Quote Originally Posted by DEX
Watch the fucking news.
And the language. That's to everyone.

Quote Originally Posted by MFauli
To circle back to Rimuru: He chose to attack these soldiers. He made zero effort of diplomacy. "But they already attacked the town!", yes, so? That happened when the leader was away, so now that Rimuru is back, he could have tried to negotiate. But he doesnt and the only reason is because of a shitty plotdevice outta nowhere aka "yOu CaN rEvIvE dEaD pEoPlE". :/
Yes. That's the point.

Rimuru has to kill 10K people to get his companions back.

And when a marching army game his way, he thought "Thank God" at the solution. The guys who killed his nation are sending him a solution (not that they know it).

How do you negotiate with humans to "rez my nation or give me 10k souls to do it with."?

You can't. But they did the damage. So unless you're going to let your people down by letting this go, you start grinding those souls.