The Red Priest and Blue Slime Chapter 30 Alt POV (Patreon)

Within a dark room lit up only by a single set of candles in the center of the room, a dozen figures clad in the darkest of shadows sat around a large round table with the candles mounted in the center of the table.

There was a long silence accompanied by a thick tension. "The Orc Disaster was destroyed... And it was done by that same Slime and Alchemist that came here a few weeks ago." The speaker was the dwarf king Gazel Dwargo.

The incomplete saint looked around the room at his fellow high-level compatriots in his government and finally, his eyes landed on a blond-haired elf. "You were caught by a third party and forced to fight a clown-themed majin who is certainly one of Clayman's subordinates... Granted your action is excusable due to the third-party action of that clown."

The blond elf nodded slowly with King Gazel closing his eyes to remain in thought for a minute and then he spoke again. "Our actions of stealing some of Jake Barris's skill-granting elixirs have been shared by Treyni who has thrown her lot into this 'Jura Alliance'. The question is how with our poor first interactions with Jake and that stupidly strong slime Rimuru being them being dragged to our court and then our people stealing from them, how do we interact with them from this point on?"

The shadow-covered men and women discussed in low voices the appropriate measures to be taken. Some advised for a hand a friendship to be offered while acting like they did no wrong previously. Some spoke of giving a gift in recompense for their actions and previous awkward interactions. The blond elf in particular offered for herself to formally apologize for her actions to Jake himself.

And a couple of whom were grizzled warriors one and all spoke in favor of a show of force. To take the trump card of the Armed Kingdom of Dwargo in the Pegasus flying cavalry to cow any rising ambitions in the Jura Alliance.

One of the more moderate members spoke up with his voice aimed at the blond elf who was the dwarf kings spymaster. "The strength of the Jura Alliance with the inclusion of strong Orcs and the evolved Oni in the Kijin are not to be questioned to say nothing of the strength that Rimuru has that was able to kill a Demon Lord Seed in the Orc Geld... The question is, with how Jake is the leader of this alliance, how much stronger is he compared to Rimuru? And most importantly, with his ability to make skill-granting elixirs... We have zero idea how many skills he has!"

Gazel grunted in agreement before shaking his head as he muttered. "Back then... Rimuru was a good deal stronger than he was when I last saw him. But if he was able to grant himself dozens of skills we cannot know how fast he has grown even as a human."

There was a long pause before the blond elf spoke carefully. "My lord, is it possible he has become an incomplete Saint like yourself?"

At that Gazel momentarily stilled as he frowned in thought as he reached back into his memory to Jake's form and then he slowly shook his head. "No... The young man is going an unorthodox path. He will never become a Saint."

The room was silent for a minute before Gazel exhaled and spoke firmly. "Such speculations will be put to rest though. Generals, have the Pegasus Calvary ready for an expedition in three days, we will be paying this Jura Alliance a visit. I need to take the measure of our neighbors personally."

The men and women within the room silently nodded with the sounds of chairs scrapping as they got up from their chairs and began leaving Gazel to himself as he leaned forward and rest his chin on his fist on the round table.

'A human walking an unorthodox path to power besides the Saint or Chosen Hero path... This reeks of some scheme that Guy Crimson is pushing to find more interesting powerful people to play with. No, Clayman is already involved and is confirmed to be the one who started the Orc Disaster to begin with.'

Gazel didn't like being left in the dark of the various factions around his kingdom. Especially when the cloak and dagger actions were possibly being done by two of the most capricious and cruel Demon Lords there were!

The hero king rapped his fingers across the table in front of him before snorting at the memory of Treyni popping up in the middle of a meeting to share the ending of the Orc Disaster along with the creation of the Jura Alliance along with her folding herself and her race of elusive Dryads into said alliance.

There was just one thought that struck him... What did Jake do to make Treyni so loyal to him and throw her entire race's lot with him? Or was there something more to the situation?

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Deep within the Jura Forrest the aforementioned  Dryad Treyni was laying down on a large bed covered in rose petals while she cradled a two-liter-sized container of gently glowing regeneration skill-granting elixer.

"Jake may see the forest, be cannot see the individual trees within the forest let alone the life forms within it. Using the elixirs to just give someone an advanced form a healing is a waste!"

She hugged the container into her ample bosom as she giggled almost manically as she had found the holy grail, as for Dryads this elixer was a divine gift. As by pouring the elixer into the ground near the dryad's birth tree. The soil would basically be infected with that skill and would have infinite nutrients!

Sure the soil would need to probably have more of the elixer poured onto it every few months, but infinite nutrients for her race tree to grow! To say nothing of how the nutrients gathered were far more filling than even fertilizer made from Majin corpses it didn't need the months to years for such fertilizer to settle into the ground!

And then the other elixirs... A fire resistance potion that made her people's trees immune to wildfires and resistant to lightning itself. A iron-skin potion that made even the youngest of her race have the ability to use their tree's roots as weapons that could strangle and kill majin that tried to eat their supple juvenile roots.

Treyni shuddered as the reality of Jake's Elixer's upon more nature born Majin wasn't exactly so clear to himself... And now worse of all she was in trouble because he was clearly like Rimuru and didn't even want to be the leader of the Jura Alliance.

"Now how do human women apologize to men again... Wasn't it something like a naked apron while cooking? Its a weird tradition but I don't quite know what else Jake could want?" Treyni muttered to herself.