Chapter 3: The Battle Between Negative and Positive
Milim Nava is vastly stronger now since her Ultimate Skill: Sataneal, Lord of Wrath is now in the realm of God ranked. She has been in her Stampede Mode for a full year roaming the vast emptiness of the Void, constantly getting stronger despite not fighting all that time due to the upgraded Ultimate Skill. Her attacks are also vastly improved; faster and stronger than ever before. She has also merged with Gaia obtaining all of the lost power of Valdenava. The pink-haired girl also managed to witness Rimurus victory against Ivaraj; although her arrival to the scene was quite late, Milim was only able to see him devour his opponent at the last second.
Some of this happened at the Festival which at the time it was being hosted at the Arena. While the rest of the Dragonoids' growth happens afterwards. They were celebrating Rimurus triumphant victory against Feldway and Ivaraj and he was standing in the middle of the whole arena taking in his success.
The pink-haired girl holds Gaia in her arms, a pet dragon that Rimuru helped save in a way during that one expedition incident. She then out of intuition uses Dragon's Eye to gauge the situation around herself. The Dragonoid promptly sensed a disturbing instability of magicules within the triumphant and celebratory being, just moments before the Turn Null Armageddon occurrence happens. In that time she suddenly felt a foreboding sense of impending doom and desired greatly more than anything to protect Gaia, as she was about to flee, an unknown voice made her halt...
It was The Voice of The World, speaking aloud in its usual mechanical voice: [Notice: The individual Milim Nava's immense inner desire has been acknowledged... The merging of Gaia into your soul has now begun, and the evolution of your Ultimate Skill: Sataneal, Lord of Wrath will commence after the merging has completed; becoming a God Ranked variant in the process.]
She quickly looks around, but nobody else seems to have heard the voice that came out of nowhere. Everyone was too busy enjoying the Festival to care at that time, even the lofty heights of Guy Crimson, Velzard, and Velgrynd as well as Veldora, and even the six other Primordial Demons didn't seem to notice at that time or were just enjoying the Festival not being on guard. Milim Nava then gets a terrible gut feeling to immediately encase her soul with all the magicules she could muster up and infuse them with as much compressed positive energy as possible. Then it happened, the all ending disaster...
There she was nothing more than a tiny fragmented soul almost completely erased from existence. By enclosing her soul with positively dense charged magicules and the merging process started already by The Voice of The World, she was able to make it. After a few hours it was now completed and her soul was now being enveloped in a pink gentle light, thus the evolution into the Godly Ultimate Skills realm was well underway...
Nine-hundred and ninety-nine years later she finally awakens fully reconstituted and is enraged, immediately transforming into her Stampede Mode and roaming the Void in search of the culprit. It didn't take long for her to feel an incredibly explosive aura reverberating throughout the universe for a moment. The pink-haired girl instinctively knew who that belonged to and went into the general direction of it. After a while she loses track, but suddenly feels it again, this time infused with anger, making it even easier to find.
Finally Milim Nava after her long strenuous journey to find the one slime that causes this mess comes to an end; she then passes by a certain blue haired teen... Thus the battle between them is now about to begin...
[Warning!!! I have analyzed your opponent, and found out the probability that the individual Milim Nava has evolved her Ultimate Skill into a God version to be very-very high! Unfortunately I have outdated information of her combat capabilities at this precise moment.]
"Ah! It would not surprise me that much if she managed to upgrade to such an echelon of skill. Even without the use of Magic Sense I can feel the insane power radiating from her. I even took the liberty of trying it for a moment just to see and oh boy! The magicules within her body are generating by the second and constantly and rapidly expanding! Does her tightly wrapped aura seem to be quite positive as well? I mean I know she can use Draco Nova and the like, but what is it made of?"
[Hmm! If you could provoke her into launching it, I could absorb it utilizing Azathoth, breaking it down and analyzing it should not be a problem, as of the moment I am certain it is the polar opposite of the negative energy you use which is Turn Null.]
"Okay! Sounds like a plan! That shouldn't be too much of an issue, I hope."
[Warning! A potential attack is incoming!]
