The Dangerously Cute Dungeon [A Dungeon Core LitRPG]

1.7 Heroic Slime

Slime one was only recently born and had yet to experience much of life. Its existence mainly was a carefree one where it could happily bounce around its home in the dungeon. There was the nagging feeling of needing to protect its master and the dungeon it lived in, but slime one hadn't had the chance to even attempt such a thing before this.

Now, slimes aren't able to see things in the same way that other creatures are nor was slime one capable of higher thinking. Slime one had to act just on basic instinct with more of a general sense of its surroundings rather than being able to see them. There was no need to eat, but the slime would still consume a bit of grass or a few flowers here and there. The feeling of the flowers digesting in its viscous fluids felt funny and it was a nice distraction from its otherwise simple and mundane existence.

However, today seemed to be different from the previous days, not that slime one had much of a concept of time. There were feelings of anxiety and concern rolling through the dungeon and something felt off. When the feeling of something rapidly approaching came over slime one, it quickly dodged to the side. Slime one's membrane jiggled in response to its sudden movement and the slime felt confused.

Slime one's instincts kicked in and it began to do what came naturally to it as it dodged blow after blow. The feeling of frustration rolled across the slime from somewhere in front of it and the slime felt more confused. Was this perhaps one of the intruders it was born to protect against?

As the slime continued to dodge, it slowly put together the strange phenomena happening around it. If its master was feeling concerned and it was being attacked, then it was likely that this was slime one's big chance to protect its home! Well, if this was how it was going to be, then slime one was happy to step forward and do its duty.

The thought that slime one might die in the process never crossed its mind, nor did it feel fear as it continued to engage its opponent. As Henry continued to clumsily swing around his sword, slime one merely dodged what it could, and what few attacks managed to hit it were shrugged off. As slime one began to build up confidence, it even attempted to counterattack.

Henry stumbled back in surprise and fell on his ass after being hit full force in the face by the small blue slime creature. He couldn't help but feel his frustration grow as he stood back up, readjusting his posture and preparing to swing his wooden sword once more. If he wanted to become an adventurer then he needed to be capable of handling, at least, this much.

Violet watched on in amusement as her first summon did its best against the young boy. As disappointing as it was for Violet to have to lose her very first summon, after only knowing it for a few short days, she still couldn't help but feel amused by the situation unfolding in front of her. Besides, it would seem that this fight would be worth the sacrifice of her slime as her mana was quickly increasing.

With both Gregory and Henry in the dungeon, Violet was easily gaining 2 MP every minute and her mana was almost full again. Violet tried to summon her system menu, but was quickly disappointed to see that it wouldn't work.

Unable to access system menu. Please try again on a floor without adventurers.

Well, Violet could only reassure herself that it was good that the effect was limited to the floors with adventurers on them. Once the dungeon had more floors, she would be able to continue to alter her higher floors while her guests were busy on the lower floors. Violet supposed it only made sense that she couldn't alter the dungeon while there were adventurers around. After all, a more violent Dungeon Master could use such features in such a way as to lead to unnecessary deaths of adventurers.

Violet didn't have any intention to kill adventurers more than necessary. She didn't want her [Monsters] to die all the time, but it wasn't like Violet would receive any rewards for adventurers dying in her dungeon. It was better to let them live, unless they threatened the dungeon core. Of course, that would require Violet to prepare defenses capable of killing those who got too close to the dungeon core, but that was something she could worry about later on when she had more resources to spare.