After seeing the slime's tentacle hit System, Shava became extremely angry. The white halo around her body was thicker than usual, second only to the dazzling white light she'd emitted while challenging Aura back when he was still a dragon.
While attacking the giant slime, Shava's combat power was staying consistently between 1100 and 1300. She kept sending out sshes with her twin bdes, repeatedly slicing off the tentacles that seemed to be endlessly erupting from the giant slime's body.
Because the giant slime's attack method was very monotonous, consisting of only bouncing and sending out slime tentacles to attack, Shava was helpless against it for a while.
With her mortal body, she was crossing the magical life level and fighting back and forth with an extraordinary life form. It had to be said that Shava's ability was beyond common sense.
The invisible Ying also unconsciously stopped concealing her figure when she saw this scene, revealing an incredulous expression on her face.
Even among the tens of thousands of insect beasts Ying's master had cultivated, none of them could match Shava's incredible strength.
System nodded without responding to Ying's shocked mental message. Instead, he looked over at Meatball, who was feeling lost and uneasy, and sent a mental message to comfort him.
Compared to the ants who weren't afraid of death, Meatball seemed a little timid. Even though his combat power could reach between 400 and 500 when he changed his form, as long as he felt that his life was threatened, he would find a way to escape.
The big mosquito Meatball had transformed into had been able to attack the giant slime smoothly at first, and he had successfully sucked up some of the slime's body with his proboscis.
However, the giant slime had suddenly vibrated violently, which had caused a wave of slime to spsh out, engulfing the unfortunate Meatball, who had then been yanked directly into the slime's body. The slime had constantly spun Meatball around in circles, which had gradually drawn him into the center of the slime's body.
Fortunately, Meatball wasn't an ordinary mosquito. He had quickly changed his shape, transforming into a strange aquatic insect simir to a water scorpion, which had finally allowed him to escape.
However, Meatball's body had also suffered considerable damage during his escape. During the slime's digestion of his mosquito body, both wings and several legs had remained inside the slime's body forever.
It was precisely this escape that had made Meatball very afraid of the giant slime. He had completely lost his courage and was unwilling to fight the giant slime again. After that experience, he only dared to hide next to System.
System didn't bme Meatball for this. After learning that he wasn't his opponent's match, if Meatball had still dared to charge into battle, that wasn't courage, but suicide.
Although Meatball could change his form and means of attack, in essence, his attack style wasn't much different from the slime's; both of them attempted to devour their opponent.
If Meatball could grow to the size of the giant slime, he might be able to fight it. For now, he was simply too small to be its match.
The two-meter-tall slime seemed to be only four times the half-meter diameter of Meatball, but that was only counting the width. If converted to volume, Meatball was only 1/64 the size of the slime.
Relying on devouring the other's body to defeat it was nothing more than a pipe dream.
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Facing the giant slime, System couldn't think of any good way to win.
Although Shava was fighting back and forth with the slime and even seemed to have a slight upper hand, System knew that her ability could only st for a little over ten minutes at most.
Also, the giant slime's characteristics acted as an innate restraint on her. No matter how much of the giant slime's body Shava sliced off, it wouldn't take long for its parts to reconnect and recover.
Forget about ten minutes; System estimated that even if Shava maintained her peak state and spent three full days chopping up the slime, it still wouldn't have any problems continuing the fight.
This could also be seen from the emotions the slime emitted during the battle.
Although Shava's attacks were sharp, the slime didn't give off any indications that it felt threatened. It just viewed Shava as food and kept attacking according to its body's instincts.
System even watched the slime wriggle its body to absorb some soil as a snack during the fight, proving that it didn't take the battle with Shava to heart.
It was obviously unrealistic to rely on Shava to defeat the giant slime.
For now, it was basically impossible to beat the slime in a head-on fight. System could only rely on his eloquence and try his best to persuade the giant slime to split and commit suicide. However, after trying to persuade the slime for a few minutes, he made no progress.
Although the giant slime wasn't very intelligent, it was extremely stubborn. It fully believed System's earlier lie and couldn't be convinced otherwise. No matter what System told the slime in his ter mental messages, it still thought that he was a fellow slime and wanted to absorb and assimite him.
No matter how he tried to communicate with the giant slime afterward, it seemed that there was no way around this hurdle.
After receiving System's earlier mental message, the first thing the slime had thought of was to absorb and digest its fellow slime.
After a few more minutes, System finally gave up on attacking the giant slime.
Although he coveted the purple slime inside its body, this giant slime at the extraordinary level was obviously not a mushroom that System could pick at will.
If they insisted on fighting the slime to the end, it might not be them who ate the slime, but the slime that would digest them.
Fortunately, although this extraordinary slime was powerful, it couldn't fly and had low intelligence. As long as they flew into the sky to avoid it, it wouldn't be long before it forgot about them and left System's territory in search of food.
System quickly gave the order. Although Shava was very reluctant, she moved away from the giant slime under System's repeated urging, then got picked up by Meatball and carried into the sky.
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As System had expected, the living habits of the giant slime weren't much different than those of ordinary slimes. It still liked to roll around in the swamp and swallow soil as food.
After seeing that the slime was reluctant to leave, System and Meatball grabbed some soil and tossed it from the sky to lure the slime away.
Before long, the giant slime friend was successfully led to the swamp in the north, where it began to py with the countless carnivorous pnts growing there.
However, after System reluctantly sent his slime friend away and returned to the nest, he suddenly heard strange sounds in the distance, which seemed to be voices speaking the Abyss nguage. He also noticed two vague shadows nearby after hearing the voices.
"Could this extraordinary slime have been attracted here by these two shadows?"
System guessed that the two shadows were secretly observing either him or his slime friend.
"King, there seem to be two lizardmen over there."
Just when System was about to notify Ying to go and investigate the movement in the distance, she also discovered the abnormality and informed him that the shadows in the distance were lizardmen.
Soon, Ying concealed her figure and began moving toward the two lizardmen...