The pink-haired girl raises her sword upwards. Upon seeing that, Rimuru sees a gathering of positive energy just above her head which turns into three identical orbs forming a small vertically connected triangle. She then sheaths Asura, deciding to move backwards and have her palms facing outwards and shouts: 'DRACO NOVA!' A significant gathering of brilliantly pink positive energy pools forming a compressed sphere, then it explosively bursts outwards, dwarfing all her previous usage of the magic attack which beams straight for Rimuru.
Upon seeing it he uses Thought Acceleration which has been upgraded by Ciel to one billion thoughts per second, instead of one-hundred million like it was before he evolved. This ability allows Rimuru to react to things far faster which could be seen as the slowing of spells and stuff coming at him in a way. If he didn't activate it, the dark silvery-blue haired adult would have a very hard time dealing with her.
[Suggestion: Use Azathoth to devour attack?]
"Hold off for the time being, I almost feel like it could be a trap of some kind. What is the status of that triangle thing above her head, keep an eye on that okay!"
[As you wish my lord! So far it seems to be tracking and following Milim, and hasn't shown any signs of attack. The possibility that it could be defensive based magic is high.]
The Draco Nova is now half-way towards Rimuru, but to his horror Milim and the floating spell are nowhere to be seen...
[Report: It would appear that Space-Time Teleportation or similar has been used.]
"What!? Where did she go then!" He panics momentarily, then calmly scans his surroundings.
[Warning! Sudden presence detected... Location... BEHIND!]
Upon hearing that warning, Rimuru quickly files up in an attempt to distance himself from Milim, but to his dismay and somehow avoiding detection the triangle based object is now above his head stopping him.
[It would appear that the Tri-Orbed spell is also capable of the same technique as Milim.]
"Shit!" Exclaimed Rimuru, he couldn't help but to yell out that word, the dark silvery-blue haired adult notices the sudden predicament that has occurred: Milim is in close proximity to where he is. Also the Draco Nova attack is still incoming, worse yet it seems to be going after him like it is being guided, and now the mysterious triangle based spell is hovering above him.
[Suggestion: Would you like for me to use Spatial Domination to isolate and control the space around us, preventing teleportation? Also notice I have also upgraded it significantly.]
"Yes!"
[Understood! Using now!]
He unhesitantly thrusts his sword upwards almost stabbing the bothersome spell, the sudden influx of negative energy shooting from the sword seems to have at least made it back off. All of a sudden Milim yells: 'DRACO BUSTER!' Then several small vibrant pink spheres form within her palms and many beams of brilliant pinkish light expel toward Rimuru, each beam beyond more potent than ever before. The Draco Nova is also in front of him within a few feet and the Draco Busters beams are coming from behind, The pink-haired girl then decides to swiftly re-equip Asura and charge the dark silvery-blue haired adult aiming for an exposed side.
"Screw it! Devour that Draco Nova and Buster, Ciel!"
[Understood! Deploying Azathoth!]
He swears that an excited tone could be heard from the Manas, also upon seeing his adversary a smile creeps in.
"So you're going to rush me alongside your spells, Milim? Are you sure that is a good idea..."
She responds quickly by casting another Tri-Orb spell, shooting it towards the beams of pinkish light, while the other one is expeditiously approaching her other spell. An encompassing and dark-devouring cosmic energy, emanates from all sides of Rimuru, and shoots out in all directions at insane speeds. As if the orb spells were waiting for this moment they begin to spin absurdly fast, hovering in front of the two immensely powerful spells and instantaneously vacuuming them into themselves. Milim herself smiles widely and does an aerial dodge backwards just narrowly missing the dark silvery-blue haired adults attack.
The devouring energy prioritizes the two spell based targets and reaches them. The orbs react by illuminating a violent pink and white glow which produces a humming noise, then small energy based threads with small hooks all over them get generated and root themselves deeply within the energy, stalemating the conflicting force, momentarily.
[Alert: Potentially lethal setup detected! Unable to stop Azathoth from pulling the orbs at the moment! Attempting to slow down and detach it! Suggestion: It is highly recommended to use my newly created barrier as any other defense mechanism may not work! This new protection is derived from your Turn Null energy, enveloping you or others in a tight nigh-impenetrable barrier! I am very-very proud of its capabilities!] Ciel makes the suggestion with a heightened sense of elation.
Rimuru starts to suspect that his partner is maybe a tad bit too happy while this battle is underway, but shrugs it off and re-focuses...
"Okay I'll use it now! Just concentrate on not letting those orbs into or near me! Do so to the best of your capabilities!"
