Standing inside the dark alley and slowly gathering his breaths, Alan felt relief slowly enter his system as a soft small smile appeared on his expression.
'I am actually getting stronger, a while back I would have most definitely not even been able to dodge the slime attacks, let alone attack fast enough to shatter their cores. But now im fighting these slimes for the first time and I'm defeating them left and right.' Alan thought to himself, feeling somewhat proud of his growth and achievement.
Looking down at the ground that had been covered in slime goo after the cores had been broken, he noticed that even the goo that had been left behind by the slimes after their deaths was quickly disintegrating and turning into small motes of light.
'Is the system… recycling them? Or like atleast a part of the monster that I'm defeating by turning it back into mana and thus using that once more later to create monsters again and again for me.' Alan thought and the more he did, the more he felt like the notion had some sense to it.
'It's definitely possible as a theory atleast. I mean if i was the system I would most certainly be doing that and the motes of light look pretty weird but then on the other hand, I was able to see those even before I got the mana perception skill so maybe its not even mana but something else… whatever.' Alan thought as he turned and walked out of the dark alley and back into the clean japanese themed main road.
'Alright, now I just have to keep finding these slimes. In comparison to the Straw Dummies, they're quite a bit harder to find though.' Alan thought to himself as he walked down the main road until he noticed one more alley that was almost completely hidden in the shadow of a tall building. Heading towards it, this time without worrying that much, having grown confident after his two complete and utter victories against the slimes.
As he walked into the dark alley, he noticed something that confused him slightly.
The alley was dark and he had anticipated that, what he hadn't was the smell. It was worse, much much worse than anything he had ever smelled in his lift.
*Gasp*
A gasp erupted out of his mouth as he quickly bent over, slamming both hands over his own nose as he started wretching out onto the ground, vomiting everything that he had eaten.
'What… what the fuck is that.' Alan thought to himself as he gazed back at the alley with the side of his eyes whilst his body continued vomiting onto the concrete ground.
There, quite a bit further into the alley, his eyes caught sight of something.
It was a slime, however it wasn't anything like the slimes that he had met before, the colour was a blood red, a deep dark crimson instead of the light green colour that the other four slimes that he had encountered had.
'That… what the fuck is that thing eating.' Alan thought as he saw something inside of the bulbous gelatin like substance, inside there, inside the crimson slimes body, floating inside it.
Alan's eyes widened completely as he turned and instantly ran out of the alley as quickly as he could, heading into the main road and falling down as he tripped, thankfully however he had already managed to escape before he had fallen down onto his ass.
'That thing…' Alan thought to himself before quickly shaking his head, his pupils trembling inside his eyes as he remembered the image that had just been deeply ingrained inside his mind for what he felt would be the rest of his life.
'Dont… dont go further down the road. Is the main road like a sort of mini level? The further down you head, the more dangerous the alleys get?' Alan thought to himself as he gulped, feeling the taste of his own vomit, that almost caused him to head into a second round of wretching however he held it back, his entire expression narrowing for a bit in pure disgust as he slowly lifted himself back up and turned to head back the way he had come, heading towards the start of the main road, where he had first spawned inside this dungeon.
As he walked, still swaying slightly on his feet, his hands trembling, his mind almost in shambles from the fear that had gripped him in an instant.
It was worse, what he had just seen was much worse than anything he had ever seen before in his life, it was worse than the possession, worse than the unknown Cullens who he was sure were some kind of supernatural creatures.
As he walked, his mind kept going back to it as he gripped his fists and grit his teeth, his eyes flashing with determination for a moment.
'Fuck… why the fuck wast that thing eating a human limb?' Alan thought to himself as he finally arrived at the start of the tokyo main road and turned his head towards the first alley that he had entered in the dungeon and walked towards it.
He wasn't overconfident this time, he was cautious, more cautious than he had been even when he had entered the dungeon for the first time and seen the slime substance, and much more cautious than he had been when he entered the alley with the crimson slime.
'I can't let my guard down even for a moment, what If that damned thing had attacked me whilst I was vomiting? I would have been its next meal… It wouldn't have been that random human leg, it would have been my head inside of that damned things belly, slowly dissolving…. Fuck!' Alan thought as he almost felt like he would break his teeth from how much he was clenching them together.
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