In Search of Ancient Slimes [Bohak Forest Map]

After creating 50 Tentacle Heroes, I gained the ability called Tentacle Mine.

Tentacle Mine was an ability that came about as I was thinking of ways to defend the village even when I wasn’t around, and it was as follows:

[Learn Tentacle Mine using 20pt.

You can install Tentacle Mine on the ground using 5pt.

The characteristics of the Tentacle Mine are determined randomly.

Tentacle Mine is disposable.]

I naturally agreed.

I took Winston with me and wandered around the village, planting Tentacle Mines.

When I used 5pt to plant a Tentacle Mine, a coffin tentacle came out of my body.

After that, an egg that looked like a squishy frog egg fell to the ground from the coffin tentacle.

The egg turned into the shape of a tentacle and dug into the ground.

Tentacle Mines have no ego.

However, if an enemy steps within a certain radius of the Tentacle Mine, the Tentacle Mine activates.

Tentacle Heroes can control these Tentacle Mines.

Following Winston’s guidance, I used a total of 1,500pt of Evolution Points to install 300 Tentacle Mines in the village.

After that, I reorganized the village.

I became the King of Tentacles and established the Tentacle Kingdom.

I declared Bradon Village as the first territory of the Tentacle Kingdom.

This was to meet other races’ civilizations in the Bohawk Forest on equal terms.

All the tentacles praised me for becoming King.

I appointed Winston as the Grand General of the Tentacle Kingdom.

Edgar was appointed as the Lord of the Bradon Territory.

The muscular pig butcher ajussi was appointed as the captain of the Bradon Village guard.

The butcher ajussi’s name was Jackson.

Jackson was currently a 44-year-old man who ran a butcher shop in the village.

When Jackson was in his early 20s, he led an adventurer team and crushed numerous orcs with a giant two-handed battle hammer.

Jackson shouted proudly as he became the village guard captain.

“Kyle-nim. Just leave it to me. If enemies come, I’ll crush them all with my giant claws. Euhahaha!”

“I entrust the safety of the village to you, Jackson.”

“Just trust me. Keuhahahaha!”

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A few more days passed.

I, Lucy, Winston, and Melissa left the main gate of the Bradon Territory to explore the Bohawk Forest.

We were wearing comfortable travel clothes made of tentacle fabric.

Luggage for travel, such as food and tents, was carried on the backs of three donkeys infected with brain-parasitic tentacles.

For this, I had to use 20pt to acquire the brain connection trait of mammals of the horse family.

These donkeys were controlled by brain-parasitic tentacles and moved according to our will.

The people of Bradon Territory saw us off.

Edgar shouted warmly.

“Your Majesty! Have a pleasant trip!”

Jackson also shouted heartily.

“With me here, this territory is invincible!”

Jackson, whether it was his position that made him this way, had already made the 26-year-old Tentacle Hero Sren, who was much younger than him, his lover and was holding her in one arm.

The territory people also said their farewells.

“Your Majesty and Queen-nim, please be careful!”

“Achieve what you want and come back! Fighting!”

“Winston-nim! Please take care of His Majesty’s safety!”

We waved to the territory people and went deep into the forest.

When I glanced back, the territory people were still waving.

Some kind-hearted territory people even cried as they watched us leave.

I felt my eyes get slightly hot with emotion.

I took a step into the forest with my teammates.

Bradon Territory was opened to outsiders from today.

The major and minor affairs of the territory will be handled by Edgar, who has been promoted to the Lord of Bradon Territory, and the safety of the territory will be handled by Guard Captain Jackson.

I, the King, am embarking on a journey to train myself and find talent.

The Bohawk Forest is a vast forest also known as a treasure trove of life species.

I was looking forward to the long adventure ahead.

———————

I, Lucy, Winston, Melissa, and three donkeys walked southwest, cutting through the forest’s grass, towards the ancient slime that we didn’t know where it was.

It was getting close to dinner time.

Melissa sniffed.

“Sniff sniff. Sniff sniff. Oppa. I smell something delicious over there!”

When we got closer, it really smelled delicious.

Lucy noona, with saliva pooling in her mouth, said.

“Um. I want to eat quickly.”

When we arrived, there were 10 horned rabbits eating grass.

“Kkyuu?”

As soon as the horned rabbits saw us, they smelled us once and ran away like crazy.

At that moment, Lucy noona, Melissa, and Winston opened their mouths and shot tentacle tongues out of their mouths, piercing one horned rabbit each.

The horned rabbits screamed.

“Kkyuuuut!”

As the horned rabbits became crispy and withered, the three’s tongues returned to their mouths.

