Inside the central city of 'Rimuru', many monster residents were gathered in the central square. There, Rigurd was lying on the ground, emitting suppressed roars filled with pain and humiliation. One could vaguely see that half of Rigurd's face had become a bloody mess.
Beside Rigurd, several hobgoblin warriors were also lying, but they were all unconscious.
"Ptooey! How dare you lowly goblins resist me? Know that I am one of the Three Beastketeers under Lord Carrion, Black Leopard Fang Fabio, the strongest warrior of the Beastketeer Corps. It is an honor for you lowly goblins that this city can be incorporated into Lord Beast King's rule, yet you dare to refuse my good intentions?"
Beside Rigurd, a man with purple hair and pointed ears, looking arrogant and unruly, looked at Rigurd with a sneer. He even kicked Rigurd's head and stomped on it forcefully.
The other monster residents of the central city revealed angry gazes upon seeing this, but even if they went up, they would not be a match for Fabio due to their weak strength. The goblin squad led by Gobta had already gone into the forest to hunt, and Lord Rimuru and Benimaru had not yet returned.
"Hmph!"
Fabio raised his head and looked around at the surrounding monsters with disdain. All he saw were lowly goblins and pig-men, all low-level monsters. Even if they evolved, they would still be the same. The only thing that made him look at it a bit more was this city. It was not bad and could be given to Lord Carrion as a gift. As for these lowly monsters, it would be better to clean them all up later.
"Hmm?"
The next second, Fabio's expression suddenly changed, and he raised his head to look at the sky. Powerful auras were rapidly approaching, and what frightened him the most was that Demon Lord Milim was among them!
Before leaving the Beast Kingdom for the Jura Forest, Lord Carrion had told him to avoid being discovered by Milim as much as possible, after all, Carrion had promised not to get involved in this matter.
"Oh my, Rimuru, it seems that a little bug who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth has come to our city."
In mid-air, Lu Minghao crossed his arms and looked at Fabio below with a smile. This guy was the body for the resurrection of the Storm Dragon this time. He was just thinking that he would be a snack in his main course next, otherwise Lu Minghao would have swallowed him in one bite.
"Hey! You're a subordinate of Carrion, right? That guy actually dared to violate the agreement!"
Milim stared at Fabio's arrogant appearance below. A few seconds later, a puffed-up look appeared on her small face, and she pointed at Fabio and shouted. Milim had seen Fabio when she went to play with Carrion before.
"Alright, alright, Milim, the next thing is for Rimuru, the master, to do."
Lu Minghao waved his hand at Milim, who wanted to rush down and punch Fabio, signaling her not to move first. Then, he turned his head to look at Rimuru on the other side. At this time, Rimuru's delicate and neutral face was full of indifference, and a surge of furious magic essence was constantly pouring out of his body.
Pa!
The next second, Rimuru gently landed beside Rigurd. Fabio, who was stepping on Rigurd's head, was about to say something when Rimuru suddenly raised his head and glanced at him. Instantly, Fabio jumped away like a cat whose fur had been ruffled and landed beside his two companions, staring at Rimuru, who was squatting beside Rigurd, with wary eyes.
"Rigurd, are you okay?"
"This little injury is nothing!"
Hearing Rimuru's words, Rigurd quickly raised his bloody face, grinned, and revealed a terrifying smile, indicating that this was just a small injury and did not need to be worried about.
"No, this is already a serious injury!"
Looking at Rigurd, who was trying to say that it was a small injury even in this state, Rimuru instinctively complained and threw a ball of perfect recovery medicine on Rigurd's body. Then, he threw a few more balls to the other goblin warriors lying on the ground and raised his head to walk towards Fabio on the opposite side.
"So, what are you here to do... However, that's not important. Let me punch you first, and then we'll talk."
Rimuru looked at Fabio on the opposite side. He originally planned to ask the other party what he wanted to do, but the next second, he thought of the injuries Rigurd had suffered before and the goblin warriors lying on the ground. Instantly, Rimuru lost much interest in what Fabio wanted to do, at least... at least he had to take revenge first!
"Hmm?"
Fabio raised an eyebrow when he heard Rimuru's words and was about to say something when he suddenly discovered that Rimuru's body was disappearing bit by bit, and Rimuru, holding his fist, suddenly appeared in front of him.
'Afterimage!'
