Re: slime starting over as a slime from zero
Reincarnated
Chapter 1: first a tensei… now an isekai… again?
It was just after I had consumed Veldora in order to analyze the prison that held him captive.
Still, he also was named by him and taught a few things…
However…
"Why am I being isekai-ed...again?!"
Rimuru Tempest yelled as he found himself near a town.
"Caution, you have been forcibly relocated to another world, contacting for information… information downloaded… rules have changed slightly, but all laws of magic and abilities have been registered while few altered to accommodate this world's rules"
"And thank YOU very much, great sage-san!"
"You are welcome"
Still, this was bad, he was a slime, if he went into the streets like this he would be killed…
"Notice, shapeshifting ability has been implemented, you can emulate and or create a convincing form by shifting your body mass"
"OH! As expected of Sage! Uhmm let's try it out"
His body stretched and took a humanoid form and the. It began to fill the missing parts… all in all he looked androgynous with long sky blue hair.
"Could use a more masculine shape, but what the hell, let's just use this, I will be able to stay on the lowkey."
As Rimuru walked about he heard the sound of a runaway horse carriage, a small child was in the road.
With no hesitation he jumped and scooped the kid away, much to the relief of the people,
The carriage rider stopped and profoundly apologized for what could have happened.
It was not till later on the main plaza where a meeting happened.
It was innocuous, a young girl with blonde hair and red eyes ran and bumped into him.
Rimuru walked around and got lost and accidentally entered into an alleyway.
There were 3 people, a small child, someone who looked like a convicted felon and another huge guy. When they saw them they smiled.
"Wait… wait waitwait! What is with this cliche?!" Rimuru internally yelled.
"Observation, the 3 people have negative thoughts and are hostile, recommend fleeing or fighting, in case of fighting or fleeing success rate is 100%" Sage said.
Putting his foot down he pushed himself forward.
First, the crazy looking one was taken out with a blow to the solar plexus, the small one was grabbed by the scruff of his shirt and thrown into the big guy, he pushed him out of the way only to see that it was just to block his vision, he had appeared next to his side and punched him on the temple, making his brain reverberate inside his skull and falling on top of the small one, trapping him.
"Hey, you! Did you see a thief run this way?" A voice said.
He turned around, a girl with pale lilac hair and purple eyes.
"Notice, being in front of you has a concealment field placed in his clothes to avoid recognition from people, your power is higher than that of the spell, allowing you to see her as she is"
I raised an eyebrow, she was quite the cute one, could it be that she feared being kidnapped?
It was then when I noticed her ears
"Erufu!" Rimuru yelled internally.
"Could… you describe the one who stole from you? I would be able to recognize the culprit with the description" he said after he took a moment to compose himself.
And so the elf girl began to tell him the basic description.
"Note, the individual was the one who bumped into you, possibly due to her fleeing the scene of her crime, plotting course, there are 3 sections she would be found" Sage said.
Rimuru nodded. "You are in luck little lady, I happen to know her, I don't know where she went, but I can find her, we have 3 places we have to go if we wish to find her she might be in one of them"
She narrowed her eyes, she could see the mistrust "come on… don't look at me like that" Rimuru thought with a pang of pain at his desire to be helpful.
"I have nothing to reward you with," she said.
"That's fine, let's just put it on an I.O.U" I said as I led the way.
" ...YOU?" She asked never before hearing that word
"It's short for I owe you," Rimuru said with a smile.
Just then a small cat creature appeared.
"You can trust him, there is no hostility coming from him"
"Oh! Aren't you a cute one!" Rimuru said as he gently patted the floating cat creature.
He giggled at the ministrations.
"Notice, being on Rimuru's hands is a high level spiritual entity, he is beginning an emphatic reading of your consciousness"
"Ah, he is trying to ascertain if I will hurt or betray her, let him, it's not malicious so that's fine"
They followed as he asked about the cat creature, he found that his name is Puck, and that he is contracted to the girl.
"Ah, that's right! I am Rimuru, Rimuru Tempest, and you? I can't just keep calling you girl or lady afterall"
She stopped and looked at Puck.
"I… I am a half elf" she began to say.
"Oh? Half elf eh? No wonder you seem so pretty" Rimuru said.
"E-EH?!" she was taken back by his reply.
"I… am...A half elf?" She said again.
"Yes, I believe we established that," I said with a kind smile.
"You dunderhead," she said.
I was slightly confused at this.
