"Where is this?"
Inside a dark cave, Lu Minghao looked around, finding no signs of life anywhere.
This was the first time since transmigrating that Lu Minghao had encountered a place devoid of life, even though he had transmigrated back to the Slime world.
"Hmm, this aura... is it Loyna?"
Suddenly, Lu Minghao raised his head and looked upwards.
A familiar aura was rapidly approaching him.
Relying on the connection between him and his subordinate, Lu Minghao easily recognized the other party's identity.
"Which means, I'm currently in the depths of the Jura Forest."
After confirming Loyna's identity, Lu Minghao understood his current location.
Sensing that Loyna was still some distance away, Lu Minghao thought for a moment and walked towards the depths of the cave.
As Lu Minghao walked deeper, glowing algae began to appear on the surrounding stone walls, and the ground became damp.
A rumbling sound came from the distance.
If there were no accidents, there should be an underground river at the end of the cave.
Thump!
At that moment, a round, blue creature fell beside Lu Minghao.
The jelly-like body bounced closer to Lu Minghao, instinctively circling around him.
Soon, more than a dozen slimes ran out from the corners.
With their weak intelligence, they couldn't understand why the slime in front of them looked completely different from them.
"You guys are really everywhere."
Lu Minghao bent down, picked up a slime, and said with a smile.
He had a good impression of these fellow slimes, but unfortunately, in this world, slimes like him and Rimuru who possessed a complete self were too rare.
Thump! Thump!
The slimes didn't understand what this strange fellow slime was saying, and only instinctively followed beside Lu Minghao.
At this moment, Lu Minghao, who was on the verge of becoming a god, was essentially a large aggregate of magic essence.
Even if he did nothing, a continuous stream of magic essence would automatically gather around Lu Minghao, forming a high-magic environment.
Under normal circumstances, these weak slimes wouldn't dare to approach such a place, but they had gathered because they sensed the aura of a fellow slime.
Afterward, Lu Minghao continued to walk deeper while holding the slime in his hand.
As time passed, more and more slimes emerged from the corners and gathered around Lu Minghao.
Some of the monsters living here also sensed the situation.
However, when they approached and saw Lu Minghao surrounded by numerous slimes, they all left.
Soon, Lu Minghao reached the end of the cave.
Here was a huge underground lake, with the bottom of the lake connected to an underground water vein.
When approaching the lake, the numerous slimes that had been surrounding Lu Minghao stopped, emitting information about the danger there.
They were telling that strange fellow slime to leave that place, that it was dangerous.
"It's okay."
Lu Minghao looked at the numerous members of his race beside him and walked forward with a smile.
In the dim cave, only the cracking sound of Lu Minghao stepping on bones could be heard.
The surroundings of the entire underground lake were piled with all kinds of bones, and the air was filled with the stench of rotting corpses.
A closer look at the corpses of these monsters revealed that they had all died instantly and had then been dragged to this place.
But strangely, there were no signs of these monsters' corpses having been eaten.
"Come out."
In fact, when Lu Minghao noticed the situation around the underground lake and the aura lurking at the bottom of the lake, he already knew the other party's identity.
As soon as Lu Minghao's voice fell, the calm lake began to churn.
The numerous slimes around the lake immediately became restless, instinctively moving away from this place, releasing information that only slimes could understand, telling that strange fellow slime to leave that place, that it was dangerous.
In front of Lu Minghao, blood-colored tentacles emerged from the depths of the churning lake.
The large mouths on the tentacles constantly repeated, "So hungry..."
Immediately afterward, a huge shadow emerged from the water.
A ferocious monster fish nearly thirty meters long appeared in front of Lu Minghao, and connected to the monster fish was a monster consisting of four heads, each nearly a meter in diameter.
"So hungry... So hungry..."
"Eat... Eat..."
"Kill me..."
The eyes of the monster formed by the four giant human heads were filled with mad hunger.
From their ferocious mouths, tiny tentacles constantly extended, but even though food was right in front of them, they did not eat at all, only constantly letting out hungry roars.
"So it's you four trash."
Looking at the roaring monster in front of him, Lu Minghao sneered.
These four were the guys who had planned to capture Sally and give her to Loyna's father to be used as a research mother nest.
As punishment, Lu Minghao did not easily kill them, but instead transformed them into gluttonous monsters, forever hungry, but not allowed to eat anything.
Incidentally, Lu Minghao also connected them to the body of the fish-type monster that had swallowed him when he was still weak and had fled into the underground water vein, so that they could watch the monster in front of them eat every day, while they could only endure hunger.