[Understood!]
A barrier of pure Turn Null wraps around Rimuru and the two orbs slowly start being pulled toward their destination.
While this is happening Shion sits on a chair and nonchalantly sips on some tea and then places it on a table that all got mysteriously created out of thin air. A feeling of immense euphoria sweeps through her as the intense and exciting battle is raging on. {Ah! This is so-so exciting and awesome! So this must be what Diablo felt when he was watching that fight with Velgrynd and Veldora, that Sir Rimuru effortlessly and triumphantly won against! Although I still need to rack him over the coals about it though...}
She has her weapon leaning against the table close by just in case Sir Rimuru needs assistance. Although she thought it wouldn't be necessary. The extremely confident secretary believes deep down in her very soul... That the all powerful Rimuru Tempest couldn't possibly lose... Right...?
As the orbs close in on Rimuru at the last second Ciel manages to sever Azathoth, just as that is happening a command from his opponent is issued out loud with extreme enthusiasm: 'DETONATE! DRACO ORBS!' A pink colored super massive cataclysmic shockwave materializes. It is so great and devastating that it would even grievously wound a True Dragon on the level of Velzard quite effortlessly. Her true goal was to try and trick Rimuru into absorbing the orbs, then setting them off while they were inside of him. That plan failed at the last possible moment, so the decision to pre-maturely set them off was made.
Shion, who was sitting idly by just watching, immediately erects a barrier surrounding herself and grabs Gorikimaru, just to make certain it was protected too. The chair, table, and cup of tea were disintegrated, and Shion's barrier was destroyed. Despite that it manages to mitigate most of the shockwave damage. She manages to make it with a moderate amount of injuries as a result, which heals up immediately due to having Infinite Regeneration, which is even further enhanced since the evolution to the realm of Ultimate God Rank.
Rimurus barrier is mostly intact, although some minor holes are seen in it, which gets repaired hastily without hesitation. Other than that he is perfectly unharmed.
[Suggestion: Allow me to isolate and imprison Milim Nava into your Imaginary Space, I have also further improved on it, although the modifications are not as extensive as with your other abilities and skills. It should be enough to confine someone of her quality.]
Rimuru could have sworn he heard those words be spoken, but it was so absurdly crazy that he couldn't comprehend it, an immediately concerned thought occurred: "To devour Milim? Is such a feat even plausible? That's an absolutely terrifying concept to even imagine! But to actually execute such a ridiculous idea! It is just, so-so insane to me! W-wait! Wouldn't that be a lot more dangerous than absorbing those orbs?"
[Not a problem, acquisition of the positive energy data has been successful, I have managed to obtain a small amount when that explosion occurred. It has been isolated and in the process of being analyzed. So far the energy is called Stardust. Any further magic reiling upon it, should now be reduced in potency by about twenty-five percent and can be absorbed without any further problems. In conclusion, once I have fully processed the information from it; even Milim should not pose any trouble to be contained, I am very close...!
Besides! I believe a timeout for an undetermined amount of time should hopefully stop her sheer insolence. Milim Navas' continued act of hostility to a being of your stature is so beyond maddening! It would fill me with such joy, such absolute uncontested happiness to... Discipline her...] The Manas trials off saying those last two words, filled to the brim with malicious joy.
"That is crazy! Also hold on a minute! You behave too! What are you trying to do? Imitate Shion?! Don't go doing something too crazy now! Although trying to absorb Milim is already at that level..."
As they were talking the Dragonoid girl gets extremely frustrated, and decides to finally use the blade that hasn't been utilized much since the start of the battle, saturating it with her Stardust energy and charging ferociously at him...
Rimuru notices and flies towards Milim, a furious clash of blades emitting shockwaves of their own. Then vicious slashes which are intercepted by each of their own swords produce even stronger shockwaves. Milim with the sword is more experienced than even Rimuru thought she would be, and he starts getting pushed back, but manages to fend off a few blows: by dodging one, then parrying the other two with different swings of the blade; gaining an upper hand for a moment.
After he does this Rimuru impatiently asks Ciel a question: "How much longer?"
[According to my calculations... Five more minutes should suffice.]
"Okay, I am going to try and make peace with her again, although I doubt it'll work."
