I am the emperor of Mengwang

Chapter 843: Rewarding according to merit; Too many awakening candidates

The greatest heroes of this war are naturally the "Ten Heroes of the Maze" who live in the "Underground Maze".

After all, it can be said that most of the credit for this annihilation battle lies with the 'Ten Heroes of the Maze'.

Therefore, they can be said to be the protagonists of this celebration banquet.

Of course, the contributions of others cannot be ignored, such as the 'Three Original Women', the major cadres of the Demon Kingdom, and the people from the Beast Kingdom, Dragon City, and Skywing Kingdom who came to support.

After all the people arrived, the celebration banquet was officially announced to begin.

The first to come on stage were the two leaders of the Demonic Federation, Rimuru and Mo Li.

Because Mo Li was not good at speaking, Rimuru naturally took the opportunity to give a speech to comfort everyone.

After all, Rimuru loves this kind of lively scene the most.

Especially banquets, one of Rimuru's favorite things is to hold banquets.

After finishing his speech, Rimuru dispatched the ‘King of Banquets’ Rigurdo, the chief steward of the ‘Demon Federation’ and a professional at ‘hosting banquets’, to begin the next arrangements.

While Ligurd was making the arrangements, Rimuru wanted to discuss with his own Ali what was going to happen next.

According to the arrangement, this celebration banquet will publicize the achievements of each hero and give corresponding rewards to everyone.

After all, Rimuru has always been a good leader who rewards and punishes clearly.

And in this situation, what is the best reward? ! It's strength.

Rimuru wants to improve the strength of each of her ministers.

This time, in the war with the Empire, Rimuru obtained a large number of human souls. Rimuru wanted to take this opportunity to use these huge number of souls in his hands to awaken them and improve his own strength.

It is also to supplement and improve the overall strength of the 'Demon Federation'.

Of course, not everyone is qualified to awaken.

According to the 'King of Wisdom', in order to awaken, one must first have the qualifications to become a 'Demon King', which is the so-called 'Demon King Seed'.

However, there are too many beings under Rimuru's command who are qualified to 'Awaken'.

"Beimaru, Shion, Ranga, Gavilu, Kroot, Aardman, Zegion, Apito, Kumara, Souei, Diablo, Shirao... and so on."

There are already more than ten of them here, not counting the monsters under Ali's command.

There are also many monsters under Ali's command that are qualified to awaken.

'Xiao' is definitely one of them. No one responded to his letter saying that he was not qualified to awaken, and everyone seriously doubted that 'Xiao' had successfully awakened.

After all, Xiao's combat prowess is truly exaggerated. He crushed a "human saint" and defeated a "true demon king." And you're telling me he's a "demon king"? What a joke!

However, this is no joke! Xiao is indeed a Demon King, this is what the King of Wisdom told Rimuru.

Even more perverted than Zegion.

There are also the three "original demons" Ultima, Testarossa, and Carrera, who have long been qualified to become "awakened" demon lords.

How early? After receiving the "True Name" bestowed by "Li Qiye" and a powerful body that could be called a "world treasure", it only took a few days for him to become qualified for "Awakening".

After all, as the 'original demons', they are different from other monsters. Their strength in the 'underworld' far exceeds that of the 'true demon king'.

Now, his 'awakening' is nothing more than recovering his own strength that was suppressed by the world.

Not to mention, after Mo Li gave them real names and physical bodies, he also injected Pang Fei's magic energy into each of their bodies in order to improve their own foundation. Therefore, after they fully mastered their own strength, they directly obtained the qualification of "awakening".

It can be said that once the 'Three Original Women' awaken, their strength may directly surpass their peak strength in the 'Underworld'.

After all, when he was in the 'Underworld', he didn't have such a strong body and such a profound foundation.

It’s really just one sentence.

The Emperor’s kindness is not over yet!!!

In addition, there are three immortals: the True Lord Liuyunjiefeng, the True Lord Xueyuezhuyang, and the True Lord Lishuidielang.

That makes five more.

If you calculate it this way, the souls of the "humans" in Rimuru's hands are really not enough.

In this war, "Rimuru" indeed gained a huge amount of souls, enough to allow ten monsters to complete their 'awakening'.

However, there are so many people who have the qualifications to 'awaken' that it's really not enough to share!!!

However, there are always more solutions than problems!

The 'human souls' in her hands are not enough, but 'Ali' has plenty in his hands!

She knew that Ali had made a deal with that red-haired sissy once, and had even cheated him once. The number of human souls in his hands was definitely not small.

At least more than what I have in my hands.

Thinking of this, Rimuru's heart subconsciously relaxed.

However, there are other problems.

The 'human souls' they had were enough, but Rimuru didn't know what would happen after awakening.

After all, the only ones who have experienced awakening in the entire Demonic Federation are Ali, Big Brother Ruota, and Rimuru himself.

And Ali awakened alone outside, and Ali was special, so it was obvious that he could not be judged by common sense.

The same is true for Ruota. After all, whose "Demon King" has the strength of "disaster level" as soon as he awakens!

At least, Rimuru doesn't have that ability.

Even in the history of the entire mainland, such cases are very rare.

However, according to Rimuru's own awakening experience, once the so-called "Demon King Awakening" is carried out, the person involved will enter a forced hibernation.

This is inevitable.

After all, even the two top bosses, 'Ali' and 'Brother Ruota', fell into a forced coma when they woke up.

So once Benimaru and the others awaken, this will definitely happen.

If such a situation were to occur, it would mean that all the main combat forces of the 'Demon Federation' would fall into dormancy during the war with the Empire.

This is no small matter.

Of course, it’s not a big problem.

