Replacing Rimuru: A Multiverse story

4) Granting Myself a Name

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Raj Pov

It has been a few days since my hunt, I managed to rent a small apartment with the money that guy had, the Landlord did question me at first seeing my small body frame but when I told him that I was actually an adult but had a small body like a child which is due to the courtesy of my quirk and finding that I talked like a mature and adult he agreed on giving me a rented room.

Thankfully he didn't ask for some verification and didn't suspect me due to my cuteness, I guess Rimuru's beautiful looks are somewhat helpful and I looked quite harmless with my looks, after finding a place to live I decided to ask Great Sage some more questions, I mean I was quite curious about a few things.

Firstly, how did I survive the reincarnation, or rather how do I still have my memories, it might sound stupid like how you can call it reincarnation if you don't have your past life's memories. But the thing is that in Tensura it was stated that Rimuru had a strong soul which helped him survive a reincarnation and he was the first one to achieve that.

The Great Sage's answer was quite simple, my soul while not too strong as he is still stronger than average which helped me survive my passing through dimensions in the first place, and in the journey, it got stronger again from the Time-Space tribulation making my soul strong as Semi-Divine Soul. There was also the fact that my soul didn't have to cross the powerful Cardinal World's Barrier but just Mha's weak world barrier.

I was glad to hear that since the strength of my soul determines how many Skills I can have in the first place, secondly I asked her was that am I was like a parallel version of Rimuru, I mean I have all his powers so in essence, we are very similar and I got a piece of shocking news from her that I am the Rimuru or to be more precise I replaced him.

His entire existence is replaced by me, Rimuru no longer exists due to my wish of replacing him, Voice of the World has erased him from the Tensura world and barely managed to do that, thankfully Voice of the World managed to do that or Ciel would have definitely erased me knowing her personality which would have been the bad news to me.

This also means if I manage to go to Cardinal World there would be no Rimuru, it will be only me and I am free to follow the plot like his actions or can simply not care, so I can use my knowledge to get Op and become a Supreme Deity or even surpass it. Though before I start to do something big I would have to get a Time-Space-related skill or learn Time-Space Magic to leave this world.

From Great Sage's calculation latter would be easier though time and Magicule consuming considering a skill powerful enough to cross the world will be difficult to acquire in this weaker world. Next, I have stolen a Brand new smartphone and some PC components, I mean even if I have money I can't buy them without some identification which seemed a bit strict in this world.

So I thought rather than buying them second-hand or from some illegal means why don't I just simply steal them? and I did just that, now I have done all the basic settings in my smartphone and assembled the PC though not before analyzing all of them. Once I have analyzed enough of this technology I would be easily able to create a super-computer on the premise I have the required parts for it.

Now, that I have got a Wifi connection it is time to get crazy," Great Sage analyzes and learns info from the web on all topics related to History, Geography, languages, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Computer", I said.

[Affirmative, Though doing such a thing might create some suspicious traces], she replied, I pondered for a bit and said," Then use Skill: Coder to enhance the Software and Privacy first". She started doing that and connected to the Pc using Skill Coder and started doing her job.