Fabio only had time to mutter in his heart before a burst of severe pain came from his body. All the bones in his body were shattered in an instant, but the surface of his body looked fine.
"Lord Fabio?"
The two Beast Kingdom soldiers beside him looked at Fabio, who had been lightly punched by Rimuru and was standing still. They subconsciously reached out and pushed his body, trying to wake him up, but the moment the Beast Kingdom soldier's palm touched Fabio, his body collapsed directly, turning into a soft ball of flesh.
"Lord Rimuru, is he dead?"
Shion looked at the soft ball of flesh on the ground and turned her head to look at Rimuru curiously. To be honest, she was a little disappointed. If this guy died so easily, wouldn't it be too easy for him? After all, seeing Rigurd's appearance just now, both Shion and Benimaru were very angry.
"No, he's alive. Milim said just now that he is one of the Three Beastketeers under Demon Lord Carrion. He didn't kill Rigurd and the others before. Now, the revenge for him hurting Rigurd and the others has also been taken. After healing him, we'll ask what's going on, after all, it's not easy for us to be enemies with too many Demon Lords right now."
As he spoke, Rimuru took out a ball of perfect recovery medicine and threw it on the flesh that Fabio had turned into. In a few short seconds, the flesh automatically wriggled and grew in the surprised eyes of the crowd, turning back into the arrogant and unruly Fabio.
More than ten minutes later, inside the conference room of the central city of Rimuru, Fabio slowly opened his eyes and looked at the conference room in front of him. Due to Rimuru's sudden attack and the severe pain of having his bones crushed, he had not fully recovered yet.
"Oh, you're awake, so now can you tell me what you're doing in the Jura Forest?"
On the opposite side, a sky-blue, round slime on the conference table looked at Fabio, who had woken up, and slowly asked. The familiar voice made Fabio shudder subconsciously, but after seeing that the other party was just a mere slime, the arrogant expression reappeared on his face, with his legs crossed on the conference table, looking very arrogant.
"Hmph! Do you think I would answer a question from a low-level slime?"
"Hmm?"
Before Rimuru could say anything, Shali, who was sitting not far away, suddenly raised her head, her large purple eyes filled with violence as she stared at Phobio. Her terrifying aura directly pressed Phobio's body to the ground, even deforming him little by little. It was no accident that a meat pie would appear in three seconds.
"Shali, wait!"
Just then, Rimuru quickly told Shali to stop, after all, he hadn't figured out what Phobio was doing here. It was a pity that Shali completely ignored Rimuru's words, and even the aura she emitted became even more terrifying.
"Alright Shali, don't worry about a mere ant."
A large hand gently stroked Shali's hair. Lu Minghao looked at Phobio, whose body was almost collapsing under Shali's aura and bleeding from all seven orifices, with a gentle and friendly smile. Lu Minghao was still very merciful to his little snack.
"Mm."
Hearing Lu Minghao's words, Shali obediently restrained her aura, rubbed Lu Minghao's palm with a sweet smile on her face, and picked up the snack in front of her to eat happily.
"Cough cough..."
On the ground, Phobio, who had luckily escaped another disaster, barely stood up with the support of two Beast Kingdom warriors beside him. His eyes were filled with fear as he glanced at Shali, who was eating snacks. He was absolutely certain that the ogre girl, who looked like she was only ten years old, had an aura even stronger than Lord Carrion.
"So, can you talk now?"
Opposite him, Rimuru's voice rang out again. In order to prevent Phobio from courting death again, Rimuru thoughtfully transformed into a human form.
"Lord Carrion ordered me to win over the mysterious majin."
After seeing Rimuru's appearance, even Phobio, who was as stubborn as iron, finally didn't dare to continue courting death, and quickly said their purpose this time. However, after he finished speaking, he was struck by an overwhelming aura and sent flying.
"Hmph!"
After Phobio was sent flying, everyone turned their heads to look at Milim. Seeing this, Milim raised her small head and snorted, grabbed a sandwich from her hand and took a big bite, chewing with her cheeks puffed out.
"I already know the situation, so you can go back now."
"Huh?"
"Lord Rimuru, is that really okay?"
After hearing Rimuru's words to let Phobio leave, not only did Phobio, who already thought he was going to die, show a surprised expression, but even Benimaru and Shion turned their heads to look over.
