The Red Priest and Blue Slime Chapter 40

After getting cleaned up, I went back to my lab, and began creating my next ascension elixer. Which wasn't going to be difficult, frankly. None of my ascension elixirs were difficult to make in reality.

The biggest difficulty in my advancement elixirs in reaching higher Sequences was the time it took me to digest these elixirs. And the Sequence Five- Reaper's elixer was an interesting sight to say the least.

The elixer glowed a bloody but clear crimson. With swirling black iron-like dreg's that formed weapons for but a moment before breaking apart as the elixer swirled within itself. And within the bloody elixer a finger made out of gleaming silver would form like a ghostly apparition. 

"This elixer is the last of the 'common' elixer's I can make. Sequence four elixer's will require me to get damn near conceptual ingredients and I will need special way's to store the materials in stasis or something." I mused to myself.

But that made sense, frankly. As at least to my view, Sequence 4 was the stage when I was firmly losing my humanity as I ascended as a Red Priest, an incarnation of the concept of conflict, war, and strength.

"Now... Where the hell do I get pieces of a meteor that has killed at least a hundred people. Not to mention, I need 20 pounds of soil that has been completely soaked in blood of sentient beings that have been slain on an open battlefield... Oh and the eighty pounds of roiling magma, and a fucking acorn of all things?"

I muttered to myself as I mentally listed off the materials I would need for the next elixer. But regardless, this elixer was going to likely take me a couple of months at the very least to digest anyway.

So it's not like I needed to be in a rush to get the materials.

'And if the other nations come to conquer the Jura Forest... I will get plenty of the materials I will need.' I thought before I took a breath as I took the elixer and swallowed it down.

Instantly, I heard the Voice of the World in the back of my head giving a screech. As though you held up a phone to a sensitive speaker, making a feedback loop as I was edging the world's will at how I was losing my humanity.

I could feel flames fill my heart, as the lesser drake's inner fire filled my heart with a conceptual fire that boosted the Yatagarsu's flames that I was gifted as a welcome by the world's will.

Then the heat built up in my body and knowing was I needed to do. As the whole point of being a Beyonder was to lose my humanity in becoming an eldritch god... I needed to sacrifice my body slowly in a controlled manner to keep my sanity while growing in strength.

My right pointer glowed red hot and I began sweating profusely as the overwhelming elixer that was raging in my body congregated into the finger and then as the heat died down. My finger remained a lightly glowing silver.

"Sequence Five... Reaper, complete." I whispered as I flexed my right hand into a fist and hissed as my Beyonder Characteristic easily cut through the flesh of my palm as the silver finger's slight nail parted my flesh like it wasn't there.

And that was after I had already taken several skill elixer's to grant myself a more durable form over the last few months.

Then I realized something with a bit of a start as the wound glowed with the purple-black flames of the Yatagarsu's flames and the wound closed. 'The Yatagarsu's flames have taken on the Phoenix's flame attribute of healing? At least for me anyway. No idea if I can heal others with it.' I mused thoughtfully.

Regardless, I refocused on my Beyond Characteristic in the silver finger and knew I had sealed the overwhelming power of the elixer into my finger just right. So, now I could slowly absorb and digest the power within the elixer over the next couple of months.

And then... For the next elixer, for the Iron Blooded Knight- Sequence, where I would barely be on the level of a Demon Lord. I would have to replace all my blood as my next Beyonder Characteristic.

"Alright... Time to make sure Rimuru hasn't fucked everything up yet." I muttered as I realized I spent two day's actually absorbing the elixer without realizing it.

And as I came out of seclusion, all I could do was mentally scream as I learned that in the efforts of trying to improve our plumbing system, the leftover food/abominations that Shion called cooking had entered the waste system and through their eldritch nature. 

Created a horrible moving turd monster that needed to be slain. So now Shion had to throw all her leftovers into a special kiln the dwarves made so that either Rimuru, Benimaru, or myself could destroy the remains with our special flames.

-

"Oooh interesting! Oooh that's so new!" A feminine, rather childish voice spoke with great interest as she watched from a magical ball, as Rimuru swallowed the Orc Disaster and began digesting him.

Within the room was four demon lords, the first was a larger man with a beastly aura and bright golden eye's. That was the beast king Carrion.

Next was the beautiful, silver haired and rather scantily clad Harpy Queen Frey who was sitting next to Carrion.

The previous feminine voice speaking was the shorter and peitite Milim Nava who was looking rather interested at the scenes being shown of the Jura Federation quickly building up their city.

Lastly, with a cultured voice. Clayman spoke with a hum. "Milim, before you run off. Do remember that we the Demon Lord's have a non-aggression pact with the Jura Forest."

Milim snorted with her rocking on her heels as she said with a mischevious snicker. "Heh! That pact is long dead with how Veldora has dissapeared remember! Hmm, but yeah! I want to go investigate that little city haha!"

"Hmm, so with a small little kingdom being built. That could be an interesting addition to our forces and our own kingdoms. But besides that interesting slime, there is one more notably person we should pay attention to." 

