23 Chapter 8 Part 3

"My greatest thanks, Master. To finally have not only a perfect body, but also a name to truly call my own after so long, what a wonderful feeling this is." 

"Master a word of warning, your slime friend also summoned the Primordial of your own Lineage, Noir and if his previous reckless naming sprees are any indication, he is likely going to name him sometime soon."

What the fuck!?

The Primordial of my own lineage huh? I wonder what he is like?

Anyways, I likely need to warn Rimuru so he doesn't do that, naming Arcueid took a decent chunk of my own magicules, and even if they were refilled instantly I can still feel the effects. Rimuru likely only has a fraction of my own magicule capacity, so it would be best if he holds off on naming Noir.

How long has it been anyway?

"How long has it been since my Harvest Festival Started?" I ask

"It has been 2 days since your ascension Felix-sama!"

"Ah, I see, thanks Saeko."

2 days huh, that's longer than I thought it would take, I wonder if my race evolved along with my awakening?

'Master is now a Devil Lord, a being with divinity.'

Divinity? Am I a god of some kind now then? Other than feeling overwhelmingly stronger than previously everything seems the same?

Hmm, maybe divinity has some more subtle uses.

I can also feel that my skills have been completely reworked, that is going to be fun to experiment with, thankfully I don't have to worry about not being able to control my skills thanks to Odin.

Hmm, I should probably go see Rimuru soon.

As I'm pondering on what to do I feel Milim flying this way.

She must have figured out that I woke up.

CRASH

Ah, even more damage to Tempest, poor Orcs, they are going to have to fix all this.

"Ah! Bestie, you're awake! You got super strong now too!" says an overexcited Milim

"Yes Milim, I just woke up, and I do feel a lot stronger, we should spar later, I wonder how I would do against you now?"

"Umu! I wonder how strong you are now?"

"Who knows? I haven't got the chance to look at my new skills yet. So what were you doing attacking Carrion?"

"Ah, uhm, uh, I was sparring, yup, we were just sparring."

I look at Milim exasperated, "Do you really expect me to believe that Milim?"

It's still amusing when she tries and fails to whistle when dodging a question.

"Well? I'm waiting."

And so Milim eventually gave in and explained everything that happened.

Apparently Clayman was playing games on the side and she wanted to know what, so she pretended to be controlled by him and went to beat up Carrion on his orders. She said she hadn't known about the attack on Tempest or she would have come to help beat up the baddies as she said it. I was relieved to find out that she wasn't involved in the plot. If she was I'd have to ground her.

Another thing she told me about was that the Walpurgis that Clayman called before his demise is still going to happen even though he is dead, and since I was the one who killed him I will most likely get to take his place as a Demon Lord. 

Yay me?

I wasn't exactly sure how to feel about that, I didn't expect it to be so easy to become a Demon Lord, apparently something similar happened in the past. Leon Cromwell killed the Curse Lord Kazarem and ascended to the status of Demon Lord, so all that was left for me to do was to show up the Walpurgis to officially become a Demon Lord.

I asked Milim if any of the other Demon Lords would care, and she said that Clayman didn't really have any true allies on the council, he was weak so he was killed, that's it. Quite brutal but it makes sense for Demon Lords.

When I asked what would happen with Clayman's territory now that he is dead another issue popped up, since I was the one that killed Clayman, I get his territory. I did admire his castle and the land in general but still, I have no clue on how to manage a country. I also felt slightly responsible for the people, without someone to defend the country it will likely be attacked by some human nations or even the Eastern Empire, the citizens don't deserve to suffer for Clayman's idiocy.

Thankfully Arcueid was still here at the time so she overheard the conversation and stated that she was an expert at politics. So I did what any man in my situation would do, I handed over all of the future work to her. Surprisingly or maybe not so surprisingly she was happy about it, she stated that she would be honored to be of use. I really lucked out with her huh? 

I probably will need some more subordinates though, I did kill Clayman's main army after all, I will have to rebuild an army in order to defend my country.

Oh well, that's my future self's problem, I don't even officially have the country yet, no point in worrying about it now.

It turns out that Rimuru is still unconscious so I spent the remaining hours of the day talking with Milim, Arcueid, Saeko and Raiden.

It turns out that Saeko and Raiden have both evolved, Saeko became what is known as a Wicked Oni, whereas Benimaru and the rest became Mystic Oni. According to Odin, Wicked Oni's essence leans more towards the demonic side, likely a side effect of being named by me.

Wicked Oni have a few useful Intrinsic Skills like, Ultraspeed Regeneration, Perfect Memory, and Ogre Berserker, basically the ability to increase their physical strength multiple times, the cost is that it leaves the body worn out.

