You Are Early.

It had been relatively easy to enter the land where the mansion was situated seeing as how there was a surprisingly no guards at all. So now, Reinhard along with Regulus and Elsa, with Hatti inside Regulus' shadow, stood in front of the massive mansion with a nervous look as he positioned his hand to knock but not finding the courage to do so. He looked at Regulus who had decided Reinhard would do the talking this time. Regulus simply sighed, "You know you could've refused if you were nervous."

Reinhard shook his head "That's not it I just...I am not sure how they'll think of me, I mean, I did kill the one who had the sword originally didn't I?" Reinhard looked down in shame when a hand grasped his shoulder in a comforting manner, he looked at who the hand belonged to and to his surprise it wasn't Regulus rather it was Elsa who simply smiled back at him, "don't worry I am sure they'll understand. Just show them how strong you are compared to him and they will accept without a second thought." She gave him a smile more angelic compared to the bloodthirsty smiles she normally wore causing Reinhard to respond with a smile of his own before grasping the hand on his shoulder, "Thanks" he said while looking at her face.

"Oh?" a third voice came in causing both of their smiles to drop while their eyes widened and blood rushed to their face making them blush hard enough for steam to rise from their heads. They both looked away from both each other and Regulus fast enough to break their necks had it been anyone else.

"Ohohoho?" Regulus spoke once again with a smile that said how much of sadistic pleasure he was getting from watching them getting embarrassed, and by the seven witches was it a lot.

"When did you to get so close together?" he said with a teasing voice with as he looked at them as his hand rubbed his chin.

"You know you look like a newlywed couple" Both of them blushed even harder, not noticing in there embarrassment that the voice seemed more childlike and a little more squeaky.

"I did leave for quite a long time away from you two and the elves were nowhere near you at the time...now that I think of it you were a lot more sweaty than normal did you do stuff other than just sparring while I was away?" Regulus teased further causing both of them to turn back at him.

"That's not true!!" both of them shouted simultaneously.

"You are still holding her hand you know." The feminine voice said once again teasing them and causing both to jump away from each other. "Eh?" Regulus finally noticed the extra voice and looked to his shoulders where the voice was originating the two on the other hand were still too flushed to noticed not to mention they were looking away probably hiding their blushing faces.

On his shoulder was a small grey furred cat with a white underside standing on its hind legs it was small enough to fit in his palm and had a golden piercing on its left ear causing it to droop down. The cat itself looked back at Regulus with a confused expression, "...Are you supposed to be here?" it finally asked. Regulus replied with a question of his own. "Are you supposed to be big enough for a mouse to be able to eat you?"

The cat crossed it's arms and closed its eyes. "Touché..."

Reinhard and Elsa, who had finally come into their senses looked at the cat in confusion, "Who are you?" Elsa asked, reached into her shadows where she normally kept her blades in case something were to happen right now. "Glad you asked!!" the cat started to float, it cleared its throat before saying, "It is I the protector of the Astrea estate, the master of ice magic, spirit of absolute zero given the ephitet of the beast of the end!!!" it said with its hands placed on its chest with the other hand behind its back, just as regulus was about to ask its name the door opened revealing a man with Ocean blue eyes similar to Reinhard and long brown hair tied in a pony tail and a few strands of hair covering barely covering the right eye, he wore a long sleeved high collar shirt with a grey vest and brown pants with a sword strapped to his waist. He sneered at Regulus, "What are you doing here? Witch cultist?" he moved to take his sword out only for another voice to stop him from doing so inside the house. "Wilhelm, Wait!" it was the voice of a woman. It sounded melodic. As the door opened they got a view of the woman who had called on to the brown haired boy.

She was beautiful to say the least, but what unsettled Regulus was that the girl looked extremely similar to she had similar facial structures while having long waist length red hair with flowers attached to it and ocean blue eyes that seemed a lot more similar to Reinhard. She wore a simple green and red dress that looked expensive but not so much that it could be called flaunting. She walked up to Reinhard with a small frown. When she was finally reached in front of him Reinhard seemed to lose a bit of his courage as he looked away, the woman rose her hand and reached his cheeks as she turned his head toward her to look her in the eyes. She looked at him with a stern look before giving a warm smile.

