(1st PoV)
Normally, Ultimate Skill can't be just separated from its user.
It's woven into the soul far more intricately than a Unique Skill.
But there are several conditions that have met here.
1) Nexis is of Digital Nature, which has practiced several times on manipulation of Infons of others.
2) I have Unique Skill Degenerate, which specialises on this stuff. Separation and Synthesis.
3) I have Ultimate Skill Agastya: Lord of Devouring. I can even stop time inside my stomach due to powers of Time Spirit.
4) I have lots of magicules in reserves. It wouldn't matter if I exhaust everything, I have my battery Veldora.
And finally 5) Elmesia, the holder of the Ultimate Skill, is willing to hand over it to me. It is the most important thing, and the reason why I can't just take Veldora's powers.
[Report: Probability of taking her Ultimate Skill without killing her: 4.78%]
So, the odds are quite high.
And if she does end up dying?
She resisted during such a dangerous operation!
That's the excuse I will go with.
"There is a high chance that I might die, right?"
"If you resist, yes. Your mind and soul needs to be be prepared to let it go, to hand it over to me."
She is a smart ruler, unlike a certain someone.
She had a resolute look and turned to Erald. Elladue. Or whatever his name is. I don't really care.
"Erald, even if I die here, please follow through the treaty."
"Your Majesty!..."
"A ruler must be ready to sacrifice themself when protecting the nation."
...She is making me look like some kind of villain.
"Excuse me, I didn't send the spies into another sovereign country."
"Of course. It's our fault... I am ready."
Just as I was about to start, Rimuru poked me.
"Hey, how about just let it go—"
I looked at Diablo, and he shut up Rimuru with a glare.
"I will put the disturbance outside."
Diablo grabbed Rimuru with cruelty and threw him out.
It's home run!
Ahem! Anyway,
"I am about to begin."
"Please do."
As she said that, I used Agastya and devoured her.
Nexis, you are up.
[Stopping all other tasks at the moment...]
[Using Time Spirit inside stomach...]
[Thought acceleration: ×1 billion achieved]
[Thought acceleration: ×1 trillion achieved]
[Report: Beginning Operation.]
I can tell that Nexis very much likes to mess with Infons by now. It is so good now that it can't even compare to the bum that Sage was.
Analysing Ramiris and having Degenerate to easily be able to reach the Infons level of smallness increased its processing by a whole lot.
They do say that smaller the processor, the better it gets.
First, Nexis began analysis Elmesia.
An external scan.
Then, it broke her down into Infons, carefully remembering which Infon stayed where.
And finally, with surgical precision, it began taking out the Infons which contain the Ultimate Skill with Degenerate, having idea of it due to having analysed my own Ultimate Skill.
I devoured those Infons.
[Ultimate Skill: 'Vayu: Lord of Heavenly Wind' acquired]
Eh... It sounds a bit lame in power compared to my own.
But oh well.
This will actually be perfect for Rayquaza, if I don't find it very useful. Otherwise, I can just pass down a watered down version through Food Chain.
[Using Degenerate to synthesis the Individual Elmesia...
Success.]
Elmesia was turned back into her original elf state from the infon state.
Then, Nexis began analysis on her again.
[Extra Skill: Hero's Haki acquired]
Eh? A Hero skill? Shouldn't monsters not get it?
[Answer: Hero's Haki is not related to True Hero. Therefore, it is obtainable.]
I see.
[Report: I have copied all of her brain Infons. Getting copies of her memories is possible.]
That will be very useful. But let's do that later.
...If all memories can be copied...
Ah. So it's possible to replace people with their copies!?
[Though it wouldn't carry the exact same soul, and there can be behavioural changes due to small differences in soul. But otherwise, yes.]
Wow. That's great!
But first, let's see if she survived.
I ejected her from my stomach, placing her on the floor.
"Your Majesty!"
"... Don't worry Erald, I am alright."
I held back a grin.
The operation was a success!
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