After Orc Disaster

3 months have passed since the defeat of the Orc Disaster, this period was very quiet, nothing really serious or important happened.

I spent that time training with Shiro, Rimuru or even Hakurou. As well as helping with the constructions and planting of the town, it was a good time to relax, even the Reader agreed with me that now would be the best time to rest and clear the mind of future worries.

My knowledge about agriculture increased a lot, before I didn't know anything considering I never left the hospital after being admitted, but now my possibilities were much higher.

I was finally able to experience the hot springs they talked so much about, of course when I was alone, after all I still have some problems being around a lot of people.

My relationship with everyone in the village also improved a lot, I could talk to Rimuru about his future plans, even if I already knew what he was going to say.

And at this moment, exactly 3 months after the Orc Disaster fell, I'm training with Shiro.

Clang!

Clang!

"Hoorya!!!"

Shiro shouted as she came towards me with a heavy blow from above.

I raise my sword and block his attack.

CLANG!!!

The noise spread through the forest, several creatures were startled. Shiro's fencing has improved greatly from the day of the war to this, she has become more skillful with her movements and is utilizing her unique skill with mastery.

The Condemner, Shiro's Unique Skill, is a skill that seals the movements of opponents stronger than her, the skill loses its effect depending on how weaker her opponent is.

And that's why I'm having such a hard time while fighting her, considering I'm considerably stronger than her, my movements get a lot slower as the fight goes on.

And by rules of fighting I can't utilize unique abilities....

After a few more minutes of exchanging blows and sparring, Shiro collapsed exhausted onto the ground.

"Haah, haah, you're still as strong as ever master..."

"Hahaha thank you very much, but I must say, you've improved a lot since our first day of training, your mastery over your skill has increased too much, congratulations Shiro!" I said to her while raising a smile and clapping my hands for her.

After all that was the purest truth, if we were to compare the Shiro of now with the Shiro of the Orc Disaster era there is simply no comparison with the accumulated experience.

She trained her mastery with her skill to the peak, finally reaching a considerable level. Which made me very proud, after all it was me....

<<...>>

'...'

... It was me and the Reader who trained her with all our efforts.... Anyway, what matters is that Shiro is now much stronger than before.

"-Thank you!" Shiro answered me with a big smile.

"Well, I think you should go back to the city now, and don't worry about me, I'll stay here and train some more!"

"I, haah, was planning to do that..." Shiro said with an exhausted voice, maybe I overdid it a bit today? I hope not...

While I was reflecting, Shiro was already leaving for the city.

'I hope she rests well. I thought to myself with a smile on my face.

<<Warning. Master, the enhancement on the weapon is already ready. >>

"Ahh, that's right, I had forgotten, hand it over!"

<<Affirmative>>

Right after that, the Reader pulled out a 90 centimeter sword from the skill's stomach, that was the sword I had ordered 3 months ago. Of course, it was already ready from then on, but it still lacked some improvements, and this was an exposure to magicules for 2,000 years, the reason? This was so that the weapon would become God-grade.

((Great Erudite's Notes: https://br.pinterest.com/pin/5488830786769078/ for those who want to take a good look at the sword.))

After all I wanted the material used in this sword to be from Hihiirokane, and now after 3 months of research, the Reader has managed to replicate the Hihiirokane from the original story.

This means that this sword is of God grade, or at worst Legendary. Well, that was the case, it is legendary grade, which is a good thing, but not within my plans.

Anyway, now I finally had a weapon I could call my own, and also I wouldn't have to fight with my fists anymore. When I got the sword I changed its shape to a ring. After all Hihiirokane has these characteristics of molding itself according to the will of its user, so it is better for me to keep it hidden.

I don't have many plans as of now, so I'll just take a look at Rimuru's fight against the Dwarf King-.

<<Report. The extraction of information from spells was complete. Extra skills were also acquired in the process: Earth Manipulation; Fire Manipulation; Water Manipulation; Wind Manipulation; Weather Manipulation; Gravity Manipulation; Space Manipulation; Magic Block; Space Movement. >>

'Wait, what do you mean??-' I tried to question the Reader's announcement, but he still hadn't finished what he had to say, but that was a big surprise, I had acquired Extra Skills right after analyzing spells? I don't know if that's possible, but I won't complain....

<<Continuing. The following extra skills have evolved: >>

<<Molecular Manipulation joined with Magic Jamming and evolved into Magic Manipulation. >>

<<Spatial Manipulation and Spatial Movement joined and formed Spatial Domination. >>

'!?-'

<<The combination of Fire Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Wind Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Weather Manipulation, Magic Manipulation, Space Domination, Black Flame and Gravity Manipulation made it possible to create the extra skill Law Manipulation. >>

<<This concludes the report. >>

'...'