Lucy noona said with a lively face.

“Ah! So delicious! Kyle, what are you doing? They all ran away?”

Winston also said.

“My lord. What are you doing without eating? You have to eat even on a thousand-mile journey.”

“Y-yeah, that’s right. I’ll have to catch them next time.”

‘Yeah. I’m the abnormal one here.’

I blamed myself for not yet shedding my human skin.

We were walking when we found a deer.

Melissa whispered to me quietly.

“Oppa. I’ll run around behind and drive it here, so eat it.”

“Okay.”

Melissa transformed into a quadruped and quietly circled around behind the deer.

We crouched on the ground behind the bushes and hid.

Melissa, the deer, and us were in a straight line.

When Melissa threatened the deer, the deer ran towards us.

The moment the deer passed us, I made my hand into a blade tentacle and pierced the deer’s belly.

The deer screamed.

“Kkieeeeek!”

I pierced the deer’s body with my tentacle tongue and sucked it dry.

It’s a savory taste that I can’t explain in words.

Now, this level of snack didn’t give me any Evolution Points.

Winston said with an envious expression.

“Seeing the deer makes my mouth water. I hope we get a big catch next time too.”

It was time to sleep.

We instinctively dug into the ground at an incredible speed with our hands and tentacles.

Two empty caves were created in the ground.

I said, realizing.

“We have a tent!”

Winston said.

“I forgot. The cave looks more comfortable, so how about we sleep here?”

I, Melissa, and Lucy noona decided to sleep in the same cave, and Winston decided to sleep in the other cave.

A glue-like mucus instinctively came out of our bodies and blocked the entrance of the hole.

As the adhesive hardened, it became a color similar to the ground.

I, Melissa, and Lucy noona put only pillows under our heads and hugged each other to sleep.

It’s okay if it gets a little dirty anyway because it’s tentacle clothes, it’ll get clean again.

We continued to shoot tentacles out of our mouths to catch and eat prey the next day, and dug holes in the ground and slept.

Strangely enough, the monsters in the forest knew that we were predators when we got close and ran away.

Monsters didn’t come near where we slept either.

I was amazed at how they knew we were predators.

We didn’t feel any fatigue while walking through the forest, and we felt refreshed.

This forest was awakening the beast instincts in our DNA.

It may be very different from human exploration, but we were having a very enjoyable exploration.

It was something that happened after walking through the forest for about a week.

We found a large cave.

When we got closer, there were 30 adult orcs and child orcs.

Orcs are demi-humans with a height of about 180cm, a boar’s head, and a muscular, heavy body, and they know how to use weapons and tools.

The orcs were skewering a deer whole on a skewer and roasting it over a fire.

When the four of us got closer, the orcs became noticeably nervous.

“It’s a monster! A monster has come to eat us!”

“Send the children inside! The warriors will risk their lives to stop them!”

“Please save us!”

I didn’t want to kill even such small lives, so I smiled and tried to talk.

“We are just beasts walking around peacefully. If you give us a place to sleep and eat, there will be no bloodshed.”

Unfortunately, the orcs took my chic smile differently.

“He frowned! He’s trying to eat all the children!”

“Damn it!”

The orcs desperately grabbed their weapons and charged.

I was dumbfounded.

“I said let’s go peacefully, why are they like this?”

Winston replied.

“They’re digging their own graves. Let’s kill them all.”

I swung my blade tentacle like a whip and stabbed an orc coming in front.

The orc screamed in pain.

“Kueeek!”

I shot my tentacle tongue and stabbed the orc, absorbing its life force.

Lucy noona hit the orcs with several paralysis spells.

Lucy noona stabbed the fallen orcs one by one with her tentacle tongue and absorbed them.

A chieftain orc, whose head was two times bigger than the other orcs, ran towards Winston with a greatsword.

The orc brought the greatsword down on Winston’s head.

Winston blocked the greatsword with his right hand, grabbed the chieftain orc’s shoulder with his left hand, and pulled him in.

Winston opened his mouth and crunched down on the chieftain orc’s head in one bite.

The chieftain orc’s neck was torn in the shape of teeth, and a fountain of blood spurted out.

Melissa, after transforming into a quadruped, cast a curse of slowing down from her back, slowing down the orcs.

Melissa jumped and tore off the upper bodies of the slowed-down orcs and ate them.

Now, all that was left were the female orcs and the children.

The female orcs wrapped around the children and trembled, shouting.

“Please save us!”

“Please save only the children! We’ll be eaten!”

Melissa, who had returned to human form, drooled and asked me.

