42. Scheme and the Unmasked Raiden Shogun

With the full support of princess Lily, Tomoki was able to reach level 600s in a matter of a few months which is quite a feat for anyone native to this world. Since Tomoki is a summoned hero, fast growth of levels is quite easy to achieve if you also add hard work of course.

Princess Lily is making Tomoki grow as much as possible to prepare for the retaking the Stela fortress and Tomoki himself has no problem with it, his game-like perspective gives him satisfaction when leveling up in which Lily used it to her advantage to corrupt Tomoki more and more until he reaches the point of no return.

Tomoki inquires Lily about the level of Limia's heroine and Lily answered that Hibiki has only reached about 400, disappointing Tomoki for his fellow hero's slow growth in levels.

Lily plays the jealous girl act as she hugs Tomoki in the back, and the idiot himself was so easily played by the palm of the princess.

A few months earlier, Lily back down from the competition for the throne, making it for her siblings to have their guard down as they know how much dedicated Lily is to eradicate the Demons for they are the cause of her mother's death. What they didn't know is that Lily doesn't want to waste time and energy to compete for the throne if she has her toy(Tomoki) to usurp Gritonia, making it easier for her to rule the Gritonia Empire with a powerful toy in her hands.

She has started to complete her plans bit by bit, starting in the destruction of the Gritonian military research facility along with the scientist who made the growth accelerating drugs to enhance Tomoki and his harem's level growth at the cost of their lifespan.

With such secret Lily can't afford to let the creator of this drug to share it to other parties by selling it, hence she had the maid she brought along kill the old man and die alongside as the facility burns to the ground.

After cleaning up all the evidence and washed up Lily was notified by a palace guard of the fire incident and responds calmly as a proper princess should.

With that being done the scheming princess is now starting with the development of a weapon that can be wield by anyone, be it children or elderly as long as they know how to operate it. A weapon shared by the foolish hero himself, a weapon from Earth called "Firearms" or otherwise called a "Gun". This will be Lily's foundation for the rebellion against the Goddess in the future.

Ei opens her eyes after deciding to stop meditating for the whole night, as an Elder Goddess sleep is no longer a requirement to rest so she just meditates every night as a way of "sleeping".

She looks at the table that has a written note on it, showing how considerate her latest Subordinate is by taking care of what they need in advance to avoid inconvenience.

Shiki while preparing for the next teleportation tonight was bombarded by his senior Mio through telepathy about Ei's status as Tomoe rebukes her since from day one Ei only meditates every night.

'Does Master only meditates during sleeping hours?' Shiki asked Tomoe and got a reply 'Pretty much yeah, I'll remind you both that Master is an Elder Goddess so sleep is no longer a necessity for her. In fact she told me that there were times where she meditates for hundreds up to thousands of years when she achieves a new breakthrough in her enlightenment.'

This surprised both Shiki and Mio greatly as they realize just how long their Master/Mistress had lived.

While Mio is asking for more info from Tomoe, Ei is currently eating while everyone in the restaurant is amazed for two reasons one is her beauty and two is that this beautiful lady is eating food made from slime.

Ei doesn't mind the source as long as the food is delicious and she left after paying a gold coin and told the owner to keep the change.

The same thing is happening inside a branch of the adventurers' guild as Ei looks for an interesting quest while being stared at by the adventurers inside, as usual Ei doesn't mind the stares as she sharpens her hearing after a girl shouts as she pleads for help from the adventurers as her village is being targeted by bandits.

' Interesting' Ei thought as she now in a mood for some body stretches.