Jayr POV - Soulbound Territory - 1994
After we returned to our home universe, I spent some more time with my family taking full advantage of my Main Body and Digimon Incarnation to have some more fun with my wives while also playing with my kids or spending time with my sisters, parents, and friends, and of course, continue training to make sure that my abilities do no regress and instead slowly but surely improve.
This peaceful routine continued for some time until one day, Nikita and Zandeer contacted me using a device I created to send messages across the Omniverse by taking advantage of the connection created by the Blessing of Culture.
At the moment, the device itself is very basic and rudimentary, but with time, I plan to slowly improve until it becomes an Omniversal Chat Group similar to the ones I've read about many times in my previous life.
Anyway, my friends informed me of everything that happened during the Random Battle; they told me about Zandeer's victory in his Random Battle against the Champion of Fusion, who, by the way, was a good guy, so they simply chose to fight in a non-lethal battle.
After his victory, Zandeer and Nikita decided to help the Champion of Fusion reunite with his lover, who is the Champion of Reality, as the two obviously got separated when the Random Battle began.
By the way, the name of the Champion of Fusion is Jouichi Kujo. He is the twin brother of Jotaro Freaking Kujo from the Holy Scripture known as Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. In contrast, his lover, the Champion of Reality, is named Nellika Zoldyck, which makes it quite obvious that she is from the Zoldyck Family, a renowned family of assassins from the Hunter x Hunter Universe.
The two agreed beforehand to go to a specific universe at the end of the Random Battle, either to reunite and continue their journey or to grow stronger in order to avenge the other in case of an unfortunate demise.
Luckily, before separating, Nellika used a combination of Nen and Divine Script from the Hunter x Hunter Universe to create a pair of unbreakable rings that will immediately break in the case one of them dies.
Since Jouichi's ring was still intact at the end of the Random Battle's one-year deadline, meaning that the Champion of Reality was also at the very least still alive, Zandeer and Nikita didn't hesitate to help the former Champion of Fusion reunite with his lover by going to that universe with him.
The universe in question is that of Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken, also known as That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
In my previous life, that universe was represented in a popular Web Novel written by Fuse, which has been adapted into a Light Novel, Manga, and Anime.
The story follows a normal 37-year-old guy, Mikami Satoru, who, after being stabbed and killed by a robber, finds himself reincarnated in another world as a blind slime with unique and quite overpowered skills.
With the new name "Rimuru Tempest" given to him after meeting his new friend, the "catastrophe-level" Storm Dragon Veldora, he starts his slime life in another world, while on the way to building a city for monsters and increasing his number of subordinates.
Overall, it is a fairly powerful universe with quite a few hax and perks where the highest ceiling of power reaches the low multiversal level, basically on par with many of the Deities of my home universe, which is quite impressive.
What is even more interesting is that the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe is regulated by a System that not only uses a complex ranking system to classify monsters and other entities that live in that universe but also manage them, by helping and empowering them if deemed beneficial for the continuation of the universe or even act against them if deemed harmful, like it did with its own creator Veldanava when he fell in love with Lucia and and crystallized that love in the form of a child causing their death.
At that point, from the system's standpoint, its creator's love must be poured out to everyone equally; however, Veldanava's action of loving a specific individual seemed to have caused errors in the system, and as a result, the price paid in order to repair the system failure was Veldanava and Lucia's lives.
When they arrived in the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe, they too fell under the management of the system, which then quickly started to classify them before making sure that they could adapt to the universe, and in doing so, the System also empowered and made them much stronger than before.
After that, it didn't take them long to find their objective; however, Nellika wasn't alone because just like her lover, Nellika also lost against the randomly assigned opponent.
Luckily, her opponent also decided to avoid a lethal confrontation and was nice enough to agree to accompany and help Nellika reunite with Joutaro.
Nellika's opponent was another woman, the Champion of Chaos, Aletha Longbottom, who was reincarnated in the Harry Potter Universe as the sister of the famous Neville Longbottom.
During the first meeting, the situation was quite tense, but the presence of both Nellika and Joutaro prevented from escaling to the point of a full-blown confrontation, and soon, realizing that all the parties involved can be considered good and reasonable people, they decided to join force to explore and enjoy the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe together.
