Evolution

-- Veldora pov --

300 years ago, I engaged in a battle against a human hero, where while admittedly a bit embarrassing to say, I lost and was sealed by the hero's skill "Unlimited Imprisonment". For 300 years I was bored out of my mind, though I did reflect on my previous attitude of constant rampaging, and contrary to what people might think, I held no resentment towards said hero. If anything, I only wished to be able to engage in a battle with her once more. Not only because of how powerful she seemed, and how epic our battle was, but also because because of her ideology and way of thinking. She said to me that as a hero, she had a responsibility to protect humanity, but that did not really matter to her, all she wished for was to protect the one who saved her in her moment of weakness, and for that reason she decided to fight against me. Perhaps it was due to her conviction to protect that she came out victorious in our battle. Unlike her who had a reason as to why she fought, I was someone who merely sought out destruction for my entertainment. Another reason for my constant destruction though was to prove myself to be the strongest in a way, and with how much the humans fear me, I could say definitely say that I was successfully recognized as one of the most powerful beings in the world.

However, deep down, I knew that compared to the few that truly stood at the top, I was nothing but a mere overgrown lizard in their eyes. In a certain sense, it could even be said that I had a minor inferiority complex due to constantly comparing myself to them. One of those beings would be my sister, Velzard. For her, it wouldn't even take a mere second for her to kill me, trust me, I've tried. As such, I used the destruction and rampaging to distract myself from these thoughts. But over the course of these 300 years, I reflected on my actions and decided that once I was free, I would use the opportunity to try and grow stronger, to figure out the thoughts of the hero and try to perhaps find something that could give me the will and reason to fight and overcome her adversaries that in the moment might seem like an impossibility as bravely as she did .

Though as I said, I was still incredibly bored out of my mind. No one came to visit me these past decades as everyone still feared me, thus leading me to feel incredibly lonely. However that all changed when a young ogre decided to come visit me, which was incredibly surprising to me, considering he might not even be older than 5 years old. While he was initially afraid of me, he slowly warmed up to me as we continued to talk and at the end he even decided to befriend me. At that moment, I was stunned as nobody actually tried to befriend me before. Everyone I've met over the course of my long life either tried to kill me or just ran away in fear, as they should might I add. This young ogre however had different thoughts I guess. While I knew that he had some ulterior motive that I could sense thanks to my unique skill "Investigator", I could sense that his wish to befriend me was genuine and not some act. Accepting his friendship, led me to have some sort of small desire, perhaps it was the desire to find more friends like this, or maybe even to protect my first friend in my whole life, I don't know, perhaps this was how the hero felt when she said that she wished to protect..... As such, I decided to accept and named him while he gave us a family name of some sorts, Tempest. With such a marvelous name, my name was now Veldora Tempest, and his was Raiden Tempest.

Looking back towards him and feeling a miniscule amount of magicules, enter my body, I could also feel a small amount of magicules leaving me and entering him, leading to the creation of some type of familial bond I'm guessing. Though I say small, for him it must be an incredibly huge amount, leading him to form some sort of cocoon around him, as he enters his evolution of sorts.....

-- Mc pov --

Feeling magicules forming a cocoon around me, all my senses and even my body felt disconnected to me. Though what I could feel was that a huge amount of magicules rushing into my soul, how I knew it was my soul is besides the point. The increase in magicules at first was quite comfortable but slowly it started to feel as though it was tearing me apart, which I would later find out that it actually was. The amount of magicules was so high that it felt as though my soul was constantly being torn apart and rebuilt again tougher and stronger, able to hold more amounts of it until it couldn't anymore and repeated the whole process. Unable to tell how much time had passed, I slowly started to feel the amount entering me starting to decrease, and when it finally stopped, I immediately fainted due to the sheer pain I felt.

{ Confirmed, individual 'Raiden Tempest' attempting evolution of race.

Successful. Individual 'Raiden Tempest has achieved evolution from Ogre, to Kijin.

Report, due to the excessive amount of magicules still detected, individual 'Raiden Tempest' will undergo secondary evolution.....

Successful. Individual 'Raiden Tempest has now evolved from Kijin, to Oni.

All physical parameters has been greatly increased by 30 times.

Magicule amount has increased by 20 times previous amount.

Soul strength has been increased by 10 times.

Unique Skill "Lightning's Personification" reacquired and evolving.

Successful.

Report, multiple intrinsic skills and resistance has been sacrificed and reacquired.

Skill "Ogre's ambition", "Regeneration", "Magic Sense", "Pain resistance", "Shock resistance" and "Natural Ailment Resistance" has been sacrificed to acquire "Oni's ambition", "Ultra-speed Regeneration", "Spatial Detection", "Pain nullification", "Ailment nullification" and "Physical Attack Nullification".

Successful.

Report, converting multiple abilities into skills.

Successful.

Extra Skills, "Lightning swordsmanship" and "Runecraft " has been acquired. Extra Skill "Lightning swordsman" merged with unique skill "Lightning's Personification"

Report, due to the multiple condition's met, "Demon Lord Seed" has been acquired.

Successful.

Evolution is now complete }

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Heyy, I hope you enjoyed the chapter =) Today's chap was a bit shorter since I'm still in my exams, but it ends this week so hopefully I can upload longer chapters soon. Anyways, perhaps some of you might think that he's progressing in strength too quickly or slowly, but honestly this is just my take on an evolution in Tensura so don't mind. Also Rimuru basically became a god in like how many years in the light novel, 5 maybe? It's been a long time since I've read the novel but I know that it was not more than that, so yeahhh.....

Also below is basically a short status for the mc.

Mc's appearance

Name : Raiden Tempest

Race : Oni

Protection : Crest of the Storm

Status : Demon Lord Seed

Unique Skill : Lightning's Personification

-Lightning manipulation

-Lightning construct creation

-Lightning swordsmanship

-Thought Acceleration / Communication

-Reform

-Ultra-speed Regeneration

Extra Skills : Runecraft

Intrinsic Skill's : Oni's ambition / Spatial Detection

Magic : Weather Magic ( Gained through Veldora's Storm Crest )

Resistance/Nullification : Pain Nullification / Ailment Nullification / Physical Attack Nullification

And that's it I guess, also cannon's gonna start in about 5 chapters I think so yeahh. And go vote for the love interest in the auxiliary page. 6 Days left.

K Bye and have a good day =)