Slime Immortal.

Chapter 203 The Abyss's Big Belly

At Chen Yu's command, Faldon emitted a series of humming sounds, and the lush silver oak leaves trembled gently. Pure natural power flowed along its massive root system that penetrated deep into the earth, like a rushing stream, instantly spreading to an area of more than twenty meters around it.

Plant growth

[Growth of higher plants]

The emerald green domain expands from Faldorne's center. Within the domain, countless plump acorns fall from the branches, and upon touching the ground, they sprout, branch out, and grow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few breaths, they grew into saplings taller than a person.

"Yah! Ya! Ya!"

As if endowed with temporary life and a fighting spirit, they pulled out their slender roots and, like miniature tree warriors, brandished their branches to sweep away the nearby undead.

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

The saplings lashed at the carapace of the filthy creatures with their branches, preventing them from getting close to Faldorn.

The Stoneborn assassins on the city wall exchanged glances, sensing the opportune moment. They led several Queen Stinger bees carrying magical leaves and slipped through the shadows into the chaotic battlefield below.

Once their forms are revealed, it signifies a deadly harvest of death.

The dagger flashes coldly, often slitting its throat or piercing its heart before the enemy can even react.

Their primary targets were the large, bear-goblin-like creatures.

The battlefield was thrown into chaos. The goblin army and the savages' offensive rhythm was completely disrupted, and they began to show signs of defeat.

"hiss!!!"

The enormous war-evil roared, opened its massive maw once more, and spewed out a wide spray of corrosive acid, attempting to repel the ever-advancing green plant territory.

At the same time, the magical leaves bearing runes on the branches of Faldorn once again shone brightly, as arcane energy gathered together.

"Pah! Pah!!"

Thicker, blue lightning bolts, like hurled spears, relentlessly bombarded the War Degenerate.

Lightning bolts roamed across the thick carapace, charring its outer shell until it was blackened, while the internal muscles seemed thoroughly cooked, even emitting a faint aroma of roasted meat.

This made Chen Yu feel a little hungry.

This behemoth is more robust than ten swamp monitor lizards, and who knows how much high-quality protein is inside its thick shell...

His thoughts started to go astray.

It seems that it can be used as food reserves to feed the queen bees and accelerate the expansion of the blood army.

However, it seems that although this war-bred creature was badly shocked, it was still somewhat unconvinced and struggled to stand up.

"We need to increase the power supply."

"Faldon, the left side is a bit burnt, attack its right side."

"Yes, don't spare the buttocks either."

Under Faldorn's relentless "electrotherapy," this war behemoth finally gave out.

The massive limbs convulsed violently, unable to support its heavy body any longer, and crashed heavily to the ground with a thud.

"Pfft!"

The unfortunate filth beside it, unable to escape in time, was instantly crushed by its massive weight, causing it to burst out with large amounts of acidic juice.

Just then, the stinging wasp logistics team that had been sent out to collect blood returned to the city wall. Their blood sacs were bulging, indicating that they had made a good harvest.

With ample blood reserves, the Blood Legion is ready to go.

Baptism of Blood

"Buzz!"

A pale red blood energy field once again enveloped the city walls, and the Blood Legion, replenished by blood energy, flapped their wings and flew into the air.

[Blood Energy]

Dozens of newly formed blood orbs rained down on the chaotic enemy like a death storm.

"Boom--!!"

The originally dark waves gradually receded under the multiple blows, eventually retreating with the remaining goblins, leaving behind only a large number of corpses and broken shells on the battlefield.

"Clean up the battlefield," Chen Yu instructed, standing on a branch of Faldon's tree.

These are all valuable items. Not to mention the magical organs scattered all over the ground, even these corpses can be used as food reserves for the bee swarm to expand the Blood Legion.

Because of its slow movement speed, Faldorn can only stay in place, using its roots and branches to help stabilize the battlefield and carry out initial clearing.

The task of pursuing the remaining enemies was assigned to the more mobile Blood Venom Bees.

Under Beetroot's command, the Blood Venomous Bees pursued the fleeing enemy forces until they were all driven back into the dimensional rift before ceasing their pursuit.

At this moment, the fortress gates slowly opened again.

