Chapter 954 Cultivation (7k monthly ticket requested at the end of the month)

Chapter 954 Cultivation (7k monthly ticket requested at the end of the month)

"Everyone! I'm... wrong... I am... I am the Demon King Rimuru!"

"Yes, I am Demon King Rimuru. Please give me some advice. Well - thank you for coming here at our country's invitation. I am very happy..."

At noon the next day, the sky was clear. As Rimuru stumbled on the balcony of the Central Assembly Hall to make his opening remarks, the founding ceremony of Jura Tempest Federal State officially kicked off.

It can be seen that Rimuru is a little nervous and not used to it. After all, she was just an ordinary office worker before time travel. Looking at the past, Ji Xing, Hinata and even Shizue Izawa were looking at her in a corner. This made her even more confused and nervous.

But fortunately, in addition to her citizens, the only people staying in the square were the princes and nobles who had interacted with her on the eve of the festival last night.

They didn't care about Rimuru's nervousness, or they just regarded it as the excitement of founding the country, allowing Rimuru to adjust as quickly as possible.

Her speech was also very simple, explaining the friendly policy and attitude of the Demon Federation to foreign countries. She also used the Kingdom of Farmus as an example to illustrate her determination to show no mercy to the enemy, with firmness and slowness, and finally ended with the sentence "Everyone has a good time." .

The civilians and businessmen gradually dispersed, enthusiastically participating in the many activities of the founding ceremony, while Rimuru went down to the lobby on the first floor and saw the children jumping to greet them at a glance.

"How embarrassing, Rimuru-sensei!"

"Yeah, he stumbles over his words!"

Rimuru wiped the sweat from his forehead and rolled his eyes at the children: "I deliberately told everyone not to be afraid of me because of my status as a demon king, and to make everyone think that I am also an ordinary person."

"Is this a forced explanation?"

"It must be, hahaha..."

Rimuru was speechless. These children were beginning to look less cute...but this was a good thing. With Miss Jing and Hinata by their side, their smiles have been many times more recent than before. Miss Jing is like a gentle mother, while Hinata is strict...

Oh, sin, sin, it's really inappropriate to think of such a great beauty as a father.

She touched the heads of Alice and Chloe, looked at Ji Xing and others and said, "The next project is a one-hour music appreciation. Ziyuan and the others have been rehearsing for a long time, shall we go together?"

Ji Xing nodded and followed with Shyvana and Cagalli, chatting all the way to the opera house in Rimuru Town.

"It really surprises me when I say it." Rimuru said with emotion: "Despite the lack of technology, the level of music in this world is almost the same as ours. Even some musical instruments including pianos are available here."

"It's normal." Ji Xing said: "Reincarnators, summoners, visitors from other worlds, there are more people who have traveled through time, and there are always a few professional counterparts. It is not surprising that musical instruments are reproduced here."

"That's right." Rimuru nodded: "It's just that most of the music in this world can only be appreciated by princes and nobles, and even if it is appreciated, it is done quietly. Saying that such advanced and progressive things may attract attacks from the angel army."

At this point, she frowned, looked at Hinata and said: "Although Hinata also explained the interests and harms to me, this fact is strange. I am not prepared to give up the development of the country and culture just to avoid the attack of angels. That's okay, right? , Ji Xing?”

"I didn't know, I've never seen an angel or anything." Ji Xing said with a smile, "Just live your life as a monk hitting the clock."

Rimuru smiled 'sweetly'.

To be honest, she has been a little drifting lately, and she feels it herself. Although it is a little busy, establishing the Monster Federation is really a sense of accomplishment.

Moreover, the Monster Federation currently has no internal or external troubles. It has established an alliance with Luminas, the misunderstanding with Hinata has also been resolved, and even Miss Jing has made up for her regrets by 'resurrecting'.

In addition to possessing the powerful forces of Veldora and Ji Xing, she, Shyvana and others are not vegetarians. In addition to being afraid of the mysterious Eastern Empire, she really can't think of anything else that can stop the demon. The development of the federation.

——Although Ji Xing and Shyvana do not belong to the Demon Kingdom Federation, they are just guests, but when they encounter danger, he will not just sit back and watch, right?

With a relaxed mood, everyone arrived near the opera house. Rimuru, who was playing with the children, suddenly noticed a small dispute at the door of the opera house.

