(Tremor's OP Corner):To Aru Shinobu no RPG Sekai Monogatari

by Tremor230

"The Tale of a certain Shinobi in a RPG World". End-of-manga Naruto reborn into a world following Games rules in an RPG setting. Elements from various sources taken to 'shape' him and the story's world. Mostly RE: Monster and Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken. AU. OOC. Rated M so not for kids. It's an experiment so do not expect much. BETA READ AND GRAMMAR FIXED BY DARKLORD11

8. Chapter 8

My secondary account elsewhere is giving nice results, I am both glad and impressed.

And my haters can kindly go fuck themselves.

Have a Good Day!

" You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu

"Let's finish this" - dialogue

" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/thoughts

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or whatever I will use here in this fic.

A certain blond in an RPG World Chapter 8: It hurts! Everything hurts! Why Saving the World has to hurt!?

The capital city of Trevaria Kingdom – Ruins -

There was fire everywhere, fire burning mercilessly making the once grandiose buildings of the city slowly collapse on themselves, everywhere one looked, signs of ferocious battle were littering both walls and the paved streets, but everywhere, in every corner, there was silence, unnatural silence.

"They destroyed it completely." Lars said with wide eyes of horror.

"Lars," Naruto muttered, saddened by the man's horrified expression.

"I remember coming here for patrol duty so many years ago, it was my first mission outside our borders...Everything was so alive and colorful...A-And now everything is just...Gone." the man said with a shaken voice.

"There is nobody around, they are all dead." Tanya, from a vantage point several feet in the air, informed them.

"This was the Capital of Trevaria! Ten thousand people used to live here! There must be survivors!" Lars answered, horrified.

"You are well-informed, child." A mellifluous voice said from above them.

"YOU!" the former captain of the church's private army yelled, almost foaming at the mouth from his rage.

"A bit of [Death Miasma] from a dozen Monsters and it was a joke to weaken the entire city enough for us to storm it, as you said, once done poisoning air and water, a little bit more than ten thousand people already at death's door were there ready to be used, just waiting for us to collect them." the same elf of before explained, idly sitting on a rooftop with nonchalant air.

"The Miasma...Such a horrible thing, and you used it?!"

"Is it dangerous?" Naruto asked.

"Death Miasma is the combination of several monster's breath attacks mixed together to form a 100% deadly gas weapon that acts like a disease; my former employers had tried for years to use it, but controlling and storing it had always been impossible since it's obscenely contagious and unstable." Tanya said with narrowed eyes.

"Impossible to store and control? Ah! I expect nothing less from such an inferior race, you never had nor the Power or the Talent to go with your hilarious boasting. Do you know why I succeeded instead? Because I am an Elf! A CHOSEN ONE!" the mad man said with a deranged smile as black markings started spreading on his face from under his clothes, and at the same time, hundreds of other elves appeared all around the five members of the Monster Star Guild, all of them with their ears cut very short.

"All of them have short ears, he must have gathered every other exiled elf he could find." Rimuru hissed, turning from a blob of slime into his more human-looking form, sword already in hand.

"Correct, you animal, but they will also serve another purpose. One that will help me make sure we Elves will be treated with the respect our kind deserves!" the Leader of the whole attack answered as he calmly jumped down, while the other soldiers with him all cocked back an arrow in their bows, all aimed at Naruto and his friends.

"And who are you to decide all this?!" the former shinobi asked with a growl.

"I am Agol! The future Lord of this world! And I will do this by using the power of Alor, The Beast Lord!" Agol answered opening his arms wide, and as on cue, the entire plaza behind him erupted upwards in an explosion of debris, so that the giant monstrosity that was buried under it could come out.

There were no words to properly describe that abomination; it was a monster walking on four legs, a giant of muscles, muscles bulging-out unnaturally and unevenly as it walked with a drunken gait, its entire body was a grotesque mass of rotting flesh with just a few patches of oily black fur randomly jutting in every direction, its very scent was one of decay and disease, fixating forward with an uneven number of tiny, beady red eyes full of demented savagery on top of a deformed and overly-big mouth.

"Gruuuu..." the thing left-out a low, grumbling growl of hunger that still shook everybody present, as if they could feel their own skeleton rattle heavily under their skin.

"That thing is even bigger than the 'Shinju Tree' or Kaguya's Monster Form...It's insane..." Kurama said in astonishment, baffled by the simply ridiculous size of the monster that came out from underground, having demolished the entire city plus the area around it just by coming out.

"Beautiful, isn't it? Such raw power! Such an imposing presence! Show them what happened to those fools that used to live here!" the mad elf ordered with a superior smirk.

When the disgusting creature opened its maw, to the Guild's horror they could see the half-chewed remains of all the people that used to live there; men, women, elders, children, all of them reduced to a half-eaten red paste of broken bones and torn flesh, before the Monstrosity gave a loud Gulp and greedily swallowed all that in a single motion.

"GRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" clearly not satisfied yet, the beast drew back its giant, stubby head to let loose an ear-splitting cry, fully displaying thousands of rows of teeth occupying the entirety of its mouth and a great part of its throat.

"Splendid isn't it?! Alor, the Beast Lord! The creature that is about to become the Fourth [Lord of Calamity]! HIHIHI-HAHAHA-AAAAH!" Agol said with a laugh of madness as his long blond hair whipped around in the wild wind caused by the beast's roar.

"A fourth one?" Mi asked in dread.

"Yes! YES! When a long time ago the "Hero" and his band of idiots managed to seal away the Lords of Calamity, they also interrupted the ascension of Alor as a fourth one! This is a creature that holds inside a spark the power of each of the other Three Lords! A majestic, superior being that almost managed to steal that power away! Luckily, his not being a [Lord of Calamity] yet made it easier for me to slip him pass the Seal, and now, after the right sacrifice, once fused with him I will ascend! And become the Fourth Lord!" Agol declared with wide, utterly insane eyes.

"You are crazy! You can't just go around sacrificing everybody just for power!" Naruto spat angrily.

"Yes, I can instead! I am willing to do EVERYTHING to assure my kind will finally be free to walk this land! We keep hiding in the shadows because the other races cannot accept their place as our servants! But I will make them learn! Once fused with Alor, I will then have the power to devour the other three Lords! At that point, not even the [Sleeping Guardians] will be able to face me! I will remake this world to my image! An Image where Elves rule supreme!" the Elf yelled as the black markings on his face grew to cover his entire skin, turning it from its fair pale constitution, to a scaly-looking black tint.

"YOU DEVIL!"

"Lars!" Rimuru yelled as they watched the man charge Agol while blinded by his fury.

Splort!

"...My dear sweet child. Weren't you wondering why such a wild-looking beast was sitting there calmly behind me?" The elf asked with a calm tone, uncaring of the human's lance piercing his stomach all the way through, and even pulling Lars closer to himself with one hand.

"You have not come here to stop my Ritual from happening, you are here to be the Test Subjects for my new power! The Ritual has been completed already, Alor is already bound to me!" he then said, showing how his teeth had turned into sharp fangs worthy of a beast.

"LARS! GETAWAY!" Naruto yelled.

"[Piercing Shot]!" Tanya intoned as the golden light of her medallion engulfed her riffle, using one of her Skills to empower her bullet.

Ta-Ching!

To her surprise, the bullet did hit the Elf's forehead making his head snapped back, but when he returned to look at her, only the superficial level of his skin had ruptured, showing a plaque of scaled skin shining in a sinister white luster right under it.

"Damnit! While the riffle is powerful on its own, it is still my own Mana that creates the bullets, my level is still too low to make any significant damage!" Tanya thought in seething anger.

"I am Agol, conqueror of the Beast Lord! From this day forward, I shall be Agolor, the Fourth Lord!" The elf said while opening his mouth wide to gather energy in the back of his throat.

"LARS!" Rimuru yelled with wide eyes.

"Gah!" the soldier abandoned his lance to hide his body behind his shield…

"TOO LATE, MORTAL! YOUR LORD ORDERS YOU TO DIE!" Agol, now Agolor, yelled in glee as a blinding light erupted from his mouth and engulfed Lars in his entirety, blasting him away and out of the city on the notes of the poor man's screams of anguish.

BOOOOOOOM!

"NO!" the others yelled as they saw the light fade away, but with no trace of their friend left insight.

"Aaw, do not worry, children! Soon you all will meet again in the Land of the Spirits!" Agolor answered amused, and behind him, the giant creature melted completely, until the giant mass of sludge fell on top of the mad elf.

"Please tell me that the bastard he's going to get crushed under all that!" Naruto asked with clenched teeth.

"No, I fear this is only the beginning! Look!" Tanya answered while pointing at the archers around them.

One after another, all of them turned to dust, dust that then flew by its own volition to the mass of melted flesh, and with a last flash of red light, hardened to the point of looking like stone.

Boom!

And barely a second later, with a mighty explosion, that mass of rock exploded into a cloud of fine dust, having served its purpose and so now useless to the Monster hidden under it.

"Great Sage reported that he has absorbed everything from that monster and from those elves, there are only ashes now, devoid of any power or value, he took everything." Rimuru said with a frown, as the new form of Agolor finally came into view.

