So right now, I have 24 Hobgoblins and Goblinas, and 7 Tempest wolves.
"Ranga, you will serve me. And 4 Goblins per Tempest wolf, form your five-person team.
From now on, you all are the citizens of Tempest.
So, I am establishing some ground rules here. You can't disobey it until I say so.
First, no infighting between subjects of Tempest. Come on. Shake hands with each other!"
"Rimuru-sama! You solved the conflict so easily! Bla bla bla!"
I ignored the hype-ups from Rigurd as I watched them excitedly shake hands, and paws with each other. Even though they were fighting just few moments ago, killing each other.
The butterflies were also mingling with them.
Monsters sure are strange creatures.
"Next rule, no attacking outsiders unless they start it. Be friendly."
I didn't made any special concessions for humans. All races are equal.
Well, aside from humans who will become my food for awakening.
"Third, if you can, capture the hostile outsiders first instead of killing. But you must not die trying it."
This way, I can store human souls for awakening more of my subordinates later.
Hmmm...
"Ranga, from now on you are Ranga Tempest. My family dog."
"Thank you Rimuru-sama!"
He became bigger, gained an extra horn, and start wagging his tail harder, even creating huge gusts of wind.
With an equal hierarchy, Ranga will not only grow stronger, I can awaken him early on as well.
Falmuth will send around 20,000 soldiers, right?
Hahahahaha! I wonder what my dog will evolve into after becoming Demon Lord.
Ah. First he will need to obtain Demon Lord Seed huh?
Hmmm... I will need to think hard about that.
So, with the basics done, it's time to get Kaijin and brothers...
Hmmm, maybe that can wait.
Let's find the Ogres, shall we?
I hopped on Ranga.
"Does anyone knows where Ogres live?"
"Yes Master! I know!"
Apparently, Ranga knows.
"Then lead the way! Rigurd, you are in-charge while I am not here!"
"Yes Rimuru-sama!"
So began the journey to Ogre Village.
"Master! I have learnt a new skill upon evolving! Can I show you!"
"Well, do it."
Ranga went into my shadow.
So, [Shadow Movement] huh?
"Stay there, Ranga. The Ogre Village is in this direction, right?"
"Yes Master!"
Alright. Then let's approach stealthily and observe things first.
What if Clayman's goons are there?
So, I hid my aura entirely, transformed into a butterfly, and started heading towards the Ogre Village.
Wow... Compound eyes sure are great. I will combine it with my human eyes later.
After a lot of time of flying freely, a big village was on sight.
But, it seems like Benimaru was arguing against a fat clown.
Ah. Footman is here!?
How lucky!
Let's try a small scale Megiddo to kill him, shall we, Great Sage?
[Understood]
Large water droplets shaped to create convex lenses which concentrate the sun's energy into pencil-thin beams of light packed with immense heat reaching several thousand degrees Celsius. Smaller water droplets are then used as mirrors to redirect the beams toward the targets.
It was a piece of cake with the help of Great Sage.
And then,
'Small Scale Megiddo!'
Several of those beams hit Footman and the places he could dodge to.
Calculations being precise due to Great Sage.
But, the effort was useless. I mean, this much effort was useless.
Footman simply died to the beam focused on his head.
...This turned out to be surprisingly easy.
"What just happened!?"
The Ogres looked up, but I was gone from that place.
I don't know if there is someone who can hide from my Magic Sense. But it wouldn't be wise to underestimate Yuuki.
So let's not reveal my identity right now.
I went down as a butterfly, and stood over Footman's corpse.
'Predator!'
Without transforming into a slime, I ate Footman, and left.
[Unique Skill Engorger acquired]
[Spatial Magic: Spatial Storage acquired]
[Manabullet acquired]
[Modelwill acquired]
Hmm, a new Unique Skill!?
Great Sage, what does Engorger do?
[Report: It allows the user to amplify the momentum of anything, be it energy or physical matter. It can be used to accelerate the user and their attacks to extreme speeds or amplify the mass of the user's body, resulting in an ability devastating in melee.]
Woah...
Isn't it kind of, perfect for me!?
[Yes.]
Hahahahaha! I can't believe I am so lucky!