The weapons I forge are absolutely flawless.

A massive amount of air was rapidly compressed in Atiga's mouth, condensing into an invisible force, which was finally swallowed with a muffled groan from Atiga.

By essentially firing an air blast into his own body, Atiga managed to swallow Rimuru's swollen left arm.

"You're a demon?!" Atiga's voice was filled with disbelief.

Only a demon's body could contain such a vast amount of demonic energy.

“Vorhos says I am,” Rimuru replied.

"Sigh, then you've really lost out." Atiga simply sighed softly, and the resulting air pressure sent Rimuru flying into the air.

This was the first time Atiga had seen Rimuru's appearance clearly.

His face was unfamiliar, exuding a fresh and youthful charm, and his aura was very weak.

It appears to be a newly born demon, created after being sealed away for countless years.

The guilt of losing an arm because of a joke he made made Atiga forget to savor the taste of Rimuru.

If Atiga had known earlier that the other party was one of his own kind, he wouldn't have made such an outrageous request.

"So, can I have those skeletons now?" Rimuru asked cautiously.

The aura emanating from this enormous monster was countless times stronger than any other magical beast it had ever seen. If it weren't for being so hungry that it had no other choice, it wouldn't have taken this risk.

Before Rimuru could even fall from the sky, his previously missing left arm grew back in a flash, as if it had never been injured.

“Of course.” Now fully awake, Atiga’s every word became deafening.

"I am Atiga, the Gluttonous Demon. Young demon, what is your name?"

“My name is Rimuru,” Rimuru replied.

"Rimuru? Please wait a moment."

Atiga opened his mouth and inhaled again.

The remains of the magical beast, which were originally quite a distance away, were drawn towards it like a shower of petals, scattering towards Atiga's face.

Upon seeing this, Rimuru immediately transformed into his giant slime form, spreading out to its maximum extent to catch the debris falling from the sky.

"How about you chat with me for a while while you eat?" Atiga asked.

"MmQ?"

Rimuru, having already transformed into his true form, doesn't even possess vocal cords, so naturally he cannot satisfy Atiga's needs.

“...Fine, let’s talk about it after you finish eating first,” Atiga conceded.

Chapter 237 Falling short of success

The appetite of the gluttonous demon has always been a mystery.

It single-handedly wiped out most of the demon army's food supply, forcing the demon army to make a desperate attack on the formidable pass guarded by the hero.

He once spared the entire village because of a bowl of plain white porridge.

Just like the same dish, some people think it's delicious while others say it's awful.

Atiga always decides his actions based on his momentary mood and whims.

From this perspective, the demon race has many grievances against it.

From the human perspective, Atiga is also an extremely troublesome demon.

While the warriors rushed to the next battlefield, the formidable pass that the 50,000-strong demon army had failed to conquer was leveled by it alone.

Whether it's an impregnable city wall or a precipitous peak, they all become indistinguishable after being swallowed by it.

The more Atiga eats, the more its body expands endlessly until it blots out the sky, resembling a moving mountain.

Even the hero who rushed back after receiving the news was unable to kill Atiga, whose size had swelled to its limit, before he was exhausted.

In the end, they could only try their best to defeat it, and their teammates who arrived later helped seal it to the seventh floor of the dungeon.

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"Eat quickly, eat quickly," Atiga urged.

It just doesn't like being disturbed while it's eating; that doesn't mean it won't disturb others.

Having been sealed away for so many years, it finally had someone to keep it company, and it couldn't wait for Rimuru to talk to it.

"Zizi-"

Wisps of white mist rose from the skeleton enveloped by Rimuru.

"When did you become a demon?"

"What era is it now? Which generation of hero captured you and brought you here?"

“I was sealed away, and you’re the first one to ‘feed’ me. From now on, I’ll protect you here.”

Atiga kept muttering to himself, as if he wanted to make up for all the things he had been too lazy to say or had no chance to say over the years.

It may have thought it was whispering, but the noise it made could be heard clearly for kilometers around.

"hiss--"

A crisp, abrupt tearing sound rang out, suddenly cleaving a spatial rift open in front of Atiga's forehead.

"Excuse me, I'll take this guy with me for now?"

A calm yet undeniable voice came from the edge of the crack.

Several chains instantly extended from the crack, stretching at an incredible speed, and without warning tightly bound Rimuru and the half-digested monster skeleton.

Then came an even larger and wider spatial rift, which pulled Rimuru and the half-digested monster skeleton, along with the churned air around them, into it.

It took Atiga about ten seconds to react.

The initial shock quickly turned into disbelief, and then into endless rage.

Only then did it realize that its newly acquainted demon underling had been kidnapped by a human right in front of it.

"Do not!!!"

Atiga's anger and resentment transformed into incredibly destructive sound waves that echoed throughout the seventh level of the dungeon.

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"Shh-"

The other exit of the spatial rift was high in the sky, tens of kilometers away from Atiga.

