The name that she gave sent whispers throughout the court, "Yuura? As in the Chaos demoness Yuura? One of the eight lords of the God Pneuma." Although Gazel looked calm and collected in the outside, he was shaking in fear on the inside.
Everyone was in fear of this development, but the one who was the most surprised was Rimuru himself. The girl he was simping over a second ago was actually an extremely powerful envoy of the god who endorsed him.
"Yes that is correct King Gazel. I will get down to the reason I interrupted your court. I want you to release the slime and dwarves being convicted at the moment."
The court erupted in outrage at the sheer audacity of the request. Gazel Dwargo lifted his hand and silenced the court, " Why should I comply to this request?"
" It's simple, this slime is under the protection of lord Pneuma and punishing him would invoke lord Pneuma's wrath."
Now everyone went silenced, they couldn't comprehend how a slime came to be under the divine protection of the Chaos god but nonetheless he was and that brought problems that only Gazel could remedy.
" Fine then, but why should I release the dwarves?"
" Why wouldn't you, they insulted one of your ministers and pledged their loyalty to a slime. Even when they completed their punishment, do you think that they will truly remain loyal to you?" Yuura remained smiling while looking up at Gazel.
" You have a point, but I won't allow their actions to go unpunished."
" I'm not asking you to, what I do ask for is an alternative. Instead of imprisoned labour, I ask instead for exile of the dwarves."
Garm, dord, myrm and Kaijin looked at Yuura with admiration. These four knew that she was making their case in a manner that would prevent Gazel from arguing.
Thinking about his options, Gazel now realized he had none. He couldn't go to war with a force like Andromeda nor their god Pneuma.
Even if their wasn't a war, refusing the deal would cause a social crisis. Being the nation that prided itself on technology, Pneuma was an idol in this nation, especially to Kaijin and Vesta who knew the true origin of the magic soldier project.
" Fine then, Kaijin, you and your entourage are hereby exiled from the dwarven nation of Dwargon. You are to never step foot in this place again."
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And now, the four dwarves were now exiled from Dwargon and forced to follow in the footsteps of Rimuru Tempest.
As the dwarves managed their things to go, Rimuru turned his attention to the rock and the pink haired lady sitting elegantly on it.
"Um, thank you." Rimuru timidly approached Yuura and thanked her for her big save.
Yuura took notice of him and smiled, "No need to thank me sweetie. I think I'll be taking my leave."
"Wait!"
Yuura turned around to the slime, "What is it?"
"I would like to request something. I want to meet Pneuma face-to-face." The slimes question caught the attention of the dwarves behind him.
"Apologies, that's not something I can promise. In fact Pneuma expected this question and told me to tell you that now is not the time for you to meet yet." Yuura apologized calmly, her elegant yet seductive demeanor capturing the hearts of the slime and the dwarves.
But her answer noticeably disappointed them all. For Rimuru, he wanted to thank him personally, the dwarves on the other hand wanted to meet the innovation god, especially after learning from Kaijin the true origin of the magic soldier project.
Rimuru also wanted to assess the god in person to ascertain whether he is a friend or a threat. Even if he knew that he couldn't do anything if he was a threat, the confirmation would still give him some peace of mind.
" Yuura was it? Can you give me an honest and realistic judge of his character?" Rimuru asked wanting some form of knowledge about him.
" An honest judge? Well if I were to give you one, I'd say that lord Pneuma is a really honest person."
" An honest person? How so?"
"He's not afraid to show his true colours. He is incredibly kind yet not afraid to show anger, he is incredibly gentle yet still quite mischievous. In my opinion, lord Pneuma is extremely… human."
Rimuru took in her words carefully, he expected to sing biased praise about Pneuma but she was extremely honest about him, he wouldn't be surprised if she borderlined insulted him.
"If there's one thing I personally would have a problem with is his obsession."
"His obsession?" The 5 Infront of Yuura all voiced at the same time.
"The reason Pneuma is known as the Innovation god is because that's really his hobby but his desire to create is something that can never be satisfied. You have no idea how infuriating it is to try and get him to stop him and get him to spend time with me." For the first time, the five saw the demonesses immature side.
Although they now see Pneuma in a slightly different light and Rimuru was slightly relieved that he wasn't chosen by some chaotic being… I guess he is THE chaotic being though.
With that Yuura disappeared and the party went on there way back to the forest of Jura.
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It has been a while now and the dwarven brothers had settled in pretty nicely and taught the goblins how to build and make clothes.
When I had returned to the village, we had only realized then that we had forgotten Gobta but he had still gotten back on his own.
Somehow, out of sheer desperation, he had called his tempest wolf from his shadow.
"Wait, something's happening in the woods!" Rimuru was alerted by a commotion in the forest.
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"It's probably those three goofy adventurers and Shizu currently running and fighting from monsters." I said while switching the grayfogs perspective to the commotion in the forest.
I looked at Shizu with happiness, I was so grateful that this day was coming. Shizu would finally be free and could finally rest.