Not exactly. That statement is about the atmosphere slowing down Suimu itself (got damn the Paddler mistranslation is hilarious), it's not about slowing down light itself.
Bruh, this is pure physics regardless of how you try to dice it. The speed of light in a vacuum is 300,000,000 m/s and that's constant but it is lower when moving through a medium such as air or water. The rest of what you said is just plain old air resistance. None of this means the speed of light isn't constant in the verse
I mean, Rimuru already knew of and had access to SoL attacks since Volume 5.
Yeah, by reflecting natural sunlight. Shocker.
The "no one can travel at SoL unless in a vacuum" isn't really something super abstract that Ciel has to tell Rimuru in the literal last Volume.
Seems somehow you are not getting that it varies depending on the medium. Ciel didn't even say anything in what Elde sent, if anything, hadn't Rimuru lost Ciel at this point? He is just surprised that a digital lifeform can surpass light speed when their speed is supposed to be constant.
I'll try to give another example. Let's say we go by Elde's assumption that IP is at best SoL; then: SoL doesn't work in the suspended world to begin with:
So we about to start debating if moving in stopped time or timeless voids is infinite or immeasurable in 2026? There's no such thing as it not working, time just isn't applicable
On top of that, information particles are quite literally smaller than photons (which by definition are massless), so, uh, you have a speed of light not working and a speed of light clearly working in the suspended world. I think that should get you the idea of what "SoL isn't constant" works. IP moves at speed such that constant speed = Suspended World speed + SoL, not SoL alone. So really, Rimuru is more so surprised that they are travelling at a speed beyond their constant speed. And that is quite literally the highlight of that scan:
Ngl, I admire how y'all can spin this web of convoluted stories so easily. Photons are indeed massless but infons have mass as close to zero as possible meaning not massless. Something can be smaller than another and still be heavier , it's called density.
I'll also try to summarize the replies I gave to the other guys above, including ones that prove Elde's argument (to my understanding) is wrong:
- Speed of Light isn't constant doesn't just refer to "vacuum and non-vacuum" stuff.
No, it's constant.
- IP movement is constant and instantaneous, it happens in 0 time lag and IP can transmit into to any point in time.
Information transmission is instantaneous, movement of infons isn't instantaneous
- The Convo between Rimuru and Chloe wasn't instantaneous because Rimuru wasn't a dlf yet.
Has nothing to do with that but I'll get to that later where you quoted me specifically
- Being able to interfere with IP =/= being a dlf, even when it comes to speed.
No one contested this, it doesn't matter given that their speed is constant, the speed at which a non digital lifeform should be controlling them at should be the same because that what "constant" denotes.
- Unless you're a dlf, even if u can interfere wog infons, you need time to process the info you receive from IP since they aren't...part of your own body. That is what creates the lag, essentially.
Bruh, can we see some scans rather than "trust me bro".
The "IP travels to different coordinates with 0 time lag " is a statement that comes after this whole discussion of why interfere with infons isn't enough and being a dlf is required.
Then go get the previous thread rejected. You're overwriting something that was quite literally accepted like a month ago in the part 1 of this thread "because I wasn't there", yada yada
Go make your own thread to downgrade that infinite speed if u wanna argue it isn't speed to begin with. It's not me piggybacking on that thread, this is quite literally how vsbw works. We aren't supposed to just dump text walls upon text walls into a single thread and expect staff to evaluate it with a peace of mind.
At this rate, I might as well be replying to a wall. I don't need to get the previous thread rejected because regardless of the decision reached here,
the infinite speed rating will stay until a separate thread is made to remove it. I am well within my rights to contest the current proposal without addressing the previous one.
Simple as that.
Honestly lame how you're trynna circumvent something already accepted with something akin to "fight me if you have the guts"
Yeah, "fight me if you have the guts" might as well be the best way to put it. What's lame is that y'all aren't even making an effort to actually hide the purpose behind these hidden CRT's. Spinning a web of lies and proudly wearing it like a damn coat, can't even put in the effort to properly larp the agenda you pushing. Disappointing is all it is.
Uh.... Yo info know our infinite speed is quite literally "relativistic/hypersonic/whatever normally, Infinite in digital nature"??
