Epic Of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System-Novel

Chapter 158: Experimentations

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[Day 99]

Day 99 and today I had woken up rather energetic. I quickly jumped off the bed as I went to take a bath, this time without Benladann.

I had decided to see how the kids were doing, so after breakfast, I was going to see how their magic had progressed.

However, for the morning, I decided to practice shapeshifting into other forms, and see if I could acquire or gain Skills by using them in certain ways.

After all, as it is already known, I can gain Skills by eating things, or by doing certain actions! I remember eating a lot of Slimes, but I could never get their Skills such as Self-Division or Slime Body, Slime King Body, and so on…

So, I went to a separate room, the only one that was actually empty for the most part, and began to shapeshift.

I had several Slime Forms that I could take through Body Transformation. I never thought I could become a Slime while being a Dragon… But I suppose this thing has its limits as well.

Indeed, with Body Transformation, I can modify each transformation a bit, usually, the most liberty I have is when adding dragon-like parts into the transformed form, but I seem to be unable to add the nature of other transformations into another.

Meaning that I cannot become a half slime and half dragon, I have to be one or the other. I tried it out and I found out I can add little horns and small bat-sized dragon wings to my slime forms, but that's it.

How disappointing!

System, could I be able to mix up the transformations one day?

<Answer: Perhaps if you increase the level of the Skill and awaken it, but I cannot confirm anything…>

I see, well, might as well try it out.

The several slime forms available for me were… Ice Slime, Water Slime, Wind Slime, and the King versions of them, which made them a bit bigger.

As a Slime, I seem to be able to still use my other Abilities, such as Immortal Body, meaning that I can expand my body around and recover it super quickly. However, I cannot enlarge my own size and weight indefinitely, there is a limit of around 15 meters.

Wait, that's pretty big already.

Anyways, as a Slime I have a huge weak spot. My Mana Core reveals itself right in the center of my body. Anyone strong enough could send a piercing attack and easily crack my Mana Cores floating inside of my gelatinous body.

That's bad…

Well, for now, I tried self-dividing!

I expanded my slime body and then cut myself off…

Slice…

I glanced at the sliced slime piece, it seemed to tremble a bit until it splattered over the floor motionlessly.

Hm… I seem to not be able to, even in the King Slime forms that were able to self-divide.

Should I try putting a soul inside of a piece of slime?

I quickly grabbed a wandering soul as I divided my piece of slime and then threw the soul inside!

FLASH!

Let's see what comes out!

The slime begins to move…! Is there some hope?

And its… moving!

It moves around, like a slug. It doesn't even know what it is, so it can't jump like a slime.

Interesting, so I made it!

Though… This guy is not obeying me.

"Oi! Jump!" I order it.

However, the little bastard doesn't listen to me.

This is my grip right now, I can sort of infusing souls into stuff, but they don't obey me, they fall apart afterward too. I require the ability to dominate undead so I can actually keep the souls inside the vessels. Ugh, how frustrating! I am a mere half-assed necromancer, it seems.

Fafnir-sama, drop me some skill for this, will ya?

Okay, let's not say that ever again, I might be offending the entire dragon race with my shamelessness.

Now, I tried to self-divide and infuse souls into my divisions for a while, several times. I even spent over an hour!

In the end, over 40 slimes were wandering around, these slimes are weird because they lack mana core, so they're absurdly weak and are made of my slime with a random soul inside. I call them "Undead Slime" and they are as useless as a slime that doesn't even know how to jump can get.

And, well, it seems that I didn't get anything, how frustrating-

Ding!

<You learned the [Self-Division: Level 1] Skill>

Aha?!

Hah! I knew it from the start. See? This is what putting over an hour of hard work generates, a new skill!

Now that I got it, time to check it out using other types of bodies, such as my dragon body.

Flash!

I quickly shapeshift into an Ice Dragon, as I activate the Skill.

Will I get a mini-ice dragon? How does this work?

Pop!

However…

The horror!

What happened was rather horrifying!

My left whole arm detached itself from my body and fell over the floor.

It suddenly began to move by itself!

Oh god, what am I even?

I glanced at my own arm as it moved around, aimlessly.

It probably became some kind of Undead Dragon Arm.

Should I keep this bad boy until he evolves into an overpowered giant walking hand?

No… I better not do that, the kids will get scared.

I quickly took the arm and attached it back, it seems that the regeneration worked.

Oh, while I used Body Division, Immortal Body didn't activate to bring a new arm, so I guess I have to will it to bring back a new arm in this situation, but because I didn't, it wasn't brought back.

I played around some more with Body Division, detaching my own body into pieces and making them walk around.

However, I cannot control their flesh nor meld them together into a weird limb golem, and they seem pathetically weak, so for now, it won't have any issues.

But maybe in battle, I will be able to fire a rocket punch or something.

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