26 Chapter 9 Part 2

He looked around the meeting room. Currently only a few people are here, Gazel Dwargo, Erald Grimwald, and Felix. Though Felix is in the next room.

It's been a little while since Gazel and Erald showed up, thankfully that misunderstanding was quickly solved.

Erald Grimwald is the father of Eren and the Uncle of the Empress of Sarion.

Man who would have thought that Eren was a Princess?

He ended up gathering everyone so he they could all be introduced.

Shuna quickly introduced everyone, she started by introducing Treyni, the Caretaker of Jura, it will help make his claim over Jura more official.

She then went on to introduce Gazel, Erald, Fuze, then Youm and Mjurran, as he was planning to have Youm become the King of Falmuth.

Falmuth won't ever be able to harm Tempest again with his subordinate as their head of state.

He decided to add something in as he wanted to involve Felix in this conversation, "Ah, I have one more person to introduce, Felix, it should be fine for you to come out now!"

Felix quickly appeared in front of everyone at a speed even he couldn't track.

The moment Gazel and Erald caught sight of him they stood up on guard, "A Daemon!"

Gazel turned towards him and said, "Rimuru! Who is this Daemon? Diablo is one thing, but this Daemon feels much more powerful than him."

Felix isn't suppressing his aura for some reason, likely as a show of power, Arcueid, Saeko, and Raiden quickly appear behind him.

"Ah, this is my friend Felix and his subordinates, he's a good friend of mine and will soon have a country of his own. It will be good for everyone involved if you guys got to know him in order to prevent future misunderstandings."

Erald looked confused for a second before his face lit up in realization, "A Kingdom of his own! Could he be the Daemon that was reported to have killed Demon Lord Clayman?!"

"Umu, that is correct."

"Any more surprises you wish to drop on us Rimuru?" Oh wow Gazel's brow is twitching he must be really annoyed.

"Not that I can think of?"

"Hahaha Seriously Rimuru you forgot?"

"What did I forget?"

"You forget how the world views your bosom buddy. Don't worry I invited him over, in fact he is here right now."

The door bangs open.

"Rimuru my brother, how could you have forgotten to invite your buddy to something so fun?!" 

"This isn't something you would find fun though?"

"But you said it would be Felix? Did you trick me?"

"No it will be fun, guys this is Rimuru's Bosom Buddy Veldora Tempest, The Storm Dragon. Now wait for it!"

"Veldora?!"

"Vel…dora?!"

"Umu! I'm the Storm Dragon Veldora Tempest!"

Ah, Fuze fainted.

"He must have been overcome with emotion, it is an honor to speak with me after all."

"Hahahaha See I said it would be fun, their reactions are priceless. Amusement aside your connection to Veldora is not the sort of thing you should keep from allies"

He looked at Veldora and Felix with exasperation, "I don't think that's it Veldora. Sigh, since you are here anyway, can you act as an advisor? Or, you can go take a walk if you want?"

"Oh, an enthusiastic walk?!"

"Gah! No! Not an enthusiastic walk!"

"Aww, I've always wanted to take one of those…"

"I see, you are a man of culture Veldora!"

"Felix! You too?! My brother, you never told me that Felix was a man of culture!" ah these two are going to drive me nuts and unlike Veldora he doesn't have even the slightest idea how to curb Felix's more chaotic tendencies.

Maybe when he has his own country to manage he will cool down?

Yeah right! Still one can hope.

"Rimuru!" he turned towards Gazel, "We need to talk to you." He saw Erald nodding in the background, sigh this is going to be a bothersome meeting.

Felix put his arm around him and said, "I'm coming to this little gathering, though Veldora this would be boring for you, here have some Culture Rimuru lacks." Felix produces a few volumes of manga and light novels I'm not familiar with. Did he come from a point further in the future than me? If so I will have to check those out later.

"Gah, well then I will continue to read more sacred texts. Hey Felix, we should have discussions about the sacred texts later."

"The sacred texts? Oh you mean manga and Light Novels! Yeah sure, I wonder if our two Earths had different manga Rimuru, we should compare later."

"Our two earths! What do you mean Felix?!"

"Huh? Did I never tell you? I came from a different version of Earth than the one you came from, I'll tell you about it later."

"Gazel, do you understand what they are talking about?"

"No, I am sadly just as lost as you with this conversation."

Ah, he should probably deal with them before talking with Felix about what he just said.

"Alright, Gazel, Erald, follow us to the meeting room, we can talk there."

They ended up talking about quite a few things.They will be having a meeting later with everyone but for this meeting he just wanted to share his goals with them, see if he can get them on his side.

Felix will also have a nation of his own soon so it would be good if he is able to form a relationship with Gazel and Erald.

He started by telling his entire story, from his death to his reincarnation, Felix already knew about this but he hoped that by sharing it with Gazel and Erald that he could gain some trust from them. 

They ended up discussing everything, one issue that kept popping up was the Western Holy Church, Felix said that they didn't need to worry about that, he was about to ask why but Felix sent him a Thought Communication saying they can discuss it later.

Gazel and Erald didn't seem to have that much faith in his words, but they ended up trusting him seeing as he had a close relationship with Tempest, he had no reason to lie after all, and he trusted his friend.

Gazel and Erald still offered their support in case the Holy Church made any hostile moves so that was nice.

He was able to create a friendly relationship with Sarion through this meeting, so he decided to help Felix out by saying that should Felix take over Jistav, Tempest will ally with the nation

Seeing the direction the talks were going Felix called his subordinate Arcueid in as his representative, she is the one who is going to be basically running the country after all according to Felix.

He had offered to help modernize his country like Tempest a few days ago, it's the least he could do for his friend, his only requirement was that they have a long lasting alliance which Felix agreed to.

From what he is seeing she is extremely good at politics, she is toying with Gazel and Erald. It's not that Erald and Gazel aren't skilled at politics, it's just that It's almost like Arcueid was born for this.

Felix is in good hands, she will be able to make sure that his country is both politically and militarily powerful.

After the alliances were made he informed the three of his decision to become a Demon Lord.

Demon Lord's are symbols of fear and power, no one would attack Tempest if he was a Demon Lord.

Felix's name is already out there from killing Clayman, people fear him just because of that one feat, and while that is helping Tempest as it's known that he stays here he can't rely on Felix for everything.

Not to mention that he will be more busy with his own territory soon enough.