I stand in front of Clayman. "Alright, how'd your little fight with Rimuru go?" I smile at him.
He looks at me, obviously mad but a little too afraid to speak. I walk over to Rimuru and hand him Milim. "Hold her."
"Eh? Why?"
"She could get hurt, she just fought me, you never know." He looks at Milim. Looks like he doesn't agree with me on that.
{Notice- Milim shows no physical injuries.}
I'll ignore that. "Well, Clayman, you ready. It's time to die. You should have never messed with me." As I walk up to him his eyes fly into a panic. He's denying it.
"No! Not like this! This is not how I die!" He begins to glow bright as he struggles to stand up. "No! I won't lose to a bunch of miserable Slimes!" He begins a pseudo transformation, desperately clawing at any bits of power he can get. He knows he'll need it after what he just saw. "Yes! The world is yet to forsaken me! I have acquired power! This will not be my end!"
"Really?" I blast him with a little bit of Magicules. "Come on then."
"Grrr!" He runs up to me and attacks me with a punch from one of his extra arms. I effortlessly block it.
"Is that it?" Hearing this, he attacks me with a flurry of rapid punches. Using [Dimensional Barrier] I block by standing perfectly still. After a few seconds I decide enough is enough and use [Hermetic Reality] to launch him into the edge of the barrier Guy made to keep the fights isolated. He slams into it and collapses on the ground, barely standing. "Don't you think it's time to end this charade?"
He stands up, clawing onto the edges of the barrier to hold himself up. "This won't end like this." He begins to charge an attack. "This is my greatest technique! Eat this! Demon Blaster!"
Eating it with [Judas]'s [Apex Predator], I walk up to him. "Give up, it's hopeless. I'm really strong even compared to the top Demon Lords. Do you really think your measly little half evolution will be enough to defeat me? Stop being delusional." He charges up to me. Dodging his attack, I punch him in the stomach, sending him against the wall of the barrier again.
"I don't give up."
"Fufufu, fuahahaha, hahahaha!" Smiling, I say, "You don't give up eh?" I use [Hermetic Reality] to basically force choke him. "That's exactly what I wanted to hear." Flinging him to the middle of the arena Guy made, I freeze him in place. "Don't think I will let you off easy after what you did to Rimuru and Milim! No-no, I will make sure you have the most miserable final moments possible."
As he lifts his head up I kick him in the face. In the process, knocking some of his teeth out. "But, while you can still talk..." I pick him up by the neck and throw him at the feet of Rimuru and Milim. "I want you to apologize to them."
"What?" I use [Demonic Presence] to force him in a crawling position from the pressure of my aura.
"You heard me. Apologize! Grovel at their feet! Beg for forgiveness! Don't even look them in the eyes, you are unworthy of doing that!"
"Why should I do that?"
"Tch."
{Notice- Ultimate Skill [Saul] subskill [Subjugation] has been used to forcefully subjugate subject Clayman.
Notice- Ultimate Skill [Saul] subskill [Alpha's Call] has been used to give Clayman a sharp pain if he refuses to do as ordered.}
"Do it!"
He feels an intense pain go through him. One that progressively gets worse the longer he refuses. "W-what is this!?"
"Like I'll tell you. Apologize!"
"Grr, I'm sorry." He feels as the pain gets worse.
"Not convincing enough."
He growls. I lean over and pull him up by his hair. "Did you just growl at me?"
"No."
"Correct answer." I let go, dropping him on the ground. "Now apologize like you mean it." I look at Rimuru who watches as he growls in pain with pity.
"Do you have to do this?"
"Yes, yes I do. This will satisfy my anger for attacking us and hurting Milim."
Clayman with gritting teeth says, "I'm sorry, great Demon Lords. I am unworthy of you and humbly beg for your apologies."
So you finally begged. Turning to the two I ask, "What are your responses?"
Rimuru accepts it but Milim says, "I guess I forgive him."
The pain comes back to Clayman as I add to it by kicking him as hard as I can. "You hear that!? She guesses! Do it again!"
