Rimuru Pov:
When me and Veldora announced their name, they began to move in a very strange way while glowing a bright purple. They then got back to their normal state. It seems that they accepted the name Kaijuno Tempest
Kaijuno Pov:
Woah, woah, woah, WOAH! What is this power flowing through me? Is this how it feels to be named? Holy crap it feels thrilling. Wait, there's something I have to check on first
Kaijuno:(Wise Sage, please confirm my established soul corridors)
Wise Sage:[Confirmed, Soul Corridor has been made with individuals Veldora Tempest and Rimuru Tempest]
YES! It went perfectly as planned. I was able to cheese the system.
Kaijuno:(My name is officially Kaijuno Tempest now, thank you Big Bro Veldora and Big Sibling Rimuru)
Veldora:(Big Bro? Heh...hehe, OF COURSE! Anything for my little sibling
Rimuru:(Siblings? Nevermind, now with that out of the way, let's start getting you out of there Veldora)
Veldora:(Yes! Let's do this!)
With that, Rimuru almost instantly devoured Veldora and his dome. Seeing it with my own sight, it's absolutely ridiculous how much Rimuru can stretch and expand to eat Veldora whole, let alone at such a fast rate. Thank goodness Rimuru offered themselves to do the Predation. I didn't want to risk the otaku dragon going through my secret stash.... of TENSURA info, yes yes, just that stuff I was worried about.
Kaijuno:(Jeeeeesh, that was fast. You sure were hungry, weren't you?)
Rimuru:(Oh shut up! That being said though, I already miss the old man)
Kaijuno:(Old man? He sounded more like a generic college frat boy than an old man)
Rimuru:(Haha, that's a weird comparison to make)
In side Rimuru's Stomach
Veldora:Do they know I can still hear them?
Kaijuno Pov:
Oh Freaking God! Ya know, I assumed me and Rimuru would just fight a few monster after meeting veldora then reach the entrance of the cave soon after. NOPE, because apparently this is one MASSIVE cave. We've been hoping around for easily days and weeks with no ends. You'd think dungeon crawling wouldn't take so long to go through but I guess Skyrim was inaccurate in its dungeon length.
Some sort of plus through this journey was that I finally able to swim, turns out I need to be a blob just even float above water. Me and Rimuru tried shoot out our stored water to use it as our only form of attack, and the outcome was a bit different than I expected. While Rimuru was able to achieve water blade, that wasn't the same case for me though. When I shoot out water, instead of resembling a blade, it got thinner and the front looked sharp. This was labeled by Wise Sage as "water spear". Not what I expected, but hey I still got water manipulation out it so that's cool.
Something I wasn't all too fond to try out was swinging over cliff. Just like in anime, Rimuru swing with a web while yelling like Tarzen. The issue for me is... I'M AFRAID OF HEIGHTS! And suddenly trying to not fall down a cliff isn't exactly something to look forward to in my book. But for the sack of progression, I had to take the risk, and it worked.
But for the sack of progression, I had to take the risk, and it worked
... with minimal success
Speaking of Skills, I seemed to end up with the same resistances as Rimuru, electrical, Stab, physical, even thermal.
Although it is somewhat different for mainly my unique skills
Kaijuno:(So what's up you, Wise Sage, how did I end getting you?)
Wise Sage:[Before reincarnation, master desired the Unique Skill Great Sage but due individual Rimuru Tempest already obtained Unique Skill Great Sage, Master failed to acquire the Unique Skill. But, due to master having enough information of Great Sage, Unique Skill Wise Sage was made as an alternative acquisition]
Kaijuno:(So is Wise Sage superior or inferior to Great Sage? Is there a difference?)
Wise Sage:[NEGATIVE, Wise Sage is NOT inferior to Great Sage. With master's confirmed knowledge of Great Sage, Master was able to obtain their own analytic skill with all the sub-skills of Great Sage included.
Dang! Who took a crap in Wise Sage's cereal?
Kaijuno:(Okaaaaay, wait would that be the same case for Unique Skill Mucher, does it even have the Predation sub-skill?)
Wise Sage:[positive, Unique Skill Muncher is an alternative acquisition of Unique Skill Predator, which includes all sub-skills due to master's knowledge of Predator]
Kaijuno:(Alright, but the name is a bit questionable. Seriously, it makes it sounds like I'm a drummer in a chuck e cheese)
But there are two skills that I don't see as copies of any of rimuru's skills
Kaijuno:(Wise Sage, what are the two additional skills that I have?)
Wise Sage:[Notice, the two other skills that master holds are Extra Skill Radio and Unique Skill Humble]
Kaijuno:(explain Extra Skill Radio)
Wise Sage:[Extra Skill Radio manipulates the sound waves that master receives. With Radio, master set specific sound waves to hear or block out the sounds of their surroundings completely]
Kaijuno:(I'm gonna take a guess that Extra Skill Radio works like wearing a set of headphones, is that right?)
Wise Sage:[Correct]
Kaijuno:(Sweet! That'll at least help with the boredom. Now, what about Unique Skill Humble?)
Wise Sage:[Unique Skill Humble consist of the following sub-skills:
Calm Mind - whenever the user is experiencing an intense emotion at an unstable degree, a blissful breeze shall flow through the user, instantly calm them down. This sub-skill can be activated intentionally by the user or automatically when the user's emotions become too unstable.
