"Phew, that's good," Rimuru breathed a sigh of relief. Senju nodded and looked at the soft-looking black-haired boy, Sekiguchi Ryota. He could unexpectedly transform into a berserker, but going berserk wasn't a good thing. Senju held a light green short staff in his hand. "This, um, is a healing staff. It allows you to use various healing spells, and it can also do this."

Senju waved her hand, and the short staff landed in Sekiguchi Ryota's hand, transforming into a brand. "It can maintain your sanity and stamina during transformation, but you can adjust your sanity before transforming."

**

“Oh, that’s more like it,” Rimuru nodded. Senju then looked at the blond boy, Misaki Kenya. He could use fire-attribute attacks and liked to use swords. Normally, Senju would give him a fire-attribute sword, but Rimuru might not be happy about it. Besides, this kid has too much killing intent.

With a wave of his hand, a staff appeared in his grasp. "This is a staff that has been imbued with the strongest fire magic, called Burst! Remember the following incantation well."

"Blacker than black, darker than darkness, let my crimson reside here! The time for awakening has come. Truth has fallen into the realm of nothingness, transforming into formless distortion. Present it! Dance! Dance! Dance! The source of the collapsing power, burn away all things in heaven and earth. Descend from the abyss! This is humanity's most powerful attack method. This is the ultimate attack magic, Explosion!"

A huge magic circle appeared on the staff, and a huge beam of light flew from the staff into the sky. Then, a fiery red pillar of light rose into the air, forming a small sun. Then everyone felt a strong shockwave sweep across, and the clouds in the sky were shattered by the explosive force.

"Isn't this a bit too much?" Rimuru stood there speechlessly, while the children around him took a while to react before clapping their hands frantically, "So cool, so strong, so amazing!"

"This, is this really for me?!" Misaki Kenya looked at Senju excitedly. Senju nodded and handed him the staff. "Study the incantation you just learned well, but your magic power isn't quite enough yet."

Chapter 1270 Merchant

"Hey, hey, hey, this is too dangerous! Teacher will confiscate it first!" Rimuru shouted helplessly from the side. Senju shook his head slightly, "Don't worry, he can't use his magic power yet. He needs to collect a month's worth of magic power to unleash one attack. However, this staff can accumulate six attacks."

"A pistol..." Rimuru's expression was ambiguous, then there was a loud bang beside him, and something fell from the sky. "Roasted meat? No, wait, isn't that a dragon?!"

"Probably," Senju's eyes twitched. He had intended the explosion to scare the reptile that had flown onto his head, but the aftershocks had turned it into roast meat. "I wonder what it tastes like."

"Wow, that's amazing!" The children's eyes lit up as they looked over. Senju handed the staff to Misaki Kenya, saying, "Be careful when you use it in the future."

"Oh~" Misaki Ken also cheered there. Then Senju looked at the last one, who was also the tallest boy, Garuji. However, his physical abilities were not strong, but he had a very strong magic bullet. However, Senju decided to make him into a shield guard based on his appearance. So Senju had a small arm shield in his hand. With the infusion of magic power, a white magic shield appeared on it.

"The Shield of Immortality can gradually grow as magic power is infused into it, eventually evolving into a treasure that isolates space and time, protecting against all attacks."

Finally, there's one more thing that Thousand Hands didn't mention: when it grows to its full potential, the person who possesses it can become immortal. However, the growth time... well, about five hundred years should be enough.

“That’s normal, that’s great,” Rimuru breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the roasted dragon on the side, “What do we do with this? We have high-class bento boxes, but we can’t eat this.”

"It doesn't look very appetizing," Senju said, looking at the tattered roasted dragon. Its shape was already bad, and now that it had been hit by the explosion, although it wasn't broken, it wasn't roasted very well. "I guess I'll have to throw it away."

"Alright, shall we eat or read memories?" Senju watched the children happily fiddling with their new weapons, then glanced at Rimuru beside her. Rimuru hesitated for a moment, then said, "Eat first..."

Before Rimuru could finish speaking, footsteps sounded beside them. The two looked over and saw a man dressed like an adventurer.

A short, stocky middle-aged man.

"Huff, huff, huff, I just saw a huge magical attack here, what happened?" The man wiped his sweat and looked around, then saw the charred dragon. "What's that? A Sky Dragon?!"

"You recognize this?" Thousand Hands curiously kicked the pile of roasted meat. The man bowed. "Of course, I am Jarud Milmael, a merchant. Of course I recognize valuable items."

"Oh, can this still be sold for money?" Thousand Hands asked doubtfully. Jarud nodded. "Of course, this dragon is a very high-grade commodity. I'll offer 50,000 gold coins to buy it!"

