Maddy looked up. Her eyes widened as the village itself seemed to come alive with gelatinous hunger. Slimes of every conceivable element were closing in. They flooded the ground like a rising tide and clung to the roofs like heavy, melting shingles. They coated the walls in a shimmering, dangerous sludge.

Fire slimes hissed, ice slimes crackled, and mineral slimes rumbled like falling boulders. The air grew thick with the smell of ozone, sulfur, and stagnant water. They were no longer acting as scattered groups. Every slime in the village was now gathered in her immediate space, ready for war at their lone customer.

Maddy gripped her sword, the sheer scale of the "ingredients and squishy toys" before her reaching an overwhelming level.

"Okay... this is like a total nightmare for a mother whose child has an obsession with slimes. It’s like Sephiran decided to decorate every single wall, floor, every little corner with them. This is the literal interpretation of that mess."

Lucy pinged her.

[Response: Alert. 1,400 biological signatures detected]

"Thousands!? Thousand squishy, cuties... and deadly slimes!?"

Maddy planted her feet in the center of the town square. Around her, the streets of Oozewell had transformed into a bubbling, writhing ocean of gelatinous menace. Elemental colors flickered and rolled, every slime a potential hazard or weapon. She tightened her grip on her sword.

"This... this is going to be fun."

TheIce Slimesled the charge by flash freezing the ground to create a slick arena. Nearby, theFire Slimesexhaled plumes of searing soot that turned the air into a hazy furnace. From the rooftops,Mineral Slimesrained down like heavy hail with their stony bodies whistling through the air. Maddy remained calm. She activated herReflexive Body Control, her movements becoming a blur of total efficiency.

She spun, her round shield intercepting a volley of pressurized water from theWater Slimes. As the shield rang with the force of the impact, she used the momentum to transition it from an attack.

"Wide Slice!"

The broad arc of her blade cleared the air and cleaved through a cluster ofFood Slimesthat had been trying to gum up her boots with sticky, syrup like secretions.

"Too much sugar in this batch! Lucy would definitely alert me with DIABETES!"

HerExtreme Adhesionheld her firm against the wood as she sprinted horizontally. Below her,Sludge Slimeshissed and splashed acidic bile upward. She tilted her body at an impossible angle using herAgile Spine, letting the acid hiss harmlessly past her cloak. As she ran, she saw a group ofSoothing Slimesvibrating at a frequency that threatened to numb her muscles.

Maddy flashed a sad look,

"Aww... Even them, they used to heal anyone in pain. Now, this damn mana distortion has rotted them too."

To their side, Hygiene Slimes didn’t offer a cleaning. They spat high pressure bubbles of caustic soap that hissed and sizzled against her clothes. Maddy’s sadness hardened into a resolve.

"The weakest monsters... Ordinary people used to harvest them with ease. But once they rot, they’re deadly."

She kicked off the wall, herCharging Strengthfrom the Bomb Boar turning the wooden surface into a launching pad. The wood groaned under the pressure as she propelled herself downward. Mid air, she tapped into herExplosive Glands, igniting a controlled burst beneath her feet to adjust her trajectory with a bang.

"Sword Rush!"

She became a human bullet. Her body whistled through the air, her short sword extended. She ripped through the center of theSludge Slimes, her speed so intense that their acidic bile couldn’t even cling to her blade.

As she hit the ground, she didn’t slow down. HerAdaptive Reflexesallowed her to pivot instantly. She channeled herBlast Shockwave, slamming her shield into the cobblestones. The resulting detonation sent a tremor through the street, staggering theSoothing Slimesand shattering their hypnotic vibrations.

TheHygiene Slimestried to retaliate, puffing up their translucent bodies to spray a massive cloud of caustic suds. Maddy was already moving. She used herBlade Bunnyagility to weave through the bubbles, her feet barely touching the ground as she danced between the popping, sizzling spheres of soap.

She didn’t waste a single motion. Her breathing slowed, and the chaotic battlefield seemed to grow quiet as she focused all her intent onto the edge of her short sword.

"Clean Cut!"

With a single, decisive slash, she struck. The movement was so minimal it was almost invisible to the naked eye, yet the energy transfer was absolute. The blade hummed as it passed through the center of the cluster, the sheer precision of the strike bypassing the slimes’ bubbly exterior to shatter their cores instantly.

The high pressure suds collapsed into harmless water, raining down on the cobblestones. Maddy stood perfectly still in the center of the clearing, her sword already returning to its ready position.

Then, the world around her accelerated. She moved with the focused logic of a mother clearing her son’s cluttered room, paired with the precision of one preparing a grand feast.

As she channeled her animal traits from the shellgrave forest to eliminate the slimes swarming the town, she applied her newly mastered culinary skills. The one thousand four hundred slimes were expertly carved into various cuts, looking so appetizing they made Maddy’s taste buds dance; she found herself tempted to eat them even raw.

Maddy stood in the center of the square, her breath steady and her eyes wide as she surveyed the neatly arranged piles of glistening slime cuts. A small, incredulous laugh escaped her lips.

"That was an excellent way to exercise and practice my new adventurer skills. I didn’t even have to use my other abilities—nor should I. Not a single hint of my nature as a chimera can be revealed while I am fighting as an adventurer."

Then, her expression hardened slightly, her eyes narrowing as she swept her gaze across the battlefield.

"And... the people here at Slime Village... they’ve been avenged. Finally, there is justice even for a town made of slimes."

However, a sudden, sharp prickling sensation shot through her nerves. Her newest trait,Mana Sensitivity—which she had acquired from the adventurer—began to flare with frantic intensity.

Maddy’s head snapped toward the town’s spawning ground: the old harvesting hub.

Something massive was forming there...

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