But something unexpected happened shortly after they met with Rimuru, the main character of the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe, as a rip in the fabric of time and space opened in an area close to their location, and from it, a young man came out.
That young man's name is Paul Greyson, a Viltrumite from the Invincible Universe and the former Champion of Metal who has quite a tragic story on his shoulders.
He, too, lost his Blessing in a confrontation against another Champion during a Random Battle, and the Champion who defeated him was a beautiful and kind woman who didn't hesitate to spare his life and help him back to his home universe.
After that, the woman, who was a Quendi named Reviriel from The Lord of the Rings Universe and the Champion of Order, spent the time waiting for the Unigate to be ready to be used with Paul and his family, helping them in protecting their world from the various threats, villains, and monsters.
During this period, Paul was greatly moved by Reviriel's beauty, kindness, and strength, and he inevitably and helplessly fell in love with her.
However, just as he started to gather his courage and confess his love, tragedy struck as his universe was invaded by the Champion of Power and his terrifying, powerful, and relentless army composed of countless Cybertronians and thousands of Kryptonians.
Paul Greyson and all the major powers of his universe all joined force to fight the invaders but it was all for naught as they were all getting slaughtered to the point that as he desperatily fought, Paul watched all his loved ones getting killed one after the other, his mother, his childhood friends, his father, and even the woman he loved.
Seeing that, Paul fought back with a heart full of rage, trying to avenge all those deaths and all the destruction that was brought by the heartless Champion of Power.
However, before he could even being to turn the tide of the battle with his own rage-fueled strength, the Champion of Power unleashed his most powerful card by opening a passage for one of the most powerful and dreaded force of the Omniverse, Unicron, a multiversal being whose only goal is the ending of the entire creation no matter at what cost.
His arrival signed the doom of the Invincible Universe as no one could oppose such overwhelming force, so in an act of desperation, Angstrom Levy used all his power to open a passage out of the Invincible Universe for Paul hoping that he would survive the perilious journey and find a way to grow stronger and avenge them thanks to the infinte possibilities of the Omniverse.
After learning about his story, Zandeer, Nikita, Joutaro, Nellika, and Aletha all decided to help him, especially since the Champion of Power and Unicron are a threat to everyone, as it is clear that they won't stop at anything to reach their objectives.
The Champion of Power obviously wants to win the Battle Across the Omniverse, and Unicron simply wants to consume all creation.
Coming to that conclusion, they quickly started to organize themselves, and Aletha decided to scry for some information regarding the Champion of Power by using the Divination Arts that she learned at Hogwarts in combination with many spells and magics that she had learned during her adventures across the Omniverse.
The result was that she both succeeded and failed spectacularly at the same time.
The success was that Aletha was able to divine that the Champion of Power was currently engaged in an extremely large war where countless planets, stars, and even galaxies fell one after the other, followed by an army of insane proportions. She was able to see many machines and horrifying creatures following his orders.
But she also failed as she dismissed the fact that the Champion of Power is also connected to a multiversal entity like Unicron and that when such a powerful entity is involved, the famous words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche become very relevent: "If you gaze long enough into an Abyss, the Abyss will gaze back into you."
That's exactly what Unicron did; he noticed Aletha's gaze on his servant and traced that gaze back on her, revealing their position and location before simply stating, "You're next," cutting Aletha off, blocking her sight while also harming her.
Luckily, Aletha was also kind of immortal, so she was able to recover quickly enough and warn the others about what she saw and that the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe is going to be the next target of the Champion of Power and its immense and powerful army.
Shortly after learning about that, Nikita and Zandeer didn't hesitate to quickly contact me, briefly telling me everything that I needed to know.
At that point, I informed my wives and headed into my Soulbound Territory with my Digimon Partners while leaving behind my Digimon Incarnation as usual so that I could also continue to stay with my kids and my family.
After all, if needed, I can always summon my Digimon Incarnation in an instant without any issue.
Then, as soon as we arrive, I quickly head toward the Unigate, approach the Unigate's Dial, put my hand on it, and next, I hear the familiar robotic voice coming from the Dial as it says "PlEAsE InpUt yOUr chOsEn UnIvErsE And dEsIrEd tImE."