It was a three meters tall humanoid creature with pure-white scales covering its naked body, every single muscle horrifyingly bulging-out as if barely keeping back the power they possessed and covered in thick root-like veins; the elf former long hair was now a mass of spikes of bone; instead of two eyes, seven smallish red beady eyes were unevenly positioned on its deformed draconic face, and in the middle of its unnaturally muscled chest, a giant cerulean gem was pulsating in energy and sending the same light through his bulging blue veins, making them all rhythmically shine in a faint blue light as if following a racing heartbeat.

"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" pleased by the transformation, the Monster gave a victorious roar, making his jaw open abnormally wide to show the same thousands of sharp teeth the original [Lord of Calamity] possessed.

"It worked! My rebirth starts now!" Agolor declared, his still normal voice gaining a faint growling echo at every word.

"Ah..." Mi muttered, shaking heavily.

"I am still at a 'Larval Stage' as I suspected, it takes time to fully absorb such immense power, luckily I have you here with me until is time for the last stages of my transformation! You will keep me entertained until I reach the 'Cocoon Stage', the final step before reaching my Final Form!" the monster said while patting the giant blue gem on his chest with extreme fondness.

"This is what you wanted? Turning yourself into a monster?" Tanya asked with a scrunched nose, having landed so to be blown away by the creature's scream.

"I don't expect you to understand the length I am willing to go to reach my goal...Nobody ever understood...Nobody could understand my genius, not even that foolish Azal! He was blind to the truth of what we discovered! We had the key to the freedom of our Kind and he refused to use it!"

"Maybe because he understood that some prices are too high to pay, you moron!" Naruto answered.

"What now?" Mi asked, nervous.

"Now? Now you go back and ask for help, we can keep him occupied and maybe even wound him, but the three of us won't go any further without help. We need reinforces." Tanya answered.

"Can you do it?" Naruto asked.

"I-I can! Just be careful." the young hobgoblin girl answered, giving him a fast kiss.

"You too, don't do anything reckless."

"Please don't die, please." she begged before running away as fast as she could, fully showing her innate high speed.

"Running away? Calling for more insects to stand in my way? I don't think so, I want you to be the first tribute to my new reign!" Agolor said in cruel amusement, pointing his hand at Mi to shoot a giant stream of light that moved in the air like cloth, at the same time mesmerizing and yet deadly.

"MI!" Moving fast, the former shinobi reached and tackled the girl to the ground, watching as that long white 'cloth' easily cut a near house it two before making it explode.

"You okay?" he asked in concern.

"I am...NARUTO!" Mi yelled with wide eyes at seeing that in order to save her he had lost his left arm, cut away at the shoulder cleanly no matter the armored clothes he was wearing.

"Don't worry, I saw worse. Olaf will fix my clothes in no time." He answered, stoically ignoring the absurd amount of blackish blood he was losing.

"Mimic: [Steel Spider Silk]!" Rimuru yelled, immediately summoning from his hand's several hundreds of hair-thin strings that he then wrapped tightly around the hobgoblin's wound, soon turning the entire bundle into a rock-like bundle of hardened webs.

"It should last for now!" the slime said, unsure.

"Add this, it's [Medical Paste], it will harden around that web and make sure no internal or external bleeding happen." Tanya added, throwing them a small vial of light-blue paste.

"Thanks." Naruto answered with a grateful tone.

"Can you still fight? If we kill him fast, we will still be able to sew your arm back in place." the tiny girl asked.

"NO!" Mi interjected.

"Yes, I can. Let's go!" Naruto contradicted her with a fierce expression.

"You just worry about asking for help."

"YOU WON'T!" Agolor yelled in annoyance, greatly shocking them with how fast he reached them.

"GRAAAAH!" even if with one arm, Naruto grabbed the long club Andre forged for him to intercept the furious downward swipe of the monster's claw, stopping it from cleaving Mi in half.

Boom!

"Guh!" the former shinobi groaned through clenched teeth as the pressure behind the attack forced his knees to bend heavily and a crater to form under him, and he was certainly one of his knees actually cracked under the weight.

"Impressive." Agolor admitted, almost admiring the ferocious light he could still see inside the hobgoblin's eyes.

"GO!" Naruto roared, further surprising Agolor by pushing him away.

"You are still not back to your old strength! Another hit like that and you will have to say goodbye to one of your legs!" Kurama alerted him with a dreadful tone.

"I KNOW!" Naruto roared back, as even with his [Regeneration] Skill it would take him at least a day to heal from a shattered leg, so letting that monster break something was a clear no-no.

"Your eyes, they are still too much alive." Agolor said with a frown as his beady eyes started lighting-up in energy.

"But I can fix that." he then said, summoning a giant sphere of condensed shadows in his hand.

"Protego!" Rimuru yelled, moving in front of Naruto to summon around them both a barrier.

"DISAPPEAR!" the Monster said, throwing the sphere at blinding speed, way faster than they anticipated.

GAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

With an explosion similar to the roar of a beast, the sphere exploded in a grandiose flash of light, uprooting several trees and blowing-away even the clouds up in the sky.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Not even giving the dust cloud time to settle and Tanya was already flying high in the sky, circling Agolor to try to shoot him from every possible angle.

"A flying mage? I always wanted to kill one!" Agolor, smiling a smirk full of malice, declared as thick rays of light kept leaving his eyes trying to shoot the tiny girl down.

"Trying too hard to sound evil, what an amateur." Tanya muttered in disdain as the light screen in front of her eyes kept highlighting the Monster's body parts in red.

"[Alert: No weak points found in enemy armour.]" the medallion alerted.

"Keep searching. [Scatter Shot]!" Tanya ordered, her Skill covering the new bullet she shot in red light that then exploded into a rain of a dozen rays of light.

"USELESS!" Agolor answered by giving a shoving motion with his arm, launching an arch of blinding light from that movement in the shape of a crescent blade of energy that almost cut the girl in two, had her not spun in the air to remain upside-down, all the while shooting him nonstop.

"Lightning!" it was then that he heard Rimuru scream in anger, summoning above him hundreds of orbs of lightning that then let lose a deluge of electricity, Obscuring the Monster's body completely from sight.

"Your turn!" the slime then said.

"[Ultimate Skill]: Primal Black Hole!" Naruto yelled as the tear in space opened to try swallow Agolor.

"Argh!" the monster roared as he physically grabbed the tiny black sphere of condensed gravity in front of him with both hands to resist its pull.

"GO DOWN!" Tanya ordered as her whole body was covered by a flaming aura, giving her a pair of giant wings made of fire.

"Shit! She is going to use an [Ultimate Skill]! TAKE COVER!" Kurama, that had he been able would have gone wide-eyed, yelled in alert, alert mimicked by [Great Sage] inside Rimuru's head.

"[God's Nova]." Tanya hissed with narrowed eyes as her flight speed kicked up to the point she was a blur, flying around Agolor while leaving behind a long trail of flames, soon covering the struggling monster with a tornado of fire just a few degrees shier from reaching the temperature of an actual Supernova.

"Do you have and [Ultimate Skill] too?" Rimuru asked with a begging tone.

"I already used it, that black hole burned away two-thirds of my Mana to be summoned Full Power." Naruto answered.

"Then I'll use mine too. [Varudora's Judgment]!" the Slime said punching the ground hard enough to shove his entire arm up to the elbow under the rock and making the terrain under Agolor explode upward immediately after so to add a towering column of black flames mixed with black lightning to the colossal tornado of fire around him.

"Gah...Without Being X that is hard to use..." Tanya hissed in contempt as she crash-landed near the two.

"Being, who?" Naruto asked.

"The fool with delusions of grandeur that sent me here I talked to you about, before he was killed he used to shoulder the brunt of most of my more powerful Skills, as a way to make me appear Godly thanks to him, thus becoming his Messiah in this world. It never occurred to me how much I had become dependent on that idiot's power." the girl answered with an annoyed frown.

Crickle! Crackle! Crickle!

The sound of something with a few tiny cracks reached the ears of Naruto, his being the more sensible of the three, making him gain a curious expression.

"Alert: Weak point found! A gem on Agolor's chest registers the highest and purest form energy from Alor! Hypothesis: the Gem is the source of Agolor's powers and he is slowly absorbing it thanks to the Binding Ritual that has been done through the sacrifice of all those elves, at the rate of absorption displayed until now, the time required for Agolor to fully absorb that power and ascend to the rank of [Lord of Calamity] is: ten minutes." Great Sage alerted Rimuru, actually adding a small countdown to the corner of the slime's field of view.

"SHIT!"

"What?" Naruto asked.

"Agolor has yet to ascend, he is still absorbing power from Alor the Beast Lord, we have ten minutes before he fully ascends...Then we will be screwed." the Slime answered.

"And how are we supposed to kill that thing?" Tanya asked.

"The gem on his chest, we must break it at all cost, if we do that, his powers will disperse and he will die, his body is still 'unstable' from the Ritual." Rimuru answered.

"Then let's do it!"

"DO IT!? STOP ME?! BLASPHEMY!" from inside the giant tornado of fire and darkness, Agolor roared in fury, he too having noticed the new tiny cracks on the gem on his chest, and he was FURIOUS.

"Oh, no..." Rimuru muttered with wide eyes.