"P-please forgive me, Great Demon Lord Milim."
"What's your response Milim?"
She thinks. "You know what, I forgive him. But just this once."
Clayman relaxes, the pain goes away. I turn to him on the ground, you got out of this one easily Clayman, but you're not in the clear yet. "I guess that works. Well, looks like it's time to torture you. I'm not someone you can apologize to Clayman. You threatened to kill my brother, everyone in Tempest, and Milim. You aren't getting out of this in one piece, wait no, in any piece."
This is my chance to test out my skills on a living target so might as well. Can't let an opportunity like this pass of course. With Clayman as a living test subject, I can test out my skills on an actual monster. This will be a very fun experiment. I explain this to Clayman who looks at me with a mix of anger and fear. Of course, it's not just as simple as testing skills on him, I want to make it as painful as possible so what I'm going to do is this.
{Notice- Usinge Ultimate Skill [Saul] subskill [Alpha's Call] to multiply all feelings of pain of subject Clayman by 10,000 times.
Using Ultimate Skill [Saul] subskill [Alpha's Call] to increase thought speeds of subject Clayman by 10,000,000 times.}
Looks like it worked. This'll serve to not only make the pain worse excruciating but also make it feel like it's lasting an eternity. With that set up, I freeze him in the air with [Hermetic Reality] to make it easier to test my skills on him. Let's start small with the regular skills. Not all my skills are Ultimate Skills, some stayed normal skills. I have 3 that I haven't used yet, much. [Flash-Freeze], [Acid Spray] and [Universal Thread]. I'll test those before the Ultimate Skills.
Let's start with skill number one, [Flash-Freeze]. I touch his arm, causing the immediate area to freeze solid. He screams in pain as soon as it happens. Hmm, what happens if I use more Magicules to try and increase the range. The area that was frozen was only about a few inches wide when I touched him but when I fought Milim the area was enough to swallow her entire side. Trying with more Magicules behind it on his other arm, the area frozen grows to a few feet.
Not bad, let's see how deep it goes. I rip off the ice on the first use of [Flash-Freeze]. Only ripping off the top layer of skin in the process of pulling it off, it seems the frozen area wasn't actually too big. Let's pull off the other one. When I rip this one off, some flesh comes off with it. Clayman screams in intense agony. So it freezes outwards more than inwards. I guess that's how Milim was able to just break it off in our fight. It wasn't enough to actually penetrate her body. Interesting, I'll keep this in mind.
Next up, [Acid Spray]. A pretty simple skill, just sprays acid. But how strong is it? Let's see. Using the skill to drop a single drop on his skin, it slowly eats its way through his entire arm, including bone and exits out the other end of his arm. As it burns through, Clayman howls in pain. "That's some pretty powerful acid. What happens if I spray a lot of it?"
I put my hand out and as the name would imply, I spray the acid on him. This time, it eats quickly through him, leaving nothing behind after a few seconds. It eats through him faster than even something like the blob. It's pretty strong, not as strong as a corrosive substance as [Demonic Breath] but it's certainly up there. I throw a potion on him and move on.
Finally, we have [Universal Thread]. I wrap him in glowing threads and pull. The threads easily cut him as soon as I pull, drawing blood. But you would think I cut off an arm by his reaction. Looks like [Alpha's Call] did it's job perfectly. I pull harder, easily ripping through his body like butter. I don't want to kill him of course, so I stop after it reaches areas where he could die from injuries but I do go as far as possible. His screams only get louder and louder as I do this. As I get rid of the [Universal Threads] I hear something.
Clayman mutters, "Lord Kazaream. Help me."
"Hmm, I'm not hearing that correctly, what did you say?" He goes quiet. "Hahaha! Look at you begging for Kazaream's help. What is he, your mommy!? Newsflash, he won't and can't help you! He's dead right now!" I know he isn't actually dead but I gotta make sure this is believable.