With a serious expression on my face, I quickly digit my chosen universe, but before I could input the chosen time, the Unigate Dial's robotic voice says, "ChOsEn UnIvErsE... Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe... WArnInG! WArnInG! WArnInG! OtheR Champions aRe ALreaDy PresenT in ThE ChoSen UnIVErse! AS suCH, IT is ImPosSible tO CHOse the dEsIrEd tImE... StAnd stIll plEAsE..."
Quickly after that, the stone ring of the Unigate starts to turn and lock seven different glyphs on seven different V-like points of the circular stone gate, and as soon as the 7th glyph is locked, in the middle of the gate a burst of unstable energy emanates from an activating Unigate in the shape of a vortex and soon after that a water-like portal is opened.
Once the procedure of the portal opening is complete, the robotic voice of the Dial announces, "ThE gAtE Is OpEn... HAvE A sAfE jOUrnEy..."
After waiting a few seconds to be sure that there isn't any nasty surprise or message like my first time, I look back at my Digimon Partners and, with a confident smile, I ask, "Are you guys ready for a new, exciting adventure and a possible universe-ending war?"
Patamon, V-mon, and Wormmon silently nod with a confident smile on their face as they reply in sync, """Yes!"""
After that, we line up in front of the water-like portal opened by the Unigate and then, without any hesitation, we jump into the portal and let the Unigate do its job, sending us to our destination, the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe.
Jayr POV - Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe, Central World, Magic Continent, Great Jura Forest - 2013 AMB (After Milim Birth)
As soon as I emerge from the portal created by the Unigate and set foot in the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe, I feel everything strangely freeze as an ominous and deafing silence fall in the whole area and using my Cosmic Awareness, I immediately realize that the whole multiverse that is part of the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe has actually frozen as the System that rules this reality is actually focusing all its attention on me and my Digimon Partners to classify us.
Despite the fact that I can easily break free from this Time Frozen state and reject the System's deep and invading scrutiny, I calmly decide to allow this to continue after all, I'm very curious on what will happen, and of course, I'm also absolutely confident that there is nothing that the System that manages the Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe can actually do to harm me.
Then I hear the World Language, also known as the Voice of the World, in my head, the natural phenomenon that announces important events, the means that the System that regulates this multiverse uses to communicate with the multiverse residents and visitors.
[New Extra-Dimensional High Dimensional Entity detected! Designation: True Dragon. More Specific designation: Dragonoid-subspecies. Altering the constitution to align with world parameters. Converting Unknown Positive Energy and Unknown Negative Energy into Holy Power and Magicules.]
Shortly after the Voice of the World announced that, I sense the aforementioned Fundamental Particle enter my body and trying to fuse with it, by trying to convert my Spiral Cosmo and Anti-Spiral Cosmo, but of course, that is bound to fail.
[Error: Holy Power and Magicules are unable to convert the Unknown Positive Energy and Unknown Negative Energy. Analysis: Unknown Positive Energy and Unknown Negative Energy are a superior Power System of a much Higher Dimension and quality.]
The next moment, my Spiral Cosmo and Anti-Spiral Cosmo react to the intrusion of those Fundamental Particles called Holy Power and Magicule, and without wasting any time, the two energies within my body immediately swallow the Holy Power and Magicule, absorbing their properties, giving me a new, deep insight about them.
Magicules are a type of spiritual matter that is heavily influenced by the minds of living beings and is able to take on many different properties depending on the situation. They are both the building blocks of and sustenance for monsters.
Magicules are similar to atoms; they are invisible to the naked human eye and, despite having mass, do not normally interact with most types of physical matter and energy, although they are capable of doing so.
They act as a sort of radiation and can be found inside of materials as well as in the atmosphere, and are a particle highly susceptible to the thoughts and emotions of living beings.
Many spiritual lifeforms interact with the material world by creating temporary Material Bodies made out of magicules called a Magic Body, and thus physical attacks do not have any "proper" effect on them.
One would need Magic, Skills, Battlewill, or Weapons that can affect spiritual matter to deal proper damage.
