Chapter 91 - First Tenma

The Storm Dragon walked out of the newly built temporary mansion for the soon to be great civilization. He was about to turn into a dragon to fly away before Velgrynd smack his head. "Idiot, you'll destroy everything here. Besides, the humans are already coming here." She pointed as another group of humans came and the vampires who could walk out of the sun welcomes them.

"Kuahahaha sorry Big sis." He laughed as he sweated not thinking about the result of his actions. Velgrynd rolled her eyes, even with Veldora maturing in his tendencies to rampaging, he was still an idiot.

"You leaving already? You could stay some more." Velgrynd was slightly down after she was worried about his safety for the last century of going missing. "I can have Rimuru make you those picture books that you like."

Veldora's mouth twitched hearing her words. "Sister, it's called a manga."

"Same thing, you should try reading real books for once." Standing, she placed one hand on her hip.

Veldora almost threw a fit but recalls what happens when he does that. "You say that sis but all you read are boring novels, and your taste are also kinda..." He murmured under his breath, too quiet for most but not for a true dragon like her.

A vein showed on Velgrynd's forehead. "Boring, huh? What were you saying about my tase~?" Sensing danger, Veldora ran as fast as he can until he reached a different city in sight. "Did I get away?"

"No." A hand gripped his shoulder; he slowly turned his head like an unoiled machine.

"Ah."

...

After a quick beating by Velgrynd, Veldora sighed as he sluggishly walks away from the large crater he was lying in.

Veldora was about to return to his favorite place to sleep. Before he hears footsteps coming from behind him. Turning around to see Rimuru, he smiled as he waved back. "Brother! Do you need anything?"

"Ah, yeah." Rimuru grinned seeing the damages in the area and the wounds that were being healed in Veldora's body. "You made her angry." He didn't bother hiding his chuckle from Veldora.

"I was just telling the truth," Veldora slumped down on the ground, too exhausted recalling what happened to him. "She called manga a picture book, a picture book!"

Taking out one of the manga's Rimuru gave him, he opened a page and showed Rimuru. "Does this look like a picture book?! This is art! You can't even compare this to those scribbles made by some no-names." He continued his rant as Rimuru listened smiling watching Veldora be so zealous over something.

Recalling the fact that in his memories, Veldora is gone and they never really met again after devouring the infinite barrier of Chloe. Rimuru began to savor this moments with his suppose brother-in-low (or sworn brother by Veldora).

"Are you listening Brother?" Veldora raised a brow as he sees Rimuru with a melancholic smile. "Ah, by the way you wanted to ask me something right?"

Rimuru snapped out of his daydream by Veldora's words, "Right, so just wanted to ask about that forest where you mostly hang out on."

Veldora tilted his head, "You mean the forest I stole from that Tree Monster Jura, what about it?" He recalls the anthropomorphic, old looking giant tree that was in the middle of the forest.  

"Do you have any attachment to that place? I kind of wanna make it into my territory in the future. Of course I won't force you-"

"Go ahead." Veldora gave his thumbs up both figuratively and literally. "As long as I can keep staying there from time to time to laze around- I mean rest my body! Then I don't mind, I haven't declared it as my territory anyway." He shrugs, not a care for the large forest.

"I see, thanks Veldora." Rimuru smiled patting his shoulder. "It isn't much, but you can have this." Rimuru materialized a large box almost as large crater standing 3 feet in height and 5 in width. 

Opening the wooden box, Veldora was almost in tears seeing the treasures inside. "Are these all Mangas?! Oh, didn't you say these were axed too? Also a complete set of *** and *** I thought the author died for these and this one lost motivation." Veldora began browsing the mountains of mangas in the box.

"Yeah, I used some of the demons in Citadel to create a sort of author collection squad." Rimuru grinned recalling the idea randomly popped up in the past. "They would collect the souls of the authors, artist, and other talented humans of Earth who have died. The demons would then take their souls and place them into homunculus and force them to continue to create more novels, manga, and other books of every kind."

Adding the fact that these homunculus are no longer human, they no longer feel fatigue and require consumption of food and water. They can work non-stop forever.

"Thank you very much! Kuahahaha this is why you really are my Brother!" Veldora laughed loudly proudly proclaiming his connection to the silver primordial, as he holds mangas in both hands. 

They then went to the forest of Jura. Veldora went and took to the mountain to began reading while Rimuru stroll through the forest to scan the area. 

"The forest seems smaller than in my memories," Rimuru placed one hand to his chin as he observed the terrain. "Well, there is still 2 thousand more years I guess."  

As Rimuru stop at a small lake, he sat down and watched the water. "Goblins, Lizardman, Ogres, Orcs, and direwolves don't exist just yet. Or maybe they do, and are just few and not in this forest." He mutters as he watched the soon-to-be lake Siss showing signs of aquatic creatures swimming in it.

As he enjoyed the view, he felt a large number of beings suddenly spreading around the world. "What the hell are the Angels doing here?" Rimuru frowned seeing the white wings fill the sky and the sound of fighting began. 

A large tremor was felt all over the forest and forced all animals and monsters to flee the area. After the earth shake, a large roar echoed and a flash of lightning fired at the angels in the sky who were looking at the origin's direction. 

"Ghaa!!! You dare bother me as it was finally getting to the climax!?" Veldora's dragon frame flew high in the sky and began using his storm magic frying the bodies of the angels with thunder and lightning. Their bodies either charred or exploded into chunks that fell to the ground. 

"He should be able to take care here." Rimuru used transportation magic and returned to the soon to be Holy Empire. "Hm, this could be a good opportunity actually." 

