Chapter Summaries

Moss discovered a fishman tribe of more than a hundred and returned toward her cave, leaving Little Ball to gather fallen branches. Little Ball hunted a fishman that carried a stone spear, awakened Water Flow Control, and obtained its magic core and the spear.

• Moss killed a Bronze Rank fishman, had Little Ball swallow its body, and erased traces of the encounter.
• Moss found a fishman settlement with more than a hundred fishmen, then headed back toward her cave while collecting mushrooms.
• Moss sent Little Ball into the forest to gather fallen branches, and Little Ball searched deeper when it found none nearby.
• Little Ball spotted a fishman carrying a stone spear, hid in a tree, and attacked it with Concentrated Devouring.
• Little Ball used Mana Release — Water Flow Control to fill the fishman with water until it died, then retrieved its magic core and stone spear.

Moss carved a basalt stone into a pot while Little Ball gathered firewood and offered her the magic core from the fishman she defeated. Moss used the pot to heat a bath, and she and Little Ball relaxed together in the water.

• Moss found a suitably shaped basalt stone and began carving it into a cooking pot.
• Little Ball returned with firewood and offered Moss the fishman's water-type magic core, which Moss accepted before telling her to keep it safe.
• Moss had Little Ball spray water over the stone while she finished hollowing it into a large pot.
• Moss filled the stone pot with pure water and heated it with Flame Mantle.
• Moss invited Little Ball into the hot bath, and they soaked together by the shore.

Moss gathered food from the shore and sea, then counted the magic cores she had gained during the World Gate descent. She prepared to use one of three unique cores, leaving her next talent unknown.

• Moss bathed, asked Little Ball to clean the stone pot, and went to hunt for food.
• Moss killed three seagulls with Flame Needle, then found kelp and clams in the shallow sea.
• Moss processed the seagulls and stored the food in Pet Space before returning to the cavern with Little Ball.
• Moss counted 317 remaining magic cores, including four unique cores from creatures she had never eaten before.
• Moss left three cores out and began deciding which one to use first.

Moss attempted to absorb the Great Lizard’s Silver Rank mana core and chose its Super Regeneration talent despite the extreme difficulty. After enduring a brutal transformation with Little Ball’s help, she completed the talent’s construction and survived the ordeal.

• Moss began absorbing the Great Lizard’s Silver Rank mana core and considered the talents it offered.
• Moss rejected Water Control and Robust Physique, then chose the exceptionally blurry Super Regeneration talent.
• Moss suffered intense pain as she absorbed more Silver Rank mana cores to withstand the transformation.
• Little Ball kept Moss conscious and fed her mana cores while she resisted the pain.
• Moss’s Pain Resistance and Mental Enhancement were optimized, and Super Regeneration was successfully constructed.

After recovering from Marrow Cleansing, Moss’s Talents improved and she gained Water Flow Control by eating the Fishman’s magic core. She and Little Ball made edible salt, leaving Moss ready to season and roast seagull.

• Moss recovered from her weakness, felt her strength increase, and saw her Enhancement Talents level up.
• Moss ate the Giant Centipede and Fishman magic cores, choosing Hardening from the first and gaining Water Flow Control from the second.
• Moss tested her new water control alongside her fire Talent and reflected on her time in the sewers.
• Little Ball returned with filtered salt, and Moss boiled away the water to make a jar of table salt.
• Moss and Little Ball prepared to roast seagull with their new seasoning.

Moss studied a fishman she had dissected and suspected a larger fishman tribe lived in the sea, prompting her to be cautious as she explored. Fourteen days later, she tested her Hardening talent with Little Ball and reviewed her new talents, including Super Regeneration, before beginning to study Water Flow Control.

• Moss examined her fishman dissection notes and reasoned that the nearby fishman tribe might be an outpost for a larger group living in the sea.
• Moss began another day of exploring and gathering food with Little Ball.
• Fourteen days later, Moss asked Little Ball to test its water column against her so she could assess her Hardening talent, but she was blasted away after calling out the wrong skill.
• Moss reassured the panicked Little Ball that she was unharmed, then sent it to train on its own.
• Moss recalled testing Super Regeneration by repeatedly cutting her arm, which raised the talent to Level III and Pain Resistance to Level IX.
• Moss began studying Water Flow Control on the sixth day of her talent experiments.

Moss completed her research into Water Flow Control and distilled several techniques for manipulating Magic Power. After finishing her training, she hit on an idea for expanding space and called Little Ball over to test it, telling it to have a baby.

• Moss tested the three ways to create water and pierced a rock with a high-pressure stream.
• Moss summarized Wrapping, Compression, Flow, and Condensation as techniques for controlling Magic Power.
• Moss developed Condensation and raised her Hardening talent to Level V (5).
• Moss demonstrated a powerful hardened punch, then decided her adaptation training was finished.
• Moss conceived a possible way to expand space and summoned Little Ball to experiment, telling it to have a baby.

Moss investigated how Slimes split and pursued her Slime Rancher Plan, hoping to create more Slimes and expand her storage. After her experiments stalled over the role of the soul, she resolved to keep researching and consider improving her Slime Husbandry talent.

