Satoru, No, he's now Rimuru.
Rimuru wakes up in the same familiar void.
"Good morning.. er.. or should I say Good night?
Hello regardless, good progress, you went way faster than I expected, you also got the slime form! Nice observation from you and your Great Sage."
Rimuru stared at the being infront of him in utter awe and shock, he knew everything.
"Are you.. observing me..?" Rimuru asked, a bit terrified.
"Ahahah.. no don't worry, it's just that when you enter here I can analyze you from head to toe, nothing escapes my hollow eyes!" He chuckled a bit lightly, making Rimuru feel relieved..
"So, now you have to wait a whole month." He said with an expression that could not be seen.
"Eh? You're joking right? A whole month? the hell am I gonna do?" Rimuru asked very anxiously, he was too impatient in the beginning, let alone now.
"Sadly, you'll have to, it seems you got quite good starter skills, as for the cave, it is quite large, very large in fact, you can spend years down there, gather as much abilities as you can."
He said in a blank tone, just stating the facts to Rimuru, Rimuru can just choose to do whatever he wanted, but he trusted this stranger.
After a deep sigh from Rimuru,
"Okay fine....But can't you directly help me? Make my life easier." Rimuru asked trying to squeeze as much as he could from the being.
"I can, but I won't, because if I did, your potential would go to waste.
Veldora's blessing is better than mine for you at the moment."
Rimuru took those words in and sighed again.
"Alright.. no skills aswell?" He was really desperate.
"Hm.... I can tell you how to make getting skills easier, other than that, I don't have any skills."
Rimuru dropped his jaw, this being that seemed all powerful, had no skills?
"Wait wait, no skills? you serious?" Rimuru asked as if he heard wrong.
"Yeah... just one, and I'm not giving it up, sorry."
"It's alright..." Rimuru looked quite sad, then continued.
"So how do I make getting skills easier?"
"You use your skill Contain to put massive pressure on the enemies, with the massive aura you were emitting without any control, any monster would've been subdued with contain, then as they are staggered/knocked out/dead, you use predator and you can get their skills and passives! Neat, right?"
Rimuru could only react excitedly.
"Yeah! Very cool, thank you sir!"
He got up to bow, making the being quite embarrassed.
"H-hey.. no need for that! Consider it a help for a future friend? Or rather, a current friend."
They shook hands before Rimuru woke back up.
Rimuru immediately began exploring the cave.
"Great Sage, if it is possible, draw layout of the cave as I go, so I can immediately come back here in a month, also keep track of the time."
{Yes, Master.}
Rimuru spent quite a lot of time killing monsters with this extremely efficient technique.
Almost a month has passed as Rimuru gathered much more magic ore and hipokute herbs, and skills.
"Great Sage, lead me back to Veldora's meeting spot, and tell me of my skills that I gained."
{Yes, as for the skills:
"Sound-Wave Tracing" - Allows you to tune into your surroundings, letting you feel anything within a radius of 100 meters, it is recommended to use for espionage.
"Body Armour" - Hardens a part of your body with metal, can be used as a weapon.
"Wind Blade" - Take a massive breath then breath it at high speeds, can cause injuries and cuts from low to high extents.}
Great Sage kept analyzing his skills until it got to 2 important ones..
{Unique Skill Predator evolved into:
"Apex Predator" - It has the same effects as Predator, but it is much faster, and can be made faster with Magicules, this effect applies multiplicatively with the Unique Skill "Supercharge".
With the evolution of the Unique Skill "Predator",
The Sub-Skill "Analysis" has evolved into a separate skill,
Unique Skill "Slime Wisdom" - It allows a much faster and more thorough analysis, additionally, any being superior to the Slime race of monsters will not be able to feel this analysis, unless they have superior means of detection.
Lastly, You have gained the Unique Skill
"Camaraderie" - A skill that raises your senses and abilities while more people you share a deep bond with are around, the more people, the stronger the effect.
This ends the analysis.}
'That last one... sounds broken...'
"Great Sage, how much is the increase in ability and do I have anyone currently applicable for a deep bond?"
{Answer, the increase begins at 1/4 of your current status, increasing by 1/4 for every ally after that.
This increase does not apply to magicules.
As for the applicable ones with a bond:
-The Storm Dragon Veldora - Oath Of Brotherhood.
- Error. Cannot Comprehend. Cannot Understand. Cannot Make Out the Person.
Rebooting Great Sage...}
"Huh? Great Sage? You there? Hellllloooo?"
After a few minutes Great Sage came back on.
"Oh.... you're finally back... had me worried there."
{Apologies, it seems the answer could not be found.
Would you like to conduct a search as to why?}
"No.. it's fine, don't worry about it.."