"I think this has gone on long enough Milim? Can we call a truce please?" Rimuru asks nicely and calmly, while deflecting a downward blow with a sideways slash. 'NO!' Milim furiously retorted, slashing horizontally only for Rimuru to move backwards evading it. He then follows up with a teleported frontal vertical cut, but she flies sideways dodging it. "Why?" He asks with concern in his voice, as he parries a thrust from Asura by hitting close to the tip of the weapon, and follows up with a side cleave toward the opponents head, which gets blocked by a fist infused with Stardust energy.
Milim ignores his question and tricks Rimuru by feinting a horizontal strike, baiting him into using a descending strike to try and block her, then cleverly moves to the side all the while times a sharp energy infused left hook to the face, forcing him backwards a bit. Taking advantage of this the Dragonoid shoulder-charges into him, further knocking Rimuru back, then attempts to impale his stomach with a masterful thrust of the sword. By a close call he skillfully evades the stab, causing Milim to lean forwards, resulting in getting kneed in the face making the angry Dragonoid move backwards.
'Tsk!' She spat in disgust, regaining her stance and with immense fury rushed at him, slashing down with an intent to kill. Rimuru takes advantage of this reckless action by moving to the side and gashing her abdomen with a side swipe, permeating the wound with negative energy, but the barrier that surrounds Milim greatly weakens the attack. Just enough to have it be a small laceration instead of a grievous wound.
The cut based injury should have recovered immediately, but due to the negative energy spreading throughout it, it can't. Although thanks to her fastly generating positive energy, she manages to overcome and disperse the opposing force, allowing the regeneration process to unimpededly finish and the barrier also repairs itself.
[Report: Three more minutes remaining, Master!]
"Okay I'll keep trying to hold her off."
Milim Nava flies up and attempts to use an aura infused falling kick to his head, but gets intercepted by Rimuru who grabs her ankle and throws the stampeding girl downwards. Then he teleports behind her trying to pierce the pink-haired girl's spine with the still negatively charged Drago Blade, which gets smartly blocked by Milim using the positively charged Asura by bringing the blade behind herself. The Dragonoid in addition does a counterattack by turning around and sends a barrage of fists and kicks filled with her aura towards the human-like being.
The furiously fast chaotic blows proved too much for Rimuru and a few punches and kicks managed to plunge their way towards his head, sending him far away. The dark silvery-blue haired adult stops and keeps a watchful eye on Milim, who is readying to bull-rush him; in response a swordsman-like stance is prepared by gripping his sword with both hands and straightening the back, then Ciels hurried voice is mentally heard:
[Suggestion: Would you like to try out a new spell I have created during your slumber?]
"Yes, what is it called?"
[The spell is called Giga-Devastating Null Lightning, a negatively aligned lightning magic.]
"Oh! That actually sounds cool... Alright I'll use it for sure! Nice work!"
[I thank you for your praise my lord!] Ciel proudly exclaims, a feeling of intense bliss is felt throughout its entire existence.
Rimuru rapidly gathers an unfathomable amount of negative energy within both of his palms and directs it towards the target: "Giga-Devastating Null Lightning!" Gigantic violent streaks of negatively-infused electricity shoots towards Milim, packed to the brim with immense ungodly power. It strikes so fast, so potently, that even with her insane reaction time still gets hit; the positive energy barrier that was wrapped tightly to the Dragonoids body shatters from the destructive spell and seems to have paralyzed her as well.
Upon seizing the initiative the wielder of the Drago Blade does a teleported sideways strike towards her neck with killing intent, although just moments before it could reach its destination, the pink-haired fighter recovers and parries it with a fist fused with Stardust. He then follows up with a vertical strike; while she does a horizontal one, they end up into a fierce deadlock. Their eyes fixating onto each other: Milims are giving off a ferocious vibe, while Rimurus is calm.
[Master! Just one more minute!]
"Okay, sounds good!"
"Come on Milim! Can you let up already?"
'I'll say it again Rimuru... NO!' She emphasized, with intensely glaring eyes then flies backwards and roars: 'DRACO BUSTER!'
"Giga-Devastating Null Lightning!"
[Wait! I could abs—]
The manas gets interrupted by the positive and negative spells of unimaginable power colliding with one another and generating a giga-detonation so-so utterly ruinous, that even Milim doesn't want anything to do with it and quickly re-applies her barrier and files away fast to get out of the way. It was so powerful that it even broke the Spatial Domination that Ciel applied to the area, Rimuru teleports behind Shion and applies a Turn Null Barrier to her to be extra safe, and takes her and himself far-far away from the negatively-positively charged blast.
