Chapter 13: "Level Up"
After the slime absorbed all four daggers, it didn't look back at the hunters whose "wools" were fleeched clean, acting like a scumbag who abandoned people after using them for free.
The slime calmly chose to crawl back to John, but this time, it didn't try to go to the man's palm.
On the contrary, it tried hard to climb John's body that was like Everest Mountain for it.
The slime moved bit by bit, until it finally reached John's head, the ultimate goal of the journey.
The moment the slime conquered "Everest mountain", it instantly "melted" into a slime pancake on John's head.
Then, it stopped moving.
The slime was so tired after running around eating a full meal, so it rested with a peaceful mind.
At the same time, the six hunters dropped their mouths for a long time, and no one, not even Tom, closed their mouths until the slime completely stopped moving.
When they were sure that the slime didn't want to absorb more daggers or do anything else, the six hunters exploded.
"What the— what was going on?" Remy pointed her trembling finger at Neo on top of John's head.
Lina and Daniel also looked at the slime with wide eyes.
"Did it just ask us for permission before eating our dagger?"
"Why did it try to eat our dagger? Other daggers are damaged, but mine is perfectly fine!"
Lina focused on Neo's strange behavior while Daniel was concerned about why the slime chose to eat their dagger.
And even ate his newly-bought dagger.
His instinct told him that the slime did it on purpose. It was targeting him!
But why?? He's innocent! He loved this slime the most!
The two people with different questions but the same object of question looked at each other in a daze and then slowly looked at the visibly stiff John.
From the moment the slime climbed his body, John tensed his muscle and his huge double-door refrigerator physique became even more daunting.
When the slime finally climbed onto his head and stayed there as if it was a soft bed, John slowly relaxed his muscles, but he became a "stone" instead.
He didn't dare to move, afraid that the slime would fall from his head.
This height was enough to injure the little slime to some degrees.
Everyone looked at the bear-like John and the tiny golden jelly ball on his head in silence.
They wanted to say something, but they wavered and finally shut their mouths.
Even Tom looked at John with a strange gaze, as if he was a pervert.
Uh...who would let a dungeon beast sleep on their head?
Only a lunatic would!
John also didn't know why he let the slime ride on his head.
Which man could tolerate such a thing? This slime was provoking his dignity!
But strangely, he tolerated the little guy…
John fell into confusion, not knowing that Neo was snickering in his "sleep".
Ahahaha. He tested several hunters and they let him eat the daggers "happily".
This particular bear-like guy even let a little slime use his head as a bed.
Neo felt that he had a good talent in taming.
Look, aren't these hooman slowly domesticating themselves for him?
Of course, Neo wasn't arrogant for a long time and immediately tried to see the system panel, especially the one indicating his rank.
At this time, he saw that his data on the system panel had a slight change.
There was an easy-to-understand EXP bar.
On the left side of the bar was [F-rank], and the right side of the bar had an arrow and a word in a square bracket.
[E-rank]
That EXP bar was already full.
Neo didn't feel any change in his body, unlike when he first awakened his ability, but he saw his current data slowly change.
The word [F-rank] turned into [E-rank].
The upgrade was so smooth and ordinary that Neo doubted whether he really just upgraded like that.
That's it? There were no special effects, no strange feelings, nothing?
With the system's bad taste such as giving people an unavoidable special effect for every skill they used, how could the upgrade be so ordinary?
This is a rank upgrade!
From F to E!
Neo was really in disbelief at the system's casual attitude, but after waiting for a few seconds, nothing changed.
He really became an E-rank beast so silently.
Surprisingly, it only took four F-rank daggers to level up. How did the slimes here not level up soon with such loose requirements?
Neo let out a small sigh.
Even more frustrating was that, when he silently upgraded to E-rank, Neo only found some subtle improvements to his five senses and physique.
Even with the improvement, he was still not up to par with an ordinary F-rank adult slime!
This slight improvement was so disappointing that Neo didn't want to think about it anymore and simply looked at his [Beast Tamer] skill set to calm his mind.
Maybe, after the level up, his [Beast Tamer] talent skills would give him some surprises.
Indeed, there was an unexpected surprise.
When Neo was still an F-rank beast, he had one slot to contract a beast of the same level or below.
It could also be a hunter one level below him.
Now that he upgraded, he actually got two slots!
Two whooping slots to contact beasts and humans!
Neo's eyes immediately lit up and he started to "drool" at the six hunters. He acted as if he was visiting a market and was picking vegetables here and there.
Hum. Let's see which hunter he should choose~
In time like this, using a skill is the best solution!
Neo immediately activated one of the basic skills belonging to a beast tamer.
DING! [Beast Encyclopedia] is activated.
[Beast Encyclopedia]
(Skill level: A)
As usual, a white halo swallowed the slime and soon, the slime smoothly did another set of special effects.
This time, even the six hunters didn't bat an eyelid and were just secretly on guard, afraid that the slime would use an offensive skill!