“Lord Rimuru, lizardman envoys have arrived!”
In the goblin village, Rigurd found Rimuru, who was discussing weapon and armor related issues with Kurobe and Kaijin in the smithy. Just now, four lizardmen claiming to be envoys of the lizardmen appeared outside the village, requesting to see the ruler of this village.
“Lizardman envoys?”
“Did they say why they came?”
“No, Lord Rimuru. Should we meet them?”
“...Then let's meet them.”
Rimuru thought for a few seconds and nodded in agreement to meet the lizardman envoys. After all, the entire Jura Forest was not safe now. The orc tribe in front was constantly launching invasions, trying to rule the entire Jura Forest, and there was also that strange, bizarre, and twisted existence in the dark.
Their village needed more power, and if it was suitable, forming an alliance with the lizardmen would be a good choice.
“Lord Rimuru, can we be allowed to join you? We also want to know the lizardmen's purpose.”
At this time, Benimaru, who was beside him, walked to Rimuru and asked in a low voice. Benimaru had heard of the lizardman race before. It was a race whose strength was comparable to that of the former ogre tribe village, and now that they suddenly came here, Benimaru knew that things were definitely not that simple.
“Alright, let's go and see if they are friends or foes.”
Rimuru glanced at Benimaru beside him and nodded, heading directly towards the outside of the village. Rigurd and the others hurriedly followed. Halfway there, Rimuru suddenly stopped, and a figure suddenly appeared beside Rimuru.
“Souei, Luminous, you're back. Are you injured?”
Looking at Souei kneeling in front of him and Luminous jumping off Souei's back with her short legs, Rimuru asked with a hint of concern in his eyes. Not long ago, he heard from Gobta that Luminous had left alone.
However, out of confidence in Luminous and Souei, Rimuru did not go out. Of course, the main reason was that Souei, as Rimuru's named monster, had a mental connection with Rimuru. If something really happened, Souei could use the mental connection to notify him and instantly arrive with [Space Transfer].
“Lord Rimuru, we are not injured, but...”
Souei raised his head to look at Rimuru and told him about Luminous's battle with Treyni, the Great Forest Guardian, and Treyni's desire to visit.
“Great Forest Guardian? And wants to visit me?”
After listening to what Souei said, a look of doubt appeared on Rimuru's face. He didn't even know who the Great Forest Guardian was, and why would she want to visit him?
“It should be because of the orc lord's invasion of the Jura Forest. The Great Forest Guardian protects the Jura Forest and probably wants to borrow Lord Rimuru's power.”
Souei stood up and slowly said while looking at Rimuru. In fact, while investigating the orc tribe's movements recently, Souei vaguely noticed that other existences were also investigating the orc tribe's information. Combining that with Treyni suddenly wanting to visit Lord Rimuru, then the result was obvious.
“Hmm, I understand.”
Rimuru thought for a while and nodded. If that Great Forest Guardian was indeed coming to visit him because of the orc lord, then Rimuru had no objections. After all, the more combat power gathered now, the better for Rimuru.
“Rimuru, where are you going now?”
At this time, Luminous, who was beside him, came over and asked curiously. Just now, she noticed that Rimuru and the others were heading towards the outside of the village, and Luminous also sensed three somewhat familiar auras outside the village, as if she had encountered them there before.
“Envoys from the lizardman race have come to visit. Luminous, are you interested?”
“Envoys! I want to go, I want to go!”
And so, a group of people headed towards the outside of the village, where the envoys of the lizardman race were waiting for them. And these so-called lizardman envoys were none other than Gabiru, who had escaped death before, and his three little followers.
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Western Nations, inside an unknown city tavern.
A large number of adventurers were raising their glasses and cheering. Today was the last day of their carnival. Tomorrow, they would follow the army and step onto the battlefield. Don't look at their smiling faces now, acting so heroic.
But in reality, during these two days of waiting, they had also received news of what had happened on the front lines. In just two days, four kingdoms had been reduced to ruins in the attacks of those monsters. All the citizens in the four kingdoms had either become part of those monsters or had all become their food.
Now, these adventurers were just preparing for death, having what might be the last carnival of their lives. Anyway, they were all going to die in the end. For these adventurers who had already prepared for death when they decided to participate in the mission, it was better to wait for tomorrow in fear and anxiety.