• Moss theorized that Slimes split when they expel excess Mana Essence and asked Little Ball to help with experiments, but Little Ball said it could not split.
• Moss began the Slime Rancher Plan to create more Slimes and increase her Pet Space.
• Moss spent nearly half a month testing ways to make Little Ball split, but its Mana Essence material dispersed without forming a new Slime.
• Moss found that boiling the leftover water balls produced Mana Essence-rich jelly that could replenish Mana Essence and enhance food.
• Moss concluded that she could not yet explain how a soul formed in a new Slime, and considered raising Slime Husbandry with her Golden Finger while continuing her research.

After months of research, Moss concluded that Slimes reproduced by devouring creatures and using fragments of their souls to form new Slimes. She left the Slime Husbandry project unresolved for now, insisting that she would keep investigating if her theory failed.

• Moss prepared fish for winter while Little Ball returned with a large catch and reported that the nearby fishmen tribes had returned to the sea.
• Moss erased the fishmen tribes from her map and decided to explore the area during winter, having finished her research into the fishmen and their society.
• Moss connected Little Ball’s growth to her conclusion that Mana Essence strengthened souls and that Slimes gained soul fragments by eating creatures before splitting.
• Moss named her explanation the Formation of Slimes—Devouring Theory and suppressed the panel’s attempt to change Slime Husbandry Ⅹ, deciding it was too soon to give up.

Moss’s new Slime Cultivation talent caused Little Ball to evolve during an experiment. Little Ball emerged as a Split Slime, and Moss resolved not to abuse her power to influence Slime evolution.

• Moss finished smoking sea fish and admired the winter stores and seasonings she had prepared.
• Little Ball brought Moss a live sea fish, and Moss used it to begin another division experiment.
• Moss poured nearly all her Magic Power into Little Ball, triggering its evolution.
• Moss discovered that her Slime Husbandry talent had become Slime Cultivation, which could influence Slimes’ division, reproduction, and growth.
• Little Ball finished evolving into a Bronze Level 9 Split Slime, and Moss warned herself not to abuse her new ability.

Moss’s Slime Cultivation talent let Little Ball split off two Slimes using fragments of her soul, expanding their shared storage space and giving the new Slimes inherited talents. With winter beginning, Moss planned further exploration and training, then chose to rest and enjoy breakfast with her companions.

• Moss used Slime Cultivation to create Storage Ring and Flame Jade, whose spaces connected with Little Ball’s to form a storage space of about thirty cubic meters.
• Moss reviewed her talent improvements and integrations after a year of training, then outlined her plans to explore the fishmen’s former territory, cultivate Slimes, and leave in spring.
• Little Ball told Moss that breakfast was ready, and Storage Ring greeted Moss before wrapping around her wrist as a bracelet.
• Moss agreed to rest for the day because it was snowing and she had stayed up late organizing research data.
• Flame Jade tended the stone pot, and Moss ate breakfast with Little Ball while praising its improved cooking.

Moss visited the fishmen’s tribe and discovered a colossal World Gate descending from the sea, triggering a tsunami and sending hundreds of thousands of fishmen fleeing. When the fishmen attacked her, Moss unleashed Thermal Pressure Explosion, killed tens of thousands, and leveled up to Bronze Level 10.

• Moss left her cavern and searched the fishmen’s crude houses and altar, where she found unreadable writing carved into the ground.
• Moss felt vibrations and saw the sea recede as a thousand-meter-tall World Gate rose on the horizon, sending enormous waves toward shore.
• Hundreds of thousands of fleeing fishmen spotted Moss and attacked her with seashell javelins.
• Moss used Thermal Pressure Explosion to kill tens of thousands of fishmen, then discovered that she had reached Bronze Level 10.

Moss reached level 10 and, overcome by pain as her body began transforming, fled the approaching tsunami with Little Ball. They escaped through a World Gate into a new world, where three robed figures discovered the gate had sealed and identified the intruder as a Slime.

• Moss leveled up amid the fishmen and felt intense pain as she suspected she was about to take human form.
• As a tsunami of Deep Sea Monsters approached, Moss collapsed, and Little Ball searched for shelter using Vapor Domain.
• Little Ball found a cave containing a stable World Gate, and Moss ordered it to carry her through because the tsunami left them no time to find another hiding place.
• The World Gate sealed behind them, and Moss received Survival Game notifications before passing out in the new world.
• Three black-robed figures activated a Rewind Crystal, saw that a Slime had entered through the gate, and decided to report that a Slime Druid had arrived.

Yas and his party investigated unusually high-paying requests to kill Slimes, suspecting they were connected to the Boundary God Cult and a newly arrived otherworlder, but they found no answers before the requests vanished. Two years later, the search had been abandoned, while Moss still slept in a sealed cave with three Slimes nearby.

