Infinite Mana in the Mage Academy

"Huh?"

The darkness disappeared, and a vision came into Ren's sight. A room was made up of stone, the ceiling, floor, and walls, everything was made of polished stone.

'Why am I on the floor?'

He thought as he tried to stand up. But he couldn't. Not only he couldn't stand, but he also couldn't feel his legs.

Just as his attention went to his body, he found he was squishy.

A small puddle was a little far from the room. Without having any lead to where he was nor what he was, he moved his body. Rubbing his body on the floor, he slowly crawled to the puddle.

He looked down. The moment he did, the time froze. He couldn't believe his eyes.

A blue ball or it looked like one. The whole body was polished. a small eye was in the middle of his body. There was no nose, but a small mouth instead.

It didn't take a minute for him to figure out. "I became... a slime?"

Slime, what is it? A squishy substance that people play with in real life. A weak monster that every gamer has at least killed once in his life.

Anything says, but slime is only a slime. Even though one novel's mc is slime and he is pretty op while another mc has slime has its pet.

"Haah! I am a slime..."

Ren sighed looking at himself. He is pretty cute, though. The blue slime size of a football moves while crawling rubbing his squishy body with the ground...

"Anyway, this is my reality for now. Do I have a system or any golden finger as the rumor says? Maybe I could be overpowered as heck?"

Ren's eyes gleam thinking if he could live the life of a protagonist. Going for adventure, picking up girls, killing enemies...

"Oh... But What do I do now?"

He thought deeply. His brain worked and some information magically came to him, like it was imprinted on his brain.

It was all about slime and his skills.

It wasn't a system. According to this memory, all slime knows themselves. Like humans who know how to eat, drink, etc from their birth, slimes know about their race/basic information about themselves from the birth.

Slimes are... immortal.

As long as their cores aren't destroyed, they can live for as long as they want. They could take energy from anything they eat. Be it stone, fire, or even acid, as long a slime could absorb it, it becomes nutrients for it.

So, except for destroying their cores, nothing else can kill them. There is something, but mentioning it is a waste of time.

Most importantly, a skill has caught his eyes.

[Exclusive Skill -> Gluttony: Absorb skill from the eaten things.]

It was the only skill he had, and on top of that, it was an exclusive skill. He doesn't know if anyone else has this skill, but he could be at least sure to a certain degree that in the slime race, he only has this skill.

"So, I could get a skill from anything I eat?"

Ren was a little doubtful, but it came from the memory, so he didn't have to deny it either. He thought for a while, and look at the water in the pond.

"What if...I drink this water?"

Ren doesn't know if only eating things will activate the skill. Can this still work if I drink water? This won't make sense, but giving it a try won't harm him.

He couldn't even feel thirsty or hungry, he just need to consume anything when he feels tired.

"Anyway, let's drink this."

Ren closed his eyes and jumped on the pond. He couldn't bend, it wasn't that he couldn't bend, it was that it was too hard. He had to manage his body, and it was slippery. He didn't have that much control over his own body.

Splash!

As he fell into the water, he drowned. He couldn't swim. Fortunately, his weight wasn't that much, so he floated on the water.

He drank water somehow. Just as the water went inside his body, he didn't feel anything. Yes, nothing. The water went naturally, but he didn't feel satisfied. He didn't feel anything, it didn't even feel like, the water went inside his throat.

Ren sighed.

Suddenly, a feeling came to his mind.

"I learned another skill!"

Ren exclaimed with joy. He immediately checked the skill.

[Water Manipulation: As long as near the water, you can control the water to fight.] (A/N: This isn't from the system. The [] are just for providing information, Ren didn't see the skill, he feel and know it.]

"So, I could manipulate water... Let's try."

Magic and human, no one in the world would have resistance to magic. Every human being from Earth will be easily charmed by magic.

Why?

Magic is cool!

Anyway, Ren closed his eye. He slowly uses Water Manipulation. Indescribable energy left his body. Like a network, it created a connection between Ren and the energy.

The energy entered inside the water and grasped it. Ren could now move the water as he pleased.

"Let's move it upward."

The water flowed up, and a small line of water moved upward creating a stick-like figure.

Of course, he is using magic for the first time. So, it would be difficult to maintain it. The water just floated for 5 seconds before falling and mixing with the pond.

Ren felt exhausted like his stamina has been depleted instantly.

His eyes became heavy, and darkness covered him.

A memory of the past flashed inside his mind as he fell into a deep slumber.