"Deal. But is this piece of roasted meat really worth 50,000? Won't that be a loss?" Thousand Hands shook hands with him, and Jarud nodded. "Of course not. I have to thank you for this, sir. If this Calamity-level Sky Dragon had entered the capital, who knows how much damage it would have caused. 50,000 gold coins is already a relatively small reward."

“It’s alright,” Senju shook her head slightly, sensing the other party’s kindness, and then gestured to Rimuru, “As for the money, you can just give it to this person.”

"This one?" Jarud looked at Rimuru for a moment, then suddenly realized and quickly bowed. "Could you be Lord Rimuru?! You are Lord Rimuru of the Monster League?!"

"Huh, someone I know?" Senju looked at Rimuru, who was standing to the side. Rimuru thought for a moment and said, "I guess so. The name sounds familiar. Oh, right, you're the merchant who bought the recovery potions from me, aren't you?"

“Yes, it is indeed me. I have seen your portrait at the Monster Alliance,” Jarud said respectfully, looking at Rimuru and taking out a bottle of red potion from his pocket. “I also carry a bottle of medicine produced by you, Master.”

“Ah, well, hahaha,” Rimuru chuckled dryly. Jarud bowed respectfully and handed over a business card. “To celebrate today’s events, I invite you all to my place tonight to settle the accounts.”

“Okay,” Rimuru nodded in agreement when he saw the Thousand Hands lounging around. But then, they heard heavy footsteps and looked over to see a squad of guards running toward them. “Ugh, this is troublesome, but the defense is quite good. I’ll go and explain things to them.”

“Leave this to me,” Jarud said, trying to step forward to handle it, but was stopped by Senju. “Don’t worry, just leave it to me.”

Senju calmly stepped forward and said to the guards, "Go back. Nothing happened here; it was just a normal magic experiment."

The guards obediently went back, since Senju had used magic to control humans, and his words were the truth to them, leaving them with no power to doubt him.

"Oh!" Jarud exclaimed in surprise, his mouth agape. Who was this lord?! He had heard that the Storm Dragon had been unsealed. Could this be the legendary figure? After discussing things with Rimuru for a while, they finally settled everything. The mages who had come out to investigate from the nearby capital were also fooled away by Senju, and the officials here stopped reacting.

“Well, we have other things to do, so we’ll leave this to you,” Rimuru said, leading the group toward the nearby hills. Meanwhile, Jarud and his men were carrying the roasted dragon, which Senju had placed directly into a large wooden crate for easier transport.

Watching them busy themselves, the group found another open space. Rimuru looked earnestly at the Senju, giving them a pitiful look, "Boss..."

"I know, don't be so shameless," Senju said helplessly, waving her hand at Rimuru's teary, girlish eyes. "I won't use those flashy skills anymore."

"Hehehe," Rimuru chuckled, and then the group started eating their bento boxes. The delicious food excited the children. After finishing their bento boxes, they rested for a while before Rimuru sat up. "Then let's start reading memories. Will that be dangerous?"

"Of course not, the tools have been prepared long ago, and ordinary people can use them," Senju waved his hand, and a headset and a tablet appeared there. "You can use this to read memories."

Chapter 1,271 Hinata Sakaguchi

"Ah, could this be the legendary Doraemon gadget?" Rimuru asked in surprise. Senju shook his head helplessly. "No, this was made by the Future Gadget Laboratory. Future Gadget No. 13, Brain Inside and Brain Outside."

"Huh? This sounds familiar," Rimuru picked up the headphones and put them on, then looked at the screen where a slime was bouncing around. "It can read thoughts, but memories."

Then Senju saw the scene on the screen change. It was in a cave, and he was helping a dragon escape. The two 'people' were shaking hands, and Rimuru and the dragon had become good friends. Then the scene jumped to Rimuru and a group of goblins. Then in a flash, he was in a small town with goblins that looked much stronger and several horned people.

"What a great machine! Future gadgets are so powerful!" Rimuru exclaimed in admiration. A few kids who had finished experimenting with the weapon but found their magic power insufficient looked over. "A computer?! We want to watch anime!"

"No, no, it's a special item," Rimuru reassured the jeering kids. After a while, they calmed down.

Next, Rimuru asked Chloe to recall his newly acquired memories.

Then the group of people looked at the memories displayed on it. The scenes changed very quickly. It started with Rimuru giving them a lesson, then he left, and then Chloe and her group of students stopped Rimuru from fighting with a short-haired girl.

"Hyuga?" Shizue Izawa whispered beside her, but no one asked for the time being. They continued watching the video. Then Rimuru gave the mask to Chloe. At that time, Rimuru seemed to be going to participate in a battle. Then, the scene began to darken, and news of Rimuru's 'death' came back.

Then, a boy next to him seemed to go berserk, turning into a giant dragon and wreaking havoc in the town. Many people were fighting against it, while Rimuru whispered, "Veldra, is it because of my death?"

