CHAPTER 2

"Talking"

{Voice Of The World/Raphael}

-Veldora's Cave-

~( A Certain Red Slime's POV)~

Now, let's see if Rimuru's been in this cave for long, if he was in this cave at all.

Where is he?

Not there, not here too, ah there he is. Man, the [Watcher] is convenient, actually all my skills are convenient. Anyway let's see how long have been our littl- wait, we're the same size.

Ahem, again. Let's see how long have been our blue gelatin in this cave….

87 days huh, so three days before he meets Veldora.

Let them meet. After all, this version of Rimuru's gonna be dead after this.

Raphael,remind me to come back here in 2 and a half days.

{Sir,Yes,Sir!!}

Why do you act like a cute girl again?

{Because you like cute girls?(imaginary tilting of head)}

Sure…

Anyway let's explore this cave, maybe we can even get some rare materials.

{Master, you have the All Of Creation subskill and the Watchers skills.}

Are you really gonna ruin my fun?

{Sir,No,Sir!!}

By the way about Unique Skill {The Teleportation}, it says "As long as you know the details of the place you can teleport to them, even if it is a fictional place, because nothing is truly fiction." Right?

{Yes?}

Then I don't need to wait here at all. The Rimuru of this timeline is lucky that I'm too lazy to wait.

{So you're going to teleport yourself to the future where Rimuru already has the True Dragon in his stomach?}

Yes.

{....}

….

{That's lazy…}

I have the Unique Skill Sloth.

{Right….}

Anyway, let's go.

{Yes, master!}

Not "Sir,yes,sir"?

{You want that?}

Well, suit yourself.

{.....}

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-Veldora's Cave-

~Rimuru POV~

30 days have passed since I ate Veldora.

What have I done up until now?

Aren’t you an idiot!

Just think for a second!

I’ve become a slime, you know?

If I were attacked by a monster, how do I fight!

Or rather, it’s hard to run away!!!

So, I’ve been thinking about how to fight.

While at it, I’m munching on the grass that grows in this area and minerals that were mysteriously glowing.

It's the place with a thick concentration of magic essence that Veldora mentioned.

The grass I’ve collected here are mostly the Hipokte grass.

As expected.

With this, my stock of restorative medicine has increased.

And, the mysteriously glowing minerals are apparently called “Magic Ore”.

They seem to be raw materials of metal that are harder than steel, yet flexible. It seemed to be metal that has good compatibility with magic.

I expected a more rare ore, but come to think about it I don’t know whether the famous Orichalcum, Hihiirokane and other ores exist here.

Perhaps it’s actually a rare ore. I might be just being a bit too greedy.

So, the grass and ore are delicious (I can't taste anything though!) then something comes into my mind while I'm eating them!

Since I can shoot out water, can’t I use it as a water cutter or something?

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

Hmm. You don’t need to say I understand.

You guys think that I’m going to fail again, don’t you?

Wasn’t I been looked down on enough?

I’m a man who can do it when I do it.

My report card was always written with『A child who can do it if he works hard』.

And so, I can do it if I try it.

With that thought, I immediately went to the underground lake.

As I had imagined while enshrouded in darkness, the underground lake is pretty big.

It surpassed my imagination, the lake had a mysterious and tranquil atmosphere.

Lacking any presence of life, it can’t be helped for the silent.

Although the magic essence permeates the water, I dare say that no living thing inhabits it.

An example of uncorrupted nature!

What a beautiful sight!

Hmm? What's that?

What caught my attention was something coloured red. It's round, it's just floating around.

As I came near it, I saw that it resembles me, just with a different colour.

Is this a slime? I wonder if this one has an awarenes, Veldora said they're rare after all. What do you think Great Sage?

(Notice. According to the Appraisal it is a red slime)

I know, I can see that.

I am just inches away from it, and it doesn't seem to notice me. I guess it doesn't have an awarenes after all, and I was getting excited about meeting someone of my race.

When I was about to turn around and continue what I was doing, I suddenly felt like I was being pulled by something.

The next thing I saw was darkness..

~(A Certain Red Slime's POV)

Huh, that was easy. Anyway, good day to you all!

{Who is master talking to?}

I don't know, I just thought that since some non fiction are fiction to others ,we might be fiction to someone too. So I just greet them.

And it's kinda boring not talking to anyone other than you.

{Is that so?}

Umu,umu.

{Master, can you please stop trying to impersonate anime characters you're bad at it.}

Ignoring my Raphael, you remember when I said three days, right? Well I got bored even if I was just gonna wait for literally a minute, so I watched anime inside my mind.

Did you know the [Watcher] can even see other worlds? So I binge watched those animes that I wasn't able to finish, and it took 30 days. Even the animes that are far from over in my old world, I just needed to find a parallel world where they are finished, so yeah ,I wasted my time. I even got a small growth in my overall strength especially concerning magicules, because just by doing that, my Unique Skill[Sloth] activated.

Anyway, I didn't really got anything from Rimuru except the Paralysis and Electricity Resistance skills and the Extra Skill [ Water Manipulation].

So let's just go to what I got from Veldora, first of all I got a cool dragon form. And by the way I can now hold more ultimate skills so that's neat. My soul got stronger when I changed race, it will also get stronger the more I evolve too. Anyway, now that I can hold more ultimate skills, I can get Veldoras ultimate skills.

Here's what I go- ahem, excuse me, "acquired" according to Raphael

Ultimate Skill [Lord of The Storms: Veldora]

-Subskills

* Weather Control- The user can sense, channel, shape, create and manipulate the weather, i.e. the meteorological patterns, creating rain, wind, hail, lightning, snow, sleet, fog, and temperature changes. The user will have control on the weather as long as someone with the same power but much more control and experience doesn't interfere.