• Adventurers in Hill City flocked to the guild after hearing that a hundred Slimes earned one Gold Coin.
• Anlia told Yas, Lina, and Ruto that the requests were connected to the Boundary God Cult, and the party suspected a new World Gate and an otherworlder.
• Yas led the party to investigate in the forest, but after a month the requests disappeared and they ended their mission without finding the World Gate, cultists, or otherworlder.
• Two years passed, and the Boundary God Cult also gave up searching for the Slime Druid who had crossed through the World Gate.
• Little Ball woke beside Moss in the sealed cave, greeted her, and asked why she had not woken up as the other Slimes gathered around her.

After awakening from a long dream, Moss merged her male and female selves, confirmed the name Li, and reunited with her three Slimes. She learned that five years had passed and that humans had hunted Slimes while searching for her, leaving her cautious about revealing her identity.

• Moss dreamed of her former parents, then awakened as a white-haired girl and received a level increase, the advanced talent Body Condensation, and the selectable class Bloodline Sorcerer.
• Moss chose the name Li, and her male and female selves became one as Moss Li.
• Moss reunited with Little Ball, Storage Ring, and Flame Jade, who told her they had missed her during her long sleep.
• Little Ball explained that humans had wiped out most Slimes in the forest after Moss arrived and had been searching for her.
• Moss decided to act carefully around humans and opened her panels to inspect what had changed.

Moss examined the changes caused by her fused human and beast panels, learning about her new combat rankings, talents, and Bloodline Sorcerer profession. She created a rat kin and celebrated gaining beast ears and a talent that would let her wield more of her beast form’s power as she leveled.

• Moss learned that her human and beast panels had fused, combining their attributes and talents while allowing her to switch forms and earn separate Job Points.
• Moss read the laws’ six combat power ranks and learned how the ranks corresponded to different levels of strength.
• Moss discovered that her Familiar talent had become Kin, granting her a vast space for living creatures and the ability to create kin, then made a Brown Rat.
• Moss chose the Bloodline Sorcerer profession over Spellblade and learned that its Ancestral Form talent would let her use more of her beast form’s power in human form as she leveled.
• Moss admired the round beast ears that had appeared on her head and excitedly called herself a beast-eared girl.

Moss tested her newly acquired combat talents, learned that Body Condensation would permanently keep her body in its current form, and spent another half-month in the valley. After discovering the ways to fill her Teleportation Energy bar and return to Blue Star, she decided to leave the forest and explore the world.

• Moss tested her new talents in the rocky forest, combining Mana Throw with elemental talents to produce powerful attacks.
• Moss realized that passive Body Condensation greatly strengthened her body but would likely prevent her from growing taller, then braided her hair and returned to the valley.
• After another half-month, Moss decided to leave the valley to explore the world and gather energy to return to Blue Star.
• Moss learned that surviving, sacrificing valuables, or influencing the world's fate could increase her Teleportation Energy, and chose to pursue the last method.

Moss practiced Fist Technique, entered Flow State, and learned that her companions had grown stronger while she slept. Concerned that she might be the only Blue Star person in the world, she planned to keep her origins secret and began transforming Kin Space by planting a fruit tree, giving its mouse resident food.

• Moss practiced Fist Technique by the lake and realized she had entered Flow State.
• Moss ate Little Ball's roasted meat, learned Storage Ring had found honey, and noted that Little Ball, Flame Jade, and Storage Ring had grown stronger.
• Moss saw that the World Channel had only one person online and resolved to hide that she was an outsider.
• Moss decided to transform Kin Space and asked Storage Ring to lead her to the plants it had found.
• Moss transplanted a fruit tree into Kin Space and gave a fruit to the little mouse, telling it to call her Master.

Moss completed the main renovations to the Kin Space, establishing its water cycle and dividing it into zones for plants, animals, and Slimes. With her kin talent’s new ability allowing her to bestow the Goblins’ Learning talent on her mice, she prepared to leave the valley the next day.

• Moss finished shaping the Kin Space, including a mountain, lake, water cycle, Planting Zone, grasslands, and an area for Slimes.
• Little Ball began splitting Slimes for breeding, while Moss’s mouse kin grew to more than a hundred and tended the Planting Zone.
• Moss unlocked Ability Bestowal after her kin surpassed one hundred and gave the mice the Goblins’ Learning talent, helping them quickly learn farming.
• Moss collected fish and shrimp from the pool, returned to the cave, and made dinner while the others prepared the ranch in the space.
• Moss practiced the Radmian language and fell asleep, knowing she would leave the valley the next day.

Moss left the mountain and traveled through the forest toward signs of human settlement, defeating a Gold-grade Giant Snake along the way. After finding abandoned huts, she reached a village whose unusually heavy smoke made her suspect something was wrong.

• Moss set off from the mountain and headed toward the wooden houses she had spotted in the distance.
• A Gold-grade Giant Snake ambushed Moss, but she killed it with a water beam and took its magic core.
• Moss overheard people searching for the snake and concealed herself before leaving, then continued through the forest.
• Five days later, Moss crossed a dilapidated bridge and found the wooden huts abandoned.
• Moss spotted a village and hurried toward it, but grew wary when she saw unusually large clouds of black smoke.