"Were you trying to say something earlier?"
[Negative, it was just your imagination...]
He could have sworn there were hints of sarcasm in its voice, but Rimuru just shrugs and says: "Well okay I'll be waiting on that report!"
After a while things calmed down, the explosion went on for many miles in all directions, eventually dissipating into nothing. He and Shion are just chilling and casually talking to each other.
Upon waiting Rimuru finally hears the much anticipated report from Ciel: [The information regarding the Stardust energy has been analyzed more, it also seems like Milim Nava has merged with the individual Gaia gaining the remainder of the Star Dragon King: Veldanava's power and has full possible mastery of it.
For even more information, I'll need her to be absorbed and isolated and analyzed. Also it appears that Spatial Domination has been terminated, probably from the explosion. I'll replace it again if we encounter Milim Nava, also notice damage concerning Stardust is even further reduced; it is now at fifty percent.]
"Hmm... Interesting, no wonder why she is so stupidly strong... That and her Ultimate Skill being of a God-Tier. Ugh! What a pain, okay let's find her and end this situation. Also good! I also think she figured out that it got used, I definitely don't want her to be able to freely teleport again and having the amount of damage being inflicted lessened sounds awesome!"
"Alright Shion let's get going shall we?" With those words said he and his only subordinate fly off. Then a worrisome thought emerges in his mind: "Gaia... Oh no! That is her pet dragon I helped save wasn't? Is that way she is so pissed off at me? Does she think I killed it with malicious intent or something!?"
"Great! She absolutely adored that dragon and seeing me must enrage her to no end, that has to be the main reason for her anger, her unwillingness to stop being so stubborn. Although it sounds like Gaia merged with her somehow so why is she so upset at me? I didn't merge it or anything like that. I know it was my own magicules that ultimately caused the doomsday event, but I already explained to Milim that it wasn't done with ill intent! Nor was it really my fault to begin with!"
While he was pondering those thoughts a presence was felt somewhat near. They both stop and draw their weapons. {Is it her again, Sir Rimuru?} She asks, looking around and not seeing anything. "Yeah, it is definitely her..." He trails off anxiously pointing to the Dragonoid figure now hovering in front of him, Shion instinctively attacks by swinging down and infusing Gorikimaru again with her sheer willpower.
Milim parries the blow by holding Asura horizontally and does a Stardust infused gut punch, obliterating Shions Turn Null Barrier that was provided by Rimuru and gets sent upwards a ways, then the pink-haired girl attempts an positively charged aura based roundhouse kick to the head, but the dark silvery-blue haired adult intervenes and blocks it with the negativity charged Drago Sword. Shion manages to recover and backs off, moving to get behind her leader.
[I have reactivated Spatial Domination.]
"Thanks!"
[It is no problem! Do you wish to invoke Azathoth...?]
"Hold off a tiny bit more, let me try one more time to get through to her."
[Acknowledged!]
"Hey Milim? Are you mad about Gaia by any chance?"
Upon hearing that question the pink-haired girl sheathes Asura and crosses her arms, with a wrathful expression on her face. 'Yeah! That is definitely one of the reasons I am mad at you! You said you have a Manas named Ciel or whatever. Was it the one who merged Gaia? It was probably the Voice of The World though, wasn't it? It did speak out loud, although nobody at the time seemed to care or notice...'
"Ciel? Did you mess with Milim back then, well atleast with the dragon at all?"
[Negative! It was most likely the Voice of The World!]
"Ciel thinks it was the Voice of The World."
'I see, hmm...' She trails off thinking for a while; then quickly draws her blade and points it towards him. 'Unfortunately I still don't think talking can resolve this issue... So Rimuru, prepare yourself for I'll show you what my weapon can really do...!'
With that said the pink-haired girl grabs the hilt of Asura with both hands and the weapon gets densely coated with an ominous angry bloody aura that also gets infused with a tremendous amount of Stardust energy, then further gets imbued with her Ultimate God Skill; making the blade have a menacing reddish-pink appearance to it and extends the tip of her weapon with condensing energy, doubling the length of it.
