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Stepping out of the town's east gate, the farm where the mission is located comes into view.

The vast golden wheat fields, and the busy figures of farmers working in them, show that the atmosphere here is completely different from that of the western part of the town.

Everything seemed to be thriving, except for two fields that had not yet been harvested.

When Linssey and his two companions arrived, they were greeted by two middle-aged men carrying pitchforks and sickles, who looked distressed.

"I'm Sam. Are you adventurers from town who came to clear out the slimes?"

"Yes." Eric showed the other person the mission manual.

Lindsay was somewhat surprised: "Sam? Do you know Sam, the retired veteran from Lindsay?"

"I don't know them, maybe it's just a coincidence of names," the middle-aged man replied. "Let's get down to business. After it rained yesterday, a bunch of slimes popped up."

There are just too many of these things. The two of us don't dare to kill them, nor can we kill all of them. This is seriously affecting the wheat harvest in the fields, and the people in the other fields are laughing at us...

Please get rid of these annoying monsters quickly!

Eric confidently asked, "Don't worry, uncle, where are they now?"

"It's right in the field, look closely."

Lindsay looked in the direction Uncle Sam was pointing and saw several slimes, each only the size of a ball, jumping around and occasionally swallowing some wheat and weeds from the surrounding area.

[Slime, Monster, Health: 10/10, Armor: 0]

"Just a few? They'll be gone in no time."

Eric pierced a nearby slime with his spear, instantly rupturing its outer membrane and turning it into a puddle of slime.

Camilla drew her bowstring and fired an arrow, which struck a slime a short distance away.

"It's easy." She tossed her chestnut hair and then set her sights on the next target.

"It's easy, but if you look closely, there are too many."

Uncle Sam was right; more slimes have appeared from the wheat field, now numbering in the dozens.

They clearly noticed someone was attacking them, and they hopped and leaped towards them, surrounding them.

Linsset raised his left-hand crossbow and aimed.

swoosh~

A crossbow bolt was fired, hitting a slime monster squarely and piercing it through!

He had practiced with the crossbow briefly in the shed last night. The crossbow was less than 50 centimeters long, easy to load, and had good accuracy, but its disadvantages were short range and low power.

[Monster Encyclopedia Activated: Slime defeated, choose one ability to gain]

This is the sixth monster ability.

[Elastic Jump: Your jumping ability is enhanced]

[Growth Through Consumption: You can gain a stat boost by consuming food.]

[Slippery slime: Your body can secrete slime]

Devouring to grow? This monster's abilities seem amazing!

Linsel chose [Devour Growth] without hesitation. According to the monster's ability description on the panel, he could increase his attributes by eating something, and attributes could directly improve his strength.

[Successfully selected [Eat Growth]]

He immediately took out half a piece of black bread from his leather bag and began to devour it.

"Hey, Lindsay, what are you doing?"

Eric looked surprised.

He struck again with his spear, killing a slime that was jumping up and about to crash into him.

"Now is not the time to eat!"

Lin Sai quickly stuffed the entire black bread into his mouth, and feeling a bit choked, he took out his water bag and started drinking heavily.

"This adventurer, aren't you getting a little too comfortable..." Even Uncle Sam next to him couldn't help but chime in.

The middle-aged man's pitchfork wasn't idle either; with a heavy thrust, he completely pierced and killed one of the grasshoppers at his feet.

Lindsay pounded his chest and opened the panel:

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Name: Lindsay

Life: 90/90

Armor: 40/40 (Waistband, Hood)

Strength: 5 Agility: 5 Constitution: 7

Perception: 7 Intelligence: 7 Charisma: 4

Specializations: [Swords: Proficient], [Wilderness Survival: Basic], [Spears: Beginner], [Crossbows: Beginner]

[Crossbow Weapons: Beginner]: Increases accuracy by 5% when using crossbow weapons.

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Aside from gaining a new crossbow weapon feat, the attributes seem to remain largely unchanged…

What's going on?

"Adventurer, stop eating! The slimes have gotten bigger when they put together!"

Another farmer carrying a sickle brought over a bucket of water, which drew Lindsay's attention.

Dozens of slimes appeared in the farmland, gathered together, merged, and grew to the size of a cow!

However, this newly fused giant slime also became clumsy, changing from jumping to slowly crawling.

Lindsay saw a panel appear above the giant slime's head:

[Large Slime, Monster, HP: ∞/0, Armor: 0]

Is life infinite? Can't it be killed?

Camilla fired an arrow that pierced the giant slime's body. Then, bubbles rose from the arrow as it was corroded and digested.

"My arrows are useless!"

"Mira, I'll do it!"

Eric dropped his wooden shield and thrust his spear at the giant slime with both hands.

The spear pierced the slime's body, and then bubbles began to rise from it.

Eric hurriedly pulled out the spear.

"What, what should we do?"

Lindsay, meanwhile, was carefully observing the large slime from behind.

This is only a low-level (white porcelain) quest; normally, these are the kinds of monsters that novice adventurers should be able to defeat…

Suddenly he noticed that there seemed to be a core inside the giant slime, a transparent, solid, gelatinous substance.

That might be its weakness!

"Quickly, attack that thing in its center!"

The two Iron-rank adventurer companions then noticed the strange thing about the giant slime.

"I'll go!" Camilla fired another arrow, which flew straight towards the core of the opponent's body and entered the body, but stopped in front of the core.

"I'm so useless..."

She suddenly cried out in surprise, and the outer membrane of the giant slime bulged inward, spraying a large glob of slime at her.

Camilla couldn't dodge in time and was sprayed all over her body with the giant slime's slime.

"Mira!" Eric ran over, looking at Camilla lying on the ground in pain, at a loss for what to do.

[Camilla, Health: 47/55 (Slight Corrosion), Armor: 39/55 (Poor Quality Leather)]

"Quickly! The giant slime's sludge can burn people! Use water!"

The two farmers brought two more buckets of water, which they had prepared beforehand and poured over Camilla.

The water washed away the slime, and at the same moment, Lindsay charged toward the giant slime with both hands gripping his spear.

Before the dent in front of the monster could heal, the spear pierced through and successfully struck its core!

The solid core shattered, and the giant slime instantly turned into a large puddle of slime, dying.

[Monster Encyclopedia Activated: Large Slime defeated. Choose one ability to gain.]

The seventh monster ability!