The magical globe's mist swirled and then displayed Jake Bariss, who had just finished dueling with the dwarven king, and now they were in clear discussion of the sale and distrbution of his elixers.

"That human alchemist, he is nominally the leader of the Jura Federation even if we do not know his true strength level. I am unaware if he is a true Hero or something... Else. But no one can deny his value that is greater than taking over that force in his ability to give people skills on demand." Clayman spoke slowly.

Milim hummed before Frey the Harpy Queen, spoke cooly. "I am surprised your jesters and clown's haven't made an attempt to kidnap him. Or get leverage on him to learn his secrets." 

Clayman's relaxed smile thinned before he said quietly. "The Jura Federation has Treyni the Dryad Queen. What every tree hears whispered, she will know in due time. They also have an... Unusually skilled assassin character that is capable of creating a host of clones that can hide in the shadows as well." 

The Marionette Master sighed and said with some amuesment. "As much as I would love to do, take the easier path. My subordinate's cannot use their usual tricks, and I won't waste their lives in return for making a dangerous enemy."

Milim then cackled and said with pride. "Silly Clayman! You cannot make someone your subordinate with tricks like that! You got to make them submit with their hearts! Or they will just plot your downfall anyway."

Carrion nodded to Milim's words, with the Beast King's deep voice ringing. "In either case. I will send some of my own subordinate's to test things out."

The Beast King's expression twitched as Milim sighed and said in joking sadness. "Haa... All my friends are just so dumb. Alrighty, I am going to go check these guys out myself haha. You guys have fun just sitting there!" 

With that, the demon lords watched with dull expressions as Milim THREW the balcony doors open, breaking the doors in her haste to run out before they could say anything.

The demon lord's could only sigh as Milim then leapt into the air and shot through the air at high speed as she flew obviously towards the Jura Forest. And by extension, the newfound Jura Federation.

"Hmm, it would be a pity if Milim accidentally destroys... Literally all of this new federation. Having my beastmen gain more skills to round out their attributes would change much for me." Carrion grumbled as he stood up and popped his neck before he left as well.

-

"Hmm... I don't want you poking me with that finger. It's super dangerous!" Rimuru muttered as she saw me as I was walking around the town.

I shrugged and said with some amuesment. "Aww is the invincible slime afraid of having a hole poked through her?"

And Rimuru in her human form hurriedly nodded, making me roll her eye's at her shameless actions.

I stretched a bit before I ate more of the cotton candy I had been eating previously. As cotton candy itself was an extremely easy treat to make with it being just spun sugars that were partially melted.

And it was perfect for keeping the younger monster's busy, as even though the surrounding forest was safe... The Jura Forest itself was still a very dangerous place.

"Anyway, I am going to be digesting this elixer for probably the next few months. Unless another major issue like an army comes through the area." I spoke between bites of my snack.

Rimuru nodded, and then she poked my side making me jolt as she pouted and demanded. "O,h and what is this about you taking a bath with Shuna I am hearing about?" 

I raised an eyebrow and after a moment of thought, I shrugged and said honestly. "Ehh, she washed my back and I did the same... Isn't that the whole reason we have Japenese style baths anyway? A bit of skinship and such?"

Rimuru visibly vibrated and I decided to be an ass and play the ignorant American all the damned way. "Like I remember a game I used to play... Like isn't sharing bath's with a subordinate, and allowing them to wash your back supposed to show how much you trust them?"

And Mt Rimuru exploded with her face going red as she yelled out. "Those Yakuza games aren't at all what Japan is like! You don't share a bath with another gender unless it's your family or wife you big stupid westerner!"

I just happily ignored her insult as I slammed home a hole in her words as I spoke calmly. "Oh? Then what about all the anime I used to watch where people would share baths. Besides that, as a big westerner... I need to follow the wisdom of the ancients and mixed bathing in the Roman Bath's was a natural thing."

Actually, I had no idea if that was the case, but fucking with Rimuru was just so damned funny obviously.

"Ahhh! No! No! No! Mixed bathing isn't a thing! Damn you!" Rimuru raged, and then I silenced her as I tilted my head and asked curiously.

"But you joined me and the guys in the bath in your slime ball form?"

There was a moment of silence, before Rimuru looked me straight in the eye. And with no fucking shame said calmly. "My true form doesn't have a gender... So it doesn't count."

Then likewise with my max level of shamelessness I said calmly. "Then, I can take a bath with Treyni then. As their true form is just a tree after all." 

Silence rang out as Rimuru and just stared into one another's eyes for an extended moment... Just waiting for the other one to blink and admit their fault. To surrender and bow their heads!

But jokes on Rimuru, I was literally already part eldritch monster! I could now go weeks without blinking!

And being stared at so intensely face to face made Rimuru flush... And then I grinned as she looked away with a huff.

But then Rimuru's head snapped to the side and I paused as she muttered. "Wait..."

And then I myself could feel it. 

A massive... A fucking massive source of magical energy was flying towards us, and I froze as I realized what the damned source of power obviously was.

'Damn! That Dragonoid, the troublesome and lewd Milim Nava, is coming now.' I thought with some fear as I knew she was far beyond both myself and Rimuru's power.

