103, Old Friends Make Their Entrance!

"And secondly, naturally because they had set foot in the void. The essence of their life had already completely departed from the category of humanity."

"Although most demigods, or people like Ling Ling, have bloodlines from other races within them, or have advanced to extremely high levels, when all is said and done, whether they are evolved new humans or races mixed with other bloodlines, they do not have the corresponding immunity to corrosion, right?"

I understand everything you're saying, but isn't throwing in the word immunity among all these terms a little immersion-breaking, old man...

Hearing this, Rimuru finally understood. It was actually just like himself. The reason those big shots could tell at a glance that he belonged to the void rather than humanity even without his mask was simply because the essence of his soul differed from those beings who had merely advanced through void bloodlines. He had thoroughly... accepted the void.

The Dragon King was probably similar. If people like Ling Ling and Ye Xiaoqian could still claim to fall under the concept of humanity, then for Rimuru, perhaps... even his soul no longer counted as human. He could only do his best to keep his values and subconscious aligned with humanity.

Of course, what one truly was originated from one's perception, and perception originated from memory. Rimuru had always been too lazy to contemplate philosophical questions like what exactly he was and who exactly he was.

As long as you were alive, you should live happily. Just do whatever made you happy.

That was why, even though he had begun to suspect that his origins were far from simple and feared that every step of his path had been dictated by fate, Rimuru had never agonized over it.

"Someone's following us." Seeing Rimuru sink into