I Won't Be Human Anymore!

[Throughout your long life, as long as you keep moving forward, one day you will reach your limits. You stumbled your way into becoming an adventurer, experienced countless hardships, and have now reached the limits of being human. You are confused. Only by breaking through your limits can you become stronger. If you cannot break through, it means you can only linger at this level for the rest of your life, living an ordinary life.]

[What do you plan to do now to break through your limits?]

[1. Persist in training and meditation every day. Seek yourself through training and elevate your thoughts through meditation. Once you go bald, you naturally become stronger.]

[2. Over my long life, I have learned one thing: humans have limits. System, I won't be human anymore!]

[3. Giant humanoid robots are every man's romance. I'm going to mess with machines.]

[4. An ordinary life is the truest life. Become a regular office worker, or give up everything and go back to Farming.]

[Time limit for selection: None]

This damn system was telling him to go home and farm again. It was not as though there had never been cases where someone defeated the Demon King through Farming, but those were light novel plots. They simply did not fit this serious world. If he went back to farm, once the Demon King's army descended, they would only rub his face into the dirt.

After the banquet ended, Yang Yu lay on his bed, making the most important choice of his life. It was precisely because the system had presented him with this choice that he had kept a straight face throughout the celebration banquet.

First, option one: persist in training and meditation every day. It obviously took too much time. Not choosing it.

Next, option four: living an ordinary life and Farming. That would really turn him into background scenery in a game. As for becoming an ordinary office worker, it might not be impossible if he awakened an ability that turned anything he touched into a bomb. The problem was, who knew whether he would really become an ordinary office worker?

All things considered, only options two and three remained.

One glance at option two told him that it involved transforming into another race.

Option three involved relying on all kinds of manufactured equipment to slaughter enemies left and right. At the end of that path, he would become a super mechanic piloting a giant robot—one man making up an entire army.

At first glance, it looked great. The problem was, where would he get blueprints? This world was not entirely without machinery, but most of it was equipment used for research. There was practically nothing for civilian use, and land travel still mainly relied on horse-drawn carriages.

Don't tell me I have to draw blueprints from a lottery. Haven't I already gotten a good look at how terrible my luck is?

After thinking it over, Yang Yu decided to use all four lottery draws he had obtained first. If he drew blueprints, he would choose option three. If not, then he could only stop being human.

[Congratulations, player. You have obtained one apple (junk).]

[Congratulations, player. You have obtained one physics textbook (junk).]

[Congratulations, player. You have obtained one pineapple (junk).]

[Congratulations, player. You have obtained one empty glass bottle (junk).]

Hmm.

Sure enough, option two was his only choice. Not being human was the most suitable choice.

After becoming a mechanic, his goals would be too scattered. He would have to travel everywhere looking for blueprints, collect all kinds of materials, and manufacturing itself would take a long time.

There was a chance he could obtain a rapid manufacturing skill, but the odds were too low. Just thinking about how he had only gotten the Cultivate Four-Leaf Clover skill after Farming for a year, he truly did not dare imagine how a mechanic who needed so many manufacturing skills was supposed to train.

Was grinding the only way? No, there was probably also the pay-to-win route. As long as he had lots and lots of money, he could hire adventurers to work under him.

Neither path looked easy. So for commoners, there was only one option they could choose.

Mm, I can't be wrong.

This was reality. He had to see it clearly.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yang Yu selected option two. Humans had limits. If he wanted to achieve anything, he could only stop being human.

[Are you sure you want to choose option two?]

Confirmed.

[The system has added a new function: Fusion.]

No quest appeared this time, yet the system had added a new function.

Yang Yu immediately stopped feeling sleepy and eagerly began studying the new function.

Simply put, this new function allowed him to collect Species Essence from other races and turn himself into a hybrid, thereby raising his level cap.

The process seemed to involve tossing the collected Species Essence into a minigame resembling a candy-making machine, producing sugar cubes that could raise his level cap.

All right, here came the question: what exactly was Species Essence? What did he need to rely on to collect it? And how much did he need?

Yang Yu was utterly confused. After all, that was all the explanation the new function gave him. There was no tutorial or demonstration whatsoever.

"I can only ask Andeno tomorrow."

Just as Yang Yu was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep, someone knocked on the door. When he opened it, Bai Jin was standing there, holding He Meng, who had been left behind, in her arms.

"Um, I have something to give you."

"Oh. Our rooms aren't that far apart. Couldn't it just crawl over by itself?"

Don't talk about me like I'm some kind of thing. He Meng sprang up and gave Yang Yu a Slime Charge.

Yang Yu spread his arms, intending to catch He Meng steadily, but this time he failed. He could not stop He Meng at all and was knocked flat onto his back.

Damn, why did that hurt so much?

When he opened his status panel, Yang Yu's eyes immediately widened in shock.

[He Meng

Race: Royal Slime Level: LV23 HP: 578/578 MP: 220/220

Attributes: Strength 124, Defense 289, Intelligence 156, Special Defense 268, Agility 79, Endurance 86

Resistance: Physical 50%

Status: Blood Contract (Cannot be removed unless one party dies.) Free Attribute Points: 80]

Did you eat some miracle fertilizer or something, you little brat? How did you suddenly gain so many levels and get such absurd stats? Are you trying to defy the heavens?

Looking at He Meng's stats, then at his own, Yang Yu instantly felt like crying without tears.

It was fine, fine. These were normal stats for a commoner. No, these were the stats that made things challenging. As expected of the hardest starting scenario.

"What exactly did you eat? How did you level up so fast?"

If He Meng told Yang Yu that it had leveled so quickly because it had killed the Goblin King, Yang Yu would want nothing more than to smash his head into a utility pole.

"I ate a strange Goblin. Hehehe. I originally planned to use the corpse to make potions, but it ate the whole thing. What a pity."

Bai Jin let out an eerie laugh. Rather than laughter, it sounded more like she did not want to recall certain things.

Then Bai Jin took a red gemstone from her bag and handed it to Yang Yu. "The task you gave me has been perfectly completed. Here's the loot. I never had a chance to give it to you at the tavern."

Bai Jin had gained five levels, yet her attributes had barely changed. The experience she received might have been what truly came from killing the Goblin King.

In other words, He Meng had become so powerful due to its racial traits. After all, it was common for Slimes to dissolve and absorb things.

Realizing this, Yang Yu was relieved. He reached out and accepted the gemstone, and with a ding, the system presented him with a new quest.