NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4 Testing new skills
Right, I guess now I have to get out of this place. I want to meet with Veldora… I can look for him while testing out my skills.
First up on the agenda, I need to know WHAT my skills are. I mean, I'm pretty sure I remember them, but there’s a chance I missed one.
[Great Sage], can you tell me what skills I have?
<<Would you like to view your skills in a status board format?>>
… The fuck? You can do that!?
<<Correct. Searching your memories have informed me that this would be the best way to inform you of your current skills.>>
Then pull it up!
Name: None (Daniel)
Race: Origin Slime (Highest Tier Spirit)
Protection: Crest of Space
Title: None
Ultimate Skills: [Illya, Lord of Heaven's Feel]
Intrinsic Skills: [Infinite Regeneration] [Universal Shapeshift] [Universal Sense]
Unique Skills: [Great Sage] [Predator] [Limited Creation] [Rune Master]
Extra Skills:
Common Skills:
Tolerances: [Resist Temperature] [Resist Melee Attack] [Cancel Pain] [Resist Electricity] [Resist Paralysis]>>
(A/N: Did I forget something? Let me know if I did!)
Nice, it seems my skills are in order. Those 4 Unique Skills are really hyping me up, I mean how many people out there have FOUR Unique skills!? And I've only just been reborn!
And I even have an Ultimate Skill!
But… *Ahem*…
*Stares at Protection: Crest of Space.*
*Inhales*… WHAT ARE THOSE!?
(A/N: I am so sorry…)
<<Report. As you have ascended into a higher being, you have gained a “domain”. An example would be the True Dragon Veldora, having a “domain” over storms. It can also be considered a form of authority.>>
Yes yes yes, that’s nice and all, but why is it a space affinity? Doesn’t it make me seem a bit… I don’t know… generic?
<<Report. The space element just so happened to be the one you have the highest affinity with.>>
Eh? That’s it? Damn, I was expecting something different. So now I am a Space Slime or something? Do I sparkle now? Do I have stars and shit?
…
Oh god, I hope not.
Right, Intrinsic Skills are skills that come with my race. I didn’t have [Magic Sense] before I evolved so once I gained the skill it automatically upgraded to a satisfactory level and became an intrinsic skill.
Unique Skills [Great Sage] and [Predator] are exactly the same as in the series, so I don’t need to check them. What I do need to check are my other 2 Unique Skills…
Then, I guess first on the list…
Tell me about [Limited Creation], [Great Sage].
Man, what would I do without Sage…
<<Unique Skill: [Limited Creation] allows you to create anything you imagine as long as you have magicules and matter. Created objects will not contain any energy upon creation.>>
So it’s not important what specific matter I use?
<<Correct.>>
Hmm… Guess there’s only one thing left to do…
[Limited Creation]!
And just like that, the rock floor caved in a bit and a hot steamy meat bun appears in the middle.
HAHAHA! The power!
I quickly jump on the meat bun and consume it with glee… before I die on the inside.
I… I can't taste it… Curse you Veldanava! Why did you have to create a race with no taste buds!? Do you want to watch the world burn!?
Joker: “You called?”
Not now.
*Sigh*… Let’s just move on… I felt the magicule drain when I used that skill, and it seems to be quite a lot. Fortunately, it’s not much to me, especially with my greatly increased magicule capacity fron my evolution and my infinite magicules. Furthermore [Great Sage] is telling me this is a bona fide meat bun, one I'm used to eating all the time in my past life. That means this skill can also easily transmute materials.
But it said created objects can't contain any energy, so I guess I can't make anything like swords that shoot fire. A shame really…
Next skill!
<<The Unique Skill: [Rune Master] gives the user knowledge of runes and the most efficient way to arrange them to best suit the user’s wishes.>>
So… like a magic spell? Let’s try this out. Ok, I want… a rune sequence that expels fire.
…
Oh, whoops. Let’s try that again.
[Rune Master].
Ok, NOW I have the runes. I didn’t activate the skill before. Haha… *whispering* fukin dumbass…
Anyway, a series of runes pop up in my mind. They appear like this:
υя мσм gєу
…
I… I just…
Not saying anything further, I engrave those runes into the ground. Once I feed a small number of magicules into those runes, a ball of fire the size of a fist form 10cm above the ground.
Exactly the way I pictured it.
So I think of an effect, use the [Rune Master] skill and engrave the received runes into a surface before feeding energy into it. I guess this is what ROB meant by saying “permanent enchantments at the cost of more effort”. I mean, I have to engrave runes onto EVERY single object for them to do something…
Hmm? Wait a moment… what if…
[Rune Master].
[Limited Creation].
A small metal dagger appears in front of me. I touch the handle making the runes embedded along the blade during its creation process light up, before a small ball of fire flares up directly above it.
Aha… Ahahaha! Yes! Fire swords aren’t a dream! I can see it now! Creating throwing daggers engraved with self-destructive runes in the middle of the fight before throwing that shit right at the enemy while screaming “NORTH KOREA!”
It’s glorious!
I'm so excited. Even my slime body is jiggling around.
*Ahem* I guess that just leaves one final thing I need to take care of.
My name.
Daniel is kinda… Well, it’s a good name (I fucking hope so) but… it doesn’t exactly… “fit”. In this world I mean. Furthermore, I'm not “named” either. I'm not even sure anyone can name me in the first place. I hope I can name myself or I will only be able to speak like “This One would like a cup of tea” and “make way for the Great ME” and shit like that.
I mean, that’s just begging a cultivator protag to magically cross dimensions to face slap me, so no thanks.
Right. Can I name myself? Fingers crossed…
???- “My name is…”
…
What would be a good name…? GOD this is embarrassing…
Right… A name, what would be a good name…
*Ba-dump*
I smile (internally)… right… why am I thinking so hard about it.
*Ba-dump*
I mean, I've already inherited his skills…
*Ba-dump*
His body…
*Ba-dump*
I've taken his place…
*Ba-dump*
I feel guilty. So… In return… I’ll let your name resound loudly in this world like it always was meant to be.
*Ba-dump*
I’ll carry your name and make it the most revered name to have ever existed.
*Ba-dump*
I’ll at least do that for you…
???- “Rimuru.”
*Click*
And like that, a name has been engraved upon my soul, a beautiful and majestic name. One engraved out of both guilt, a want to pay back its original owner, and admiration, awe to what the original would have done in this world had it not been for my intervention.
After the name has been engraved upon my soul, I focus back on my surroundings. I've been wandering around the cave while I was messing around- I mean, testing out my new skills. And it’s been a while, so…
Rimuru- “Where is that damn dragon?”
