Founding Festival

The nobles and kings were present in the hall. Buffet style food is arranged.

Elmesia arrived , I cordially invited her along with Gazel and Bluemund King.

There was both cooked and uncooked section. Hakuro's Chef skills were shown.

Milim,Frey and Karrion came. The priests at milim's kingdom also came and they don't have the concept of cooking. I also mentioned "Not to offend you, but we do have poultry products in the menu, if it's not for your taste we will change that" through thought communication to Frey.She smiled and shaked to indicate they were ok with that.

Shauna presented the food but the blockhead of a priest won't eat it. So I looked over to Shauna for help, she did exactly as in plot which ultimately made the priests to experience cooked food.

Later that day, I arranged a short meeting with Gazel and Elmesia about the recent changes in the world and how we would be targetted, Economic Alliance between our countries will jeopardise western councils monopoly. One likely way to obtain favoritism is economic manipulation by not accepting IOU,Barter or even ancient currency we have obtained from jistav, while providing a helping hand until the very end. So we made a deal with Elmesia,Gazel to exchange coins.

Benimaru, Testarosaa ,Rigurdo were arranged for facilitating welcoming kings and nobles. Souei is advised to intensify the spy operation after mentioning the recent situations in the world, I told him there might be attacks possible so I given him title of intelligence officer of nation and also introduced to demons under my subordination capable for this intelligence gathering work.

Next day, the festival started by my speech. I used what's in plot as a reference and made ciel to give me a new one. Then an orchestra was arranged. Scientific progress was an experimental supercar built by me running on magic. It was a wish fulfilling work yet it got many looks from those who are present. Gabiru also did what obtained in the canon by repairing a broken sword by healing potion.Ramiris was there showing off her elemental golem she made with a proud face.

Next day the battle tournament started I invited masayuki who was minding his own business in crowd to also fight and then he came to me with a plain face that's meaning to say 'Why did you betray me I thought you were my friend'.

'Now that your aura is no more actively enforced you can use this to your advantage and use it till final or semifinal if you have the courage to show off and turn off the aura and accept defeat, so that the people won't come from far just to challenge you.'

He seemed to battle this with his mind so I pulled him into the stage by vector manipulation to make him look like he had a superhero landing along side other competitors.

Bovix vs Equinox : Bovix won. Hard fight with both getting injured and healed.

Masayuki vs Jinrai: Masayukki won by other just plainly admitting defeat.

Flowing swordsman Gaiyle vs Gobta: I just instructed Gobta to summon wolf 'by acting as you are summoning' when you get a space' Ranga came and oneshot KO. Gobta won.

Lion mask vs Geld: Lion mask won

Bovix vs Masayuki: Masayuki by bluffing

Lion mask vs Gobta : Gobta just because other guys mask broke somewhat and it's easy to see face.

So finals the next day. Gobta vs Masayukki.

I called Milim,Gobta and Ranga to labyrinth to teach him about wolf humanoidification I was there for an hour just so that he was able to merge properly at will and not by the heat of the moment and asked milim if she liked to help him train for a few hours before night.

She was happy, no excited to say the least to train him. I didnt mind his howlings and set an alarm with ciel san to remind me at night or milim will train him to death.

At night, Empress elmesia offered 1000 modern gold coins for 10 stellar gold coins and Gazel also offered 2000 of which I only kept 1500 inexchange for our ancient gold coins ,stellar and collections. Souei appeared and informed about how my predictions are coming true and finding several spy near our kingdom in and out and also the man and merchants who is probable to do the underhand business.

Then elmesia proposed me friendly alliance based on whether I was willing to introduce our pastry chef in town Yoshida san.

Meanwhile an interesting thing happened while I was walking with Elmesia chan to Yoshida kun is that a 10 year old girl used her skills on us. She and I didn't mind it at all and act like nothing happened but I had a plan on my mind. Afterwards looking at me Elmesia said "Don't do anything bad to her she is young but teaching a lesson won't be problem" . I explained to her who she is 'Mariabell Rosso' the grand daughter of Granbell Rosso and she got surprised by it.

"Well I will give a taste of her own medicine."

After an hour over so I left my parallel existence near her without her knowing.

Mariabell was out in public inducing problems among customers and peoples against shop people which will get solved by policing departments in Tempest.

I used Skill steal under Harvest lord shub niggarth (Ciel added skill steal to it later under my request by analysing guy crimson s prideful one skill acting on me during walpurgis) then I obtained unique skill greed and extra skills greed flare ,locking curse and death wish were collected into skill bank and proceeded as per planned.

