Puppet Kingdom Kistav.
Laplace brought the shaken Clayman back to his castle.
Looking at Clayman, who was half-kneeling on the ground, Laplace's eyes carried a slight trace of suspicion.
Recently, Clayman's various actions were seriously inconsistent with his previous personality.
As Clayman, who liked to play with power and schemes, his favorite thing to do was to use others to kill with a borrowed knife. This time, he actually chose to act himself, which filled Laplace's heart with countless doubts.
Could Clayman have been controlled by someone else? Impossible, I didn't sense anything unusual about him.
Perhaps it was because he was too angry about the failure of the previous plan that led Clayman to commit some crazy acts.
Although Laplace had doubts in his heart, he really didn't find anything unusual. Without evidence, even if he told that lord, there would be no result.
Put it aside for now, and continue observing for a while longer.
"Are you alright, Clayman."
"I'm... I'm fine, I was just careless this time."
Clayman shook his head, his face looking a bit ugly.
"That's good."
"What do you plan to do next?" Laplace asked.
Clayman stood up to calm his mood, then took out a bottle of red wine and poured a glass, looking at the moonlight outside the window, beginning to ponder. A full while passed.
"Now, relying on our strength, we simply cannot contend with Nazarick and the Jura Tempest Federation."
"Moreover, they have also reached a Six Nation Alliance. Although there is an agreement between Demon Lords that Milim, Frey, and Carrion will not take action against me, even so, our chances of winning are still very low."
"We must borrow external force."
Clayman's gaze looked into the distance, as if he had already seen a way to achieve victory.
Laplace listened quietly without interrupting.
"Inciting a war between humans and the Monster Country is the best method. When that time comes, Guy will surely convene a Walpurgis to resolve this matter."
"As long as we make the Demon Lords believe that these two forces are the root of all incidents, then even if Milim and the others oppose it, it will be useless, after all, they only account for three votes."
"By then, we won't need to act; the Demon Lords will root out these two forces."
Laplace nodded. This was indeed a good method.
"Laplace, I'm going to have to trouble you with this matter. The Farmus Kingdom should be a very good object to utilize." Clayman suddenly said.
Laplace was stunned upon hearing this.
"Why would you suddenly say that?"
A look of excitement appeared on Clayman's face. Among his unique abilities, "Puppeteer," there was one capable of utilizing ley lines, radio signals, and geomagnetism to collect intelligence.
Just a moment ago, he used spies distributed across the human world and learned some interesting news.
"I just received a piece of news: the central capital of the Farmus Kingdom is being attacked by the Fox Holy Church."
"And their king has taken away 150,000 troops and 3,000 Temple Knights, and to this day there is no word from them. There is a lot to be made of this..."
...
A shocking conspiracy against the Jura Tempest Federation and Nazarick was quietly brewing. Regarding this, Draco and Rimuru were completely unaware, but even if they knew, they wouldn't care.
At this moment, the two arrived in the Sealed Cave.
"Yare yare, as expected of the King of Wisdom. The 'Infinite Prison,' which would originally have taken a hundred years to analyze, was actually cracked so quickly."
"Eh~~ That sounds a bit sour." Rimuru teased.
Draco rolled his eyes. "It's not'sounds like,' it is a bit sour. If only I could have a wife like that, how good it would be."
"What wife?"
"Ahahaha, you must have misheard..."
"..."
Draco gave two dry laughs and quickly changed the subject without continuing.
"Ah, speaking of which, Third Brother, you seem to have grown quite a bit taller now."
"Mmm~ It seems to be because of the evolution, I'm not sure either."
"You looked cuter before..."
"..."
The two chatted idly, and soon arrived at the cave where the Storm Dragon had previously been sealed.
"Let's begin."
Rimuru used the ability "Strengthened Clone" to create a container for the Storm Dragon to inhabit.
Draco stepped back two paces, clearing the area. The next moment, a soul fire emitting a terrifying aura suddenly darted out from Rimuru's body and descended onto the clone.
The surrounding Magicules began to converge toward the clone, and the clone's appearance changed as time passed.
A muscular man with blonde hair and golden eyes, bare-chested and wearing a black cloak, manifested from within the brilliant light.
An unparalleled Aura was released from the blonde-haired, golden-eyed man's body, and the entire space seemed to vibrate.
"Ku-hahahaha!!"
"I! Storm Dragon Veldora Tempest, am fully resurrected!"
"Those who dare to resist shall all be destroyed!"
"Ku-hahahaha!!!"
Veldora laughed wildly toward the sky, venting the excitement of regaining his freedom.
"Hey~ Uncle, where did you learn such chuunibyou lines?"
Rimuru's face was covered in black lines.
"Hahaha, because I was too bored, I flipped through your memories..."
Veldora began to explain his life inside the stomach pouch.
It was roughly around the time Rimuru first arrived at the Goblin village and used his wisdom to kill Ranga's father.
Even weak Goblins, if they used the right methods, could defeat the Direwolf Clan who were stronger than them.
The series of ingenious arrangements, such as the pre-set steel wire traps, fences, bows, and arrows, made Veldora discover Rimuru's great wisdom.
To investigate why Rimuru possessed such high intelligence, he began to try reading Rimuru's surface thoughts and discovered that most of Rimuru's actions were based on books called manga.
Continuing his deep investigation, he discovered novel things like novels, anime, and movies.
These things he had never heard of before made his curiosity grow even further, and he wanted to read more of Rimuru's memories.
As a result, he was discovered by the [Great Sage], who set up interception measures.
As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat.
The even more curious Storm Dragon diverted a portion of the energy from his unique skill [Investigator], which he had been using to analyze the [Infinite Prison].
He connected directly to Rimuru's deep memory layer, and the result was very successful.
A colorful and brand-new world appeared before Veldora.
Through this knowledge, he learned that as long as one is good at utilizing the wisdom of another world and thinking of tactics by studying the enemy's abilities, one can be victorious in every battle.
As he frantically absorbed the seemingly logical knowledge from novels and manga, the original middle-aged uncle turned into the current chuunibyou youth.
There was also something that made the Storm Dragon feel depressed.
That was, since establishing a deeper connection, every time Rimuru named someone, he would draw Magicules from him.
Even if he wanted to stop it, there was no way.
He didn't know if the Great Sage had intentionally dug a pit for him.
However, Veldora's gains were also immense.
Ever since Ifrit was locked in, he had an opponent to spar with.
Various skills from manga, such as Qigong waves, Kamehameha, and Million-Step Flying Kicks, were all successfully experimented with by him.
Of course, there were some skills that simply couldn't be used; the manga were completely talking nonsense.
Finally, after discarding those unusable skills, Veldora created his own original finishing move, the [Veldora-style Killing Arts].
Veldora thought the name of the finishing move, which carried a strong chuunibyou vibe, was particularly cool.
"Uh..."
When Draco heard this, his 'cringe-o-meter' went off the charts, and he almost dug out a three-bedroom apartment with his toes in embarrassment.
Mm~
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