World Seed

Author’s Corner: Alright, now on to some more action! Pew pew and what not.That night, I devoted all of my attention to cultivating Void Affinity. For the first time, aside from the jungle planet, I even decided not to sleep first. I needed to get this one to 10% as soon as I could, so that I could finish securing my house. After that, I could begin working on the others. I had decided at this point that I would log into the game to finish my training after my house was secured, and have my AI alert me if there was a call for me.With that, I’d be able to finish my element training a lot sooner, and not end up falling behind. Over two weeks in the game now, if they devoted a single officer to training up as some kind of mage or soldier during this time he might already be able to take care of things. However, I was still called early in the morning once again. Moving down to the living room, I accepted the call.This time, Faraday had a rather tired look on his face as he spoke. “We’ve got another slime issue. This time, it looks like they’ve joined together to become bigger, so our usual methods aren’t working. Think you can handle it? It’s down at the beach.”“Should be alright.” I nodded my head, and again the call ended.“So, a big slime this time. Still want to study it?” Celeste smiled as she appeared at my wrist again.“Would like to, yeah. Depends on the situation. If it’s attacking people, I’ll have to stop it. But if there’s nobody around, I can take my time.”After I spoke, Celeste nodded, fading away. Stepping out of the house, I went ahead and created my wings again, before taking off into the sky. It may be a bit more tiring to fly instead of taking a car, but it was much better for my wallet. And, for not at least, I had to be careful with how I spent my money.Just a few minutes after I set off, I was already approaching the beach, and could clearly see a giant blue slime slowly walking up and down the shore aimlessly. The size of it should have been somewhere around fifteen meters in diameter, and I could make out over a dozen slime cores inside of it. Most likely, these were all water slimes that had formed in the bay and had come together before making their way to shore.From another point of view, that was at least a dozen Seeds of Water in this slime, most of them probably medium grade. Although they did not have much worth yet in the real world, it shouldn’t take too long before enchanting catches up and people start needing them. No matter what, I absolutely couldn’t use the void breath and simply suck away these cores. Especially since I did still want to study it.Nearby, there was a group of officers who all had their guns trained on the slime, as if waiting to see what it would do. Not like their guns would do anything to it, but it probably makes them feel better. Before I landed, I mumbled under my breath. “Celeste, can you identify?”