The Storm Dragon Veldora is one of the five strongest Dragon Species in the world, possessing immense power. Because of this power, Veldora always thought he could live freely and do whatever he wanted, following his whims. He arrogantly believed he didn't need to care about others' thoughts; he would destroy if he wanted to destroy, and save if he wanted to save. Concepts of so-called good and evil were entirely unnecessary for him to understand. Thus, he was regarded as a calamity by humans. Eventually, he was defeated by a human Hero and had been sealed in this place for several hundred years.
However, Veldora wasn't that upset about being sealed, because he had fought the Hero fairly and squarely and was sealed only because his skills were inferior. There was nothing unacceptable about that. It was just—being sealed in this place without even someone to talk to was truly a great torture for him. So, when he found that egg, he was overjoyed at first. He tried everything to hatch it, but perhaps because he wasn't a female dragon, no matter how much magicules he infused into the egg, there was no reaction.
Until not long ago, his egg was stolen by a spider from who-knows-where. He had no idea where that damn spider came from. In his Magic Perception, that spider seemed to jump out of thin air from within that egg, and then, while he was dozing off, it stole his egg.
What a bastard!
He had discovered that egg a hundred years ago underground where he was sealed, and he had used his tail with great effort to dig it up. Then he spent a hundred years nurturing it with magicules. Just as it finally looked like it was about to hatch recently, that damn thief spider suddenly popped out and stole his egg. If it had just sat down to communicate, he wouldn't have minded sharing the joy, but could that thief spider be planning to do something bad to his egg!?
At the thought that the egg he had raised for over a hundred years might be eaten by a spider, Veldora howled with rage every day. For the first time, he was desperate to break the seal, but having never thought about breaking it before, the results of his sudden attempt were predictable: there was almost no progress.
"You damn thief, come back to me!"
"Don't you dare harm my egg!"
In this Underground Labyrinth, Veldora's roars to that effect could be heard almost every day. A certain spider expressed that she was already used to it. Although that big guy was powerful, he couldn't get out, so she wasn't worried about him at all.
This was a very fearsome-looking spider. Although her color was a very rare pure white, her scythe-like sharp forelegs and her fangs, which clearly contained deadly poison, all indicated that this spider was a quite dangerous species. Moreover, it was a species that did not exist in this world. The reason for that was because this spider was also a Transmigrator.
Originally, she was just a'seed' placed on a classmate by her Main Body for 'monitoring.' Because she was inherently harmless and very good at hiding, Little Tsukasa didn't notice her existence at first. Later, when Little Tsukasa became a god and that mysterious power appeared again, Little Tsukasa no longer had the spare mental capacity to sense the extra thing in her body.
She waited until she reached this world, where the Parallel Minds skill from her Main Body finally completed the connection and successfully hatched. Afterward, she utilized the divine power of Little Tsukasa she had previously absorbed and the magicules of that big fellow to successfully evolve into a completely new species, the Death Scythe. She then escaped from that big fellow with Tsukasa's "cocoon." Although that big guy seemed quite harmless, he was a powerful Dragon Species after all; if he truly wanted to harm Tsukasa, her current self would be no match for a giant dragon.
"So this is Tsukasa's secret. I see, a fate similar to mine, but for me, this is an opportunity." Shiro looked at the unique skills she had obtained when she transmigrated to this world: Feeder and Condemner. The former allowed her to gain more attribute bonuses through excessive eating, while the latter seemed to be some kind of authority, though the specific activation conditions were unknown.
Precisely because of the unique skill "Feeder," Shiro was able to absorb Tsukasa's divine power and the Storm Dragon's magicules. Otherwise, given her condition at birth, there would have been no possibility of evolution at all.
[Feeder: Obtain a certain amount of attribute points and experience through eating, absorption, and other methods.]
This skill is quite useful.
Shiro felt that if the Main Body hadn't strengthened its control over the Parallel Minds, she might have rebelled in the future, because she knew herself all too well.
During this time, besides
hunting and preying on various monsters in this labyrinth, Shiro was also guarding Tsukasa. Judging from the magicule reaction on the eggshell, Tsukasa might be waking up very soon.
Later, when the magicule reaction on the egg became even stronger, Shiro stopped her outdoor hunting activities and stayed near the egg all day to guard it.
A certain Slime that had just been reincarnated narrowly escaped a disaster because of this. Otherwise, given Shiro's personality of eating anything as long as it was edible, she might have wanted to taste what Slime jelly actually tasted like.
When the Storm Dragon saw this Slime barging all the way into his domain, he felt the Slime had a lot of personality. Thus, he took the initiative to converse with the Slime and taught it the Magic Perception skill. Through their conversation, he learned that this Slime was actually a Reincarnator who was a human from another world. This made Veldora very happy because he was very interested in humans; only by understanding humans could he better understand the Hero who had sealed him back then. According to his conversation with the Slime, that Hero was a female.
The Reincarnator Slime obtained a lot of information with the help of the Storm Dragon Veldora and gradually became familiar with the two unique skills he possessed.
Then the Slime was given a name by Veldora, and its attributes were greatly enhanced. Furthermore, the dragon and the Slime now shared the same surname—Tempest—which the Slime had come up with randomly based on the title "Storm Dragon." Veldora seemed to like it very much.
Thus, the Slime obtained the name Rimuru Tempest. After learning from the Storm Dragon that Transmigrators from other dimensions appeared in this world from time to time, Rimuru developed the idea of going outside. Although Veldora acted very lonely, he also felt this was better for Rimuru. At this point, Rimuru couldn't bear to leave this lonely big guy here by himself, so he proposed using his unique skill Predator to swallow Veldora along with the seal into his own Stomach. Because this was quite risky, Rimuru had originally only mentioned it in passing, but to his surprise, Veldora happily agreed.
Finally, just as Rimuru was about to leave, Veldora remembered something and shouted anxiously, "Right, Rimuru, before you leave, help me punish a thief! That thief stole my precious egg. Go and get it back for me!"
Hearing Veldora's words, Rimuru's perceptive gaze couldn't help but look toward the giant dragon's lower body for a moment.
Veldora shouted in annoyance, "Not that kind of egg! It's an egg nurturing some kind of monster!"
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