"Good job."
Lu Minghao looked at the roaring monster in front of him, lowered his head, looked at the fish-type monster, and praised it.
Then, Lu Minghao waved his hand, signaling it to leave.
As for those few humans, let them forever enjoy endless hunger.
After the lake returned to calm again, Lu Minghao turned around and looked at the numerous members of his race behind him.
Then, he looked at the monster corpses all around.
Although these monster corpses had already rotted, they were the best nourishment for slimes.
Looking at them, Lu Minghao remembered when he secretly stole the spoils of adventurers, and immediately gave an order to the monster lurking at the bottom of the lake.
"Come on, from now on, this is your territory."
Lu Minghao raised his hand and waved to the numerous members of his race not far away.
Anyway, these monster corpses were already wasted, so it was better to give them to his fellow slimes.
Moreover, under the trend of hunger later, those few guys would definitely hunt more monsters.
Thump!
The few slimes who first discovered Lu Minghao hesitated for a moment after hearing his words, and then jumped over.
After discovering that there was really no danger, they jumped directly onto a mostly rotted monster corpse and began to eat happily.
Seeing this, the other slimes also followed, and soon hundreds of slimes were lying on the monster corpses, eating and eating.
Some of the slimes even self-reproduced newborn slimes on the spot after eating their fill.
"Go on, little guy."
Lu Minghao lowered his head and put the slime that was constantly shaking in his hand on the ground, watching it hop and jump to its fellow slimes and begin to eat.
A smile appeared on the corner of Lu Minghao's mouth.
"I'm leaving, I'll come to see you again when I have the chance."
After sensing that Loyna's aura was already approaching, Lu Minghao waved goodbye to the numerous members of his race in front of him.
Compared to taking them away, it was more appropriate to leave them here.
After all, for ordinary slimes, the happiest thing was to eat their fill without doing anything.
.........
On the other side, above a lush forest at this time, Loyna was raising her little head, looking left and right.
She clearly sensed that her master's aura was nearby, so why couldn't she find him?
"Could it be below?"
The next second, Lorna fixed her gaze on the empty ground, muttered a roar to herself, raised her small hand, and began to gather magic. In the blink of an eye, crimson magic converged into a magic cannon ten meters in diameter. With a wave of Lorna's hand, it flew straight down.
"Hey, hey! Lorna, this welcoming ceremony of yours is a bit off!"
Lu Minghao, who had just used earth magic to drill out of the ground, looked up and saw the magic cannon already above his head. He casually blocked it and looked at Lorna, who was blinking her eyes above, and said.
"Master!"
The next second, Lorna transformed into a black shadow and pounced directly into Lu Minghao's arms, rubbing against him like a kitten. As for the thing above her head, Lorna wasn't worried at all, as it wouldn't hurt her master anyway.
"Alright, stop acting spoiled. Where's Sally? Why didn't she come?"
After Lorna had rubbed enough, Lu Minghao finally stroked Lorna's little head and asked. Logically speaking, Sally should have already known the news of his return, so why didn't she come?
"Sister Sally has already returned to the Gluttony Kingdom, and Master, Sister Sally is now the new Demon Lord, known as the 'Ogre Tyrant'."
Lorna rubbed her little head against Lu Minghao's palm, her big eyes filled with envy. Compared to Sister Sally's interesting life, she just had meetings, meetings, and meetings every day. Lorna was getting dumb from all the meetings.
She really didn't know why Rimuru liked having meetings so much. Could it be that he was actually a Meeting Slime?
"Ogre Tyrant?"
Lu Minghao was stunned when he heard Lorna's words. Then, he sensed Sally's aura through the subordinate connection. After all, Sally's strength had undergone a leap-like improvement before he left. At this moment, Sally was no weaker than Lu Minghao when he left.
In other words, Sally had already become a Calamity-class Demon Lord.
"She really has grown up."
Lu Minghao didn't expect that when he returned again, the girl who had survived by scavenging garbage had grown into a Demon Lord of this world. He felt a sense of having raised a young girl, but it was a bit of a pity that Sally didn't maintain her loli figure, just a little bit of a pity.
"Also, Rimuru, long time no see. I didn't expect you to become a Demon Lord too."
As he spoke, Lu Minghao raised his head and looked at Rimuru, who had just arrived, with a strange expression in his eyes. After not seeing him for a while, Rimuru was really getting cuter and cuter.
"Minghao, welcome back."
