Hello! Sorry for the very short chapter and the long break. I've been busy with IRL stuff and barely had time to get anything done. No matter. Expect the next chapter to be out late next week!

Also, quick note, previous chapter's ending has been rewritten since I really wasn't comfortable with how I ended it.

"No." I said with such authority that Mint actually froze. "You don't know what taking over the world means." I sat down. "Ruling the world is a great accomplishment and seems nice and all but that's only the start. First you have to deal with is the people who were in charge. You either remove them from the equation or they rally the people to fight against you. Then the people you rule, there will always be people who don't like what you're doing or what you stand for and rally people to fight you and all this fighting will affect the resources since the less people doing work the less work is being done. Soon there'd be suffering everywhere and people can't do as you say when they aren't in the condition to do so."

"Then there's the fact that the world is big." I pulled out a map of Remnant. "I cannot be everywhere at once and squash out rebellion after rebellion after rebellion." I rolled up the map and stored it into my inventory. "Trust me, no one really wants to rule the world, the maintenance of doing so is so tiring that you'd be better off having a hero kill you."

"Oh…so why do you want to rule the city?" Mint asked after a few moments of silence.

"Because I want to get rich and powerful enough that anything I do will be hailed as progress by anyone else." I stated. "And ruling a city is manageable and maintaining it could be easily outsourced to anyone with a brain and a hunger for peaceful progress…"

"…so basically you want to be remembered as a great person…" Mint deduced and I smiled.

"Yep, and I want boatloads of money, no scratch that, I want enough money to fill five CCTs…now let's plan."

"What did you do?" Joan asked me as I began moving towards the Workshop door.

"Well, I promised Mint that I was going to help her level up to Level 10." Mint was happily humming to herself in her drawer.

"I get that, but why are you covered in slime?" Just as she said that a large amount of slime dripped from my shirt, formed up into a tiny Slime that tried to escape but was aptly stepped on.

"Well, I went to the Slime Dungeon since I had better weapons now and one thing led to another." I shrugged. "Needless to say, fuck Dragons, Slimes are the strongest monsters there are."

"But…aren't they usually…beginner monsters?"

"Joan, listen to me." I said in a very serious tone. "The Slimes I fight, they can't die, they don't die, and they refuse to die!" I giggled madly. "They eat your armour, your shoes and your belongings."

"The only thing you can do is chip away at them, which is much harder to do given that they negate physical damage almost completely. And then, the small parts that you chip away are still alive and either attack you or go away to grow bigger and then attack you."

"Uhh…Joan, I think we should leave Euca alone for now. Oh I have a cool new thing to show off!" Mint showed up to lead Joan away as I began curling into a ball and whimpering.

"Slimes…Slimes everywhere…"

"Shouldn't we help him?"

"Nope!"

"Feeling better now?" Joan asked as I exited the Workshop looking noticeably happier compared to my earlier state.

"Very." I beamed my creepiest and most terrifying grin.

"…What did you do?" She hesitantly asked.

Without any warning I suddenly equipped something from my inventory.

[Lesser Slime Armor]

[Ability: Shapeshift: Engulfs the user in slime and reshapes the body according to the users will. While Shapeshifted, the amount of damage dealt is reduced to 1 before reverting the user to their original form.]

"Other classes get strong weapons that cut through cities like butter, Merchants get the cool toys." I lightly tapped the green full plate armour that looked like it was made of slightly transparent jelly. "Aaand Shapeshift!"

The armour exploded and devoured me and I watched as Joan took a cautious step back. I could feel the armour melt and shape me according to my thoughts. Finally the slime receded and standing in front of Joan was a mirror image of her only with the same terrifying grin I had,

"Like it?" I said, using a touch of Voice Mimicry to sound like her. I flipped her hair back once before undoing the transformation.

"Please don't do that again, that was creepy."

"Noted and ignored. I do what I want." I said. "Now I'm going to bed because I'm tired from bottling Slimes. Joan feel free to close up early."

I quickly scrambled upstairs and dove into my bed where I fell asleep almost immediately.