Chapter 42 Return To The Hobgoblins

42 Return To The Hobgoblins

'Hehe! Finally, I'm back!'

Rey had a wide grin on his face as he began to walk down the wide passageway of the seventh floor.

He had been looking forward to this moment for a while now, and there were a lot of things he couldn't start doing.

'I made sure to properly understand every single detail about Hobs that I read. While the research on them was incomplete, he practically knew all there was to know at this point.'

As per the plan, he would ensure their civilization flourished by teaching them a bunch of things and ensuring that they evolved a lot in the process.

'I should also experiment with the effects of various Monster Cores on them.'

Rey was genuinely curious about what would happen, and he was itching to find out.

"SKRRIAAAK." Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

"GURRIAKKA."

"HUKAKAYA."

The sounds of Hobgoblins danced in his ears as he entered the clearing.

Once again, he was greeted with a putrid odor. It wasn't as bad as the previous time, but it still smelled disgusting.

"Well... I'm back." Rey muttered as he watched the Hobs recognize his presence.

The instant they saw him, all of them—women and children—rushed to his presence.

They all kneeled and bowed their heads in subservience, speaking words in Goblin language that properly passed across a message of submission.

'Guess we're back to this...'

Rey didn't particularly dislike it, but he also wasn't the biggest enjoyer of being worshiped.

As long as they did what he wanted, he didn't mind either way.

"Well, let's begin, shall we?"

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It took all day for Rey to properly teach the Hobgoblins about hygiene.

'I honestly thought it would be like last time...' Rey thought to himself as he watched the Hobgoblins.

Unfortunately for him, teaching them about the important aspects of development wasn't nearly as easy as instructing them to harvest Monster Cores.

These green things were indeed smart, for monsters, but not by a large extent.

Rey realized he had to recognize that.

'Well, at least we made some progress today.' He comforted himself with that thought.

The first and most important was to drain as many Monster Cores as he could from the Hobgoblins' depository.

As for the latter, it was already staring him in the face.

'I guess I should do this first...' Rey smiled widely as he stared at the 'thing' that had now become his opponent.

It was a NightWolf.

The dark fur of the beast danced with the stale air within the arena that the Hobgoblins had made for him, and it's blackened eyes reeked of starvation.

NightWolves were usually fed the feces of the Hobgoblins, and occasionally, some grounded Orichalcum mixed with dirt.

The Hobs thought of this as the perfect revenge against the very beasts that tortured them for Eons in Goblin-Time.

'That's a pretty nasty meal if you ask me...'

As a result of their terrible diet, NightWolves were extremely weak.

Compared to the healthy-looking Hobgoblins, their bodies were pretty disproportional.

The NightWolf that currently faced Rey had a bloated stomach, but it's limbs were extremely bony.

Its fangs had been clipped off, most likely by itself.

'I noticed they occasionally eat their nails so their bellies stay full...'

It sucked to be the NightWolves, and their very existence reminded Rey that the Hobgoblins were just as cruel as he was.

No... perhaps they were even worse.

'Monsters will always be monsters.'

"GRRRRRRR..."

As the NightWolf growled, Rey prepared himself for whatever attack that would come.

'I'm not expecting much, but I'd like to see what it can do!'

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