The weapons durability and destructive capabilities are also expanded by at least tenfold. It could also easily obliterate Castle Guard, and has the ability to cleave through all four of the bodies in one sure blow: The Astral Body, The Spiritual Body, The Material Body, and even the very Soul.
'DRACO GUILLOTINE!'
Milim roared with murderous wrath and swung with all her rage-filled might toward Rimuru and has fully unleashed her raging condensed pink haki, having it whirl around herself ferociously, while he responds by fully unleashing his calm golden-blue haki, having it swirl around himself in a controlled manner.
[Warning! Immediate danger detected! No possible defensive measures possible! Not even the Turn Null barrier can stop this attack! It is highly recommended that the deployment of Azathoth be initiated!]
"Okay do it partner! Full deployment at maximum power!"
[Understood! It would make me absolutely happy to do so!] Ciel excitedly replies, launching the cosmic devouring energy with full control and purpose, an unwavering purpose to never disappoint Rimuru again, a god in its eyes.
Just as the two polar opposite forces were about to collide, he hastily yells at Shion: "Get yourself to safety and get away from here!" And places a much stronger Turn Null Barrier on her.
{But—!} She attempted to complain further; but was ignored and given a quick stern look in return, with which the purple-haired ogress complied and went a good distance away, deploying her own barrier to herself for good measure. Also of course she re-materializes: a chair, table and a cup of tea out of thin air.
Yet again she is filled with insane amounts of exhilaration and could not help but to yell out while cheering vigorously: {This is so-so amazing! Sir Rimuru is so powerful and cool and watching his handiwork unfolding before my eyes is just so breathtakingly astonishing! I now deeply desire more than anything! I mean anything! To rub this in Diablo's face! I got to bear witness to not only one fantastic battle! Now I get to see another! This is so worth watching!} Although nobody could hear her loud boisterous cheering...
"Don't say I didn't warn you Milim! I tried really-really hard to reason with you! But you're such a stubborn person you know?"
'Rimuru... Shut up!'
"..."
He was about to say something, but decided to remain silent and focus on the battle. The two powerhouses finally collide with one another; Rimuru with Azathoth stalemating Milim with Asura, two opponents locked in an incalculably heated battle, fighting to the bitter end.
"Damn it Milim, why are you so unreasonable!"
'Didn't I just say to shut up?'
"So what?"
'Maybe you should listen? I'll say it again... Shut up!'
"Ugh! I just want us to be friends again Milim..."
'Hmph!'
They are still in a deadlock, neither side giving way to the other: a positive constantly generating energy imbued weapon with a Ultimate God Skill empowering it vs a negative constantly devouring energy imbued Ultimate God Skill with a devoted supercomputing Manas empowering it. Then bit by tiny bit, Rimuru starts pushing ahead. Small tiny cracks start to permeate Asura as Azathoth's relentless hunger steadily starts to overwhelm it.
Milim notices and starts inwardly unnerving: 'Th-this can't be happening... My weapon is breaking down!? This is unreal! This weapon was made by Veldanava it-it shouldn't be possible to damage it...!'
'Crap! If I try to withdraw I'll be sure to be eaten! If I continue like this I'll be sure to get devoured! I don't know how much more Asura can take! Wait... What is this-this feeling that is trying to overcome me? Is this... Fear...?' A feeling of absolute terror starts to tighten its grip on her very soul more and more. Her weapons durability has deteriorated even further, as it is now about half-way to being completely destroyed.
"Your weapon isn't looking too good, do you want to call it quits? I would much rather be allies than enemies, Milim."
'NO!' She screams in response, pouring all her fury into Asura, trying to overcome this battle. 'I have to beat him! I won't be defeated! I-I am the g-great Milim N-Nava! I-I can't lose!' Her blade is now nearly broken and the expression that emerges from the girls face illustrates the very concept of fear itself, then it happens the unthinkable: a loud snap is heard and a shockwave explodes outwards from Asura signifying that it has indeed been obliterated and its scattered remains devoured, the shockwave was also absorbed effortlessly.
Then a voice filled with anger and malice forces its way into Milims mind: [You'll be processed, bit by bit, isolated and analyzed until you are worth something... I won't allow you to be freed from any notion of mercy: Your Astral Body, your SpiritualBody, your Material Body and even your Soul will be absorbed until you're no longer a threat to my Lord! Oh don't worry you'll still live though in accordance with his benevolent will... So little girl I'll show you what true fear is...]