"I am tired of your insolence! Do you dare defy me? The new supreme Lord of this world?!" Agolor hissed with a furious snarl.

"For that, you must die! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" opening his arms wide, from every inch of the Mad Elf's body thousands rays of light exploded in every direction disintegrating the three [Ultimate Skills] that were trying to destroy him as if they were nothing, the rays of light cutting everything around him followed by huge explosions and turning everything into a blazing inferno.

"RUN!" Tanya yelled, forcing the other two to run in the opposite direction with her.

"KNEEL BEFORE YOUR NEW GOD!" Agolor screamed as even more rays of light erupted from his body, covering every possible direction.

"Is he really saying that?"

"This is hardly the time for jokes!" Tanya answered annoyed, while desperately dodging left and right to avoid the deadly lasers high in the air just like the other two were doing down to the ground.

"Naruto! I called for help! The others will come soon!" Mi in the meantime had returned to the fray, bow already pulled back.

"Go away, you stupid brat!" Tanya bellowed, using her superior speed to catch her before the rain of lasers could pulverize her.

"Kyaah!" the hobgoblin girl shrieked in surprise as the way smaller human lifted her from the ground, hosting her on the soldier's tiny shoulder.

"I can help!" Mi tried saying, flaying wildly while Tanya dodged the wild all-out attack.

"You did, you called for help! Now go away and let us buy time until help arrives, you damn dead weigh!" Tanya answered.

"I am not dead weight!"

"Yes, you are! You are just a hobgoblin! Your kind barely counts as cannon fodder!"

"But Naruto-"

"He is a Monster in the real sense of the world! Stop living in a bubble! You are utterly useless unless you evolve, so stop making me waste time!"

"I-I-I"

"SHUT UP!"

"O-Okay..." Almost bursting to tears, Mi accepted being dropped unceremoniously on the ground as soon as Agolor mass shooting stopped so that the tiny soldier could fly as high as she could to try shooting the monster's chest gem to dust.

"Mi!" Naruto yelled in relief, moving at her side in an instant.

"You okay?" he asked.

"I am sorry..."

"For what?"

"For being useless."

"You are not useless! You defended me while I was unconscious, you were always there for me." he answered with a gentle smile.

"I will grow stronger! I will fight at your side! Always!" she promised while crying.

"I know you will, now go back and tell the others to hurry up, we will need all the help you can get."

"Okay!"

"GOOD TO KNOW SHE IS OKAY! NOW COME HELP ME!" Rimuru yelled in apprehension as he was desperately pushing back on Agolor, the monster furiously biting onto the Slime's sword while both hands were trying to snap the blade in two.

"What's with their weapons?! They are not breaking!" Agolor thought in fury because while they were still too weak to wound him, their weapons were absurdly sturdy, unyielding even against his strength.

"[Gatling Gun]!" in the meantime, behind him, Tanya activated another Skill, this one covering the barrel of her rifle in golden energy then splitting in several rods holding in position by a wide ring, letting her shooting several hundreds of energy bullets per minute while rotating, just like the Skill's namesake could normally do, to attack the monster's back.

"I AM COMING!" Naruto yelled, brandishing the club with one hand as he ran towards Agolor.

"Enough! Die already!" to the shock of the others, Agolor opened his mouth wide, but instead of a ray of light, his forked tongue came out like a purplish shadow, snapping forward like a whip and elongating to absurd lengths to hit the charging hobgoblin.

"NARUTO!" Mi yelled as she threw him to the ground, getting the hit herself and vomiting out a giant mouth-full of blood before being thrown inside the ruins of a nearby house that then collapsed on top of her.

"MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Eyes wide in utter horror, Naruto yelled in anguish at seeing his first friend in his new life, and even something MORE than friends, apparently dying like that.

"STUPID GIRL! IT WAS TOO SLOW AS AN ATTACK TO CATCH US! WHY DIDN'T SHE STAY PUT!?" Kurama roared in anger, anger though that was not directed at her but at Agolor himself.

"Mi..." Naruto muttered with shocked eyes.

"One down, now you others too shall go join her." Agolor declared with a pleased smirk as he finally pushed Rimuru back.

"[Attention, Skill [Vigor] Activated...Congratulations! Skill [Vigor] Successfully evolved into [Rage]. Now the ratio Stamina to Power is at 1:2. Side effects: lowered physical Defense while in use.]. You used it enough times for the Skill to evolve, now you get twice the bonus in strength compared to before...Kill that bastard!" Kurama declared with a furious voice, the new Skill making Naruto's arm muscles bulge tremendously with the added buff.

"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" with a bestial roar, the former shinobi charged forward, forcing Rimuru to hastily roll away with a shriek to not be caught in the crossfire.

"Foolish child! You cannot defeat a Go-GUAH!" the annoying rant of Agolor stopped abruptly as soon as the club slammed against the monster's palm as he tried to grab it in a show of strength.

Instead of stopping, the club came slamming down with no mercy, pushing the hand away and catching the creature's face fully in a series of dull cracking noises of bones being damaged heavily...and for the first time since the fight started...Agolor was forced on his knees by the force behind the attack.

"Raaah! [Rasengan]!" even if still at its simplest form, as apparently the other 'variations' of the Jutsu he created were now considered high level [Skills] he still couldn't use, Naruto was more than happy to shove the water-melon-sized sphere of spiraling chakra on Agolor's face once briefly launched his club up in the air.

"Agh!" took by surprise by the following attack, the Monster stammered back enough to fall sitting on the ground, four of his seven eyes mangled into a paste mixed with the rest of his wounded face.

"Attack him now! On the wound!" Tanya ordered while focusing every bullet of hers on the wounded face of the monster.

"You...You made me bleed?" apparently uncaring of how low his HP was pummeling down under the shower of Bullets and Magic attacks the three were covering him with, Agolor muttered in disbelief.

"You still dare defy me!? Like everybody else!?" the monster growled in a blind fury.

"I WON'T BE BULLIED! I WON'T BE DISRESPECTED! YOU WILL BOW TO ME! NOW!" having snapped completely, Agolor rushed forward in a mad dash, catching both Naruto and Rimuru on the chest with both his arms open wide in a clothesline motion.

"ARGH!" the Hobgoblin roared in pain as he felt his rib-cage crack heavily under the attack.

"[Skill: Predator!]" At the same time, Rimuru's body broke into fragments of slime to try eating that arm whole.

"TOO WEAK!" having somehow expected it, Agolor turned his head to look at his slime-covered arm with a sickening smile.

"Oh..." the Slime had barely the time to say before the same energy attack that caught Lars washed over him, turning Agolor's own arm to dust and splattering the ground in inert drops of slime.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

"Rimuru!"

"Stop thinking about it! He has lost one arm! It's our occasion! you'll mourn him once this thing dies, we have to stop him!" Tanya yelled, snapping him out of his surprise as he riffles now started spewing cerulean ice-cold gas like a flamethrower, freezing everything it touched solid.

"Right! [Kage Bunshin]!" mildly surprised to still be able to summon clones, the hobgoblin called four of them to hold onto Agolor so to leave his face free as a target.

"I will break that head of yours in two, bastard!" he then said charging forward towards him.

"YOU FOOL! THE GREAT AGOLOR IS NOT DEFENCELESS!" the Monster yelled, spitting out that same stream of energy making the hobgoblin charging him burst into smoke.

"And I am not so stupid to charge you head on!" Naruto, having swapped place with a fifth (and last as 5 was his current limit) clone, answered from behind him.

WHAM!

Once again, the attack landed with unexpected fury, causing several scales on Agolor's head to shatter and fly away like dust while purple blood once again flowed freely from his wounds.

"Why can his weapon wound me!? HOW'S POSSIBLE!?" the monster thought in a dark mixture of denial and rage, finally breaking free from the Clones hold to turn around and face Naruto.

"That weapon...It's not a simple club, isn't it?! Your weapons are not normal!" he hissed.

"Would it change anything?" Tanya taunted while floating next to the hobgoblin.

"I am running low on Mana, and we have barely five minutes before he ascends...We must hurry!" she also transmitted inside Naruto's head.

"I am almost out of Mana as well, Rimuru?"

"He is in [Recovery Mode] Slimes do that in times of crisis, they fake their death in order to heal and replenish their Mana."

"Shit..." Naruto muttered aloud.

"Then those weapons too must disappear!" Agolor declared while letting his tongue snap-out once again forcing the two to split as the attack caused the terrain to explode under the weight of the attack.

"COME HERE!" Agolor yelled as he jumped Naruto, leaving him barely enough time to raise his club high enough to block the attack.

CRACK!

And this time, unfortunately, one of the Hobgoblin's legs could not withstand the pressure, snapping in two in a flash of blinding pain.

"Caught you!" the monster sang with a pleasant tone, and to Naruto's horror a new arm burst out of the wound, the claws already poised straight like a blade to pierce his shoulder, and with a horrifying sound of tearing flesh, his other arm too came flying off.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" the Hobgoblin roared in pain as the remaining strength behind the attack threw him back.

