3 Unsealed Dragon
--- Third Person's POV ---
Veldora stared at the screen that viewed Rimuru's vision inside the darkness of Rimuru's stomach.
He watches his slime partner kill the Dire wolves' alpha and ate the monster. Rimuru transformed into the dire wolf via Mimicry, and uses Coercion to try and scare them off.
As much to his surprise, "We will submit to you!" The pack of wolves stated thus.
Veldora was uneasy.
The scars of betrayal from 300 years ago still reminded him to this day. He can't help but frown at the fact that Rimuru gained so many followers so easily.
What was the difference? Veldora asked himself. Would they betray Rimuru in the future too? Would they simply discard him?
The answer would be a straight "No".
Rimuru named them, so Veldora doesn't have to be worried at all. As much to his dismay noting the fact that the slime uses his Magicules to name them.
"You seriously are an idiot, I told you it cost Magicules. At least ask Great Sage what'll happen if you named too much."
"Hey! You didn't tell me anything either before it's too late!!!"
Veldora bantered a bit with Rimuru while Rimuru enters his sleeping state. He slept for three days to regain the Magicules he lost.
Rimuru was still conscious so Veldora can converse with him easily, but Veldora still can't help but worry.
What if one-day Rimuru had a human subordinate? Humans with just a few powers like "Cultivation" already answer his questions about what mortal arrogation really is, what about Majins who possessed a magic core then?
What about Sages/Enlightened Humans? What about Saints/Devine humans? What about the heroes?
With Rimuru's soft-hearted nature, Veldora couldn't help but worry.
And he was right...
"Rule number 1. Don't attack humans!"
That night, he pulled over to Rimuru for a talk.
『Rimuru. That first rule you told everyone, change it this instance.』
"Huh?"
『Just do it.』
"No, but, I-"
『Do it, Rimuru.』
That line was delivered with a cold stern tone. Rimuru felt somewhat shocked at the slightly different way of speaking of the baritone voice dragon.
"O-okay..."
Rimuru then told Rigurd the goblin chief that he would like to change the rule and wants him to deliver it to the others.
The first rule was changed to "Only attack humans in self-defense" as the dragon suggested.
Rimuru was a bit surprised, but no real harm was done, so he decided to ask the dragon for it.
"You really are still wary of humans huh?"
To which the dragon responded:
『I am wary of everyone, the only difference is that lower monsters who had only "a little more" connection to Magicules are those who can't lie. They will obey their masters even if they were commanded to die. Humans on the other hand... you know exactly what they are, Rimuru.』
"So the only reason you're fine with the goblins and dire wolves was because I named these guys?"
『Exactly.』
... "I was a human too, you know?"
Veldora wasn't able to respond to that. Deep down he wanted to say "Because Rimuru is different" but he'd still need to explain it on that point.
So he decided to stay silent.
«Report: Sealed Ultimate Skill, 『Veldora Tempest』has successfully create the Soul Corridor. Sharing between skills and Magicules is now possible»
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Veldora then continues to watch over Rimuru. He watches him make his journey to Dwargon, the dwarf kingdom, and went home with four dwarfs to help build the village.
He watches Rimuru save four adventures from giant ants, and he watches him comply with the wishes of the human who holds Ifrit: to eat her and let her rest inside Rimuru.
Shizue Izawa, The conqueror of flames requested Rimuru to let her rest in peace inside of him on her deathbed.
"Was there even... A way to save her, Veldora?"
『At this current level, No. But just leave it, Rimuru. She said it herself, she wanted to rest』
"... Yeah, even I know that"
Veldora can feel Rimuru's emotion through the soul corridor, yet Veldora sneakily masked his so that Rimuru can't do the same to him. Veldora had one word to describe what Rimuru felt, he felt "Shitty".
Veldora then looks at the screen to find Rimuru playing with the new human form he got from Shizue. And...
"STOP! STOP! RETURN!!" Rimuru panicked right after creating a feminine version of his clone. He canceled the skill in a hurry before he could feel more the guilt in his heart.
『I prefer your feminine form, Rimuru』
"SHUT IT, LIZARD!"
They had a good banter, to say the least. Veldora got a new friend too, Ifrit.
