Sudden danger was sense amongst the dryads. A sudden evil of legends had once again emerged, causing the dryads to go into a state of panic
Trya: this enormous power, could it be-
Treyni: Trya! Go warn Rimuru-Sama and Kaijuno-Sama! Charybdis has awakened
Kaijuno Pov
It's been a few days since Youm and Fuze arrived in Tempest
In that short time frame, me and Rommel had already begun making drafts for "Youm the Champion" and "The Great Monster Royals". We had to make a few rewrites since I didn't feel satisfied with the first couple of versions
Rimuru would likely reject them, but I'll just have Rommel spread the story around the guilds anyways like in slime diaries
Rimuru would likely reject them, but I'll just have Rommel spread the story around the guilds anyways like in slime diaries. Other stuff to note, milim has been including herself in our training, as if Shifu wasn't already exhausting to survive against, now I have to deal with one of the most dangerous fighters in the series. Safe to say, my soul feels like it's getting further and further away from my body after every training session.
Currently, Lavandra is escorting me to school. Around half, I recieved an urgent call from Rimuru
Rimuru:(Kaijuno)
Kaijuno:(Yeah?)
Rimuru:(I need you to head over to the town hall)
Kaijuno:(But I'm on my way to school)
Rimuru:(It's an emergency, hurry!)
Kaijuno:(fine)
Kaijuno: *sigh* change of plans, rimuru wants me at town hall
Lavandra: But Kaijuno-Sama, you have class to attend to
Kaijuno: I know but guessing by Rimuru's tone, it sounds pretty urgent, we shouldn't dismiss it
Lavandra:Hai
We made a quick change of direction towards the town hall. There we were lead to the meeting room that was being used, full of the top people of Tempest along with a short hair dryad, good chance that it's Trya.
Rimuru: glad to see you arrived
Kaijuno: I'm not, you screwed up my attendance
Trya: Ahem!
Kaijuno/Rimuru:!
Trya: As I said previously, I came to report that the calamity known as charybdis has been revived
When she finished, the entire room fell into a state of panic
Rigurd: CHARYBDIS!? The ruler of the skies!?
Shifu: I believed it was sealed a long time ago, what could've happened to revive it?
These commotions were eventually cut off by out going sense of pride
Milim: Wahahaha! No need to fear, I can easily take down that charybdis for ya!
Cameilla: Actually it's best for you to stay out of this one lady milim
Milim: Wah!?
Kaijuno: In regards to that, I'd actually like to have milim be a last resort in case if charybdis becomes too much to handle
Lavandra: But Kaijuno-Sama, we shouldn't rely on others when this is our fight
Kaijuno: My priority in this is to keep the citizens and this town safe. Not everyone can ask a demon lord for help in their time of need, if I have to ask a favor from a companion, so be it.
Milim: Wahaha! I knew you would see my greatness-noda
Kaijuno: that said, you're still gonna be on the sidelines as a trump card if we can't handle it. Best case for everyone is that we won't end up needing the help
Milim:hmph
Immediate preparations were made to combat the ruler of the skies. The first formations of the armies of Tempest since now Dovakin's and Geld's forces were now on the call to defend
We also recieved outside support from Gazel's pegasus knights. Which suuuuure sounds logically. We're too prideful to have a demon lord help us fight against a demon lord level threat. But let's have a bunch of knights riding flying ponies fight against a ginormous shark that looks like it can kill any of them in one bite, cause that's okay with us apparently
Everything as been going pretty much the same as the source material. Benjamin took out megalodons with his hell fire, even with it being magic jammed. Leonardo swiftly used one to bite down the others. The rest are struggling to pin some down to be put on the chopping block
Gobta:AAAAAAAAAH!
Rimuru:hm?
Kaijuno:(that dude can really not keep somethings to himself)
Rimuru: Hey look, Lavandra is on Willfla's back. Wait, since when did Ranga and Willfla learn how to fly?
Benjamin: and when did they started their team up
Kaijuno: I think since last summer
Rimuru/Benjamin: Oh
This battle continue to rage on. It was difficult but somewhat manageable. Until charybdis started to use it's scales as a projectile, making the whole situation so much worse
Rimuru: Oh! They're being overwhelmed, cmon Kaijuno let's go
Kaijuno:...What?
