Rimuru's POV

It's been a long, yet short period of time for us. Kim Dokja has given me more troubles from time to time, but we ended up solving them one by one. And after solving the other, another problem comes up. And that's why I'm facing the Tyrant King right now. Along with this chaos he started.

'What a time skip it is... brought to you by your kind, cute and friendly neighbouring slime!.'

I dodged the attack from the Tyrant King's three wheeled rings by dodging the first then hitting the second and third using my sword.

The first one passed by, while the second and third ones got deflected, then the first one rotated and killed many people on its way, then it goes back to attack my back. But I turned around and faced it, using my sword to deflect it.

The three rings continued to attack me but I deflected it without a scratch. The Tyrant King seemed to get annoyed by every deflects i do.

That's when he jumped at me and tried to hit my head using his fists, but I quickly dodged it and he ended up punching the ground instead. Causing it to leave a large crater and a few debris flying on the air, and people staggered at the impact.

[Jung Yonghu has activated the stigma 'Tyranny lvl.4'!]

He started to launch himself at me in a faster and rougher pace, while I continued to evade. His three wheels also helped him attack me in every direction where I had openings. But my sword would always follow to deflect his attacks.

"Why aren't you fighting back?!!.."

The Tyrant King shouted as he punched and kicked in every possible way to land a hit on me. His eyes looked similar to a madman, but it was clear that he was already a madman.

"Do I need to?.."

I said casually while I evaded his attacks. He was kicking and punching the air or ground since I always dodge his attacks. And he seemed angrier as I said those words.

[Jung Yonghu has activated the skill 'Sky Steps lvl.3'.]

He jumped on the air with great speeds, then gliding to every direction to confuse me as his figure became blurry at his every gliding.

"What's wrong?!.. aren't you going to show yourself as the ''Monster King' ?!!"

He sounded like he was mocking me, but I didn't got offended.

And that's right. I am the 'Monster King'. One of the kings or whatever it is in Seoul. It's a long story, but I just got it after parting ways with Kim Dokja and getting a flag from another station.

I wasn't exactly a monster yet, but people seemed to misunderstood it. I'm still a human afterall.

He was still gliding above me, while killing the people below who couldn't dodge or stand on his way. I was thinking of ending this now, but he ended up getting crushed by a boulder.

'Tyrant smush..'

I cringed up in disgust when I looked at the 'tyrant smush' under that boulder.

A man clad in black jumped and landed at the top of the boulder. With a piercing gaze and unsheathed sword, he looked around and his eyes landed on me.

His eyes soften and he started to walk towards my direction, but a voice that annoyed him so much made him look towards the other.

"Kim Dokja I'll kill you."

Yoo Joonghyuk growled and started to slash at Kim Dokja. He grabbed a random guy and hid behind him, then it's head got severed by Yoo Junghyuk.

'... Unlucky guy..'

I thought as I looked at the rolling head. Meanwhile Yoo Junghyuk and Kim Dokja continued to argue in a distance.

Then I looked back at the head again.

'isnt he also a king?.. Kim Dokja said he was a dragon king or somethin??..'

i wondered to myself.

{He is Gu Taesu, the 'Earth-Dragon King'. One of the seven kings of Seoul that the individual 'Kim Dokja' said.}

Great Sage quickly remarked to answer my question.

'oh right..'

i finally remembered what Kim Dokja had said during the capture the flag scenario.

He talked about the seven kings of Seoul, and their rankings from weakest to strongest.

Donghoon was also one of them, and i was glad to have him on my side. I saved him from manipulation with the help of Kim Dokja.

He didn't trust us at first, but he opened up to me after I massacred the people who used him.

Back to the seven kings of Seoul. Donghoon was the 'Hermit King of Shadows', Min Jiwon the 'Beauty King', Cha Sanggyeong the 'Maitreya King', Gu Taesu the 'Earth-Dragon King' who recently just died along with Jung Yongho, the 'Tyrant Smush'.. I mean the 'Tyrant King'.

And the last one and the strongest one of the seven kings, is none other than my Handsome, Hot, Cold and Cool acquaintance named Yoo Joonghyuk the 'Supreme King'!.

{You forgot the 'Neutral King'.} Great Sage flatly muttered.

'Then that makes it seven!..'

And that is the people called the seven kings of Seoul.

[Current number of Kings '6'.]

'huh?..'

{...}

'didnt the two just died? Also Donghoon didn't participated.. which means that there are supposed to be fou-'

{You are now a King, Master.}

'....'

'ohh!! That's right!.. I forgot.. I'm also a king..' 

I laughed awkwardly in my mind, then another question came in.

'but who's the sixth?..'

{...it's the individual 'Kim Dokja'..}

'oh!.. so he's a king now.. what kind of King is he?.. don't tell me his a squi-'

Suddenly, a dokkaebi appeared and transported the Kings in a open ground, covered with a large barrier that blocks any interference from the outside.

I looked around and saw the other remaining kings are present. But I was kind of worried that Kim Dokja wasn't there.

But before I could move or do anything, Yoo Junghyuk smacked the bald man standing beside me and I jumped in surprise and caution.

Yoo Junghyuk glanced at me for a second with a pained expression??.. but he quickly retracted and focused to beat up the bald king.

I stared at the scene, then I noticed someone looking at me. I turned around and saw the Beauty King, she gasped and took a step back. Then she raised her hands quickly and forfeited.

[The 'Beauty King', Min Jiwon has forfeited.]

'It looks like she's still scared of me. I mean, who wouldn't get scared when I literally massacred her enemies in front of her. I thought she was used on seeing blood, but I guess I went too much.'

"You're still scared?.." I said at the Beauty King.

"There's no way I won't get scared.. I don't want to have you feed me my own fingers you see..."

Her voice trembled as she answered. She felt a shiver running down her spine after remembering what happened back then.

'i guess I really did leave some trauma.. sorry..'

I muttered internally while still looking at her. She seemed to get tense, but we switched out focus to the newly arrived person.

It was Kim Dokja.

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"Kim Dokja!!." I screamed at the top of my lungs as I watched him kneeling at the top of the destroyed throne. As if he was accepting his fate that he was going to die.

Many stars placed their gazed on that dying person, not satisfied to see his death so early.

["This is all your fault."]

The dokkaebi said while snapping his fingers. And just like that, everyone started to disappear from the scene.

["You will regret this."]

"Kim Dokj-!!"

All of my world turned black in just a second. As if I felt a void, coming at me again. Recalling a memory that never happened.

'Rimuru-sama!'

I jolted awake and gasped for air. Taking a few breaths to finally recover from a nauseous sensation.

The dark atmosphere that covered this place was too thick, adding the very bad weather that immediately soaked me wet.

I looked around the place, scanning it's area and met it's destroyed houses and corpses lying on the ground.

And that's where I finally realized.

I was in Tempest.