* Weather Instinct- The user will always know the changes in the weather.

* Storm Empowerment- During a storm, the user will be ten times stronger, faster and more durable.(Notice:This does NOT affect magicules)

* Storm Domain- During a storm, the user has control over the space the storm is occuring. (Notice: the control over the space can be bypassed if someone that has power over space is interfering)

* Storm Weakening- During a storm, the user's enemies will be ten times weaker, making them less durable,fast,and strong and their skills will be harder to use. This skill however has a restriction that if the enemy is five times stronger than the user, the effect will be halved, if the enemy is ten times stronger than the user the effect will be close to none. (Notice: this skill would still be affected by the opponents resistance if they have resistances such as Abnormal Condition Nullification. This also does not affect the magicules of the opponent.)

Unique Skill [Investigator]

* Thought Acceleration

* Analytical Appraisal

* Pursuit of Truth

Resistances

* Pain Nullification

* Physical Attack Nullification

* Natural Effects Nullification

* Abnormal Condition Nullification

* Spiritual Attack Nullification

* Holy-Demonic Attack Resistance

* Lightning Immunity

Intrinsic Skills

* Dragon Spirit Haki : Powerful haki that imbues the user's aura with magical & physical properties and shreds anything it comes into contact with.

* Universal Sense: Allows the user to perceive almost all sensations including but not limited to, light, sound, smell, and heat in a wide radius.

* Universal Shapeshift : Allows the user to freely change their bodily properties and disguise their appearance.

True Dragon Magic

* Storm Magic

* Death-Heralding Wind

* Black Lightning

* Storm of Destruction

* Storm Blast

Anyway I'm evolving as a result of eating something far stronger than me by a huge margin, so I'm gotta out for a while,

Take care of my body will you, sage?

{Yes, master, be careful}.

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Man ,that was a good sleep. I've been having a good time sleeping since I got to this world,huh.

{Good morning,master!}

Good morning to you too,Raphael, so what's my Race now?

{ Umu, you evolved from an ordinary slime to an Ultimate Slime.}

Ultimate Slime? Isn't that what Rimuru became after he ate Veldora? So I'm as strong as that him now?

{Not quite, since master doesn't have as many skills and time to master your abilities ,and since you didn't do a proper evolution, then your base right now is extremely weak. And more importantly, since you wasted your time here, then you'll be thrashed around if you fought someone that strong right now.}

Is that so? Then what if you're the one fighting?

{Hmmm,hmmm, 🤔. I think I'll be a better fighter than you are right now.}

Huh. So many people in this world can kill me right now?

{If by many, you mean more than one? Then yes. Though you'll be able to easily defeat the likes of Carion,Frey and Clayman. So that means you're still stronger than many people in this world.}

Hmm. Alright! I've decided!

Let's go to other worlds!!

{Are you sure,master?}

Yeah, let's start with something not that dangerous. And I really need a body anyway, so might as well go there.

{Where are we going, master?}

Let's go to High School DxD!!!

{Ah of course, since master is a pervert he'll go there.}

Oi. What do you mean I'm a pervert?! I don't think I said or did anything that will warrant me to be called a pervert, though?!!!

{Then what are you going to do in High School DxD?}

I'm gonna eat their Sacred Gears, to see if there's anything interesting in there.

{But master, although slim, there's still a chance people there could defeat you. The Infinite Dragon God and The Dragon Of Dreams are just examples.}

Fine,(sigh),so what do you suggest?

{I recommend that we go to a world where you can hone your skills, a world where there are no powerhouses above the level of Carion, so that you can do whatever you want with no consequences. The only chance you get defeated there is by making the Concepts, like Fate, angry. Though since you have the [Fate Severer] unique skill, you'll be able to wreak havoc.}

You know, I was wondering about this Fate ever since you told me the description of my Unique Skill [Fate Severer]. What is it, anyway?

{Fate is a concept, sometimes they favour someone making that someone extremely lucky, that someone is what you'd call the Child Of Fate or just the protagonist. Depending on how much fate favours the protagonist, it'll make the protagonist always come out alive in battle even if he's way weaker than the enemy, to making the protagonist and his friends win by some dumb luck even if the enemy is way stronger. Even if the protagonist almost dies he'll just come back one way or another, either by having a holy water pool next to him in the cave he just happened to escape to or some passerby master doctor happened to see him, and even in the slim chance that if he dies he'll come back way stronger than before . Anyone who messes with the Protagonist, incurs the wrath of Fate, making them extremely unlucky. That's what I know, master.}

You said fate is a Concept right? Are there other concepts?

{Yes master,there are, but unlike Fate, they don't care about what or who will be their avatar or champion. They won't even care if their Champion dies. Because unless you have power to even make Death have an interest in you, to the point of making you act as the concept of depth in that particular space of the Multiverse like Takato Yogiri, then they won't truly die.}

Avatar? Champion?

{You can think of the Children of Fate as its avatar.}

So what are the other concepts?

{Death is a Concept, Creation is a Concept ,everything can be a concept. A Death God like Hades borrows his Power or Divinity from the Concept of Death, same goes for Hela and other gods. The divinity of the Gods are just borrowed from the concepts, even the power of the Boosted Gear is just borrowed from the Concept of Multiplication. There's even a Concept of Wine. Though they are all concepts, they still have a disparity in power among them. Among the strongest are Fate, Death, Infinite, and Dream.}

That's…. I don't even know what to say.

Anyway, let's just forget about that, let the future me bother with that.

Then what world should I go to?

Ah! I know! Let's go to the demon slayer world!! I can learn swordsmanship there, and I might even eat some demons that have interesting abilities.

Yooosh! Let's go!!!!!