The slime engineers and beetle transport team, who had been waiting for a long time, came out and began to clean up the battlefield in an orderly manner.

They piled up the corpses of goblins and savages, preparing to transport them back to the Eastern Swamp by wagon for disposal.

The faintly glowing magical organs were carefully collected and respectfully piled up in front of Chen Yu.

"Phew... at least these guys ran fast." Nelly emerged from the shadows behind the rock, dusting herself off and looking fairly relaxed.

Behind her, Arno and several other Stoneborn assassins who had participated in the assassination also returned one after another.

Arno, needless to say, was in excellent physical condition, and the burden of traversing the shadows was not a great strain on him.

The Stoneborn assassins, on the other hand, had pale lips and were breathing rapidly, clearly exhausted.

However, their assassination attempt was quite successful, as all six of the bear goblins, who were the backbone of the legion, were beheaded.

One of the bear goblins even tried to compete with Arno in strength, but he kicked it away. Before it could even get up, the stone goblin assassin who followed closely behind cleanly and decisively cut off its head.

Its wide-open eyes, as it lay dying, were filled with confusion.

Even on his deathbed, he couldn't understand how an assassin could possess such power.

Chen Yu was still stuffing magical organs into his seemingly bottomless gel-like belly, enjoying the fruits of his victory.

Nelly walked over casually, watching him "eat" with curiosity. She picked up a sticky-looking magical heart organ and weighed it in her hand.

"Are these things really that delicious?"

While trying to process his overwhelming knowledge, Chen Yu vaguely asked in his mind, "How are the results tallied?"

“The remaining goblins and those dark, demonic insects all fled back to the other side of the rift; we didn’t pursue them further,” Nelly said, shrugging.

"That ogre, I vaguely remember him."

He remembered seeing this cannibalistic mage during the last siege of Riftstone Fortress; it was probably a minor leader.

No sooner had he asked than Arno pulled with some difficulty a bone staff covered in slime and several tattered fragments of a mage's robe from the rear end of the war-damaged corpse.

"Uh, boss, this guy seems to have been mostly digested."

Chen Yu listened and looked at Nellie, who had chased after the cannibal earlier.

Nelly spread her hands innocently: "Don't look at me like that, this guy insisted on crawling under this big guy's butt, probably trying to use it as cover." "But he seems to have had bad luck. When this war savage fell, it probably crushed some acid sac and accidentally 'digested' this ogre."

"Okay..." Chen Yu was speechless.

Who would have thought that this guy's final fate would be crawling into someone's butt and being accidentally digested... What a pathetic way to die.

But thinking about it this way, it's no wonder that this war-mongering creature acted so violently just now.

Arno looked through Grumg's belongings. The bone staff looked rather shabby, and even if it were given to an elf, it wouldn't be appropriate to present it, so it was simply tossed aside.

He searched through his tattered robes and found a magic ring inlaid with peridot.

"Boss, this ring seems to have a protective enchantment."

Chen Yu examined it and found that the ring could automatically activate a short-term magical shield. Although the strength was average, it might be able to save his life in a critical moment.

Just as Arno was about to explore the dangerous gargoyle lair, Chen Yu gave him the ring.

"Wear it; it might protect you in a pinch."

"Thank you, boss." Arno happily accepted the ring, almost hugging him and kissing him on the gel.

In addition, the bees responsible for cleaning up the battlefield also retrieved several alchemical seeds used by goblin shamans from the battlefield.

Chen Yu naturally accepted everything offered and ate it all.

In the end, his round belly was almost touching the ground, and he was so full that he didn't want to move at all. He simply hugged his belly and lay down next to the roots of Faldorn without any regard for his image, starting to "lay down".

Nili looked at him and chuckled, saying nothing.

Then she waved to Chen Yu, signaling the exhausted Stoneborn assassins to lead the young people back to the Stone Castle, while she herself turned and disappeared back into the shadows of the fluorescent forest.

It seems he's in a hurry to go back and discuss the invasion and subsequent countermeasures with the shadows of those Stoneborn ancestors.

……

The gains from this battle were so numerous that it took Chen Yu a full day and night to digest them all, barely managing to finish digesting the magical organs he had devoured.

