Tempest: After the Tenma War

Chapter 1: An Epilogue is Nothing but the Start to a New Story

Symbol Meanings:

"..." -> Speaking

[...] -> Speaking to or from a manas, in Rimuru's head

{...} -> Thought communication

[IN ALL CAPS] -> Voice of the World announcement

*...* -> Internally thinking

POV: Rimuru Tempest, Loveable and Ultimate Slime

* ...hmm...What?...Where am I?*

I stare out into, well, I do not know what. There's, nothing. Nothing at all. Just an empty, black void as far as the eye can see. And my eyes are very good, I'll have you know. There's just... nothing to look at right now.

I focus my gaze deep into the void, turning my head left and right to try and get my bearings. Needless to say, that didn't help. Seeing if I can move around further, I turn my body to now face behind me. Again, nothing but endless void.

"This is starting to get annoying..." I mumble to myself, commenting on my current predicament.

*How did I even get here?...Oh...That's right...I...lost...*

Sinking down, as if there's somehow a physical, invisible floor in this endless void, I fall to my knees, my head touching this formless ground, arms smacking it repeatedly.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid! Because of your own incompetence, you lost! Lost to that pretty boy wannabe evil mastermind Yuuki! His plan wasn't even that good! Incredibly dumb and misguided at best, down right incomprehensible and evil at worst! You just got careless, allowing him to send you to whatever this cursed place is! Not to mention, now all of your friends are going to die, all because you couldn't handle it!"

I shout into the void, directed at myself. Needless to say, if anyone could see my state now, it would be quite the shameful show. Wallowing in despair, smacking the ground like a toddler, I shout at myself over and over, for who knows how long.

[...]

[Master, please, stop...]

I don't hear her, though. I don't hear Ciel, my first, my most loyal, my life long companion. Deep down, I didn't want to hear her. I didn't wish to be seen right now, having been beaten by...him. That evil bastard, Yuuki.

"I'll kill him...I'll kill him...I'll kill him..."

I mumble to myself over and over. The deep depression I was feeling at my defeat began to morph into something else. Something that, if left uncheck, could ruin me forever. Something that could bring ruin to all of creation forever. Wrath.

MY wrath.

This is more than just an idle threat, too. Before the final battle with Yuuki, I had evolved again. Evolved into what Ciel categorized as 'Ultimate Slime'. An evolutionary stage far above that of a Demon Lord, even being above a True Dragon in terms of magicule absorption, release, and control. I can use more complex skills and spells than them, release more power then them, and have near infinite stamina to boot.

While all three of them: Veldora, Velgrynd, and Velzard, can give me a good fight, especially when they team up, I will still be able to come out on top.

It's just that bastard Yuuki cheated, merging with that   fragment of Veldanava, what he and Ciel both called 'Velda', gaining it's immense power in the process. Not to mention his anti-skill ability, and the power of the sin series ultimate skill, 'Greedy King: Mammon', all working together to form that abomination of a man.