Slime Evolution

Chapter 483 - New Power?!

When the white finally faded, the first thing Lohan felt was the floor.

It was a wooden floor, covered by a thin layer of hardened gelatin, and the sensation was so familiar and so concrete that he almost laughed with relief.

Gradually, the sounds came back, the soft creaking of the tree, the distant murmur of guild members on the floor below, and over all of it, a voice he knew better than any other, speaking fast and softly, as if repeating a prayer.

"Halon, come back, Halon, come back, please answer me, Halon..."

’Lisa,’ he said, and his voice came out weak, but whole. ’I’m here.’

The silence that followed lasted half a second, and then Lisa threw herself on top of him, with such force that the two of them nearly rolled across the office floor.

She hugged him with her front paws, buried her snout in the dark gelatin surface, and he felt her whole body shaking.

"You took forty minutes," she said, her voice muffled. "Forty minutes! I called your name twenty three times. I counted."

’I was just... in there,’ he answered, with a tired little laugh. ’Sorry. Time passes differently.’

"I almost went in," she murmured. "It was the clone that stopped me. It stood right in front of me. That stubborn thing!"

Lohan laughed, and the laugh echoed through the office, loud and free, and Lisa couldn’t help laughing too, letting out the breath she had been holding for forty minutes.

The clone, proud, vibrated once and was absorbed back into the main body, which received it with a small pop of satisfaction.

And then, in the middle of the laughter, he felt it.

It wasn’t a sudden sensation, like the one from the evolution, nor an explosion of energy.

It was subtler and deeper, a kind of expansion, as if the rooms of his mind, which already seemed enormous, had suddenly gained a whole extra floor.

Mental Voice, Mental Perception, Abyssal Clarity, Mental Pressure, everything that had only just gone through a major evolution, seemed to have climbed one more step, and he felt each skill stretching, organizing itself, fitting into a larger structure.

His mind, which was already advanced, had gone up another level.

A notification appeared before him, calm, almost discreet.

[New Matter Digested: Oracle Spider]

[Matter Rarity: Epic]

[New Trait obtained: Telekinesis Lv 1]

[Allows moving objects at a distance using only the force of the user’s mind. Current maximum weight: 3 kg. The weight limit and precision scale with the user’s mental power.]

[Upgrade Price: 80 Biomass]

He read it once, slowly, and it was only when he reached the last line that it sank in.

’Telekinesis,’ he thought, and the word had a strange taste, like an idea he had only ever seen in movies. ’I got telekinesis.’

"Telekinesis?" Lisa asked, squinting at him. "You can move things with your mind?"

’From what it says here, yes. Up to three kilos.’

"Only three?"

’Don’t complain, it’s level one.’

He couldn’t resist, and tested it right away.

First was the feather still lying in the corner of the room, forgotten since the preparations. Lohan focused his attention on it, and felt something new, a kind of invisible hand forming inside him, much simpler to control than the artificial hands he made with Biomass.

He extended it toward the feather, slowly, and when it touched the light surface, the feather trembled and rose from the floor, floating in the air, delicate as a leaf.

"Wow," Lisa whispered, her eyes wide. "It’s flying!"

’It is,’ he agreed, with an emotion he couldn’t hide. ’I’m making it fly.’

The feather spun in the air, came down, rose again, in a smooth motion, and Lohan felt a childlike satisfaction.

’Damn, who hasn’t dreamed of controlling things with their mind?!’ He laughed mentally, excited, feeling that this was one of the coolest powers he had gotten so far.

Then he tried it with a garden stone Elle had left there as decoration. It must have weighed about two and a half kilos, and Lohan felt a real effort, like lifting a weight with a hand that wasn’t used to it yet.

The stone rose a few centimeters, wobbled dangerously, and fell back with a dull thud.

"Enough," he said, panting, even though he had no lungs. ’That’s the limit. For now.’

"For now?" Lisa repeated, a wide smile forming.

’If it evolves along with the rest of my mind, I don’t know how far this could go.’

It was at that moment that his imagination took off.

He could already think of dozens of uses, and the more he thought, the more excited he got. Even with three kilos, it would be enough to snatch a weapon from an enemy’s hand in the middle of a blow, or deflect an arrow in midair, or pull a dangerous item away from an ally.

Combined with the tentacles, he could have two extra pairs of hands, one physical and one mental. Combined with Mental Pressure, he could immobilize targets that were already disoriented, locking up their legs, their arms, their head.

Combined with the clones, he could launch them over long distances, like living projectiles.

Not to mention the coolest application of all... he could control several flying blades around himself at the same time!

And if the weight limit grew, if one day he could lift not three kilos, but three hundred, or three tons, he could uproot trees, hurl rocks the size of houses, crush an entire armored vehicle without touching it.

’This is crazy,’ he thought, with a pleasant chill. ’This could completely change the way I fight.’

Among all the powers, telekinesis was arguably the one with the greatest potential for development and the widest range of applications, both in combat and in everyday life, and that was incredible!

But this thought was interrupted by the expression that the little fox, or perhaps, by now, not so little anymore, was wearing as she looked at him at that very moment.