[YOU HAVE DEFEATED THE BOSS]

  [YOU CLUTCH IT!]

  [FUCK YEAH!]

  “Easy.”

  A 13-year-old boy plays video games in his room in the dark. His room is clean. All the food he eats is in the trash, and the food he’s currently eating is vegetables.

  He had white hair and imperial red eyes.

  He had a healthy build and skin tone.

  He was overall, living a good life.

  In the year 2356, the world has advanced in technology.

  Cancer has been cured, world peace has been mostly present, healthcare has been improved, and games have been evolved.

  This boy has been using the advanced VR system, a system that connects the brain to the game, allowing everything to feel no different from real life.

  He had been grinding the game for 2 years and had already reached over level 400.

  He was nearly perfect at the game.

  By playing in the game, he was able to use weapons in the real world by not as well, but he does have a basic understanding of how they work.

  “Alright, I gotta head off, choom. See y'all later.”

  [ALRIGHT MAN]

  Getting off the game, he leaves his room to be greeted by his parents.

  His mom had black hair with imperial red eyes and was a walking beauty and his father had white slicked-back hair and gray eyes as well as having a muscular build.

  “You’re done? Usually, you get off at 6:00.”

  “Yeah. I beat the boss today, you know, the one I’ve been trying my hardest to beat.”

  “Not bad son. You have a real talent for games. Are you thinking of becoming a streamer? You could make a lot of money from that.”

  “Maybe. Oh right! I got a major opportunity today when I was playing the game.”

  His mother brought the food to the table.

  “What’s that?” His mother said.

  “I was offered to try a new update of the game. It’s tomorrow.”

  “That's great bobo.”

  “Good job boy, I’ll drive you there.”

  He begins eating the food, devouring all of it.

  “Chieko, this boy must be Beelzebub. How does he eat all this so fast?”

  His mother shrugged her shoulders.

  Finishing his food while his parents were only a quarter of the way finished.

  He asks for more.

  “Mhm.”

  His mother takes his bowl and fills it with rice and chicken.

  This happens 3 more times as he indulges in the food given to him.

  Finally finishing his meal, the father could only laugh after watching his son eat 4 bowls of food like he does every day.

  He talks with his parents for the rest of the night and goes to sleep for tomorrow, which is Saturday.

  Waking up the next morning, he jumps out of bed, stretches for the morning, gets in the shower, eats his breakfast, and heads out with his family in their car to the beta test.

  “Right–I forgot to mention to you. They're compensating us with 89,565,556,000 USD.”

  His parents remain silent for a moment before realizing what he just said.

  “...over 89 B! God damn Greedon, why you got to say this now?”

  “This is the best opportunity yet; we won’t struggle with finances anymore!”

  His family had been struggling with money, with inflation and everything and while pay was increased, it still didn’t keep up with the stupidly overpowered price tags.

  He was happy that at least his parents bought him the game despite their struggle and since he asked for something so expensive, he figured that he needed to pay it back.

  He did think of streaming at once, but he knew that would probably take far too long so when his friend had told him that, skilled players get chosen to play any updates at their tower and they compensate with over a billion dollars, he knew he had to get good at the game.

  Although getting good at the game was mainly his own desire, getting every single skill, and every single weapon and killing other players for their items was what he did. To get the money was more or less just a little extra justification he needed to play his game more.

  Reaching the tower, they enter inside.

  “Hello, do you have an appointment?”

  “Yeah, I’m the player G.E., here’s the proof. I’m here for the beta test.”

  Looking at his phone, she types on her computer checking the information.

  “Alright, G.E. Your parents are required to come with you. It checks out. Please follow my assistant and he will lead you to where you need to be.”

  They all follow the assistant to the elevator.

  “Ohh, I can’t wait. What do you think hon? We’ll be bloody rich.”

  “Calm down dear, I don't want to be seen with a weirdo like you.”

  “Ahhh, come one. I know you like it when I act like this.”

