Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Within the dim room, only the chilling sound of chewing echoed incessantly. Outside, the numerous shadow rats grew increasingly terrified, instinctively distancing themselves, as if the entity within was not their king, Dicas, but an unknown monster.

Crack!

"Where do you think you're going?"

Suddenly, a large hand covered in dark red scales emerged from the darkness, followed by Dicas himself, now nearly five meters tall, stooping as he stepped out. Dicas's face, which had previously possessed rodent-like features, had completely transformed into a human-like visage. Beneath crimson vertical pupils lay a face covered in fine, dense scales, and his slightly parted lips revealed jagged teeth.

The sharp claws on his hands had also morphed into something resembling human hands, though still coated with dark red scales. Scimitar-like fingernails gleamed with a faint, cold light, and a massive tail, like a long serpent, writhed ceaselessly behind him.

"Why don't you answer me?"

In the next moment, the suppressed voice sounded again. Dicas raised his head, staring at the numerous shadow rats before him, the crimson light in his eyes growing ever deeper. From his parted lips, droplets of viscous liquid fell, corroding small holes into the ground.

"Squeak! Squeak squeak!!"

Abruptly, the shadow above one shadow rat's head began to twist, transforming into a chain that suspended it in mid-air. The intense feeling of suffocation caused the shadow rat to emit a piercing shriek, blood gushing from its mouth, its pupils dimming bit by bit.

Thud!

The next moment, a headless corpse, spraying blood, fell to the ground, followed by the head. The pungent stench of blood permeated the air.

Dicas, on the other hand, revealed an expression of immense satisfaction, his tentacle-like tongue licking at the corners of his mouth, a morbid light gleaming in his eyes. The bloodline within him craved slaughter, death, and blood.

"Shadow Guard."

Suddenly, Dicas raised his palm, aiming it at the deceased giant rat. The magic essence within his body began to flow instinctively, and beside the dead shadow rat, its shadow began to twist and writhe, until finally, a giant rat with crimson eyes and a body composed entirely of shadow appeared there.

"Such powerful strength!"

Dicas crossed his arms, tightly embracing his shoulders, his body twisting into a grotesque posture, his face filled with rapture as he gazed at the newly formed Shadow Guard. This was the new power he had obtained after devouring the ancient human hero bloodline gene within Dire's body.

It allowed him to summon the shadows of the creatures he killed, turning them into his most loyal subordinates, perfectly executing any command, requiring no food or rest, and always being in peak condition.

Aside from the fact that their strength was determined at the moment of their birth, they were, without a doubt, the perfect weapons of war.

"More! More! I want more!"

In the next moment, Dicas's crimson eyes locked onto the remaining shadow rats and the vast number of giant rats within the underground kingdom. Whether it was to expand the ranks of the Shadow Guards, or because his newly advanced body craved a large amount of nourishment, Dicas, who was already gradually losing his sanity, became increasingly violent.

However, the frenzied Dicas did not notice that the muscles on his body were constantly wriggling, and his scales were beginning to mutate, as if everything on his body had come to life.

"Squeak squeak!"

Opposite him, all the shadow rats sensed the strangeness in Dicas's gaze and turned to flee in other directions, their panicked squeaks echoing throughout the entire underground kingdom of the giant rat race.

Pfft!

The body of a giant rat that had just turned to flee suddenly stiffened. In its eyes, filled with confusion, it suddenly saw a headless corpse falling, spraying blood. That corpse looked so familiar... almost exactly like its own body.

Thump!

The next moment, the corpse and head crashed heavily onto the ground simultaneously, the pungent smell of blood in the air growing even stronger. After the corpse fell, its shadow began to twist, and a brand-new Shadow Guard stood up.

Such scenes were happening constantly within this dim tunnel. A large number of newly born Shadow Guards directly merged into the shadows, beginning to hunt down the remaining shadow rats and giant rats. Wherever they passed, all living creatures were slaughtered.

Fresh red blood flowed from the corpses, converging into rivers, and the air was dyed red. Within the dark red air, Shadow Guards reaped the lives of everything within the underground kingdom like grim reapers.

"Power, endless power!"

Within the dark red tunnel, Dicas's heavy footsteps echoed. A wisp of black aura completely enveloped his nearly seven-meter-tall, burly frame. Wherever he passed, the corpses on the ground turned into charred, black fragments, their souls and flesh devoured.

As Dicas devoured more and more, the black aura emanating from his body seemed to come alive, twisting into slender tentacles that plunged into the corpses on the ground.

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Half an hour later, at the deepest part of the sewer, countless black tentacles suddenly burst from the ground. The dense, black tentacles writhed wildly in the air, followed by the ground collapsing into a huge pit. Dicas's nearly ten-meter-tall body slowly emerged from it, with an endless army of Shadow Guards silently following behind him.

"Not enough... not enough... not enough... want more... more...."

At this moment, Dicas raised his head and looked upwards. On his originally human-like face, countless tiny black tentacles were constantly twisting and twitching. A large amount of viscous liquid dripped from his mouth, corroding the ground it touched.

"Humans... humans!"

Suddenly, Dicas emitted a soft murmur, his mouth beginning to crack little by little, until finally, his entire head transformed into something resembling a desert sandworm. From his hideous, terrifying maw came a frenzied roar, turning into a visible shockwave.

In the next moment, the tentacles on Dicas's body began to extend wildly, directly shattering the ceiling of the sewer above. A large amount of black, sewage-filled, garbage-laden water and foul-smelling sludge poured out of the hole, directly flooding into Dicas's roaring maw.

But the completely insane Dicas no longer cared about any of this. As the tentacles, like his body, gradually burrowed into the hole, he moved towards the town of Airezchia above the sewer, and the endless army of Shadow Guards sank into the shadows and followed.

"The humans in this city are finished."

Within the deathly silent space, with only the sound of a large amount of sewage and sludge pouring in, the figures of Number Four and Number Three slowly emerged from a corner after Dicas and the Shadow Guard army left. Number Four raised his head, expressionlessly staring at the hole.

It knew that Dicas had gone hunting, and its food was all the humans in the town above. This had been decided from the start of the experiment... including everything in the city above the sewer, they were also part of the experiment.