****

"Eating healthy food, and less junk food is good for your health. So, try to eat vegetables more, and don't eat too much packaged food,"

An old man who is a teacher of Science warned students. It was a fact known by everyone, but he still decided to advise them, as he saw many students eating junk food daily.

As a teacher, he was still concerned about students' health.

At the corner of the class, a book erected on the desk hid the figure of a teenage boy. He slept under the book's cover with a delighted expression on his face.

He squirmed slightly and changed his head in the opposite direction. Until a moment ago, his face was facing east, now it faced west.

Just as everything was going normally, a bright light flashed that even jolty woke the boy. The boy rubbed his eye and looked at the source of the light, just to get flashed by the light.

He immediately closed his eye, he felt something on his body. He quickly opened his eye but he couldn't see.

It was like his eye stopped functioning, or the areas were just so dark. He didn't even know if he was opening his eye or not. The darkness was equal to the darkness he found when his eyes were closed.

Just as the darkness disappeared, the boy found himself on the ground in a room built of polished stone.

"So, it wasn't just a dream..."

Ren mumbled. He just woke up and found himself here The memory of his past life, or maybe his life some time ago in human form played inside his brain like a dream.

Sighing, he forgot about his previous life. That life wasn't worth it anyway. Full of boring life, Ren was tired. He wanted something new, playing games, reading novels, and manga, watching anime, studying, getting yelled at, etc. His previous life was like a video recording in a loop that played again every time it ended.

Life is boring, or so he always said. But now life has taken an unexpected turn making it a little exciting for him.

Coming back to the present, Ren felt weird. He tried to move, but unexpected tiredness swarmed over his body. But he wasn't exhausted like his body was full of energy but he couldn't utilize that energy.

He pondered for a moment and found the answer. He is hungry in a sense.

But he didn't have anything to eat. He could drink water over the puddle, or maybe it is a pond. Anyway, it won't fix his hunger issue.

Suddenly, a pebble came into his vision. Just a little farther, a pebble laid. Ren looked at the pebble like it was a pizza.

Ren barely managed to move his body. Slowly by slowly, with indescribable tiredness, he crawled toward the pebble.

Like a person who has found water in the middle of a desert, Ren felt that exact happiness when he found the pebble.

He put the pebble in his mouth, meaning, he picked the pebble into his mouth and ate it. As it got eaten, the pebble dissolved inside his body instantly.

Ren could feel energy spreading inside his body. He could finally utilize his energy peacefully. He looked around and found many pebbles in the room. It seemed that the pebbles are left for the slimes to eat.

Ren looked at the floor and thought to consume it, but he couldn't as he didn't have the power to break the stone paved on the floor.

He crawled toward those pebbles and ate them one by one.

He again felt his brain tingling.

"I gained a new skill!"

Ren exclaimed with joy. He didn't take a second to look at the skill.

[Earth Affinity: (Passive Skill) Increase the proficiency in Earth-Element Skill by 10% from the start. You can utilize Earth-Element Skill proficiently,]

Ren sighed disappointedly. He knew this skill is better, but he doesn't have any Earth element skills. So, this skill is pretty much useless for now. But he knew it would be useful in the future. Who doesn't want passive skill?

As a gamer, he knew, that if he gets loads of passive skills that boost the active skill, the active skill will be stronger.

Ignoring this skill, Ren exited the room. He didn't use any magic, he had only one though but he didn't use it for now.

It would be stupid for him to use water magic for now, as it will quickly deplete his stamina and make him fall asleep.

It may increase his mana capacity or what he wants to call the energy for now, but it would take a pretty long time.

He didn't know about his surrounding, so he needs to explore them first.

As Ren exited the room, his eyes widen. His eye fell on the countless slime that was crawling on the ground mindlessly.

If it wasn't for the fact that he knew about slimes, he would think the slimes are intelligent as him. Why? Because he got used to being slime and had a conscious of his own, he thought other slimes may also have that. It was subconsciously.

But the amount of slime in the area was pretty disastrous. Maybe they hadn't anything to do, they all roamed in the same place.

In a hallway of ten feet wide, hundreds of slime were walking and bumping into each other again and again.

Some didn't eat for long, so they sat on the ground lifelessly.

Immortal, my ass!

Ren cursed inside his head.

He may not die of old age, disease, or virus. But he would die if he didn't eat anything. Fortuatnely he was inside an empty room, or he wouldn't be in this world for more than... god knows how much time.

He has already lost his sense of time.

But looking at this scene, Ren couldn't help but exclaim. "This is Dungeon of Slime!"