Raiden became a full on Dragon Lord, though a mutated one as she was influenced by my own affinity for Lightning.

I ended up asking about their Unique Skills, starting with Saeko she got the Unique Skill: Cook. An absolute cheat of a skill. It's main ability directly alters the laws of the world, basically making it so what she wants to happen will happen. For example if she tries to cut you with her sword but misses, she can make it so she doesn't miss causing a cut to appear on your body, there really isn't any way to defend against it either, you just have to tank the shot and recover quickly. 

The only requirement is that the cause and effect have to be somewhat similar.

At the Ultimate Level she could likely make it so that when she casually throws a ball of paper at you and desires for that ball of paper to make a hole in your body, then that ball of paper would make a hole in your body.

The only way to resist it is with a skill like 'Law Manipulation' or an Ultimate Skill, both of which I have.

The second ability is called 'Optimal Action', it basically tells her how to get her desired result. Hopefully this ability will help with her cooking.

Jokes aside, as long as she has done something before, this skill makes it so she can do it again, for example if she has beaten someone in a fight before, this skill will make it so she will always continue to beat them no matter how difficult.

An absolutely absurd skill.

Well, as long as I am benefiting from it. 'Odin' was able to analyze it through my connection to Saeko so I have all the data necessary to create a skill like it, though I refrained as it isn't a skill I need at the moment.

Best to get used to my new skills first before adding in anything new.

Now onto Raiden, she got the Unique Skill: Thunder, an odd skill name seeing as thunder is the sound after lightning strikes but oh well.

Basically it allows her even more precise control over Lightning, along with a few subskills like 'Thought Acceleration', and a high level of control over the weather.

It even allows her to turn into Lightning enhancing all aspects of her power.

It might not have an ability that allows you to override the very laws of the world, but it still has a lot of directions it can expand into. If she masters the skill properly I can see her being able to beat Saeko in a fight.

When I asked Arcueid what sort of abilities she has I was surprised, I knew she didn't have a Unique Skill, but she was still quite strong. In pure magicule capacity she had much more than Saeko and Raiden. Her magicule capacity is greater than even my Daemon Duke self, though I guess that's to be expected of a Primordial.

She also has quite a few different Extra Skills like 'Universal Sense', 'Thought Acceleration', 'Ranged Barrier', 'Multilayer Barrier', 'Ultraspeed Regeneration', etc.

In a fight between Arcueid and Saeko I would bet that Arcueid would win most of the time. She might not have some broken Unique Skill, but her sheer experience as a Primordial alone makes up for it. She has likely forgotten more magic than I have ever heard of.

Along with that she has her own Unique brand of magic she has created, the Freezing White Flame. It basically creates pure white flames that she can easily wield in any way she desires. It is even capable of burning someone's soul. The flame itself is somewhat paradoxical, even though it looks like a flame it freezes the target. The only way I can think of to describe it is fire so cold it burns if that makes sense.

I would say this magic is on par with a Unique Skill on its own.

That fact reminded me that even some magic is capable of having the potential to threaten me, though that only got me more excited about learning more magic. 

Once I started showing my interest in magic to Arcueid she offered to teach me some of the more obscure magic she has learned over the eons, I obviously agreed.

Along with their Unique Skills, Raiden and Saeko also got a few new useful Extra Skills like 'Spatial Motion', 'Haki', and in the case of Raiden she got her own unique brand of 'Dragon's Haki'.

Milim got jealous about me having capable subordinates so she decided that she wanted her own.

I told her she had the Dragon Faithful but she brushes me off, brat.

She said that she was going to summon a Daemon, since she knew a bunch of super strong Daemons then they must all be kinda strong according to her logic.

I decided to correct her, after all barely any Daemons would likely satisfy her strength requirement.

She got a bit upset after hearing that the chances of her getting a good subordinate were low.

Hearing this I decided to do something about it, Milim was a Demon Lord after all, she should have some strong subordinates. 

I asked Arcueid if she had any recommendations, she likely had quite a few subordinates as a Primordial after all.

She said that she had a few capable subordinates and recommended one, Milim decided that she wanted one of her younger subordinates who had a lot of potential.

Apparently she had two lieutenants. I decided to give Milim one of them, I did need subordinates for myself after all, it wouldn't do to give all of my potential subordinates away.

The one Milim decided on is apparently quite young for the amount of power he has according to Arcueid. 

Apparently he is already an Arch Daemon even though he is only 300 years old.

I don't know where that puts me seeing as I became a Daemon Duke in far less time.