Rimuru: They're clearly in trouble, CMON!
Kaijuno:(... I don't wanna)
I was hoping to be in the sidelines this time. First the orc lord, then Gazel, now I have to get in the splash zone of a kaiju attack. Charybdis is basically one of those force of nature villains who's whole point is to be highly destructive, not something I exactly want to get near
Rimuru:Gluttony!
Kaijuno:Muncher!
Even the overwhelming amount of flying scales that covered the skies were almost immediately wiped out in an instant by our Unique Skills. Although it was mainly rimuru's gluttony that devoured most of scales while I scrapped the ones from the far side. My Unique Skill Muncher was made to be a skill on par with Unique Skill Predator. But since rimuru evolved it by devouring the orc disaster, it evolved into Unique Skill Gluttony, making the power difference night and day, in power and range.
Rimuru:fallback, we'll take it from here
Lavandra: But my lords, we can still fight
Kaijuno: Even if you still can, once the scales regenerate, you'll be overwhelmed again
Leonardo: You really saying we'll just get in the way?
Kaijuno:...yes, you'll just get in our way
Willfla: Understood my lord
Ranga: Once we've recovered, we'll come back to assist as much as we can
And so, the two of us head towards the giant flying sushi kaiju. It was already intimidating looking in the anime, but seeing it in person is absolutely terrifying
Kaijuno:(activate Unique Skill Humility)
Wise Sage:[Unique Skill Humility Activated]
As we flew closer and closer towards charybdis, the intense winds surrounding it made it difficult to fly around
Rimuru: It's regenerating it's scales at such a fast rate
Kaijuno: probably should do the hydra method of attacking it's vulnerable regenerating areas to prevent a recovery
Rimuru: got it
Rimuru/Kaijuno: Black Lightning!/Violet Lightning!
We both shot out black lightning from the palms of our hands in an attempt to subdue charybdis. But even with two people shooting out black lightning, charybdis is only left pissed off and resort to shoot out a destructive beam from it's eye. In an instant, the beam cut through between me and rimuru and immediately destroyed the surrounding landscape. It was way too freaking close towards me, luckily it seemed I was able to narrowly avoid it in time
Kaijuno:(actually, something doesn't feel right)
Holding a strange feeling, I look down towards my lower body, only to see that the bottom half of my left leg was obliterated from the beam
Kaijuno: MY FOOOOOOT! MY F###### FOOT! HOLY #### GOD #### MY LEG! ###############-
Rimuru:LANGUAGE!
Kaijuno: I JUST LOST HALF A LEG, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO TAKE THIS!
Rimuru: You can just regenerate from it
Wise Sage:[Activiting Species Skill Self-Regeneration]
Kaijuno:....forgot about that
No time to be awkward though, we're still in the middle of a fight against a flying seafood kaiju. Since we were already separated, we went off in different directions to hopefully have one of us distract it while the other can focus on attacks... unfortunately it chose to go after me
Kaijuno: What the hell! Screw you, ya flying ebirah!
Charybdis:K-Ka-Kai
Rimuru:hm?
Charybdis:JUNO!
Rimuru: Juno? Was it trying to say Kaijuno?
Rimuru:( Hey I think it's after you)
Kaijuno:(Yeah, no freaking kidding, are you not seeing that it's firing it beam at me)
Rimuru:(I meant it seems to know you)
Kaijuno:(Reeeeeeaally?)
Charybdis:KAIJUNO!
Rimuru:(Seems to be, just keep him occupied while the rest of us continue to attack him)
Kaijuno:(WHAT THE HECK!)
That's how it went for the remainder of the day. Everyone went for an all out attack on charybdis while it ignored them since it was too focused on trying to kill me. I practically became target practice for the flying kaiju. Felt like I was in duck hunt
Rimuru: it's already sunset but our barrage of attacks only did about 30% of damage this ginormous monster is such a tank
Charybdis:Mi-Mi-
Rimuru:Huh?
Charybdis: MILIM!