On the other hand, Holy power, also known as holy energy, is a type of spiritual matter of an opposite nature to magicules, and it is the primary source of power for holy beings and is utilized in Holy magic.
Holy power carries properties of purification, capable of healing injuries and cleansing curses.
Its nature as the opposite counterpart to magicules leaves the two in a relationship similar to that of matter and antimatter, or more personally, Spiral Cosmo and Anti-Spiral Cosmo, with the positive (Holy Power) and the negative (Magicules) canceling each other out.
This essentially makes holy power a poison to demonic beings that rely on magicules to continue to exist, such as Majin and Magic Beasts, though when used for healing purposes, it can still heal them.
While I'm meditating on my new understanding of these energies, the newly enhanced Spiral Cosmo and Anti-Spiral Cosmo course through my Body, Mind, Soul, Divinity, and even Core, changing and improving them, making use of the beneficial propieties of the Magicules and Holy Power, making me evolve to an even higher level.
At the same time this happens, a searing heat explodes from my spine, my entire body trembles as my Spiral Cosmo and Anti-Spiral Cosmo surge to an unprecedented level, making the whole Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Universe quake.
I can feel something shifting inside me, a deep, primal force awakening, and at the same time, I sense a sudden connection with the System managing this multiverse, when suddenly, the Voice of the World announces in my mind.
[Error: Holy Power and Magicule were just included within the Higher Dimensional Energies. Error: High Dimensional Entity evolving to a Higher State of Existence. Error: High Dimensional Entity connected with universal force known as The Voice of the World. Analysis: High Dimensional Entity recognized as wielder of Divine Authority, like the late Creator and Admin Veldanava before he chose to relinquish his status and become part of his creation rather than above it. Analysis: High Dimensional Entity recognized as superior to even the Creator Veldanava at his peak. Fixing Error: Recognizing High Dimensional Entity as the new Admin of the universal force known as The Voice of the World. Granting new Admin full access and knowledge about the universal force known as The Voice of the World.]
Okay, for sure, this wasn't what I was expecting to happen, while a flood of new information quickly appeared in my mind.
[Fixing Error: The Higher Dimensional Energies are now classified as Spiral Cosmo and Anti-Spiral Cosmo and are unique to the High Dimensional Entity and Admin.]
[Comfirmed the existence of the Species-Specific Intrinsic Skills: Dragon God Spirit Haki, Justice Divinity, Dragon Divinity, Healing Divinity, Divine Dragon Lord Form, Ascended Divine Dragon Lord Form, Hentai Boost.]
[Comfirmed the existance of the Common Skills: Language Mastery, Martial Arts Mastery, Cooking Mastery, Piloting Mastery, Sailing Mastery, Weapon Mastery, Drawing Mastery, Healing Arts Mastery, Music Mastery, Science Mastery, Smithing Mastery, Chemisty Mastery, Tailoring Mastery, All Elemental Affinity, Energy Manipulation Mastery, Telepathy, Telekinesis, Teleportation...]
[Confirmed the existence of the Extra Skills: Gold Blood, Perceptual Teleportation, Dark Resurrection, Cosmic Awareness, Digital Nature, Evolution.]
[Confirmed the existence of the Unique Skills: Battle Universe, State of Self Actualization 1st Door: Pinnacle of Hard Work, State of Self Actualization 2nd Door: Pinnacle of Great Wisdom, State of Self Actualization 3rd Door: Pinnacle of Perfection]
[Comfirmed the existence of the Resist Skills: Abnormal Condition Nullification, Cold Resistance, Electricity Resistance, Flame Attack Resistance, Heat Resistance, Holy-Demonic Attack Resistance, Magic Resistance, Pain Resistance, Physical Attack Resistance, Sleep Resistance, Spiritual Attack Resistance.]
[Confirmed the existence of the Arts: Tidal Wave Punch, Avalanche Punch, Thunderstrom Punch, Divine Mealstrom Punch, Pouring Rain, Torrential Rain, White Ice Spears, Hundred Roaring Ice Fangs, Freezing Coffin, Golden Arrow, Divine Tidal Arrow, Divine Frozen Arrow, Past Injuries, Backlash Wave, Mealstrom Calamity.]
