Slime Who Turned into a Demon King
2.Returnees

“Not Prince Edgar?!”

The hall was thrown into chaos once again.

It was granted that Edmaris would grant the throne to the sole prince

nations. That is why Edward worked so hard to make his presence

unknowable. He knew Edmaris, his older brother, had to leave, and the opportunity was

like a dream for him — even if Prince Edgar was awarded the throne, it is still

it is a golden opportunity to state the case for the next time.

The prince was only ten years old, but as long as the king's brother was alive, he was not

will have another regent in power as his successor. If (Edward

thinking) he can plant the seeds of uncertainty and doubt in the mind

the nobles, he can make them think that he is the only one

a viable option for the throne, at least until Edgar reaches adulthood.

Now, everything is taken care of for him. He smiled in front of the throne.

“We face tough times ahead,” bitter Edmaris murmured. “Edgar still

too young. He'll have trouble coping with all that.”

The reactions were mixed, but a healthy contingent was reassured. The Marquis of Muller

speak first: “I believe it is the best solution, my provider.”

Edward looked at this. If he had the head of support from a neutral faction,

no one has overturned this decision. Then once he had the throne, this crisis

can be handled deftly — as that is his belief. They can

find one way or another to delay payment, buy time to

involve their neighbors and carry out attacks. As proposed by the

previous anti-royalist nobles, they could even form cross-alliances

humanity, uniting paladins and Heroes to fight for the whole

the world.

But maybe nothing is needed at all. A new king

it means a new administration, and there is no reason why that government should

follow the old covenant. They can declare the debt null and void, by law,

and that's it. If Tempest complained about that, they could continue to blame

Edmaris, former king.

It was simple, but enough to convince Edward. Uh-heh-heh...

This nation will reach new heights of prosperity under my reign.She smiled widely, enjoying the light of her new power - never

realize that this, too, is part of the script.

The session went much better from there. Problems arise; Adjustments are made until

to the last detail. At the end of that day, they had a final outline that

approved by a unanimous vote for use in peace talks.

Word of conversation came too fast — as did signing.

A few days later, the great nation of Farmus, with all its history

proudly, it has signed an armistice and peace treaty with

Jura-tempest Federation. On the surface, Farmus recognizes Tempest as an

bangsa, dan sementara hubungan formal masih jauh, mereka tidak bisa lagi

disregarding international law when dealing with them. At the time that

similarly, Tempest is not a member of the Western Council, the main legislative body of the Union

The Nations, so even if Farmus were to invade again, were few

that anyone can do to stop them legally.

The tempest has attained nation status only in its most basic definition. But

this treaty proved, once and for all, that the new country was named

This tempest can defend itself. It was led by demon lord Rimuru, who

boasting Storm Dragon as a key ally, and in just two years, he had

claiming the entire Jura Forest. Whatever he is, he is a very unlikely person

human, beyond the size of human. Considering that, no nation would dare

opening hostilities with Tempest. Compared to potential benefits

waiting to be harvested, the projected losses were too great. That's even

it could cripple an invading country completely.

From that day on, Rimuru began to be treated as an unable leader

impregnable, a demon lord of disaster class — and thus, without

great difficulty, the first part of his plan was completed...

...As Diablo described, Shuna and Soei were the first to return to the city in the morning after

diablo Report.

“I've returned safely!” Shuna proclaimed, rubbing her cheeks.

He seems to have exhausted his magic power in battle,

it took him several hours of recovery before he could perform Spatial Motion.

I can only use the Dominate Space to jump to where I am

wanted, but Shuna's lack of magicule storage meant she could only

knocking out so much magic per day. Soei can use Shadow Motion

alone, but he waited, thinking it would be the first to return

despite being Shuna's guard. Even now, some of his replicas were patrolling

on the main base of Clayman —I guess nothing too uncertain happened

at present.

“Then where is Hakuro?”

“I asked him to clear things up,” Shuna replied with a smile

when Soei shifted her eyes. So they threw all the work

that's him, huh? Hakuro, unable to use Spatial Motion, does not have

there are many other ways if they leave him alone. But I don't know, he

always see Shuna as a beloved grandchild. Maybe he doesn't mind

that treatment.

Currently, he is working with Geld to investigate Clayman's castle

spoils of war, and orders the process of handling prisoners. I

thanking internally for handling all the acts

that boring move for me. Must be a lot of work, but an amateur

like I can't offer much help. I thought I'd just

take care of the mother unless asked.

Benimaru and the others arrived home that night.“Huh huh? What does our general leader do here?” My toot.

“Hee-hee... With the end of the war, there was no reason for me to stay there

forever. So I gave command to my talented officer, and we

leaving the scene. ”

He looks very excited. I thought this meant Benimaru let Three

Lycanthropeers handle the rest. I could see the sad faces of Alvis and the

his followers in my mind.