"Bwahahahaha! Surprising isn't it?! My [Regeneration] is so powerful, I can regrow even entire limbs in seconds! I just need to wish it! And do you know another nice extra? The regenerated part is not just regrown, but it also becomes immune to what damaged it before! It's called [Evolutionary Immunity] and I am the first being to ever obtain it!" Agolor explained in glee before giving Naruto a kick to the stomach that launched him away on the notes of his shattering ribs, his eyes and face too rapidly healing back to normal while he said that.

"Damnit! [Healing Bullet]!" Tanya hissed in anger, shooting a bullet of green light that covered the hobgoblin bleeding stump with a patch of webbing very similar to the one Rimuru used before.

"What about you, flying mage? Do you still hold hope against a God like me?" he asked with a superior smirk.

T-ching!

In answer a bullet harmlessly bounced-off from his forehead, making his smirk grew a fraction wider.

"So that is your answer, well, It's almost time for my Ascension after all...I must thank you for keeping me entertained until now, but I played along enough, now that I fully understand how my power works, You are no longer needed. You can go...AND DIE!" Pointing his open palm at Tanya's flying form, the same cloth-like a ray of light, now pitch-black as living shadows, shot-out towards the short girl at high speed, way too fast for her to dodge in time.

"SHIELD! FULL POWER!" Tanya, eyes wide, yelled while moving both hands in front of her.

"Full Power to Shield!" As soon as the medallion on her neck said that, the light reached her…

CRASH!

And with the sound of shattering glass the black light pierced through in an instant and burning away Tanya's side, leaving behind a giant burned hole covering almost the entire right half of her torso.

"TANYA!" Naruto yelled in horror as he watched her fall down with empty eyes.

"The pest is gone, and so the Slime...You are alone now, hobgoblin..." Agolor declared with a deranged chuckle.

"I will find a way to kill you, even if it is the last thing I do!" Naruto growled in fury.

"Admirable, a pity though that the target of your rage is a godly being such as me. You will die now, knowing that everything you did was fruitless, as I am at a level way above you mortals." Agolor answered with a calm, almost elegant, tone of voice as he lifted the hobgoblin by his hair.

"Tch!" defiant to the end, Naruto spat in distaste, making the Monster chuckle amused.

"Admirable indeed." Agolor praised him mockingly, completely missing the spark of inspiration and hope on the reborn shinobi's eyes.

The stone on Agolor's chest never healed from its cracks, and the monster never noticed...

Meanwhile -

Deep between the small patch of trees that survived Agolor's transformation and a mindless bout of destruction, the tiny blonde girl was lying on the ground with clouded eyes fixating on the sky above her, barely conscious enough to understand where she was.

["Life-Support Mode activated! Beginning temporary substitution of the damaged organs through Mana constructs!"] the Medallion immediately said as Tanya's pain subsided immensely and her bleeding stopped.

"W-What is that?" she asked with a weak voice.

[The new Function has been added by Andre the Blacksmith, source of the Skill-"]

"I don't care about that! Does that mean that I can...I can survive this...But what then?"

"Yes, the User can survive for a short period of time. User has two Options now:

Option 1: Stay and fight: chances of success in bringing victory and defeat Agolor: 0.0000001%.

Option 2: Rerouting all Mana in 'Life-Support Mode' will increase chances of survival up to 94%. The user can also lie down and pretend to be dead; the chances of Agolor to ignore her, thus giving her a chance to run away and survive: 99,8%."]

"How long will it last?" she asked, surprised to see that she could still use both hands even if half her torso (stomach area) was now just a mass of hardened golden light.

["Using all Mana to maintain Life-Support Mode will prolong its duration to one hour and five minutes, the closest town is at one hour and fifty minutes distance from the current position, the time required to reach the city is calculated with the idea of the User maintaining a stealth approach the entire time and not flying or running at high speed."]

"What about those two?"

["Considering the current health and Mana Levels, the chances of both the Hobgoblin and the Slime surviving are less than 0.1%"] the Medallion answered, with its usual metallic tone sounding extra chilling and unfeeling somehow.

"I see..." Tanya muttered with a low voice.

Back to Naruto -

"Is now time for you to go. I feel generous though, I will let you choose how your life will end." Agolor declared with an insufferable smirk.

"Just keep talking, your breath is bad enough to kill me." the reborn shinobi answered with a smirk, while secretly activating one of his Skills.

WHAM! In answer Agolor punched Naruto's face with his free hand, shattering most of his teeth and even damaging one of his eyes.

"Your insolence knows no limits!"

"Blah, blah, blah." the other countered, hoping to buy enough time for his plan to come to fruition.

Bang! This time it was a knee to hit the hobgoblin's stomach, making him puke out an insane amount of blood, and yet, his smirk never faltered.

"Your friends are dead! Your land is about to be burned to the ground! And you still dare oppose me?!" Alogor roared in fury.

"Well...Shit! You just tore away both my arms and now turned one of my lungs to mush, is not like I am gonna stop just for this!" Naruto, one eye closed and dark-red blood flowing nonstop from his mouth, answered still smirking.

"Then I am going to tear away your heart too! What about that?!" the mad monster answered between clenched teeth.

"...Now...That is going to do something bad to me."

"Good to know." he answered, now using only one hand to hold the young hobgoblin up by his hair while cocking-back his clawed left hand to strike.

"That thing is not going down! Everything you do, he heals, and once healed, the same thing won't work again!" Kurama hissed.

"I know!"

"Then do something!"

"I am trying! There must be a way to stop him!"

"That huge gem in the middle of his chest is the source of his power, but nothing seems able to break it! Since when the 'Weak Points' Are armored too?!"

"...I do have a plan...But I need time to finish charging up!"

"Is it suicide?"

"Yes."

"Of course it is..."

"Now, please be the first to die in my quest for the creation of a new, ELF-RULED WORLD!" Agolor declared before driving his claws forward with no mercy.

"...A thing though..."

"Uh? Who's talking now?"

"I AM A SLIME! I POSSES REGENERATION TOO, YOU BASTARD!" Rimuru yelled, compacting back from his apparent 'melt dead' state to launch a desperate attack on him to try devour his arm once again.

"Unhand me, you worthless beast!" Agolor yelled while waving his arm around.

BANG!

"GAH!" Agolor hissed in fury as a bullet slammed against his armored head, surprising him.

"Damn it...So the back of your head too his bullet-proof...eh?" Tanya said, panting heavily, deadly pale, sweating profusely and bleeding-out at an astounding rate and while standing on shaking legs; she was clutching to her riffle to stand upright, leaving her with only her emergency pistol as a weapon.

["Danger: using the skill [Piercing Shot] again will deplete the User's Mana Reserves down to Critical Level. Efficacy of Life-Support Mode down to 30%. Few wounds are now opened again, blood-loss at a critical level."]

"Big...deal..." the girl answered, panting.

"WHY WON'T YOU PEOPLE DIE!?"

"Just shut-up!" Tanya answered, snarling and aiming her gun again.

["Warning! [Piercing Shot] will-"]

"Silence!"

"The last throes of the dead are meaningless to me! JUST DIE ALREADY!" finally throwing away Rimuru from his arm, he tried to shoot a new laser attack towards Tanya with his free hand.

"SHE SAID TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Naruto, having finally funneled the last spark of Stamina where he needed thanks to his [Rage] Skill, kicked Agolor's head hard enough to force the monster to drop him, and immediately after, the hobgoblin launched his head forward to bite the blue gem on Agolor's chest as hard as he could.

CRACK!

And just as most of his remaining teeth shattered under the stress, the stone too finally did.

"FUCK! I KNEW YOUR ABILITY TO EAT EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN USEFUL FOR REAL ONE DAY!" Kurama exclaimed in shock.

"NOOOOO!" Understanding immediately what was happening, Agolor grabbed Naruto and slammed him down to the ground as hard as he could in anger, giving to the young man's bones the finishing blow cracking most of them heavily.

"NOOOO! MY POWER! MY POWER!"

"GUAH! Okay, I-I think something broke...and...shit, I think I swallowed that rock..." Naruto groaned pitifully as the rough edges of the stone were cutting his throat to ribbons all the way down to his stomach.

"I-I-IF I AM ABOUT TO DIE! YOU WILL COME TO HELL WITH ME!" Agolor understood that his time had come, focused his last remaining energies on his chest, making his body bloat like a balloon at a dramatic rate.

"RIMURU! DO SOMETHING!"

"MY TURN NOW! SKILL: Predator!" Rimuru answered while inflating to cover the entire body of Agolor.

"Warning: HP, SP, and Mana are levels too low! Initiating Consuming at this stage is extremely dangerous!" [Great Sage] immediately alerted the slime.

"Just do it!" Rimuru answered, finally covering Agolor completely.

"DIEEEEE!" the mad elf bellowed in absolute madness from under the thick cover of Rimuru slime body.

What would have been a planet-shaking explosion though, just resulted in the poor slime inflating in size to huge proportions for a second before returning to his normal, watermelon-like sizes immediately after, albeit emanating a great deal of smoke from everywhere on his body.

"...I-I-I'm going...to feel it tomorrow..." Rimuru muttered with a dead-weak voice.

"We have more important things to worry about." Naruto said gravely, getting to his feet with a great effort.

"What do you...TANYA!" the slime said in shock.

"Yep, jump on my back, we have a friend to save."

"Your leg..."

