Harvest Festival

Sleepy...so sleepy!

It's like she pulled one of those all-nighters off!

She began feeling this way as soon as the Voice declared Harvest Festival is beginning.

The hell is that supposed to mean?

/Notice: three survivors, detected with Magic Sense./

Awww shit, can't she delay so she can kill them?

/Negative. Once Harvest Festival commenced, it cannot be stopped./

Fuck.

And transform among these stinky corpses and assassins around? Hell no!

'Ranga!' she called out as she removed the Anti-Magic Barrier for her faithful partner to come out of her shadow. 'I succeeded. Tell everyone back home through Thought Communication! I just need one last thing to do before we go home!' she gasped out in struggle that got Ranga worried.

'Hai!'

Thus at town, all monsters Named by Rimuru heard Ranga's report.

Everyone, it's a success! The evolution will begin! We will be back after one last thing before master succumbs to sleep.

This got the monsters cheering.

'She did it!'

'Rimuru-sama will become a Demon Lord soon!'

'She'll bring everyone back!'

'H-hey, what's going on?' Kenya asked his spirit. 'What do they mean?'

'Rimuru is powerful as you kids know...but she's powerful enough to become a Demon Lord like Ramiris.' Spirit of Light explained. 'And she's strong enough for that now.'

'But what will happen to sensei...to our mom?' Chloe croaked out.

'Demon Lords can change between mortal bodies and spiritual bodies at will.' Spirit of Light told them. 'And they become immortal. What they look like and how old they are upon changing, they'll stay that way forever. Time no longer matters to them.'

'Then when we grow up, grow old and die...she'll outlive us?' Ryota stammered out as the spirits nodded grimly. 'She'll lose us all...won't she be lonely?'

'That's up to her now.' said Spirit of Light. 'At least she's friends with Ramiris...she won't be lonely afterward.'

xxx

'Master, what will you do?' Ranga asked her.

'There are three survivors but we don't have time to hunt them down at my state...so I'll have someone else do that for me!' Rimuru told Ranga groggily and Rimuru conjured a demon summoning circle. 'Take all these corpses and fashion them into ideal vessels for yourselves as my offering! Come out and answer me!' at her words, the dead bodies of soldiers vanished, leaving only empty armor behind, further terrifying Edmalis and Reiheim as the master of monsters who suddenly began behaving weird summoned a Demon! Now what?!

Three came out. All are black like Beretta. Two definitely have monstrous forms while one is quite the biseinen. But she noted only one has physical form, the other two are spirits. Eh...?

Only one took all those bodies for himself and the other two didn't?

'Kufufufufu...how nostalgic it is to witness the birth of a new Demon Lord~' the pretty guy spoke. His words freaked out the stupid old geezers.

'Your job is to hunt down three runaways who escaped my anger. Capture them. I don't care if they're missing parts as long as they're alive. To me, dying is the same as escaping punishment for what they've done to my people so until my judgment they cannot escape! I want them to pay first!' it was a struggle for Rimuru to say that due to how sleepy she was that she was stammering despite being angry. 'Once you have them, bring them to me together with these two behind me. Oh, and they stink so before you do, dunk them in water before you touch them. They pissed themselves.'

The pretty guy looked like he was delighted with his orders as he spread his wings.

'Magnificent! An offering of such a scale...and our first order from our lord...' er, why is he enjoying this so much? Moreover only he has the bodies. 'What a great honor. Would you permit us to serve you from now on?' he asked of her as he knelt before her.

Rimuru sweatdropped. She called weird guys.

'That's up to you if you wish to stay after this one request, but we'll talk later. Bring the targets to Youm when you're done.'

'Master, it's amazing you still managed to stay awake at your condition...' Ranga said worriedly. 'The world is enforcing sleep on you!'

'I pulled all-nighters before, this is nothing! I stayed awake long enough to give them orders...but the world is too strong...GO!' and the two groups parted ways.

'Nooow then...' the man purred. 'You, as milady instructed, dunk these disgusting things in some river before you tie them up, they're really starting to smell and we cannot have filth near our master. We'll catch the rest.' he told the smaller demon who nodded as he and the cloaked other ran off for a hunt. 'We must perform our tasks perfectly to receive her sweet praise.'