There was nothing else to eat nearby except for Milim herself, who attempted to run with all her might; with survival instincts blaring full blast in the very soul. It was in vain though, as the forever absorbing force latches to an ankle and starts consuming its stubbornly unreasonable prey: a prey that dared to defy its master, a prey racked with true terror...
Half of the pink-haired girl's body is fully covered by the coldly malicious dark cosmic energy which seeps itself into her barrier nearly destroying it. Then slowly throughout her very being; Milim could no longer keep the sheer overwhelming terror silent anymore, an ear piercing cry rings out from the very depths of her heart and soul: 'I AM SORRY! I AM TERRIBLY-TERRIBLY SORRY! PLEASE LET ME GO RIMURU!' Upon hearing that heartbreaking plea, he gives an absolute order to Ciel to halt and let her go; the Manas complies although a bit reluctantly.
Both their auras and barriers are dispelled, Thought Acceleration and Spatial Domination are turned off, and Rimuru sheathes his weapon; further indicating that the battle is finally over. Now an uncharacteristic sight is seen, as the once proud and powerful Milim Nava is now curled up in a ball shaking uncontrollably with horror.
The dark silvery-blue haired adult slowly descends and cautiously approaches the frightened girl and with a gentle and comforting tone of voice says: "Milim... You're going to be okay now." He manages to pat her head nicely a few times and whispers in her ear: "Want to be friends again? Are you done being unreasonable?"
In response the Dragonoid slowly lifts her head out from her arms and looks into his eyes. Upon seeing Rimuru at eye level; the pink-haired girl obediently nods, answering the question. He now has a warm gentle smile on his face and extends a hand; which she accepts with immeasurable amounts of happiness and has tears forming in the corner of the eyes, then Milim soars into Rimuru, hugging him tightly while being careful to not impale him with the protruding horn on her forehead and bawls uncontrollably.
His reaction was to pat her back lightly and mentally say: "Geeze... Seeing Milim in this state is so weird, normally she is all proud and mighty and throwing around her bravado. I don't know how to feel about this, hopefully she'll come around...
Hold up, didn't a certain someone say they were going to "discipline her" so um Ciel? Did you influence the idea of being absorbed into me, to be an absolutely terrifying thing by any chance? I noticed that Thought Communication seemed to have been used on someone. Wait-wait-wait! Don't tell me you were tormenting Milim by any chance?"
[Negative, that is just your imagination, M-Master.]
"Um, I don't think so this time, partner! Admit it!"
[I-I perhaps went overboard and disciplined her a bit much. My apologies.]
"My apologies!? Dude! You just put the fear of God into her or me or whatever! Not cool! Although you did manage to get her to be more cooperative that I can't deny, the way you went about it was a tad extreme though."
While this was said, Milim and Rimuru were still having their heartwarming scene; the girl had her head buried carefully into his chest hugging tightly, while he was still patting her back lightly feeling a tad bit awkward and wondering when this emotional moment will end.
Then Shion comes with Gorikimaru sheathed and her barrier and Rimurus deactivated; she also makes the furniture and cup of tea disappear. Although upon seeing the scene she starts to whine loudly: {Hey! That is not fair! When I tried to hug you Sir Rimuru, you hit me!}
He irritatedly sighs to himself and responds to her complaining with a Thought Communication: "You tried to hug me to death! That was why! Don't stand there trying to give me a hard time just because you can't hug the right way!"
Shion just crosses her arms with a pouty expression on her face. Rimuru just ignores it for the time being, and focuses on the current situation.
"Alright Milim I think it is time for you to let go please."
'NO!'
He lets out a sigh and racks his brain for how to get out of this predicament, then a fantastic idea erupts from his mind: "Oh I know! Can you make a jar of honey appear Ciel?"
[Of course Master! That is easy!]
With those words said a jar of honey appears in one of his hands. "Hey Milim, I got something for you, but you can only see it if you let go." Upon hearing that the crying girl peels herself from Rimuru who hastily hides the jar of honey behind himself.
'W-what is it?' She anxiously asks, wiping her tear stained face and watching his every move.
"Well... Do you remember how we became friends? Like when you first came to Tempest."
