Sidestepping the whole can of worms that is the diplomatic tactics on display, I was fairly underwhelmed by the tidiness of events this episode. Rimuru needs a skill to kill the remaining solders to reach his quota? Here's one. Done with that skill? 'Spend' it during your evolution to upgrade your other one. Summon three super powerful demons who will serve you for reasons unknown as of yet as a byproduct of trying to become a demon lord. Also, while Rimuru was 'forced' into a vulnerable state, that potential tension is immediately removed by Ragna and demons' company. Then, lets spend about five minutes going over all of the new skills that will make Rimumu, who is already unthreatened by all living creatures on the planet save for maybe 5 that we know of, even more resilient so we can show that holy knight who's boss later. It felt like some half baked storytelling that fell into more anime tropes than I would like. Skill piling works well enough in the Spider show because it is the main conceit, and that character is building toward something. Rimuru is/was already an army unto himself. His skills aren't interesting to me.

Then we have the resurrection scene. Lets 'reveal' that the risk of the low chance of revival was a deliberate misdirect by the show as the percentage was off but we as the audience could not have known. Also, lets revive everyone and in doing so, erase two of the summoned demons because their purpose of showing how great a summon they were a part of has been served; we only need one aloof super demon in the cast for now. Everybody (on Tempest's side) gets to come back, nothing is actually lost, and I question if anything was even learned. As far as I can tell, Falmuth attacking simply resulted in another free powerup for the home town monster team. And their king in custody. This is power fantasy 101.

The jobbing performed by the wizard and knight captain (boom headshot) also felt like wastes of time, as there was no competition and we learned nothing new except for some obscure rock paper scissors relationships between angels, demons, and spirits that I expect will never be referenced again.

I hope the Falmuth story is nearing its end, because this power scaling is a bit ridiculous as there are very few credible threats remaining and the storytelling's nuance has continued to erode over the past few episodes. Lets put this whole arc behind us and move on to more relaxed fantasy civ interactions. That's where Slime's strengths are most apparent.