Although Ye Chuqi sounded perfectly sincere, Barnard was not so easily reassured. In the end, they stayed at the edge of the Fog Marsh for another day. Only after watching Joshua spend a whole day in the marsh's fog without suffering any adverse effects after taking the potion did Barnard finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Joshua: I have no idea why I agreed to this experiment.
Chapter 40: Liao Leaf Town 07: Ye Chuqi definitely did it on purpose! [Part two...
Before entering the Fog Marsh, Ye Chuqi had jokingly asked whether creatures like slime monsters lived there. When she received an affirmative answer, she fell silent for a long time.
Slime monsters were far too much for human nerves to bear. Not only did the Fog Marsh have them, they were practically a local specialty. Every few steps, they could see a filthy, flabby, sticky slime monster slowly sliding past nearby. Its body, a mixture of sludge and slurry, was translucent, offering a hazy glimpse of all the assorted rubbish inside. There were even quite a few demon beast and human bones floating within.
Slime monsters ate anything and feared nothing. Even if someone smashed one apart, it would soon pull itself back together unless its Crystal Core was destroyed outright. Slime monsters were not classified as demon beasts; these peculiar creatures were a kind of mutant beast, a twisted combination of earth element and water element, which was why their cores were called Crystal Cores.
In other words, slime monsters had looks that put anyone's aesthetic sensibilities to the test, utterly repulsive smells and forms, and no useful resources to harvest. Fighting them was another ordeal for the nerves, and afterward, the combatants would be covered in a strange stink. They simply had no redeeming qualities.
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