Chapter 376 - Rust's Amazing Powers

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Although Rust enjoyed such an enveloping and warmth motherly embrace, which was only filled with an aberrant, abyssal, and empty darkness, it couldn't last that long.

She seemed to be weakened, and in a hurry to send him off. She seemed to be sorry for that, though, as she could see in the baby's soul how much he had suffered, and how much he needed such love.

"I wish I could bring you the love you need… I hope that you can find it in your second life, dear child…" she said. She suddenly infused a small fragment of darkness into the child's soul, giving him a small gift.

"Now go… You'll be summoned soon. Make sure… that you can find the happiness you've always deserved this time around." She said. "My son has grown a lot. I am sure he'll bring you the happiness you deserve."

"Babahh! Baaahhh! Babahhh!"

The baby's soul cried, without wanting to leave her embrace, but he had to go, an unknown force was slowly pulling him away from her.

"I am sorry…" she sighed. "I hope that you can live a better life this time around…"

When the baby was finally able to regain his senses, he found himself surrounded by black smoke, and with a new and bizarre body, that somehow felt very close to how his true nature and powers were.

And then, it saw Chaos, the big brother he had to protect now, and the child of that voice that asked him to help him out.

He was the one that would protect him and give him shelter, the one that would give him the love he needed… perhaps.

He stuck to him and coiled his body to him, unaware that his body was now a mass of liquid metal, the same metal he used to fight and kill anyone that dared to stand on his path, unknowingly…

After almost dying out of starvation, Chaos feed him and he regained his strength and energy, while suddenly realizing he was slowly acquiring some sort of strange capability.

And when Abyss finally showed up, the little Rust looked at her as if he had seen a goddess or someone… this was… his mama!

And just like that, Chaos new companion, Rust, came to his side.

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After having engulfed a large quantity of materials, Rust had suddenly showcased his abilities to Chaos and Abyss, being able to self-duplicate and even shape himself into the many weapons and armor he devoured, as if he were a living sentient army of weapons and armor… This was thanks to his various abilities and his Unique Skills, allowing him the ability to assimilate metallic materials and any inorganic material! With such a power, the little slime was able to grow endlessly as he also gained stats through the assimilation of such materials.

Rust used Self-Duplication and his entire body composed of metallic weapons and armor pieces suddenly separated while floating in midair, and began to fly around independently from one another! Chaos saw that his stats had decreased after he did that, but his ability to move and attack had been multiplied even greatly than before…

It wasn't something that he could take so easily though, as his stats reduced based on how much he divided, as each divided body was like a clone of him, or him itself… so they had an equal amount of stats, and the more he had, the more distributed the stats were, until they could fuse back into one.

However, Chaos noticed that when he went back to a slime, some of his stats had been lost, perhaps overexerting himself too much spent stats he gained, so if he worked too hard, Rust would lose mass and probably grow weaker over time… Which wasn't something good, so Chaos make sure to pile up a lot of materials and equipment and weapons of all types to feed him…

There were still many mysteries to his powers, so when Rust had feed enough, Chaos asked him if he could showcase him more of his skills, the little Rust was confused at first, but it quickly understood and using nearby magic technology items, such as a freezer, he suddenly showcased one of his powers…

POOF!

"Eh? What did he do?" asked Abyss in shock.

"He's… Assimilating it- No, he became that…" said Chaos.

"He did?" asked Abyss.

The two looked at Rust as he suddenly fused himself with the piece of technology, which suddenly gained a black metallic color with several red-colored and glowing lines all over the body of the item.

Rust then began to control it, as the freezer started moving around by rolling over the floor, and opening or closing… it was incredible, it was as if he was able to possess a technology.

But that wasn't all… he was even able to upgrade it and use it to fight.

TRUUUMM…!

"W-What is going on now?!" asked Abyss.

"He's… transforming…" said Chaos.

In front of their eyes, Rust suddenly began to transform using the refrigerator's body, turning it into a small two-meter-big mech which seemingly had the ability to fire giant ice cubes. It looked mildly humanoid, like a golem made of black metal and covered in red lines all over its body.

"A-Amazing, he really changed…" said Abyss.

"Indeed…" said Chaos.

Rust released a strange metallic sound, as he began to fire large ice cubes from a cannon on his left metallic arm, freezing anything that the ice cubes hit, and making a whole mess inside the castle's throne room.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"W-Woah! Wait, Rust! You're making a big mess now! Stop, little guy!" said Abyss, as she stopped Rust before he were to make even more disasters. The small little slime suddenly emerged out of the mech, which went back to being a refrigerator a second after.

"Babuuah!" said the little slime, jumping over Abyss and hugging her with his tentacles.

"Ugh… You're quite clingy, aren't you?" she sighed

"He seems to have an interesting potential…" said Chaos. "He'll surely be of great help."

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