- Silas -
The scene in front of us was straight out of some horror movie.
Hordes of orcs were surrounding a village of ogres and several of them had died already but they were holding on, desperately. It was clear that they would lose sooner or later.
I did observe that whenever the orcs ate something, they got stronger and became immune to some attacks which hurt them before.
Moreover, there were many stronger orcs in their midst too who took several ogres to hold on. Not to mention, there were two other monsters who were stronger than the orcs, especially the fat clown who gave me a dangerous feeling.
Rimuru flew up above the village and shouted out loudly, getting the attention of several of the monsters.
"I am Rimuru Tempest, leader of the Goblin Village of Jura Forest. I have come here to offer assistance."
The orcs didn't even pay any attention while several ogres just growled.
Ainz on my side, shook his head. "Rimuru is too kind sometimes."
He stepped forwards and raised his staff.
The temperature of the area fell and a huge wall of ice rose up all around the village. Several hundred orcs were instantly frozen into statues.
I used this chance and pushed my Demonic Power and made the ice more compact and reshaped the wall to have spikes on the sides of the wall to prevent any reckless charges.
All the fighting in the area stopped. Ainz lowered his staff and teleported onto a platform on the wall.
Rimuru came down from the sky and landed on the wall beside Ainz while I flew there too.
"This is how you get their attention. Now go and speak." Ainz said as he stepped back and came to stand beside me.
….
….
I couldn't say anything because he wasn't wrong either.
He did get their attention.
In fact, both sides had stopped completely.
"Now then, as I was saying. I am here to negotiate and stop this war if possible." Rimuru proposed. The result…
"Geld, new food has arrived. Go on, eat him. Hurry hahahaha." The one with a bird-like mask shouted at the largest orc in the group.
I looked over to that group and saw that there were two masked people. One had a bird-like mask while the other had a clown mask. The clown masked guy was the strongest one according to what I could feel.
In fact, in terms of raw power, it was even stronger than Rimuru, Ainz and even the giant Orc, probably the Orc Lord who was standing in front of him.
Rimuru turned his attention towards the Ogres. "It seems they don't have any intention of stopping. Do you require my assistance?"
They sent a red haired ogre to the front and he was accompanied by a white haired old guy and a blue haired ogre. Behind him was a pink haired ogre girl, accompanied by a purple haired female.
The wolf beside us spoke again, in a very soft voice. "Rimuru-sama, it was her."
Ah, so the pink haired girl is the princess of the ogres. It does look like she had convinced the redhead, who seemed to be their leader to speak. The guy looked a bit young though.
"I am the prince of the Ogres. My father just passed away in the war so I am the leader of the group." He shouted loudly although I could sense that he was even disgusted at the idea of being the leader due to his father's death. The pain and anger in his voice. "What do you want in return for your assistance?"
Damn….did the leader of the clan pass away?
"An Alliance. My village is small and needs as many allies as we can. I want to invite you all to come and stay in the village. I promise all of you a good place to live, food and names along with protection." Rimuru offered the ogre.
Suddenly, the entire crowd went haywire when the name part came out. There was disbelief and awe thrown around.
The red haired ogre swallowed lightly before looking at Rimuru "If you can provide us with these, we will swear allegiance to you. I give you my word as the new leader of the ogre village."
"Oi, is it just me or do they not believe that Rimuru can name them?" I whispered to Ainz.
"I get the same feeling. Is this naming stuff supposed to be hard? I thought you only needed to be stronger than them and none of them look like they are stronger than Rimuru." Ainz whispered back.
"I mean, there must be some type of catch, right? I don't see how such a thing would be easy. I mean, that would be fucking broken, right? Anyone could create an army like that."
"Umu. I think so too. We need to talk to Rimuru about this. He probably doesn't realise it yet." Ainz agreed.
"Hmm. Let's get this fight over with first."
The orcs had started charging towards the wall already.
My ice spikes were keeping them away but it was only for a few instants.
After a few died, they tore off the flesh of their own people's dead bodies and ate and then started breaking down the ice spikes and working on the wall.
The Heavily Armoured Orcs were coming to the front and those didn't look like they would be harmed by normal ice spikes either.
We only had a little more time left before they would crush the ice wall and the fight would restart.
"I will do something to keep them busy for a while." Ainz said and raised his staff.
Several of the fallen orcs were covered by a dark cloud all of a sudden and what came out of them were zombie-like creatures in black armour and holding a large sword and shield.
They stepped forward to engage the orcs in a melee.
I too decided to prepare for the fight and broke off a large piece of the ice wall and bit down on it and felt my magic power increase.
"So, what's the plan?" Ainz asked as he gathered around us.
- Serafall -
"And that's why we are so tense." She said as she slipped into her couch and closed her eyes and let her head fall into her mother's lap.
