Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

“So full.”

Amidst the swirling purple mist, Lu Minghao swallowed the concentrated liquid after dissolving the last Shadow Rat. His body, originally the size of a basketball, had now swelled several times over. With just a light jump, Lu Minghao felt like the food he had eaten was about to surge back up.

“What a pity, so much was wasted.”

Looking at the at least half of the food remaining beside him, Lu Minghao reluctantly turned and leaped towards the exit of the sewers. Ever since he had slaughtered all the giant rats in the sewers, Lu Minghao's unease had grown stronger.

Even while devouring those Shadow Rats, Lu Minghao had sensed a substantial gaze from the shadows. Now, he was utterly certain that something was indeed watching this place, but for some reason, those hidden entities had not appeared, simply observing everything Lu Minghao did.

‘I have to leave quickly, and I must pretend not to have noticed them, dragging it out for as long as possible.’

Before long, feeling that the magic elements within his body had mostly recovered thanks to the abundant nutrient supply, Lu Minghao directly merged into the shadows beneath him, rapidly advancing in a direction away from this area.

Less than a minute after Lu Minghao left, several figures silently appeared here. One of them placed a hand where Lu Minghao had disappeared, sensing something. After a few seconds, that figure stood up and nodded to the other two.

“Have you found that slime yet?”

A man in a white coat, wearing glasses, asked. The light in his eyes, seen through the lenses, was cold and lifeless, as if life were merely a string of cold experimental numbers in his eyes.

“Lord Charles, your subordinate has confirmed the slime's location. However, the slime is fleeing rapidly and will soon leave your subordinate's sensing range.”

The figure, entirely cloaked in black robes, said while kneeling. From the gaps in the black robes, one could vaguely see a pair of blood-red beast pupils and skin covered in scales.

“Number Four, go and capture that slime. Remember to bring it back alive; I have a feeling it will be a valuable experimental subject.”

“Yes!”

With that, Number Four tore apart the black robe, revealing a bizarre being with beast horns atop its head, covered in black scales, and limbs like tentacles. Its body then transformed into a phantom, chasing after the direction Lu Minghao had left.

“Number Three, clean up the traces left behind; continue the experiment.”

Charles glanced at the departing Number Four, gave an order, then took out a test tube and began collecting the remaining purple mist. Although he was indeed interested in that special slime, the most important thing at the moment was this experiment that had been prepared for over a decade.

As long as the experiment succeeded, his research results would gain the attention of the entire empire, and then…

“Lord Charles, the cleanup is complete.”

At this moment, Number Three, having cleaned up all traces, returned to Charles's side. After reporting, the entire person stood in place like a machine, awaiting new orders.

“Return to the laboratory first.”

“Yes.”

Number Three nodded, placed a hand on Charles's shoulder, and a blue magic circle unfolded beneath their feet. With a flash of light, the two disappeared from the spot, and the dark sewers returned to their original state, except that the hundreds of thousands of giant rats that originally lived here had completely vanished, turned into puddles of thick liquid.

The whistling wind in the sewers seemed to be telling something, like the wails of hundreds of thousands of giant rats from their souls.

......

Hundreds of miles away from the town of Elirella, inside a large mountain, the interior had been entirely hollowed out and transformed into various laboratories. Constant screams, roars, and wails echoed within the laboratories. Under the pale lights, one figure after another wearing a white coat walked along the corridors made of steel.

Ka!

Suddenly, the door of a laboratory opened, and Charles walked out with Number Three. The lenses reflected a cold light, and one by one, the passing researchers slightly bowed upon seeing Charles, continuing their work.

“Lord Charles, how is Experiment Number One progressing?”

At this moment, a man with a gentle temperament walked up to Charles, asking with a faint smile on his face. However, that smile seemed harmless at first glance, but after a few seconds of careful observation, one would feel it was very fake, so fake that it made one's heart chill.

“There was a small problem, but there was also a new gain. I discovered a slime that would be a very good experimental subject.”

Charles turned his head, a hint of disgust on his face as he glanced at the man with the fake smile beside him. However, considering that the other party was one of the heads of this laboratory, he had no choice but to take out a test tube containing some purple mist from his bosom and slowly said.

“Oh~ A good slime, it seems that Lord Charles really likes low-level magical creatures!”

“Hmph!”

After hearing the fake smile's secretly mocking words, Charles coldly snorted and directly walked past him with Number Three towards his own laboratory. After all, the experimental philosophies of the two sides were completely different. Charles was based on the modification of various low-level magical creatures, while the other party believed that low-level magical creatures had no value in modification at all.

He believed that only powerful magical creatures combined with the bloodline genes of ancient human heroes could create the most powerful monster existence.

Charles, however, insisted on the modification of low-level magical creatures because the modification of high-level magical creatures required a large amount of resources and humans. As long as it could be proven that low-level magical creatures had modification value, then the low modification cost of low-level magical creatures would greatly increase the strength of the empire's magical creature army, and then his position would also rise, participating in more advanced experiments.

Before long, Charles walked into his exclusive laboratory with Number Three. Inside, several large screens showed everything in the Giant Rat Kingdom, including Dikas, who was adapting his body by devouring Dieri's blood, and Dieri, who was lying on the bed silently recovering his strength.

More than ten years ago, Dikas was actually deliberately released from the laboratory by Charles, and Charles also specially guided Dikas to the town of Elirella. Over the years, Dikas's every move had been under Charles's surveillance.

During this period, Charles also secretly collected various body data of Dikas and tailored Dieri, the owner of the ancient human hero's bloodline, for him. Then Charles released Dieri from the laboratory again, just like more than ten years ago.

And everything was as Charles expected. After sensing the attraction from the ancient human hero's bloodline within Dieri's body, Dikas secretly guided Dieri to Elirella and was captured by Dikas.

Everything was proceeding perfectly according to Charles's plan, except that a peculiar slime had emerged in the meantime, but it had no impact on the overall plan, and he was even about to harvest a good experimental subject.

“Number One, you must work hard! I have paid too much for you!”

Inside the laboratory, Charles's cold gaze looked at Dikas on the screen, who was gradually adapting to the ancient human hero's bloodline, and his aura became increasingly cold, like a viper lurking in the dark, waiting for its prey to come to its door.