Thirty days had passed since rimuru swallowed Veldora. during this time we each decided train to be able to fight the monsters in the cave, I have been acclimating to combat in my current state, at first I continued training my movements trying to achieve a successful shunpo and when I finally succeeded I got an Extra Skill called "Flash Step".
After achieving a speed I am comfortable with i began working on some Hakuda, since I don't know when will I able to get a decent sword, unarmed combat is my only option sadly I couldn't get any skill from practicing all the techniques I know.
When I finished I went to the big lake to find rimuru using water blades to destroy rocks in the surroundings, Since he cant speak yet I sent a Telepathic message to him, It was quite easy to get this skill all I had to do is talk to him without help from veldora and I got it.
(Hey rimuru did you you acquire a new skill to help you in combat)
(Oh yes, Raiden I got water blade it is like a high pressure water jet)
As I watched him perform the skills he learned in the past month, I tried to learn some of them but failed, the only skill I managed to get was water walking.
After advising him about what to focus on in combat we decided to find a way out of the cave, as we walk down the path. I found out that he ate everything valuable in surrounding.
(How much can you hold in your stomach you emptied the cave of everything valuable even the magic energy concentration is decreasing)
(Hehe my stomach has a limit, veldora alone occupies 15% of my capacity, I am currently 30% full.)
(Only 30%, your "Predator" skill is overpowered, You even have an appraisal Skill , storage and a skill steal ability, that is a cheat character if you ask me.)
(I've been wanting g to ask this for a time now raiden, Are you a modern Japanese?, I thought you come from an old supernatural world ..... you called it The Soul society,and you are wearing traditional kimono and speaking in a slightly ancient tone at first, but now you are using modern terms like rpg and cheat character)
(Well I was in a similar situation to you, In the beginning I was a normal everyday human living in modern-day japan unfortunately I had an accident, I woke In up in a dilapidated district resembling the ancient Heian period, When I asked around back then I discovered that i died and was in the afterlife a place called rukongai, In there everything was made of spiritual power even my body, food, plants, houses, ..... ,etc, I thought that was the normal afterlife that everyone who died goes to and tried to to find my deceased relatives to settle in there.)
(Ahh, so that why you can move around normally without a physical body, you are already used to it, then what happened next, did you find your family?)
(Unfortunately not, The rukongai is enormous and is divided by 320 huge districts and moving through districts isn't easy, travelling outside populated areas is also dangerous, After wondering there for a while I learned about The shinigami, who are responsible for guiding souls to the afterlife and defeating corrupted souls, Thankfully my aptitude for spiritual power was passable so I went to the shinigami academy hoping to rise through the ranks and with power and connection find a relative I know, that was my goal until I went on an excursion to the human world with the academy as a student,I was excited after too long for seeing my family in the living world and that's when I noticed that the human world and the place I came from was totally different,)
(Are there multiple human worlds or did you transmigrate to a different world than the one you lived in.)
(There was only one human world connected to soul society, so I realized that I was in a different world)
While we were chatting we arrived at a closed Metallic Gate, when we were deciding what to do we heard the gate rattle and voices from the other side. We hurriedly hid in corner, rimuru easily hid due to his small size while I wasn't sure if they can see spiritual bodies but it did my best to hide any fluctuations coming from my body.
It was then that the door opened I saw three people waking in, looks like they didn't notice us for the time being so I listened on ther conversation trying to gather information.
"Whew! Finally got this thing open. The whole lockin' mechanism must've rusted out…," someone said.
"Yeah, I'll bet. Nobody's even tried going in for three hundred years or whatever, right?" replied a second voice.
"There is no record of anyone attempting an entry. Are you sure we're safe? We are not leaving ourselves open to sudden attack…?" commented a third.
"Gah-hah-hah-hah!" laughed the second one. "Come on. Maybe this guy was invincible a few centuries back, but it's just a big overgrown lizard, y'know? I told you guys 'bout how I bagged a basilisk solo once, didn't I? It'll be fine!"
"I was wondering about that, actually," the third replied. "Are you sure that's the truth, Kabal? A basilisk is a B-plus-ranked monster. You truly handled that by yourself?"
"Quit playing dumb! I'm B ranked, y'know! Some huge reptile ain't gonna faze me!"
"All right, all right. Just keep your guard up, if you could. And remember, we can always use my Escape skill if things turn sour…"
"Can we save the friendly chitchat for later?" the first interjected. "I need some quiet. It's just about time for me to activate Concealing Arts!"
None of them making much of an effort at hiding there voice, And I understood everything they said, strange when I asked rimuru Telepathicly if he can understand them he replied the he can and that is was due to magic sense being able to decipher any sounds that has willful meaning I them,I envy that appraisal skill he has , it is like have an AI Assistant connected to the I internet.
But that wasn't important. What should I do? I could make contact with them but without a body they might think I am a kind of spirit and attack, I didn't know what they wanted, but if I had to guess, they were adventurers. Treasure hunters, maybe? These were the first humans I'd encountered in this world—I had an urge to tail them to see what they were up to. But after discussing it with rimuru we decided to avoid them, Better save it for next time. Safety first. I could save the human stuff for when I get a body.
The slim man leading the trio did something, and the three of them suddenly began fading from sight. But I could still sense him, mind you. He did mention a "concealing" something or other—some kind of skill.
Once the trio went out of sight down the path, We went through the door, and before any of them could come back to check on things, we were gone.
Proceeding a fair distance from the door, We arrived at an intersection with several paths branching out from it. While deciding which path we take to the surface?Thinking about it wouldn't help much, so we chose random path and headed on down the cavern.