Building a Monster Nation From Zero in Another World

"Just as you predicted."

Souei stood on a cliff, gazing at the desolate land in the distance. Under the scorching sun, not a blade of grass grew. "There's nothing, neither grass nor trees, all gone."

"It seems 'Starved' has already manifested."

Through this event, Rin was able to roughly determine the current time period.

'After Rimuru reincarnated, it took him about a few months to leave the labyrinth.'

'Afterward, he successively subdued the Goblins and Direwolves, encountered Benimaru and others whose villages were annihilated by the Moderate Harlequin Alliance, and soon met the invading Orc army.'

Rin felt that it should be around the first half of the story's plot, as the Storm Dragon was still present.

However, considering the Insect-Type Magic Beast not mentioned in the original work, Rin felt he couldn't completely rely on the original as a reference.

In the real world, any event can trigger a butterfly effect.

Rin didn't think the future would unfold exactly as described in the novel.

"Souei."

"At your service!"

"Go to the Lizardmen's territory, inform them of the Orc Clan's changes, and then propose an alliance with us."

Rin wanted to subdue all the monsters in the forest. Each of them was an important source of magicules for him, and he couldn't let a large number of them die off casually as in the original work.

"Understood!"

Upon receiving the order, Souei wasted no time and immediately rushed towards the Lizardmen's stronghold.

'This is a bit troublesome.'

Upon learning the current time period, Rin felt a slight sense of distress, and his expression was immediately noticed by Ice Empress.

"Master, is something wrong?"

Rin pondered for a moment and told Ice Empress the information he knew. "Simply put, someone is behind a conspiracy, and there's a group of very strong individuals hiding in the shadows. I'm a bit uneasy."

Rimuru's initial opponent, the early antagonist, and later a power-level measuring unit, Clayman, one of the Ten Great Demon Lord.

Don't misunderstand, even though this guy didn't perform well in the original work and was easily dealt with by Rimuru.

But Clayman was still a Demon Lord Seed, after all.

The term Demon Lord Seed here does not refer to a truly awakened Demon Lord.

In the Cardinal World, if you are a Demon Lord Seed, then acquire territory and an army, you can call yourself a Demon Lord.

Afterward, through the Demon Lord Council, as long as the other Demon Lord do not object, then you are a Demon Lord.

"Clayman and the Demon Lords, are they very strong?"

Hearing that there were powerful individuals, Ice Empress felt a little excited and wanted to fight these strong ones.

"Among the Ten Great Demon Lords, seven are True Demon Lords."

"Currently, Clayman's magicules value is estimated to be around 400,000."

The amount of magicules doesn't represent everything, so even the current Rin has a chance to fight Clayman.

Ice Empress and Ogerpon, the two girls' magicules are A+, but in a real fight, ordinary Special A-Ranks are no match for them.

But this is clearly not enough.

"I'm not afraid of Clayman. What I'm worried about is the Moderate Harlequin Alliance behind him."

"Clayman belongs to the Moderate Harlequin Alliance and is the weakest member within it."

"Besides him, every other Clown possesses combat power comparable to a Demon Lord."

To put it bluntly, the current Rin, facing any one of the Clowns, would be utterly annihilated.

Fortunately, the Clowns will not easily expose their existence.

After all, once a conflict breaks out between the two sides, the sheer commotion would be enough to attract the attention of other Demon Lords.

Yuuki Kagurazaka would definitely not jump out at this time.

"Every one of them has the power of a Demon Lord?"

Ice Empress was a bit surprised. She increasingly felt that following Rin was the most correct decision she had ever made. "Interesting!"

"There will be opportunities."

Rin said, "If things become impossible, I will activate Traveler and take you to other worlds."

With Traveler as a fallback, the worst outcome is merely living to fight another day.

After he becomes stronger by relying on the power of countless other worlds, he will return for revenge.

"It seems that after arranging things here, it's time to start exploring new worlds."

The feeling of being targeted wasn't good, and Rin hated those who schemed in the dark. "Even if they aren't deliberately targeting us, since we are destined to be enemies, there's nothing more to say."

If Rin was to follow Rimuru's path, then Rimuru's enemies would eventually emerge.

"Now, information on the Orc Clan has been obtained."

"As for the Goblins, Treyni will lead the way."

Rin wasn't worried about Sakurako and their safety regarding the Goblins.

Treyni could summon Sylphide, and even if the Clowns had truly arrived in the Great Jura Forest, they wouldn't dare to provoke her.

"I wonder how Benimaru and Hakurou are doing?"

Rin's understanding of the Tengu Clan in this world was limited.

"Tengu?"

Ice Empress and Snow Empress, however, were quite interested.

Rin explained. "Although they are called Tengu, they actually resemble angels with wings."

A long time ago, an angel incarnated into the body of a Mountain Wolf, thus giving birth to the Tengu Clan.

The Tengu Clan here didn't actually have long noses.

They liked to wear red, long-nosed masks and had white or black wings on their backs, and were called the Tengu Clan due to their arrogant personalities.

Years ago, the founder of the Tengu Clan, Kaede, practiced swordsmanship under Araki Byakuya alongside Hakurou.

The two developed feelings for each other and gave birth to a daughter, who was Momiji in the original work.

However, the gestation period for Tengu was extremely long. Hakurou's wife took a full three hundred years to give birth to Momiji, and she passed on most of her magicules to her.

The stronger the monsters in the Cardinal World, the less likely they were to bear offspring.

Because this was a huge detriment to monsters.

Bearing offspring meant the offspring would inherit a large portion of the parents' power. Even the former Star King Dragon fell because of this.

Given the relationship between the Tengu Clan and Hakurou, with him stepping forward, and then Benimaru entering into a marriage alliance as in the novel, Rin felt there was a high chance of gaining the loyalty of the Tengu Clan.

At worst, he would take on the conflict between the Tengu and Frey.

Frey's strength might be slightly stronger than Clayman's, but she was definitely no match for those few Clowns.

Rin was confident that before Sky Queen Frey clashed with him, he would become strong enough that she wouldn't dare to provoke him.

(To be continued.)

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