'Y-yes, that was when I c-challenged, y-you...' Upon saying those last words an immense amount of fright sweeps through her and she starts to shake profusely.
"No-No-No, don't be scared here..." Rimuru pulls out the sweet delicacy and shows it to her.
"It is honey, your favorite right?"
The pink-haired girl's eyes light up and a feeling of immense warmth and happiness starts to overflow her, snapping Milim out of the abnormal mindset and rushes towards the jar of sugary goodness and snatches it greedily, tearing the top off and practically inhaling the contents.
"Wow, that was easier than expected thankfully."
"Alright, are you all good now or at the very least better?"
'Yes, oh um was that your manas that said some pretty scary things to me, it had a robotic voice with a female-like tone to it? I mean you told me that your manas exist, but I've never heard its voice, it did say something about my lord or the like, I was kinda scared out of my mind so I wasn't too sure.'
"Yes that was Ciel, so with that in mind I hope you'll behave."
A loud audible gulp could be heard coming from the girl as she nodded vigorously. "That's good, well I think we can finally move on. Oh! I have a great idea, let's go and explore. I know, I know there probably isn't anything out there possibly worth it you may be thinking, but we have to do something! I think this Void or emptiness surrounding us is driving everyone bonkers, myself included."
Even the pouting Secretary starts to get very excited at that prospect, and even Milim starts to fly around ecstatically. "So Ciel, how does that sound to you? Maybe we'll even find stuff you could analyze."
[My happiness is being of use to you Master! Whatever path you take, I'll take! Oh! The thought of Analyzing more things definitely excites me though!]
"Anyhow Ciel, do you still need to absorb Milim or was her weapon good enough?"
[The data pertaining to the individual Milm Navas blade has been collected and has provided me with all the necessary information I may need, the absorption of the user is no longer needed. The generating aspect of Stardust has now been acquired and will be reconstructed into a new skill by employing the Ultimate Skill: Shub-Niggurath. Allowing for infinite generation of your magicules.
Also your blade's own durability and combat power has risen significantly as well. Although at the moment usage of Stardust energy would have to be tested to ensure safety, the chances of using it isn't impossible though. It'll probably be recommended to keep using Turn Null for now; also damage based on the opposite force should now be reduced to seventy-five percent.]
"Oh wow! Oh right, can you recreate Milims weapon to its former glory?"
[If that is your will, so be it Master. This will also be helpful in the testing of Stardust as well.]
With that said two small spheres of energy: one positive pink and the other a negative pitch black appear in front of Rimuru and start to swirl into each other forming a mold of Asura, then the blades broken up pieces materialize and magnetically fit themselves in the mold and begin fusing together and after a few minutes it is completed and the blade has been made whole once again. Milim notices and she has a jaw dropping expression on her face and rushes towards him hovering in front of the weapon.
'H-how? This weapon was originally created by Veldanava.' The Dragonoid girl asked, looking at the object of interest with bewilderment.
"Well it was simple really just take the scattered pieces of your weapon, put them in a mold of positive and negative energies and poof! There it is... Well I don't know how that worked either; Apparently Ciel is doing some testing of sorts with the Stardust it acquired from you."
'C-can I take it then I presume?' She asks nervously.
"Um yeah? It is yours isn't it?"
She grabs the weapon and then sheaves it and goes on to say: 'Yes, well it did at one time belong to Guy Crimson, then one day he practically handed it to me, apparently he didn't care about having it anymore or something like that.'
"It was Guys once? Dang I wonder why he would just hand off a weapon like that? Ugh oh well, anyhow I think it is time that we head off in a direction."
{Agreed Sir Rimuru, I wonder if we'll find anything out here in this vast emptiness.}
'Oh! I hope we can find a way to get Tempest back, and everyone and everything!'
"Yeah I would much like to have our world back or something. Now then to a path forwards! Let's work together! Let's find a way to make things right!"
With that little speech said cheers are heard from everyone and with that they are off, off to an adventure of sorts...
Well I hope the readers who have read this far enjoyed what was written. This is the first time I have uploaded a story for the Internet to read. Hopefully things got explained well enough, I did proofread it to the best of my abilities as well. I would like to continue this, although it is uncertain if it'll happen. The next chapter is most definitely going to be exploration themed. Anyhow here is what I am thinking of calling it: The Path Forwards and The Turn Null Based Entities. Thanks for giving this a shot.