41 The captured, and the punished.

Kagali was walking through the halls of the building. She had a stack of papers in her hand and had just entered an office. Once she placed the papers down on the table she stopped moving. She turned around and fired a series of curses at the person she had detected. However, none of them struck their target.

She had felt one of the magic sensors she had placed activate behind her and knew that someone else had entered the room. They had turned the free guild administration into the safest place for them, full of detection spells and some hidden traps. With the amount of preparation time, they had the spells were of the highest quality, capable of detecting even the smallest unknown magicules.

A barrier activated cutting off all communication channels and escape paths. But before they did she sensed several intruders in different locations of the guild.

"Show yourself! I know you are here." Kagali yelled.

But no one answered…

She began to prepare a powerful curse on her hand that would alert the rest of the building of the intruders but a moment before she cast the spell her arm was sliced off.

That attack gave her the general location of the attacker, so she launched a wide-range tracking curse and was lucky enough to strike her target. With the attacker now in her sight thanks to the spell she began to launch magical wind blades with a curse that prevented healing.

The attacker kept on weaving around the room, teleporting from one side to the other until they disappeared into the shadows. Aiming to strike from below.

Creating a domination curse in preparation for the strike she was about to launch it before her other arm also got cut off from a different direction. Thanks to being a deathman and also inhabiting the body of a homunculus the wounds did not make her flinch in the slightest. So when the attacker from the shadows jumped out she struck back with a kick that struck the attacker.

She was using her Unique skill Planner to attempt to figure out a way out from here. Her path was blocked by another hidden attacker and spatial magic was cut off due to the barrier. With her having her arms cut off she would struggle more to escape. So she decided to stall for time until Yuuki, Tear, and Footman got here. Even if she killed the one she had detected she didn't have a solid idea of how many people were hidden in the room.

"What do you want from me? Why are you attacking us?" She asked the person she had kicked.

Yet he wasn't the one to answer as a blue-haired man with one horn came out from the shadows.

"Kazalim, our lord has requested us to capture you alive. He has an offer to make you and your Jesters."

A frown appeared on her face before she spoke.

"You know my real identity. If it wasn't for being in this weaker body I would have killed you all by now. If you want a meeting you could have done so through the guild. What do you have to offer me? At this moment the defenses in the building should have been activated. The guild master should have been warned and even if you have me outnumbered at the moment you won't be able to defeat them when they get here. If you leave now you might be able to keep your lives."

"We have Laplace, soon we will have captured Tear and Footman. No astral bodies are going to be able to escape to live another day. Their lives are in your hands now, come with us peacefully and nothing will happen to them." Souei spoke.

"Laplace is still alive?" She said with a shocked face, relief could be seen in her eyes for a second before her face turned to anger. "What have you done to him?"

"Nothing for the moment, he has been treated really well. He was made an offer, yet he said that it was not up to him to decide but to you."

Two more people entered the room carrying an unconscious Tear and Footman.

"Final chance Kazalim."

"Alright... I will go."

....

(Rimuru pov)

We were now in a hidden underground room made especially for this occasion. Yuuki was trapped in a chair made entirely from the newly created Dimeritium. A metal that was only created thanks to Kurobe's Godly Craftsman's skill and my Raphael. It contained magic absorption properties. Thanks to it only being a metal it was considered a natural phenomenon and wasn't blocked by the constantly active anti-skill.

Yuuki slowly opened his eyes to find himself in an unfamiliar room. He tried to cast a teleportation spell to get out of there but it failed. He felt his magicules get taken by the bindings that trapped him in place.

His eyes looked at the only other person in the room.

"Rimuru!?!" A slight moment of confusion before anger set in but before he could speak.

"Yuuki, how nice it is to see you. I'm gonna have to ask a small favor from you, could you turn off your Anti-skill." I said.

Anti-skill had been kept activated as a passive, meaning I couldn't use Beelzebuth on him. I had originally planned to kill him and then eat him but Raphael gave me the warning.

[There is a possibility that you won't be able to acquire his skills after his death. His body could retain the anti-skill properties even after death if it is not deactivated beforehand. I apologize, I am not confident in my analysis due to his skill interfering when I try to analyze his body.]

So we moved on to the backup we had made in case something like this happened.

"You! If you don't let me go I-"

"Listen, you are enjoying this about as much as I am right now. Look at me, I have better things to do. And I am not looking forward to what will happen. So just turn it off, it will save you the unpleasant experience."

"Why are you doing this?" he asked

"Why? you ask. You know why. The orc lord, Charybdis, Hinata. And that is only the beginning, you think I don't know about what you were planning, just because you think you are a good actor doesn't mean I can't see your future backstab from a mile away. I am preventing future problems by doing this. Plus our goals don't align, you wanna rule the world and I don't want you to. Last chance."

By now Yuuki realized that the only reason he was alive was that his skill was active. He didn't know why he hadn't been killed using physical force, but he knew this, the moment he turned off his skill he was dead. Maybe Kagali would come to save him. So clinging to his last hope he said.

"No."

"*Sigh* Let me present to you our new invention, it is called a memory projector. You imbue magicules in it while thinking of a memory and it will project it. I did say I was going to show you boku no pico right? Lucky you, you get to watch it in 4k instead of as a manga. Pulling this one out from the depths of my memories. Just for you, as a gift for being so cooperative."

…

[Unique skill Creator has been acquired.

It's subskills are

Skill Creation - Allows the user to freely manipulate their soul energy and create any skill/ability they desire.

Analysis - Allows the user to fully analyze anything they touch and any skill that they see used directly (Including Unique Skills).

Anti-Skill - A body composition that invalidates skills, abilities, or magic the user touches. This, however, does not work on purely physical or natural phenomena, such as the burning of oxygen due to fire. It also cannot counteract two or more properties when it comes to magic and arts fusion.]

Using a cleaning spell to get rid of the blood in my clothing I asked Raphael.

'So does that mean we can create whatever skills we want now?'

[Yes and no, the unique skill creator works by condensing a desire or wish and creating a skill. Yuuki was able to obtain Anti-skill thanks to his desire to break free from the domination spell that was going to be placed on him when he was summoned. It requires an extremely strong desire and will, that is the reason Yuuki was only able to use it once this way to obtain anti-skill.

A skill that otherwise would not be obtained can also be created if enough understanding of it was obtained. For example, if you made enough research on a specific element such as wind you could easily obtain a skill for the wind element. Something that would otherwise be up to chance, a really small chance.

The one limitation is that the skill created cannot exceed the rank of Creator. So for the moment, no ultimate skill can be created.

After further research on the skill, we might be able to enhance its skill creation capabilities.]