Rimuru: Milim? Wait hold on, it's also after milim. Wasn't it after me and kaijuno due to our direct connection to veldora, what does milim have to do with this? Well since we're basically stumped on what to do with it, might as well ask for Milim's help
Kaijuno: MY LEG!
Rimuru: gotta make it quick
After hours of hell in the air, they finally got the wise idea to just let milim deal with it, I can hardly move once I finally land led back on the ground. If I had muscles, I would've been sore for weeks. I almost didn't have enough strength to witness milim's dragon buster. It's absolutely terrifying when seeing it firsthand, even more so knowing how much she truly held back
Phobio was revealed to be the vessel of charybdis. Once things finally started to settle down, rimuru begain their work on removing the charybdis core from Phobio's body using Gluttony. By the time they finished, I regained enough strength to drag myself close to scene, especially with what's about to come next
Rimuru: finished!
Kaijuno: Oh thank goodness! It's finally over
Rimuru: You sure had a surprisingly amount of endurance to avoid and take on It's attacks, don't cha
Kaijuno:... I might also have the endurance to forcibly raise my arm enough to slap you across the face. Wanna see if that's the case
Rimuru: sorry sorry
Phobio:mmm, w-what?
Rimuru: Oh! Seems you've awoken
Phobio:...! I'm so sorry! I wish to humbly apologize for my horrible actions towards!
Kaijuno:(he didn't waste anytime, surprising how he gained the brain to switch the attitude)
Phobio: All of this was under my own selfish volition, I beg of you to not hold Lord Carrion responsible for this
Treyni: How did you encounter the charybdis core, we won't accept you've just found it by chance
It was explained that phobio was tricked by Tear and Footman of the Moderate Harlequin Alliance into becoming the vessel for charybdis. It was also revealed by Dovakin that Laplace was also a part of this alliance
Rimuru: Well that does it I suppose. If there's nothing else to add, just go home phobio
Phobio: what! But shouldn't I be punished for my despicable crimes against you all?
Rimuru: While you did destroy the nearby landscape, there weren't any casualties, you cool with that Milim and Kaijuno?
Milim: Wahaha! Such trivia is not something I would bother holding against someone. I would've knocked him out if he continued with his behavior. But alas, I'm feeling quite merciful
Rimuru:Kaijuno?
Kaijuno:.....
Rimuru:KAIJUNO!
Kaijuno:mmmmmm, ALRIGHT! If you're gonna stop with... what's been happening, I guueeeees I'll brush this off
Milim: cool! Is that alright with you Carrion-noda
Right on que, Carrion decided to reveal himself to everyone
Carrion: I guess I've been found out. Hey rimuru and kaijuno, thanks for taking care my punk of a subordinate
Rimuru:ah-of course
Carrion:hhmmm
Rimuru:Huh?
Carrion: You ate the orc lord and gained it's powers didn't ya?
Rimuru: y-yeah, that was me haha!
Carrion: I see, I would've thought kaijuno over would've been the one to do it since I only saw him give it a run for it's money
Kaijuno: Yeah, Sure "a run for it's money"
Carrion: since I did brought this trouble maker at your doorstep, if there anything you need, feel free to ask
Rimuru: Well in that case, would be willing to sign a non-aggression pact with us, and maybe we can even start negotiating for diplomatic relationship
Carrion: Really? Well sure. In the name of Beastmaster Carrion, I swore that the kingdom of eurazania won't ever bare it's fangs on the Jura Tempest Federation
Rimuru: awesome!
Carrion: now then
Phobio: C-carrion-sama?
*SLAM*
MILIM: uuh
Rimuru: eh
Kaijuno:( Ah, noise that sounds so painful and yet gives me such blissful feelings)
Carrion: I'll make sure to send a messenger to start to diplomacy between us
Rimuru: g-got
Carrion: Kaijuno
Kaijuno: Yeah?
Carrion: You sure you don't want to work for me? Not even as a mercenary?
