Perfected Tempest

25. More than I Expected

                               Fuse's POV

It has been an around a month since Veldora's disappearance and my job has become even busier. All of the requests and jobs have been increasing every day and today is the day I expect the idiot trio to return. I hope they give me some useful information to work with. They usually give me good intel but often cause me more problems down the line so I often try to not use them. I wouldn't for this time either if I could have but I don't have any better alternatives right now. B rank adventures are hard to come by even here I have at most five at a time and the others are on more important missions for the country suppressing monster rampages. After almost a full day they finally appeared.

Fuse- "What happened for you guys to have taken almost a full extra day to return? I thought I'd have to send out a search party for you all."

Guido- "Well what do you expect when you sent us to investigate that awful place of a forest. It's teaming with high rank monsters that almost killed us. All of the monsters are very active after Veldora disappeared and when we investigated the cave there was nothing inside."

Fuse- "Nothing at all, no monsters or anything of the sort?"

Guido- "No sir, nothing at all. Not even the storm dragon was in there at the back like legends say he was."

Fuse- "This is a problem. I'll have to send you out again to investigate where the monsters are starting to settle down or merchants will have a hard time bringing their goods through the forest. You will have three days of rest then you are going back into the forest, am I understood."

Trio- "Yes sir." They said unenthusiastically. The trio then left with tired looks.

I know it's hard for them but I have no choice. This might have something to do with the intel we got long ago from the prophecy the dwarves were given centuries ago. Everything is starting to line up with it too. Worst still is what the trio said about the cave. Nothing at all means something happened to the -A black serpent and the other B or higher threats in the cave. Something might have been born recently that is causing all of this chaos. I've even gotten reports of a large direwolf pack being lead by a new evolved direwolf species. If things become any worse than I might have to ask the king to put out a state wide or god forbid, a national wide emergency. I might have to investigate this matter personally and send multiple teams out to uncover the truth. If it gets bad enough I'll have to ask Shizu for help as well but I am unsure of her current whereabouts.

Rimuru's POV

Ah it feels good to be back home. After we returned I had Kaijin and his brothers start to teach everyone again like before. I now have a house again and have an extra room for my daughter and more for the others kids I might have in the future. And like last time the other goblin villages appeared asking to join us like before and like I did earlier I asked my daughter to name the others while I named the higher ranking individuals. Even Urushi came back with his new pack and I named them all. Now we have multiple different kinds of direwolf species. I specifically asked him to try finding different kinds so I'd have more of a variety for my peoples use. I then relegated the tasks like before and started to prepare to welcome Shizu and her friends again. I also released the humans I had in my imaginary space so they could help train the hobgoblins in combat and strategy. Six or now as he went by Leonardo was the at training others. All of the humans became enlightened except Leonardo who became a saint. I also gave him back his armor which I was surprised was already of the unique grade. I even gave the others of his squad he picked from the orphanage their own set of armor like his. I also set up argos again so I can start getting information again. I had been recently watching the ogre village so I can collect the souls of those who will die there and revive them later when time allows. Sasha has been enjoying herself and making friends with Gobta. I don't know how I feel about that happening. She also seemed to inherit my bottomless stomach for food since she never wants to stop eating. She has also gone out with the hunting team to collect more skills from the dangerous non-edible creatures we find sometimes so she's been getting stronger too. I've even asked Kaijin to make a weapon for her in secret. I hope she will like it. But today I saw that Shizu and the others are near so I'm going to head to them now and as expected they are in danger as usual.