Our Godlike Abilities: A COTE x Slime Fanfic [HIATUS]

Chapter 6: Veldora's Disappearance Made a Ruckus?

Feel free to skip this one. It's quite important on the novel so I decided to add this. If you already read the English Translations of the novel, you may notice that most of the dialogues are copied. Credits to them.

But if you want to understand the story more, feel free to continue.

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Third Person POV:

A cataclysm shook the world on that day.

It was the only way to describe the reaction when the disappearance of the storm dragon Veldora was confirmed.

It wasn't every day that a Special S-ranked monster simply vanished without a trace.

Monsters, as well as adventurers, were ranked on a system of six grades, from A to F. Pluses and minuses could be attached to these grades for extra precision.

This system was first put into place by a man named Yuuki Kagurazaka, a rumored otherworlder and one of the few to assume the topmost rank of "grand master" in the Free Guild.

It was quickly adopted, thanks to being much easier to understand than the previous, somewhat arbitrary four-tier system of "novice" → "beginner" → "intermediate" → "advanced."

The Special S rank combined the S rank, which comprised demon lord- class foes that deserved more than simply an A, with the "Special" tag reserved for those above even that class-monsters capable of single-handedly engineering calamities or natural disasters.

A scale-breaking rank, existing wholly outside the six traditional ones. Normally, an A-ranked monster alone would be dreadful enough to threaten the existence of a nation- someone like Veldora was dangerous enough to plunge it into despair.

Three hundred years of penance had done nothing to affect the dragon's rank as a natural disaster-level threat. Just because he had disappeared didn't mean he couldn't be reborn somewhere, posing a new menace before long.

But twenty days after the initial report of his disappearance, the Western Holy Church issued a report that, as far as its investigations could tell, Veldora the Storm Dragon both no longer existed and showed no sign of existing anytime soon.

Word spread first in the area around the Forest of Jura, a broad plain dotted with a large number of minor countries.

Once Veldora's fate had been broadly reported, each one of them sprang to their feet, the proverbial hornet's nest stimulated to action.

Every king and every minister of every nation held day after day of emergency meetings, gathering information and debating what to do next.

It was a trying time for the Baron of Veryard, minister of the small kingdom of Blumund, but not half as trying as it was for the man Veryard had called into his private chamber that day.

This was Fuze, a man just as renowned for his sharp, unrelenting eyes as he was for his small stature. He was the guild master for this kingdom, a position affording him a hefty amount of authority even in such a tiny nation.

"I believe you know why I summoned you here," The baron began the moment Fuze walked through the archway.

"You have heard about the storm dragon by now, have you not?"

Fuze nodded.

"Of course, my baron." He said in his low, hoarse voice.

"I suppose I should expect nothing less of you, my good guild master. Now, may I ask about how the guild intends to respond?"