Acquiring a Slime Companion

All the Killer Bees, filled with murderous intent, began to charge desperately towards the Slimes on the fortress walls.

Chike loudly commanded a ranged attack.

“All Slimes. Fire!”

The Slimes’ projectiles and Slime cannons poured out simultaneously, engulfing the Killer Bees.

Shuung shuung shuyung shuyung

The Killer Bees, seemingly without fear, rushed mindlessly towards the fortress walls.

Numerous Killer Bees were hit by projectiles, their bodies exploding, melting, or riddled with holes, causing them to fall below, but new Killer Bees filled the empty spaces and charged forward.

I expressed my concern to Chike.

“Aren’t we needlessly poking a sleeping lion? It feels like they’re willing to go down with us.”

“It’s better for them to charge knowing they’ll die. We can kill them faster that way.”

As the Killer Bee army collided with the Slimes on the fortress walls, close combat broke out everywhere.

The Slimes wielded their Slime tentacles and performed body slams.

The Killer Bees thrust spears, threw javelins, and blocked with hexagonal plates.

Dozens of Killer Bees flew towards me, cursing.

“Die!”

“You bastard who’s been screwing with livestock! You’re the cause of all this!”

I shot out dozens of tentacles from my belly in a wide cone shape.

Shuuuooooooo

The Killer Bees were skewered like kebabs on my tentacles.

Peok peok peobeok peok

Some Killer Bees dodged my tentacles and charged at me.

I sprayed acidic slime from my mouth.

“Tweeaeaeaeae!”

The Killer Bees were hit by the acidic slime, and their bodies melted away.

As the area in front of me cleared, I retracted my tentacles into my body.

New Killer Bees rushed at me.

I shot out my tentacles again in a wide cone shape.

Shuuuooooooo

This time, the Killer Bee mages created hexagonal plates in front of me.

Thanks to my enhanced strength, the tentacles pierced through the hexagonal plates and skewered the Killer Bees behind them.

Jjaenggeurang peobeok peobeobeok

If it had been the Queen’s hexagonal plate, it would have blocked it.

The Killer Bees hated me, but they couldn’t approach me due to the presence and fear they felt from me.

“Ugh… that’s a monster.”

“(Trembling) Crazy… how can we win against that…”

I turned my arms into thorny tentacles and swung them like whips, wrapping them around the neck of one Killer Bee and grabbing it.

The Killer Bee’s neck tore, and its head flew off.

I grabbed another Killer Bee’s neck and sent its head flying.

The Killer Bees slowly moved away from me, terrified by my overwhelming force.

A round empty space formed around me.

I provoked the Killer Bees.

“You need to avenge the Queen’s death. Come on, hurry up.”

But the Killer Bees couldn’t bring themselves to approach me easily.

Just then, 20 giant yellow projectiles flew from the direction of the Slime Kingdom in the distance.

Shuuuwoong shuuuwoong shuuuwoong

The yellow projectiles passed through the Killer Bee army, destroying all the Killer Bees in their path.

The Slimes shouted excitedly.

“It’s the Queen-nim!”

“The Queen-nim is leading the Slime army!”

In the distance, the Queen’s Slime army was rapidly approaching.

The Queen’s Slime army fired ranged projectiles and Slime cannons at the rear of the Killer Bee army.

Shuuuooooooo shushushushu peong peoeong peong

The main Killer Bee forces were fighting the Slimes on the fortress walls.

The Killer Bees at the rear couldn’t mount a proper defense and were dying helplessly.

The Killer Bee army was caught between the Slime armies in the front and the rear.

I spread my wings on my back and flew, shooting and swinging my tentacles to slaughter the Killer Bees.

As time passed, no more living Killer Bees could be seen.

Only pieces of Killer Bee flesh remained on the ground.

Slime Queen Lime approached the fortress walls.

The Slime Queen powerfully declared the end of the war.

“We have won the war against the Killer Bees! The Slimes are free!”

All the Slimes celebrated their victory, shouting and jumping for joy.

Ppyong ppyong ppyong

“Uwaaaaaaa! Long live the Slimes!”

“We won!”

“There are no more Killer Bees now!”

———————-

The Slime army burned and destroyed the Killer Bee buildings.

Afterwards, the Slime army marched to the Slime Kingdom over six days.

A victory celebration was held in the Slime Kingdom.

I and my party members also participated in the victory celebration.

I and my party members visited the Slime Queen’s palace to discuss the rewards.

The Slime Queen expressed her gratitude to us with a satisfied voice.

“Thank you so much, everyone! The Slime Kingdom’s greatest wish has been fulfilled, and now all the Slimes can go outside freely!”

Chike also expressed his gratitude.

“Thank you!”

I replied.

“Since we have become friends with the Slime Kingdom, it is only natural that we would do this. Once a friend of the Slimes, always a friend of the Slimes, isn’t that right?”

