Benimaru (Web Novel)

==Summary==
Benimaru is a loyal follower of Rimuru Tempest and the Commander-in-Chief of Tempest's army. He is one of Rimuru's Twelve Executives and also one of his three strongest subordinates, including Diablo and Zegion.
==Powers and Stats==
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Key: Pre-Harvest Festival | Post-Harvest Festival | Post Founding of the Demon Capital Arc | Awakened Demon Lord
Name: Benimaru
Origin: Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Oni, Flame Spirit Oni
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|-|Pre-Harvest Festival=Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Automatic Translation, Enhanced Senses, Extrasensory Perception, Fire Manipulation, Telepathy, Magic, Hellfire Manipulation, Lightning Manipulation, Blessed, Regeneration Negation (Up to High-Mid, can use black flame. Black flame can stop the Gerudo's regeneration), Unholy Manipulation (Monsters are made of magic energy, which can be purified or warded off by holy energy), Radiation Manipulation and Creation (Monsters of significant aura can create an aura akin to radiation, that is extremely toxic to organic life and can induce death in high concentration. It will cause monsters to be born due to the high concentration of magic energy), Corruption (Type 2; Organic life that can somehow resist the toxic effects of the monster's aura can fall to its corruption and mutation effect turning them into monsters), Accelerated Development (Battle and Training; All beings can become stronger by fighting stronger individuals through training, from battle, overcoming great obstacles, or strengthening their willChapter 11Chapter 27Chapter 51Chapter 92Chapter 109Chapter 166Chapter 181), Reactive Evolution, Supernatural Willpower, and Empowerment (Willpower is everything; sometimes intense emotions and will can converge to create new skills and resistances; those with strong will strengthen the power of their attacks into realms beyond their limit; however, gaining a new skill depends on the willpower to face adverse situations Chapter 21Chapter 24Chapter 92Chapter 181Chapter 190), Unconventional Resistance to Power Nullification, Power Modification, Power Absorption and Power Mimicry (Skills are inscribed into the soul which resists any outside interference unless the interference is stronger than the soul's defenses, furthermore Unique Skills and above require a strong soul to possess them), Unconventional Mind Manipulation Resistance (The source of consciousness, memories and mind itself is the Soul, Astral body and Spiritual Body.Chapter 66), Resistance to Law Manipulation (As a powerful A rank Disaster monster like Apito, he should be able to resist the effect of Holy Barrier which affects the laws of the world), Memory Manipulation (Individuals surpassing A rank have high resistances, and their memories are protected by their soul), Magic (All monsters have inherent resistance to the magic attribute), Radiation Manipulation, Corruption (Type 2; can resist the effect monster's magical aura that can turn organic life into monsters), Information Manipulation (Magic Perception overloads the brain with so much information it would have killed a normal human, but can be used casually), and Data Manipulation (The information from Magic Perception is turned into data, which overloads the human brain, but can be used casually) 
|-|Post-Harvest Festival=Powers and Abilities: Same as before plus Weapon Mastery, Energy Manipulation, Regeneration (Low-Mid), Forcefield Creation, Intangibility (Can become only a soul), Aura, Transformation, Teleportation, Attack Reflection, Resistance Negation (Can nullify resistance to fire manipulation), Can penetrate multiple barriers of people stronger than him, Power Nullification (Can nullify the physical attacks of people comparable to him), Resistance to Disease Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Pain Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Corrosion Inducement, Electricity Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Existence Erasure, Mind Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (Superior to Holy Knights who resisted Diablo Temptation and Demon Lord's Ambition), Ice Manipulation and Fire Manipulation (Has natural effects resistance which makes him resistant to fire and ice), Soul Manipulation and Mind Manipulation (Has an Unique skill so should somewhat resisted Yuuki's mind control from soul manipulation like Hinata which can affect at 350,000 people) 
|-|Post Founding of the Demon Capital Arc=Powers and Abilities: Same as before 
|-|Awakened Demon Lord=Powers and Abilities: Same as before plus Law Manipulation (Law Manipulation toward fire; fire burned, accelerated and exploded.), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Regeneration (Mid-Godly; Spiritual life forms can regenerate the body, mind and soul as long as their core is not destroyed), Flight, Light Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Can destroy souls), Abstract Existence (Type 1. Spiritual life forms live as a soul and do not need a physical body.Chapter 4Chapter 66 Soul is a lump of information; Information make up everything), Information Manipulation (Type 2; Information is the Fundamental aspect of Tensura and All the things such as Mind, Soul and Abstract things like Skills are made up of it), Shapeshifting, Regeneration Negation (Up to Low-Godly; Can fix sections of space in his opponents body so that they can't regenerate), Madness Manipulation, and Empathic Manipulation (Can cause his opponents to become panicked and if he desires it, can cause them to go insane or die of madness. Superior to Diablo who used this ability to cause 5 Holy Knights to panic and faint due to their overwhelming fear, ADL's can use it on a scale that works up to at least 150,000 people), Time Manipulation (Can control the flow of time with Time Control to stop time and move at a million times normal speed while in stopped time), Greater Time Stop (with Suspended World), Non-Physical