“Oppa. What should we do?”

“We’ve already preyed today, so let’s just send them away. I’d feel sorry if we ate all the kids too.”

Melissa drooped her shoulders and replied.

“Uung…”

When I gestured for them to go, all the remaining orcs ran away.

Lucy noona said to me.

“We could have taken them with us and used them as lunch boxes. Kyle is too kind even to food. Hehehe.”

Winston also said a word.

“My lord. It’s okay to be kind to food, but you must never be kind in battle.”

I blamed my weak self.

‘I’m too naive.’

We decided to rest in this cave today.

I sat on a rock at the entrance of the cave and looked at the dark sky.

Winston came to me with a serious expression and spoke.

“From what I’ve seen, my lord, you seem to be too attached to the limits of the human body.”

“Tell me more.”

“I mean, you’re too attached to the limits of human joints and the limits of the five senses. Until now, you’ve only transformed your arms into blade tentacles, haven’t you? My lord is a tentacle. You can make movements and attacks that humans can’t.”

Winston had a really perfect understanding of me.

I still had the movements and habits of when I was human on Earth ingrained in my body.

That’s also why I insist on human mimicry for the Tentacle Heroes.

“Um…. I think you’ve really diagnosed me well. What should I do?”

“We are untamed beasts. Beasts have beast instincts. Even a newborn horned rabbit knows how to ram with its horns without being taught.”

“It’s difficult….”

“Become a beast. Get used to slaughter. My lord can extend tentacles from all sides of his body and attack. This is a really great ability to become a slaughter machine.”

“I see.”

“I can’t tell you how to pose. Awaken your own battle instincts.”

“Okay. Can you give me a hint?”

“Which tentacles can you use for attack, my lord?”

“Blade tentacle.”

“Is there only one?”

“Well….”

“No! Where did your great evolution ability go? Arm yourself in various ways.”

Winston taught me really passionately.

I replied.

“Okay.”

I was pressured by Winston’s momentum, but I enjoyed Winston’s teachings.

That’s because no one on Earth had ever taught me so passionately.

Winston encouraged me.

“My lord. Don’t blame yourself too much. You have potential.”

“No. Thank you so much. I’m really glad you’re the Grand General.”

Winston scratched his cheek as if he wasn’t very used to this situation.

“Well. Wouldn’t it be easier for us if my lord gets stronger? First, arm yourself in various ways and awaken the instincts of the tentacles. You can hone your combat skills by hunting forest monsters usually.”

“I’ll have to think about what to do first. And I’ll do the fighting from now on to hone my combat skills. You don’t have to help me until I’m in danger.”

“That’s a good mindset! Then we’ll only interfere when it looks really dangerous.”

“Okay.”

The conversation with Winston was over.

That night, I kept thinking about what abilities to acquire.

Evolution has endless possibilities, but it is not invincible.

For example, evolution such as ‘No one can penetrate me’ is impossible.

The requirements for evolution are that I need to feel the need and external stimulation.

Even if I put fire on my body right now and gain fire immunity, I may not be able to stop it if I encounter a stronger fire with magic.

And I can’t do things that living things don’t understand, like nuclear fission rockets in SF movies.

I used my 15pt to strengthen the blade tentacle to the level of human steel.

And I used 20pt each to learn spear tentacle, blunt weapon tentacle, hook tentacle, thorn tentacle, shield tentacle, bone ejection tentacle, acidic tentacle, venom tentacle, fire immunity, underwater breathing, tough skin, and armor shell.

I used Evolution Points to increase strength, stamina, agility, and intelligence by 1500 each.

Suddenly, my strength increased so much that I wasn’t used to it.

I was walking as usual and hit the cave with my shoulder, and the wall was torn off with a thud.

Maybe my pure strength is several times stronger than Winston’s.

I had to move away from my subordinates and get used to controlling my strength before I could approach them.

Evolution Points must be used to invest in my abilities and to increase my subordinates.

If I only increase my abilities infinitely, I will have no subordinates and I will have to fight the entire continent alone.

According to Lucy noona’s memory, continent-disaster-level monsters would pop out on this continent.

And there was always a Hero who appeared and eliminated them.

It is said to be a deterrent to balance the world.

The world is not on the side of either the Hero or the monster, and the Hero was weaker than the continent-disaster-level monster.

But the Hero always won.

The reason is that the Hero had many companions who believed in and followed him, and the continent-disaster-level monster was alone.

I’m going to create a lot of outstanding subordinates before I become a continent-disaster-level monster.

So that when I fight the Hero someday, I will fight with my subordinates.

[Bohawk Forest Map]