"I lost both arms, a broken leg is not that much of an issue in comparison." the hobgoblin answered, uncaring, as he gobbled his way forward.

"I can fix your arms, I still have enough Mana for a healing spell...Okay, it won't fully heal them, but if I connect them back, then somebody else will be able to finish fixing them later."

"Oh...Please do...I am getting dizzy."

"With all the blood you have lost, you should have been dead long ago."

"Thank God for the rush-job of your webbing held-up then!"

With Tanya -

"Shit...I am running out of medicines...And the blood is not stopping..." the tiny girl said, looking at the slow return of the absurd giant hole almost splitting her body in half while she sat on the ground with her back against a rock.

"And the healing paste cannot take the place of a lung...or part of my stomach...and who knows what else..." she added as her sight got blurry fast.

["Danger! Life-Support Mode will soon expire, User has not enough Mana to keep Life-Support Mode active. Please contact Healer. Based on current health, the probability of survival once Life-Support Mode deactivated...Are at 0%"] the Medallion at her neck informed her, and as soon as it said that, blood slowly started flowing down from her wound at a faster rate.

"So this is how I die? Magic can help only so much then..."

"Tanya!" it was then that she heard it, two voices she knew calling-out to her.

"Rimuru, can you do something?" she saw both looking like walking corpses, with the Hobgoblin leaving both arms to hang lifeless at his sides, meaning that even if Rimuru sewed them back in place, they were still unusable.

"Not like I am now! I lack Mana!"

"Can you take mine?"

"...Y-Yeah, but you too have almost nothing left! If I do take it, it would still be not enough to help her...Not without something concrete to patch that hol-"

STRAAAAAP!

To both Slime and Girl's shock, Naruto gave a bite to his own shoulder to tear off a big chunk of flesh, big enough to almost tear his right arm off again.

"Silver Hobgoblins have damn good Vitality, and I personally can shame them all, is it enough?" Naruto asked, not missing a beat even with a giant new wound.

"And Slimes are often used for regenerative medicine, so if I add a bit of myself to that, between our two pieces of flesh and healing Magic, I can patch her up enough to make her survive until help arrives..." Rimuru answered, shocked.

"Good! Just do it!"

"Eh?"

"Friends help each other." Naruto said, smirking at her surprised expression.

"Don't you go...Pulling that Shonen bullshit on...me..." Tanya, by now at death's door, hissed in annoyance.

"Just shut the fuck up!" both slime and Hobgoblin answered as one with a smirk, getting to work to heal her just as she finally lost consciousness.

Luckily the girl still had some medicines left with her, between those and the few scraps of Magic Rimuru had managed to scrape together thanks to Naruto's own feeble reserves of Mana (and the two big chunks of flesh from their bodies the Slime had at hand to 'break-down for materials' too) they managed to hastily patch her body to the point a skilled-enough Healer could help her recover fully...Hoping he or she knew how to regrow half a stomach and liver...

"...Done! We did our best..." Rimuru, voice now faint, said elated while watching the results of their work hidden under the bandages covering Tanya's entire torso.

"Good...I need to sleep now." Naruto said with an elated smile, before collapsing face-down on the ground, so deeply asleep/unconscious to easily pass for a corpse.

"Me too." Rimuru barely had the time to answer before he too 'melted' into a barely-cohesive pool of goo.

[Alert: Triggered Evolution requirements have been met...Special Evolution Requirements have been met...[Herald of Calamity], [Progeny of Gluttony] and [Progeny of Chaos] are now in effect! Do you wish to Evolve?]

[Alert: Evolution requirements have been met...Special Evolution Requirements have been met...[Herald of Calamity], [Progeny of Greed] and [Progeny of Sloth] are now in effect! Do you wish to Evolve?]

[Alert: Job Advancement requirements have been met...Special Job Evolution Requirements have been met...[Herald of Calamity], [Progeny of Wrath] and [Progeny of Pride] are now in effect! Do you wish to Advance Job?]

The same voice asked three times at the same time.

"Yes..." even if unconscious, three downed warriors unknowingly answered at the same time.

[Beginning Evolution/Job Advancement! [Mark of Brotherhood] is now in effect. Congratulations...]

At the same time – Rotten Gorge -

While all this was happening, Tim and his band of friends had FINALLY managed to track down the mad lunatic they had been tasked to recover and bring back to civilization, having spent days of hell between half-rotten zombies, putrid undead hordes and other nightmarish monstrosities that made of that valley of smelling carcasses and rivers of pus, fecal matter and 'melted' rotten flesh mixed together, their home.

They all were beyond filthy, and toeing on the thin line separating them from few hundreds of different diseases and infections only thanks to their huge surplus of medicines they had brought along, and that they had almost run out of...The fact that they all got the [Gross Feeder] title because they had the strength of will to still eat their rations in that literal 'shit-hole' was unanimously declared to be TOP-SECRET, something they will take to their grave, even if it gave a minor boost to their resistances against minor poisons and poisonous habitats.

"GAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THE PROPHECY! THE PROPHECY HAS FINALLY COME TO ME!" they heard the old man, clearly having several screws loose, scream in happiness not too far away.

"That must be him!" Tim said happily, already envisioning they're leaving that cursed land, never to return.

"By the Goddess Elrune, finally!" the young Bella the Cleric Girl answered elated, and a tad hysterical.

"OVER THERE! GRAB HIM!" the Lancer ordered, clearly at wit's end himself.

What they saw was a thin, frail old man dancing a hysterically-happy gig in front of a six feet long-dead creature with eight chubby legs and a big dislocated maw lying on its side with its belly cut open from tail to jaw and its organs spilled everywhere around it, all of course black and rotten all the way through, and smelly, VERY smelly.

"YOU KIDS! SEE!? SEE!? THE PROPHECY! IT'S HERE!" the old man dressed in overly-dirty rags, and whose long beard was colored in foul-smelling brown on its lower half, said while pointing at the intestines of the giant creature he had elected as his home.

It was clear the man had indeed decided to sleep inside its stomach if one looked at the make-shift bed inside it, no matter that the stomach itself was resting at a meter from the multi-legged beast itself, probably dragged-out by the various corpse-eating beasts living in there.

"HERE! It's all here!" he then said, jabbing a finger to what used to be an elephant-sized spleen of some sort, as if whatever he meant was indeed written on there with ink in giant bold letters.

"O-Okay?" Lily the black witch muttered, looking particularly unnerved.

"I knew that coming here, where Death reigns supreme, would have opened my third eye completely!" the old man said with pride, taking a handful of rotten monster intestines to kiss it lovingly.

"What is..." GURGLE! "What is this prophecy you speak about?" the young Paladin in training asked while biting down his puking fit, and catching rapidly on to the fact that apparently they were already in good terms with the old crazy bastard...After having met him once...for five seconds...

"I SAW IT!" the man answered with large pupils, looking straight at them, and through them.

"I saw three stars of Chaos raise beyond the Horizon, and the Prophecy I had here confirmed it! Soon they will appear, and whoever controls this treasure, will control the Fate of Elrune!" the man declared, citing whatever he saw in that giant corpse he was studying.

"Oh..." Tim answered, unsure.

"Yes, my mind was blown just the same, my friend. It happens when you get a glimpse of one of the secrets of the Universe." the old man answered with a more conversational tone.

"...He is crazy." the Lancer declared.

"Possibly, but what if he is right? Maybe whoever is behind the rise in monster activity is hunting down those three stars, whatever they are." the Black Witch girl answered, thoughtful.

"Magical Gems?" Tim asked.

"Gems or mere simple relics, if such artifacts exist, maybe I can find something in my Order's Library." the young Paladin answered.

"Same for the Church's own archives, I can try to give a look there." the Cleric girl added.

"IF he is right, you know?... He is insane if you ask me." the Lancer answered.

"For now let's just take him back, once we have washed ourselves and him, we can try asking him for more details." Tim offered.

"Yes, please! Let's just go away!" the others answered.

"Ah! Sorry, my friends...I farted, my apologies!" the old man said with a contrite expression.

"IS NOT LIKE WE COULD BLOODY NOTICE!" the black witch answered with a shriek, finally reaching her breaking point.

Sigh! "Let's just go away..." the Paladin answered, sighing in defeat.

Sometime later – Back with Naruto and the others - night -

When Mi finally opened her eyes, she screamed, as her body was a giant bruise hurting her to the point of madness just from her blinking.

"Easy there, young lady. Let the paste of [Green Slime Bile] work its magic in peace, you have been unconscious for almost three days." one of the short Wyverians said with a gentle, grandmotherly voice.

"What happened?" Mi asked with a groan.

"That monster threw you through a house that then collapsed on top of you, it is a miracle if one of the pillars fell in a way that protected you from the debris, other than the damages of you blasting through a wall, you got away lucky." the old woman answered.

"A-And the others?"

"I am here, I am here. Just waiting for them to fix my arm." Lars answered promptly, and exception made for a bandaged head and his left arm being completely engulfed in green-colored bandaging, he looked fine.

"The shield Andre gave him saved his life, at the cost of his arm and several broken bones, yes, but he is still alive." surprisingly it was an Elf to answer this time.

"Y-Y-You are!" the hobgoblin girl said, shocked.