Moving past that, I decide it's time to get [Demonic Breath] out of that way. These first skills are nice to test but there is one I definitely want to try out and it'll make up the majority of his torture. Blowing some of it on him, I watch as it eats through him. He yells out in pain as it completely eats through his entire left arm, leaving nothing there. All this took a mere 2 seconds and I barely blew any of it on him. Not bad. "Not gonna lie Clayman, I thought it would last longer. What do you think about the results?" He's gone completely quiet. I guess he's already lost hope, it has been quite a long time for Clayman.
"Yo, Clayman, are you awake? Are you ready for the last one? Oh, don't worry, it'll be much longer than the other two." I lift him up higher and get ready. It's time to test out the near unlimited potential of [Hermetic Reality] on Clayman.
First, simply moving my hands around, his body twists and turns. His limbs twist into screw-like shapes, his eyes pop out of his skull, his bones shatter and reassemble like legos, his body pretzels itself into unnatural shapes and through all of it his screams only get louder. Hmm, let's try this. I raise his weight but keep his body just as structurally strong to see his body collapse. Dropping him to the ground his body gets crushed under the strength of his own weight. His screams begin to gurgle and then disappear as his method of screaming fails on him.
Putting his body back together I play with the laws of physics to see how his body reacts. Everything from the smallest atom in his body to entire organs doesn't make it through this process without being altered at least once by me. As his body contorts into a grotesque abomination of meat and bone the gurgles that were once screams get lower and lower. Spreading my arms out, his body expands like a balloon and pops but I keep all vitals intact. Bringing him back together and repeating the process in every way I can't just to see how his body reacts to the new reality, his mind breaks over and over, but whenever it happens I simply heal it with [Alpha's Call] and keep going. After about 15 minutes of this I am finally satisfied, heal him one last time and drop him to the ground.
I look at him one last time. He's curled up in a ball, mumbling something about me being a monster or something. I don't really care. I turn and walk away, going back to my original carefree attitude and grabbing Milim out of Rimuru's arms to go sit down. I break out of Guy's containment, place Milim in her seat and sit down myself. "Alright Rimuru, go ahead and get rid of him!"
He immediately yells, "Y-Yes!" What's his problem? He runs up to Clayman and mutters an apology for my actions...what did I do wrong?
{Everything.}
Really, now the actual voice in my head is saying I'm the bad guy here? The nerve of some people.
I watch as Rimuru eats him with [Beelzebuth], now, as for why I let him finish him off, simple. [Gluttonous King Beelzebub] has a corrosion effect that [Selfish King Judas] doesn't. Meaning, if he eats him, he'll suffer more than if I eat him. It's as simple as that.
{Notice- Ultimate Skill [Saul] subskill [Tempest Link] has been activated.
Notice- Unable to copy Unique Skill [Puppeteer] because subject Rimuru Tempest is already in possession of it. Workaround found.
Using Magicule knowledge to create Unique Skill [Puppet Master].
Unique Skill [Puppet Master] has been acquired.
Unique Skill [Puppet Master] has been deemed redundant because of the effects of Ultimate Skill [Alpha King Saul]. Would you like to fuse Unique Skill [Puppet Master] into Ultimate Skill [Alpha King Saul] to upgrade it? YES/NO?}
Yes.
{Answer- Understood.
Notice- Unique Skill [Puppet Master] has been fused into Ultimate Skill [Alpha King Saul].
Notice- Ultimate Skill [Alpha King Saul] has gained a new subskill, [Mind Domination].}
[Mind Domination] huh. Not bad, wish I could have tested it out on Clayman but hey, at least I got to get my revenge. Rimuru comes back to sit down as Guy drops the dimension. "Good work Rimuru!"
He awkwardly laughs, "Thank you?"
He sits down as I turn to see all the Demon Lords looking at me except Luminous who doesn't seem fazed by my recent actions. That's interesting. Well, let's ignore that for now. I look at Carrion, "Ha, guess that escalated a bit too quickly. Looks like you didn't get your chance to make your big reveal, Carrion. Go ahead and take off your mask." The Demon Lords turn and look at Carrion as he takes it off.
"Hehe.. Hello, long time no see, Migeru."