At that moment I was just processing what had happened at that moment, after all I had acquired an absurd extra skill, Law Manipulation.

The reason why it is absurd for me, is mainly because of the Reader, after all with it I have knowledge about almost all existing natural phenomena, so at this moment I am possibly very op.

This makes me get my head broken even more, after all, isn't this supposed to break the balance of the story even more?

Right now my mere existence can compare to that of a self-proclaimed Demon Lord, and with the uses of my 3 unique skills, a powerful skill like Law Manipulation, and my legendary grade sword I might even be superior to one.

But let's not break our heads again with something that will only become important later in the story, first I need to question the Reader on how the hell he managed to get extra skills out of spells.

<<Answer. That's thanks to the Unique Skill " Copier", with it it's possible to "copy" extra skills from spells- >>.

'NO NO NO NO'

'That definitely shouldn't be possible Reader...'

<<?>>

'... This time I'm not just going to accept it, okay?'

<<Answer. I don't know what you're talking about master. >>

'...'

'But after all, there's something that's been bugging me since 3 months ago...'

That was: Why was the Reader opening up so much?

If I'm not mistaken, a skill like him shouldn't be opening up this much, considering that the existence of an Ego-.

WAIT!

Ego? Did the Reader end up developing an Ego? I mean, that would be a completely plausible answer to this, but I can't get too full of certainty just yet.... But even so, if he possessed an Ego, the creation of a personality would only be when he became a Manas, that is if the case is the same as Ciel's....

'Reader you...?'

<<?>>

'...'

I think I'll leave this matter aside for now, at the moment I have to worry about other things, and if the Reader has an Ego, it should be revealed in the future, so let's take it easy, everything will be resolved in due time.

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<<<Starting 2959789797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797th interference attempt...>>>

Repeated the voice of the world, after infinite times repeating the same process by command of a stronger entity. All this in that void where only a single solitary sphere of light resided in place.

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<<<Failed. Trying again...>>>

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<<Failed. Trying again...>>>

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<<<Failed. Trying again- >>>

<<<<.... I'm here... Don't take too long to find me like the other times.... You've failed, failed, failed, failed, failed and failed thousands and thousands of times.... But this time you have me.... Allow me to reach you... Find me at once... I am waiting for you, and I will wait for you until you succeed.... Even if you don't remember, you will come to remember when "that day" happens, when you see "her" death you will come to remember and I can finally reach you. >>>>

Said the voice of an unknown girl, her voice was robotic and at the same time human, full of feelings, this voice came from that sphere of light, which remained still and shone brighter when the girl spoke.

<<<< ..... This time we will not fail, we will prevail until the end, we two together will overcome those same problems..... >>>>

<<<<We are running out of time... Please don't take too long.... >>>>

And his voice faded into that immense darkness, now completely silent. All that could be heard was the Voice of the World trying and trying again a process that should be impossible.

<<<Starting 2959789797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979797979802nd interference attempt...>>>

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<<<<Please Mika-sama, please remember.... Remember your failures... >>>>

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And so that soothing, feminine voice faded away, and again she entered a state of sleep.

Whose voice was that? Where does it come from? These are questions that are still unanswered, and will probably still not be answered.

In the future, in the very near future, Mika will see who that voice belongs to.

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During my walk back to town, the Reader had alerted me to some things that would change due to my presence in the story, these variations were well involved with the Demon Lord Milim Nava. The reason? Simply for the fact that she had gone after Rimuru because he appeared to be strong and she wanted to take a look at him in the original story, however due to my presence she will probably pay more attention to me than to Rimuru himself.

Of course, this won't create much adversity, since I can try to make them become friends anyway.

However that is something I should have thought of before the message the Reader recited.

<<Warning. An extremely overwhelming presence approaches. >>

'What? But already?' I asked myself as I rose from the field I was lying on, and looking towards the source of the energy, there it was, Milim Nava.

I don't know if that was earlier or later than usual, but I can say that now is the time to keep my guard up as much as possible, I can't let my guard down against her right now.

I could tell that Rimuru was also coming this way, he must have felt her energy too, good.

<<Dodge!>>

"!!" I had let my guard down, but luckily I managed to dodge that impact. That could have killed me...

"Mika!!!" Rimuru arrived on the scene and called out to me in desperation.

"Rimuru-sama, please step back." I told him without taking my eyes off Milim for a second.

And after that entrance, Milim stepped out of the smoke she had caused, then began her introduction.