"Yes, I am an elf. My name is Azal...Agol was my brother." the elf, looking exactly identical to Agol before he became the twisted Monster 'Agolor', answered with a sigh; the only thing that actually differentiated the two was that Azal had light-brown hair, compared to Agol blond, and he himself still had the proper pointed ears of the elf tribe.

"I felt my twin's life flame disappear, and when I reached here, I felt the tainting remnants of what he did, and found you all hurrying to heal the ones that finally stopped him. Once told what he was trying to do...I had to make amends and decided to help you." he explained with a pained expression.

"He is actually growing me a new arm! I didn't know it was actually possible." Lars said in shocked disbelief.

"And you others are not supposed to know about this, so I must remind you that just like my involvement here, this too shall never be talked about." the elf answered.

"Before we fought he said: 'Nobody could understand my genius, not even that foolish Azal! He was blind to the truth of what we discovered!' You know he was trying to do this, isn't it? That's why you want us to keep it a secret?" Mi asked with narrowed eyes, quoting the late mad elf word for word and making the one helping them flinch heavily.

"I did, to my shame, I knew all along he was trying to do this, but my own love for my brother stopped me from doing the utmost to stop him."

"Agol was not the only one in possession of forbidden knowledge, am I right? You willingly or not helped him." Another Draconian asked with a snarl.

"..."

"A single elf, even if determined, could not have orchestrated all this by himself, two instead, can actually pull it off." the same scholar added.

"What happened? You two were making experiments and you went caught? And then what? Did you push your brother under the carriage to save your sorry behind?!"

"DO NOT TALK ABOUT THINGS BEYOND YOUR UNDERSTANDING, YOU LIZARD!" Azal yelled in answer, utterly furious at that accusation.

"Then let us understand..." Mi muttered with a downcast expression.

"Uh?"

"Please! All I heard ever since I left my woods is 'You wouldn't understand' or 'You can't understand'! Is it so hard to explain?! When somebody doesn't get what being a goblin or a hobgoblin means, then I am happy to explain and help them...Why you others can't do that? What makes you so special?!" she asked with a tired voice.

"Is not a matter of being special, little thi-Little Miss. It is just...Painful...To think about it, and reminiscing such memories." Azal answered, catching himself mid-sentence and switch it to a more gentle one, secretly glad to see the hobgoblin smile a little for such a minor thing.

Silence then fell between them as the lone elf took a deep breath.

"Yes, in a way, what helped my brother Agol discover how to summon, bind and then absorb the power of the [Calamity Lord] Monster 'Alor the Beast Lord'...Was me; my brother and me had delved into the forbidden knowledge of our people for years, but what I failed to recognize the signs that contrary to me, he was not doing this to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors, but to appease his twisted desires."

"To learn from the mistakes of your ancestors, eh?" Lars asked.

"My kind has a long life-span, one of the longest in Elrune if one does not take Monsters in account, and the price of a long life is having much more time to make mistakes, but contrary to other races, most of the times they seem unable, or unwilling, to learn from such mistakes...Preferring to just out-live the consequences of their actions out of mere stubbornness."

"So Elves dark knowledge..." Mi asked.

"It's merely one or two elves pushing things too far, believing in their Hubris that contrary to others, they can look deep into the Abyss without having to fear repercussions, just in virtue of being Elves, a chosen race."

"And of course, in order to protect this reputation, those incidents must be erased as if they never happened." Lars added.

"Correct, and if nobody knows about the dangers of doing something, how can they learn? Just being told 'Because it's dangerous/Forbidden' was never a good enough answer for me and my brother, all for the despair of our father. But while I was just happy about the theory behind why something SHOULD NOT be done...My brother wanted to go deeper still."

"And in doing that he learned about the ritual."

"Yes, Agol was not the first to attempt it. What we discovered was that several millennia ago, when the [Lords of Calamity] were still roaming Elrune freely, somebody already attempted to banish them into [The Void] so that those monsters could forever be kept prisoners away from our world, but they actually failed." Azal explained.

"How?" Mi asked.

"Instead of simply opening a portal to the Void, like the [Hero] of legends and his Party managed to do one hundred years later at the cost of their lives, that first attempt resulted in an Elf absorbing into himself part of the diabolical aura of the three [Lords of Calamity] he had managed to attract in the same area, thus creating a fourth Lord, Alor, the Beast Lord."

"So it was an incident that created the fourth beast."

"An incident...And incident that instead of teaching us to be aware of our limits simply caused an elf to be erased from our history with the consent of the ENTIRE RACE, all to just erase a monster...A monster once known simply as 'Alor the Alchemist', father of Solar the librarian...My and Agol's grandfather...I guess Agol decided to honor our grandfather by taking part of his name into his once transformed." Azal told them with an expression of deep shame on his face, twisting his normally androgynous mask of beauty into a picture of absolute misery.

"So that's how your research started..." Lars muttered.

"Yes. I remembered my grandfather, and Agol too did, we ADORED our grandfather and his unmatched knowledge and hunger for research. 'Doubt everything until your own hands touched it or your eyes saw it!', that is what he always used to tell us, so me and my brother dived as deep as we could in his past researches, reaching him at merely one hundred years of age and then surpassing even him, in turn being hailed as prodigies. But Agol was not happy with the treatment reserved to our grandfather's legacy...And for all my so-called intelligence...I was too blind to see how his ambition was based on dark desires."

"It was not a case that he was discovered, isn't he?" the draconian old lady asked.

"Yes, when I finally discovered what he planned to do, namely: Free our grandfather from the Void and absorb his grotesque form inside himself, I denounced him, hoping that the banishment and purifying seal could finally clear his mind from the honeyed words that had twisted him." Azal admitted.

"Honeyed words?"

"I do not know who it was, but one of the deciding factors that helped Agol recreate the Ritual and get in contact with other banished elves was somebody from outside our forest, and of all the things I had to fail to understand, I could never fathom who that Outsider was, even if I am certain the same hand was also behind the corruption of the Purifying Seal on my brother's body."

"So somebody wanted Agol to become 'Agolor, The Lord of Calamity'...But why?"

"I hold no answer to that, unfortunately, but once seen what has happened, it will now become my Life Mission to discover it! I am certain my brother was just a pawn in a greater scheme, and I will unveil this mystery so to bring justice to his death!"

"How?" Mi asked, unsure.

"...I don't know..." whatever determination he possessed, the elf immediately deflated once given that answer as if those words had been too painful to withstand.

"Join our guild then! We will help you!" Mi answered with a big, innocent and childish smile.

It was then that the people present could witness the rare spectacle of an Elf (high-strung and a bit pompous beings) look at somebody with bulged-out eyes.

"Guh?! What nonsense are you blathering about?!"

"Come on! You look lonely! I bet you would like to have some friends!... You are male, right? I don't want other females hanging around." Mi answered, with her tone turning a bit darker towards the end.

"Why I am always asked that? Of course I am a male!"

"Could have fooled me with the luscious silky hair..." Lars muttered under his breath, making the Wyverians around them snicker in amusement.

"It's called 'taking care of oneself'! You all should try that, you shabby-looking simpletons!" the elf answered with a pinkish, and kinda feminine, blush and squeak in his voice.

"See? You like us!" Mi declared in victory.

"I do not!"

"You told us your story!"

"Yes, but-"

"You opened your heart to us telling us your darkest secret!"

"I know, but-"

"You helped us even if you could have left Lars to die!"

"It was just-"

"That means you like us!"

"You can't just put words in my mou-"

"You even joked with Lars! Even if his jokes suck!"

"HEY!"

"Why should I join you!? You are weak, smelly, stupid and live short lives!" Azal yelled with a high-pitched tone of voice.

"Then why you are still here?" Mi asked with a knowing smirk.

"Because you, as weak, smelly and stupid humans...And Hobgoblins...and Wyverians, would die without me here to treat your wounds properly." Azal answered with crossed arms.

"Lars is recovering well, and so am I. It means you can go now, then." she answered with a challenging tone.

"Of course!" the elf answered.

"..."

"...Then go."

"Thanks! I will do just that!"

"..."

"..."

"So?" Mi asked as the elf had yet to move a muscle.

"..."

"..."

"...You have not the faintest clue about how to 'Bring justice to your brother's death', do you?" Lars asked with a deadpan tone, causing Azal to start sweating at an astounding rate.

"...No..." the elf finally admitted, deflating boneless on the ground.

"I AM JUST ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY! I AM SUPPOSED TO JUST CHASE GIRLS! NOT GO INTO LIFE-CHANGING QUESTS ABOUT FAMILY HONOR!" the poor guy howled while thrashing around, a proper poster-child for a childish tantrum.

"Act your age! You are One hundred and fifty, for fuck's sake!" Lars said, unsure.

"He actually is acting his age, when it comes to elves, it is always a good idea to take away the last zero to have a good-enough guess of their 'age' compared to humans." one of the Wyverians answered.

"Take away the last zero...SO HE IS A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY IN THE BODY OF AN ADULT?!" the poor soldier shrieked in shock.

"Pretty much, Elves develop slowly (up to 10 they are still 'infants' and their 'teenage years' last from when they are 90 and up to 190) and 'Come to age', AKA are considered 'Adults', when they get Two-hundred years old."

