The Cardboard Explorer

However, the skill was compatible to his link growth. Did that mean that the leader skill was somehow similar to link growth skill?

An upgrade meant that it will be a better skill and thus, Cade agreed to upgrade the skill. With his permission, the system started upgrading the skill and Cade needed to wait for bit.

As he needed to wait, Cade decided to find a spot to rest. It was noon and he did not have his lunch yet and this was a good time to rest.

The slime was a weak creature and thus, Cade did not use many of his linked equipment. He only uses the clothes equipment with the cardboard sword and shield. He did not wear the body armor and gas mask.

Cade found a good spot and sat there. He took out his lunch that he had prepared before and started eating it. He did not have anything else to do other than looking around while eating.
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As he finished eating his lunch, the skill upgrade finished too. Cade cannot wait to see what the leader skill can do especially after the upgrade thanks to the link growth skill.

Cade was happy about the upgrade because anything related to link growth will surely resulted in something good.

Cade checked his skill list and the leader skill name had changed. It was still name as leader skill but there were some added words on it. Cade chose the skill to see what it can do.

Name: Slime Bloodline – Slime Leader – Soldier Growth

Grade: Special

Level: -

Mastery: -

Effect: Can recruit slime and link them to user. The linked slime can be upgraded. Recruit: 3 (max)

Cade stared blankly at it, "Wow~" was the only word that came out of his mouth. Cade was surprised and at the same time happy about the skill. He was extremely happy with the new skill he got.

"I can have my own soldier. That mean, I can make my own party with… slime. Hmm~ it does sound good but slime is not that strong. I can upgrade them and looking at this part, this must be what the upgrade is about," said Cade as he was looking at the skill.

Suddenly he realized about two words on the descriptions about the effect of the skill, "Linked slime? Linked equipment and linked slime…" Cade kept repeating this for a few times and his smiled became big.

"No way! Will they act the same was as the linked equipment? If they were to die, is it possible for them to revive back like my linked equipment?" Cade wondered if it will work like that. If that was the case, the skill will be extremely helpful in his explorations in the dungeon.

Cade saw a slime bouncing around nearby and he decided to test the skill on that slime. Cade immediately went to that slime.

As if he knew how the skill work, he pointed his right palm forward and shouted, "Slime Leader skill activate!!" he was extremely excited and made that shout.

[Skill activation failed] said the system.

[Possible slime to recruit. 1. Slime (10th floor) 2. Slime (10th floor) 3. Slime (10th floor)]

"…" Cade stared blankly at the notification he got from the system. The slime that Cade shouted at got angry and attacked Cade. Cade killed the slime easily with one hit to the core.

"That is embarra.s.sing… luckily no one is around," said Cade while he was looking around to make sure that no one saw him acting like an idiot. His face was red too. Shouting like that excitedly and failed to activate his skill was so embarra.s.sing.

Looking at the notification, Cade said, "So, I cannot recruit any slime I met? Why are these three slimes possible for me to recruit? I wonder if there is some kind of condition?"

Cade sighed because now, he really needed to climb the dungeon to the 10th floor so that he can recruit the three slimes. They will be a great a.s.set to his fighting power.

Cade closed his system and started choosing his item drop. He clicked on the puzzle pieces list and to his surprise, something had changed in the list.

The leader skill was gone. It was not in the list anymore and new skill was added in its place. "So, the leader skill is a one-time thing? I didn"t know that there is a skill like that and this new skill…" said Cade.

"This is the skill that the powerful family frequently had," said Cade while looking at the new skill.

"So, there is some kind of condition to be met for this skill to appear?" Cade had been wondering why he cannot find the skill at the list of the item drop and it was actually hidden and he needed to do something for it to appear.

Cade did not know if it was because he learned the leader skill but he remembered that from his knowledge, there was no one from the powerful family that had recruit a monster and used them in battle.

So, the chance for them to possess the leader skill was nil. The leader skill was a good skill as they were able to recruit monsters to fight alongside them and they will surely use the skill as it will help them in fighting their opponent.

"Hmm… I wonder how this skill appear? Maybe I was right but at the time they were collecting the bloodline skill, it was possible that there never been any leader skill. This skill might be a new skill because the dungeon had changed," said Cade.

"Ugh… Whatever, I better focus on myself than other people," said Cade as he looked back at the skill.

The skill that Cade was looking at was the transformation skill. It was the most common skill inherited by descendants of the one in possessions of the full bloodline skill.

The skill simply let the user transform into the monster they had their bloodline in. Not a full transformation but half. More like the werewolf kind of transformation.

It was a really popular skill among the member of the powerful family as many of them inherited it. With the activation of the skill, not only their appearance change, their stat will undergo some changes too.

They will increase and will usually double their stats with the transformation skill. The transformation skill however, had the negative effects when used.

Due to the sudden change in their body ma.s.s, composition and everything else, once the skill was deactivated, the user"s stats will get a debuff and their body will undergo pain.

The pain and debuff will continue for a while based on how long they used the skill. The one that Cade knew was that for I minute of used, the negative effect will go on for 1 day. 2 minutes for 2 days and so on.

Other than the transform skill, there was one more skill that Cade had not yet found and maybe it was hidden too. The skill that Cade meant was the soul skill similar to the skill that Jonathan had used before.

The soul skill however, was the better skill. There was no negative effect when used but the stat and amount that it can increase was dependent on the type of monster.

Taking Jonathan as example, his armored bear soul bloodline skill will increase his strength and endurance when used. That was because the armored bear was known to have high strength and endurance and they were really difficult to defeat.

Other than the transform and soul skill, Cade had also wondered if the full bloodline skill was hidden too.

There was nothing special about the full bloodline skill. It was just that the one who got the full bloodline skill will possess all the bloodline skill that the monster can use and it only took a single spot on their skill list.

Due to that single spot on the skill list, the explorers can learn many other skills without using many of their skill slot for a bloodline skill.

Cade choose the transform bloodline skill puzzle piece as his drop. Once he got the puzzle piece, he put it on his storage.

When he opened his storage, he saw that there were three empty slots on his storage with green line on its side much like the blue line on his linked equipment.

"So, this is where my linked slime will be… wait, so I can put them on my storage too? That will be quite cruel to the slime," said Cade as he put the puzzle piece in his storage but he put that thought away as he did not recruit any of the slime yet and there was no need to worry about it.

After that, Cade continued killing the slime to collect the transform bloodline skill puzzle pieces.