After all, the reason why the Demon Federation is feared by all forces on the continent is not because of the Demon Federation cadres such as "Hongwan" or the immortals such as "Xiao", but because of the "God of War" Morax, who is the "strongest man on the continent".

As long as 'Ali' is still there, the 'Demon Federation' will never waver and will always be the top force on the continent.

This is something that no one can deny.

Not to mention, the Demonic Federation not only has a "disaster-level" existence named 'Ali', but also has 'Storm Dragon' Veldora and 'Rock Dragon King' Ruota.

It can be said that even if the entire imperial army invades, the "Demon Federation" will not be afraid at all.

However, the possibility of an imperial invasion is not great.

At the end of this war, almost all the troops sent by the empire were "annihilated", and the empire currently has no other remaining troops.

If we want to launch another attack, it will take some time.

Furthermore, the one that the Empire needs to pay attention to right now is the 'Emperor's Guard Knights' beside 'Rudra'.

After all, according to Adela, those with single-digit rankings in the 'Emperor's Royal Guard Knights' almost all possess powerful strength comparable to that of the 'True Demon Lord'.

Even the first few sequence knights may still have powerful "ultimate skills".

Although the Demonic Federation could indeed survive safely under the protection of Ali, Veldora, and Big Brother Rota, Rimuru felt that this was not possible.

You have to know that the self in other timelines was destroyed more than once because of "being content with the status quo". Of course, this is also because there is no "Ali" in other timelines.

But it’s always a good idea to be prepared.

Not to mention, the Demon Country cadres like 'Hongwan' have been stuck in this realm for too long.

Without the "human soul", their strength can no longer be greatly improved.

So it is reasonable and necessary for them to wake up.

Of course, another reason was that these 'human souls' were useless in her hands. If she didn't use them, would they just lay eggs in her hands?!

Moreover, the more strength Hongwan and the others have, the more protection they will have.

After thinking about this, Rimuru couldn't wait to discuss with Mo Li who was drinking tea at the side.

After hearing Rimuru's suggestion, a ripple appeared in Mo Li's calm eyes, but he still nodded.

Agreed with Rimuru's suggestion.

Calculating the time, it is indeed time for Hongwan and the others to wake up.

Moreover, he also has a lot of human souls in his hands, and it is time to put them to use.

Things like 'human souls' were indeed useful before 'Mo Li' awakened, but for an awakened being, they were nothing more than a pile of useless waste.

Not as useful as a piece of paper.

Mo Li counted the remaining "human souls" in his hands. Not long ago, he gave "one hundred thousand souls" to Ruota to help him awaken, and the ones given to "Xiao" were the ones that Xiao killed himself.

I probably still have about '1.4 million' in my hands now.

One million human souls from the trade with Guy, and half a million from the bet with Guy.

..., uh! Looking at it this way, it seems that the 'souls' in my hands all came from Guy's hands.

Hmm! Although Guy is a bit of a jerk, he's still somewhat useful.

Afterwards, Mo Li rummaged through his 'Chen Ge Pot' and pulled out a purple sphere.

There are countless white air currents flowing in the sphere, which are the human souls of the "one million and four hundred thousand" people.

"I don't have much left. I've got about 1.4 million left. You can use that first. If it's not enough, I can borrow some from Guy."

Mo Li handed the sphere directly to Rimuru and said calmly.

Although Qi Yi said that he didn't have many human souls left, Mo Li didn't believe Qi Yi's nonsense.

You can only believe half of Guy's words at best.

Mo Li felt that the remaining "human souls" in Qi Yi's hands were definitely not a small number, at least there should be millions or even tens of millions.

Putting aside the fact that Guy destroyed two human nations upon his birth, after accepting Veldonaval's request to become the "Mediator" of this world, Guy began to maintain peace and order on the continent.

This maintenance lasted for ten thousand years, and during this time, many ignorant forces were destroyed by Guy and Milim.

Milim certainly didn't have the habit of collecting souls.

But, Guy is different!?

Qi Yilu has many backup plans.

During these ten thousand years, even if Qi Yi collected souls carelessly, the number would be quite large.

So, if you don't have it, just look for Guy.

It’s not like Mo Li doesn’t want to pay, at worst he can just barter.

Anyway, there are a lot of treasures gathering dust in Mo Li's Rock King Cave.

So, after Ligurd finished his preparations, Rimuru also began to reward the merits of this war.

First of all, the person named was Hong Wan, General Hong, who was the general-in-chief of the Demonic Federation and the commander-in-chief of this war.

As the commander-in-chief of this war, 'Hongwan' can be said to have done an excellent job in commanding and controlling the battle situation.

"Benimaru!"

"exist!"

Hong Wan, whose name was called, walked forward and knelt down in front of Rimuru and Mo Li with great respect.

In this world, the only people who can make Benimaru kneel down on one knee are his lord, Demon Lord Rimuru, and the Demon Kingdom's Emperor Morax-sama.

Afterwards, Rimuru had the chief steward, Rigurd, read out Benimaru's achievements in this war.

After hearing Ligurd's announcement of Benimaru's achievements, the surrounding monsters also offered words of praise.

After all, as the general commander of the Demonic Federation, Benimaru has quite a few fans in the Demonic Federation.

The bravery of Benimaru has even spread to the surrounding countries.

The most representative of these is the 'Beast Kingdom'.

After all, Alvis, one of the three beast warriors of the Beast Kingdom, is Benimaru's admirer.

PS: Here is a long chapter of 4,000 words.

Okay. It's almost time to awaken our little brother Xiao.

'Ultimate Skill' Dear readers, think about this, the kitten's brain cells have been completely exhausted.

Official awakening begins tomorrow!