"I can't kill him, can I?"
Faced with the surprised crowd, Rimuru shook his head helplessly, indicating that he couldn't kill Phobio. If that was the case, it would be better to let him leave, otherwise, what would he do here?
"I understand!"
Opposite him, Phobio stood up with an expression as if he had been humiliated, glared at Rimuru fiercely, and turned around and left. However, Phobio, who was leaving, didn't notice Lu Minghao's gaze at him at this time, as if he was looking at a carefully prepared feast that was about to be completed.
"Hmm?"
Just after Phobio left, Lu Minghao, who was sitting in the corner of the conference room, suddenly showed a look of surprise on his face, and subconsciously turned his head to look north of the Jura Forest, a strange look in his eyes.
"Minghao, what's wrong?"
Shali raised her small head and looked at Lu Minghao with this strange look, her small face full of curiosity. She, who had been with Lu Minghao day and night, saw a hint of schadenfreude in Lu Minghao's eyes just now.
"It's nothing, I just saw something that made me happy."
After speaking, Lu Minghao smiled lightly and left the conference room, preparing to welcome the feast that would come tomorrow. Now, the members of the Moderate Harlequin Alliance were most likely already entering the Jura Forest under Clayman's instructions. Tonight, they should go and fool that idiot Phobio into becoming the body for the revival of the Storm Great Demon Disaster.
And after devouring the Storm Great Demon Disaster, Lu Minghao should also travel to the next world.
At the same time, in the northern forest of the Jura Forest.
The Pig Head Emperor investigation team from the Falmuth Kingdom was currently encountering an unprecedented crisis. A middle-ranked monster, the Dark Night Spider, with a height of nearly ten meters, was launching an attack on them. Its powerful body and the toxins attached to its attacks caused them heavy losses.
"Head, what should we do?"
A bald man looked at Yohm, the leader of the investigation team at the front of the team, and asked anxiously. At this time, under the crisis of many teammates being seriously injured and dying, the remaining people had already become extremely panicked. After all, although they were called the Border Investigation Team.
But in reality, they were just adventurers hired by the Falmuth Kingdom with money. They were completely a third-rate investigation team built with money as a connection, not even third-rate.
"You guys form a defensive formation, carry the injured to the back for treatment, mages give me enhancement magic, and directly solve it!"
Under Yohm's command, the originally panicked crowd finally found their backbone, and hurriedly began to act according to the instructions. The magician wearing glasses in the team also added all the enhancement magic to Yohm's body.
"Heh, watch me solve this guy with one blow..."
Feeling the continuous stream of power gushing out of his body under the enhancement magic, Yohm showed a confident expression on his face, and directly raised the long sword in his hand to aim at the Dark Night Spider in front of him. He wanted to kill it completely with one blow, but just as Yohm was about to launch an attack.
The Dark Night Spider on the opposite side suddenly became terrified, completely ignoring Yohm and the others in front of it, and turned around to escape without hesitation, but just as it turned around, a dark red tentacle suddenly drilled out of the earth.
In the horrified eyes of Yohm and the others, it directly and easily pierced through the carapace of the Dark Night Spider's body, deeply piercing into its body. Then, in less than a second, with the dark red tentacles wriggling slightly, the huge Dark Night Spider directly turned into a dried corpse. Even the carapace that could not be pierced by swords and spears before became as soft as tofu, and shattered into powder with a slight touch.
"Hey hey! What the hell is that?"
Looking at the completely dead Dark Night Spider and the indescribable tentacles that were more than ten meters long in front of him, Yohm's forehead was covered with bean-sized sweat, and he said with a wry smile.
"Head, look... look over there."
At this time, the bald man who had walked behind Yohm in despair patted him on the shoulder, signaling him to look around. He saw that countless indescribable tentacles had been constantly drilling out of the earth at some point, completely surrounding them.
Unlike in the original story where they were saved by Gobuta and the others, due to the existence of the Mother Nest of All Things, the entire northern part of the Jura Forest had almost become a forbidden zone for living beings. Gobuta and the others would not come here to hunt.
"Damn it!"
Looking at the countless indescribable tentacles around him, Yohm despairingly put down the long sword in his hand, lowered his head and looked at the ground that was not only surging, but also drilled out a huge mouth full of dense fangs like a shark's mouth, and made the last sound in his life.
