157 The Biology Of A Slime And A Mystery
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While walking around and chatting with my friends, I glanced at Pyuku, who was jumping around, following us very close from the sides.
I wondered what kind of way they were able to even be alive. I mean, what are slimes anyways?
I had taken most things for granted in a fantasy world such as this.
Even if in my previous life, elements such as magic and other things still existed, they were way more low-key compared to the high elements of this world.
It appears that in this world, unlike my own, monsters, demons, and other fantastical races are commonplace, while in my world most of them were in fables, there were demon beasts that were said to lurk inside crypts, but those were already very rare.
In here, the danger and threat of monsters of all kinds and powerful beasts are an everyday occurrence, in my world, the danger was mostly wild animals such as wolves, bears, and panthers, who were not able to wield any magic, they were just fierce and strong animals.
But in here? Even the black panthers we had fought are able to use shadow and dark magic, and exude mana as if they were very proficient at it, in my previous world, magic was used in different ways and it wasn’t so flashy unless you had a very royal bloodline that gave you a large amount of mana.
So, things such as a slime were nowhere to be seen and would seem like an unrealistic thing in my previous world, who would ever believe me there if I told them that I saw a mass of living water? Nobody.
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Well, in this world I had seen so many fantastical things that I have given Pyuku’s existence for granted, but now that I think about it, how does a Slime works?
What are its inner workings? Is it made of living water? Is the core inside helping its locomotion? I have studied my fair amount of biology in my previous life because an assassin must know the vital points in a human being, and also in animals that we might encounter in the wild, so even against a bear, we can have a fair fight if we can hit its vital weak points and kill it before it can kill us.
My teacher was actually very good at biology to the point that teacher had met many intelligent people back then, such as doctors that specialized in medicine, alchemist that used all sorts of materials, and even biologists that specialized in looking at the nature of life.
In such teachings, we learned that things named cells composed a body, it as if we all were made of tiny little beings, that made us whole. In that time, teacher said: “We are all a legion of living organisms working together to maintain our body stable”.
Knowing this was certainly useful in some various ways, mostly to enlighten us into the nature of the world we were living in, and how it all meticulously worked… things and concepts such as bacteria, viruses, and so on were also introduced to us… but I’ve never heard of anything regarding this in this world, I suppose because they got way more magic power everywhere, research of the nature of the world has stagnated as there was no necessity to comprehend something when they could do it easily.
And so, every living organism is made of cells, they have internal organs that all work in conjunction with one another, but a Slime simply defies all this logic I was taught before, it is composed purely out of this slimy water inside of it. I have noticed that it had a very rubbery exterior that kept this water from leaking, but aside from that, I couldn’t really see or discern anything else.
However, by using Heavenly Sight on Pyuku, a new world of wonders greeted me.
“Pyuku?”
Pyuku noticed I glanced at it, but I kept quiet as I glanced at its interior. This is…
The interior of Pyuku was complex, more complex than I had originally thought, although it might appear as if it was just slime, most of its internal organs are small, very small organelle all distributed around. There is no flow of blood but there is a big empty space in the middle, which is the stomach, covered by a thick but completely transparent membrane.
When a slime consumes something, it simply breaks its own body to place it inside of their stomachs and digest it through incredibly strong acids, fascinating!
So Slimes are really quite complex… they remind me of a single-celled creature we once studied, named amoeba, it was the best example that teacher had for these creatures, as they were very big. It was an example to explain us that most “nastiness and diseases” are provoked by small creatures we cannot even see.
Slimes feel like they’re gigantic and highly derived amoebas… but due to the strong element of magic that comes from their magic crystals, they probably can do a lot of great feats that a normal single-celled organism couldn’t do.
But are Slimes single-celled? I don’t think so… I am fairly sure I can see that it is made of countless membranes of tiny cells, so they aren’t. Could they have been colonies of amoeba-like organisms that became slimes?
Hmm… certainly, the element of mana could had helped in their development.
“Sylphy? What’s wrong?” wondered Aquarina.
“Ah! I was just thinking about… a few little things, don’t worry about it… What’s up?” I wondered.
“Look, we found something odd…” said Zack.
Zack and Aquarina suddenly showed me what seemed to be a lot of… goblin clothes?
They were lying right next to the vestiges of a bonfire, where there were bones that had been burned there to almost ashes.
“These are clothes… from a person? T-There is even a skull there!” said Aquarina.
“Did… someone die here?” wondered Zack.
What could these things be? From where did they belonged? The bones seem small, was this… a child?
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