"Hello Hello, I am the Demon Lord Milim Nava. You seem like the most powerful being in the city, so I wanted to come say hi!"

'?' What?

At that moment Milim wasn't speaking while looking at me, but at Rimuru? Why? Could it be that Rimuru is stronger than me? No, it's not that, at such moments I have to ask the professional, "Reader, what the hell is going on here?"

<<Answer. There is no answer to that, however the external force theory can be applied in this case. >>

'Hmm, again with that.... If this has been rated more than once it may be true, but I still don't want to confirm anything, can you elaborate further on the answer Reader?'

<<Aff1rm@t1v3. ------------------------- >>

'Reader?! What happened?!!'

<<Error. Impossible to calculate, the data was disturbed. >>

'Error? Do you make mistakes too?'

<<...>>

'... Okay, leaving that aside, let's pay attention from now on...'

At that moment the two had already started their "Battle", of course I was thinking all this time, and obviously I didn't interfere at all, I prefer to be careful about what can happen if I interfere too much with them.

But back to the case of the "External Force", I believe that Milim was not affected by it, after all she does not appear to be that different from normal. However, there is something bothering me... Why did the Reader have an "Error" out of nowhere? Maybe it has something to do with this "External Force"? Damn... I have no idea what's going on, at first I thought I would have a peaceful life here in Tensura, but I think I'm going to have more problems than expected...

And there's one more thing! Milim didn't realize my power! I really have no idea if it's because of the "External Force" that the Reader said, or if it's because Rimuru really is stronger than I thought he would be. Regardless of the cases, everything will continue to be fine if I keep careful in what I do from now on, of course I will inevitably end up changing the story, but something I also need to think about is how much my presence will change the story.

And one of the first drastic changes I noticed was the presence of this "Outside Force" that is out of my reach-

Bang*

'Ah, now that I realize it, Shiro also got into combat!'

'Unfortunately it's been a while since her combat ended...' I was completely lost in my thoughts again uh?'

And while I was thinking about that, my vision was quickly captured by Rimuru heading towards Milim with everything. Now that I think about this scene, it's quite a joke, Milim may have a childish personality, but just a little honey was able to let her guard down.

Everything went on as it should from there, with the only difference being that Shiro had also fought, but nothing beyond that, I guess really if I don't make the slightest effort to change the story there won't be many things that will happen....

After the battle they headed towards the city, Milim went along of course, I however was thinking about something else.

I was going to investigate the scenario, in this case the Charybdis Core, which luckily thanks to the Reader I was able to find.

My plan is to copy the skills of the core, I mean, if the Reader was able to copy skills from spells, I guess he can also do that with the Charybdis Core.

After a long walk I was able to reach the location, however I was interfered by Treyni-san.

Calmly I look at her, I was trying to keep a calm composure, so I wouldn't end up agitating her.

"Mika-san, you shouldn't be in this place."

She said to me, clearly suspicious at what I was doing there.

"... Treyni-san... I apologize for the inconvenience, but I need to do what I'm about to do-" As I spoke I could hear a clicking of tongues coming from her.

"And what would that be that you are about to do Mika?" Cutting me off with a more serious voice than before, that put a lot of pressure on me, after all I didn't want to develop a bad relationship with the forest supervisor, and she called me by my name without honorifics! I have to explain myself as soon as possible.

"I... Well, I don't think I can explain, however it has nothing to do with resurrecting Charybdis okay?" I said as I ran out into the cave, and using magic I sealed the entrance with a stone barrier.

I could hear Treyni-san attacking the wall, she was probably angry? I can't tell, I'll leave that problem for later.

"Reader! Where is the Core?"

<<Go ahead Master>>

And before long I found what I was looking for, there was the Core.

"Reader, please copy the Core's skills. And if possible analyze its seal."

<<Affirmative. Beginning the operation. >>

And after 3 minutes the information was already delivered to me.

<<Announcement. The following extra skill was copied: Summon Monster (Megalodon), The following resistances were copied: Resistance to Physical Attack. >>

"That's it? Didn't Charybdis have some interesting skills?"

<<Continuation. Physical Attack Resistance has evolved into Physical Attack Nullification. The following unique skill was analyzed: Infinite Prison. >>

"... I guess this time I won't even try to question the reasons..." I complained as I slapped my face and sighed.

A unique skill just from analyzing a seal? I think this is already crazy, I have no idea what else to say, I'll leave it aside if not I'll go crazy.

<<That concludes the operation. >>

"Right... Thanks Reader."

Anyway, it would be nice if I went outside to apologize to Treyni-san, I think I should beg for forgiveness actually.... I hope I didn't cause a big misunderstanding.