Well, it can't be regarded as a dispute, because the seats are limited, and the only people she invited to enjoy the orchestra's performance today were nobles from various countries, but now it seems that two 'commoners' who did not receive the invitation are hoping to enter the opera house as well.

"Are we not qualified to enter? Open your eyes and see. We are adventurers from Mr. Masayuki's team. The king of the small country also treats us as guests. You actually said that we..."

"No, it's not that you're not qualified, it's that the seats for this performance are already fully booked. If you two want to attend the concert, there will be two more performances tonight and tomorrow night, please..."

From a distance, Rimuru heard this kind of conversation. She felt that her men handled it appropriately, but the words of the beauty with short blond hair opposite were a bit aggressive.

Based on the content of the conversation, she also remembered the identity of the two people on the other side - Bonnie and Qiu, the subordinates of the shining hero Masayuki.

That Honjo Masayuki and another subordinate, Mad Wolf Thunder, must have entered the underground maze to compete for the qualifications to obtain Ji Xing's skills. They are the first batch to go in and should come out of the underground palace after seven days this evening.

These two people have not entered the underground palace, but they have not had any sense of presence in the past seven days. They must be waiting quietly, right? Are you feeling bored and want to listen to a concert?

Well, although according to Ji Xing and the King of Wisdom, Masayuki Honjou seems to be a parallel importer, but at least he is A-level, and with such a special status, it seems that an invitation should indeed be made.

Lack of thinking - Based on the idea of ​​peace being the most important thing, Rimuru attributed the fault to himself, so he walked over quickly and said: "I'm really sorry, I didn't think carefully enough. I didn't expect you to be good at music." Interested. Please come with me, just two extra seats.”

"The Demon King..."

As adventurers of the brave team, Qiu and Bonnie were naturally on guard.

They stared at Rimuru distrustfully for a few seconds before Bonny said, "With Mr. Masayuki here, there is nothing we dare not agree to, and I understand that this demon king does not dare to play any tricks."

Hey, is there any mistake? You two were obviously the first to enter the opera house, but I made a mistake in inviting you?

Rimuru was a little helpless, but not too angry. Instead, the children started shouting, saying something like 'not recognizing good people', which made the two adventurers a little embarrassed.

Rimuru shook his head at them, signaling them to stop talking nonsense, and prepared to welcome everyone into the opera house.

At this moment, Ji Xing suddenly said: "You two, stop listening and go back."

"...Huh?" Rimuru turned around in surprise.

Bonnie and Qiu also looked over, with tense expressions. Qiu said, "You are the skill merchant Ji Xing, right? We respect the skills you have given us and have cultivated adventurers, and we recognize that you are on par with Master Masayuki, but you are now ...What do you mean? It’s just a concert, we don’t have to listen to it, but we can’t accept your hostility towards us and Mr. Masayuki for no reason!”

Hinata also looked at Ji Xing in surprise. In her opinion, Ji Xing is a man who doesn't like to meddle in other people's business and does things as he pleases. He can help Teacher Jing resurrect and enlighten Gulambeer based on his whim, and he can also help others when they are busy. When you have to go around, you can prepare a feast for yourself and enjoy it leisurely.

This man lives an extremely leisurely and carefree life, and is domineering only on the inside and not on the surface. In this way, he inexplicably refuses the adventurers who follow the hero to attend irrelevant concerts, and even overturns the arrangements made by Rimuru. This can only be...

There's something wrong with these two!

"Masayuki's unique skills can affect others, but they can't affect you." Sure enough, Ji Xing smiled and said, "Two saints really follow a fake brave man? Why don't I believe it."

"!!!"

Two... saints? !

Rimuru and Hinata looked shocked. When did a saint become a cabbage? There should be only a handful of saints in the Western countries, but Ji Xing's judgment cannot be wrong. In other words... these two people are from the Eastern Empire? !

Bonnie and Qiu's expressions changed, and their auras also changed. Qiu quickly changed from a 'simple adventurer' to a cold killer.

"I just said we can't take any chances." She complained to Bonnie: "The emergence of that kind of magic detector is too dangerous. Your Majesty's power may not be able to help us hide from the cold instrument."

"What's the use of saying this now." Bonnie was not polite: "Our mission seems to have failed, but fortunately Mr. Ji Xing doesn't seem to be prepared to leave us here. Even the Marshal can defeat him. If he took action, I really don’t think we would survive. From this point of view, we should be grateful for his exposure.”