"Now I see why they call everybody 'children' and why elf women are held away from the other races at all costs..." Lars muttered, shocked by the hidden implications of that tidbit of news.

"As a Guild we will travel everywhere in Elrune, you can look for who did that to your brother while you help us!" Mi kept saying, unrelenting.

"But I am an Elf!" Azal answered.

"And I am a Hobgoblin! And Nar...NARUTO!" Mi started saying, before growing horrified at mentioning her mate's name.

"He is okay, Rimuru too is. Just be quiet, they are still sleeping in there." it was then that Tanya made her presence known from a more secluded side of the small camp the Wyverians and the other soldiers/adventurers had built not too far away from the ruins caused by Agolor.

The girl still looked very pale, with the same green bandages covering her torso, and yet, she sat straight in front of one of the tents while holding her rifle at the ready.

"You too should rest, you could barely shoot your gun before, and even now, your rifle will put too much strain on you." Azal said in distaste.

"Mind your businesses, elf!" she answered with a harsh glare.

"It is my business if your are so stubborn to protect your friends to ignore your own wounds!"

"They are not my friends! I just can't see anybody doing a proper job at protecting the wounded, and somebody has to!"

"You are protecting only those two, leaving us others to fend for ourselves since you never moved from there and actually growled at whoever came too close to their tent! Just admit it! They are your friends!" Azal said, annoyed.

"Another word and I will shoot your ears shorter."

"Eek!"

"HEY! He is part of our Guild! Be nice!" Mi chastised her.

"I haven't accepted yet!"

"NO! You did! You are still here, it means you accepted!"

"She is right, you know?" Lars added.

"That is not true!"

Meanwhile – with Tanya -

["Analysis: Job Evolution achieved successfully! User is now a [(Calamity) Chaos Soldier]! New functions have been added to the Medallion and a new branch of Skills and Magic is now open to use and develop. Congratulations!] the Medallion told her.

"And that [Minor Blessing]?" Tanya mentally asked in dread.

["The Minor Blessing [Mark Of Brotherhood] is now in effect!

Description: A mark shared between True Friends (capital letters obligatory) born through hardship and camaraderie, a proof of real, ever-lasting friendship between its Holders.

Effects: The Holders of a shared [Mark of Brotherhood] are able to always know each-other location and status and cannot hurt each other through Skill, Magic and Debuffs, Healing Skills and Magic: 10% increase in effect. Buffing Skill and Magic: 15% increase in effect. Increases only valid if used by a Holder on another.

[Mark of Brotherhood] shared with:

Rimuru Tempest (Named [(Calamity) Silver Slime])

and

Naruto Namikaze (Named [(Calamity) Tri-eyed silver Oni])."]

"Nonononono! We are not 'True Friends', 'Best Friends' or other such nonsense! I did nothing to deserve this!" the girl thought in desperate denial.

["Answer: User actually ignored proper strategy: retreat and looking for help, in favour of the more reckless choice: stay and fight. That is commonly seen as an act of camaraderie and friendship as the deciding factor was hearing about the low survival chances of your friends."]

"Shut up! You have no proof of this being true!"

["Question: why is User so adamant in defending her reputation as unfeeling, calculative, soul-less, manipulative, evil, merciless, self-centered, egotistical, egocentric, selfish, inhuman, greedy bitch?"]

"HOY! HOY! HOY!"

["Threat known as 'Being X' has been permanently removed, so is the Threat of erasure of User's soul upon death. What is wrong then in having just two friends? Nothing will change in the User's life beside that, User can keep acting the way she pleases and treat others the way User likes, only with the caveat that in case of need there will be two Beings there to help and support the User, there to believe in and help the User. Denial of this is illogical."]

"...It's a matter of principle. I don't believe in that."

["Correction: User-"]

"Finish that sentence and I will scrap you."

["..."]

"Good."

["User knows this Medallion is right."]

"AAAARGH!" still showing an utterly professional and serious exterior, deep inside her head Tanya mentally howled in grief and looked ready to pull out her hair in frustration.

"Can you take me there? I want to sleep close to him!" Mi asked immediately.

"I don't think-"

"I WANNA!"

"Okay! Okay!" Azal answered, carefully lifting her to bring her inside the tent Tanya kept guarding.

"Thank you!" the hobgoblin girl muttered with a sleepy voice, hugging at the best of her abilities her beloved mate no matter the tight bandages covering her entire body, and too sleepy to notice he was bigger than the last time she saw him, she barely noticed the large hand subconsciously hugging her closer before she fully submitted to sleep.

At the Same time – The Void-

In the complete darkness of that sub-dimension of still shadows, three Giant eldritch abominations were endlessly thrashing in agony as they felt part of their bodies and power being torn away from them, with more apparently ready to leave from the gaping wound in their twisted souls.

The original [Lords of Calamity] were feeling the greatest pain they ever felt, and they could not tell why this was happening, why it was not stopping, nor why they felt like they will become even weaker as time passed.

Back on Elrune – Secret Location -

"So it worked?"

"I saw the Portal open before recalling my little Spy Orb, my beloved husband. It means that the Ritual is exactly what we need, and I have all we need to know about it recorded, we'll be able to repeat it perfectly when the time comes."

"And that Calamity beast?"

"It won't be a problem, a single being cannot contain the power of the three Lords, as soon as that fool absorbed Alor, he signed his death warrant, not even an elf can manage such a feat. Soon his body will break-down under the strain of having inside the avatar of three Lords, and once exploded, every trace of our involvement will be erased as well. Have no fear, our little Test giving the results we needed is all that matters, I personally took care of removing every other source of concerns myself."

"Huhuhu! That is why I love you, my dear, you think of everything."

"I know, my beloved...I know."

End of the chapter

Omake - "Don't do it, Hinata!" -

Land of Spring – Princess Koyuki's throne room -

"Hinata, you can't do this! It's pure madness!" Sakura told the girl for what was basically the one hundredth time since both their Teams (Sakura's being reduced to just her, Sai and Kakashi) departed for that far-away land.

"NO! I must do this!" the Hyuga heiress answered, again, with a tone dangerously close to madness.

"Forgetting the chance this is not going to work, if in the absurd case IT DOES...He probably won't even recognise you." Kiba added with a disturbed tone.

"You cannot know that!"

"Hinata, IF he has already reincarnated, it stands to reason that he won't remember his previous life." Shino tried adding.

"I WILL LOSE MY VIRGINITY TO NARUTO-KUN! NO MATTER WHAT I HAVE TO DO!" she roared back, making Akamaru whimper in submission immediately after.

"I just thank god she is not into necrophilia..."

"Just shut up, Kakashi." Kurenai whispered in answer to her colleague muttered stupid comment.

"I understand your pain, and I admire you love and dedication, but there is also the chance he is still a baby." Koyuki tried reasoning.

"IF he has been reincarnated in our timeline! What if he was reborn into the past?" Hinata answered, annoyed.

"Then he may be too old." the princess answered, nonplussed.

"..." at that the girl looked down with a furious frown.

Sigh! "Many of us do not even believe in reincarnation...Why you do?"

"...I need to...I need to believe he has no died in vain, I need to believe he is out there somewhere having the happy life he deserves...E-E-Even if without me at his side." the young woman answered between tears.

"I think she needs this to finally give this its proper closure." Kakashi spoke out loud.

"Even if it's an illusion? Smoke and Mirrors?"

"The idea that we must always accept reality is flawed, sometimes, is better to live a Lie. Not all of us have the strength necessary to swallow our tears and keep smiling..." Hinata answered.

"Then so be it. But if it somehow tries besmirch the memory of my Hero, of the man that we all of Spring Country owe so much, I am going to make you regret every instant of it." Koyuki answered with a glare of utter coldness.

"I accept."

"Good. Let the Medium enter." the princess ordered to one of the guards, making a wheezing old woman enter the room with her walking cane rhythmically clapping on the floor.

"Greetings. So she is the girl?" the extremely old woman asked.

"Yes, I am." Hinata answered.

"...So much Love in your eyes. You do know this will be painful? To see the man you love above all else already living a different life?"

"Yes."
"Bunch of bullshit..." Kiba muttered under his breath.

"I do not expect somebody chained down by his senses to understand..." the old woman answered, creeping the others out by removing her dark glasses to show two empty sockets where her eyes were supposed to be.

"I lost both eyes when I was 5 and since then I can no longer see like you others do, and I find it a blessing as I can now see the world for real, without the Lies of mortal understanding."

"Okay." Kiba answered, a little taken aback.

"I have everything with me so we can start immediately, be ready though, the Wheel of Rebirth is finicky, you will either have to hold him in your arms as a baby, or keep him up as an old man,"

"I understand."

"Good, then, let's start."

Having deemed Hinata's answer acceptable, the old woman drew a perfect circle around them both in pitch-black ink, soon adding symbols and wavy letters along the entire perimeter while muttering in a low voice.

"That's Sanskrit, I am surprised somebody still knows it." Kakashi muttered, impressed.

"I am more surprised she can draw that well while blind, it looks like a summoning circle, but heavily altered." Sai commented.

"I saw a horror movie start like this...It didn't end well." Shino muttered.

"I saw that movie too, I hope I won't be the guy getting eviscerated."

"Dibs on having my neck snapped."

