Chapter 12 Part 4

- Felix -

Eventually I saw space itself be cut, followed by the appearance of a giant gate. The gate opened to reveal two beautiful women, one with heterochromatic eyes, and the other with a confused look on her face.

"It's nice to see you in person again Luminous." I turn to look towards the other girl, "And you must be Hinata."

I analyze her with 'Milim Eye', she is fairly strong, far stronger than a Demon Lord Seed at the very least, but she's a Saint, even if an incomplete one so it's to be expected.

She even has two Unique Skills. She seemed to be ready for a fight, likely due to being in the presence of two unknown Demon Lords.

I turned to look towards Luminous who ignored me and looked towards Rimuru, "Demon Lord Rimuru, I am sorry for the trouble."

Hmm, she isn't apologizing to me, that could mean two things, one she is so pissed off at me that she doesn't care if her subordinates trouble me, which is unlikely, she might be annoyed at me, but I am a fellow Demon Lord, she is the type that respects that.

So that most likely means she had a little chat with Hinata and was able to learn that only Rimuru's nation was the Holy Knights' target.

She looks at me, it almost looked as if it physically pained her to do so as she said, "Hello Demon Lord Felix, thank you for that potion you gave me, it was quite useful."

"Oh? The Full Potion huh? It was no problem, Rimuru has a bunch of those." Might as well add some sneaky advertisement, it comes at no cost to me, and can help Rimuru out.

"A bunch? I see." When Luminous turns away from me I give Rimuru a hidden thumbs up, he gives me one back.

Luminous takes a seat with Hinata taking the seat next to her, "Do you two have any preference for your drink?"

"I would like wine." 

"And what about you Hinata?"

"Do you have tea?"

"Umu! Our tea is some of the best out there!"

"The best? I see, I have high hopes for it then."

I noticed Hinata observing both Rimuru and I closely.

'It has been detected that the individual known as Hinata has attempted to analyze the Master's skillset.'

The Unique Skill: Usurper has been analyzed.

The Unique Skill: Usurper has been acquired.

Oh? Well I can't fault her for wanting to learn our capabilities. Thanks for the skill though Hinata!

Oh man is this Skill incredible.

Essentially it allows the user to weaken, steal, and copy the abilities of your opponent, even skills, and elementals. The only downside though is that it only works on those stronger than the user.

'Answer, Due to having complete mastery of the Unique Skill: Usurper due to Odin's help in analyzing it, the Master can also rob, and copy the abilities of those weaker than the Master at a higher energy cost.'

Dude, what the fuck, Odin broken please don't nerf.

'Usurper' allows the user to copy the skills of their opponents, an automatically busted ability for this world. Still I'm pretty sure the only reason her Skill worked and registered me as an 'opponent' is due to the situation we are in, as far as Hinata knows she has no clue if we will become hostile all of a sudden so her Skill is registering us as potential foes which seems to be enough of a requirement to analyze me at the very least.

I fear for how broken a skill like this would be if Hinata ever evolved this into an Ultimate Skill.

'Hey Odin, since this skill allows you to access your opponents skills and abilities due to its weakening and stealing effects, does it also allow you to copy their skills without them having to be an opponent since you acquired the necessary data?' Combining the data from 'Usurper' with her own should probably boost her ability to Copy Skills, or at the very least lower the requirements.

'Not as the skill currently is, Odin is attempting to assimilate the Unique Skill: Usurper. The Unique Skill: Usurper has been assimilated by Odin, Odin can now copy anyone's skills, and abilities. Along with that Odin is now capable of stealing Skills, however this is locked only to the Unique level due to Ultimate Skills being embedded deep within the soul. Along with this, those with Ultimate Skills are capable of resisting this as their souls are capable of fighting back against Odin's attempts.'

It seems like the skills abilities were upgraded a fair amount from becoming part of an Ultimate Skill.

Along with that the requirement of having to see someone use a skill to copy it is gone since Odin is now capable of accessing someone's skills and abilities directly, as long as they don't have an Ultimate Skill, allowing her to gather the necessary data.

I'll have to be careful if I have Odin attempt to analyze someone who has an Ultimate Skill, it seems I won't be able to analyze someone like Guy at the very least. Someone like him is bound to be capable of resisting Odin.

I am going to become the ultimate jack of all trades, except have mastery of all. The ability to assimilate any compatible skills at an energy cost is absolutely broken. Thankfully as far as I know only Odin has the ability to freely modify my skills due to being a skill that specializes in copying and editing other skills, though maybe Raphael can do something similar.

'The Master is correct, Raphael is capable of merging, and separating Skills, but far from the level of Odin.'

'Yes yes, you're the best Odin, I know, no need to be so smug.'

Now normally you would need an evolution of some sorts to have the excess energy to modify skills like Odin does, but Odin is capable of converting Skills I don't need into energy, like what she did with 'Amplifier', and 'Optimist'. So the energy requirement isn't hard to reach for Odin.

Though for merging and evolving other Skills into Ultimate Skills, I'm sure it's far, far more difficult.

Anyways now Odin can even copy other people's skills directly. My hope is that she eventually becomes capable of creating skills.

Truly, what an amazing present Hinata.