Monster Integration

"The digestion is finished," I said.

If I am not wrong, then it would be the last stage where it would jump to the Sky Sovereign. If something were to go wrong, it would go wrong at this stage.

The next stage hasn't begun, but it will be soon.

Three minutes and seventeen seconds passed, when finally, the graphs moved and a couple of seconds later, the visible change began to appear on the slime.

Its core begins to shine. It was a gentle shine at first before it began to brighten up slowly. In a few minutes, it begins to blaze like a sun.

In the last stage, the core hadn't reacted at all. It just ate the energy, that its slime body had processed.

A few minutes passed, and another change came through the core.

The tentacles which retracted into the core at the end of the second stage, begin to come out through the core.

Hun!

When I saw them, I couldn't help, but become surprised. These tentacles are much finer than before and a lot stronger.

If the data the graphs are showing is right, then the ratio of their strength is a lot stronger compared to my body and soul now, than when it was when I was Sovereign, and the slime was the Earth Sovereign.

Which is a good thing; I need slime to be strong. The stronger it is, the more useful it will be for me.

They are not just stronger now, but they seem to have over four times more thorns than before, which is another good news. With them, I will be able to send the solution to me with much greater precision.

Every minute, more tentacles came out and spread across the slime's body. It continued for an hour and thirty-four minutes.

The tentacles stopped and right then, the core blazed again and began sending out powerful energy through the tentacles, which began to transform the slime.

For a couple of seconds, everything was perfect, before the problem appeared.

The crystallization begins again. The slime's body isn't properly absorbing the energy. It is being concentrated on some parts, which are crystallizing. It is akin to burning the flesh of the slime.

"Fuck!" I cursed, but acted immediately.

The hundreds of tiny metallic capsules lit up with ancient runes formation on them and begin to suck the energies coming out of the tentacles, before spreading them across the body.

They are not spreading it equally.

Not all parts of the slime are in need of an equal amount of energy. It is also not an organism, that is created naturally through evolution. It had many flaws, one of them being that it couldn't direct the energy perfectly around its body.

It is natural to all beings, but to it; it is not.

It needs outside help, and the help needs to act fast and perfect. A slight mistake and there will be a crystallization, too much of it and the slime will die.

I don't want it to die; one slime is already dead and a big loss to me. Losing another would be a terrible loss.

Minutes passed, and the capsules spread the energy around the slime, which it absorbs. The changes begin to appear as they did; they begin to lose their color and start to become more transparent.

Within minutes, it had lost all colors and getting even more transparent, by the time the energies stopped. It had become fully transparent.

"A Sky Sovereign slime," I said happily.

It is going to help me tremendously, not only with the dance, but with also other things, I have in mind.

I looked at the slime in front of me. It is completely colorless, except for the veins, which are crystalline pink and the core, which are dark red with violet spots.

It looked more like a pebble than a rock.

I wanted to use the slime immediately, but I let my clone have a way with it. It needs to run tests; there are hundreds of them, but it shouldn't take long before I know whether it is safe to use the slime for the practice.

I looked at it for a few minutes, before walking toward the artificer clone, which will soon begin on an important project.

Now that I have leveled-up, I have enough power to upgrade the above. I also have the knowledge and all the things required for it. I could start immediately if I want, but I am going to wait, till the voyage resumes.

I am still using the abode, and there are few important things I have to do, that wouldn't feel safe in doing in the other abodes.

Once the voyage start, I will start working on it. I am quite excited about it. I have worked really hard on design and method. In the new abode, I will be able to add that thing, which will take the abode to the next level.

Till then, my clone will focus on supplementary materials. It had to forge some; it wasn't able to do it before because of the limitation of power.

I stayed there for an hour, before walking to the alchemy clone. It is a busy studying the data in practice. More like the alchemical solutions, I had used earlier in the practice.

The alchemy clone does not only craft the solution. It also studies them, improves them, and creates a new one. Though, the last part, needed my help a little; the clones are not perfect, and I am glad about that.

I sat by my clone and reviewed the data while my clone worked on the formulas of the talaras.

I am crossing it against the data, my clone is gathering from the slime every second. I know it will work, but there is no harm in double-checking.

It is my life on the line. If there is the slightest problem; the worldly energies of the dance will kill me, and I don't want that.

I need to do a lot of things before I am ready to die willingly.