"Please don't take it the wrong way, due to her life, she had never heard anyone say that to her" Puck said.
"Poor thing, must have had a very tough life,still she smiles and acts like this, I can't help but admire that strength" Rimuru said with a nod.
Puck smiled at him "Yes, that's right, she is strong, yet so fragile"
"Now that is an oxymoron if I ever heard one, but I can't say I disagree" Rimuru said.
They walked about and found her trails which led them into a small building.
It was just a bit shy of nightfall, the sun was beginning to fall, we found a rather suspicious looking building.
We entered and found a rather large man.
Next to him was the small blonde girl.
"Hey there, you have something that belongs to her, would you please give it back?" Rimuri asked.
The large dark skinned man took a look at the girl and at my companion and raised his arms up in sign of surrender.
"Rom? Are you giving up? Just like that?!" The blonde haired thief asked in both anger and annoyance.
"If it was anyone else, I wouldn't mind… but… tell me girl… are you an elf?"She took down her hood, Rom and the blonde thief gasped.
"No… just half," she said with sorrow.
"There is a story here that I am missing…" Rimuru thought
He put his arm around his companion and shoved her as a dark figure slashed the place she was in a second ago.
"I knew you were there, it is quite rude you know?" Rimuru said with a frown.
The person stood up, she was tall, she had an air of seduction and danger.
"Detecting hostile intentions, prepare for battle" the great sage advice.
Rimuru dropped on all fours as he dodged the lady's attack.
"Caution, hostile attack range is 6 meters longer, the attack can stretch up to there"
Rimuru took notice of a small wire-like string emanating from the blade… interesting.
Using his own thread manipulation and making his own using spider web and hardening to the hardness of diamond they clashed one more.
The femme fatale's weapon was sliced with ease.
"W-what just happened?' She thought, taken back.
When she saw her weapon she noticed it...it was sliced by a thread even sharper than her own.
It was then a light hit it… the threads were smaller than hers, yet sharper. But where did they come from?
"I see… I am weaponless" she said with a sigh as she discarded her weapon.
Rimuru still looked at her.
Her hostility had not abated, if anything it increased.
"I wonder… what will your belly look like?" She said with a smile.
Rimuri jumped as he dodged her attacks, while delivering his own.
Thankfully his half-elf companion was attacking her, along with Puck who joined the fray.
"Caution, the enemy is wearing an anti magic armor capable of negating a single attack, protection will wear after the threshold is met with a single attack" Sage adviced to keep melee as magic would probably harm him.
But… would it?
"Note, Rimuru has the skill: thermal change resistance, negating effects of both cold and hot" the great sage said.
If, and that is a big if… I got hit with an ice attack and I eat it (literally) I could use predation and make it mine? Worth a shot!
"PUCK! FIRE YOUR STRONGEST ICE ATTACK AT ME! I HAVE A PLAN!" I yelled.
Puck blinked "ok, but it's your funeral" he said as he shot a large icicle.
My hand morphed and swallowed the ice.
I had now obtained the ability to use ice magic attacks.
This reminded me of the Blue Mage class in an old RPG game I played as a kid.
I shot one at her, impaling her through the chest, then I shot at her legs to keep her stuck to the floor.
The ice began to encase her body up to her waist.
She was truly trapped.
"Oh my… you sure are strong, to have managed to capture little old me"
"Warning a magical device has been activated"
I threw myself to the half elf girl to cover her from the blast, did she just blew herself up?!
"Ah… much better, shall we continue?" She said with a beautiful smile that went against her actions.
"The opponent has a curse of near instant regeneration, she cannot be killed in a conventional method" the great sage said as I pulled the blonde thief back when she tried to slash at the killer.
"Then what do you suppose we should do?" Rimuru asked.
They were down 1 man, or rather cat, as Puck's time was up.
"Use of predation is highly recommended, do you wish to proceed?" Great sage asked.
"Come on boy, show me what is inside you" she said as she charged in.
Rimuru smiled. "Don't forget, you asked for it" he said as his body turned into his slime form and enveloped her and swallowed her.
His body returned to human looks as his body begun to expand from the attacks of the femme fatale until it stopped.
All her abilities were broken down and absorbed as skills, any negative effects were purged.
Rimuru had gained proficiency with daggers, assassination and hyper regeneration.
Everyone just looked at him with awe, as he had forgotten he had an audience.
"I suppose I have things to explain… uh?" Rimuru said with an awkward smile.
Chapter end