Both, Benimaru and Shuna — I thought they were really siblings, huh?

They just do exactly the same trick on their subordinates. I'm hoping

they'll learn a little responsibility from someone like myself—

Understood I believe this is the result of following your example, Master.

I'm not asking you to 'believe' anything! Besides, you know it must be wrong.

Is there anything messy in the circuit between morphing from Great Sage to

Raphael's?

Negatively. Such a phenomenon has not been detected.

Oh of course. Refused it. I'm sure part of his logic is being broadly enhanced.

Better let slide this — is not an argument I will win.

I decided to turn my attention back to Benimaru. “So, is

Gabil is still on the battlefield?”

“Yes, dia. He has formed a friendship with a man named Middray

priests were in the service of Lady Milim, and they handled the post-clearance

war together. ”“Ah. So Geld is in Clayman's castle, and Gabil is outside?”

Even Gabil helped, huh? Between him and Geld, it's a relief to see it all

this man handled the practical side of the war for me. I really can

relying on them. After all, the war didn't end after you

won it. Things become more hairier afterward, especially remembering

how we captured almost all of Clayman's men alive. Exists

there were many prisoners, in the field and in the castle, most of them were able to

works. We guaranteed them all their lives, so we had to step up

and take care of them. At least they're magic-born, not human, so you

no need to worry too much about the maintenance of — even though even they will

be grumpy if you don't feed them.

Does someone take revenge on you after losing in

battle or not, the winner is responsible for what happens

thereafter. Transporting all prisoners of war from the location at once was

main working. I don't want them to rebel when our eyes don't

looking at them, so we need guards patrolling at all times. Disarm

magic-born also did not neutralize them as a threat. This world has magic

and skills. Thinking about it, it's no wonder the take-no-prisoners approach

preferred until now, huh?

If only there was a surefire way to get them to do our bidding ...

“Oh, there is nothing to worry about there,” said Benimaru, a relaxed smile

still on his face. “I brought them all together and, ah, forced them to

see everything our way.”

“U... Yep. Fine.”

I instinctively nodded. No need to ask what they really are

talk, I'm sure. Some prisoners must be around to see Benimaru

burning Charybdis became crunchy, and so word got out about it, I

doubt too many of them want to try their luck.

Moreover, the Three Lycanthropeers were there, and the beastmen looked like candidates

qualified for custody management.

“So I don't think we'll see Gabil back here for a minute?”“Maybe not. He can't use Spatial Motion, so I guess he will

back with Lycanthropeers.”

He'll fly back once everything's sorted out, I imagine. But wait—

“Wait, the Lycanthropeers are also coming?”

Why they they don't plan on bringing in all the sheltered citizens

and the prisoner who was stripped here, right?

“Ya,” replied Benimaru, “remember how Lady Milim destroyed the capital

The eurasian? We are talking about their housing in our country for now.”

As he said, those beastmen were strong enough that they could

march here without complaining. That's not what I asked, but.. okay?

“We really can't take it all, can we?”

It took a long time to set up a campsite for the twenty thousand who

we took it last time. Worse, Geld and a team of high orc engineers, who

I usually rely on this kind of work, busy somewhere else. Our

have some additional land available — spaces we open for

future development — but again, organizing camps will be

big deal.

“We discussed that with Geld and Alvis,” Benimaru explained. “We have

decided to divide the prisoners into rough brigades. They will be sent to

various destinations, actually.”

Yeah, that's a relief. Yet it seemed they were quite carefully sifting through them

respectively. If a prisoner has a village to return to, they are expelled

by oneself. Only beastmen wanted to learn a trade or a skill that was

coming to Tempest. Beastmen or magic-born with muscles, meanwhile, will

stay in place and serve under the command of Geld's team, rebuilding

the empty land that used to be Eurazania.

With Carillon stepping down from his demon lord post and joining the party

Milim, Eurazania is now technically the territory of Milim. It was located in the south of the Jura Forest, scattered amidst a vast and fertile land, and the plans were moderate

took place to build a palace for Milim in the area. I have been

suggested to him that he should move his capital there, because

they built it from scratch, and he immediately agreed. There is no discussion

further. That's Milim.

However, when thinking about it, I realized Milim had no staff, to be exact.

Middray and the rest of Dragon Faithful are his servants, in some way, but —

at least on paper — they only worship Milim; they are not bound

to him at all. So 'relocating the capital' is a strange way to

saying so, because he didn't really have a capital to begin with, but

I don't think that's too important.

Carillon and Frey both agreed with the idea, so we dove into it

building a new city. Our funding is provided by a stockpile of gold, silver, and

clayman's property; We have a group of ready POW workers organized

and assigned the job details; however Benimaru and Geld make everything

it went so well there, I don't have to worry.