He muttered as he watched Chloe and Hinata take care of the angels while protecting humans who came for protection. Thinking of a plan, Rimuru went to where he could sense Luminas. 

"Luminas create a barrier and show yourself to them with Louise." Luminas getting a grasp of Rimuru's plan nodded and began erecting a large barrier that was specifically made to be seen by others. 

Looking around as Louise got to work with reassuring the populace of their safety with God Luminas with them. "Goddess Luminas will keep you all safe from any danger to your lives." He proclaimed as he wore a white vestment.

The humans who were watching Luminas as they listened to Louise words with awe and devoutness began sprouting in their hearts as they watched the grace and majesty Luminas look as she placed a barrier that defended them from the angels.

"Not only that, but the heroes with Goddess Luminas' divine protection will be your sword to dispose of this villians that wishes to cause you harm and despair."  

(By the way, I can't sense Velgrynd. Where is she) Rimuru noticed the Scorch Dragon's absence, as he looked over everything.

Using thought communication, he and Luminas continued their conversation. (She went east, I think she knew what caused the angels to attack)

'It's probably Rudra's doing..' Rimuru concluded as he is the known user of Michael who has this skill that allows summons of the angels. 

"Chloe, Hinata go scan the area. The humans in the surrounding cities and towns would surely rush here after your words to them before, make sure to protect them and welcome them here. Luminas have some of your vampires that can walk on the sun wear white vestment and do the same thing."

Following his words, Chloe and Hinata nodded and dashed at the direction where they started to spread Luminism. Luminas had about 50 or so vampires who began to surround the areas where roads and trails  may lead to them.

Welcoming and protecting the humans who arrived from that area by creating barriers and fighting the angels attacking from behind.

Rimuru smiled seeing that it was working, hundreds of humans came in waves on all direction as they flee their homes to come there. The vampires went to work making sure to make it look as divine and with grace as they can.

Making sure to portray themselves as mystical and being servants of the Goddess Luminas in the eyes of the grateful humans. In fact, the humans who were inside the barrier who saw Luminas began to get in their knees and pray to her. 

Rimuru plans to tease her about it later when everything calms down. 

Knowing everything is fine here, Rimuru does the same as Velgrynd and plans to go to Rudra for this act. Another thing being Guy not doing anything after Rudra has already done something like this. 

As he traveled, he noticed that the Forest of Jura was getting smaller by the spread of flames from Veldora's wrath. "It has been a long time since he has actually rampage without thinking of the consequences. Can't really blame him, but I can't have him burn everything." Stopping in his tracks, he went to Veldora who was in the sky firing lightning strikes to the angels who fell on the forest burning the trees.

"Rahhh!! You winged bastards will pay for this!" Veldora in his dragon form fired his breath killing tens of angels clustered together in one area. Turning his head, he began to spread his breath to the surrounding area as he was being encircled by the angels.

"Let's see you defeat me you bastards!" He shouted as he fired another storm magic attack.

Rimuru sighed, slapping the back of Veldora's neck who didn't sense his presence. "Wah! Brother? Why would you do that?" Turning his head, he saw Rimuru crossed arm with an angry expression. 

Rimuru pointed down, following his finger's direction Veldora witnessed the effect of his rampage. "Ah..." Large flames engulf the forest, the once green land began to show patches of black spots which were burnt trees turning into charcoal and ash. 

It was even surprising as Veldora never noticed the black smoke rising up to where he was rampaging. Though in his defense, the smoke keeps being dissippate as he use storm magic. The winds pushing the smoke away from his vicinity.

"I'm sorry." He quickly bowed himself in midair, not even caring of the angels who attack his body. He warily watch Rimuru's expression as he knew how scary he can be and how pwoerful he actually is.

Rimuru took a deep breath and waved his hand to the forest, halting all the growing flames in an instant. "Next time, check your surroundings okay?" Veldora nodded repeatedly seeing that Rimuru doesn't plan on punishing him. 

"Good, I am confiscating the mangas." With those words, Rimuru disappeared. Veldora frozen in place as his eyes went to the angels, burning with anger to the winged disruptors of his enjoyment and pleasure. 

As Rimuru was in the Eastern plains, he saw Velgrynd flying back. Noticing each others presence, they halted to talk. 

"Don't bother going to Rudra, Guy stopped me." Velgrynd raised her hand with a huff, "Something like Guy and Rudra making a bet or something. Basically a game where Rudra uses the angels every 500 years to attack humans and monsters." 

"Hah? What is that, isn't Guy suppose to be the mediator. Why would he let Rudra do that kind of thing." Rimuru imagined that it would hinder Guy's work of letting civilization live as long as they are not advancing too much. 

"Guy said that Rudra set the angels to focus on advanced cities and monsters. Also, this is why it is only every 500 years, because most civilizations only last 100-200 years before self-destructing. So 500 would be enough time to see a lot of advancement." 

"This is stupid." Rimuru massaged his temple. "Where is Guy? I need to talk to him." 

"He returned to his meeting with Milim and Ramiris." Velgrynd explained as Guy appeared when she was about to reach Rudra's capital stopping her. "He only came to stop me from interfering." 

"That stupid demon is really letting Rudra do this." Rimuru watched as the angels continued their raids. Seeing a city burn as its people die, the survivors running or hiding as the angels continued their assault. 

A/N: Don't really have much to say here so I'm just gonna ask. Do you want the ogres to be relevant? Like I mean Benimaru, Souei, etc.. as well as Gabiru, Gobta, and Geld. Like I do have some plot for Geld, but not much for the others.

And I am currently making the framework for the present Tensura, so I want to know if you want them to be relevant. Because frankly, either way is fine with me. I don't really have much attachment to the ogre characters, I prefer the primordials and the clowns.