From chuckles to choices: Rimuru's early death

The cave

'Why am I in a fucking cave?'

{It is a somewhat regular cave, not a fucking cave.}

'I didn't mean it like that! Ughh.... whatever... wait, what do you mean by somewhat regular?'

{A creature with tremendous power is sealed within this cave, but it has nothing to do with intercourse}

'Okay, from now on when I say fucking think of it as a curse word.

{Understood.}

'Anyway, tremendous power, sealed, what is this, a video game?' I mock.

{This world is indeed quite similar to the video games you are familiar with.}

'Damn.'

{There are no dams nearby, so who or what are you trying to damn?}

'.., just add it to the list of curse words, along with god damn since it's basically the same thing.'

{The list of curse words now consists of 3 words.}

'Good.'
I drag myself forward, it's kinda like crawling, so I get used to it pretty fast.
Then, the rock gets steep and I slip down onto some sort of... flower, or something.
The flower then starts disintegrating and I can feel it flow around in my body before it disappears.
It's a really weird feeling.

'What the hell was that?!'

{We are not in hell-}

'Curse word.'

{Understood. What just happened was that you absorbed that flower, should I analyze it for you?}

'... This really is like a game... right, yeah do that..'

{Analysis complete. This is a hipokute herb, it can be used to make healing potions.}

'Ohh, nice.. how?'

{I can craft healing potions if you gather more hipokute herbs. There should be a lot of them around here due to the high density of magicules in the area.}

'What are magicules?' I ask as I start to roll around, absorbing the herbs. I thought that rolling would make me dizzy, but that doesn't seem to be the case.'

{Magicules are Magical Particles and a particular type of spiritual matter that is heavily influenced by the minds of living beings. It is able to take on many different properties depending on the situation. They are both the building blocks of, and sustenance for, Monsters.

When one's power and desire come into alignment, it is acknowledged by the world itself and gives birth to skills. A sentient being's magicules are consumed and transformed into a skill. They are then able to call on that skill at any time to automatically perform a specific action or phenomenon, most commonly Magic and usually at a lower cost. These skills can be born out of acknowledgment for mastering an Art or by one's desires becoming so strong that the magicules react to it and take a form that matches.}

'Okay, so it's basically just the energy needed to perform magic, right?'

{Yes.}