Qiu was silent and looked at Ji Xing: "I do want to thank you for your kindness, although I don't understand the reason. Since you have seen through it, why don't you wait until we start to catch it?"

"Your mission is nothing more than to assassinate Rimuru and the nobles of various countries? Or is it to cause other major damage to the founding ceremony, affect monsters, now called demi-humans, affect the harmony between demi-humans and humans, and at most Let Masayuki Honjo take the blame.”

Every time Ji Xing said something, Rimuru's heart beat violently. Hey, don't say it so easily. I've been really careless these past few days. I'm actually hiding such a crisis?

Hinata's expression also turned cold, while Shizu protected several children, although it was not necessary.

After being exposed, Bonnie and Qiu obviously had no intention of resisting and acquiesced to Ji Xing's speculation.

Ji Xing said again: "Go back and give your emperor a message for me - don't do any wasted tests or play tricks. I know all his secrets. If you feel that the time is not right and don't want to ignite a war, just Don’t come looking for trouble.”

Do you know His Majesty’s secret? What secret does your Majesty have? Bonnie and Qiu were stunned, but they knew enough not to ask in detail. As the Empire's "single digits", they were two of His Majesty's closest confidants, but they also had no way of knowing all the Empire's secrets.

They have never even seen His Majesty in person, and they don't know why His Majesty sent them to follow Masayuki in this city - he shouldn't be a prophet of the future, preparing for today.

They responded, resigned, and left the Demon Kingdom Federation without looking back. Rimuru breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It's really hard to guard against. Thanks to you again, Ji Xing. If something happens to the nobles of various countries here, especially Empest is really incapable of making excuses and is about to become a public enemy of mankind.”

"But..." She said solemnly: "Isn't it true that the empire is not simple, and the Burning Flame Dragon is not their highest combat power? Even you are a little afraid, and you let the spies go back after discovering them?"

"No." Ji Xing smiled and said, "Some opponents have to be left for you to level up. What if I deal with them all? Your current strength is not enough to bring peace to the world. Try your best."

"..."

Hinata and Jing wanted to laugh. Is the Rimuru we all look forward to like this from Ji Xing's perspective? A worker who needs to be trained... to make the world peaceful and beautiful?

Rimuru's eyes twitched and he lost his ability to speak. What's the matter with leaving them for me to level up? You don't need... Well, you're already at the maximum level!

Really, this guy.

I've been relying on him too much during this period, and I forgot that he is a shameless guy who said "I work hard and he enjoys" in a high-sounding manner!

"This... is it the cultivation in the game?" Alice said weakly: "Teacher Ji Xing is a player, Teacher Rimuru..."

"No!" Rimuru interrupted hurriedly: "The teacher is a living person!"

"Eh-"

"Oh!"

The children dragged out the sound, Rimuru held his forehead in pain, and in the laughter, Bonnie and Qiu just now seemed to have become a small episode, but in fact, what Ji Xing said to the two was much more powerful than she felt, at least in "Rudra".

...

"Know all my secrets."

As single-digit guards, Bonnie and Qiu have the ability to contact Rudra directly. As soon as they left the town of Rimuru, they used magic to cross half of the continent, indicating the failure of the mission.

Sitting on the throne, Rudra savored Ji Xing's words and replied: "I know. Even Velgrind was defeated. It's not surprising that my skills can't be hidden from him. I put you in danger. Come back. As for the city's prosperity... don't worry about it anymore."

"Serve your majesty!"

Amid the loud reply, the magic communication was cut off. Rudra's fingers tapped the armrest of the chair lightly, his face deep and uncertain.

After a while, the blue-haired beauty Velgrind walked in from the door with a cup of tea. Seeing Rudra sitting up, she was surprised and said: "Rudra, did you end your lunch break early today?"

"Ah, I'm in a good state today." Rudra smiled in response, and the charming mature charm was reflected on the face of a handsome blond boy.

"That's a good thing." Velgrynd said with concern: "I heard from Kondo that today is the founding ceremony of Tempest of the Demonic Federation. You didn't get too much sleep because you were worried about it, did you? That's not okay."

"No." Rudra shook his head: "There is another thing that surprised me. It was just reported by Bonnie and Qiu."

"What-?"

