Slime Immortal.

Chapter 211 Now he's really the big boss.

By this time, the rain had almost stopped, and the moonlight quietly crept out of the dark clouds, casting its silvery glow upon the earth and illuminating Hammer Bone and the sorcerer apprentice Deng Lun standing on the dark rocks of the pass.

Gazing at the slime fortress in the distance, which looked smaller than his fist under the moonlight, Hammerbone yawned, scratching his itchy butt and complaining, "Can't these damn slimes just surrender? Why do I have to guard this place in the middle of the night?"

Deng Lun approached, leaning on his staff, and chuckled, "Deputy Commander Hammerbone, this is an opportunity not to be missed. Tonight is the best time to strike. By tomorrow, these undead will have mostly dispersed."

Hammerbone waved his hand irritably, "I know, you talk too much."

That's enough.

The sinister and terrifying demon E was already enough to make him apprehensive, and now there's this eccentric and annoying human as well.

Don't let his slender build fool you; he looks like he could be lifted up with one arm. In reality, he's an elite mage.

Moreover, he didn't know what kind of evil method he used, but the necromancy he cast was so terrifying that even he didn't dare to provoke him easily.

Not to mention that he has an even more mystical old master behind him.

That said, if the demon hadn't given the order, he would never have wanted to come back and face these green slimes again.

"Time is up."

Deng Lun simply looked up at the moon's position in the starry sky to confirm the exact time, and then raised the staff in his hand that was inlaid with a skull.

Fear Spell

A flash of black light appeared at the tip of the staff, and a thick black mist instantly erupted, wrapping around several unlucky goblins patrolling the edge of the pass like a living thing.

"Uh ah ah!"

The goblins seemed to be instantly gripped by the most terrifying nightmare. Their eyes were filled with fear as they stared at Deng Lun, as if they had lost their minds. They screamed and fled for their lives in the direction away from Deng Lun, plunging headlong into the slowly writhing tide of undead below.

The commotion caused by these few goblins was like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, instantly shattering the silence of the undead tide.

The flickering, eerie blue soulfire within the skull ignited, startling the densely packed skeleton soldiers awake. They stiffly raised their rusty weapons, their bones creaking, and stumbled after the goblins in the direction they had fled.

The unrest spread rapidly like a plague, quickly reaching the entire massive undead tide.

As if awakened by their killing instincts, they stopped wandering aimlessly and began to frantically converge on the brightly lit slime fortress ahead.

Deng Lun put down his staff with satisfaction. "Alright, now it's time to watch the show."

As if struck by a sudden thought, he gazed intently into the distance. "If these slimes really do have elves behind them... then the chaos in this land should satisfy the teacher, right..."

Before he finished speaking, the distant slime fortress reacted immediately to the increasingly surging tide of undead.

But unlike his expectations of the elven druid summoning forest allies or oak guardians to join the battle, countless complex and mysterious patterns suddenly lit up on the fortress walls.

These patterns connect and intertwine, instantly forming a large composite magic circle that covers half of the city wall!
Inside the city walls, three metal slimes stood on the key energy nodes of the magic circle.

With a "whoosh," they struggled to lift the gray gravel crystals, several times their own size, above their heads, while simultaneously sending out a resolute report through their gel network:
"Group 1, ready!"

The slime's voice echoed through the gel network of the fortress, followed by:
"Group Two is ready."

"All three groups are ready."

"..."

Finally, Chen Yu, standing atop the main battlements, surveyed the entire area and issued the final order.

"activation!"

"Hey—whoosh!" All the slimes located on the nodes simultaneously exerted force to embed the gray gravel crystals into the corresponding grooves of the magic circle beneath their feet.

"Boom!!!"

The entire fortress instantly emitted a roar of energy, like a giant beast awakening. This enormous commotion only fueled the undead horde below, making them even more chaotic and violent.

Just then, the completed magic circle suddenly burst forth with dazzling spiritual light, and countless beams of energy surged out from various nodes, rapidly converging and intertwining in front of the city wall, ultimately forming a light curtain that enveloped the front battlefield of the fortress, flowing with mysterious runes.

"what!!"

