Talk:Rimuru Tempest/@comment-43857455-20200427004317/@comment-10330822-20200427102103

That's also the endgame to consider if you consider the WN. Rimuru literally can have whatever skill he wants.

Otherwise, yeah, Rimuru only consumed the souls of the army, the bodies were also used to summon the three demons, two of which are then ironically consumed by Rimuru afterwards. Rimuru needs to consume the bodies of his victims in order to get their skills, souls aren't enough.

That being said, Raphael later shows the ability to copy based on sight. But unfortunately those three were dead by then so Rimuru couldn't copy their skills by sight.