"Muwahahah! Praise me more!!" In a shop inside the market of the Dwargon nation, a slime audaciously laughs as he is surrounded by four kneeling dwarves.
"Oh Great Wish Granting slime we are grateful of your kind help!!" Said the dwarf brothers in unison as they prayed to the slime.
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Some moments before, Rimuru seeing the predicament of Kaijin, who was tasked with crafting 20 special swords in limited time, he decided to help the dwarf.
Seeing the twenty exact copy of the original sword Kaijin had crafted with his sweat blood and tears getting spat out from the slime, shock was plastered all over his face.
"Thank you slime-dana! With this I can finally show that bastard Vesta who's the boss now." Kaijin said with distaste.
"Hm hm"
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To celebrate the happy moment, the group decide to visit a bar, where beautiful long eared elves catered to the guests. Hearing the term elf, Rimuru's inner weeb awoke as he swiftly jumped towards the Bar.
While in the bar, he met many hot and elegant Elves mostof which played around with his slimy body.
Seeing this, the dwarf brothers and the other guests couldn't help but glare at the culprit of their hatred, a blue innocent slime.
"Hey, Slime san. Do you want to try this?"
A black haired elf asked as she moved her hands in a very misleading way.
"I am very good at it."
'U-uhm, Ms. elf I think we are not that close yet.' Panicked Rimuru as a wrong idea ran inside his mind of what the girl was asking of him, most probably involving some which he didn't have, yet.
'no-m- ma'am... ma'am..'
"Slime san? Are you ready?" The voice of the girl broke Rimuru's dreams as he came to the hard reality that it was only fortune telling.
"Ha.. yea, so what kind of Fortune telling can you do?"
"Of all kinds, but my best suit is in Finding your fated ones." Suggested the elf as she smiled while putting her finger on her cheeks.
"I don't think I will have a fated one in my life though." Rimuru replied honesty, thinking about it, he remembered that slimes unusually reproduced asexually so he might not even be able to meet his younger brother.
"Why don't we try Slime san? It's worth a try you know?" Encouraged the dwarf brothers as they too were interested in the personal life of their benefactor.
"Okay, if you guys say so then let's do it."
"Alright!"
The elf started to wave her hands above the Crystal ball, from which soon it began to show a reaction. First there was a reflection of Rimuru as the reflection quickly faded to show five young childern surrounding an older girl.
The girl had worn a white combat dress, her face was of Japanese origin. On which, on her left cheek there was a three red line mark under her eye. She held a sword on her waist with a mask on the side of her head.
"My fated one..." Trailed Rimuru as she looked at the girl.
But suddenly the view broke into another scene where the same Girl was in a large hall of some kind. Large circular Pillars were erected on either side as large chandeliers hung from the High ceiling.
The Girl walked up to the end of the hall where a large throne was situated , on which a lone figure sat. The figure had black obsidian armour with spikes from his shoulders. The head was adorned with two pairs of curved horns as the stary purple hair flowed down the figure's shoulders.
The figure was resting with his right fist on his cheek, while the hand rested on the arm rest.
The face of the girl was on a serious note, she looked at the figure sitting ahead as she said something which the group was unable to hear. But the figure clearly did.
Because from his resting position, the figure opened his eyes and smiled. The smile eerily looked like it was directed towards the group directly from the crystal ball as seconds after the crystal ball cracked.
"My Ball!" The elf couldn't help but exclaim in sorrow as her precious crystal ball fragmented into pieces.
"This is not good..." Kaijin muttered under his breath but it was loud enough to be heard by the closely seated people.
"What's not good Kaijin san?" Puzzled Rimuru asked.
"That figure...he is a very dangerous man."
One of the elf answered for Kaijin.
"Although Kaijin san have not lived for long to know everything about him, but we elves have, to know that he is someone who should not be messed with."
"I see ...who is he by the way?" Asked Rimuru.
"Bael Draconio Armenon, the emperor of Orion. And it seems he knows you guys were watching him." An unfamiliar voice spoke as the group turned to look towards the source.
"Vesta! What are you doing here?" Kaijin immediately stood up in rage seeing his rival.
"I should be the one to ask this, what are YOU doing here, instead of working on the swords? Do you want to ignore the clear orders given to you?" Vesta replied.
"Huh. For your information, I have already submitted them to the office." Kaijin said with a smug face.
"How! To complete that task in so little time is impossible!" Vesta retorted.
[A/n You guys know how this goes.]
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"How did we get here?" Asked Rimuru in chains perched on top of a stand along with the Dwarf brothers before the King of the Dwargon nation.
Some time ago inside the bar, Vesta unable to contain his anger poured wine all over Rimuru. Seeing the disrespectful act towards his benefactor, Kaijin swiftly punched Vesta who flew into a wall.
Soon they were arrested and we're presented before Gazef Dwargo, the Hero King of Dwargon for "justice".
*Tok tok* the Judge hammers his wooden hammer on the table as he commence the proceedings.
"The Session Begins."
"It has been reported that the accused mastersmith Kaijin, attacked the victim Minister Vesta who was simply enjoying his drink in the bar." The lawyer spoke.
'He clearly joined their side!!' Panicked Rimuru as he saw the person who was supposed to defend then agree with the statement.
The proceedings were headed by the King Gazef, who sentenced Kaijin and his brothers banishment while Rimuru was ordered to never appear inside the kingdom once again.
Using this Opportunity, Rimuru gathered four tallented dwarves who would be indebted to him all their life.
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While Journeying back to the dilapidated goblin village, he thought back to the fortune telling incident. How he recognised the girl to be a Japanese just like him.
But quickly the thoughts trailed to the second image, where she confronts Bael. A person who in his mind was already set as a Final Boss of a Hardcore Game. Thinking about it, with The girl's face having a serious look he deduced that maybe the Girl was not on good terms with the guy.
'Bael...a Demon Lord, a brother of Veldora and now is somehow related to my Fated one, if she even is my fated one. Just...who are you?'
[Report: Bael Draconio Armenon is said to be an ancient Dragon Who has authority over the whole Dragon race. During the Great War, he unleashed thousands of Dragons on the battlefield, bringing in great chaos and destruction.
During the last phase of the Great War, He single-handedly massacred millions of lives.
Off which, one of the warriors was the father of Gazef Dwargo, who was the Chief of the Coalition Army. This army composed of the top super powers of the western nations.]
Great Sage narrated the deeds of Bael to Rimuru, who hearing the info dump felt like this Bael was more dangerous than he had imagined.
'I think I should stay away from this guy....I don't want my fated one to be Death itself!!'
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