"Oh, they found a boy named Honjo Masayuki in the west. They said he looks exactly like me, which is strange."

Velgrynd's palm trembled, and the tea she was pouring spilled a little. This is extremely rare for her as a dragon.

Like Rudra... Honjo Masayuki?

Since the last fight with Jixing and the King of Exploration of Jixing revealed a forgotten memory, Velgrynd discovered that Rudra was wrong in front of her, and also discovered that she was being silently controlled by some skills.

But she didn't make a fuss, and she didn't rush.

She still stayed with Rudra as usual, because she wanted to determine Rudra's exact situation - was it because of the wear and tear of the soul caused by reincarnation that an additional personality was derived, or was it completely dead and replaced by something unknown?

She hoped it was the former, but even if it was the latter, she loved Rudra deeply and needed to make perfect preparations to protect Rudra's body and then find a way to revive Rudra.

But what does the boy who looks exactly like Rudra represent? Is it the reincarnation of Rudra's broken soul? Or maybe my abnormality has been discovered, and this guy in front of me is testing me? !

Then, ‘Rudra’ said: “It is said that Honjo Masayuki is a visitor from another world. He has unique skills and was mistaken for a hero. He is very famous in the West. This is really interesting. One day when the war starts, he, as a hero, might be pushed in front of me.”

“…It is indeed a rare thing. It’s funny to think about that scene.” Velgrind said calmly: “You mean Bonnie and Jo? I haven’t seen them for a long time. So you sent them to the West? Like Damrada?”

“Well, I just went to the Demon Federation today to find out some information.” Rudra said: “They met Honjo Masayuki there. But the boy who looks like me was warmly received by Ji Xing, so they didn’t dare to get close.”

“…” Velgrind bit his lip.

Damn! Ji Xing knew what Rudra looked like. If these were true, did he have other plans to entertain the boy? !

She couldn't see through Ji Xing at all. Ji Xing used his skills to help her detect Rudra's abnormality, but she didn't feel much gratitude in her heart. In her opinion, this move was a strategy for the enemy to decompose the opponent's internal situation. However, Rudra was too important to her, so she could only "fall into the trap".

What is he thinking? What is Honjo Masayuki's identity? What is Rudra planning to tell me? All kinds of emotions and information hit her mind in a chaotic manner. Suddenly, her body shook and her expression was dazed for a moment.

When she came back to her senses, she found that Rudra beside her didn't look very good, pale and weak, and hurriedly half-supported him: "Rudra, lie down quickly! It's not time for lunch break, why did you get up?"

"Hehe, I'm fine." Rudra said hoarsely, "I just thought about the Demon Federation's official founding ceremony today, which became a trouble between the Empire and the West. I was a little worried and didn't sleep well."

"It's my incompetence." Velgrind said in a deep voice, "When the time comes, I will never lose to the skill merchant Ji Xing easily. I will help the Empire's army to flatten the Demon Federation!"

"Well, please."

Velgrind helped Rudra lie down, no longer caring about Honjo Masayuki, nor thinking about Rudra's problems in front of him, and took care of him as carefully as before and fell asleep.

Because she forgot.

Just like she forgot the conversation between Rudra and Damrada before, she forgot Ji Xing's reminder and the conversation about Honjo Masayuki last time!

'Rudra' took advantage of the moment when her mind was shaken and strengthened his control over her!

When she left the room, Rudra, lying on the couch, slowly opened his eyes, and his calm eyes contained an indifference that was not like that of a human.

"Even with my authority, it is very difficult to control a dragon, especially when she has partially awakened. That Ji Xing has left me with a big problem." He whispered.

"How long can it last?" A second voice suddenly appeared in the originally empty room.

"If she is not stimulated, it can continue forever." Rudra responded: "But the skill merchant... he said that he knew all my secrets, which was an exaggeration, but he could probably guess my situation. It's very troublesome."

"I considered going out on the day when the Burning Dragon fought him, and even Jessir had been sent out. But the performance of the skill merchant... I think it would be difficult for me and the Burning Dragon to kill him together, and the Burning Dragon might not fully cooperate with me."

"You did the right thing, Feldwei. If the Burning Dragon suddenly rebelled during the battle, even you would be in danger."

"What should we do now, Michael."

During the conversation, they said each other's names. Feldwei, the head of the seven angels of origin, once followed the Star King Dragon Veludonava, or the life that was created.

