The Dungeon Struggle Of An Earth Dragon! - Chapter 26

Name change: Pururu—>Prull

It will stay as Pururu in less edited version.

Chapter 26: It is times like these, that one must hit the B-b.u.t.ton repeatedly.

Prull is so cute. Nowadays, I have only been giving attention to Prull. Tres also likes Prull. The two always play together. It’s such a heartwarming sight to see. Just watching them is enough to bring a smile to my face. Until Prull came, the dungeon had no spiritual healing sources anywhere at all.

“Father, can I feed Prull?” Tres asks me so with upturned eyes. ‘It’s so adorable. I guess I’ll allow it.’

‘Wait, what? Feed it? What does the slime eat anyway? It is times like this that you need to open up the Elipedia… I see, I see, slimes are omnivorous and eat pretty much anything. However, they prefer things with high magical power. If that so, it might as well be a magic stone.’ I grab a handful of soil nearby. ‘Wow, I actually found it. Recently, I can tell where the magic stones are. I feel like I’m getting sharper. I no longer have to dig magic stone using my potato sense. There are one, two… thirty in here. I wonder if this is enough?’ I placed them before Tres.

“Alright Tres. There are plenty of magic stones here, take them and feed them to Prull.”

“Yaay!” replied Tres as she happily picked up the magic stones. Tres is a Golem Homunculus with an appearance of a middle school student. I really wanted to make her with an adult form, but halfway through there weren’t enough materials. As a result, I had to reduce her size. Maybe that’s why she’s childish compared to others. So that means a golem’s appearance also influences its personality, possibly? As you can see, Una is gutsy while Dos is a quiet one.

“Prull, Open up.” Tres said as she tossed the magic stones to feed Prull. Prull was so happy that its body shakes every time it received a magic stone. accompanied by a fizzing sound, the magic stone was absorbed into its body.
It somehow looks familiar. It looks like  bath bombs right when you put them in the water. I enjoyed doing so in the bathroom.  There’ll be a serious problem if you put too much of it in though. Anyways, like I was saying, the magic stones in Prull slowly turn smaller before completely vanishing. They were being absorbed, in this case.

‘Hmm, so this is slime’s unique magic, Gross Eating’. As mentioned in Elibel’s monster picture book, it’s the characteristic ability of the slimes. It’s also known to be the ultimate digestive organ in history. Be it wood, rock or corpse; It has the power to absorb anything and turn it into nutrients. That is the slime’s Gross Eating.

This characteristic is of course enhanced in higher cla.s.ses of slimes. In the past, there was a supreme slime that had swallowed a town whole. ‘At that point, it doesn’t look so cute anymore. Prull is cute as it is now. My original intent to keep a slime is for spiritual healing; I never expected it to fight in the first place.’ In fact, the slime is the weakest among the weakest of monsters. The lowest cla.s.s. It’s considerably weaker than even the Killer Ant. It can die from anything; even an attack by a kid with a cypress stick can kill it.  ‘Such a cruel act. I can never forgive anyone who did that.’

Incidentally, the “superior High Slime” is a lower-cla.s.s monster. What’s more, the Huge Slime is an intermediate-cla.s.s and the superior King Slime is still in the same cla.s.s as that. The slime that can swallow a town that I mentioned earlier is a super rare case which only appears once in a thousand years; it is a Disaster-cla.s.s monster.

“Open wide. Is it good, Prull?” Prull’s body shakes. It’s Prull’s way of saying it’s delicious. ‘How lovely. I’m being healed.’

“Father, can I get more for Prull?”

“Yeah, sure.”

I immediately dig for more magic stones. Tres used both hands to carry them to Prull. Prull absorbed a lot of magic stones again. ‘Eat as much as you like, I don’t mind.’ Besides, monsters don’t simply evolve just like that. What I gave Ann before was a special magic stone called ‘evolution magic stone’. They are precious and scarce; the results of Elibel’s research. A slime can never easily evolve unless you feed that to it….

“Prull, it’s time to eat.” That said, Tres fed Prull magic stones again. There’s a white magic stone the size of a fist… That’s right. It’s just like the one I gave to Ann before…. With fizzling sound coming from Prull, it absorbed the magic stone.……..No, wait!

“Oi, Tres! Where did you get that magic stone just now!” I screamed as I tried checking my pockets. It’s not here. That thing that was supposed to be in my pocket, the gap in between my scales, is not there anymore.

“What?” As Tres spoke, Prull’s body began to shine. “Waaaah! My eyes! It hurts!” Tres is making a fuss about the extremely bright light.

‘Tsk, it’s too late.….d.a.m.n it.’ I was carelessly holding it. The magic stone Tres fed to Prull just now is definitely the ‘evolution magic stone’. Since it’s valuable and hard to come by, it was in my hand for research. I regret it now. The evolution magic stone is literally a special magic stone that evolves a monster into a higher species forcefully. It’s one of the Elibel’s research findings. An artificial magic stone which doesn’t originally exist. Moreover, its success rate is only 10%. Failure to evolve means death. It’s a magic stone with a big risk. When she was still alive, Elibel tried to increase the success rate of the magic stone, however she couldn’t finish it. In other words, Prull will die the moment it fails. ‘How could this happen. My spiritual healing…It was the first existence that I thought was cute after coming to this world…..’

The light lasted for a few seconds before it gradually subsided. I can see Prull. ‘Please forgive me Prull. It’s all my fault, I was careless. If only I put it inside my pocket.The gap between my scales.….

‘I can feel Prull’s magic…. So, this is how it feels….. wait, what?’

“Puru?” Prull let out a sound.  ‘……It’s still alive? What? It’s a success. The chance for it to happen is only 10%, right?’

“What? Prull?” Tres said, surprised. In the spot where the dazzling light was, there’s a single slime. It was Prull. The thing is, the size is different. The body which was about the size of a balance ball got even bigger and its color turned from green to black. The bubbles in its body let out a *glub, glub* sound and it emits a much stronger magic force than before.

“Pu, pu.”

“Wah, Prull is big and can talk now.” Tres happily hugged Prull. ‘Prull, Oh my lovely Prull, you’ve become a bit ugly now. That love will never change but if I could make a request, I never want you to change.’

‘Hmm? What kind of slime did Prull evolve into? Its magical wavelength is completely different from before. I mean, this magical power….. it’s almost the same as Ann, isn’t it? Lately, Ann has grown quite a lot too. She can now freely wield the sword I gave her.’ I search for a monster in the picture book that has the same characteristic and magic wavelength as Prull. ‘This, perhaps?’

Gluttony h.e.l.l Slime: A King-cla.s.s designated species. The pinnacle of the slime species which is said to appear only once in a thousand years. It has unique magic called Universal Absorption, the peak of the slime’s unique magic, Gross Eating, that can not only consume physical substances but also magic and its source. Although it doesn’t look any different from a normal slime, it actually has an extraordinary amount of magical power. When it appeared in the past, thousands of human became its sacrifice——

—*Plop*
Halfway through, I stopped reading the explanation. I look at the slime in front of me again. It was having fun with Tres like usual.…….. ‘I want my  old Prull back!’ Thus, my dungeon’s war force had increased. Everything seems to be going well but it makes me sad nevertheless.

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MC: “d.a.m.n it! Where’s the B-b.u.t.ton!? I don’t want it to evolve!”

Editor note: In the Pokémon game, pressing the b-b.u.t.ton during evolution of a pokemon cancels the evolution. Hence, where the t.i.tle name comes from.