I look at what seems like nothing before holding my hands out. "Hermetic Reality: Ultimate Ability- Subjective Reality, Sustained Pocket Dimension!"
The people behind me watch as the space in front of me begins to glitch a little. A small crack forms in front of me. It glows with a bright white and blue glow, surprisingly similar to something very intriguing. The glow, it's almost identical to...
A burst of pain hits me. I hold my head and breathe deeply a little until the pain goes away. That definitely means something.
Veldora senses my pain and asks, "Are you okay, Migeru?"
"Oh, it's fine." I turn around, "It's nothing."
Milim looks at the crack in the air and walks up to it. "Is this a new skill?"
"Hm?" I turn back to Milim. "No, it's a technique." She gets very close to it and reaches out to it. "But wait, you probably don't want to..."
Milim touches the crack which glitches and closes a little, taking off the end of Milim's finger. "Waaah!" She jumps back and looks at her hand, now missing the tip of her finger and about half her nail.
"Touch it." I put my hand to my forehead and walk over to her exasperated. I pull out a Full Potion and drop it on Milim's hand. "This crack is a portal. To another dimension. Problem with it is it's very unstable right now. I just have to fix a few kinks with it but it'll be ready in a few seconds. But until then, don't touch it. Got it Milim?"
She nods, staring at her regenerated finger. I walk up to it and hover my hands around it. Through some of the subskills of [Greater Sage], the core of [Solomon] and where I guarantee it's ego is, I can access enhanced versions of my previous [Genius] skill. It is through this and [Solomon]'s help that I begin stabilizing the crack in space-time. It's a slow process given it takes a massive amount of Magicules but I finish it in about 5 minutes. As the crack grows, it opens more, revealing what looks like an isolated dimension on the other side. When it's finished, I walk back. Solomon?
{Notice- Stability of the crack in space-time generated by Subjective Reality has been analyzed. Stability has been confirmed.}
"It's done." The portal is circular with the cracked edges spinning in a counterclockwise direction. Inside the actual portal exists an empty void.
Veldora and Milim look inside. "Is this it?"
"Hm, no, not yet." I point at the void and activate Hermetic Reality: Matter Manipulation and Absolute Gravitational Control- Time Distortion causing the inside of the portal to start warping itself. It becomes more orderly with a solid ground to stand on. On top of that, I distorted time inside to pass by faster inside. "Now it's finished. We'll train here."
Adalman looks at the portal. "How marvelous! What an incredible sight! As expected of one of my magnificent gods!"
Alright then. I walk into the portal and look around. The inside is still, with a neutral temperature. It's really just a completely silent and empty void. Expanding the area with Hermetic Reality: Spatial Distortion, I invite everyone inside. Veldora and Milim walk in first with the rest coming in right after. After they all come inside I explain my new little dimension. "So, now that the setup is complete. Welcome to my training dimension. I'm here, time is distorted to pass by differently. About one year here is one day out there." I turn to look at Veldora. Yup, this immediately catches his attention. "This'll help me with getting you all up to scratch for what I'm assigning you to do. I hope you're all ready for this."
I walk over to Veldora. "Getting right into it, first, Veldora, your job is to train Zegion and Apito. I know they have incredible untapped potential so getting you to get them stronger will be the best choice."
Veldora listens to me and looks at Zegion and Apito. "I see. So I will teach you little ones." He smiles, "Very well! I, the great Storm Dragon Veldora, accept you two as disciples of my new Veldora Killing Arts style!"
Zegion responds, "I am honored, Master Veldora." Apito nods as well.
Looks like they get along. With Zegion and Apito having to enter cocoons to actually get their humanoid forms, getting them in here is the main reason I decided to do this. Having to wait for them to evolve just isn't something I want to deal with right now. Cerulean is there meaning Zegion will not be the physically strongest person in Tempest outside of us in this timeline especially with the Ultimate Skills [Solomon] has calculated Cerulean will get in the future but Zegion will still be very useful to have around early. Especially since he's going to get a playmate in the very near future.
After that, I walk over to Kumara and lean down. She actually hasn't been named yet. Rimuru and I have been too busy to so might as well get this over with. "First, because it'll be a pain to leave you unnamed, I'll name you Kumara." I say that name intending to name all of her tails as well, knowing that she'll try to trick me like she did Rimuru if I don't. I feel a decent amount of Magicules drain from my body before regenerating them back instantly with the [Magicule Fusion Reactor]. This reactor is very useful.
She starts glowing as she immediately gets much stronger. She's actually comparable to a rage boosted Ranryo now. That's...insane. Ranryo's [Renegade's Rage] skill boosts his power proportionally to his anger and Kumara compares to him when slightly enraged right now. That's a dramatic difference in strength. Of course, if Ranryo went on a rampage he would still be stronger right now but I'm not sure if that's gonna stay true. I guess my higher Magicules just made her stronger than the original.