She was temporarily not able to use her skills. Panicking she only heard Ciel's voice mimicking VoW saying:

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Then I granted those skills which I came prepared before using Harvest lord . Generous one gives some temporary buffs and protective barriors to the one who is fighting for her even if she was once an enemy. It also has a subskill of generosity flare which would be healing aura, a shielding subskill for others and sacrificial guard for transferring ally damage to her and not the other way.

While liberation charm leads to ability to widespread disable curses placed on user and his surroundings.

"No..no no no no.... comeback ....I want my previous ones. Don't joke with me...Nooo. I am a greedy person never a generous one....mhn nhgg " She earned attention in the middle of the street for shouting like crazy and so she went to alley like place she could visit near and checked her subskills which she felt like VoW playing with her, extremely frustrated by it, she decided to go back. I also used Nexus God Nullification to negate her growth but not age and also evolutionary potential. Pretty cruel isn't it?

Later I freed Gobta and flashed a highpotion on both ranga and gobta. Now they can atleast control some of their power. I also instructed him to blast the ground under and some tricks and then Masayukki will say he acknowledged his defeat as earlier planned and to act and no spilling the beans to crowd or anyone.

Next day, in the final, no surprises , Gobta won. I instructed Masayukki the battle plan before and also he will be little injured to make it look like a tough fight and assured him a 100 times that I will interfere if anything goes not well or outside our plans. He was very against it, but I forced him to do it with other option being completely injured to defeat by gobta.

The fight start by gobta transforming to humanoid form and blasting the ground which made Masayukki jump of the ground to a height with little injury on his legs from grazed rocks. I instructed him via telepathy to use shift , which he did and he and gobta switched place and Masayukki jumped and ran off the battle ground willingly as gobta's double hand punch from the height destroyed the battle ground into big pieces.

Masayukki conceived his defeat while turning off his skill and some people are ok with it while some where not. But there wasn't any outrageous effect as in plot. I healed him later.

As a result of his hardwork I offered him free food for a week ticket from me and best gears and training to evolve into enlightened human. He was Okay with it and his complaints were over. Later he said he is fine with him being my subordinates when I introduced to the rare delicacies Shauna makes and also remembering the rows of mangas and anime he has yet to finish in there. So I asked him to train his body to enlightened human first, only then will I accept.

I asked hakurou and few of my demon subordinates to help him train. I specifically asked hakurou to mild the training a bit. The training was within the labyrinth and so his friends weren't allowed. His friends stayed outside however they were very OK with him leaving to train and go seperately now skill is not under work. I also instructed Ramiris for the concept of revival bracelet within labyrinth and given one to Masayukki and instructed him that even if he were to accidently kill himself, he will come back. He asked me if it's true ? while putting it on.

I smiled and cut his head off before he could identify what was happening and then he was back to normal, feeling nothing. He was ok until I showed his own head falling down and he got revived through the recording and then he freaked out spouting "Rimuru is a demon " for an hour after which Hakorou dragged him to train.

And towards the end, we had merchants complaining to mjyornmiles that they need dwarvan gold coins and then a representative from the kingdom of ghastone came forward and pressured mjyornmiles. Then I came, listened to his ambitious speech, brought forth the new coins we received and successfully done payment via dwarven gold coins and refused the merchants entry as in a fit of anger show which leads to mjyornmiles getting supported by people just to plead me for compassion thereby obtaining more merchant relationships in the future.

I described what happened to the kings and representatives like fuse, veryad noble and so on. The death of yukki's news came to discussion. And I had Hinata explain how he was behind the clown troupes that went to church to do infiltrating, I explained how yukki and cerebus members were behind controlling west, orc lord incident having the orcs equip battle gears released from the east, Charybdis awakening made earlier by the actions of those clowns, how clayman have been influenced by Damrada, his position in the east and the source of information being clayman after his defeat by me in walpurgis.etc.

"Why do you think their death can't be even devined to reveal do you know something Rimuru?" Elmesia asked knowingly that the deed was probably done by me.

I thought for a moment " May be manipulating information particle could do the trick, if you know what that is and how to do it.." And there goes our meeting.

Meanwhile Mariabell returned to Granbell gloomingly. He found out what's wrong with his ever ambitious grand daughter after some questioning and found out that she lost her advantage in helping Granbell leading his ambitions as her new skill doesn't do that except for some supportive advantages for adventures?.So Granbell began to plan by himself and just accepting some suggestions brought by Mariabell from then onwards. He also wondered if some other were to interfere with VoW with her? If demon lord Rimuru were to have such powers then why the hell did he had an embarassing escape when Hinata first fought him? And no fighting with Hinata later? No even ancient demon lords can't do that. Never the less he kept his doubts to himself.

The people who were under Mariabell control also began to have their free mind returned but Grandbells strict intervention brought none to escape and captured those who tried attacking back.