[Meanwhile, in Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken]

  There were adventurers preparing to iigate the Great Jura Forest.

  They were B-rank adventurers: Cabal, Ellen, and Gido.

  With monster activity worsening, even merts had been avoidiering.

  With the increase in prote fees, the journey would no longer be profitable.

  Thus, to cross the forest, it would be necessary to proceed on foot.

  And in the first pce, sine could approach the "Sealed Cave," any journey would iably have to tinue on foot.

  When they finished some preparations and were about to depart, a single person called out to them.

  "Excuse me. If you are heading toward the forest, could I apany you halfway?"

  Was the voice female? Male? Young? Old? They couldn't tell.

  Nor could they see the person's expression.

  Because that person was wearing a mask.

  An expressionless but beautiful mask.

  The stranger gave off a suspicious aura. But...

  "It should be fine…?" Ellen responded.

  "Hey! You! Before the leader – me! – gave permission… seriously, what the hell!" Cabal, the 'leader,' wasn't very pleased.

  "Seriously… well, now that Nee-san gave the OK, there's no point arguing, right?" Gided.

  Hearing this, Cabal felt defeated and accepted it.

  "I am grateful!"

  After saying those words, the suspicious stranger silently followed the trio.

  Thus, the group of three gained a new panion a off on their iigation.

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  This time, Zaydas reversed time so that this dimension would flow slower than his own.

  After exg himself to go to the bathroom, Zaydas spoke mentally: 'Great Sage, I want to unlock the ninth gate.'

  [Processing...]

  [-256 Thousand AP!]

  [Done!]

  As soon as the Great Sage's voice said 'Done,' Zaydas felt a new gate opening, while his mind became slightly overwhelmed with information.

  Force Field Geion, Transformation, and Size Alteration...

  Three abilities were unlocked at the same time with the opening of the ninth gate.

  Two abilities that plemented each other and another one he also desired.

  It took some time for him to process so muformation.

  After that was done, he smiled as he had a brilliant idea.

  After some tests, he mao ge his form, transf into a Blue Slime. This was only possible thanks to the two new abilities, Transformation and Size Alteration.

  Transformation allowed him to ge his appearance, but he couldn't alter his size drastically, whereas Size Alteration enabled him to modify both his internal body and specific parts, such as making his arm enormous, etc.

  Maintaining this form, he anded mentally: 'Great Sage, I want to go to TSSDK. Mark the coordinate.'

  [One moment, please... Done!]

  As soon as he heard this, Zaydas used Dimensional Jump.

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  Rimuru looks up at the sky and sighs.

  Following what Zaydas had told him earlier, he went to the city ter without using his human form and... Well, several things happened, and now, he somehow ma some talented Dwarves with him.

  'How did Zaydas-san know about these things?'

  "Rimuru-sama?" Ranga stopped running, almost making Rimuru fall off him.

  "What happened, Ranga?" Rimuru steadied himself and 'saw' what was not too far away: "A Slime?"

  In front of him, Rimuru saw a Slime identical to himself.

  'Thinking about it now, isn't this my first time seeing another Slime besides myself?' Rimuru thought.

  However, what happened left him speechless, uo uand what was going on.

  "o meet you all. I am the Slime Rimuru. Not an Evil Slime~"

  "What? Ah? What?" Rimuru was so fused that he started thinking: 'Where am I? Who am I? Where did I e from? Where am I going?'

  "Ku kuku, Kuha ha, Ku ha hahaha!"

  Letting out a cssic vilin ugh, worthy of three digits, the 'Slime Rimuru' began to ge shape.

  "Zaydas-kun?!" Rimuru excimed. "I swear, only someone like you would pull a prank like this!"

  "Hahaha." Zaydas said, wiping away a trace of tears. "Rimuru-you, should've seen your face when you saw me. Especially when I said, 'I am the Slime Rimuru. Not an Evil Slime.' Haha, that was fun~"

  "Zaydas-kun, you... Damn it, you... Sigh..." Rimuru didn't even know what to say to scold him. "Man, you really caught me off guard."

  "And I don't know it? Damn, I only regret not rec this..." He sighed i.

  "Master?" Ranga, who was carrying Rimuru, was both fused and surprised.