The next scene shows Hinata being assassinated, and then the scene becomes chaotic. One moment Chloe is summoned together with a blonde brat, the next she defeats a dragon, and then there's a scene of her fighting Rimuru, while sparks start appearing on the computer screen next to her.

"Wait, this is troublesome," Rimuru exclaimed as he tried to 'protect' the tablet, but it was no use. After a few hissing sounds, the tablet inside the magic sphere exploded with a bang, startling the children around him. Senju casually waved his hand, "It's okay, it's just an ordinary gadget anyway."

In fact, Senju had many more and better tools, but he wasn't very interested in the memories of reincarnation. He just took one out to fit the occasion. His main goal here was to search for information about the Creation Sword and see how valuable it really was.

Seeing the tablet explode, Rimuru felt a pang of regret. The Great Sage within his mind had already analyzed the situation and spoke up, "The time span of this seems quite large, probably several years of changes. But why was I so short at the beginning?!"

"Now that we've found a clue, all we need to do is investigate properly," Senju said idly from the side. Actually, he didn't care much about what was happening. After all, to be honest, there really wasn't anyone in this world who could hurt Rimuru. Although Rimuru had died once in other parallel worlds, the current Rimuru wasn't so easy to kill.

“Well, first we need to find that girl,” Rimuru said, glancing at Izawa Shizue. “Do you know her? The one named Hinata.”

“Yes,” Shizue Izawa said, “That’s Hinata Sakaguchi, a student I used to teach. She was also a summoner, but because her idea was to eradicate all monsters, which was different from our ideals, she left here and joined the Western Holy Church, which shares the same ideals.”

"The Western Holy Church?" Rimuru asked in confusion. "Could it be the church of the Holy Holy Kingdom of Rubelios? The one that wants to eradicate all demons?!"

"That's right, she's currently serving as a Senior Knight in the Emperor's personal guard, and I heard she was recently promoted."

"?" Senju stood there, his face full of confusion. He knew nothing about the country and the forces here, but he was able to pinpoint the person's location by the name. Then, Senju pointed to the air, where a light screen appeared. "This should be her, right? But is she really from the church?"

"Huh? Did they find the boss?" Rimuru leaned closer, then shuddered. "Wow, that was brutal! He killed someone!"

After all, the scene up there was a murder scene! A short-haired man in a white cloak pierced the stomach of an old man dressed in elegant white clothes with a rainbow-colored lightsaber. The camera then panned to reveal the killer's face clearly—it was Hinata Sakaguchi. "Die, vampire!"

Even through the screen, Senju could sense that Hinata was using holy magic. No wonder he was from the Church. However, Izawa Shizue exclaimed in surprise, "Emperor Ray Valentine?!"

"Huh?! Huh?!" Senju and Rimuru were both surprised. Could it be that the old man who was killed was the so-called Emperor of the Ninja Clan, Hyuga's superior? What is this?! Senju waved his hand, and the light screen instantly transformed into a teleportation portal. "What are you doing?"

However, Senju then fell silent, because a head flew down from the portal, seemingly because Senju had silently killed the target by opening the portal there. "..."

"?!" Hinata turned her head and looked over, then saw a portal appear. Standing in front of the portal was a man with dead fish eyes, and behind him were her teacher and several trembling children. "Teacher? Why are you here?"

However, the man over there, Senju, picked up the head speechlessly. Fortunately, it was still somewhat alive. The head seemed to want to say something. Senju turned around, looked at the corpse, and then pressed the head back down. It was still a perfectly healthy, handsome white-haired man. "Heal."

"Ah!" The handsome man screamed, then seemed to have been struck by lightning, turning completely charred. Senju was speechless for a moment. After a careful examination, Senju said somewhat sullenly, "So it's a vampire. Why didn't you say so earlier? Dark Blood Entanglement."

A powerful surge of dark elemental energy and blood energy flowed into the charred corpse, and then the handsome man suddenly revived, "Ha~ha~what just happened?!"

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Chapter 172 Vampires and Humans

"What are you doing?!" Hinata shouted at Senju. "He's a vampire! What are you doing?!"

"Hyuga!" Izawa Shizue also reacted on the other side, shouting, "That's the Reaper! Why did you kill him?!"

“He’s a vampire!” Hinata said calmly, decapitating the ‘Hereditary Emperor’ with a single sword stroke. The blood spurting from him stained her white cloak and splattered her face. Then she pointed her sword at another man. “Eliminate evil completely. Next up is you, Demon King Roy Valentine!”

"How dare you kill my brother! Die, Paladin!" The man, Roy, glared menacingly at Hyuga. Senju, standing beside him, rolled his eyes speechlessly, threw Dark Blood Wrap onto the corpse, and the Vampire Emperor was resurrected. "Wait, explain why you're fighting!"