Interaction (Can harm spiritual lifeforms who have no physical body), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, and 2), Acausality (Types 1 and Higher Degree of Type 4: Transcending Law Of The World to a level higher than the Ultimate Skill user), Information Analysis (Can analyze his opponents and their abilities just by seeing them), Black Hole Creation with Breakdown Nostalgia, Dimensional Travel, Resistance to Durability Negation, Vibration Manipulation, Matter Manipulation (Which works at the atomic level), Death Manipulation, Decomposition, Soul Manipulation (Which works on the scale of 350,000 people), Mind Manipulation (Which works on the scale of 350,000 people), Curse Manipulation, Attack Reflection, Perception Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Telepathy, Water Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Madness Manipulation and Empathic Manipulation (Which works on a scale of 150,000 people), Air Manipulation, Hellfire Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Plasma Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Precognition, Fate Manipulation, Damage Transferal, Time Stop, Void Manipulation (Those who possess an ultimate skill are not affected by lower abilities. Every rule of the world is ultimately reduced to this unique level. In other words, they will not be affected by any form of magic–highest or not), Power Mimicry, Absorption, Illusion Creation, Power Absorption (Ordinarily stealing an ultimate skill from its owner is impossible, as the skill is born from them, deep within their soul, and is etched into their nucleic heart which exists within their soul), Information Analysis (The abilities of ultimate skill users can't be analyzed by those with lower skills, in addition, ultimate skill users can know when someone is trying to analyze their abilities, and can even give fake information about their abilities), Power Nullification (Magic Canceller which obstructs the casting of magic, doesn't work on high ranking beings), Status Effect Inducement (Weakening magic and the like doesn't work on someone with an ultimate skill), Magic (Magic doesn't affect a person who possesses an ultimate skill), Law Manipulation (Ultimate skill users understand the laws of the world and are also released from them), Time Manipulation, Physics Manipulation (Can tank Dagruel's punches, which warp the laws of physics), and BFR (Can move in stopped time, and move in the subspace created by Zero which had a distorted flow of time that prevented anyone in it from moving and resist being sent to another dimension or space)
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Attack Potency: City level (Comparable to Rimuru) | City level (Far stronger than before) | Continent level (Comparable to Diablo) | Universe level (Rimuru estimated on one occasion that 3 Guardians on the level of Diablo could handle Milim, and on another occasion that those 3 had a chance of defeating Chloe. So while inferior to Milim and Chloe, Benimaru is somewhat comparable. His combined attack with Diablo, Zegion, and Dino generated an energy greater than the big-bang)
Speed: Subsonic (Superior to the direwolf boss who moved faster than the goblins could see. His hellflare is stated to be faster than a hurricane) | Hypersonic+ with Relativistic reaction speed (Comparable to Shion) | Relativistic+ (Comparable to Diablo) | FTL (Comparable to Chloe) with Massively FTL+ perception speed (Because of Thought acceleration his thought processing capability is accelerated by a million to ten million times, which allows him to react to things he normally wouldn't be able to perceive), and Massively FTL+ in Stopped Time (Can move a 1 million times normal speed while in stopped time)
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Striking Strength: City level | City level | Continent level | Universe level
Durability: City level | City level | Continent level | Universe level, Difficult to harm due to his multi-dimensional barrier which makes uses of dimensional gaps
Stamina: Unknown | Unknown | Superhuman (Should be comparable to other demon lords who can fight for days on end without getting tired)
Range: Tens of Meters | Hundreds of Meters | Hundreds of Kilometers | Hundreds of Kilometers
Standard Equipment: Guren, his katana
Intelligence: Above Average
Weaknesses: None Notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
===Physiology===
*Flame Spirit Oni: As a flame spirit oni Benimaru is a upper tier spiritual lifeform, thus he has no physical body, and exists only as a soul, has eternal youth, and will regenerate as long as the core inside his soul isn't completely destroyed.
=== Abilities ===
*Magic Perception: The ability to perceive the surrounding magical energy.
**In addition, the user is able to observe how waves disturb the nearby magical energy, then use that information to calculate the visual, auditory and other wave-based information of the surroundings. Magic Perception also grants the ability to understand and express the intent of spoken words even if the language of the conversation partner is unknown.
**Magic Perception enables users to be aware of their environment in battle even if blind or deaf and prevent a surprise attack.
*Telepathy: The ability to communicate with others telepathically.
*Thought Transmission: An improved version of Telepathy which allows for a network where many people can communicate telepathically, has a range of about a kilometer.
*Hell Flare: An ability which creates a ball of fire which absorbs it's target's magical energy to fuel its growth, it then transforms into a 100m dome which burns everything inside to ashes with temperatures reaching several hundred million degrees. When combined with the dark flame, this ability also nullifies resistances to fire attacks.
*Generalissimo: Benimaru's ability which comprehends the entire theater of battle by viewing the entirety of space and sub-space at once. So once he has perceived an opponent, he will not lose them even if they are but a shadow in subspace.
