Slime True Immortal

"Your Majesty, we'll come back." Anvil sat on a wagon pulled by two hefty swamp lizards, waved vigorously at Chen Yu who stood at the fortress gate, and laughed heartily.

"Your Majesty, farewell." Beside him, the young Shaman Tulk also gave a restrained wave with his scaly hand.

After watching the wagon loaded with gold coins roll down the Smooth Wasp Forest Path and gradually disappear into the dense trees at the horizon, Chen Yu turned and hopped over to the fortress warehouse area.

It seemed the vampires had heard about his affinity for magic organs. This time, besides gold and scrolls, they had brought along some crystals that emitted a crimson sheen.

After Little Flower found the blood crystals, they were temporarily stored in a dry corner of the warehouse.

In that corner, Chen Yu reached out a gel hand, scooped up a fist-sized dark-red crystal, held it to his eyes for a careful look, then opened his mouth and swallowed it.

Glug...

The large blood crystal made his gel body bulge outward.

"Chew chew chew..."

Crunch—its texture was a bit like hard candy, but with a faint metallic, bloody taste. Huh...

Just as Chen Yu inwardly wrinkled his face in distaste, a panel popped up.

[Devour Digestion Lv.7 triggered — Recorded Blood Bat Servant traits, Talent gestation (1/3)]

A new talent?

Chen Yu's round little eyes brightened instantly.

Nice.

He crunched down two more blood crystals of the same shape.

[Devour Digestion Lv.7 triggered — Fully recorded Blood Bat Servant traits, gained Talent: Blood Frenzy Lv.1]

Hm?

It turned out to be a rare berserk-type talent.

But this talent consumed not only mana, but also fresh blood.

Use it carelessly and he could risk anemia.

No wonder Casimir always looked malnourished, like he never got enough to eat.

His gaze returned to the small mountain of various blood crystals. He picked up two crystals of different shapes, tasted them, and then began a long eating session.

After quite a while, Chen Yu filled his belly until it was round and satisfied, then lay on the floor, squinting as he enjoyed the surging flow of energy inside him, not wanting to move a muscle.

[Devour Digestion Lv.7 triggered — Fully recorded Blood Bat Noble traits, gained Talent: Blood Recovery Lv.3]

[Devour Digestion Lv.7 triggered — Fully recorded Blood Bat Noble traits, gained Talent: Blood Molding Lv.3]

[Devour Digestion Lv.7 triggered — Fully recorded Blood Bat Lord traits, gained Talent: Blood Baptism Lv.3]

[Bat Wings Lv.1 → Bat Wings Lv.4]

[Blood Frenzy Lv.1 → Blood Frenzy Lv.3]

Aside from "Bat Wings," which was purely a physical transformation, whether "Blood Recovery," "Blood Molding," or "Blood Baptism," these Blood Bat talents all required consuming fresh blood to activate.

It was indeed a very unusual power system.

Of course, the extra cost bought powerful vampiric magic.

The effect of "Blood Recovery" was astonishing: it could rapidly heal almost any physical damage except injuries to the brain or soul source.

With enough blood reserves, even severed limbs could regrow within a certain timeframe.

Talent level only determined how fast the recovery was and how efficiently blood was consumed.

"Blood Molding" could be regarded as a mutated version of a fireball spell, consuming mana and the caster's blood to form corrosive blood or boiling-blood spears.

It had tremendous explosive impact and added negative effects like curse contamination and blood corrosion.

But since it required sacrificing the user's blood, the contexts where it was practical were limited.

Only true bloodkin could likely make full use of them.

Chen Yu was thinking this when the "Blood Baptism" talent, obtained from the Blood Bat Lord, changed his perspective.

He hopped out of the warehouse to an open area inside the fortress. On impulse, he tried to activate the new talent.

[Blood Baptism]

A vivid red glow flashed across his gel surface, then a wave of green life energy burst forth from his round body like a spring tide waking up, quickly spreading outward.

It formed a verdant field with a radius of about nine meters around him.

Inside this field, any unit possessing bloodline-type talents would receive blood-energy amplification.

When a unit inside the field used a Blood Bat talent, it would no longer need to consume its own blood;

the field's blood energy would substitute instead.

This perfectly solved the drawback of Blood Bat talents requiring self-blood consumption.

The only drawback was it taxed his own life-energy quite heavily.

Chen Yu retracted the field and pondered.

So, if he could find a monster capable of storing large quantities of fresh blood and make it the army's blood-energy reservoir...

could he then form a Blood Legion that didn't depend on actual bloodkin yet could unleash full vampiric magic?

It sounded plausible.

This meant his Poison-stinger Wasp legion was due for a major upgrade.

From now on, the legion could take a magic fountain with them, which would make things very difficult for their enemies.

Thinking this, he immediately fetched Little Flower and summoned all the Poison-stinger Wasp queens. They held a small roundtable in the tree house to discuss the possibility of establishing a Blood Legion.

The eldest queen approached, rubbing her slender forelimbs along Chen Yu's gel surface in a few respectful strokes to show the highest honor.

"Respected King... in the northern, bitterly cold forest... our kin... like to drink the blood of large creatures, and will store excess blood in abdominal blood sacs..."

Vampire wasps?

Chen Yu's interest spiked.

However, he was about to head to the Dryad domain to prepare for the arriving Stone Descendant envoy, so the task of locating vampire wasps had to be delegated to Little Flower and the Poison-stinger Wasp legion.

Little Flower solemnly bobbed her gel body up and down to indicate she understood, then hopped away to organize scouting teams.

The other queen wasps were carefully carried back to their nests by worker wasps to begin preparations for the legion's upcoming births.

Chen Yu had intended to head to the Dryad domain immediately, but he suddenly sensed Yano from Gore Stone Fortress calling him from afar.

"What's the matter?" he asked in confusion.

A few seconds later, Yano's voice crossed the distance and reached him clearly:

"Boss, bad news. Those goblins used some method to occupy the Ice Elemental Plane behind the fissure. We can't get through at all now."

They occupied an elemental plane?!