Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

After laying his companion to rest, Lu Minghao dissolved and absorbed the remaining half of the sword, and began to frantically devour everything around him. Whether it was rock, iron, bone, or the sparse vegetation, he swept it all away. Consequently, his newly formed slime body also experienced considerable growth.

Although the information on his talent panel remained unchanged, Lu Minghao could feel that his slime body had become much stronger. The most obvious change was the elasticity of his body, which had improved significantly. Moreover, he could now jump forward at will, which was much better than before when he would feel exhausted after only a few jumps.

It wasn't until the hunger in his body had almost disappeared that Lu Minghao stopped. Only then did he realize that many slimes had surrounded him, and many of them gave him a feeling of power... at least, they were powerful to him now.

“These should be the previous generation of slimes, but I always feel like they have a power within them that I don’t know about?”

Lu Minghao sized up the slimes in front of him, who were gathered together, bouncing around. He had a strange feeling about them, as if there was some kind of power flowing within them. Based on the novels and anime he had seen before, it should be something similar to magic.

“However, how do I obtain this thing? Logically speaking, as a monster, I should be born with it, right?”

Subsequently, Lu Minghao began to sense his own body, but perhaps because he was newly born and too weak, Lu Minghao did not sense anything similar to magic within his body. Of course, it was also possible that he had not yet evolved organs for sensing.

“Forget it, I’ll know after growing for a while. The most important thing right now is to survive.”

In the next second, Lu Minghao, unable to find anything, stopped dwelling on it. In any case, with his 'Otherworld Encounter' talent, he would eventually possess this power. And even if he didn't, Lu Minghao wouldn't mind devouring monsters that possessed this power. With his gluttonous ability, he had a chance to gain their abilities when devouring them.

As long as the quantity was large enough, possessing this power would only be a matter of time.

“Then, let’s get motivated and keep eating!”

Subsequently, Lu Minghao glared fiercely into the distance, where there were still many things to devour. With his gluttonous ability, he didn't have to worry about eating too much and not being able to digest it. His bottomless stomach and digestive power were enough to support him in eating continuously.

And every little thing he ate would become stronger nourishment, giving this weak slime the power to survive.

In the following days, Lu Minghao began to constantly devour everything around him, even the soil sometimes, although compared to other things, the nourishment from the soil was too low and not worth eating.

In addition, during these few days, Lu Minghao also figured out where he was. Although his vision was blurry, Lu Minghao's perception was fine. Combining what he had devoured and the surrounding environment, Lu Minghao had determined that he was in a place similar to a sewer.

Moreover, it was the kind of place full of garbage and filth. Apart from slimes and some insects, there was no other life in this sewer.

.......

Drip!

In the dark, messy, and foul-smelling sewer, a slime was lying on a white bone, dissolving the bone of an unknown monster at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the filthy ditch not far away, there was the sound of water droplets falling from time to time, bringing a little sound to this dead space.

“Still nothing.”

After the white bone in his body was completely dissolved and absorbed, Lu Minghao's elastic body jumped towards the rock on the side. After skillfully wrapping it in his body, Lu Minghao began to carefully sense all the changes in his body. It was still the same familiar sense of infiltration, but there was still no power similar to magic.

But the problem was, according to Lu Minghao's observations these past few days, some slimes that were born at the same time as him, but were clearly not growing as fast, already had a weak power within them.

“Could it be.....”

In the next second, Lu Minghao, who had already digested the rock in his body, looked at the slime not far away. He could clearly feel a weak power flowing within it. The only difference between this slime, which was born with him, and him was that it followed the large group to devour that corpse on the day it was born... a human corpse.

“I went to see that corpse yesterday, and although I couldn’t see it clearly, it was indeed human. And judging from the remaining clothes, it should be an adventurer, which means that devouring powerful creatures, or rather, creatures with magic, is more conducive to growth.”

Thinking of this, Lu Minghao seemed to have made some kind of determination, and jumped little by little towards the slime's location. As Lu Minghao got closer and closer, the slime still hadn't noticed anything, and just stayed quietly in place.

In the next second, Lu Minghao directly crashed into the slime in front of him. With his gluttonous ability and the crazy eating he had done these past few days, his body was already several times stronger than his peers who were born at the same time. In addition, the sudden sneak attack directly sent the slime flying out, crashing heavily on the ground. The round, streamlined body rolled several meters on the ground.

Judging from the motionless appearance of the slime lying on the ground, it was already close to death. After all, slimes were recognized as the weakest monsters, and even an ordinary human child could easily step on and kill them.

“Rest in my body!”

Lu Minghao jumped in front of the slime that he had knocked away, and after silently reciting a sentence in his mind, he directly used his body to completely wrap it up. Then, a strange feeling涌from his body, and the whole world felt instantly different to him. The originally black and white perspective became colorful, and he could even sense the magic essence flowing in the air.

“Magic essence… so that’s what it’s called.”

At this time, in Lu Minghao's vision, the talent panel had a completely new change, a new talent had formed.

[Magic Essence] (White): This is the symbol of a monster's power, the beginning of evolution. Having just been born with magic essence, you have become a true monster, although it is only a very weak trace, but it is the very beginning.

“However, magic essence plus a nameless monster… so this is that world, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Rimuru.”

Feeling the power called magic essence in his body, Lu Minghao had already guessed the world he was in. After all, if it was called 'magic' or something like that, Lu Minghao wouldn't have easily known which world it was, because there were many worlds called magic, but there was only one with magic essence.

“Then, Rimuru Tempest, the other slime who was reincarnated into this world, have you already become a Demon Lord... or have you not yet been reincarnated into this world?”

Lu Minghao's inexplicable voice echoed in his mind, and a brand new, bold idea gradually appeared… However, all of this would have to wait until he got out of the sewer and learned about the situation in the outside world.