The surging tide of undead slammed against the light screen, and those skeletons that unfortunately rushed into the "death gate" of the formation were instantly crushed into pieces by the secret energy in the light screen.

The attacks from the other skeletons landed on the light barrier, but instead of being able to budge it at all, they were bounced off by the powerful recoil and smashed into pieces.

This seemingly thin light barrier easily blocked the frenzied attack of hundreds and thousands of undead.

When Deng Lun saw this, he was slightly taken aback, but then his eyes lit up with undisguised joy.

Even he, an elite mage specializing in necromancy, didn't know how to set up such a large-scale complex magic array that could cover such a wide area.

How could a slime territory located in a swamp possibly possess a magical defense system of this caliber?

This undoubtedly made him even more convinced that there must be some mysterious elven force behind these slimes, and it was very likely the ancient tree spirits of the Western Mountains.

Let things get chaotic! The more chaotic, the better! Deng Lun thought excitedly to himself.

Only in this way can he better complete the tasks assigned by his teacher, and even... have the opportunity to glimpse the teacher's true purpose hidden beneath layers of mystery.

However, he still lacks a crucial piece of evidence to prove that the elves were involved.

His gaze was fixed on the distant fortress, as if he were waiting for something.

His "wish" soon came true.

Behind the fortress walls, three tree-like beings emitting a faint, hazy light slowly emerged.

The dark oak leaves shimmered with an eerie luster in the moonlight, their massive outlines clearly visible in the night under the dim glow.

They strode down the city wall with legs made of thick roots, and swept their thick branches, which were like giant arms, into the dense pile of undead.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Each swing of the branch was like the scythe of death, instantly shattering a large group of skeletons, sending bone fragments flying everywhere.

But what surprised Deng Lun even more was that these three oak tree guardians could cast spells while waving their branches.

[Summoning Thunder]

Healing Techniques

Plant growth

This suggests that they may not be ordinary oak guardians, but most likely... the legendary ancient trees of war?!

He quickly recalled the records in the ancient books. Although the War Trees were known for their unparalleled physical strength and defense, their magical abilities were actually quite good.

The so-called "inferiority" is relative to powerful spellcasters of the same transcendent level.

The magical abilities displayed by these three tree-people are exactly what a War Tree sapling should be capable of.

It even far exceeded his expectations.

Thinking about this, he finally became absolutely certain.

This is definitely the Ancient Tree of War. "Heh, interesting, really interesting. An unknown slime territory has actually brought elves and the Ancient Tree of War into the picture..." Deng Lun's eyes gleamed with a strange light.

Now that the purpose of the test has been successfully achieved, there is no reason to linger here any longer.

He turned around abruptly, not glancing at the battlefield again, and his figure quickly disappeared into the shadows of the pass.

As for the outcome of the war?
With elves and the Ancient Tree of War supporting them, how could these lowly, mindless undead possibly be a match for those slimes?

The ending was a foregone conclusion.

Hammerbone ignored Deng Lun as he left. It gazed at the fortress in the distance, which stood like a reef amidst the tide of undead, and its heart was filled with lingering fear.

"These slimes are getting more and more terrifying..."

Fortunately, he wasn't like that fool Grumger, rushing off to his death.

After glancing around a few more times, he turned and slipped away without looking back, afraid that if he stayed any longer, the slimes would chase after him and beat him up.

On the battlefield below the Riftstone Fortress, the battle, though one-sided, continued.

Despite the heavy losses suffered by the undead under the fortress's full firepower, their numbers were simply too numerous to be cleared out in a short time.

Chen Yu squatted on the rampart, gazing at the dark, rocky pass in the night. Only after the scouting swarm of stinging wasps returned to report that the goblins had retreated did he look at the bones scattered on the ground left by the undead, and a thought suddenly occurred to him—

Can we eat these skeletons?
Logically speaking, since undead creatures do not have magical organs, they are unlikely to develop talents.

But "Devour and Digest" has already reached Lv.8, so now I can gain health points just by swallowing anything. If I were to swallow all these bones on the ground...

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up, and he jumped straight down from the battlements, landing with a "thud" on the battlefield where the tree people had cleared a space.