  It was uandable; this was Ranga's first time seeing Zaydas.

  "Ranga, this is my friend, Zaydas-san." Rimuru introduced them. "And, Zaydas-san, this is my loyal subordinate who joihe vilge, Ranga."

  "I am Ranga. o meet you, Master's friend!" Ranga began wagging his tail very quickly.

  "Mm, likewise." Zaydas smiled a little. Then, he said, "Now that I've had my fun, I'll take my leave—I have something I o do... Ah yes, this is a gift."

  A magic circle appeared beside each of Zaydas's hands, and from one of them, he pulled out a gss bottle. The bottle then floated toward Rimuru, who created a blue slime hand to grab it.

  "What is this?"

  Then, he saw Zaydas take out two golden fruits.

  "Wine, and these golden fruits were what I used to create this wine," Zaydas replied. "I didn't make much this time, so I'll give you otle. Drink in moderation, as it's a special wine, and its effect might eve you drunk. There's a special note about this—read it ter. And these golden fruits are a type of spiritual fruit, or at least that's what I like to think. They have a good effe enhang the body a power."

  When Zaydas finished speaking, he made the two golden fruits float toward Rimuru and Ranga.

  "Thank you, Master's friend!" Ranga thanked him before taking the golden fruit with his mouth.

  "Thanks for the gift, Zaydas-san," Rimuru also expressed his gratitude.

  After st the wine, Rimuru jumped into the air, shifted into his human form, and nded on the ground beside Ranga.

  "Don't worry about it," Zaydas joked dismissively before simply vanishing before their eyes.

  Seeing Zaydas leave just like that, Rimuru shook his head.

  Notig that Ranga wasing the golden fruit—knowing he would without permission—Rimuru said, "Go ahead a, Ranga. It was a gift from my friend to you."

  Then, Rimuru himself took a bite of the golden fruit in his hand.

  *Mogu mogu*

  *Gokuri*

  "Delicious~!" Rimuru's eyes sparkled.

  'As expected of Zaydas, he's always full of surprises...' Then, he mentally anded: 'Great Sage, analyze this golden fruit!'

  [Analyzing...]

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  What be said... In the Great Jura Forest, the existence of things like chis, pigs, etc., has so far been ent.

  Zaydas wahrough the forest, and the weakest creatures he saw were Goblins and small birds.

  Zaydas' thoughts were interrupted wheopped flying after spotting a massive ke.

  'Well, I'll start testing with fish, then try heading to a city. Maybe I'll find someone who raises chis or something...'

  With that thought, he quickly desded.

  Slowing down as he reached the ke, Zaydas hovered, theended his hands. From his ten fingers, silk threads emerged, f a fishihat sank into the ke and, at his and, closed.

  'I caught something...'

  Pulling back, the white silk threads retracted toward him.

  "Spsh!"

  The moment the tral part of the fishi emerged from the water, a retively loud sound echoed, and then Zaydas saw several fish that had been caught—medium, small, and rge ones, even a oer-long octopus.

  Taking flight with them, Zaydas carried them to dry nd, a bit away from the water, ahe silk settle on the ground.

  Landing beside it, he watched as the fish flopped on the ground while the octopus struggled to return to the ke.

  After thinking for a moment, Zaydas created an ice arrow and shot it at the octopus's head.

  "Beng!"

  The shot recise, and soon, the octopus, pierced by the ice arrow, began freeziirely.

  Shifting his attention from the octopus, Zaydas looked at the fish still writhing on the ground.

  Thinking for a moment, he created a magic circle beh the fish, and a 100-liter water tank appeared, causing most of the fish to fall i.

  Using Telekinesis, he picked up the remaining fish and also used Hydrokinesis to take water from the ke and fill the tank.

  Now seeing the fish swimming in circles ihe water tank, Zaydas analyzed them until he found a pair of the same species, measuring 50 d 55 cm. They looked very simir to carp.

  'Let's test these two first.'

  The rest were a bonus for him to take bad eat, just like the octopus.

  He made the female float toward him and said, "Your name will be Burida."

  The moment he did this, the fish glowed slightly.

  'Well, the effect isly instant.'

  The simple fact that it glowed a little gave him hope, and wheried to 'replicate' the ability of the fish he had made float with Telekinesis, a smile formed on his lips as he saw the ability: Extra: Fertile.

