Chapter 26: First Contact

Slime Venom: A special potion created by analyzing slime venom. It effectively resisted all negative statuses caused by slimes. Every attack added extra powerful toxin damage to slime-type monsters. The effect lasted for 30 minutes!

This was it!

After looking at the attributes of Slime Venom, Chen Mo immediately knew that Slime Venom was the thing that caused the Slime King to mutate!

He had thought too complicated before. The Slime King mutated not because of some hidden condition, but because it drank this potion. The potion had extra effectiveness against all slime-type monsters, including the Slime King. If someone tried to use this potion against the Slime King, the Slime King would mutate and become stronger!

After all, if the Wild Wolf Valley hadn’t been occupied by the Flame Three-Headed Wolf, preventing players from getting wolf meat to complete the beggar’s quest, obtaining Slime Venom wouldn’t have been very difficult. With a little money, one could get a bottle. Having one bottle per person to fight the Slime King was not a problem at all.

So his initial analysis was mostly wrong. The situation wasn’t as complicated as he thought. The system just didn’t want players to kill the Slime King so easily.

However, Chen Mo knew his method and thinking process were correct. Denying the initial analysis was just looking at the result. If he hadn’t gone through that series of analyses, he wouldn’t have reached this point.

Now that he had Slime Venom, how did those two players cause the Slime King to mutate before?

By using it within the Slime King’s hatred range?

No! Those two players both went to the Slime King to die. They must have used Slime Venom early to deal with small slime monsters. Then, within the potion’s effective duration, they went to find the Slime King, which resulted in the Slime King’s mutation!

After figuring this out, Chen Mo drank the Slime Venom potion without hesitation.

A faint dark green glow flashed over his body. The color of Chen Mo’s Hand Crossbow weapon also changed slightly.

He found a few Slimes nearby. Chen Mo wanted to test the effect of Slime Venom.

The first one he attacked was a Black Slime with the strongest defense.

“So strong!”

A Crossbow Bolt hit the smooth head of the Black Slime. Chen Mo immediately let out an exclamation.

-2! -10!

His own attack only dealt two points of Damage, but after the two red Damage numbers, there was a green Toxin Damage number as high as 10 points!

The Black Slime only had 60 Health Points. After just a few attacks from Chen Mo, the Black Slime was dead!

“Let me try others!”

The effect of Slime Venom was really too strong. If it had similarly powerful effects against Slimes of other colors, the Slime monsters on the Slime Plains would be no trouble at all, not much stronger than other monsters.

“Indeed, it adds a large amount of damage to Slimes of every color!”

Chen Mo tried them one by one. Under the effect of Slime Venom, each of his normal attacks against Slimes of other colors added almost 40 to 60 points of Toxin Damage. His output doubled instantly.

Chen Mo’s eyes lit up. If the Slime King really mutated because of Slime Venom, then the potion probably had a significant effect on the Slime King too. Otherwise, the Slime King wouldn’t need to mutate!

He stopped attacking. Chen Mo moved and ran towards the Slime King.

Slime King respawn point.

“Hahaha, Slime King, here I come!”

“Let us kill you for a big loot drop!”

A group of Players who had reached level ten came to the Slime King to die. Knowing they were going to die, the group showed no fear and chatted and laughed freely.

Facing these invaders, the Slime King was furious and wanted to pounce on them. At that moment, it seemed to sense something.

A look of anger appeared in its large, round black eyes. Someone had killed its subjects again, used their flesh and blood to make something to use against it, and now intended to use it against the Slime King itself!

“Roar!”

With a loud roar, the Slime King’s body suddenly expanded and grew larger, and its color changed rapidly!

“Mutant Slime King! Damn! The Slime King mutated!”

“Quick, record it! I remember someone on the Forum got rich overnight by recording a video of the Mutant Slime King, earning over a million!”

The group of Players was stunned. Someone came to their senses and couldn’t help but shout urgently.

But they were too close to the Slime King. After mutating, the Mutant Slime King gave them no chance to record the video!

Whoosh!

The Mutant Slime King shook its body. A large number of purple, crystal-clear balls, the size of fists like marbles, fell from its body. Upon landing, they sharply bounced towards the group of Players surrounding it.

-800!

…

Massive Damage numbers floated above the heads of these Players. In an instant, all the Players were instantly killed!

After killing this group of Players, the Mutant Slime King fixed its gaze on a person in the distance!

That Adventurer was the real cause of its anger!

“This guy really has other skills!”

Seeing this move from the Mutant Slime King, Chen Mo was shocked!

There was very little data on the Mutant Slime King. Chen Mo had arrived nearby early, but he didn’t approach immediately. Instead, he deliberately waited until a group of Players got close to the Slime King before he walked closer, causing the Slime King to mutate.

He didn’t expect this test to actually reveal that the Mutant Slime King had a powerful group Area Attack skill!

Quickly laying a Basic Trap at his feet, Chen Mo turned and fled.

“This fat guy has no feet, but it’s still a BOSS after all! Its hopping chase speed is this fast! My current speed cap is 11 points. With the Fallen One title, it can be 13 points. But this guy’s speed is at least 17 points, possibly 18 points. If I don’t buy a pair of top-tier shoes, even if I drink a Low-grade Mutated Agility Potion, I can’t escape!”

While running, Chen Mo analyzed the Mutant Slime King’s speed. He concluded that the Mutant Slime King truly lived up to being a BOSS; its speed was astonishing. In his current state, he absolutely could not escape!

Boom!

The Mutant Slime King stepped on the Basic Trap that Chen Mo had set. The Basic Trap exploded!

-48! -50!

Two Damage numbers floated above the Mutant Slime King’s head. One was from the Basic Trap, the other was the effect of Slime Venom.

Slime Venom’s effect was indeed amazing!

The Mutant Slime King was extremely fast. Chen Mo continued to escape. Not only did he run, he also put on the Fallen One title and drank one of the only two Low-grade Mutated Agility Potions he had left.

The Low-grade Mutated Agility Potion could increase a Player’s Movement Speed Cap by 3 points. If Chen Mo drank it now, his speed cap could reach 16 points. But he was still slower than the Mutant Slime King. It was only a matter of time before the Mutant Slime King caught up to him.

But Chen Mo was someone who could set Traps while moving. After calculating the Mutant Slime King’s speed, Chen Mo knew it wouldn’t be so easy for the Mutant Slime King to catch him. As long as his luck wasn’t extremely bad, it wasn’t impossible to escape the Mutant Slime King’s Hatred range.

His hand moved swiftly. A Shockwave Trap was thrown behind him by Chen Mo.

Boom!

Not long after, the Mutant Slime King stepped on the Shockwave Trap. Its huge body came to a complete stop!

Not only that, it was also pushed back one meter by the Shockwave Trap!

“Good!”

Seeing this, Chen Mo’s spirits lifted. The Shockwave Trap being effective against the Mutant Slime King was extremely good news for him!

Next, the Mutant Slime King chased and Chen Mo fled. Several minutes passed in a flash.

In the end, the Mutant Slime King still failed to catch Chen Mo. It glared at Chen Mo with hatred and gave up the chase.

“This distance… should be enough, right…”

Chen Mo stopped. He didn’t turn back to continue provoking the Mutant Slime King. Instead, he lowered his head and calculated roughly how far he had led the Mutant Slime King.

“As long as I buy a pair of top-tier shoes and test that method again, it’s not impossible for one person to kill the Mutant Slime King!”

He combined all the information he had obtained and calculated. After thinking for a long time, a gleam of excitement appeared in Chen Mo’s eyes.