In their last encounter, the Sky Demon suddenly appeared and rescued Rimuru, but Jessica also discovered a weakness in this new demon.

It just doesn't seem to know how to resist spatial teleportation capabilities.

Since the other party will not resist, there is room for maneuver.

Teleporting an immature slime is about as difficult as moving a seventh or eighth-tier magical beast. Although difficult, it is still within Jessica's ability to manage.

Even if the teleportation point is slightly off, there are still marks left on Rimuru by the Black Eagles as a marker.

Jessica's only surprise was that, in just a few days, this slime demon had hooked up with another sealed demon.

This further solidified Jessica's resolve to seal it away.

"Rainbow Jet!"

Seven dazzling rays burst forth from Jessica's outstretched left hand, precisely locking onto the demon Rimuru in mid-air.

A spell with a single attribute might become less powerful as a slime adapts quickly, so how would it deal with rays of seven different attributes?

Flames, lightning, ice, and corrosion—multicolored rays exploded like fireworks after entering Rimuru's body.

Even a demon cannot easily ignore the power of this seventh-ring spell.

If Rimuru weren't a special race, he would at least be afflicted with abnormal statuses such as blindness, poisoning, and petrification.

Rimuru, who was hit hard right away, realized that maintaining his true form in front of this blonde woman would only make him a sitting duck, so he immediately shrunk into his humanoid form.

Taking advantage of the moment of contraction, he summoned a copy of the blunt blade, intending to repeat the same trick he used to escape from the Black Eagles.

But Jessica, who already knew that her opponent possessed the ability to change, was not about to let it succeed so easily.

The chains contracted faster than Rimuru expected, instantly binding its limbs tightly, making even a simple slash impossible.

In desperation, Rimuru instantly liquefied his sword-wielding arm and used the remaining momentum to bring the long sword down, attempting to create a gap.

But Jessica simply snapped her fingers, and a spatial rift, only a few centimeters in size, opened, swallowing the longsword that Rimuru had thrown down.

The next second, Jessica appeared in front of the sturdy sphere woven from iron chains and gently touched the surface of the Lionheart.

Then a dazzling light burst forth from within the Lion King's Heart, illuminating the small space as if it were daytime.

Don't underestimate the Sunfire Ray just because it's only a sixth-ring spell. In a small, enclosed space, its power is in no way inferior to spells of higher rings.

A series of subtle yet clear sounds of liquid melting emanated from inside the iron ball.

Despite Rimuru's best efforts to surge and break through the iron walls, he could not break free from the cage of fighting spirit and magic that Jessica kept pouring into him.

This stalemate lasted for half a minute.

"call--"

Jessica stared at the iron ball formed by the Lionheart, confirming that its interior had completely fallen silent and there was no longer any sign of struggle or resistance, and finally let out a long breath.

There was both relief and a hint of barely perceptible fatigue in that aura.

Teleporting the demon named Rimuru to an open area to create a one-on-one environment, followed by a barrage of high-level spells, and finally wearing each other down, was an exhausting test for her, both physically and mentally.

Fortunately, the enemy was dealt with.

The next step is to find a suitable location in the dungeon's array core and properly seal the demonic blood soul left behind by this demon, and the mission will be accomplished.

Jessica thought to herself.

However, the Lion King's Heart slowly opened under her control, and the scene inside shocked her.

The small space that should have contained the remnants of demonic blood and soul was now completely empty.

Chapter 238 A Visit Here!

Facing an immature demon, Jessica was confident of victory.

However, her ideal outcome was nothing more than forcing it into a demonic blood soul state before sealing it.

The fact that the slime monster was completely destroyed was indeed beyond Jessica's expectations.

If demons could be eliminated so easily, then humanity wouldn't be so vigilant about their threat.

Jessica can guarantee that even if the Sky Demon himself were here, he couldn't possibly rescue someone without her noticing.

Even when she focused her senses, she couldn't detect any mark on the slime demon, as if it had truly vanished from the world.

After repeatedly confirming that the problem did not lie with her, Jessica immediately focused her suspicions on the demon's special abilities.

After clarifying her direction, she quickly connected it to a special ability that only a very few demons possessed, as recorded in the annals.

Doppelgänger.

The seventh-circle spell Projection, which humans possess, can only create one illusory clone.

However, the demon who possesses the ability to create clones can create clones with real physical forms.

However, this is not without its costs.

The creation of each clone represents a sacrifice of the original body's power; the more clones there are, the weaker the original body becomes.

This weakening is irreversible until the clone dissipates.

Once the main body perishes, all the clones will die together.

Since humans developed the secret method of using clones to trace the location of the original body, this once incredibly troublesome ability has become the demon's weakness.

The presence of the mark convinced Jessica that the one she had destroyed was the same demon that Vohors had rescued earlier.

After all, the Sky Demon wouldn't risk his life for a dispensable clone.