Chen Yu blinked his confused eyes as he looked ahead.

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Reputation Title: Slime Lord

Acquisition Conditions: A slime must successfully occupy and stably control a swamp with sufficient depth and complexity as its core territory, completely defeat or expel the original dominant magical creatures of that swamp, establish and maintain an army, and complete full exploration and marking of all key areas within that swamp territory.

Title Effects:

1. Prestige Branding: The name "Slime Lord" is remembered by the magical creatures around the swamp territory, bringing either awe or hostility.

2. Mire City: All buildings constructed by the lord's command or by his core followers under his direct will gain +15% base durability and have additional damage reduction against environmental damage such as corrosion, acid erosion, and water immersion.

3. Elite Breeding Ground: The lord's presence and absolute rule over the territory makes the swamp itself seem more inclined to nurture powerful individuals, with an additional +1% chance for elite units with reputation titles to be born within the territory.

Note: This is the swamp's will recognizing the conqueror, the oak throne upon the humus. When the slime's body merges with the mire, it becomes the mire's beating heart and thinking brain.

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Holy crap!

Golden legendary!

The title came out gold?!

Chen Yu immediately slammed on the brakes, making the confused Little Ka stand in place.

He was wondering why there was no title after occupying the swamp—turns out he needed to completely explore all the key areas of the territory first.

The slime's sparkling eyes fell on the title effects.

Aside from the filler "Prestige Branding," the other two were actually noble percentage effects, directly targeting the two core aspects of the territory—buildings and troop types.

The additional chance for elite units to be born was only 1%—was that low?

It was indeed low.

But his territory was never short of magical creatures. Even if only one out of a thousand magical creatures could obtain a reputation title and become elite, that would still be an absolute win.

Reputation titles were things that could allow creatures to break through their racial bloodlines and reach Bronze-tier or even higher Silver-tier.

Just look at Semiaya as a reference—an elite lizardfolk unit, practically a blade dancer with maxed-out agility and strength, cutting down her own kind one by one.

Or like that Death Knight he saw yesterday—so damn cool, definitely an elite unit.

Chen Yu was absolutely drooling over these elite units.

His mouth was watering too.

If he had an elite beetle, he didn't even dare imagine how delicious it would be.

Just thinking about it made the acid in his stomach churn.

Coming back to his senses, he started thinking about how to utilize the Slime Lord title effects.

First, the swamp's second phase fortress construction could start ahead of schedule.

The Corrupted Lizardfolk had already disappeared from this land, and there was no longer any need to attract adventurers to the swamp, so this time what needed to be built wasn't ruins.

But a real fortress!

An impenetrable iron wall that even trolls couldn't breach!

As for how to cultivate elite troop types.

The lizardfolk tribe by the riverbank probably had experience, but that was a ritual unique to lizardfolk and not suitable for all magical creatures.

If he used cultivation methods, he might be able to increase the probability of magical creatures advancing to elite status.

This made Chen Yu think of the beast taming path in Xu Xuan Heaven.

When it came to taming demonic creatures, cultivators had systematic approaches—quite standardized and professional, even forming a complete commercial service chain—demon shops, demon doctors, demon food stores... they had everything.

Learning beast taming wasn't difficult.

Chen Yu made a mental note of this, planning to ask Shao Qingsong about it later.

"Little Ka, let's check out what's ahead."

If he wasn't mistaken, the edge of the territory was a lake.

The first thought that popped into his mind was,

Fish!

There are delicious fish in this water!

Preferably the kind with magic organs—more delicious, and with talents to digest.

Little Ka crawled forward on his short legs, moving even faster than usual, seemingly equally curious about this lake.

They walked out of the dense reed thickets and stepped onto the open lakeshore, their view suddenly opening up.

They saw moonlight piercing through the rain curtain, falling on the vast lake surface, transforming into shimmering, dancing fragments of silver light.

In the distance at the lake's center, there seemed to be faint, weak phosphorescent blue lights rising and falling with the water waves, flickering with an air of mystery and tranquility.

There was actually such a peaceful, serene place in the swamp?

Chen Yu rode Little Ka and curiously approached the shallow water area.

Right at that moment—

"Splash!" "Thump!" "Flutter flutter flutter!"

A sudden change occurred!

The originally calm shallow water area seemed to explode like a boiling pot!

Dozens of palm-sized piranhas with terrifying serrated fangs shot out as if launched by springs, madly leaping out of the water and pouncing over like starving ghosts.

"Holy crap, what the hell?!"

He was wrong, he took back what he just said.

This place was far more dangerous than it appeared!

"Kaka!"

"Boss! Save me!"

Little Ka was so frightened he scrambled around in panic, his tear-filled eyes full of terror, with a group of piranhas chasing after him, equally clumsy as they hopped and jumped on land.

Chen Yu was speechless watching this.

They even chased him onto shore—how long had these piranhas gone without a proper meal?

Just as Chen Yu was considering teaching these "ingredients" a lesson, faint sounds seemed to come from the opposite shore.

He quickly pulled Little Ka into the woods, stealthily hiding behind a birch tree to spy on the scene at the shoreline.

There, two hunched, short figures were moving along the waterline.

They had rough, dark green skin, pointed ears and long noses, wearing tattered leather armor haphazardly, holding crude wooden-handled shovels and several dirty burlap sacks.

They looked like goblins?

He had finally encountered these common green-skinned creatures of another world.

They seemed to be conducting some kind of... patrol?

Then they stopped.

One of them was using a shovel to laboriously dig at the wet clay on the lakeshore, stuffing it into the sack with rough, clumsy movements.

The other was carrying a rusty short spear, vigilantly looking around, muttering something in a guttural language, the sound indistinct amidst the rain and water noises.

Not far behind these two goblins, where the lakeshore extended toward the mountain, there was a massive, irregular opening.

An entrance to a dungeon!

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What did places with dungeons and ruins mean?

They meant lots of delicious magical creatures and treasures!

That was a perfect place for an all-you-can-eat buffet.

But before he could rejoice for long, he saw the two green-skinned goblins suddenly take off running, looking exactly like youthful figures running under the moonlight.

What kind of act was this?

Youthful goblins wouldn't encounter a pig-headed slime?

Before Chen Yu could figure out why these two goblins were running, shadows stirred within the dark dungeon entrance, and dense clusters of black-winged magical creatures crawled out.

Those familiar twin antennae, sexy leg hairs, and flattened bodies...

"Holy shit!!"

"They're cockroaches!!!"

And enlarged versions at that!

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He instantly felt his young soul suffering a heavy blow.

Which bastard brought cockroaches to another world!

"Little Ka, run!"