Toward War with the Empire

Chapters 116 - 120

War rumors sharpen dangerously as the Empire of Nasca, a feared military power led by an emperor of boundless ambition, intensifies its invasion preparations. The Free Council of the West, alarmed by the simultaneous rise of Tempest and the Empire, clumsily tries to play mediator without managing to ease tensions that have become uncontrollable. Rimuru realizes that the coming confrontation will far surpass anything his nation has faced so far, and begins the necessary preparations to protect his people. This pivotal volume definitively closes the period of relative peace to open the arc of the great war against the Empire.