Chapter 74: Moving Forward

I appeared right in the middle of the village.

"My king, welcome." Ortov kneeled as if he was expecting my visit.

"Ortov, how's the village going?"

"We are currently doing the project you assigned to us."

"Good, good. Where's Grien?"

"I'm here!" Grien shouted while he was dragging some goblins.

"This is great. How many did you get?"

"About 43 goblin builders. I'm not to bother you my king but hunting has been difficult so I also gathered some normal goblins. About 202 of them."

Grien has gotten insanely stronger. He can take the encampments all by himself. "I don't mind. Take me where you put them all."

We walked to the newly built shed and there's already a lot of livestocks like pigs and chicken and a lot of farm stuff.

"Here they are."

I then used enslavement on all of them. I divided the normal goblins to Grien and Ortov's group respectively. Now the construction of this village will increase.

After all that, I went and asked Ortov something. "Ortov, do you know the material that's used for building."

"Yes, wood, sto-"

"No, not that. The expensive material to make the structure more durable."

"Ah, you must be talking about Greah Stone. It costs 50 gold for each Greah Stone and it can cover..." Ortov picked up the trunk of a tree. "At least this."

"That's relatively cheap."

"We have to layer it about four more times."

"200 gold per piece of wood?" I can see why it's expensive.

"Okay, I want the walls of this village completely done after half a month or so. I'll be sending you money to buy Greah Stones and to keep the farm and livestocks here healthy."

"It will be done."

I then walked around the whole village dispelling all the totems and I replaced them with another.

I placed four healing totems, one in the middle and every corner of the village. This totems were accompanied with fire and lightning totems. I focused my mana into the totems and it all leveled up to the third tier.

After a while, I went to the house of the women and children. As I was about to walk into the house, I heard they were all talking so I decided to eavesdrop.

"What's going to happen to us?" Parla spoke.

Ziley answered her question. "Maybe it's the end. I mean, we were rescued from the goblin camp. Asking for more is just pushing it."

Jari then agreed with her, "It's better than being stuck in the encampment. He's a king now and leads a larger population. Far larger number than us and the kids."

"I don't want to leave here." Ava reluctantly denied their statements.

"I too don't want to leave but... He has bigger problems than us." Harper emphatized with her.

"He gave us everything you know?!" Ava counteracted.

"That's why we need to let him be. He gave us everything. We can't ask for more." Amelia then spoke out of turn.

"He gave us shelter, clothes, a new life and someone to love and to care." Ilia said.

I then walked in the house as if I don't know anything. They all went silent.

"What's... Going to happen to us?" Ava asked.

"Damn it Ava, I told you to not bring him up while he's not here!" Pam spoke out of nowhere. "Don't mind it Zi-"

"No, it's fine. I actually came here about that." I need to think of something quick... Hmm...

"What do you mean?" Mena asked.

"About us and what's going to happen after all of this." Quick think of something...

"It's fine Zieglind. We're going to be fine." Jari spoke.

That's it! "I don't want things to end this way. We've spent a lot of time and you're all basically a family to me. I may not be able to give you a noble life in my kingdom but I can give you an option. The highest possible option I can give to all of you is to become maids at the castle in Polk or I can give you money and let you live wherever you want. I'll take the kids with me. They can't live out there while they're still branded as slaves and are still kids."

"You're cruel you know Zieglind." They spoke one by one. "I know right?" "He truly is." "I can't believe that he gave us a choice like that." "Mhm, agreed."

"The second option then. Inventory." As soon as I was about to grab the pocket of gold in my inventory they all spoke.

"You know Zieglind the more we get attached to you the more we don't want to go right?" "You gave us everything so it's just right to serve you with everything we have." "I think I'm speaking for everyone when I say we want to stay with you." "No matter what it is, we just want to stay by your side and that's enough." "You gave us our lives back and made it better by blessing us with these adopted children of yours." Then, they all spoke together. "Thank you Zieglind."

"Thank you too everyone. If you were not here, I wouldn't reach this goal. Let's go? To our new home."

We then awaken the children up and all held hands. "Mass Teleport!"

I wish this moment would last forever.

"Uh... My King, those women and children...?"

"Caesar, send some funds to my village. There's a goblin there named Grien or Ortov, give it to them and only them."

"Yes..."

"Also, these women elves will be part of the castle. Appoint them as the maids. And for the children, I'm going to decide later. Give them a suitable place to sleep."

"Yes, will do! I'll appoint them as maids. Ladies, follow me."

They all followed Caesar.

I went back to the strategic room and checked on them. The armor is nearly completed and they'll be awake... I think.

It's already night but they're still unconscious. "As for the time being, claim all rewards."