Michael is an archangel, and his essence is an ultimate skill - the King of Justice.

This powerful ultimate skill was given to Rudra by Veldonava, and Rudra also established an empire with it, but the more powerful the skill, the harder it is to master. Over the long years, the King of Justice gradually gave birth to the "Divine Core", just like Chronoa to Chloe, and he had a personality.

On the other hand, Rudra's soul continued to weaken due to reincarnations, and one day, he was completely replaced by the King of Justice!

As an "archangel", the most powerful ability of the King of Justice is to control all those who have the ultimate skills of the angel system.

Unfortunately, Velgrendo's King of Salvation Raguel is included in it, and even Rimuru's King of Wisdom Raphael is included.

"...Don't worry, although things are as we worried, the skill merchant guessed my true identity with that ultimate skill."

The King of Exploration revealed by Ji Xing at the Demon King Feast was the core reason why he sent Velgrendo to kill Ji Xing. Who knew that Ji Xing could even defeat Velgrendo, which led to the leak.

In addition to lamenting that things were not as expected, he had no other choice: "But this human does not seem to be completely on Guy's side. At least Guy is still unaware of Rudra's death, otherwise he should have reacted long ago.

Just like what Bonnie and Jodai said this time, he doesn't seem to want to take the initiative to lead the war between the East and the West, giving us time to prepare."

"That's why I'm worried." Feldwei said: "Most of the ultimate skills in the world are created and deduced by Star King Long, but we have never heard of any of the three ultimate skills known to Ji Xing. He is an 'alien'."

"Indeed." Michael fell silent again.

What is this human doing? What does this human want? What attitude should we take to deal with his problems?

No matter how the two archangels discussed, they could not come up with an answer, and they could not imagine that Ji Xing was "cultivating" Rimuru.

...

Yes, cultivating.

It sounds like a joke, but in fact Ji Xing is eight points sincere.

He hopes that Rimuru will grow up and become as strong as possible, because Rimuru is the second person he has met since invading various worlds, except Kaguya, who has the capital to become a "realm master".

As an intruder, he himself cannot become a realm master, which has been verified in many worlds. When he takes the step of becoming a realm master, the Seven Star Pearl will interrupt his invasion with the prompt of "entering a seven-star world".

But local life can.

If Rimuru can become a realm master like Kaguya, and Ji Xing also practices in this world to "ascend out", then he can get on the bus directly like the Naruto world and instantly connect with the world's will.

- Although Ji Xing has not yet figured out how many stars this world should be ranked.

In terms of combat power and destructive power, five stars is about right, but there are many weird things, such as the comics of various worlds here, the power that makes Ji Xing's previous invasion experience become skills, and the super-standard time-based skills that can directly modify the past, and the creator god who only exists in the background.

But six stars are a bit empty.

After accumulating for more than a year, and under the condition of suppressed soul power, Ji Xing has basically reached the peak of combat power, and it is not as hard as the Dragon Ball world with the same six stars.

As for the situation of the Eastern Empire, Ji Xing certainly did not obtain it through a brief exploration of Velgrind's memory. He had read the novel Slime - although the novel was not updated and he did not read it all, he knew all the secrets of the empire.

It is a bit exaggerated to say that he can defeat those guys now, but if the part of the novel that has not been updated will not cause the combat power to collapse in the later stage, it is nothing more than a dozen rounds of vampires - unfortunately, the benefits of the same skill are capped, and there are not many skills that can be used by monsters when they are killed, otherwise Ji Xing would not have to sell a large number of skills.

Sitting on the leather chair with excellent texture, Ji Xing thought about these complicated things in his mind, listening to the music played by the band in front of him, which changed from a gentle tune to a solemn duet, intoxicating the audience.

He smiled: "Classical?"

Rimuru next to him hummed: "You even know a lot about music? Hey, hey..."

It was the King of Wisdom Raphael who sorted out my memory and searched from the corners for everything I had heard and seen to sort out today's music performance. You seem to have understood it all at once, which makes me feel like a waste!

Soon, the music on the stage changed to another tune, which made Rimuru's mouth twitch.

"Hey, Mr. Raphael, why are there animations? Can this be connected together?"

Fortunately... most people don't understand.

"Next time, make a blue bird." Ji Xing said.

"...Okay."