I have always been amazed by their growth. Hey, Tamura! Remember me? Your boss,

who has to explain everything to you fifty times and you still can't

do it right? Yeah, I have a bunch of monsters that do

better job than you!

The way Benimaru says it, we will accommodate fewer people in Tempest

than ever.

“No, I think we should be fine. But it would not only be a beastmen;

We have magic-born prisoners as well. We have to make sure everyone

be aware of it and exercise appropriate caution. ”

“I understand,” said Rigurd with a nod. “Very good. I'll explain

this problem to everyone.”

These guys are so reliable. I don't even have to order it; they can

make your own decisions. Wait for... Can't these people get along without me

at this moment? One night, a few days after Benimaru returned, Diablo entered my office

with a box painted black.

“Our negotiations are proceeding as planned, Sir Rimuru. This box contains proof of agreement

our peace and one part of reparation, for a total of one thousand and five hundred gold coins

stellar. ”

Oops. Forgot about that. Today is a day of peace talks, huh? He said

I don't need to show up, so forgetting it's not a big deal, really.

still feeling a little guilty. I feel like everyone is working hard on

this big work project, and I'm just sitting at my desk playing solitaire. Noth

like that, but still. I don't want to be lonely anyway.

Or that's how I comforted myself when Diablo handed the box to me.

“Ah, very good. That's more stellar than we thought, isn't it?”

He demanded an outrageous sum of ten thousand. As I know

then, no one was sure if ten thousand stellar were even circulating in

worldwide. “We can only make one stellar gold coin per month,” King

Gazel claimed when I asked. “Our kingdom did not start printing it

until quite a long time after our establishment, so I imagine

they have scarcity value!” He has a point — there are hundreds of times more

gold coins of assorted varieties flowed around.

Then now I have a thousand and five hundred of them here. More than 10 percent

from worldwide supply. It makes my head swim. You really can

seeing how strong Farmus is, it's capable of eroding this.

“Kurasa Farmus is really a superpower, right? I impressed them

collecting so much.”

“Maybe. But it seems most of these were seized from private coffers

King Edmaris himself. ”

According to Diablo, most of these stellar were the private property of the king, left in the

a safe without any use for talking. They had the support of the Dwarven Kingdom, were worth a lot of cash, and also had art value, so they

it has belonged to the royal family for most of its long history.

“Luckily, the thought process of King Edmaris is as I planned.

Without the knights to protect his family, he reasoned, he would definitely lose

everything was so the nobles were at odds with him. ”

So he cleared the royal dome before. I-i understand.

“...So does that mean we're going to civil war soon?”

“No doubt, my lord,” replied the smiling Diablo. “Sisa balance is in

unpaid form of loan, but I doubt the new king will comply

the agreement was long.”

Considering the potential of the new king, Diablo had gone to great lengths to make

edmaris' younger brother, Edward, ascended the throne, instead of the young Edgar. This is done

with Edmaris approval; everyone involved felt it was the only one

the way forward. Normally, a former king would be rewarded with the rank of a duke

for his service to the country, but Edmaris refused, leaving his post

and become a viscount. In this role, he would soon move to a small patch of land

the countryside in the countryside — is not far from the land belonging to Earl Nidol Migam himself, close by

Jura Forest.

In everyone's eyes, it seemed like Edmaris had lost his lust for power.

In this case…

Report. Farmus' forces refuse to pay any remaining damages

will likely move to encourage all responsibility for the event

it's in Edmaris.

Yep. Everything went as Diablo intended.

“Domain Nidol from Migam is home to the band Yohm as well. In this way,

they can help if something happens, huh? ”“Indeed, my lord,” replied, still smiling while Shion listened in

behind me, pouting. Or maybe not listening. He might tune it

as soon as he realized it was all in his head. But I'm not talking about it.

Hmmmm. Nidol's land borders Jura. According to state standards,

it was medium in size, had its own Free Guild branch and a sufficient population

good. If you're going to start a popular movement, it's not a bad place for that.

That's where Yohm is, and he's famous around those parts, hailed as

champion and widely supported by his people.

“If the new king tries to leave Edmaris, can Yohm

stopped it?”

“He can, Sir. If Sir John denounced the new king for his insolence, no

doubtless will cause conflict.”

So, Yohm siding with Edmaris will lead to a clash of desires

which is quite natural. Sounds perfect. If the new king really

paying off his debt to us, it would be difficult to do many things against him.

We have to prepare ourselves for the long term, aim to drop

Farmus little by little. But Diablo thought two steps ahead of me,

manipulating people's thoughts and willingness to get results. In the matter of

this, many things might start to move in a hurry.

There is no doubt that the new king will try to get Edmaris out of the

pronto's images. If the government can arrest him, our plan will be ruined.

Of course, we can ignore the new king and move on, but it has to be paid

with whatever trust the international community has in us.

Always have moral control. That is how the human world works.

