As Rimuru entered he noticed everyone was waiting.
"You took your.. time..." Guy trailed off as he saw Diablo.
"What the hell is he doing here??!" Guy demanded of Rimuru
"You know him? His name's Diablo."
"Name? So you finally decided to pursue power then? Noir?"
The tension rose as the demon lords turned to Rimuru and Diablo.
"Kufufufu... who could resist joining such a glorious master? I for one woul-"
Iudex smacked Diablo with a slap to the back of the neck.
"Diablo, what did I say about one praise per sentence?"
"S-Sorry.."
The Demon Lords were incredibly confused, who would have the audacity to hurt a Primordial without a care?
"Iudex! You came, I knew you would, thank you for teaching him a lesson.
Now, let's all get settled, I see Rimuru has brought a certain someone with him."
Milim took a seat beside Guy with Ramiris floating above her head.
Rimuru sat opposite to Guy, Diablo to his left and Iudex was standing in the corner.
"What are you doing with Clayman?" The Demon Lord Frey asked Rimuru.
"Oh, this thing? Just setting up my footstool."
"What..? Footstool?" She was surprised.
Rimuru Put Clayman on the ground and Put his legs on him, sitting waiting for the meeting to start.
"Huh..? Why is Clayman being used as a footstool..." Dino, who was sleeping just woke up to this.
"Guy, explain, who is this?" Dagrule asked Guy.
"Alright everyone settle down, Let's all introduce ourselves and our subordinates to get clear, starting with you Rimuru."
Rimuru stood up on Clayman and cleared his throat, all attention turned to him.
"My name is Rimuru Tempest, I'll spare you the long introduction, I decided to join after Guy asked me to, and because my footstool dared to try and trip me.
I don't care about the title, if I have it or not, it's really just to make humans fear me and not get any idea to try and attack me.
This is my Second Secretary Diablo, apparently he's the Black Primordial, didn't know that, now that I do, just know that he is fiercely loyal and one of my top subordinates."
As Rimuru said that, Diablo looked like his head was in the clouds, his face was filled with pride.
"And as for the other person back there, he isn't really my subordinate, rather, a dear friend, his name is Iudex, a True Hero who has just returned from nothing."
Iudex stepped besides Rimuru as the Demon Lords looked surprised, a True Hero was the counterpart to Awakened Demon Lord, so this man must be something.
Leon was the one with most interest, as he himself was a Hero in the past, "Platinum Saber" was his title.
Milim looked at Iudex with admiration, for some reason he looked very cool to her.
Velzard only looked with satisfaction in her eyes, as if she fulfilled a goal destined to her, freeing this man and putting him here.
Oh and Iudex was wearing his suit, which is what caused some Demon Lords to think he was a subordinate.
"True Hero? What's he doing here then?" Dagrule asked with interest.
Rimuru was going to answer, before Iudex did.
"Well, I wanted to see if you all were as strong as they put you to be, and you certainly are, I don't work for Rimuru, I work with Rimuru, be sure to remember that, and just because I'm a True Hero doesn't mean I'm going to attack you, so don't be on guard."
The name Iudex sounded so familiar yet so obscure to many of them, mainly Dagrule and Luminas, who didn't say a word yet.
Rimuru then continued. "That's pretty much it, I was invited by Guy so I thought might as well join, any objections?"
No one really said anything, then Karion asked.
"Well what's going to happen to your 'Footstool'?"
"He's going to serve as my Footstool for all eternity, that's that."
Karion only nodded slowly.
"Well, next." Guy pointed to Karion.
"Beastmaster Karion, King of Eurazania, those are Albis and Suphia, my two closest subordinates, after the death of the third closest due to reasons discussed before in private, they began serving as my direct advisors."
Karion only gave a side glance to Rimuru, after which Rimuru nodded to Karion.
"Frey, Queen of the Harpies." She sat down not introducing her subordinates, Guy just skipped it over.
"Luminas Valentine, God of the Western Holy Church and Queen of The Vampires.
This here is Gunther, my friend and butler, and this is Roy Valentine, whom you all previously saw as my proxy who served as Demon Lord in my place."
Dagrule looked at her unamused, to which she returned the look with a glare.
You could practically see shock waves fly from their stares.
"Leon, ruler of Eldorado, no subordinates present." Guy stared at Leon, as Leon returned the stare, Guy winked at him.
