"Just as you predicted."
Cang Ying stood on a cliff, gazing at the desolate land in the distance. Under the scorching sun, not a blade of grass grew: "There's nothing, neither grass nor trees, all gone."
"It seems 'Starved' has already manifested."
Through this event, Bai Luo was able to roughly determine the current time period.
'After Rimuru reincarnated, it took him about a few months to leave the labyrinth.'
'Afterward, he successively subdued the Goblins and Ya Wolf, encountered Hong Maru and others whose villages were annihilated by the Moderate Clown Troupe, and soon met the invading Pighead Clan army.'
Bai Luo felt that it should be around the first half of the story's plot, as the Storm Dragon was still present.
However, considering the Insect Monster not mentioned in the original work, Bai Luo felt he couldn't completely rely on the original as a reference.
In the real world, any event can trigger a butterfly effect~.
Bai Luo didn't think the future would unfold exactly as described in the novel.
"Cang Ying."
"At your service!"
"Go to the Lizardmen's territory, inform them of the Pighead Clan's changes, and then propose an alliance with us."
Bai Luo wanted to subdue all the monsters in the forest. Each of them was an important source of magic essence for Bai Luo, and he couldn't let a large number of them die off casually as in the original work.
"Understood!"
Upon receiving the order, Cang Ying wasted no time and immediately rushed towards the Lizardmen's stronghold.
'This is a bit troublesome.'
Upon learning the current time period, Bai Luo felt a slight sense of distress, and his expression was immediately noticed by Snow Empress.
"Master, is something wrong?"
Bai Luo pondered for a moment and told Snow Empress the information he knew: "Simply put, someone is behind a conspiracy, and there's a group of very strong individuals hiding in the shadows. I'm a bit uneasy."
Rimuru's initial opponent, the early antagonist, and later a power-level measuring unit, Kleiman, one of the Ten Great Demon Lord Seeds.
Don't misunderstand, even though this guy didn't perform well in the original work and was easily dealt with by Meng Wang.
But Kleiman was still a Demon Lord Seed, after all.
The term Demon Lord Seed here does not refer to a truly awakened Demon Lord Seed.
In the Cardinal World, if you are a Demon Lord Seed, then acquire territory and an army, you can call yourself a Demon Lord Seed.
Afterward, through the Demon Lord Seed Council, as long as the other Demon Lord Seeds do not object, then you are a Demon Lord Seed.
"Kleiman, and the Demon Lord Seeds, are they very strong?"
Hearing that there were powerful individuals, Snow Empress felt a little excited and wanted to fight these strong ones.
"Among the Ten Great Demon Lord Seeds, seven are True Demon Lords."
"The remaining three are roughly between Demon Lord Seed and True Demon Lord, with Kleiman being the weakest among them."
"Currently, Kleiman's magic essence value is estimated to be around 400,000."
The amount of magic essence doesn't represent everything, so even the current Bai Luo has a chance to fight Kleiman.
Snow Empress and Egui Peng, the two girls' magic essence is A+, but in a real fight, ordinary Special A-Ranks are no match for them.
But this is clearly not enough.
"I'm not afraid of Kleiman. What I'm worried about is the Moderate Clown Troupe behind him."
"Kleiman belongs to the Moderate Clown Troupe and is the weakest member within it."
"Besides him, every other Clown possesses combat power comparable to a Demon Lord Seed."
To put it bluntly, the current Bai Luo, facing any one of the Clowns, would be utterly annihilated.
Fortunately, the Clowns will not easily expose their existence.
After all, once a conflict breaks out between the two sides, the sheer commotion would be enough to attract the attention of other Demon Lord Seeds.
Yuuki Kagurazaka would definitely not jump out at this time.
"Every one of them has the power of a Demon Lord Seed?"
Snow Empress was a bit surprised. She increasingly felt that following Bai Luo was the most correct decision she had ever made: "Interesting!"
"There will be opportunities."
Bai Luo said, "If things become impossible, I will activate Traveler and take you to other worlds."
With Traveler as a fallback, the worst outcome is merely living to fight another day.
After he becomes stronger by relying on the power of countless other worlds, he will return for revenge.
"It seems that after arranging things here, it's time to start exploring new worlds."
The feeling of being targeted wasn't good, and Bai Luo hated those who schemed in the dark: "Even if they aren't deliberately targeting us, since we are destined to be enemies, there's nothing more to say."
If Bai Luo was to follow Meng Wang's path, then Meng Wang's enemies would eventually emerge.
"Now, information on the Pighead Clan has been obtained."
"As for the Goblins, Toreni will lead the way."
Bai Luo wasn't worried about Sakurako and their safety regarding the Goblins.
Toreni could summon the Spirit King, and even if the clowns had truly arrived in the Jura Great Forest, they wouldn't dare to provoke her.
"I wonder how Hong Maru and Bai Lao are doing?"
Bai Luo's understanding of the Tengu Clan in this world was limited.
"Tengu?"
Snow Empress and Ice Empress, however, were quite interested: "What is that? A flying dog?"
"No."
...
Bai Luo explained: "Although they are called Tengu, they actually resemble angels with wings."
A long time ago, angels descended upon mutated individuals of the Mountain Wolf Clan, thus giving birth to the Long-Nosed Clan.
The Long-Nosed Clan here didn't actually have long noses.
They liked to wear red long-nosed masks and had white or black wings on their backs, and were called the Long-Nosed Clan due to their arrogant personalities.
Three hundred years ago, the patriarch of the Tengu Clan, Feng, practiced swordsmanship under Araki Byakuya alongside Bai Lao.
The two developed feelings for each other and gave birth to a daughter, who was Hongye in the original work.
However, the gestation period for Tengu was extremely long; Bai Lao's wife took a full three hundred years to give birth to Hongye, and she passed on most of her magic essence to her.
The stronger the monsters in the Cardinal World, the less likely they were to bear offspring.
Because this was a huge detriment to monsters.
Bearing offspring meant the offspring would inherit a large portion of the parents' power; even the former Star Dragon King fell because of this.
Given the relationship between the Mountain Wolf Tengu Clan and Bai Lao, with him stepping forward, and then Hong Maru entering into a marriage alliance as in the novel,
Bai Luo felt there was a high chance of gaining the loyalty of the Mountain Wolf Clan.
At worst, he would take on the conflict between the Tengu and Frey.
Frey's strength might be slightly stronger than Kleiman's, but she was definitely no match for those few clowns.
Bai Luo was confident that before Sky Queen Frey clashed with him, he would become strong enough that she wouldn't dare to provoke him. Four.