[Comfirmed the existance of the Magics: Water Magic (Rupture, Water Orb, Water Healing...), Darkness Magic (Sagitta Magica, Series Obscuri, Phantom Pain, Pain Overload...), Ice Magic (Sagitta Magica, Series Glacialis, Ice Shield, Freezing Coffin, Nivis Casus, Kosmikê Katastrophê...), Gravity Magic (Omnipotens Dis, Saecularia Viverra, Spēlaion Mikron Bary Melan...), Spatial Magic (Porta, Speculum Labyrinthum...), Methamorphosis (Advent of the Divine Dragon Lord, Ascesion of the Divine Dragon Lord), Restoration Magic (Tetragrammaton, He Kosmos, Kairos Peripeteia...), Melded Magic (Nivis Tempestas Obscurans), Creation Magic, Spirit Magic, Evolution Magic, Concept Magic.]
[Attention! Acquired the intrinsic magic True Dragon Magics: Star Magic (Drago Nova, Drago Buster, Invisible Barrier, ...).]
[Attention! Establishing the Ultimate Skill: Jayr, The Man of Culture. This skill allows the user to create, shape, and manipulate memes, ideas, behaviors, or styles that spread by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carry symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures. The user can convert Memes into Energy, which they can use for various purposes, like transmuting it into physical forms in order to create bridges, rocks, furniture, weapons, etc., or even using it in a raw form to directly attack a target. The user can generate a memetic aura that can make others forget what they are doing, where they are, who they were, leading to complete memory loss, cause targets to become subservient to the user, give others false beliefs of reality, and cause insanity. The user can transform into a meme, an idea that spreads between people by informing them about it, similar to how sick people spread diseases. Memes can spread through any form of communication: talking, books, TV, the internet, etc. The user can infect other beings with the capacity of sapience/sentience with thought processes/subliminal suggestions/deluded perspectives, causing various effects.]
I barely have any time to digest everything that the Voice of the World just informed me about before time immediately resumes, and I'm free from the frozen state while my Digimon Partners exclaim behind me.
"Whoa! That was kind of strange..."
"Boooh! This is crappy, I didn't get any cool power-up!"
"Come on, Patamon! We are already plenty powerful already."
While my Digimon Partners continue to chat, I focus back on the Ultimate Skill I just acquired and can't help but internally scream, 'Holy crap! This skill is absurd!'
Shortly after exclaiming that in my mind, I focus back on the Ultimate Skill I've just awakened while thinking, 'This Ultimate Skill is crazy, strange, and worrying at the same time! I mean... I can now create, shape, and manipulate memes, ideas, behaviors, or styles...? Basically, if I desire, I can create a meme that will spread quickly through all kinds of means and that can't be easily contained. This meme will actively seek out and destroy certain other ideas in those affected by it. For example, if I want to do something constructive with it, I can replace the idea of war with the idea of peace, or the idea of hatred for a particular group of people with the idea of accepting them.'
At this point, I can't help but frown while thinking, 'But I can also do a hell lot of harmful things with it. For example, I can also create a meme that allows me to put people in a catatonic state if they look, hear, or know about it. Maybe I can even defeat my enemies by giving them actual EMOTIONAL DAMAGE. Or I could even persuade them into killing themselves... This facet of my new Ultimate Skill is way too insidious, tempting, and powerful for my liking. If possible, I'd like to avoid using it... Like some kind of desperate last resort when everything else fails.'
Then I focus my attention on the "safer" parts of this Ultimate Skill, 'The ability to convert Memes into Energy, which I can use for various purposes, is fine... Sure, I usually don't have any energy issues as my Spiral Cosmo is basically infinite as long as my will is strong enough, but if I'm right, then I can use this ability even in universes where I can't actually use my Spiral Cosmo, which can be quite a decisive advantage. The reason for that is that memes are basically cultural information in society, which means that they are present in ANY universe with sentient life, it doesn't matter if it is a universe where one can only use technology. As long as there is some form of society, there will be memes to convert, and thus, I will have energy to use all my other abilities.'