Rimuru Tempest was worthy of being his master. And her generosity or rather, over-generosity reached even him for just a simple job. Heck, he envied that Archdoll who got called first instead of him and he had been waiting quite the while too!

And he found her thanks to that masked maiden who peaked his interest back in Filt Kingdom years ago.

Shizu Izawa, the Explosive Monarch.

She gave him such entertainment and managed to chop his arm off! That out of gratitude for giving him some fun, he helped her out against Orthos, a Red Demon.

While he's friends with his Progenitor, his descendants are...utterly undisciplined. Contemptibly so, lazy guy. Maybe being a Demon Lord shacking up with Velzard got him lazy that humans who use Demon Summoning avoid calling the Red Bloodline for their own sakes and they're complaining of boredom due to lack of clients.

Whose fault was that, eh?

Watching over Shizu got him respecting her.

And at the end of her life, she met this powerful unique slime...who turns out to be a reincarnated otherworlder who gave Shizu comfort in her last moments that he began watching her after Shizu passed on. Rimuru, the unique slime was a very benevolent, gentle and well-loved master.

Rimuru also faked adjusting to a new body and pulled the wool on her own people for some reason until he found that her new form was too immature for training, so she was faking her 'cripple status' for one year post-transformation because Hakurou was dead-set on training her when the Kijin joined the city but she wasn't ready yet. At least she was diligent after that and a hard worker as well as a capable strategist.

She seems to attract powerful opponents, and a benevolent, generously-indulging leader who was loved by her people as she was close to them as she was angry and wept for the deceased. Even earning the good will of Demon Lords for her kindness alone when normally strength is what matters!

However, there's some appeal to being touched by her the way she touched others.

Nooow then...time to work~

xxx

Ranga rushed home with Rimuru secure through his horns and skidded to halt on his paws. 'Take the master!'

'Her Temperature Fluctuation Resistance is probably not functioning.' Benimaru said anxiously as Shuna got Rimuru off of Ranga. From her sky-blue body, she was now a dark blue in body.

Because Rimuru made it clear she would evolve into a Demon Lord in order to bring back the slain, the human adventurers and merchants quickly took shelter in the Evacuation Cave. They wouldn't survive the immense magicules in the process! Though that didn't stop them from watching through magic...

They wanted to see how it's done. Such a historical event triggered by greed for money.

Youm's band remained out of town with the children.

'Tche, why can't we watch?' Kenya complained while sitting on a rock grouchily.

'If you did, you die before it even starts.' Youm snarked. 'All that power is poisonous to us humans you know! We'll just ask the others how it went.' Alice's spirit approached her and whispered something that caused her to light up.

'What a great idea!' she exclaimed, startling them. 'There's a way for us to watch without getting killed!'

xxx

The monsters had prepared a shrine for their master to rest on as she changes, beginning to shake and wobble as she glowed rainbow-like color...

/Notice: The Harvest Festival has begun./

'S-someone's talking...' Gale meeped as they heard a female echoing voice as they watched through Alice's magic.

'Quiet!' Alice hissed.

/The individual's physical constitution will be rebuilt, and she will evolve into a new race./ the Voice spoke as the monsters and spirits bowed their heads in reverent respect. The mercenaries and kids, seeing this did the same. /Confirmed: evolving from Slime Race to Demon Slime Race: successful. Requesting form change...granted. Change of slime body will commence./

Thus the poring body of Rimuru Tempest morphed into a female shape. Her blue color is now paler than the sky blue of her body before. Her hair was two shades paler. And her new body appears shiny and shimmery, like it is made from liquid or gel. She was no longer the cute poring she was with a jelly-like body. She is currently curled up like a fetus, with her long hair floating about and her hair is just as gel-like as her body. Rimuru made 'convenience requests' before she fell asleep. One of those being having a humanoid body like that of Alpha-152 of DOA fame, with a few tweaks, among other things.

/All physical abilities have significantly improved. The individual can now freely change between material and spiritual bodies. Next, all skills and resistances acquired by the old form will be re-acquired. Successful./

/New intrinsic skills: Infinite Regeneration. Universal Detect. Lord's Ambition. Enhanced Cloning. And Universal Thread: acquisition, successful. New Resistances: Natural Element Nullification. Ailment Nullification. Spiritual Attack Resistance. And Holy Attack Resistance, acquisition successful. This completes the evolution./

This incoming one, they did NOT hear. And it occurred so fast nobody's the wiser and it ended when the World declared Rimuru's evolution is complete.