Above, Rimuru didn't notice the strange look in Lu Minghao's eyes. The joy of reuniting with a close friend filled his heart at this moment. He waved the wings behind him and landed beside Lu Minghao, extending his hand in front of Lu Minghao with a smile on his face.
"Hey!"
Opposite him, Lu Minghao grinned and directly grabbed Rimuru's hand. Then, in Rimuru's shocked gaze, Lu Minghao used his strength to pull him over and hugged him tightly.
"Ming... Minghao... what... what are you doing?"
In Lu Minghao's arms, Rimuru felt the burning embrace, and his fair cheeks instantly turned red. He looked at Lu Minghao stammeringly and asked, but for some reason, when Lu Minghao hugged him, Rimuru felt shy, but there was still a hint of joy in his heart.
"It's been so long since we last met, of course I'm giving you a hug to relieve my longing!"
Lu Minghao reached out his finger and lifted Rimuru's chin, saying like a bully teasing a good woman. Hongmaru and the others, who had just arrived, were stunned. What exactly happened before they arrived?
"Um, Lord Rimuru, are you alright?"
At this time, Zhu Cai quietly walked to Lu Minghao's side, looked at Rimuru, who was blushing and being hugged, and asked with a hint of concern in her voice. She always felt that if they had arrived a little later, Lord Rimuru would definitely have become strange.
"N-no... nothing."
Rimuru struggled to get out of Lu Minghao's arms and pretended to be calm, then glared at Lu Minghao fiercely. This guy really made Zhu Cai misunderstand him.
"Lord Minghao, long time no see."
After confirming that Rimuru was okay, Zhu Cai turned her head and looked at Lu Minghao with a smile and asked.
"Yeah, Zhu Cai, long time no see, but where's Ziyuan? Why didn't I see her, and little brother Gobuta?"
"........"
"........"
Just as Lu Minghao finished asking, everyone present fell silent. Just a few days ago, due to the concealment of the Demon Lord Clayman, the entire central city of Rimuru was shrouded in an anti-magic barrier. Ziyuan, Gobuta, and many other companions died in that attack.
Afterwards, Rimuru, who rushed back, killed the human soldiers who were preparing to attack in anger, and awakened as a True Demon Lord with the souls of 20,000 humans.
Then, he successfully resurrected Ziyuan and the others, but now the resurrected people were still very weak, and the reason why they had a meeting before was because they were discussing how to deal with the spy, the Demon Man, Myulan.
The reason why they didn't kill her directly was entirely because Crucius, from the Beast Kingdom, an allied country of the Tempest Federation, had been begging for mercy for that Myulan. In addition, Rimuru also believed that the main reason for this mistake was not on the other party.
That's why they planned to have a meeting to decide how to deal with the other party.
"Master, it's like this..."
At this time, Lorna leaned close to Lu Minghao's ear and quietly told Lu Minghao everything. After speaking, she glared at Rimuru with disdain in her eyes. It was all this guy's fault. He was clearly an enemy, but he still sympathized with the other party.
"So that's how it is."
Lu Minghao smiled at this time, smiling extremely cruelly. He almost forgot that besides Youmu, who had already been killed by him before, there was also Crucius from the Beast Kingdom who was a double agent.
In the original work, the two of them liked Myulan, and as a result, after she was discovered, they blocked Hongmaru who wanted to kill Myulan, and even said that if they wanted to kill Myulan, they would have to step over their bodies first.
In the end, the funny thing was that Rimuru really forgave Myulan, and even helped her regain her freedom from Clayman, and even helped Youmu become the king of a kingdom. It was simply hilarious to the extreme.
"Rimuru, it seems that your personality still hasn't changed much!"
The next second, Lu Minghao turned his head to look at Rimuru. This guy always had useless benevolence in places where it wasn't needed. He didn't even think about how he let go of Myulan, who killed Ziyuan and Gobuta and the others, and even helped Youmu, who was with Myulan, become a king.
What did Ziyuan and the others feel in their hearts when they were killed by Myulan, what did Hongmaru and the others feel when they watched their companions die, Lu Minghao didn't believe that Hongmaru and the others would say that they had no complaints.
"Minghao, listen to me..."
"Stop, Rimuru, this is something within your country. I'm just your close friend, but I'm not a member of your Federation, so what you want to do is your business."
After speaking, Lu Minghao left here with Lorna beside him. Just like he said, Lu Minghao didn't want to pay much attention to this matter. Anyway, Rimuru would be his soon, and as for what to do at that time, Lu Minghao would have the final say.