After Rimuru ate Ifrit, the superior spirit opened his eyes to see the highest ranking of spirits: A True Dragon who's known as Evil Dragon Veldora.
They had a good match of Shogi inside Rimuru's stomach as they look at Rimuru's life. Of course, Veldora decided not to tell Rimuru about it.
Initially, Ifrit acted like a feral animal with little sense of self, but once he got trapped here he has basically become my assistant now.
He developed his personality once he entered Rimuru's stomach and I interacted with him. Watching Rimuru's life was also one of the causes: he also began to understand the feelings of people and the value of life.
"What do you think, Ifrit?"
"...I don't understand, Veldora-sama."
There Veldora brought a picture of a naked clone of Rimuru's female version.
"Rather, how did you get that...?"
"I took a screenshot."
"Huh?"
"Nevermind."
Veldora then makes the portrait disappear after realizing Ifrit won't be playing that game with him.
Veldora also picked up a few mangas and anime from Rimuru's memories by looking into the soul corridor.
On his hand was a volume of a certain guy who wants to be a pirate king and next to him was a pile of books about a certain death-granting notebook.
To say he enjoyed it was an understatement. He literally cried for being granted the chance to read them again after 3650 episodes (10 years) of being a Manhua villain, and 109500 episodes (300 years) of being a storm dragon inmate.
310 years and he still remembers the day of his high school, naughtily sneaking both mangas and porn mags into school with his friends.
Of course, he can't miss out on looking into Rimuru's life too. For one, something caught his very attention.
"I apologize for the sudden intrusion, my name is Treyni."
Dryads... They are a bunch of elementals who asked Veldora's permission to let them live in the Jura Forrest. These guys stated they will "Govern" the Forrest as much to Veldora's dismay when he found out it wasn't exactly the kind of "Govern" that he thought.
He had been informed that an Orc Lord was born after seeing Rimuru encounter the Ogres. Again, he mocks the slime to be so stupid for naming every single monster he sees as much to the slime's retorts
Veldora soon found out that the Orcs are being controlled by 『The Starving Ones』, it was surely a problem.
So after a week, they went to subjugate the Orc Lord and...
"How dare you ruin the plan of the great Gelmud!!?" A short man in a crow mask, dressed in white and holding a cane: the Majin stupidly announced himself just after the situation got worse for the orcs.
The Onis who had their hometown burned in ashes by the orcs look at him with bloodlust. The sign of hostility clearly shivers down his spine.
The mosquito squirmed as he acts arrogantly. But just a few seconds after being beaten to a pulp, He went to the Orc Lord...
"Help me, Orc Lord! No... Geld!" He calls the pig by the name given by himself. The humanoid pig looks at him without any emotions before he moved.
"I must... Fulfill... Gelmud-sama's... Wishes..." With those broken speeches, the pig went forward in order to fulfill his master's desire.
However, he decided to take some shortcuts... *SLASH*
«Report: Gelmud's life signs have ceased»
With the cleaver in his hand, he chopped the head of his own master before greedily feasting on him.
All of that, in order to fulfill Gelmud's wish: to become a demon lord.
«Confirmed: Individual Geld is commencing evolution into a demon lord»
That was not Great Sage, it was the voice of the world. With a burst of energy, the Pig's Demon Lord Seed bloomed, thus giving him an evolution into a demon lord.
"GRRAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! I AM THE ORC DISASTER. MY NAME IS GELD, DEMON LORD GELD!"
As Veldora stared at the screen with his eyes, he felt something unsettling inside of him.
The Unique Skill, 『Investigator』inside Veldora's soul went haywire, his Magicules shaking the entire soul corridor and words come out from his mouth.
『Rimuru, it's time.』
"Heh?"
『Spit me out, Rimuru. The prison is already broken.』
«Report: would you grant Individual Veldora Tempest permission to use 『Doppleganger』»
By Veldora's request, in the middle of the battlefield, Rimuru goes by a "yes" whilst looking at the Orc Disaster.
"Someone needs to be taught a lesson"
Rimuru wasn't sure that was Veldora's voice, but he never did recognize any other low baritone voice other than the dragon.
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To be continued.