The Queen agreed.

“Heuung~~ That’s right. You are eternal friends of the Slimes.”

I asked to hear the answer I had been eagerly awaiting.

“Slime Queen-nim, would you like to join us?”

“Hmm…. Okay!”

“Oh! Thank you! Is the Slime Kingdom alright?”

“I said that all Slimes are free. Now there is nothing threatening the Slime Kingdom, and I want to travel the world too.”

“I see.”

“And I want to participate as a companion, not go under you?”

“I will do that. I will accept Queen-nim as a guest elder of the Tentacle Kingdom. How is that?”

“Good. As long as it doesn’t particularly restrict my freedom. And you can just call me Lime and speak casually. I’m a little older, but now we’re companions.”

“I’m more comfortable with honorifics, so I’ll end with ‘~yo’.”

“That’s lower than ‘seumnida.’ Do that.”

Chike asked Lime a question.

“Queen-nim. Then can I be King?”

“Yes. From now on, you are the King.”

“I understand! I need to let all the Slimes know that I have become King!”

Melissa asked with a dumbfounded face.

“Huh? Can you decide that so easily?”

Lime said as if it were obvious.

“Anyone can do what they want if they have the ability. And Chike is capable enough to be King. If I’m not here, someone has to lead the kingdom.”

I agreed.

“That’s right. Then, Slime King Chike-nim, I look forward to working with you.”

Chike said with a happy voice.

“Hahaha. Thank you.”

“Have you decided where the Slime Kingdom will go?”

“Hmm…. It’s hard to think suddenly being given freedom.”

I decided to make a proposal to connect the Slime Kingdom, the Giant Ent Kingdom, and the Tentacle Kingdom.

“I have a proposal. If you go northwest from here, there is the Giant Ent Kingdom, and there Queen Zahara is my wife. She will welcome the Slimes. And further northwest is the Tentacle Kingdom, Bradon Territory. Please come there. We welcome Slimes.”

“Oh! Then we should start by opening roads to the Giant Ent Kingdom and Bradon Territory and developing the roads. It’s the first step for the Slime Kingdom to spread to the continent, so it’s a new feeling.”

“And would you send a Slime delegation to the Tentacle Kingdom? I will build a Slime Kingdom embassy.”

“That’s a good idea! I will have my younger sibling Chidi and 20 Slimes accompany you as a delegation when you leave. I hope they will see the wide world and accept new civilizations.”

“Thank you.”

“Hahaha. I’m more grateful that I can go to the continent so easily.”

“We plan to leave today. Actually, my wife, the Giant Ent Queen, is pregnant, so I want to see her quickly.”

“The King of Tentacles is a devoted husband. Hahaha.”

I spoke to Lime.

“Lime-ssi, let’s go now.”

“Okay.”

Suddenly, Lime’s body, a giant golden Slime, shrunk jjujujujuk and transformed into an Elf.

Lime had blonde ponytail hair, pointed ears, wore black oval glasses, had an intellectual atmosphere, and looked to be in her mid-20s.

Lime’s height was 170cm, her chest was G-cup or larger, and she was bigger than Lucy-nuna.

Lime’s outfit consisted of a white shirt on top, a black A-line skirt on the bottom, and pink sneakers on her feet.

No matter how you looked at it, she was an intellectual blonde big-breasted Elf teacher wearing glasses.

I shouted in surprise.

“Euaak! The race has changed!”

Lime pouted her lips and said as if she were sulking.

“I’m hurt if you’re that surprised?”

“No. It’s because you’ve become too pretty. What happened?”

“I received baptism from the God of Darkness, so I gained various abilities, and one of them is transforming into an Elf. Think of this as my body too.”

“Wow. I think it’s better now. But can I call you Lime-sensei?”

“Do as you please~ Hehehe.”

Lucy-nuna asked with a face that she couldn’t understand at all.

“Why are you wearing glasses?”

“Slimes also think about fashion. It’s my fashion.”

“……”

Winston asked something else.

“Lime-sensei. How do you fight with that body?”

Lime-sensei stretched out both hands forward, and golden jellies came out of her hands and became dual pistols.

Lime-sensei aimed at the dome wall and pulled the triggers of the dual pistols several times, and bullets popped out with a tang tang tang sound and hit the wall.

“How does it work?”

“This is made of my Slime jelly, and there is a magic circuit inside that fires bullets. I use this to shoot Slime bullets. I can shrink and enlarge my body, and I can create Slime jelly infinitely, so I don’t run out of bullets.”

“That’s an amazing ability. I’ve seen Dwarves use guns, but the barrels are long, so they are heavy, and the time interval between shots is long. This is a groundbreaking item.”

“Really? I just made it to suit my abilities.”

“Are there any other guns?”

“There are, but I’ll show you little by little.”

We welcomed Lime-sensei as a party member in that way.