“Well, just in case with caution, okay? Can you manipulate the new king's side

without getting too many people killed?”

“If that's what you're looking for, yes. Allow me, Diablo, to handle it.”

Very reliable. He's almost smart. If I give it to him

to him, he seemed ready to achieve anything near everything.

“Then do it. If you're short on war money, you can use

some of this stellar if you want.” I put a thousand coins into my stomach and pushed the remaining five hundred

towards him.

Fortunately for us, all those injured have now fully recovered. In addition to

making a personal visit to their bed, I am not called to

do a lot for them. A thousand is almost too much reparations

many, and we have also taken full possession of the goods base

it's worth Clayman's money, so we're doing very well financially,

my thinking. Most of our newly discovered wealth will be spent on

urban development in the future, but we have breathing room that

enough to give Yohm whatever she needs.

Despite my intentions, Diablo smiled and shook his head. “I'm very

appreciate your concern, Mr. Rimuru, but it's not necessary. As is

listed in my plan, if you can give Me a suitable army, then,

the rest will take care of itself. That, or if you give me permission to

fight alone— ”

“Eh, no, it's okay. I'll give you all the troops you need, please,

so instead of that, I want you to put yourself low enough as much as possible,

okay?”

I have a reason for him to do that. I know how big Diablo is

unknown to it, so I obviously don't want to use it in the wrong place and

expose myself like an idiot. Letting go of it to the human army will

too heavy next to — all it does is make people afraid of us.

We are far from the same understanding from before, and I want us to

have as many peaceful relationships as possible. Besides, we have all

the war power we need. We have no enemies; at least not in

publicly front. Even with Geld's team tied up with engineering work,

Benimaru and his army alone were enough. Farmus, with most of the troops

the combat is gone, not a threat to us.

So I decided to only prepare reinforcements if necessary and

use this stellar windfall to invest in a new country that is ready

yohm built.

This is enough to convince Diablo. “Very good. I'll stay firm in the back

screen.”

“Good. You know, Shion, you can learn a thing or two from Diablo. ”

“What?! When have I ever lost my mind and failed to follow your will, Sir

Rimuru?!”

I try to give Shion advice like this now and again. Him

he never seemed to realize he made a mistake. Yep. I thought that was

it would be a long-term project, gradually instilling in his mind

that raging all the time is not a hot idea. It makes me

breathe out internally. Something told me that it took a while

before I can trust him with a solo mission.

After finishing his report, Diablo asked another question, as if

it just crossed his mind.

“Sir Rimuru, Western Holy Church has reportedly tried to make contact with

Reyhiem, one of my pawns. He has received a call to visit

their headquarters and explained the situation with hostility at Farmus. What

your opinion on that?”

Reyhidem? He's the archbishop of Farmus or whatever, right? Now he just

one of the faithful dogs of Diablo, but ignoring the call of the Church is heard

like a bad idea.

“Hmm... If we ignore them, will it cause problems?”

“It's definitely. I think it's best to let him testify to them, if

just to see what the next step of the Church.”

“Ya... I'm sure they are hungry for info, let alone there are only three survivors.”

From the former king, Edmaris, the palace sorcerer Razen, and Archbishop Reyhiem, enter

it is reasonable that the Church would like to hear from Reyhiem first. He is the one-

the only real candidate of the three.

“But isn't the Church monitoring Veldora? Because right now, it is true that he

revived, but the timeline we give is a bit far from the truth.

If we lie to them, won't they see it?” “You think so? Should I have him tell me the truth?” I

thought about it for a moment.

The church can be the key to our future plans. Ideally, I would like to

engaging them in a way that does not cause interference between us,

but given their flat's refusal to work with monsters, I don't

likes bullets. Not even the Dwarven Kingdom had a good relationship

with Church. The habit of dwarves treated monsters the same way

breaking all their doctrines — but have not erupted into war. Second

the parties simply ignore each other.

Should that be what we're headed for? I don't want to trample more than a millennium

doctrine of the Church, but I also do not want to accept it unconditionally. If they

wanting all the monsters to die, I will not lie on my back and wait for the dagger.

I have to respect them, and we have to pay attention to each other. If wrong

one of us said something that the other couldn't accept, it could

it leads to war, in the end. Deep understanding of each other

it will be a must, along with a wise effort to

stay away from potential landmines in our talks.

Of course, that only applies if the other party is playing together. If not, we just

will deceive yourself. If the Church labels us as divine enemies, we must

against it — and I'm not afraid to destroy them, if that's the

happen.

For the moment,...

“Hmm. How about I send them a message for now? Our

took some magic recorders from Clayman, right? I want it personally

record a message with one of them. We can ask Reyhiem to take it

there and see how the Church reacts. ”

“Very good.”

“Good! I'll bring one as soon as possible!”

Diablo wisely nodded as Shion ran to get the crystal

to me.