/Notice: petition to evolve Unique Skill: Great Sage to Words of the World. Requesting Evolution of Great Sage. Understood. Request for Great Sage accepted. Unique Skill: Great Sage will attempt to evolve...failed. Re-attempting...failed./

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This repeated hundreds of times over.

Until Great Sage had an idea.

/Notice: Unique Skill: Great Sage will sacrifice Degenerate to receive the Harvest Festival gift and attempt evolution...successful. Unique Skill: Great Sage has evolved into Ultimate Skill: Wisdom King Raphael./

After attempting a million combinations, finally a result...

The Harvest Festival bestowed upon it such a gift.

The ability to evolve a skill.

To what this world knew as the Ultimate Skill.

That was something thought to be nearly impossible to occur.

After many failed attempts such was the results.

That was something desired by the skill in order to fulfill it's master's request; but, as a mere concept, it felt no joy.

It did feel sympathy, however.

But for it to feel sympathy and not joy...

With the new found ability, it went to work on it's masters request.

But, to fulfill it...perhaps...

Again, evolution resumed.

Thus, while Rimuru's consciousness was shrouded in darkness...in order to fulfill his wish, Raphael did the rest for her.

/Sacrifice Merciless to execute./ Raphael requested and the Voice processed it.

/Successful. Unique Skill Gluttony has evolved into Ultimate Skill: Lord of Gluttony, Beelzebub./

/Sacrifice Food Chain and Unlimited Imprisonment to execute./

/Successful. Integrating Food Chain and Unlimited Imprisonment enables Acquisition of Ultimate Skill: Lord of Vows: Uriel./

/Sacrifice Creator to execute./ processing began once more.

/Successful. Unique Skill: Creator has evolved into Ultimate Skill: Creation Lord: Ahura Mazda. In addition, Ultimate Skill: Information King Akashic Records has also been acquired./

Raphael's evolution and requests to suit his master's wishes happened in a blink as Rimuru stopped glowing rainbow lights.

'Rimuru-sama...' Shuna gasped in delight.

'She's...certainly different now...' Benimaru croaked out as Rimuru was no longer the cute slime ball the girls love to cuddle with, with a cute face. She was now this humanoid thingy floating before them.

'Whoa, what in the world happened to her?!'

Were the questions as Rimuru certainly got big for a slime.

/Now commencing the bestowing of Gifts to Monsters in her genealogy./

'Oh yeah, they did mention that...' said Souka as suddenly, they were all hit with severe grogginess. 'Ugh...!'

'This sleepiness...' Gaspar yelped as they were so sleepy that the weak-willed ones immediately got knocked out.

'I can't...hold on...' Myuran choked as she collapsed. Benimaru was the only one awake, being bone-headed enough to resist out of his desire to protect everyone else from whatever's going on...

'Myuran!' Grucius cried in alarm though he was inwardly happy he gets to hold her before looking worried again. By the town entrance, Youm swore to geld him and had to be restrained by his crew. 'Why's everyone so sleepy?!' he sputtered as Rimuru glowed, transforming into her human form...but the eyes are red, indicating it's Great Sage in control. The mantle meant for a slime is too small for her new body Raphael wrapped it around his master's body like a towel for modesty. She now appears a young adult who just entered 20s and gained more womanly charms.

She was beautiful, Benimaru thought as he could not help but admire as he fought off sleep as Raphael gently descended to the ground on Rimuru's feet by floating and stepping down 'invisible steps'. He reached out for her until her feet was on the ground.

'Notice: please enter your evolutionary slumber and leave the rest to me.' Raphael spoke to Benimaru gently. He smiled softly and let himself go to sleep, sinking on his knees and falling sideways. Raphael walked towards the bodies to begin her work. 'Notice: in the name of Raphael, I command you Beelzebub; consume all the magicules within the barrier. Do not leave a single soul fragment behind.' and he controlled the amassed magicules and restored the souls piece by piece with incredible control...and placed each soul above their respective bodies.

As a Demon Lord Seed, Rimuru has 4,109,999 magicules as her starting foundation.

