But for a Slime

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Joe sighed and stood, before stepping into his forms, quietly moving through the room. He was much more cautious about waking the other three, realizing they needed their sleep, and when the sun had risen over the horizon, he slipped from the room and found another location to finish off his forms so as not to bother them before going back upstairs to find them still asleep.

Glad to have let them sleep, Joe resolved to do so again in the future and just rested, opening his book to write down information and study some more, going over his new strange titles... They're not really titles though, are they? Just… what would they be called? Joe sighed before he shrugged at let it go, only happy to learn more and begin figuring out how it would affect him.

He was interested in the ones that gave stat boosts, but realized he'd already been on planet almost two hundred days, which meant the boosts were long gone. Although, that might explain why it was so easy for me to take out the triple core slime back at the village after being there only a couple weeks whereas the double core slime in the dungeon just a week ago really gave me a run for my money. Man… the way these stats change and fluctuate really play havoc with my equilibrium and training!

Joe shook his head and discarded his frustration before returning to his studies. He lost himself in time then came to, surprised by the movement of Garnedell and Zilnek standing and lining up. Oh, right, time to do forms with them, I guess?

Joe looked to Kilniara's room but Garnedell quickly called out, "She is coming. We already called her."

"Cool. Then, start in ready stance, and let's go over some of the basic stances until… oh, hey. She's here, cool. Alright. Line up Kilniara. Ready form and begin first form."

All three readied, then after a bit of fumbling, started the first form. Oooh… ha! They're used to copying me when I wake up. They haven't started without me before. Gotta fix that!

The next twenty or thirty minutes passed in quiet peace punctuated with heavy breaths of exertion as he walked around them and offered them minor instruction, although Zilnek and Kilniara were improving remarkably fast, which is… crazy!

After their forms, Joe called out to Kilniara, "Hey, can I look at your status again, really quick?"

Kilniara came over readily enough, pulling it up for him and he quickly flipped over to her blessings and titles page with her help, smiling when he saw the new title. Huh… I should check out Garnedell's as well! Joe then asked her to press on her new title.