"You are early...my dear Successor."

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Rimuru and Rigurd were walking down the road to the tent where the elves and the human were being kept. "So? You called them here...why?" Rimuru asked Rigurd.

"Ah, that...they were aware of the village and wanted to see it themselves, although they seemed to be surprised that this was a village of monsters..." Rigurd said, not sure what his master would think of it. 'Knew of the village?' Rimuru thought as he grew suspicious of the guests.

Rigurd pulled the curtains open to reveal the three beautiful elves, but what interested Rimuru the most was the black haired girl wearing a mask. All of them were sitting neatly around a table and eating the food that had been given by Rigurd they all looked up from their food and watched Rigurd, Rigurd stood at attention and gestured at Rimuru, "Dear guests this is Rimuru Tempest the leader of the village."

All of them seemed surprised but not at what Rimuru thought. Rimuru thought they were surprised at him being a slime but, "Yo-you are Rimuru?" the blonde haired elf asked with a surprised tone. "I didn't expect it to be a slime..." The shorter green haired elf said from the masked girl's side, that was expected, but the blonde elf knowing his name was not.

"You know me?" Rimuru asked, a bit worried, the blonde elf nodded "yeah I was told your name before being sent to the forest." Rimuru tensed up a little at the answer. She stood up before giving a small bow. "Thank you for your hospitality, Rimuru-dono."

She then pointed at herself "My name is magnolia the blue haired elf is azure and the green haired one is Carl" She gestured at the black haired girl "And this is the temporary member of the group Shizu."

Shizu and all others nodded, magnolia she put a hand on her chest and this time, deciding to test if he was the correct person gave a vague answer, "As for how we know you. All of except shizu are subordinates of a friend of yours." She said with a smile. All possible tension from the air was lost as Rimuru figuratively lit up with joy "OH! You are subordinates of Regulus-san?! But then where is he? Is he going to come to the village as well?!" Rimuru said while quite literally jumping with joy. Rigurd looked a little surprised but let it go. Magnolia smiled "While he is not here, he said that his last stop is going to be this village so I think he is going to come to the village soon."

"I see..." Rimuru was a bit disappointed but quickly cheered up again, "...that reminds me, is that really all that you came to the forest for?"

Magnolia then proceeded to tell everything as though she had never learned to distrust anyone but that soon cleared up when she said that their true loyalty lied only to Regulus and his 'radical faction' whatever that meant...aside from that though, It seemed like they didn't particularly care about what happened to the guild.

"So...would the guild have any trouble with us building a town here?" huh why did he say town instead of village?

"Not really. The guild doesn't have a say in it honestly but the Country on the other hand..." Carla said while rubbing her chin...

"Well...not really that matter anyway right?" Magnolia said with her hands held up in a shrug. "After all you have Regulus-sama on your side. He defeated one country for you who's to say he won't do it again?"

Rimuru seemed to blush from embarrassment at the memory. "Not to mention Dwargon is far stronger than Blumund and it took only three people get the entire country in a kneeling position." Azure said from the side.

Rimuru thought about it for a few seconds before looking up "Got it...Feel free to stay as long as you wish since you decided to take a shortcut you guys are probably months ahead of schedule anyway." Rimuru said causing the girls to light up.

"I do have a favor to ask to Shizu-san and Magnolia-san though..." Rimuru said causing both to tilt their heads in confusion. "Could you please spare a few days to train some of my citizens?" he asked. Magnolia looked at Shizu who proceeded to take off her mask. Rimuru looked at her with awe for a second. 'She...she is my destined one!!' he mentally shouted. Shizu smiled before nodding causing magnolia to look back at Rimuru with a smile of herself. "We'd be glad to. Rimuru-dono."

Rimuru nodded as best as he could. "Thank you very much."

And so the toughest training the archers of Rimuru's village ever received would begin, the week that was so tough that a few forsake archery all together. This week go down in Rimuru's village as the week from hell that created the best archers in hobgoblin history.

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