And when Demon Lord Seeds evolve into Demon Lords, they gain ten times the amount of their starting capacity after evolving. And this will increase over time through training. Thus Raphael has barely enough to finish everything but he might make a mistake because of 'barely-there' power as the deceased are all powerful monsters Rimuru created.

He made a decision to sacrifice his and Rimuru's life force to do so. They'll heal being a Demon Lord anyway though no mortal will survive what he'll do.

Soon, the summoned are back, carrying their quarry who were maimed in various places...and the man noticed what he was about to do.

'Milady, please wait. It seems you intend to sacrifice your life energy?' he stopped him anxiously.

'...acknowledged. While the amount has been met, Individual: Rimuru Tempest will not accept attempting of resurrection through barely enough magicules as possibility of failure will rise. Decision for substitution is decided. We will sacrifice our Life Energy for the deficiency.' the notion horrified anyone who heard him.

'Please do not sacrifice your life energy!' he pleaded politely, but worriedly. 'I propose a better idea...these two shall make up for the lacking. They will happily serve you in this manner.' the man proposed as the aides knelt before her.

Raphael looked at the demons and their sincerity.

Genuine.

Indeed, he agreed with his master, finding them odd for their kind, but pickiness is out of the question now.

'Acknowledged. Proposal accepted. Beelzebub.' Raphael consumed the other two and converted them into magicules. 'Requirements met. Sufficient magicules has been acquired. Now performing the Secret Art of Resurrection.' and Raphael proceeded with the process. For the Archdemon, having his descendants play a role in such a divine art got him moaning in envy, but also pride and joy as it's HIS descendants.

This divine art requires an immense amount of magicules. And immense, perfect control over the magical power involved in a grand scale. Even then, success is tiny because of those two factors.

But an addition requirement was had that Rimuru and her council realized. The soul must still be around, thus one needs a barrier to prevent the soul from dissipating and be lost, and the art must be performed immediately.

His master has 'barely enough' to resurrect the intended amount of people on the ground thus needed extra so it will not end in failure.

Many attempts of resurrection was made, beginning with the girl and her pet dragon and many mages after her tried.

This being who serves the master clearly knows how.

The Archdemon prided himself in his magical knowledge but not even he can do such a feat.

And the master...succeeded.

After countless attempts, only this instance, was a success.

Once the deceased are revived, though remained in slumber, all of Rimuru's subordinates evolves at the exact same time. Though to those who reached their final forms, they gained an immense boost of power because of their generous master. Though Balance is still met.

The Kijin became Fair Oni and Wicked Oni in Shion's case. The Hobgoblins became Oni. Goblins became the new Hobgoblins. Mousemen into Ratmen. The High Orcs gained a large power boost as did the Beastfolk in town, gaining better features for combat.

It seems having his aides sacrifice themselves was a good idea because afterward, she fainted from exhaustion and reverting to her new slime form and he had to catch her. She was not kidding when she said she barely had enough until he offered his aides.

'Oh dear, this will not do...' he tut-tutted as this mere slip of a rag barely covers Rimuru's virtue. 'You, where is master's house?' he asked, looking at Grucius.

'For now let's raid the clothing department, Shuna won't mind! I'm just a guest in this town, you think Rimuru-sama's subordinates will allow outsiders to know where her house is? Like hell I know!' Grucius sputtered out, making the archdemon sigh as Grucius has a point. Outsiders are potential enemies after all. 'Let's get some clothes and there's a clinic in the Government Building! C'mon!' and they ran off.

Outside town...

'To the clothing department, hurry!' the kids then ran off.

'H-hey!' Youm sputtered. 'We can't go yet! Rommel stop them!' Rommel quickly yanked the kids back with his magic.

'Kyaa!'

'It's not safe yet! That ritual probably has the town coated with so much magicules you'll keel over!' Youm scolded. 'Your mom won't be happy if she wakes up and sees you died because of her magic! So stay until we get the clear!'

xxx

Hours later, they all woke up and seeing the dead back, massive celebration ensued, but where's Rimuru was the question afterward that got them all frantic with worry so Kenya sent Spirit of Light to tell them.

'Rimuru-sama is back at the Government building, taken to the clinic by Grucius and some black-clothed guy!' he said. 'Oh, and take these guys to the dungeons.' he pointed at the injured humans. 'The black guys brought them here.'

That, and it's safe for humans to step back into the city to help with the clean-up.