used to guard the first fortress of the Slime Kingdom, and it is indeed worthy of being called the "Kingdom Shield".

Chen Yu thought to himself with satisfaction that once the great formation was fully activated, he really couldn't imagine how those goblins, who only knew how to use sheer numbers, could possibly break through it.

After the cheers subsided, a slime scholar approached Chen Yu and reminded him, "The territory guards said there are vampires in the territory, and they've been waiting for a long time."

"A vampire?" Chen Yu was taken aback, only then remembering that Xiao Hua had indeed mentioned a few days ago that a vampire had been found on the edge of the territory, and was lurking around suspiciously nearby.

"Oh right, I think that's what happened..."

However, he had even forgotten what the guy's name was.

He patted the elementary school students on the head: "Alright, keep up the good work and build our 'Kingdom Shield' well."

"I'll go back and see what that vampire is up to."

"Mmm!" The slime scholars shook the gel up and down, nodded happily, and watched Chen Yu flap his wings and fly towards the East Swamp.

……

Eastern Swamp Fortress.

A metal slime, like a knight, is riding on the back of its beetle mount, conducting its daily patrol along the perimeter of the fortress.

Its round, metallic body reflected a cold, hard luster in the sunlight, and its small eyes showed meticulous seriousness, occasionally emitting a slight buzzing sound, as if recording patrol logs.

As the metal slime passed the swamp oak tree beside the fortress gate, it completely ignored the "decoration" leaning against the tree, just as it always did.

If a few days ago, this vampire from the Underdark only looked somewhat haggard, now he could be described as having lost a significant amount of weight.

The once-fitting aristocratic attire now hung loosely on his body, his pale skin tightly wrapped around his bones, and his eye sockets were sunken, making him look like a dried corpse that had just crawled out of an ancient tomb.

His breathing was so faint it was almost imperceptible; only the occasional movement of his eyes proved he was still alive.

A humiliation beyond compare... an unprecedented and unparalleled humiliation in the history of vampires...

Kazimir was so exhausted that he barely had the energy to even complain.

He, a noble vampire, was almost drained of his blood by mosquitoes in the swamp.

When he felt dizzy and lightheaded a few days ago and realized he was anemic, it was too late. He fainted under the tree.

When he regained consciousness, he had become this grotesque figure that even he himself wanted to cry at the sight of.

Damn mosquitoes!
You lowly bloodsuckers!
He cursed weakly.

How dare they do such a thing to the noble vampires!

He licked his chapped lips and weakly called out towards the top of the city wall, "Please...excuse me, has your lord returned yet...?"

The metal slime raised the wooden sign with the unchanging handwriting.

"Damn it, they're playing me for fools. They have no intention of negotiating at all."

Kazimir tried to get up, but quickly realized he couldn't. He couldn't even lift a finger, let alone stand up.

If this gets back to the Underdark and those ancient beings find out... they'll probably laugh themselves silly...

Fortunately, this is not fatal to vampires; it just makes their bodies a bit emaciated.

By absorbing blood, her skin can regain its former suppleness.

He forced a smile and asked haltingly, "Could you send me some blood, just a little, to this messenger from the Underdark..."

Blood...blood?
Behind the battlements, Little Ka cautiously peeked out, blinking his big eyes curiously at the "vampire corpse" under the tree. Then, as if startled, he quickly pulled back and flapped his wings, flying towards the tree hall in the center of the fortress.

Inside the tree hall, Little Flower sat on the shoulder of the anvil, gesturing to the little earth elemental who was playing a building block game in front of them, seemingly discussing something.

“I think the energy core of the artillery array should be placed in the upper right position, like a heart.” Iron Anvil stroked his beard.

The little flower slime bounced up and down, conveying a different opinion: "No, no, it should be slightly above the chest, so that the energy flows more smoothly."

After Little Ka flew in, he climbed up to the anvil, patted his heavy boots with his paws, and then earnestly looked up to report: "Princess Little Flower, that sharp-toothed guy outside, he seems to be a little dead."

Should we save him?

Xiaohua paused for a moment, as if she were deep in thought.

Oh right, there seems to be a vampire outside... I almost forgot.

It was hesitating whether to lend a helping hand out of humanitarianism or wait for its brother to return.

Just then, Chen Yu's message came through the gel network.

He is back.

(End of this chapter)