However, while that may be impressive, her real issue is experience. In the original, despite her high strength her lack of skill and experience held her back quite a bit. She's still very young and inexperienced for a Cryptid even though she's over 300 years old so that's what I have to fix first. I get down on my knees, "Can you turn into your humanoid form, Kumara?" I know she can do it right now.
She tilts her head before accepting. She glows a little before turning into a little girl. Huh, I can see how Rimuru couldn't say no when she asked him to name her friends. She tries to act cutesy to see if she can mess with me but can't. "I see, that's how you're gonna play this. Fine, let's see if that form's enough." I create a clone of myself through my [Omni-Duplication]. "This is a perfect clone of myself with all of my skills and power. He will act like your teacher and guide you by teaching you fighting skills. You're already strong but you aren't really the best at fighting. For now, learning from this clone is your task, got it?"
She accepts. I'll get Hinata to teach her further after we go back and the whole Seven Days situation is sorted. One year is good, but considering she already needs basic schooling for later, Hinata as a teacher will be a very good continuation after teaching her some of my fighting style. I'll blend some of Hinata's moves into what the clone teaches her to make that future transition easier. I scanned her with [Genius] during our fight like everyone else so some of my fighting style incorporates her moves into it.
Finally, Adalman and Albert. I create two more clones and explain, "Finally, you two. First, Albert, along with getting stronger, my goal here is to hone your skill. You see, the way I fight wastes absolutely no movement, everything is optimized when I fight. That is going to be my goal here. I am going to optimize your already incredible skills into an even higher level." As I explain, the two of them look at me like I'm some untouchable god, granting them incredible miracles or something. Adalman more noticeably than Albert but the two are the same. "And Adalman, during your fight with Shuna, Holy-Magic was in play. However, due to your nature you are naturally very unsuited to use it given you are an Undead Monster. To fix that, I've prepared something to teach you. It's called Holy-Demonic Reversal. It'll help with fixing that major issue given that you rely on those kinds of spells a lot. It'll allow you to switch the holy attribute with the demonic attribute allowing you to finally use your full strength."
Adalman looks like I just blessed him with holy knowledge. I know he would definitely have a river of tears flowing if he had eyes. He thanks me in the most over-the-top way possible and accepts my offering to teach him it through my clone. I know how to do this because of my Magicule research back when I only had [Genius]. It's not that hard to figure out and hopefully, neither will teaching him it. I then add, "Later on I will only give you two one clone and ask you two to defeat it. You're old friends, so teamwork shouldn't be that hard but sharpening that skill is also crucial for later so you will learn that later as well. Understand."
"Yes!"
Cool. Now for the trouble child. I walk over to Milim and say, "Milim, you'll be with me. You're strong and pretty skilled but I don't trust you with teaching anyone anything so to keep me busy you will stay with me." Fighting with Milim is hard, especially without being able to use instant death trump cards but it's good for growing fast. Having her stay with me is definitely the best choice.
{You just want to spend time with her.}
Shut up. "Ready for a rematch?" She excitedly accepts. "Well so am I. But before we get started let's get away from here." As I prepare to leave I tell everyone, "You can get started, just keep a bit of a distance from each other. I don't want any accidents." I fly away with Milim and land in a relatively spacious area. I cast a massive barrier around us to help avoid any unintentional damage outside our area.
I also know that Milim is definitely going to ask me a question about my strongest attack. The Black Bomb is only my second strongest in terms of raw power. My strongest is actually much more deadly, using up the most power of all my separate attacks and is only able to be accessed through an enhanced version of [Hermetic Reality] where [Solomon] controls the reality warping instead of me to allow for much stronger and faster warping of reality to be accessed. If she asks me to use it on her it'll be an issue given there's no way she can survive it unprepared so if she does ask I need to use it on something else.
While telling her what it is isn't ideal, at least it shouldn't be that bad. I shouldn't run into a situation where it'll be useful to use until Ivaraj appears and no one should be targeting Milim for information considering most people don't know she's smarter than she looks. Even Feldway, who would be the most likely to figure out Milim knows, with a certain other Seraphim ready to betray him for Milim's safety, that shouldn't be too bad. Worst case scenario, I could always torture and kill whoever tries to get this information out of her. Considering that, eh, might as well show her if she...
"Migeru!"
"Eh!?" Milim was yelling at me. "Wha-oh, Milim, what's up?" She tells me I wasn't listening to her and was staring down in a thoughtful position the last few seconds.
"Oh, sorry. Let's get started.." I spaced out again. Why do I never use [Infinite Though Acceleration] when I do that?