Bruh, where, tf, is, the, proof?
So this doesn't even matter cuz what you're saying applies only outside the suspended world or when a person isn't in digital nature at some moment, meanwhile our infinite speed is ONLY when they are in digital nature, when they are composed of data particles that trasmit information.
Stopped time, timeless void ahh argument.
"Never a contention" meanwhile proceeds to argue further about BDE and also forgot what you said in the last page; "Thanks to it's BDE 1 nature, this isn't a case of time being undefined but rather distance and time not being applicable so there's no speed at all". Negative tracking skills store
More like nonexistent reading comprehension so let me simplify it further. Infons don't strictly adhere to the characteristics BDE 1 things are supposed to display so, it is less that they are aspatial and atemporal and more that they are simply not constrained by space and time. Because of this, they can transfer information while bypassing the need for it to travel through space and expend time doing so.
Attendants of Mysteries grafting one location billions of kilometers away to their current one and bypassing the distance in a single step doesn't make them Massively FTL, they just don't have to travel that distance.
They said "it isn't a matter of surpassing the speed of light", not that "it isn't a matter of speed". Holy twisting words
The same inference can still be made. It appears to surpass that speed but doesn't surpass that speed because it is impeded by neither spatial nor temporal constraints= It isn't a matter of speed
Not even getting my argument

The speed of light isn't constant while speed of IP is yada yada, that's why he's surprises cuz ivarage's information particles are illogically moving beyond their law of constant speed.
Not doing this again. The proof is in the pudding so show me the goods.
You're welcome to stop replying tho ¯\(ツ)/¯
Nice try. I'm a very simple man. I won't argue against someone who's right when I know I'm wrong. Also of note, I can be extremely petty if I choose to be so go ahead, keep riling me up, like a parasite, I'll stick to this thread and every other one as long as I'm aware of it regardless of how long it takes.
My reasoning is direct, travelling down a simple straight line meanwhile yours is not only indirect, it traces a long convoluted path through multiple branches to arrive at an absurd answer.
One of the points I brought up in my first message is how infons require no external media, space for example, to transfer information and aren't bound by time so the information can be transmitted even to the past. Lo and behold, one of the later scans sent by a third party separate from you and I confirmed it. The fact that I arrived at an answer corroborated by the story without even knowing about it prior speaks for itself.
Unsurprisingly what the first thread jinxed came out to be true. Larpers are using this argument while ignoring the whole context.
The first thread left out important points by cropping scans. Tf is you on?
This is before Rimuru became a dlf. Ciel can talk to him instantaneously because she's a part of him, they share the same soul and all. But Rimuru himself isn't a dlf; he flies out info particles and receives back info, but there would still be a time lag (cuz duh, he isn't a dlf yet). Simply being able to interfere with IP is NOT the same as being a dlf yourself:
Ciel instantaneously talks to him because he is a part of him. Rimurus isn't a dlf so he cannot grasp the surrounding information with his body, he has to send out an infon and recall it to read the corresponding data. The lag is caused by the need to send out and recall the infon.
I've been telling y'al to stop contradicting yourselves way back even in 2024. D you even understand what it means for something to be said to be "constant"? Aconstant is something that does not change, vary or stop. It's an ongoing occurrence, a steadfast state or a fixed value. If the speed of infons are constant then regardless of who's controlling them, the speed should be the same. It doesn't matter if one is made out of it or simply controlling it. The speed of light in a given material is constant so regardless of whether one is made of photons or controlling photons, they move at the same speed in the same medium.
You can make your thoughts travel to the other party at infinite speed, but that doesn't mean the time you take to process the reply is also infinite, UNLESS You're a dlf.
So larp better next time
I had a snarky reply but you're just not worth it
Anyways, right now I'm just really exhausted from some drama (outside vsbw) and don't have the mental or physical stamina to keep replying. I'll be taking a break for a few days till things hopefully resolve (really hope so, because this is depressing for me too ;-

, so don't expect a serious or lengthy reply from me.
Will the powerscaling blood that runs through my veins overpower this depression? I don't know, maybe, maybe not. But I thought I ought to give a notice in case I do indeed disappear for some time.
Ah, and,
@AlexSamDen goodluck with the CRT, homie