The Origin of Veldanava's Right Hand

Chapter 9: Nihility: The Key to Ultimate Destruction

Rimuru POV

After I created the world seal that trapped Ivarage, Lord Veldanava transferred the seal inside the Heaven's Tower to be protected by Dagruel and Glassord. However, I feel that containing such a being is not easy, especially when its aura is capable of manifesting different monsters. Hence, I need to be careful about this.

Anyway, I then returned to the Heavenly Star Palace before moving to an isolated room meant just for me. I then began optimizing my skills. [Raphael] is a pretty useful skill, but it's not something that I truly need.

I already have great intelligence and analytical abilities needed to defeat my opponents and I am also in possession of [Thought Acceleration]. However, Skill Creation, Alteration, Separation, and Synthesis were the real useful sub-skills.

I then decided to merge the subskills Analytical Appraisal and All of Creation of [Raphael] into those of [Orion], allowing them to be further heightened and improved. I then brought the Extra skill [Thought Acceleration] and merged it with [Raphael]'s Thought Acceleration, allowing me to think hundreds of millions of times in a single second.

Afterwards, I merged [Raphael]'s Chant Annulment into that of my Stellar Prestige, making it even stronger. This left [Raphael] with Thought Acceleration, Parallel Operation, Synthesis, Separation, Alteration, and Skill Creation. 

Finally, I merged [Belzebuth] and [Raphael] together, which caused the creation of an entirely new Ultimate skill called [Void God Azathoth]. As I got this skill, I suddenly felt my aura rise at an exponential rate which made me instantly go to the Stomach to avoid having anyone else feel it.

However, this stomach was no longer what it used to be, as it was an infinite void that never ended. It seems that [Azathoth] has upgraded Stomach by an inconceivable margin.

Checking its subskills, they are:

1). Soul Consumption, which took over Predation.

2). Nihilistic Collapse, which allows me to use Nihility, the primal energy of destruction that Lord Veldanava used to create everything.

3). Imaginery Space, which gave me a whole void as a subspace. This is what gave me access to Nihility in the first place as I now have access to the void itself.

4). Space-Time Domination, which allowed me to have nearly complete control over Space and Time.

5). Multi-dimensional Barrier

6). Synthesis and Separation, which I combined into one sub-skill.

7). Alteration

8). Skill Creation

9). Thought Acceleration

I then merged my Extra skill [Multi-dimensional Barrier] with [Azathoth]'s Multi-dimensional Barrier, making it even stronger.

As for Food Chain, it's now an Extra skill as it can no longer fit into [Azathoth]. Meanwhile, Isolation has been merged into Imaginary Space as it can automatically isolate anything that could be harmful to me.

As for some of [Raphael]'s sub-skills which were left earlier, they were all implemented into [Azathoth] with the exception of Parallel Operation, which is now an Extra skill.

However, the most important sub-skill that I need to focus on is Nihilistic Collapse, also known as Turn Null. It allows me to use the nihilistic particles, an energy even more dense and destructive than Stardust.

Nihility comes from nothingness, or the void and if there is creation, then there is no void. It was because of this principle that Lord Veldanava lost Nihility after creating the multiverse.