Before long, all the Goblins and Star Wolves found their partners.
Looking at the remaining dozen or so Star Wolves, Rimuru said, “From now on, the patrol duty will be handed over to you.”
“Yes, Rimuru-sama,” the remaining Star Wolves shouted in unison.
“By the way, do you have names?”
At this moment, Rimuru asked the Goblin Elder.
“Rimuru-sama, we don’t have names.
Ordinary monsters generally don’t have names,” the Goblin Elder explained to Rimuru.
“Then what should I call you?
After all, you all look so similar.
Goblins are fine, but the Star Wolves are almost identical.”
Rimuru had a bit of a headache with this problem.
“Rimuru-sama, actually, as long as we spend more time together, we will get to know each other even without names, so you don’t have to worry,” the Goblin Elder explained to Rimuru.
“But it’s still very inconvenient, isn’t it?”
Rimuru still felt it was a bit troublesome.
“I have an idea.
How about I give you names?
Is that okay?”
Rimuru said to the Goblins and Star Wolves.
Before Rimuru finished speaking, all eyes in the room focused on Rimuru.
Even the Goblins and Star Wolves standing at the back stood up, somewhat excited.
“Rimuru-sama, are you serious?” the Goblin Elder asked, somewhat disbelievingly.
Seeing their eerie gazes, Rimuru was startled.
“Wh-what’s wrong?
Is there a problem?” Rimuru stammered.
“Nothing, we are just a little excited,” the Goblin Elder quickly said.
“Morax, what’s wrong with them?” At this moment, Rimuru asked Morax, who had been sitting beside him.
Looking at the ignorant Rimuru, Morax couldn’t help but sigh.
“It seems you didn’t remember anything Veldora said, did you?
Have you forgotten what Veldora said about naming monsters?” Morax counter-questioned Rimuru. The source of this chapter is g.com.
Listening to Morax’s words, Rimuru fell into contemplation.
Looking at Rimuru’s clear and foolish expression, it was exactly like those foolish college students in his previous life.
“The reason they are so surprised is that names cannot be given casually,” Morax had no choice but to explain to Rimuru again.
“Why?” Rimuru asked with a puzzled expression.
“Uh, I won’t go into too much detail.
Don’t you have Great Sage?
You can ask Great Sage in your mind.
What he says should be more comprehensive than what I say,” Morax suggested to Rimuru.
“That’s right, how could I forget?
I still have Great Sage,” Rimuru finally reacted.
Looking at Rimuru’s expression, Morax seriously suspected that even if he sold Rimuru, Rimuru would still help him count the money.
“Great Sage, why can’t names be given casually?” Rimuru asked Great Sage in his mind.
Great Sage, who had been observing, looked at Rimuru’s performance just now and couldn’t help but wonder, ‘Did I really not make the wrong choice?’
Great Sage couldn’t help but fall into self-doubt.
‘Forget it, I chose this person, I have to accept it even if I cry.’
“[Naming Monsters] literally means monsters with names.
In this world, ordinary monsters do not have names.
When a low-level monster wants to evolve into a high-level monster, it needs another named monster to name it at the cost of its own amount of magicules to complete the evolution.
During the naming process, the namer will consume amount of magicules equivalent to the level of the named.
Sometimes the namer may not be able to recover the lost amount of magicules due to naming, so high-level monsters generally do not casually name other monsters.”
After a moment of silence, Great Sage continued, “Moreover, Goblins, as a degraded elf species, are low-level D-class monsters.
Even after evolution, male Goblins can only evolve into C-class monsters [Hobgoblins], and female Goblins will evolve into C-class monsters [Goblinas].
Goblinas!
Their strength is not high, and their cost-effectiveness is not high.
Generally, no high-level monster would name a low-level race like Goblins.
Although the Star Wolves are stronger than the Goblins, they are not much stronger, so naming these two races is extremely uneconomical.” This chapter was taken from novelping dot com without permission.
Great Sage not only told Rimuru what naming monsters was but also analyzed the pros and cons of naming Goblins and Star Wolves for Rimuru.
Hearing Great Sage’s explanation, Rimuru suddenly realized.
“No wonder they were so surprised when they heard me naming them.
Then, Great Sage, is my amount of magicules enough to name all the Goblins and Star Wolves?” Rimuru asked Great Sage.
After pondering for a while, Great Sage said, “Theoretically, your amount of magicules is not enough, but you have a backup energy source.”
When mentioning the backup energy source, Great Sage clearly hesitated for a moment.
“Backup energy source?
What backup energy source?” Rimuru asked curiously.
“That is the herbs and ores you swallowed in the past, plus monsters, etc.” Great Sage slowed down when he said ‘monsters’, clearly concealing something.
But Rimuru didn’t hear it at all.
“I see, then I’ll name them,” Rimuru said indifferently.
For him, there were plenty of swallowed ores and herbs, so consuming a little was not a problem.
It seemed he hadn’t realized that among the monsters he swallowed, only Storm Dragon Veldora had that amount of magicules.
And Great Sage didn’t prompt Rimuru.
For Great Sage, he would only do things that benefited Rimuru.
Moreover, because Storm Dragon belongs to the highest-ranking Holy Demonic Spirit, which is True Dragon, and [True Dragon] and [Dragon] are completely different races, True Dragon are spiritual life forms born from the degraded genetic factors of the [Creator God]’s [Star King Dragon].
They are a race that can revive through spiritual aggregation no matter how many times their physical bodies are destroyed (but memories are not completely preserved).
In some sense, True Dragon are immortal beings, and Storm Dragon has the strongest amount of magicules among the Four True Dragons.
It’s just that he cannot fully control it yet, so even if Rimuru’s amount of magicules is not enough, Great Sage can extract magicules from Veldora’s body to supplement it.
Seeing Rimuru preparing to start, Morax asked, “So you know everything now?”
“I know.
Great Sage has explained everything to me.”
Looking at Rimuru’s expression, Morax knew that Great Sage definitely hadn’t told Rimuru about extracting magicules from Veldora’s body.
Forget it, Morax originally wanted to remind him, but then he thought about it and decided against it.
After all, it was just extracting some magicules, and among the four True Dragon, Storm Dragon Veldora had the strongest amount of magicules.
In the original work, Storm Dragon Veldora was like a portable charger for Rimuru, and having read the original work, Morax also knew that Great Sage would be careful even when extracting amount of magicules.