(A/N: Smh.. I have to write this every time lol)
Leon turned away disinterested.
Dagrule stood up, his figure was massive, and so was his aura.
"Dagrule, ruler of the Giants, no subordinates present."
As he sat back down, Milim stood up.
"Milim Nava! Uh.. I don't know where my territory is so..."
She sat back down awkwardly, Ramiris then spoke.
"Ramiris, Spirit Queen, my subordinate here is Treyni, a Dryad!"
Then all stares turned to Guy.
"What? I'm not doing it." He said.
"Come on, do it Guy, impress us." Luminas pressured him to do it.
"No." As he said that, Velzard suddenly stood up and took a few steps to the side.
"What's wron-" Guy could never finish that sentence.
Iudex appeared behind him and delivered an inch perfect chop right into his neck, sending Guy crashing out of his seat.
Guy stood up as Velzard was standing looking down at him, it wasn't visible, but he could see her clearly holding back the biggest laugh in history.
"There, he's up." Iudex added before returning to Rimuru's side.
"Good job." Rimuru commended Iudex.
Diablo gave a "Kufufufu" and thought of how much he has to learn in terms of disciplinary actions from Iudex.
Guy cleared his throat in dismay.
"Whatever,
My name is Guy Crimson, Red Primordial, Demon King.
No subordinates present." He said that and sat down.
"I wonder why." Velzard added.
"Hey are you with me or against me?!" Guy turned around to her.
After regaining his composure.
"Well, are we all in agreement that Rimuru should join the Demon Lords?"
Everyone nodded.
"Well, that moves us to our next proposal."
Everyone looked interested.
"How about letting Iudex join?" Guy added this as everyone looked at him, some with concern, some with confusion.
"Wait, isn't he opposed to this?" Rimuru asked Guy and turned to Iudex.
"No I'm not, I don't really care to be honest, I stand to gain nothing from this nor do I lose anything, since no one really remembers who I am." Iudex responded to Rimuru.
"I see..."
"Wait, what are your qualifications though? You're a True Hero you said, but what proves your strength?" Dino asked, he was very interested and was wide awake, a very rare sight indeed.
The Demon Lords, even Rimuru and Guy looked for an answer in Iudex.
"Hm... Well, not sure if you would believe it, I've lived for quite a long time, I have my own Ultimate Skill, and I could demonstrate my power here if you want."
Iudex was saying all of this with confidence, deep inside he was screaming in embarrassment.
"Hm.. very well, if someone challenges you, I'll see for myself if you're worthy or not." Luminas said, not wanting to challenge Iudex herself.
"Well? No one is going to challenge him?" Guy said, thinking someone would.
"Wait, I will! Let me!" Milim was zoned out in admiration and just snapped back to reality, where she realized she can fight, she was really bored out of her mind and wanted to destroy something, so this was even better.
'Shit.. not Milim.. this is what confidence gets you...' Iudex thought as he began to say his prayers.
"Alright, let's enjoy this shall we?"
(I'll pray for you, Iudex.) Rimuru talked to him through thought communication.
(I'll see you somewhere in the afterlife, Rimuru, so long.) He replied.
The entire area expanded and a massive barrier was put into place.
Milim thought it would be a nice fight, but she didn't use her battle mode.
"Alright.. let the fight begin!" As Guy announced, Milim lunged at Iudex.
'Holy shit! She's fast! Ultimate Skill, I'm relying on you!'
Milim began bombarding Iudex with hits, he blocked them, then he saw an opening as he was switching stances, while moving his hands.
He immediately took the jab right into Milim's lower left jaw.
Milim was quick to react, but as soon as it hit, she was hit with 9 others, she was knocked off her guard, and Iudex took the chance to barrage her with thousands of attacks.
The Demon Lords watched in confusion, Milim, the energetic girl she was, was getting out sped.
The attacks did not effect her much, but overtime they'll begin taking effect.
Iudex suddenly jumped back into a defensive stance where his left arm was raised in a blocking manner, and the right was lowered, his footing was equal.
Milim launched her second strongest attack.
"DRAGO BUSTER!"
"MILIM NO!" Rimuru got up and saw Iudex, who looked focused on the split off projectiles coming at him.
Iudex took a deep breath.
'Fight or Die mode on..
Sigh... to think I would die so fast after just coming back to life..