It was better to indulge in a carnival and then completely burn themselves on the final battlefield of their lives. In this way, there might be a chance to save the Western Nations and survive to become heroes.
“Minghao, aren't you going to participate?”
At this time, Bella, the assassin in the team, approached Lu Minghao, looking at Lu Minghao with a hint of wretched and envious smile on his ordinary face. During these two days, Bella had personally witnessed many female adventurers who were beyond his reach sending invitations to Lu Minghao.
However, to the bewilderment of Bella and even many adventurers, Lu Minghao refused them with a smile.
Therefore, every time at the dinner party, Bella would look at Lu Minghao with a regretful and envious look. If it were him, he would definitely not refuse. After all, no one knew if they could survive in the upcoming battle.
Since this was the case, then why not indulge before death?
“No, but why aren't you going, Bella?”
Lu Minghao raised the glass in front of him and took a sip, raising his head and looking at Bella with a faint smile on his face. The approachable, sunlight-like smile directly stunned several female adventurers not far away.
“...I...I'm not going...”
Faced with Lu Minghao's question, Bella, who was still excited the second before, instantly became like an eggplant beaten by frost. Did he have to say that he didn't want to join because it was useless even if he joined?
As an assassin, not to mention his ordinary appearance, just the slender figure he had to maintain for flexible movement was like a bamboo pole in the eyes of those female adventurers, completely incomparable to those burly adventurers who were warriors.
“Hey, hey! Bella, you're trying to seduce little brother Minghao again. Did that female adventurer give you any benefits?”
At this time, a bearded adventurer next to him leaned over and patted Bella's shoulder hard, looking at him with an expression that saw through everything, and then laughed loudly. The other adventurers next to him also started booing.
“Nonsense, am I that kind of person, Bella?”
Looking at the booing crowd, Bella picked up the glass and rushed over, starting to argue loudly, but the unnatural expression had already betrayed him completely. Before long, Bella was pulled by other adventurers and started to be forced to drink.
“Minghao, don't mind, Bella actually doesn't have any malicious intent.”
A firm and powerful arm wrapped around Lu Minghao. Sophie's rough face appeared in front of Lu Minghao, and she smiled softly as she looked at Bella, who was being forced to drink by many adventurers.
“I know.”
Lu Minghao glanced at Sophie and nodded. Honestly, Lu Minghao didn't care what Bella wanted to do at all, because it was impossible for him to succeed. Indeed, as Bella said, many female adventurers had come to invite him these two days, and even many of them were very good.
For example, a loli-bodied mage who was actually hundreds of years old, or a mature-looking warrior, or even twin girls.
It wasn't that Lu Minghao had lost his desires after reincarnating as a slime. If he had really lost them, he wouldn't have deliberately created his indescribable thing, but the problem was that, not to mention whether Lu Minghao, as a Calamity-class Demon Lord, was something they could withstand, the thing of shooting through the body could really happen.
Besides, although Lu Minghao still had desires now, he had also changed a bit after reincarnation. In other words, ordinary humans no longer had much appeal to him. Not too special existences couldn't attract Lu Minghao at all.
“By the way, Captain, aren't you going to introduce me to our last teammate?”
At this time, Lu Minghao suddenly turned his head to look at the girl in a black dress with a cold and lifeless face. She was the last member of the Red Rose team, and today she had also left the room and appeared in front of everyone.
“Her name is Nina. She's the strongest member of our Red Rose, but she was injured some time ago and only recovered today.”
Sophie smiled softly after hearing Lu Minghao's words and walked to Nina's side, starting to introduce her. But Sophie didn't say anything about Nina's abilities and strength, only briefly introducing Nina's name and the reason why she only appeared now.
In fact, Sophie wasn't very clear about Nina's strength either. A month ago, the Red Rose received a mission to go to the eastern edge of the Jura Forest. There, their team encountered a strange monster.
It was clearly a monster, but it used the abilities of ancient human heroes. The entire Red Rose team quickly lost several members under the monster's attack, and just when Sophie thought their team was going to die here, the seriously injured Nina appeared.
In the horrified gazes of Sophie and the others, the seriously injured Nina just glanced at the monster, and the monster, which was invincible in the eyes of Sophie's team, was completely engulfed in black flames, howling and turning to ashes, completely dead.
And after that monster died, before Sophie could thank Nina, the seriously injured Nina passed out directly and was subsequently brought back to the Western Nations by Sophie.