He gestured for Xiao Ka to stand guard nearby, then took a deep breath, causing his entire gel body to swell up as if inflated.

[Eat and digest]

Look at my huge belly in the abyss!
Chen Yu unleashed his full stomach power, and a miniature black hole, seemingly capable of devouring everything, condensed and took shape inside his gelatinous belly, then erupted with a powerful suction force.

"Woooooo~"

The suction created a howling wind, and the bones scattered on the ground trembled before rushing towards him and disappearing into his abyss-like, pitch-black belly.

In just a short moment, the panel in his field of vision began to refresh rapidly.

[HP upper limit +1]

[HP upper limit +1]

[HP upper limit +1]

……

His health points were rising like crazy, far exceeding Chen Yu's expectations.

Originally, his health points were 1,500, but they gradually increased and soon broke through the 2,000 mark, with no sign of stopping.

Two thousand five... three thousand... three thousand five...

After a while, his health points easily climbed back up to over 4,000.

Not satisfied with just that, Chen Yu immediately ordered all the slime guards in the fortress to go out and hop around cleaning up the battlefield, gathering bones from further away to Chen Yu's side, only to be sucked into the black hole's belly.

He had been busy for most of the night, and it wasn't until the first rays of dawn shone on the fortress that he felt a little tired from eating.

At this moment, his health points reached an astonishing 15,000!

This is almost ten times the original amount.

Knights like Arno, known for their high health and attack, only have around 3,000 health points.

And he has 15,000!

I'm a super tanky slime.

With his current health, even if he just stands still and gets beaten up by those adventurers, the damage they inflict might not even outweigh the health he recovers.

Chen Yu stretched his body, still feeling a bit unsatisfied, and looked around. The once surging tide of undead had completely disappeared.

As far as the eye could see, there was only a clean ground; all the bones had gone into his large belly.

In addition, he seemed to see several talents flash by as he devoured them.

[Devour and Digest Lv.8 triggered - Skeleton soldier characteristics fully recorded, gaining the talent Vampire's Touch Lv.5]

[Devour and Digest Lv.8 triggered - Skeleton soldier characteristics fully recorded, gained Undying Affinity Lv.5 talent]

[Devour and Digest Lv.8 triggered - Elite skeleton soldier characteristics fully recorded, gained Fear Aura Lv.5 talent]

Ok?
They are all necromancy-related talents.

Oh no, I've really become the boss now.

With his massive health pool, the Fear Aura activated, and the Undying Energy infused, his Vampire Tentacles allowed him to heal while attacking. Now, even undead creatures couldn't understand what immortality truly meant.

Forget about magic resistance and physical resistance, let's take down one health bar first. After one bar is gone, there are still ninety-nine more to go.

He felt like if he kept eating, his health bar would be as long as those of the gold-tier monster lords.

Fifteen thousand isn't enough, so what about thirty thousand, forty thousand, or even one hundred thousand?

As he was lost in his daydreams about his future "eating journey," Nelly's figure emerged from the shadows beside him, her face showing surprise.

"My lord, just how big is your appetite? You devoured so many undead in one night?"

Chen Yu shook his gel-like body to indicate his affirmation, then asked a question that surprised even Nelly: "Are there many more undead like this in the Underdark?"

Nelly was taken aback at first, then her eyes darted around, and a sly smile appeared on her face as she cheerfully replied, "Of course, the Underdark is much bigger than you can imagine. There are undead everywhere there; you could eat them all in a year and still not be able to finish them all."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yu was immediately tempted.

So he puffed out his round belly and struck a righteous pose.

"These evil vampires have colluded with goblins to disrupt the peace and tranquility of the swamp, and have long occupied my Darklands."

"In order to uphold justice and order, and for the long-term peace of the swamp, we must take the initiative and attack the Eternal Night Territory!"

"what?"

Nelly, who had been all smiles just moments before, was a little bewildered and suddenly stopped smiling.

Oh no! The little slime's ambitions are even greater than she imagined; it actually wants to conquer the Underdark.

But then again, isn't this the very force the family has been seeking to break the deadlock?

I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

(End of this chapter)