Kaijuno: *inhale* look, I can see that you're a cool guy and all. But the representative that you sent immediately started to make demands the very momment they stepped foot in town. AND when their ridiculous demands were rejected, they immediately resorted to attacking, on a CHILD no less, in the middle of a town, in BROAD DAYLIGHT. NOT ONLY did they intended to attack me, BUT they also made it clear that they intended to kill me then to even publicly torture me. Then afterwards, he kept acting like he owns the place in front of government officials and the demon lord that bashed him in one attack.
This same guy decided he would be willing to trust a random group of clowns just for the sake of revenge even though it sounded absolutely suspicious. He seriously chosed to become a kingdom destroying monster just to kill me and milim, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF SPITE! So yeah, I wouldn't get your hopes up for me wanting anymore of that. ALSO, I'm not actually a lycanthrope, I'm just a slime imitating a form of one
Carrion:Ouch! Kinda harsh, but it's not like I can really blame you for it. How unfortunate
After saying that, Carrion and his folks transported away, finally concluding the Charybdis Arc
Rimuru: I think that was a bit much Kaijuno
Kaijuno: You know what's also much? Having your limbs constantly being blown off, and no, regenerating doesn't brush off the experience. I'm out of stamina AND PATIENCE, I need a FREAKING breather from all of this
Rimuru: a-alright
Rimuru:( it's looking like I might've pushed them too hard today)
Kaijuno: What a crappy day
Looking back on it, I'm already feeling guilty about how I told Carrion off, especially when he's one of the more chill and actually nice characters outside of tempest. A lot of later volume characters are absolute pricks while Carrion is just more of a fun uncle type of character.
I'm surprised I actually had it in me to tell him off, his precense alone was intimidating and mighty and yet I ironically went off on him. Maybe I was too much in a wrathful mood to be fear about the situation
*Later that night*
In celebration of our victory against charybdis, we cooked up the megalodons for a big feast. I don't really like seafood all that much, especially after today, but I was hoping that maybe if I got a quick piece of raw megalodon, I could gain some skills like gravity manipulation and majic jamming. Worst case, I could just ask rimuru for the skills afterwards
As we were feasting, gobta decided to bring up a hypothetical
Gobta: What would you like to become after reincarnation?
Rimuru: What could I be after bring reform?
Benjamin: Seems to be today's hot topic
Gobta: I'd like to be a girl, then no one could resist me
Rimuru: do you have no shame
Milim: Wahaha, I don't need any other life, I'm already at my peak with this one-noda
Rimuru: kind of a boring answer
Milim: What!?
Leonardo:Hmm, I also wished to be female
Benjamin ah! Me too
Kaijuno: Oh ho ho! Well ain't that spicy, didn't know you were the type to desire such things
Leonardo: Nope, if I was female, I could have an easier time gaining Intel through seduction
Rimuru: such a workaholic
Kaijuno: still holds a lot of spice if I say so myself
Rimuru: What about you Be-
Benjamin:...
Rimuru:...
Kaijuno: Seems Benjamin is quite the degenerate himself
Leonardo: I do not know this man
Milim: Oh! Oh! I figured it out, I'll become a bee and take all the honey in the world!
Rimuru: Don't hoard all the honey ha ha!
Gobta: What about you Rimuru-Sama?
Rimuru: hmmm, hmmmmmmm, I got nothing, I'm completely satisfied and love the current life I have with you all
Milim:... that is the exact same answer I gave but you called it "boring"
Rimuru:eh!?
Milim: You're such a cheat!
Rimuru: Ah! Kaijuno, help me out here!
Kaijuno: Like how you helped me with charybdis? Piss off!
Cameilla: language
Kaijuno:hmph
Gobta: What about you Kaijuno-Sama?
Kaijuno:... A True Dragon
Everyone: A True Dragon!?
Kaijuno: Yup, a truly unstoppable force. So mighty that I'd be considered to be a natural disaster. I could cause as much destruction as I want. With that much power... I could easily beat charybdis to a pulp
Everyone: eh?....
So that's how the charybdis arc went for me. A terrible experience from a lack luster arc in the story, that resulted in my further distaste for seafood. At least now it's over... but I can't exactly I'm completely relieved, afterall this arc is the second to last arc before... nevermind, I'll just sleep on it