[Devouring and Digestion Lv.7 → Devouring and Digestion Lv.8]

[Acid secretion Lv.6 → Acid breath Lv.8]

[Fire Resistance Lv.5 → Fire Resistance Lv.7]

[Hishu Ryuichi Lv.1 → Hishu Ryuichi Lv.2]

[Devour and Digestion Lv.8 Triggered - Recorded ??? Trait, Talent in Development (1/3).]

Ok?
Is a new World Tree talent being developed?

Chen Yu's spirits lifted; this thing was great.

The effect of "Hishulong No. 1" is already powerful enough, so the new World Tree talent must be just as good.

He tested it out, and the range of influence of Lv.2 "Hishulong No. 1" expanded from one square meter to two square meters, and the effect of accelerating plant growth was also significantly faster.

As for the improvements to "Acid Breath" and "Flame Resistance", they were within expectations, but after "Devour and Digest" was upgraded to Lv.8, there seemed to be some subtle changes.

Chen Yu suddenly felt an impulse and tentatively opened his non-existent "mouth".

"what--"

It was as if a tiny black hole had appeared inside the gel, drawing in both air and stone uncontrollably, squeezing into its gel body and then disappearing into the unfathomable darkness.

Ok?
He paused for a moment, then opened his mouth to inhale again. This time, he even swallowed a rock that was several times larger than his own body.

A short while later, he was surprised to find that his maximum health had been permanently increased by a little bit.

"I have a huge, abyss-like belly."

Chen Yu was shocked.

After upgrading the Devouring and Digestion skill, can you still increase your health by eating?
If we upgrade this talent a few more times, then when we encounter enemies in the future, no matter what they are, as long as their size isn't too outrageous, we can just swallow them whole.

Fighting is nothing compared to this.

It seems he underestimated the potential of his belly.

After exploring carefully for a while, Chen Yu unfolded his gel wings and flew unsteadily to the dimensional rift.

At this moment, the slime guards were vigilantly guarding the area around the rift, holding simple spears made from polished gray gravel.

It seems that as soon as he arrived, his true nature was revealed, and he jumped around excitedly.

Arno happened to return from scouting through the dimensional rift and waved when he saw Chen Yu approaching.

"Boss, you've arrived. My aunt just came by and said she has something for you."

As he spoke, he carefully placed the slime on his shoulder and then took out several small crystal bottles from his pocket.

The bottle contained a jet-black powder that seemed to absorb all light.

“She said that these might be the shadow creature corpses you wanted… the primordial powder left behind after the shadow creatures naturally died or were purified.”

Chen Yu looked at the several bottles of black powder that probably didn't even amount to a handful of sand, and was speechless.

He swayed back and forth in dissatisfaction.

"How come there's only this much? Arno, your aunt is so stingy."

"However, I seem to remember that the bottle of shadow powder she gave you last time contained more than this."

Arno coughed slightly, a little embarrassed, and explained, "Boss, actually, the bottle of shadow powder my aunt gave me last time was mixed with a lot of black rock sand, so there wasn't much truly pure shadow powder."

"And even just this small bottle of pure shadow powder seems to require a long time to collect."

"My aunt also said that this small bottle alone contains the essence left behind by at least ten shadow creatures after their demise, and its market value is as high as several hundred gold coins."

"Oh? It's that precious?"

Chen Yu was skeptical, but said, "I'll try it."

He used the gel to create suction on his body surface, swallowing a small crystal bottle, along with the powder, from Arno's hand into his stomach.

The panel popped up the moment it was swallowed.

[Shadow Traversal Lv.1 → Shadow Traversal Lv.4]

[Devour and Digestion Lv.8 triggered - Shadow creature characteristics recorded, talent in development (4/10).]

Huh? This really is the essence.

Chen Yu was surprised.

It seems that Nelly was quite honest this time and didn't try to fool him.

After absorbing the remaining bottles of Shadow Powder from Arno's hand into his stomach, the panel refreshed again.

[Devour Digestion Lv.8 triggered - Shadow creature characteristics have been fully recorded, granting the talent: Shadow Vision Lv.4]

[Devour and Digest Lv.8 triggered - Shadow creature characteristics have been fully recorded, gain talent: Shadow Affinity Lv.4]