That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime volume 13 - Fuse and Taiki Kawakami

 Time to revisit the adventures of our favorite blue slime, Rimuru, and his budding nation of Tempest.

While the anime is already far beyond this volume, never the less it is a joy to read, and not only for the Veldora point of view always at the end of the books.

Returning to Tempest after his fight with Hinata in the previous volume, he finds the fallen people of the attack that occured during his absence.  He holds council with his confidantes to assess the situation, learning that Falmuth and the Western Holy Church are in league to subdue him.  They will return with an army to do just that in a week time.

Both Gobzo and Shion are amongst the fallen, as his rage increases making him don the mask of magic resistance again that he got from Shizu.  Kaval and his band arrive to help, bearing news of how there is a very slim chance of reviving the dead.  Eren tells him the tale of the dragon princess and her killed baby dragon, Rimuru deducting this is how Milim came into being a demon lord as she had to seal the essence of the now out of control ressurected Chaos dragon.

In order for Rimuru to succeed in bringing the fallen back, he will have to ascend to the status of demon lord first, requiring the souls of ten thousand humans.  But he also must decide what to do with Mjurran, who was send in as the trigger for the attack on the city.

He learns she is loyal to Clayman, but that this is in a forced way as he had her heart exchanged with an artificial spying device.  He replaces this device to prevent further espionage before unfolding the plan he has come up with.  All pieces now sorted, he reveals he is also actually an otherworlder reincarnated into this world as a slime.  Apologizing for the events that happened as he feels responsible for the events due to the rules he had installed concerning humans.  But his comrades forgive and understand this, and soon a new policy is been formed by him and the council.

Rimuru discloses he will face the invading army by himself, thrusting in his companions to take out the devices that erect the barrier over the city...

And so the battle is about to commence as Rimuru now seeks the status of demon lord in order to bring the fallen back.  Let's see in volume 14 how this unfolds!