Chapter 232: Super-Large Slime Queen
Ya was indeed formidable. She managed to get out of the danger zone before the Ogres discovered them, making it impossible for the Ogres to pursue them even if they wanted to.
Owen saw those clumsy giants from afar. Even sitting down, they were like small hills. Just by looking at them, one could tell how much power they possessed.
If Ogres weren’t so stupid, with their physical advantages, they would definitely have the potential to be overlords. Unfortunately, while heaven gave them powerful bodies, it took away their brains.
Hearing the Ogres’ angry roars from behind, Ya was delighted because she had once again tricked those foolish giants.
However, the Ogres were just the beginning. As the terrain became flatter and the surrounding vegetation more lush, dangerous situations became more frequent.
Fortunately, Ya and her team were indeed experienced. They solved the problems without Owen needing to lift a finger, allowing him to focus his energy elsewhere.
In fact, Owen had long discovered that the environment here was very special because it preserved a large number of ferns.
After racking his brains for knowledge from his previous life, Owen could only conclude that ferns were better suited to coexist with dinosaurs. After all, who would study this stuff for fun? Besides, the flourishing period of ferns had already passed hundreds of millions of years ago. What the real situation was, no one could say for sure. One could only make semi-educated guesses based on the currently available information. As for whether it was reliable or not, it was like someone traveling back in time to provide evidence; wouldn’t they still have to listen to the experts?
Owen was fortunate to come to another world, but unfortunately, his knowledge was limited, and he couldn’t conduct in-depth research. He just felt that the oxygen content here was a bit high. If they weren’t all extraordinary individuals, they might suffer from oxygen poisoning.
“No wonder there are so many giant beasts here,” Owen said suddenly. The larger the body, the higher the oxygen demand. Otherwise, it would be impossible to meet the consumption of a massive body. Not every giant beast was like a dragon, capable of surviving even in a volcanic crater.
However, oxygen wouldn’t be generated out of thin air. Owen consciously began to collect the plant species here. Once he returned and cultivated them, they could serve as oxygen generators for the underground ruins.
In fact, Owen had already discovered that compared to satisfying his own little bit of adventurous fun, he was more like an explorer.
It was too early for colonization now, but if he connected the teleportation circle here with Green Shade Town, he could completely collect a large amount of information through those adventurers, making preparations for the early stages of colonization.
As for the issue of high teleportation costs making colonization uneconomical, Owen wasn’t without a foundation in this world. The strength of Hydra Island was still lacking now, but the problem was that he had cheats. As long as he strengthened it a bit, it could still serve as a vanguard.
Of course, these were just Owen’s immature ideas. As for how to implement them, he had to wait and see the results of the following investigation.
Ya and the other two were not surprised that Owen was collecting these ubiquitous plants.
Magic users were notoriously full of problems: Sorcerers were crazy, Wizards were weird, and Mages were difficult.
Sorcerers were crazy because their emotional management was terrible. It was common for them to throw fireballs at the slightest disagreement. One always felt they were just missing a pair of Sharingan.
Wizards were weird because they were too repressed, taciturn, and mysterious, making it difficult to have a good impression of them.
However, the difficulty of being a Mage was truly indescribable: difficult to get started, difficult to progress, difficult to break through. Nothing was easy from beginning to end.
Actually, this was normal. Whether a Sorcerer or a Wizard, they both relied on their bloodlines. They were born with magic power, and all they had to do was learn to use it.
Just like a rich second-generation entrepreneur, what they needed to consider wasn’t how to make a comeback after losing money, but to learn from their lessons and keep trying.
Could ordinary people be the same? If they lost money once, they would basically spend the rest of their lives working to pay off their debts. How many of them would have another chance?
The same was true for Mages. They were essentially ordinary people. It was difficult for them to awaken their spiritual power through meditation, difficult to resonate with elements using spiritual power, and difficult to construct magic models through runes. Research was difficult, innovation was difficult, and breakthroughs were even more difficult.
It could be said that this was a profession only for geniuses. Those with slightly inferior minds could only be apprentices for life, and only true geniuses could get started. Any Legendary Mage was a Da Vinci-like figure.
Were there many such people? Not many. So most of them were stuck as Mage apprentices, eventually dying from reckless breakthroughs or in their teachers’ experiments. This showed how difficult the Mage profession was.
It was precisely because of this difficulty that Mages wouldn’t let go of any opportunity. These plants, which were unremarkable in Ya’s eyes, might play a decisive role in certain aspects. As for what role, that wasn’t something they could know.
By the time Owen finished a round of collecting, it was almost dark. Ya and her team had already set up camp, which was just clearing a piece of open ground and lighting a bonfire to boil water. As for tents, they weren’t suitable for use in the current environment because there were too many dangers here. Besides providing a little psychological comfort, tents would only reduce their perception and reaction, so they simply didn’t set up any.
Owen frowned. He was no longer the unlucky little noble who cried in Cold Stone Castle. After getting used to the life of a noble, it was really difficult for him to sleep in the wild.
“Come out, Slime Queen. Use the skill Underground Castle,” Owen didn’t care about revealing a trump card, so he summoned the increasingly large Slime Queen.
As soon as the hill-like Slime Queen appeared, Ya’s hair stood on end. Bai even put her hand on her bow and arrow, and Zhi’s reaction was the most direct. In the blink of an eye, she disappeared into the bushes.
After hearing Owen’s order, the Slime Queen seeped into the ground as if it were a drain, silently infiltrating the earth. Its powerful corrosive and digestive abilities allowed it to easily hollow out the ground and reinforce it, so nothing could be seen from the surface.
“Come in,” Owen beckoned to Ya and the others, whose hair was standing on end. A hole had silently appeared at his feet, illuminated by fluorescent light.
“Damn, I never knew Slimes could grow so big,” Ya muttered, rubbing her arms constantly. Bai and Zhi had similar expressions.
It wasn’t that they hadn’t seen Slimes before. It was precisely because they had seen them and were familiar with the attributes of Slimes that they understood how terrifying a Slime Queen of this size was.
Slimes were immune to some physical attacks, but due to their own weakness, even ordinary people could deal with them with a wooden stick. After all, Slimes weren’t immortal or liquid metal Terminators. Once most of their bodies were shattered, Slimes would also die.
Not to mention methods like burning them with fire or sprinkling salt. In short, there were many ways to deal with Slimes, which were usually only the size of a football.
But when a Slime became the size of a small hill, one could only describe it as terrifying.
Its massive size rendered physical attacks completely ineffective. Even giant beasts couldn’t shatter most of a super-large Slime’s body in one go. And for a gel-like Slime, recovery was no more difficult than merging water droplets.
As for energy attacks, apart from Legendary Mages, other professions simply couldn’t vaporize a Slime the size of a small hill. Even for a Legendary Mage, they would have to specialize in destruction.
This showed how terrifying a super-large Slime was. It also made Ya and her team wary of Owen and began to doubt whether their previous plans still had any chance of success.