*Multiple Barriers: An ability which surrounds the user with multiple barriers. Defensive barriers prevent the entry of magic power. Except for overwhelming the barrier with magical power, it is nearly impossible to break a barrier. Even the most basic barrier has more than two layers.
*Physical Attack Nullification: An ability that nullifies the effects of physical attacks from opponents who are on comparable levels as the user. To harm someone with this ability requires that attacks aren't purely physical and are infused some sort of ability like aura, energy etc.
*Dim Current Slash: A master swordsman art Benimaru learned from Hakurou. Just like flowing water, the skill wards off everything and deflects it back at the opponent. It is the pinnacle of sword arts, even capable of somewhat deflecting Diablo End of World, which overpowered Shion's fate manipulation.
*Penetration: By adding the penetration attribute to his energy, Benimaru can incapacitate his opponents by causing his opponents flow of magic power to be in disarray. This ability is also designed to be used against opponents stronger than him therefore having multiple strong barriers protecting them, with this ability he is capable of breaking through barriers.
*Demon Flame Transformation: An ability that raises his physical power. It is an ability where he is able to use the properties of his soul body; his bodies strength is transferred to his soul body. This ability also heals any injuries he has.
*Rebirth Flame: An ability which combines the negation properties of the black flame with his aura. Just like flowing water, it cannot be eluded, the flame wraps up and thoroughly burns everything. It was even capable of overpowering Diablo’s Scissors which reaps all lives.
*Blazing Sun Lord Amaterasu: Benimaru’s Ultimate Skill which gives him control over light and heat.
*Breakdown Nostalga: A technique requiring no less than 4 people. With two people, it forms a one-dimensional line of two dots connected, with three people, it forms a two-dimensional triangle, and with four people, it forms a three-dimensional tetrahedron. The tetrahedon encloses its target inside an Absolute Barrier that prevents the energy inside from leaking out. Using this technique Diablo, Dino, Zegion and Benimaru unleashed their strongest abilities, creating a catastrophic, destructive power which was the greatest ever seen since the beginning of the universe. The ability creates a powerful gravitational force towards the center, and consigned everything into oblivion beyond the Event Horizon, in other words, a black hole, as not even light can escape it or teleportation abilities due to it's distorted space.
===Abilities===
*Magic Perception: The ability to perceive the surrounding magical energy.
**In addition, the user is able to observe how waves disturb the nearby magical energy, then use that information to calculate the visual, auditory and other wave-based information of the surroundings. Magic Perception also grants the ability to understand and express the intent of spoken words even if the language of the conversation partner is unknown.
**Magic Perception enables users to be aware of their environment in battle even if blind or death and prevent a surprise attack.
*Space-Time Control: An ability that allows the user to manipulate space-time to a degree, allowing him to accomplish feats such as instantaneous teleportation and stopping time for roughly 30 minutes.
===Abilities Obtained From Rimuru===
*Heat Detection: The ability to see nearby heat sources and also nullify camouflage skills.
* Thought Acceleration: An ability that accelerates the user's thought processing capability by a million times. Allowing the user to react to something they normally wouldn't be able to perceive. 
*Spatial Travel: A skill which allows Benimaru to be able to immediately transport himself to a place he has visited before.
*Multi-Dimensional Barrier: An always active, multi-layered barrier which creates an absolute defence by making use of dimensional gaps.
* Turn Null (Nothingness Collapse): A highly destructive magical energy that comes from a chaotic, nuclear dimension. This ability replaces Benimaru's mana with the very same destructive energy from said nuclear dimension that massively boosts his spells. 
*Demon Lord's Ambition: An ability which can cause its targets to become panicked, and if the user desires it, it can even cause its target to become insane and die of madness.
*Prominence Acceleration: An ability created using Turn Null, the energy takes the shape of a dragon and swallows its targets.
===Resistances===
*Resistances: Post Harvest Festival Benimaru has the resistances of: Physical Damage Nullification, Pain Nullification, Status Change Nullification, Spirit Attack Resistance, and Nature Effects Resistance. As an Awakened Demon Lord he gained the resistances of: Physical Attack Immunity, Natural Elements Immunity, Abnormal Status Immunity, Mental Attack Resistance, and Hybrid Attack Resistance.
*Ultimate Skill User: As an ultimate skill user, Benimaru understands the laws of the world is thus superior at using magic than anyone who doesn't possess an ultimate skill.Chapter 190 Those who possess an ultimate skill are not affected by lower abilities. Every rule of the world is ultimately reduced to this unique level. In other words, they will not be affected by any form of magic – highest or not, which gives them resistance to numerous abilities such as mind manipulation, death manipulation, matter manipulation, soul manipulation, etc.Chapter 81Chapter 187Chapter 210 Ordinarily stealing an ultimate skill from its owner is impossible, as the skill is born from them, deep within their soul, and is etched into their nucleic heart which exists within their soul.Chapter 185 Also, the abilities of ultimate skill users can't be analyzed by those with lower skills, in addition, ultimate skill users can know when someone is trying to analyze their abilities, and can give fake information about them.Chapter 132Chapter 80
 
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