"What? I wanted that! Coward!"

"Silence you two!" Kurenai hissed, making both fall silent.

"...As your sensei, the rapid, painless death belongs to me," she then added, making both look at her in outrage.

"Now, light the candle while thinking about who you want to summon, then put it in the middle of the circle." the old woman said.

"Okay." Hinata answered, doing as asked.

"Here it is." Sai said tensely as the small candle started burning from red to blue.

"Okay, the special effects are on point..." Sakura, still non convinced, muttered in disdain.

"The non-believers usually have the worst death if something goes wrong." Kakashi answered making her pale a bit, he was also activating his sharingan eyes...Just in case.

"I CAN FEEL HIM! HE IS ANSWERING TO OUR CALL!" the old woman said as unnatural wind started blowing inside the room.

"OKAY! I AM GETTING CONVINCED HERE! CAN I GO HOME NOW?!" Kiba begged over the deafening howling of the wind.

In answer a MASSIVE shadow, almost nine foot tall, appeared inside the circle, soon taking the form of a giant with silver-grey skin and long white hair; and while every inch of its body had muscles that screamed POWER, the eyes held one of the most gentle light the people in the room had ever seen, and even if those too were silvery in colour, a faint cerulean glint could be easily seen, deep in contrast with the angry-red gem on the thing's forehead, right between its long horns, that was so life-like to almost look like a third eye.

"...Okay...Maybe I misfired a little." the old woman admitted with a low voice as soon as the wind calmed down and the creature was fully visible.

"A little, she says..." Koyuki muttered, rolling her eyes.

"N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata exclaimed with wide eyes.

"No, you moron! it's clearly not-"

"Hey, Hinata-chan..." the giant creature said with a gentle smile as he knelt down to try meet her eyes, and still coming a bit too high, making her giggle.

"Eh?" Sakura, having been interrupted mid-sentence, gurgled out unsure.

"You remember me?" Hinata, eyes already glistening in tears, asked while gladly accepting the big finger caressing her cheek with the utmost care.

"I will never forget my Precious People." the giant Oni answered.

"I am still not convinced yet. Hey! What's your favourite kind of Ramen?" Kakashi asked.

"Favourite?"

"...It's him." the Jounin declared with a deadpan tone.

"You remember me..." Hinata in the meantime repeated.

"Uh-hu." he answered with a smirk.

"Then...FUCK ME!"

"Of course I...What?"

"FUCK ME! PLOW ME! POUND ME! BREED ME! XYLOPHONE ME!"

"...Xylo...What!?"

"I am tired of waiting! I want my beloved Naruto-kun to make me a woman! NOW!" Hinata, eyes a bit too wide to be healthy, ordered while tearing open her blouse.

"I am tired of being a virgin! So stop talking and take me!"

"Straight to the point." Shino said, impressed.

"Okay! I guess..." the giant Oni answered with an annoyed shrug while undoing the tattered piece of clothing that was acting as a loin-cloth around his waist.

"….Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit…" Kiba vocalized in dismay.

Every man present, shinobi or just guard, then felt keenly aware of the differences between them and the guest, VERY aware, in a 'crying oneself to sleep at night in misery' kind of way.

"NO, HINATA! YOU CAN'T!" Sakura immediately screamed in horror, although her eyes never actually looked towards her.

"YES I BLOODY FUCK CAN!" the drooling mad woman answered while already running both hands on her prize.

"NO! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! IT WILL DESTROY YOU! You will never be able to be satisfied by anything else if you do this! Even horses will feel like trying to stick a salami inside a canyon if they try mounting you!"

"THEN SO BE IT! NARUTO-KUN WILL BE MY FIRST, ONLY and LAST MAN!"

"...You okay, Kakashi?" Kurenai, feeling keenly aware of when was the last time she enjoyed intimate male company at night, asked.

"No, I am not! I had my Sharingans active when he appeared, now the image of that humongous flaying thing is forever burned inside my brain!" the man answered with a pitiful whine.

"…S-Sorry about it, it's kinda chilly where I was, so it shrunk quite a bit." the Oni said with an embarrassed tone.

Thud!

"KIBA/KAKASHI/SHINO!"

"I DON'T CARE! JUST PLOW ME!"

"...You know what?...Whatever."

The next day -

"Waaaah!" finally waking-up with a huge yawn, the reborn shinobi opened his eyes to see little Mi still peacefully asleep next to him while clinging to his whole body, by now openly recognized as her favourite pillow.

"That was one damn strange dream...Why Hinata though? Why not Sakura?" he mentally asked.

"You still not done chasing after her?" Kurama, he too sounding sleepy even if now living the life of a [Skill], asked.

"I don't mean that! I am just curious as to why I had a dirty dream about her...Fuck, I am curious about why I am having dirty dreams about my old life NOW of all times."

"Beats me, I am no psychologist. I just suggest you to not tell your girlfriend you had an erotic dream about somebody else, she will get pissed AND jealous. Especially if she knows how savagely you went at it"

"A dream's a dream, I can't control it. But how can Mi-chan get jealous about a dream?!"

"You don't know women, they can get jealous about damn EVERYTHING if they feel inclined to."

"...Shikamaru was right, they are too troublesome sometimes." the Oni answered sighing.

"Indeed."

Two days later – back in Konoha -

"I am sorry Hiashi, as we suspected, she has been ruined." Tsunade said with a defeated expression.

"So you can't...You know...De-Gaping-hole her?"

"That I can do, but deep inside, in her heart and soul, every other man...Shit, every other Living Being, will always remain small and pathetic. I am sorry. Just be happy that we finally removed all that semen, honestly, it's a miracle her body did not explode from all that."

"Yuck!"

"Sorry...It's just...It kept flowing out non-stop, I never saw anything glorious-I mean, shocking like that."

"No, no. I understand, it was her wish, so even if disgusting, I can live with that. Just...Just remove that smile from her face at least, it's creepy for her to smile that wide even if unconscious."

"That I can't do. Not even with muscle relaxants or seals." Tsunade answered bitterly, almost outraged by the fact that a smile was beyond her medical knowledge to remove.

"Although, considering the 'Womb Smashing' she got from that meat cannon Kurenai described, I cannot blame her...Bitch." she then added mentally, frowning deeply at the unfairness of the universe.

"What about Kakashi and the Inuzuka heir? I heard the Aburame heir too was not okay either."

"I wanted Ino to help them, but I then opted for a male doctor since they still burst to tears whenever they see a girl, apparently certain wounds to one's self-esteem are hard to fix."

"Indeed. What about your student, where is she?"

"Sakura?...I haven't seen her in days, I have no clue where she is or what she is up to."

At the same time – Spring Country -

Slam! Slam! Slam!

"LET ME IN, YOU HYPOCRITE BITCH! I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR FAR LONGER THAN YOU!" Sakura bellowed furious while trying to demolish the reinforced door towards the throne room.

"So I then light the candle and summon him, yes?" Koyuki asked with a very eager tone.

"Y-Yes." the old woman, very unnerved by the maniacal tone of voice she could detect, answered.

"AWESOME! I already cleared my schedule, so if I go in a coma for a couple weeks there won't be a problem."

"Good for you...I guess."

"LET ME IN, YOU WHORE! HE WAS MY TEAMMATE FIRST! I CALL DIBS!"

"MOVE ASIDE, CHUNIN! I WILL GO THERE FIRST!"

"DON'T PULL YOUR RANK ON ME, YOU SAGGY OLD HAG! THAT ENORMOUS MEAT POLE BELONGS TO ME!"

"I NEED THIS MORE THAN YOU, BRAT!"

"Just hurry up and call him! I want to know if he like the edible panties I bought!" Koyuki ordered.

"Okay! Okay! Jeez! That's why I don't work with horny teenagers!" the old medium answered.

To Naruto's annoyance, those strange 'dreams' will continue for quite a while, all for the happiness of his therapist that will rack-in a lot of money to try understand why he kept dreaming about himself screwing his way through the entire Elemental Countries, with few girls returning regularly in always 'sluttier' attire and attitude, and sometimes two or three at a time, and some times even girls/women he had just spoke a word or two with in his entire life.

"I blame your rebirth, it finally jump-started your libido."

"You are not helping, Kurama."

End of the Omake. (No, I am not sorry about this.)

On a more serious matter:

Azal as a Guild member: YES or NO? A long range Magician/Ranger combo. Weapon: a Bow.

One single being cannot contain the power of Three Lords of Calamity at the same time...But what if Three Beings share the burden?

PLEASE DON'T MURDER ME FOR WHAT I DID WITH TANYA'S CHARACTER!

To be clear:

Rimuru is Greed because he can easily amass every skill he wants from everything he devours. Sloth admittedly is a bit of a stretch, but I find it still fits.

Naruto is Gluttony because he can do the same, but he has a chance to do it when he eats something/somebody, it is not 100% certain, so to maximize the chances he has to EAT A LOT, thus Gluttony.

Tanya (Via the transplant her friends did on her to save her life)...Pride and Wrath...If you know the character, I don't think I need to explain why those fell to her.

That leaves out Lust, and that will go to Mi but on a LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATER date.

Thank you for you support, I wish you the best of days.

Thank you for reading my stories.

Tr230.