  He didn't know if it was the will of the world answering his sincere prayer, but whatever it was, this ability was self-expnatory.

  After pg her ier, he made the other fish float and brought it to him: "Your name will be Hiyokuna."

  He made a pun with the female's name, 'Burida,' which could mean 'Breeder' in Japanese, and for the male, 'Hiyokana,' which could meaile' in Japanese.

  Just like Burida, Hiyokana began to glow briefly while Zaydas felt a 10% drain on his demonic power.

  With that done, he analyzed the ability that Hiyokana gained: Extra: Stallion.

  Curiously, when he opehe ability details, it was somewhat simir to Burida's. While Burida could ovute with any fish species, Hiyokana had the same capability, but his ability was more arrogant—to the point where he could reproduce even with aquatic species such as whales, sharks, starfish, etc.

  'This 't be a ce... Is it because of the name?'

  No matter how he looked at it, it was too much of a ce that both fish had highly useful abilities that met his needs.

  However, he o be careful with Hiyokana. His ability could lead to ovution with various different aquatic species, and if Zaydas created a pond with other aquatic species, it could bee a problem.

  'Well, I separate them by species...'

  He didn't feel the o create hybrid mutations.

  At the same time, it could be very signifit if Hiyokana and Burida mixed with different fish, creating multiple new subspecies.

  Regarding that, he had no objes.

  For now, though, he didn't want to take risks. He created two additional 50-liter water tanks and pced each of them separately from the others, filling the tanks with water.

  Until he was sure there was no risk of them being killed by rger fish hting among themselves, Zaydas pyed it safe.

  With everything done, Zaydas made the three water tanks float with Telekinesis, theed a magic circle beh the frozen octopus, st it.

  After that, he closed his eyes while he could clearly sehe mark of his dimension and, just as clearly, the one from INN. This time, he noticed that the mark was not following Hiraku but instead remai the st point he had exited, meaning his bathroom.

  ging the mark's location to a spot he golden fruit orchard, Zaydas used Dimensional Jump.

  His vision darkened for a moment, and he felt the flow of time-space, but it sted only a mere millised before he found himself in INN, at the marked location.

  'It worked.' He smiled slightly.

  However, when he looked at the water tanks, he saw that two smaller fish, about 10 size, had died.

  'Mhm... This firms that it's irely safe to use Dimensional Jump, I guess?' Until now, he hadn't noticed any issues, but that might be because he had siderable strength from the very beginning.

  Still, this was a minor setback. Having most of the fish survive, especially Burida and Hiyokana, was already a great victory.

  Before anything else, he restored the time flow to how it was before.

  Then, taking a distance of 200 meters, Zaydas pced the water tanks with the fish on the ground for now and began to float.

  In the air, he created a huge red magic circle and used Modeling through it, affeg a total of oare of nd. He opened a massive hole in the ground, pg the excavated soil in a er, which soon began f a small mountain of earth.

  The entire process took an hour. Just to be safe, he solidified the soil of all the excavated nd using Modeling.

  When he finished, making it 100 meters deep, Zaydas reflected for a moment before using Modeling to create an underground tunnel from the newly dug pond to the river in the west.

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  Looking at the entire hectare of nd being filled with water, Zaydas smiled slightly, then thought of something and began using part of the removed soil to create four separate divisions in total.

  For now, he would leave Burida in oion, Hiyokana in another, and the rest of the fish ihird. Later, he po introduother species in the remaining space.

  'Everything is going acc to pn... Or almost.' Zaydas nodded with a smile. 'Very well, very well.'

  Making the fish float, he first pced the 'normal' ones iion 1. Iion 2, he pced Burida, and iion 3, Hiyokana.

  With that done, he dismembered the two dead fish and tossed them into Burida's water.

  Theook 10 kilos of wild animal meat from the Forest of Death, cut it into small pieces, and distributed it among each se.

  'For now, I'll use meat to feed the fish. Later, I'll research what fish normally eat.'

  Satisfied with his work, he seemed to remember something and adjusted the time flow once more.

  'Great Sage, mark the coordinates of TSSDK.'

  [Done!]

  Without a sed thought, he used Dimensional Jump.

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