In the world of Moe King, I became the ruler of ice.

Rimuru was truly indignant. Why was he the one working himself to the bone teaching students, while Gransta got such a cool set of armor just by going out for a short while?

A look of extreme resentment appeared on her beautiful face as she stared intently at him.

Gransta ignored Rimuru's complaints and continued, "I might give you a set later, but I can't do that right now."

"That's more like it. My outfit has to be just as cool as yours..." Rimuru's expression softened a bit, and he added a small request while licking his little face.

"Okay, okay..." Gransta couldn't stand Rimuru sticking to him anymore, so he could only nod and agree with a wry smile.

After receiving Gransta's assurance, Rimuru immediately put on a serious expression and returned to the students.

"Rimuru-sensei, what were you talking about with that elf brother just now? Your expressions were so strange." The mischievous sword jumped out as well, speaking in a teasing tone.

Rimuru, seeing that the student dared to tease him, raised his hand and gave him a sharp rap on the head: "Hey, can't you tell the difference between the king and the queen? From now on, kids should stop meddling in adult matters."

"Ouch, that hurts!" Ken cried out, clutching his head in pain.

Rimuru lightly punished the naughty student, then turned to look at Gransta.

"Granda, I won't feel at ease until I send these children back to Tenabisto. Aren't you coming back to the Monster Capital with me?"

Gransta thought for a moment, realizing that it hadn't yet achieved its goal of this training trip, and shook its head: "No, you should go back first. I have something to do and need to go to the Magic Dynasty."

"You're going to the Magic Dynasty?" Rimuru's face trembled. Was he going to cause trouble again by going to another country?

Seeing Rimuru's strange expression, Gransta guessed what he was thinking and was utterly speechless.

"Rimuru, you really don't trust me at all?!"

Rimuru nodded seriously. To be honest, he was really worried. He knew Gransta too well.

Guransta fell silent.

"Alright, just take it easy. Just don't mention our monster country's name when you do it. I'm not that famous."

Rimuru waved goodbye to Gransta and prepared to leave with his students.

Seeing this, Ramiris panicked and quickly ran in front of Rimuru, stretching out her arms to stop him.

"Hey, Rimuru, have you forgotten something? Give me back my puppet."

Rimuru was taken aback by Ramiris's sudden appearance, and his face immediately darkened upon hearing her words.

"What does this have to do with me? Your lousy puppet attacked first, I was just retaliating, and you expect me to pay for it?"

"I don't care!"

Ramiris shook her head frantically: "Granstad already said you'd give me something better in return."

"What? When did I say that?" Rimuru looked at him in disbelief.

Gulansta immediately pretended not to hear and turned to look at his student with concern.

"Kuroya, have you finished all your candy? I'll give you some more."

"But I still have so many..." Kuroya was a little confused.

Rimuru finally understood. It turned out that the puppet was deliberately placed at the door, and Gransta had already guessed that he would come.

Okay, okay, friends are just for taking advantage of, and now I'm going to get something for nothing from him.

"Fine, you decide how much to compensate me!" Rimuru gritted his teeth, feeling a pang of heartache.

There was no way around it; he had indeed blasted the puppet at the entrance to smithereens, which made him somewhat guilty. Besides, his students were able to stabilize their Honkai energy thanks to Gransta and Ramiri.

"Then it must be to make me a bigger... better looking... stronger... more interesting..." Ramiris happily gestured wildly, saying out her most, most, most... ideal puppet.

"Stop, stop, stop... You have so many demands? You haven't finished yet!" Rimuru clicked his tongue, almost changing his expression. It felt like he was about to be ripped off.

Gransta sighed, "This Ramiris really doesn't hold back."

"Ah, it's just a small request..." Ramiris said, holding up her little finger in a wronged tone.

"Just a little bit?" Rimuru exclaimed angrily.

To make a high-level puppet, you need not only rare materials, but also some elven artificial intelligence techniques, and the last step is naming it.

...

After dawdling for a while, Rimuru finally took out pieces of "magic steel" from his stomach and arranged them neatly into a human shape. Magic steel is very tough and has a melting point between 10,000 and 20,000 degrees Celsius, making it the perfect material for making puppets.

After arranging everything, Rimuru turned to look at Gransta, who was watching from the side, and a cruel smile appeared on his lips.

"Gransta, aren't you going to do anything?"

"Me? No, no, my materials are still useful, though I didn't have many to begin with."

Gulansta immediately shook his head. Was it easy for him to collect these materials?

"This magic steel alone isn't enough. This puppet needs a core to function properly to be perfect..." Rimuru gave him a sly look, then whispered to Ramiris.

Ramiris immediately ran to Gransta's side, grabbed his arm, and pleaded with his eyes.

This time it was his turn to feel the pinch; when did Rimuru become so wicked?

"Dominator, access the resource library... simulate the structure of the underground laboratory 'Heart of the Dwarves' to create a puppet core."

"receive!"

Then, under Gransta's extremely pained expression, the Overlord accessed the resource library and began production, simulating the technology used when he first saw the Heart of the Dwarf.

"Using the most basic function of 'Dwarf's Heart' as a template, begin consuming S-rank materials... and A-rank materials... B-rank materials..."

"Puppet core completed... endowed with the commonly used abilities [Magic Overload] and [Super Regeneration]."

A fist-sized, glowing red crystal appeared in Gransta's hand.

"It's done. Here, Rimuru is yours."

He clearly hadn't expected that creating this puppet's core would consume an S-grade material, which was extracted from a Demon King-level monster—an extremely rare material!

"Lord Gransta, the elven technology on the core of this puppet seems somewhat familiar." Long Xueqing's dragon eyes keenly noticed something unusual.

"Holy crap, you actually copied the technology of the dwarf core, did you know that, brother Gazel?" Ramiris stared at the red crystal in amazement for a while, then became excited.

Rimuru had never seen the Dwarf Core before, but even the Great Sage couldn't help but examine and analyze the technology within it.

"Now that we have this core, all we need is an intelligent life form. Let me think about what to summon..."

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