Our party was gradually taking shape.

Me, the champion of the Dark race,

Winston, a melee dealer who can also be used as a tank,

Lucy, a magic dealer,

Melissa, a debuffer,

Lime-sensei, a ranged dealer and gunslinger.

I feel so good.

I feel like I can do anything now.

———————-

Me, Lucy, Melissa, Winston, Lime-sensei, Chidi, and the 20 Slime delegation members were at the border of the Slime Kingdom to leave for the Giant Ent Kingdom.

The Slime delegation included a space Slime, which carried four pairs of livestock horned rabbits, seeds of rare herbs, mushrooms, moss, and food inside.

Killer Bee Lily, infected with tentacles, decided to stay in the Slime Kingdom with Chike’s permission.

Chike, Poison Slime Adeben, Rancher Bibsbe, Flower Garden Manager Amari, and many Slimes who had built friendships with us came out to see us off.

Chike said to us with a powerful voice.

“Kyle-nim and the Tentacle Kingdom are eternal friends of the Slimes. Come visit us anytime!”

Amari stretched out her Slime tentacles, grabbed Melissa and Lucy-nuna’s hands, and said goodbye with a tearful voice.

“Heuk heuk. You guys have to come back to my flower garden! You have to!”

Melissa and Lucy-nuna said with tears in their eyes.

“Yeah! Thank you for everything so far!”

“I will never forget Amari for the rest of my life. Heuk heuk.”

Our group entered the forest to go to the Giant Ent Kingdom.

When I turned around, all the Slimes were waving their Slime tentacles at us.

The connection with the Slime Kingdom will be a great strength on my path.

I entered the forest with a swelling dream in my heart.

I had many conversations with Lime-sensei to get closer to her.

Now, we had finished a day’s march and dug a cave for camping.

Me and my party members made a campfire and sat on a rock, talking to Lime-sensei.

I felt very close to Lime-sensei, so I asked her something more personal.

“Lime-sensei.”

“Why?”

“How did you meet the God of Darkness, Kamaite?”

“When I was still a young Slime girl, I was attacked by humans and almost died, but Kamaite-nim saved me.”

“Why were you attacked?”

“I am a space Slime, and space Slimes spit out the items inside when they die, so they are a major hunting target for humans.”

“Then how did Kamaite-nim save you?”

“I was almost dying after being stabbed by a human with a spear, but Kamaite-nim suddenly appeared and killed all the humans. And he told me to come with him. Ah! Wonderful Kamaite-nim! I miss him~~!”

Lime-sensei called out to Kamaite with the voice of a fan club girl watching her favorite celebrity.

Lime-sensei said with a face recalling a beautiful memory.

“I fell in love with Kamaite-nim at first sight and followed him. I became a subordinate because I kept sticking with Kamaite-nim.”

“I see. Then how did you end up creating a kingdom in Bohak Forest?”

“Keueuk… the Tentacle War broke out. The evil Goddess Elia killed Kamaite-nim. Many Tentacle seniors and friends who were kind to me died because of that war. I was in the rear, so I was able to escape.”

Lucy-nuna said with tears in her eyes.

“It’s so sad and romantic. Our Kyle was so kind even in the old days….”

“Kyle’s personality is similar to Kamaite-nim, but he is not Kamaite-nim. Afterwards, I hid in Bohak Forest. Thanks to my ability to transform into an Elf, I was able to reach Bohak Forest without being hunted by people. When I encountered the Hero in the middle, my heart trembled with fear….”

I asked a question.

“Then the Slime Kingdom didn’t exist at that time?”

“Yeah. I went to the place where the Slime Kingdom is and just stayed still. Then all the Slimes around me started to gather towards me.”

“Why?”

“Because I am a strong Slime. I protected the weak Slimes from other monsters. Slimes gradually gathered, and at some point, my palace was built, and other buildings were built too.”

“Then what happened to the Queen?”

“Another Slime told me to be the Queen. Since the kingdom was created, Slimes who did other work were born.”

“Were there no Killer Bees at that time?”

“Yeah. When the kingdom was first created, there weren’t this many Killer Bees. But maybe it’s because the kingdom was created and the number of Slimes increased, but the natural enemy, the Killer Bees, also increased. The Killer Bee’s poison was fatal to me too, so I had no choice but to just watch even if the Killer Bee Kingdom was created.”

“That’s unfortunate.”

“Yeah. From some point on, the relationship between the Killer Bees and the Slimes became fixed like it is now. I still regret that if I had sacrificed myself and attacked the Killer Bee Kingdom, this wouldn’t have happened.”

Then Winston said.

“Lime-sensei did her best. If Lime-sensei had attacked the Killer Bee Kingdom and died, the Slime Kingdom would have been dismantled too.”

“Thank you for saying that. Hehe.”

We had various conversations with Lime-sensei, then returned to the cave and fell asleep.