'No real way to know… at least not for now, maybe some kind of possessed human? Or some kind of sickness… I'm unsure, I'll have to actually find one of these humans that it's digesting before they're… well being digested if I want to find out.' Alan thought to himself with a sigh as he took a couple steps back just in case the slime woke up abruptly and decided that the first thing it wanted to do was jump straight onto Alan's face.
As the image of the gelatine going over his face appeared, Alan's expression changed to one of pure disgust and apprehension as he realised that was one of the deadliest ways that one of these slimes could actually deal with him.
'With the fact that I can't use force on them or their bodies harden… It would take more than enough time for it to start devouring me, my eyes, eyelids, and even getting inside of my own body through my orifices and reach inside to get to soft tissue that it would likely digest in a flash.' Alan thought to himself as he shivered slightly at the thought of feeling the gelatinous and viscous substance slowly going down his throat whilst it ate him from the inside out.
It was at that moment however as he was remaining completely guarded that the timer finally came down to a zero, the slime was about to awaken from hibernation.
Alan wasn't anywhere near as scared as he was before about the slimes however that didn't mean that he wasn't guarded, no, he had never once let his guard down throughout the entire time when he was killing the seven other slimes, as much as he saw how easy it had been to defeat the slimes, he had only done so whilst they were hibernating and not whilst they had been awake.
[ Status: Hibernation ]
[ Status Duration: 3 Seconds. ]
[ Status Duration: 2 Seconds. ]
[ Status Duration: 1 Second. ]
[ Status: Clear. ]
As soon as the status changed from hibernation to clear, the slime that had been stuck high up on the ball moved, and it seemed to have immediately sensed Alan who was below it.
Without waiting for a single second, the thing launched its entire body towards the ground, right at where Alan was currently standing.
'I fucking knew it.' Alan thought as he smiled, he had already anticipated this and had planned right before the slime had fully gone out of hibernation.
Standing right where he was, thrust onto the ground was an object, more specifically a weapon, another combat spear that he had thrust into the ground.
Because this alley had a much faster deteriorating speed than the others, the ground had already gone from concrete down to gravel and thus it allowed him to stick the bottom of the spear inside of it.
The slimes, as he had tested beforehand on the green slimes, didn't exactly know the location of objects, they could sense humans and other living organisms somehow and yet they couldn't sense or see inanimate objects. And Alan was banking on that aspect to work on the crimson slimes.
Instantly jumping backwards, Alan saw the slime heading directly down towards the spear, where Alan had been just standing a single moment before, and as the slimes couldn't fly and neither could they glide through the air, it couldn't change it's direction mid jump.
*Thwack*
With the sound of iron hitting iron, the crimson slime landed on the tip of the spear, it didn't suffer any real damage as the spear couldn't pierce through it much because of the gelatin, however as it stopped its movement, the spear started going inside, slowly but surely until it reached the glass core.
Without someone adding a shock, it wouldn't be able to destroy it however, but Alan had already thought of that already, as a wide smile appeared on his face as he looked down at his hand.
There it was, a thin rope that was connected to the middle section of the spear.
Tightening the rope once more against his fist, Alan moved his arm back with his entire strength, pulling onto the spear with it and causing it to shake, just enough that the glass core inside of the Crimson slime was hit by it and thus promptly shattered.
*Shatter* *Shcluurrp*
With the sound of jelly losing form, the crimson slime fell down onto the ground, losing its previous viscosity and rigidity completely and practically turning into watery gooey liquid that quickly transformed and disintegrated into red motes of light that floated up into the air.
[ Ding! ]
[ User has defeated Crimson Slime. ]
[ User has gained 500 Experience Points! ]
[ User has looted 10 Silver Coins! ]
'Alright… with that, all eight of these fuckers are gone.' Alan thought to himself as he walked towards the spear that he had thrust onto the ground for his trap and then pulled it out before opening his system inventory and storing both the combat spear aswell as the rope he had used into it, his hand disappearing inside the holographic screen for a moment with the items in his hand before appearing once more in reality without them.
Closing the system inventory screen, Alan turned his gaze to look further inside the alley.
'The difference between the green slimes and this… it was around five levels, so, does that mean that each alley has that difference? I'll head out after I reach level fifteen inside of here and then go and check the next alley… hopefully… this will go faster now, if this theory is correct at least.' Alan thought to himself as he released a soft sigh and slowly started walking further and further into the darkness of the alley, further away from the main tokyo road and deeper into the alley that was quickly turning more cavelike than street-like.
'And hopefully… I'll be able to find out what exactly… is happening with these human body parts.' Alan thought as he disappeared into the darkness.
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