Stupid me.. the only time I act confident I get kicked in the ass..'
The projectiles approached him, they were not full powered nor launched at full speed, but those could destroy entire landscapes.
"FLOW!" Iudex shouted as he forced himself to enter his flow state, ramping up speed and precision after every attack.
As the Drago Buster projectiles approached him, Iudex used a technique simply known as "Iudex Style: Exhaust Energy" which would make him create a barrier through punching non stop to block against any attack, combined with Decastrike, this would be really strong against a lot of things, but this would require him to exhaust himself completely.
At first it was hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of punches were flowing together each second against the Drago Buster projectiles which were trying to penetrate the wall, they started exploding after a while.
When the barrage ended, Iudex had been hit by 3 of the projectiles, which made him near death's door, he fell on one knee as Milim stared at him, she was not expecting to block using such a method.
'Fuck.. I lived.. I was so scared...
I just want to.... sleep..
No.. wait.. last time that happened..
Hah..'
Guy immediately returned the room to normal as the barrier was dispelled, and Rimuru rushed to Iudex and pulled him to the corner.
"My my... looks like you need proper education like my brother, dear niece.." Velzard could only say that to Milim, which made Milim freeze.
"What the hell was that? Did he really just punch those attacks away?" Karion asked very confused on what just happened.
"Seems like it, and he wasn't merely punching.. he was using full powered punches at each attack.. multiply that by who knows how much.." Dino replied to Karion, the fight was very interesting to him.
"Hm.. he is really interesting, his defense isn't high, but his offense is amazing, and his speed is top notch.. it seems I misplaced my judgement, I would have him as a Demon Lord any day." Dagrule said in approval.
"Usually I don't agree with you, but I have to here." Luminas added to Dagrule's remark.
"I don't care, but I want to ask who did he serve when he was a True Hero back then, but it seems it isn't the proper time." Leon said.
"It would be foolish to refuse such an individual, thus, I also don't see a problem with him joining." Frey agreed.
"He looks fun so sure!" Ramiris only cared about such things.
"Well... he seemed really strong! So I wouldn't mind him joining! He blocked it using pure technique!" Milim excitedly said.
"Well, that's that, I don't think I need to ask Rimuru's opinion, welcome aboard Iudex."
Iudex slowly stood up with Rimuru's help, he returned to standing by his side, bloodied still, but he was healed by Rimuru.
"Well.. sure.." Iudex said weakly.
"Now comes the time of strife..." Guy told them all.
"Yes.. it has come... upon us all... doom." Luminas said.
The Demon Lords all said the same with sadness and anger, Iudex and Rimuru were confused.
"Why don't we leave it to them since they joined?" Dino said slowly falling asleep again.
"Hm.. good idea Dino." Guy affirmed what Dino said, then continued.
"Iudex, Rimuru, come up with a name for us, since you two ruined the balance of "The Ten Great Demon Lords".."
Iudex visibly cringed, both at the name and at the fact he has to come up with a name for them.
"Rimuru are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Yes, together."
They both said at the same time.
"The Hendecagram, which means eleven pointed star."
The Demon Lords looked confused, that easily they thought of a name?
"Wow... so fast in naming as well.. you're scary Iude..." Milim for some reason called him Iude and not Iudex, whatever, maybe she has a hard time saying it, regardless, they came up with a name.
"Well, it doesn't sound bad, definitely better than "Ten Great Demon Lords", let's hope we never get back there." Dagrule said.
Everyone nodded.
"Kufufufu... my master is truly good a everything...Such ex-" Diablo was about to praise Rimuru more before looking at Iudex who was staring at him waiting to see if he would break the rules.
"Ahem.. carry on." Diablo cleared his throat and then Mizery introduced everyone again.
"First, the King of Demons, Guy Crimson.
Second, the Queen of Spirits, Ramiris.
Third, the Destroyer, Milim Nava.
Fourth, the Earthquake, Dagrule.
Fifth, Queen of Nightmares, Luminas Valentine.
Sixth, the Sky Queen, Frey.
Seventh, Beastmaster, Karion.
Eighth, Sleeping Ruler, Dino.
Ninth, Platinum Saber, Leon Cromwell.
Tenth, King of Monsters, Rimuru Tempest.
Eleventh, King of Combat, Iudex.
This concludes the introduction,
Let the Walpurgis Banquet begin."