(First PoV)
"No."
I obviously denied Carrion's request.
For animal path summons, or just bodies in general controlled by Rinnegan, corpses will do. Soul is not required.
But, for both Knight Spider and Charybdis, I have retained the souls.
So that they can evolve further.
Especially Charybdis, it can probably evolve into a True Demon Lord in the future.
Imagine a True Hero controlling a True Demon Lord.
Anyway, for that, it must possess a soul. I don't know if it's true, but soul must be the absolute requirement.
Rimuru said, "Sasuke-kun, why don't you reconsider it? But Demon Lord Carrion, we will need something equivalent in exchange. Especially for Sasuke-kun."
"That's reasonable. How about an alliance and peace treaty? We have pretty great fruits. A special discount to your kingdom. Lifetime free supply to Sasuke-dono."
Rimuru looked at me after Carrion made his offer.
"So, what do you think, Sasuke-kun?"
Honestly, it isn't really a great offer. Carrion is weaker than Rimuru. An alliance with him is pretty much worthless for Tempest. It's only good for Eurazania.
And while I do want actual food, like fruits, I can just sneak into the kingdom, get the samples, hand them over to Rimuru, and Great Sage will copy the seeds and Tempest will be able to grow them on its own. Maybe even better than Eurazania because Great Sage will make top-class seeds.
So, the offer is pretty much worthless.
Ah.
I can remove the worthless Phobio's soul from Charybdis and plant a stronger soul.
It doesn't really matter since Charybdis will remain in Rinnegan's perfect control, but perhaps a better soul will make the eventual True Demon Lord Charybdis stronger?
And I can't really name Charybdis as it is. It's magicules surpasses mine. It's like a bijuu.
If I name some monster that I actually can, and then place it's soul in Charybdis... my named monster will become Charybdis.
So, the question is, which monster should I choose?
I looked at Rimuru.
"Do you have another slime?"
"Slime? Why?"
I didn't answer Rimuru's question and looked at Carrion.
"I will put Phobio's soul in a slime. You can have your subordinate back in that state only."
"I see. Then that's Phobio's punishment, I guess. And it doesn't seem like Slime is the weakest species anyway."
Souei disappeared, and reappeared with a slime.
I put everyone but Milim and Rimuru under genjutsu. Rimuru, because he is the king of the country. And Milim, because it probably wouldn't work anyway.
"I am only revealing my abilities to you two. Milim, don't go blabling about it."
"Wahahaha! You don't have to worry about that!"
...
Whatever. It's not worth saying.
I grabbed the slime, and thought of a name.
Sasuke... Charybdis... Fish....made of Veldora's magicules...
Right. I think I read some spoilers that subordinates can't become True Demon Lord normally. Rimuru used 100K souls for each. That will be difficult to gather.
So let's give it Uchiha surname.
As for the name...
"Your name from now on is Storm Uchiha."
It barely took any magicules. And I absorbed some magicules from Charybdis using Preta Path.
And yeah. I am not really creative at naming.
The slime glowed and started evolving.
It evolved into a black Slime.
Hmmm... Is it because of my Yin typing?
"Woah! It turned black!"
I ignored Rimuru and Milim, and got to work.
Then, I used Human Path to absorb Phobio's soul from Charybdis. And then absorbed the soul of the Storm Uchiha.
The souls I absorb are stored in Naraka Path's King of Hell.
Next, I summoned King of Hell.
I first placed the slime in it, and put Phobio's soul in it.
It chewed, and spit out the slime. The slime was looking around in confusion.
So it is Phobio. I put him under genjutsu.
Then, I tried to shove Charybdis into King of Hell's mouth.
"Lemme help!"
Milim said, and punched Charybdis in through the small opening.
The parts that couldn't go in got shredded. But it will regenerate anyway.
The King of Hell chewed, and spit out Charybdis.
It started regenerating.
But now, it is Storm Uchiha who is in the body.
[Notice: Soul Corridor between Sasuke Uchiha and Storm Uchiha created.]
[Individual Uchiha Sasuke has acquired Unique Skill: Storm Uchiha acquired]
[Summoning Storm Uchiha and sharing Magicules without summoning are now possible]
[Notice: The individual Storm Tempest has changed species from Dark Slime to Charybdis]
[Magic Jamming acquired]
[Gravity Manipulation acquired]
[Ultraspeed Regeneration acquired]
[Summon Monster: Megalodon acquired]
[Magic Sense acquired]
[Pain Nullification acquired]
[Physical Attack Resistance acquired]
[Paralysis Resistance acquired]
[Magic: Ice Blizzard acquired]
[Tempest Scale acquired]
[Wicked Light Ray acquired]
[Absorb has evolved into Extra Skill: Absorber]
[Dissolve has been lost]
Oh?
Nice.
Then I guess I will not have to worry about magicules.
Well, Preta Path can absorb them as well, but I will have to see it on a shadow clone that whether absorbing environmental magicules is okay or not.
I unsummoned King of Hell, and undid the genjutsu.
"It's done. Phobio is now in the body of the slime."
Carrion was sweating because of knowing how much I outclass him using genjutsu, and decided to just leave.
"I thank you. I will send the envoys later. See ya then."
"Take care!"
So, Carrion left, and I looked back at Charybdis.
Storm Uchiha huh?