  “No. I don’t.”

  She says looking away to hide her smile.

  Reaching the floor, they walk to a large room that has a chair with a VR set present and people to the side on computers.

  “Oh, you must be G.E. correct?”

  “Yes, I am.”

  “I assume you’re his parents?”

  “Correct. I’m Cheiko and my husband’s name is Merrick.”

  “Nice to meet you.”

  Shaking their hands.

  Greedon walks to the chair. Impatient to try the new update.

  “How old are you? You look very young.”

  A woman says, walking to him.

  “I’m 13.”

  “13! Wow, so skilled for someone so young.”

  “Can we start already? I want to try the update.”

  “Your parents are already seated. You can take a seat too.”

  Greedon sits down and gets comfortable in the chair.

  “Are you ready G.E.?”

  “Yeah.”

  Taking the VR set, he puts it on his head and relaxes himself.

  After some loading, he appeared in the game, entering as a new character.

  What is this?

  He presses the race selection list and sees so many more races than there were before.

  Whoa! So many!

  Goat.

  Undead.

  Vampire.

  Doppelganger.

  Skeleton Mage.

  -Slime?

  This update is awesome.

  -I’ll choose slime just because.

  His parents watch him, smiling that their son is having fun.

  He presses the start button, but something happens and everything begins to glitch.

  Must be because it’s beta.

  Just then, a sharp pain is felt throughout his entire body, and he feels his consciousness accelerate and stop.

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  His real body is being electrocuted, and all the employees try to take the VR headset off of him, but the chair begins electrocuting him.

  Eventually, it explodes, burning a lot of his skin off and throwing him off.

  His father and mother run to him, trying to save him.

  The world becomes blurry, and all sounds become muffled.

  He sees his father and mother crying, his father trying to keep him conscious, but it doesn't work.

  He smiles and takes both his father’s and mother’s hand.

  He dies on the spot, his body no longer having life.

  He feels coldness all around his body, and then he feels himself rising at extremely fast speed.

  Opening his eyes, he sees a light rapidly approaching.

  Reaching the light, he stops just above a circle with encryptions.

  He looks around to see only the infinite white void.

  He continues looking around until he sees a beautiful goddess in front of him.

  Her form was indescribable and ever changing.

  He tries speaking but is unable to.

  [CHOOSE]

  Hearing a female sound as if it was a game voice.

  He sees a status window appear in front of him as if it were a game.

  He sees that it looks exactly like the race selection screen from the game.

  This is weird.

  Well, I can’t do anything else.

  He presses the list button to look at all the races.

  He first thinks of choosing humans, but he decides to choose a different race. He didn’t know what would happen, but he decided to choose the slime race.

  [YOU HAVE SELECTED THE SLIME RACE]

  [DUE TO THE UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING YOUR DEATH AND THE KINDNESS YOU HAVE SHOWN NOT ONLY TO YOUR PARENTS BUT TO OTHERS, YOU WILL BE GRANTED THE HIGHEST LEVEL THAT A NEWBORN SLIME CAN BE]

  [YOU WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED TO REACH THEM]

  He falls back into the hole and begins an extremely fast descent, seeing another light and the end.

  He braces himself and reaches the light below.

  The light blinds him, and he feels himself touching the ground.

  His vision slowly gets better, and he sees more clearly.

  Finally seeing everything, he is surrounded by walls of bricks, and he sees lit torches down multiple halls.

  Hm?

  Where am I?

  He moves around but doesn’t feel legs, he doesn’t even feel arms but feels himself sliding around.

  Weird, I don’t feel my legs or arms yet I’m still moving, from what just happened.

  I MUST BE A SLIME!

  He looks around, looking for a reflective surface, finding a mirror in the room.

  He moves towards it and looks at himself.

  He is a white slime with a rather funny face.

  He had 2 large black rectangles that were slightly tilted on his face that looked like eyes as well as appearing like he had a mouth.

