Free The Slime Dungeon: Book 1 (The Slime Dungeon Chronicles) by Jeffrey "falcon" Logue, Silvia Lew

"I already told you Koran, you're not my type. I have a few hundred years on you and no patience for younglings."
    Koran's smile faltered a moment, then came back as smooth as ever, "Whatever you say my dearest Mary, I know I can't compete with the lines of men desiring your attention."
    She narrowed her eyes at him, noting the slight jab at her. Many men shied away from her when they learned of her half elf blood, and many looked to her in disgust for her advanced age. Men had their pride, and none desired to be old and dying while she was youthful still. Unlike a true elf, however, she had aged some over the years to resemble a woman in her thirties, but still young. Koran relished in the challenge of bedding her, but had no desire to keep her afterwards. Rumors in the darker parts of the city whispered of the girls who went with him and never returned.
    "Be that as it may, I'm sure you are here for something beyond wooing me?"  She asked.
    Koran winked and dumped a bag filled with slime cores onto the table. "Behold the spoils of victory!"  He boasted.
    Mary inspected the cores with a keen eye and magic glasses. The cores were from simple slimes, and were not distinguishable from each other. The magic element interested her a little, being that it was a very rare affinity to have. A dungeon this close to the forest or plain should have had an earth or wind affinity, yet this one was completely neutral. In terms of value, they were worth a little more than a regular core and would be useful in potion crafting.
    "Eighty slime cores of equal value with sixty copper per core will earn you… forty eight silver pieces. Now, report you experience," she barked at him after setting her glasses down.
    He nodded. "The dungeon is young, consisting of two floors with three rooms on top and five on the second level, including the boss room. Standard slimes traps are present including pitfalls, puddles, and skyfalls. The first room is devoid of traps, but holds copper veins suitable for mining in safety. The rooms alternate from ceiling drops to pitfall paths and the same applies to the corridors between them. The boss room held an overslime that came up to my waist and displayed greater battle prowess than a normal overslime; it even managed to capture one of my men."
    Mary raised an eyebrow, "Yet, I see all four of your men here. Did you manage to free him before he was killed?"
    Koran frowned. "That's the strange thing; the monster had him up to his waist, but didn't eat him at all except for his sword. I can only assume that the sword gave it so much trouble it couldn't eat anymore."
    Mary doubted that. During the mercenary period of her life, she had witnessed a certain type of slime devour two men and their horses at the same time with no trouble at all; the slime even ate all of their magic equipment! She nodded at Koran for him to continue.
    "Due to his situation, my man was able to warn us about it when it leaped, and we surrounded the monster and slayed it after. It is my belief that it was easier to defeat due to the lack of experience the dungeon possessed when it came to adventurers. I would rate it somewhere from a C to a lower B in terms of scale of difficulty. The boss room was filled with basic healing herbs, uncommon in the nearby forest, and covered the walls and ceiling effectively. The dungeon core itself was hidden; either in a hidden room or deep under the plants themselves.”
    He took out the copper and plant samples they had taken and gave them to her along with the overslime core. She put on her classes and observed them each. The copper and plants held no magic, but would be useful in the crafting guilds. The slime core itself was just a larger and purer form of the basic slime cores from earlier.
    "I will inform the crafting guilds of the copper and herb deposits, and I will send your report to the Adventurer Guild in Duran," she said. “You are dismissed Koran.” She waved him off as she took out pen and