Diablo, Rimuru and Shion all turned their heads to find someone, very tall standing there. At first glance, it was exceptionally clear that this individual was not ordinary.
This individuals body was nearly completely black with cracks of magma flowing across his body, the composition of his body was clearly viscous. His eyes looked like glowing suns.
'Why do I feel like I've seen this one before, but where?'
{Notice: He was one of Simon's eleven lords that was sitting at the round table earlier.}
'Ah, how have I already forgotten him so quickly, I feel like I'd be able to remember a character such him.' Rimuru thought to himself as he was speaking to his skill.
"Lord Rimuru?" Shions voice came slightly concerned as he hadn't spoke a word of greeting yet.
"Oh sorry Shion." Rimuru then turned to the individual, "Hello there, I'm Rimuru Tempest, you're one of Simon's lords, correct?"
"Yes, I am the Black sherpard Darwin. I assume you're here only to visit and didn't come here to destroy everything here?" Darwin said teasingly.
But Rimuru didn't catch the teasing tone and immediately began denying any desire to cause trouble. Eventually Rimuru caught the laughter of Darwin, Diablo and Shion, "o-oh, you were joking."
"Apologies lord Rimuru but I didn't think you would take me so seriously. I did not mean to undermine your intentions, if there is something you want then I am happy to help." Darwin asked sincerely after regaining his composure.
"Well if you insist, is it ok if I can get a tour and explaination of this place?" Rimuru took advantage of his request and desired to learn everything that was going on here.
Rimuru had become a ruler and an adventurer, it was now time for him to embrace being a scholar, walk in the footsteps of his friend Simon for once.
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Despite his less then standard appearance, Rimuru thought of Darwin as the nicest individual he had ever met. He was like Simon minus the mental instability.
Not only his kindness but he was also easy to understand, his explanations so straightforward that evens a musclehead like Shion could understand.
Darwin had shown them newly created habitats as exhibits meant to create new species through ecosystem differences.
"Hey Darwin, this is alittle off topic but can I ask why I can't access the true purpose behind Amphoreus? Does Simon not want others to know what it is?" Rimuru asked alittle expectant.
"Oh that, well it's not a secret but I believe it should be a secret nonetheless. Lord Rimuru, have you ever heard of Irontomb?"
Rimuru: "Ah… I have heard of it, Simon and Treyni mentioned it before but he never explained what it was."
Darwin then resigned to his fate of explaining what Amphoreus was, "Awhile back, one of the conjectures that Lord Simon wanted to figure out was… the prime mover of life, what is the origin of Ego? To solve this, he decided to work backwards, he created an equation and then a computer that was meant to solve it, the anti-life equation."
This sound of this equation sounded so ominous that evens Diablo wasn't sure how to react to it, " Mister Darwin, may I ask what the anti life is in particular?"
" I don't know, no one does, that's why Simon made this computer to calculate it perfectly."
Seeing that asking about the anti-life would be a dead end he went into the next question, " Well then, would you explain the nature to Amphoreus and it's relation to this Irontomb?"
" The computer that Lord Simon created to calculate the Anti-life was Irontomb. Overtime due to constant extrapolation and calculations, Irontomb accidently created its own soul and become sentient. When Lord Simon sensed this, he decided to allow it to be independent and gave it the name Rubert."
The name mentioned at the end was actually familiar to Rimuru, " Rubert, you mean that giant robot that was floating in space, THAT'S Irontomb?"
"Yes, Mechanical emperor Rubert, he extrapolates the aspects of death and destruction and inputs it into his core to add as variables in his calculations."
Rimuru was visibly more frightened, " Ok but what does that have to do with Amphoreus?"
" Wow so you really don't know. Amphoreus is the world within Irontombs core. This is the center point behind his extrapolations. This entire simulated world is Irontombs code that is manifested into reality through chaos."
And now Rimuru, Shion and Diablo were just shocked and afraid. They began regretting coming to this godforsaken place because this was now different walking into the beast maw.
"There's no need, Rubert is exceptionally kind, if he wanted to hurt you then he would've done something already. He could also just reject you from this world."
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Yuura was reading a book in the corner of the room but was distracted by Kevin who was frantically walking around the room in a panic, " Are you ok?"
" Yes… no… I don't know. I'm confused at the moment. Don't mind me." Kevin said in a haste, rushing through his scattered emotions and turmoiled brain.
" Are you worried about having a kid?" Yuura smiled.
" What do you think? This is the first time that either of us will be having a child. I don't know how to process all of this." Kevin said with cold sweat dripping down his face.
" You're not bailing out on me are you? Especially after what you did to make me pregnant?" Yuura asked mischievously.
"No, of course not. I'm just worried about you." Kevin said concerned, completely ignoring her teasing.
"Well I'm glad and I can assure you that there's nothing to worry about. You just have to stay by my side for these nine months and you'll be fine." Yuura said, going back to reading.
Kevin: "If it is only nine months."
Yuura: " What's that supposed to mean? Babies usually come out after nine months."
Kevin: " Yeah, human babies do but currently you are a demon hosting an angel baby, we don't know how that'll affect the baby. Secondly, our divine body's and biodata could cause adverse unforeseen side affects. Lastly, we both know that Time in Eden is very chaotic, distorted and unpredictable."
Hearing this both Kevin and Yuura looked to each other with understanding and came to a silent agreement.