Meaning that we had no choice but to play the canon game in tricking the naive and simple minded walking disaster into being our 'besties'.

"Rimuru, let's go!" I said as I ran ahead with my conjured flames pushing me into the air and I quickly swiped a large portion of cotton candy before shooting forward out of the town so that Milim didn't just slam into the town to find us.

We quickly flew out of the town, and in the distance I could see a pink meteor of power sailing directly towards us. And Rimuru quietly said. "The source of power has ten times more power then us, even in their rather relaxed state flying through the air."

And without another word, the meteor flared with power before shooting forward and then slamming into the ground in front of us creating a large crater!

I held up a hand to block the wave of dust and dirt that shot towards us and as the dust settled... I laid my eye's on Milim Nava.

She stood there with her hands at her sides. And then she let out a proud. "Wuahaha!" Of a laugh as she took in our suprised expressions. 

Though I could feel our subordinates quickly approaching... I didn't allow them to attack Milim as they did in canon, as I knew that simply by flexing her mana. Milim could throw them aside bodily and hurt them.

"Do not attack her!" I ordered with my own mana flaring out and Rimuru also joined in with Benimaru, and Souei pausing in preparing their attacks. Along with Ranga, and my own star wolf in Sif stopping as they were getting ready to flee with me and Rimuru obviously.

"It's good that you do not dare to attack me! For you all are... Hehe, much weaker then the Great Milim!" She said proudly before she threw her head back and let out another laugh.

But even with her being such a fucking goober, I could feel the roiling mana billowing from her form despite her just standing there casually.

"So I assume you aren't here just to greet us aren't you, Demon Lord, Milim." I spoke with my back straightened.

And to my question, Milim's eye's brightened before she pointed at me and said dramatically. "That's exactly right! I came here to make you my subordinate, especially Jake Bariss!"

She looked up, all but turning her nose up as she let out a laugh and bragged out. "Muahaha! If you become my subordinate, I will be able to rightfully bully Clayman, Frey, Carrion, and everyone else who has their own forces and will want your elixers!"

My face twitched as I realized that Milim didn't even really care about the Jura Federation, and taking over the Jura Forest in general. No, she just wanted to lord my elixer over her buddies.

I drew a hand across my face as Rimuru said quietly. "Who is this sassy lost child. And why is she wearing panties that don't even fit!"

As she was right, Milim's bikini like bottom's didn't really fit her body and had her ass crack greatly exposed. Which, with her very petite body, was rather weird.

"Now! You all the Jura Federation, kneel to the great Milim Nava Muahaha!" Milim said with finality as she put her fists to her hips and stared at us all.

And after a moment, I hummed before I approached with her raising an eyebrow she said in amusement. "Hoho! You dare to approach with evil intent! Do I need to beat you up to show my strength to earn your submission?"

I smiled and shrugged before I said easily. "I know all too well that you are... Much stronger than I am frankly. Far stronger than I am, honestly. But, I do want to try something if you dare to allow it."

Milim squared herself up, and then with a grin she said arrogantly. "Ha! If you make me even react, I will call this my loss haha!"

With her literally offering me the win in just making her react to my so-called blow... I just smiled before Milim paused seeing me tear a part of the strawberry and honey cotton candle, and then with a popping noise. I just poked the large wad of flavored sugar directly into her mouth.

I could feel Rimuru and Shion staring into my back as a popping noise rang out as my finger popped out Milim's mouth as she instinctively sucked on my finger to get the yummy sugar flavor off.

There was a moment of silence as Milim swished the melting cotton candy in her mouth that was melting due to her saliva... And then her power flared sending me skidding backwards and out of her crater as she screamed out like a fucking Super Saiyan.

"It's... TOO YUMMY!" 

Milim blurred forward, and I was lifted up into the air by the shorter girl and she all but dragged my face into her very flat chest as she screamed. "I need moar! It's just so yummy, it just melts onto mymouthandIneeditsobadly!"

Her words eventually blurred into a mess that I couldn't even make out. But then she lifted me away and begged. "Come on! Gimmie more it's so good!"

And like a predator luring the fat kid into the windowless van, I smiled evily for but a moment before I said with a wry smile as I got my feet on the ground. "So I assume that I win our little bout now? For that was quite the reaction there."

Milim just froze, and then made an adorable "Geh!" Noise as though struck in the stomach with a mighty blow as even as shameless as she was. She couldn't pass off her previous reaction.

But knowing Milim's pride, I just shrugged and said casually. "Whelp, let's just call it a tie then. So anyway, my new friend Milim. Let's go into the town as there is even more good food."

There was a moment as Milim struggled to accept me so casually adding her as a friend. And likewise, I could feel literally everyone staring daggers into my back for a variety of reasons.

But at the mention of more good food. Milim's eye's filled with literal stars and she cheered. "Letsss gooo then! I have to taste all of it haha!"

'And that's how you conquer the mind of a several thousand-year-old childish dragonoid.' I mused with Rimuru hopping onto my shoulder in her slime form as we headed back into town with Milim literally skipping into town with joy at the though of more food.