  Holy! I’m actually a slime!

  This is so weird.

  BUT SO COOL!

  A status window appeared in front of him.

  [Name: Greedon Epitan]

  [Rank: God Slime]

  [Regular Skills: None]

  [Gifted Skills: None]

  [Stolen Skills: None]

  [Passive Skills: 1]

  [Acknowledgement Skills: None]

  [Arts: None]

  Seeing that he had one passive skill, he thought about checking it, which opened the passive skill window for it.

  [Passive Skill: Gluttonous Hunger: Will always keep you hungry, craving more, and will never be satisfied]

  What does that mean?

  He pondered this passive skill but slowly noticed how hungry he was.

  Damn, I’m hungry.

  I wonder if there’s some food around here.

  He leaves the room by sliding through the cage door and traverses the dungeon.

  Reaching a room, he sees a corpse present.

  The man seems to have died years ago.

  He was disgusted by the sight and wanted to leave but when he attempted to do so, his hunger grew even more.

  He tried resisting but the hunger grew more and more with each passing moment.

  He looked back at the corpse and still tried escaping but the hunger grew too much, and he jumped at the corpse, consuming it.

  [2 Skills Acquired!]

  [Regular Skill: Greedy Monster & Stolen Passive Skill: Mouth of All]

  Hearing the voice, he wondered what happened.

  He realizes that he consumed the corpse.

  He was weirded out, thinking it was cannibalism.

  I just ate someone.

  It’s not cannibalism, it’s not cannibalism.

  I-I’ll just ignore what happened.

  Yeah. Just ignore it.

  He slides away, pretending nothing happened.

  Moving across the halls, even though he had just eaten, he was still immensely hungry.

  Moving along the hall, he came across a cave entrance and saw thousands of crystals.

  Hoping to ease the hunger at least a little, he starts sucking on the crystals.

  [Greedy Monster Activated]

  This causes him to consume one completely and ease the hunger a tiny bit.

  Whoa! That felt weird.

  At least it works. I should try eating all of them.

  He begins to consume every last one.

  While he did so, he looked at the skills he obtained from eating the corpse.

  [Greedy Monster: Absorb anything you eat and gain all its skills (if any)]

  [Mouth of All: Allows the user to understand all languages as well as speak them]

  That’ll be very useful if I can escape this place.

  He finishes nearly all of the crystals when he obtains a new skill.

  [Skill Acquired!]

  [Belly of the Beast]

  [Skill Upgrade!]

  [Greedy Monster]

  Another skill?

  Belly of the Beast.

  And a skill upgrade.

  I wonder if it will help me fix this stupid hunger.

  He opens his status window again.

  He realized that all he had to do was think about the status window with the intent to see it and it appears before him.

  He opened the regular skill tab and read his new skill and his upgrade.

  [Belly of the Beast: Your metaphysical belly will act as a storage space for items you consume]

  [Greedy Monster: Can absorb anything he eats and gain all its skills (if any) and any information it retains]

  These skills so far have been in relation to what I’ve been doing. Does what I do give me a skill?

  I ate someone so I gained a skill related to eating. I ate all these crystals which allowed me to store them. And I got an upgrade from eating the crystals.

  Kind of like a game but different.

  I wonder what else I can get.

  Looking around, he continues to consume the crystals, however, this time, it shows him the properties of these crystals and their name.

  They turn out to be mana crystals and their properties are condensed mana.

  With everything that has happened so far, he has surprisingly gotten used to his new body relatively fast and has already accepted his new life.

  While he does miss his parents and wishes he could have stayed with them, he knows there’s no way to go back.

  Well, no point in sulking about it anymore. I’ll need to adapt to this new life.

  And since this is just like a game with a few tweaks, I wonder how strong I can get.

  My Greedy Monster skill allows me to take skills from others.

  Looking at his status board, he looks around it.

  Oh! I have an inventory. Must be my Belly of the Beast.