Danger Measurement - the user can instinctively detect a dangerous or malicious entity and can sense how much power is within the opposing entity
Candle Aroma - the user can release a blissful scent within a limited distance in diameter to help put nearby entities at ease
Attached with Unique Skill Humble is Mental Attack Resistance]
Kaijuno:(Alright, doesn't broken like Wise Sage and Muncher, but it's nothing to complain about either. Although Mental Attack Resistance isn't particularly necessary right now since opponents that do mental attacks like clayman, mariabelle, and Michael don't appear til a couple of years within the story. I'll make sure to try to share the data of mental attack resistance to Rimuru, just to give him a boost)
Despite the huge length making the journey drag on, I couldn't take it easy either with all the huge monsters that we keep running into. Unlike rimuru, it didn't really become casual for me to encounter and slay monsters. Well, it was more rimuru slaying monster than me slaying them. Even with the Calm Mind sub-skill, I was too fearful to take on the monster myself. Their appearance and size overwhelmed me, so let my bigger sibiling take on the bigger foes.
The only one I actually killed was the bat monster through the same tactic that rimuru did in the anime. But it didn't felt right to me, it was a creature just like me who had a life, had it's own entire existence, and yet I am responsible that such a complicated life to suddenly reach a dead end with my own will.
These thoughts flowed through my mind until I was getting patted on the back by Rimuru, congratulating me for getting a kill. I ended up dismissing these feelings to avoid souring the mood. It's how dungeon crawling could be both dull and stressful.
For the most part, it was no different from how the source material depicted the long journey through the cave.
Me and Rimuru were able to share our obtained skills through the soul corridor between us with the help of Wise and Great Sage. We were able to communicate vocally again thanks to the skills obtained from the bat, but with completely different bodies from humans, we need some practice to properly speak sentences again.
The conversations we made were easily the most memorable momments from this otherwise dragging journey, although maybe not for the best reasons
[Convo Example #1]
Kaijuno:Sooooo, if it's not too much to ask, what was something you wished, you could've had or did but regretted not doing?
Rimuru:Oh well I suppose I regret never getting a girlfriend, how about you?
Kaijuno:Well for me, it was never going to Disney world before I died
Rimuru:Really?
Kaijuno:Yup, my life was already getting difficult as it was, I didn't need a girlfriend to make it even more complicated. But having protected sex with a hottie would've been nice too
Rimuru:Eh? (Well at least they have set their priorities, at least)
[Convo Example #2]
Kaijuno: okay, so we're in a fantasy world where dragons and slimes exist. So it's safe to say there might be a lot of other fantasy races.
Rimuru:Yeah, And?
Kaijuno:My point being, what fantasy races do you want to see?
Rimuru:Weeeell, I would love to check out some cute elf chicks. THAT I can get behind.
Kaijuno:Oh! Alright
Rimuru:What about you?
Kaijuno:Well if we're talking about THAT type of interest, I would go with ogres or onis
Rimuru:eh?
Kaijuno:Yeah, if I were to get jiggy with it, being snu snu'd by a strong oni lady would be the best way to go
Rimuru:EH!? (Is this kid some kind of masochist? Also, what does snu snu even mean?)
[Convo Example #3]
Kaijuno:Hmmmmm
Rimuru:What's up?
Kaijuno:it's that voice
Rimuru:What?
Kaijuno:Your voice! Why does it sound so weird!
Rimuru:What's wrong with my voice?
Kaijuno:I don't know how to describe it. It's not natural, the pitch and tone feels off. You sound so ridiculous, it makes me question if you were really 37 previously.
Rimuru:Seriously! Have you listened to yourself? You sound like a high pitched child
Kaijuno:I'd rather sound like a child than side character in a Saturday morning cartoon show
Rimuru:Why you little...hmph
Kaijuno:HMPH!
Wise Sage/Great Sage:[sigh]
We both refused to speak to each other for a day until I decided to apologize to rimuru for my outburst and remarks
Eventually after what was horrifically long journey, we FINALLY made it to the front door, hopefully the timing isn't off the mark this time.
Rimuru:So how are we gonna open this door
Kaijuno:I doubt it's by pulling or even pushing. We don't even have hands, they're just stubs.
Rimuru:Ok, how about we use water blade and spear?
Kaijuno:No, this door looks to tough to cut through, we might have to mimic into Armorsa-
As we were trying think of a way to breakdown the door, it suddenly started to open from the outside. Me and Rimuru swiftly hid from whoever were opening the door. It is revealed to Ellen's danger prone adventurer party, or how I like to proclaim them, "The Three Stooges". As it went in the anime, their thief used to turn all three of them invisible. And also like the anime, Rimuru made that suggestive remark... while right next to me
Rimuru:he has a stealth skill? That guy must be a prevert! I gotta make sure to be friends with him later
Kaijuno:What the HELL is THAT supposed to mean?
Rimuru:Eh, eh, NOTHING! Nothing at all HAHAHA... eh
Kaijuno:Uh, HUH, suuuuuuuuure
And with that, we finally exited the cave after about a month of dungeon crawling. What a RELIEF!
Kaijuno:Finally! We're out of that FREAKING cave!
Rimuru:You sure seem happy about it
Kaijuno: Yeah, no kidding. I'll take an open green forest over a dusty cave, especially when we ate most of the crystals and herbs.
Rimuru:Alright, so now that we're out of the cave, what do you want to do?
Kaijuno:Hmmmmm, how about we just hop forward with no sense of destination until an opportunity arrives to us.
Rimuru:Well that's..oddly specific, but I can't think of any else, so let's go with that then
As such, we hopped around on a natural trail, having no clue what to expect. Although that was more Rimuru than me as I knew what was gonna happen, just hoping it did actually occur and thankfully it did. we were suddenly confronted by a group of goblins
Kaijuno:(OH SHIT! I've seen Goblin Slayer, I know how this is gonna go... wait, wait, wrong fantasy world. Phew, almost lost my cool there)
Goblin:Oh great ones, what have brought you here?