"Don't get in my way of doing justice!" Hinata pointed her lightsaber at Senju, who shook her head and shattered her lightsaber with a flick of her finger. "These two may be vampires, but they're not bad people."

"How could vampires not be bad people?!" Hinata looked at Senju warily. "I saw them drinking human blood with my own eyes. For the sake of humanity, they must be eliminated!"

"Hmm?" Senju carefully examined the two vampires over there. He had instinctively sensed that these two had done good for humanity, which was why he had saved them. Now, after carefully understanding the information in the world, Senju finally understood why he had this feeling.

This church was founded thousands of years ago by three vampires to protect humanity when monsters ravaged the human race. Although humans were not their true object of protection, but rather because the vampire race needed humans to survive, they still protected humanity.

They established a church with the mission of 'eliminating all monsters' back then. Although they themselves are monsters, this church has grown rapidly, protecting a large number of humans. Now it has hundreds of millions of believers and has become a world religion.

Although their motives were impure, they genuinely protected many humans, and even their god at the time, a vampire known as the 'One True God,' the True Ancestor Luminas, became the god worshipped by most humans.

“Not bad,” Senju thought they did a good job, even though they protected humans to suck blood. “But sucking blood is bad, so I’ll help you evolve into True Ancestors so you won’t have to suck blood anymore.”

Before the two could react, an astonishing aura emanated from the side. Senju turned his head and saw a terrifying expression on Hyuga's face. The broken sword was shining again, "Demon Spirit Slash!"

With a whoosh, Thousand Hands instantly appeared beside her, grasping the lightsaber. "Let's talk this out, no fighting!"

Senju crushed the magic on the sword with her bare hands, then sealed Hyuga's magic with a punch before tossing her to Izawa Shizue behind her. "Keep an eye on her and don't let her cause any trouble."

"You just said... True Ancestor?!" The two brothers, somewhat shocked by Senju's hand-shattering ultimate attack, finally reacted, staring at Senju in astonishment. "You can turn us into True Ancestors? How is that possible? You think you are...?"

The man on the other end suddenly stopped, then cautiously asked, "Could it be that you are the legendary True Ancestor?! Are there other vampire families?!"

“No,” Senju shook his finger there, “it’s just to thank you for protecting humanity in the past, so it’s necessary for you to survive.”

"No, absolutely not!" Hinata shouted loudly, while Izawa Shizue pressed down on her shoulder. "Alright, Hinata, the Church has always protected humanity. Even if the Emperor is a vampire, you should investigate thoroughly before you act. Don't kill him indiscriminately!"

"Tch, that's why we don't get along. I'll handle it myself." Hinata's face darkened. Senju had a pretty good idea of ​​her personality. She was probably a paladin who pursued absolute justice and showed no mercy to evil creatures. But, speaking of which, didn't this Emperor know how to choose his subordinates properly?

Just as Senju was thinking this, Hyuga suddenly crushed a talisman in her hand. Senju then heard a faint alarm sound from above. Senju looked at Hyuga, who was laughing wildly, "The others have already received information that someone has invaded. You absolutely cannot escape!"

"..." Senju rolled her eyes. Had the other person forgotten how she got here?! But before Senju could act, the alarm outside stopped. Then Senju heard another signal, turned around, and saw Hyuga glaring at the Emperor. "Damn it! They've been deceiving us for so long, and now they're hiding the truth!"

"This is what I did, Hinata Sakaguchi. Don't you realize your own problems?" A girl with long silver hair and heterochromatic red and blue eyes appeared in the air beside them. She was dressed in black and slowly descended from above. Senju looked at her in surprise, "True Ancestor? I've seen her quite often these days."

"Hmm? Have you met any other True Ancestors?" The girl turned to look at Senju, then gave a slight bow. "I am Luminas Valen. May I ask, stranger, who are you?"

"Goddess Luminas," Hinata knelt down on one knee in reverence.

But his tone remained firm: "I am not wrong. Demons must be eradicated. Since the Emperor is a demon, he should also be eradicated!"

“That’s not how it is,” Luminas shook her head. “Perhaps you don’t understand now, but I’ve prepared a trial for you. If you can pass that trial tomorrow, I will tell you what true justice is.”

"God?!" Rimuru and Shizue Izawa stared at the girl in surprise. Is this the God worshipped by the church? Then a strange thought arose in Rimuru's mind. She doesn't seem that strong. She's not even as strong as Milim.

“My God,” Senju looked at the girl with amusement. There was indeed a lot of faith power surrounding her, but unfortunately she didn’t use it at all. It was a pity for those who believed in the concept of the ‘one true god’. “Just think of me as an ordinary foreigner. As for the True Ancestor, I recently met a True Ancestor vampire who had just been born.”

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