"Really! Every person in the whole country? How is something like that even possible?" Her mother asked, surprised as she caressed her head.
"We don't know. None of us have any idea. We didn't even know such a thing was possible before this."
"This kind of power….it's beyond any Lucifer….even Rizevim might not be able to do such a thing and he is considered an anomaly like Sirzechs and Ajuka. To think there was someone else like this…."
"Exactly. We are lucky that this person hadn't participated in the Civil War….or joined the Old Satan faction or…." She shivered thinking about the consequences.
How do you fight someone like that who can selectively clear entire countries of your people without even showing their faces?
"Did you find any clues about him?" Her mother asked.
"No. Azazel simply refused to speak anything. He didn't even give us any hints. Heaven is also shaken but they are not speaking anything although from what our spies could tell us, they are also trying to find clues about this mysterious Lucifer. The Church is obviously making noise but none of them have dared to step inside the boundaries of the country since that incident so they are just barking without any bites."
"It's better if those fanatic fools keep out. They only create a mess whenever they interfere with any matter." Her mother said, making her nod.
It's not like she was wrong.
Heaven was less annoying than those people.
"So no clues?"
Serafall shook her head. "We can only guess about his personality based on his actions."
"You mean the action of wiping out everyone?"
"Well, it wasn't without any reason. Apparently, those fools from the Wizards of Oz had been the ones to attack first and they even had the user of Incinerate Anthem with them. Apparently, the Mysterious Lucifer took this personally and…."
"Wiped the entire organisation out." Her mother completed. "Sigh….those fools. They had to poke the hornet's nest."
"Well, not everything was as bad as we expected."
"Hmm?"
"Apparently those people were experimenting on some kids. Whoever this guy was….left those kids unharmed. Unfortunately the kids had no memories due to the experiments, not that Azazel would open his mouth."
"Hmm….that's indeed surprising. So….he only targeted the organisation who attacked him. In that case I can understand. Any devil would retaliate violently if attacked by a Longinus, especially with one of the Holy Relics. So this guy is not a heartless monster. And seeing as no one even had any idea he even existed for so long, then maybe he isn't interested in any wars either….that's a good sign for us."
Serafall nodded. She too had come to the same conclusion.
Her mother was very good at critical thinking. Well, all members of the Dantalion family were scholars, they just had different kinds of talents.
Some were researchers, some were businessmen, some were politicians while some were strategists.
It was her mother who managed the businesses of the Sitri House while her father took care of the political side of things. They were a perfect team.
Under their leadership, the Sitri House had made great progress, especially in the Medical field.
Ever since that incident, they had poured everything into expanding and developing the medical technology of the whole devil race….
Serafall shook her head as she pushed those thoughts aside.
Both she and Sona had inherited her talents as well.
As they were talking, her father walked in.
He looked tired.
In fact, she could even see the slight dark circles under his eyes and those were rare….extremely rare considering that he was an Ultimate Class Devil.
"Damon, you look tired. Is everything alright?" Her mother asked.
Her father looked at them and then forced his expression into a smile. "Yes. Things have been a bit hectic lately and I had to run around a bit." He said as he took a seat near them.
"Is anyone causing problems?" She asked with narrowed eyes.
To force someone like her father to such a state, was something happening that she didn't know about?
"It's nothing. Don't worry about it." Her father waved off.
"It's about Sona's engagement, isn't it?" Her mother asked, making him sigh.
"Well….Lord Glasya-Labolas was not happy with Sona breaking her engagement with Zephyrdor but he did understand her decision. Zephyrdor is somewhat of a unique devil…."
"He's a jerk. You don't have to mince your words, father. It's good that Sona did what she did. Him becoming the Lord of the Sitri House….I still have nightmares imagining such a situation." She shivered.
"That may be, but it still didn't look good on our part." Her father sighed.
"Is there something else? You have been distracted for around two months now and don't try denying it." Her mother said and she looked at him and saw his eyes widening slightly, only for a fraction of a second before he schooled his expression.
"Father….is everything….alright? If there is something I can help with, I will." She asked, again.
"Yes. It's fine. I will take care of everything." He reassured her.
"Alright. But just in case you need any help, you can tell me."
He smiled and she felt as if she had seen deep sadness in his eyes at that moment. "Yes….I will."
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Author's Note:
I am back with another chapter of 'Isekai Restaurant'.
So, several things happened.
Silas and the team got new devices and Ikki found out more about his world, resolving himself to become stronger.
Kisuke is preparing for his experi….Ikki's training.
Our trio is also on a training trip and have encountered a unique situation.
Things will start coming together more in the next chapters as the plot progresses more.
I will try bringing some food and cooking based worlds as well.
In fact, I am having fun writing this one and wish to focus more on this for a while so expect more chapters of this in the next month.
Enjoy the new chapter.
Good Day, Peace Out.