Radriel Tayloreth/Relationships

## Magic Nation Venjung

Esteemed Scientist/Hermes
Initially upon his reincarnation, Radriel was unaware of the existence of Esteemed Scientist within his soul, making it especially shocking to him when the will within the skill would begin to awaken, due to Radriel's constant wishing for a "readily-available encyclopedia in his mind", prompting it to force the partial awakening of its dormant ego over the course of 4 months, and speak within his mind when he asked about something, with the first notice of its existence being when it announced its own activation of Transmutation during Radriel's fight with Tear and Footman.

After its awakening, Radriel came to consider Esteemed Scientist as a "useful tool", and at one point considered whether or not the voice in his head was some strange, slowly developing form of dissociative identity disorder. Though this was later disproved by Esteemed Scientist itself, and Radriel, seeing that the skill had yet to lie to him, believed it. However, due to Radriel constantly contemplating on the subject, Esteemed Scientist's ego mistook his worries for a desire, eventually incorporating Parallel Operation into itself over another 2 months.

Unbeknownst to Radriel at the time, Esteemed Scientist took upon itself the liberty of handling background processes, such as the efficient flow of his magicules, the casting of spells, and even obfuscating and at times encrypting information taken from other individuals attempting to analyze him. However, despite all its usefulness, Radriel felt that he didn't deserve it, believing that, since he hadn't worked to obtain the skill, he didn't deserve to have it in the first place. It was because of this belief that Radriel didn't use it as much as he should have, only putting it to use in situations in which he was completely lost on solutions for it.

Due to its lack of use, Esteemed Scientist began thinking that it was of no use to him, almost considering itself to be a hindrance with the way that he would often cut it off in the middle of its sentences. To combat this, it forced itself into a full awakening, in order to increase its computational abilities and allow itself to partially put its former Unique Skill to use, allowing it to create Skill Vessels that would make it possible for Radriel to obtain Unique Skills easier, with one of them eventually being used in the acquisition of Supreme Magus, though not telling him of them, though it was never brought up since Radriel was satisfied with the skill's acquisition. However, many, many years later, the feeling of inadequacy came back to Esteemed Scientist after Radriel met Rimuru Tempest, getting dragged into the events of his nation, and Esteemed Scientist being unable to analyze Rimuru, Milim Nava's Drago Buster, Megiddo and Merciless, leading it to begin working on several projects in order to make up for its failures; the first being to help Radriel undergo the Harvest Festival and become a True Demon Lord (which eventually culminated in Fallen One), creating Ultimate Skills for Radriel (resulting in it creating Leviathan, Lord of Envy, using Envy, Eradicator and several other skills it copied for Radriel), and generally helping Radriel work towards his goal of growing as powerful as possible, as per his own wishes. To assist itself in accomplishing this, it would later force itself to evolution during Radriel's Harvest Festival into Hermes, Lord of Invention, allowing itself more processing power and beginning to awaken more of its own will and ego.