  My max capacity is only 20 items.

  The mana crystals, I wonder if I can use them for anything.

  Looking around, he sees herbs at the wall of the small cave and rushes towards it.

  His hunger drove him to eat every last herb.

  He makes himself bounce up and jump into the herbs, consuming every last one.

  [Skill Upgrade!]

  [Belly of the Beast: Your metaphysical belly will act as a storage space for items you consume & you can consume living organisms and spit them out to heal them based on the healing items in your storage]

  Well, that’s not useful yet, but in all my years of gaming, you never know when you may need that one skill.

  [ROAR!]

  Panicking from the sound, he turns around to be greeted by a giant spider approaching him.

  W-WHAAAAT! I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE HERE!?

  The spider uses one of its legs to try and stab him.

  He jumps to avoid the attack but is struck by another leg, hitting the wall.

  He has no combat experience in such a body yet.

  Damn it! I need to fight!

  He moves himself to realize that some pieces of him are detached.

  He stares in horror, relaxing that he could be killed.

  [Healing In Process]

  Huh?

  He sees himself healing and his status board appears.

  [Mana Crystals x67 → Mana Crystals x64]

  Seems mana crystals heal me. I need to be careful.

  This is my first real fight; I need to win!

  The spider shoots spider webs at him.

  He dodges the webs which glow purple.

  He senses high levels of aura radiating off of them.

  He continues to run around, dodging any webs shot his way.

  The spider chases after him, crawling on the ceiling and maneuvering across obstacles in an unnatural way.

  What the hell! These spiders are weird!

  He continues bouncing off the walls while dodging the webs.

  The spider takes a chuck off of him. He feels no physical pain but mental pain.

  [Healing In Process]

  [Mana Crystals x64 → Mana Crystals x60]

  Falling down, he looks up to see the chunk dissolve in the spider’s mouth.

  This is bad.

  How do I attack?

  He begins moving his body, thinking about punching the spider and fortunately, the body responds by creating a small human arm.

  Whoa! This is perfect.

  I’m faster than the spider but bouncing around can slow me down.

  I’ll need to time this right.

  The spider finishes swallowing everything and goes back to chasing him down.

  I should try to disappear by zigzagging.

  He begins going around the different boulders and pillars of rock moving across them, moving left to right.

  The spider tries its hardest to keep up with him but eventually, it loses sight of him.

  Looking around, it destroys boulders in search of him.

  Greedon stabs the spider in the eye with a rock spike he picked up.

  It roars in pain and swings him back.

  He doesn’t relent and continues his assault.

  He bounces back to the spider and stabs its other eye.

  It begins its rampage of attacking everything around it, now blinded.

  He moves far back to not get damaged and sees a giant spike at the ceiling above the spider.

  Taking this chance, he moves to a higher elevation, grabs a rock, and jumps to it.

  He wraps his body around the spike and quickly hits it continuously.

  He manages to break it, and it falls onto the spider’s head, killing it instantly.

  Despite all that movement, he didn’t feel tired, only hungry.

  I got a skill from that corpse. Maybe It will work for the monster.

  Deciding to test his theory, he covered the whole monster and consumed it.

  [2 Regular Skills Obtained!]

  [Spider Silk: Creates mana-enhanced spider webs that are extremely sticky]

  [Sticky Roof: Allows the user to stick to any surface]

  [1 Passive Skills Obtained]

  [Dissolve: Any food eaten will be dissolved completely and be able to eat easier]

  Nice!

  He saw a few extra herbs and tried consuming them.

  [Herbs x45 → Herbs x49]

  It was so much easier to consume them and much faster.

  This will definitely help me later on.

  Leaving the cave, he slides around, messing around with his own body.

  He was moving around his 1 slime arm.

  I was able to imagine myself having a body and I got an arm. I wonder if I can get a human form.

  I should try to use this chance to get myself a human appearance.

  With this, he continued traversing the dungeon.