The city of ‘Somorah’ was quite large in size, but the forces of the Black Thorn Guild wasn’t as much. As such, it was obvious that Somorah would try and curry favors of the larger cities and look favorable towards the larger guilds. It was an act necessary in order to preserve accidents from happening, so it showed the degree of importance that the guild executives viewed this business so much so that they would travel themselves.
“I want to know if you know the route and time?”
He began to ponder once I probed, and soon realized that this one reply could determine his life and death.
“I know it roughly... but to be certain...”
It means that he does now. It was then that one of the guys in the back spoke out.
“I’ve heard that there is a large transaction of slaves transferring, which is going to occur next week at the metropolis of Hadum.”
[TL: Metropolis = Major city]
From his words, Lee Wanyong turned back and began to glare at his party member. It was probably a glare implying why he would spout out so much crucial information at the blink of an eye, though he was also revealing a lot as well.
This guy knows that I had no reason of keeping all three guys here.
As a result, the last one who did not speak of any valuable information was fidgeting anxiously, making it a truly interesting scene.
After some time had passed, they began to compete against one another in spitting out information as if it was a great achievement. Not sure what the reason was, but Lee Wanyong was greatly passive in his approach. However, I roughly knew what he was thinking as I couldn’t help but smile.
“I...I remember too. I have heard that there will definitely be one next week. Definitely.”
“It’s not regular, but there is a large transaction roughly about once a month.”
“There is an average of about thirty members including executives that depart together, and about an average of fifty slaves as well.”
Really impressive guys. Even though I did not ask willy-nilly, they told me every single information I needed. Actually, there was too much information being spouted out all at once that I needed some time to organize it, so I called out to Ragia.
“Alraune...”
“Yes. I understand.”
I tried to attach the other guys to Hayeon who could also speak the Human language. Soon, Ragia returned with Hayeon as she glared down at the men. Then, after greeting me with a bow, she spoke.
“Did you call?”
“I’ll give you two guys.”
There was no need for any more words. Understanding, she nodded her head with a smile. The moment I was about to give a few of them over to Hayeon, they seemingly wanted to attach themselves to her personally, but I personally would recommend them to rather stay away from her. Since those that do go to the side of Hayeon will spend an extremely painful time.
“It does not matter if you kill them if you deem them useless.”
“Yes.”
After brightly smiling, except for Lee Wanyong, she took the other two guys and brought them outside the camp. Unable to comprehend the monster language that we conversed in, the two guys went outside with the Plant joyfully. Though Lee Wanyong was looking over at them with envy, but in my honest opinion, I don’t expect neither of them to be able to survive the night.
Anyhow, I continued to engage in a conversation with him. Size of the forces and the conditions of the slaves. The number of slaves. The routes they used. Unlike the two previous ones, he had suddenly became passive in providing information, but since Hayeon will be working hard, so it wouldn’t matter.
The best part was that there were a lot of places for a possible ambush like the tunnel.
“Certainly... this won’t be bad at all. If you exclude the fact that it’s a tunnel and not a cave, it’s greatly similar to the place I used before.”
“Yeah. Sounds good.”
Mev nodded from the fact that the tunnel was exceptionally similar to the cave Hakajin used for ambush before if you exclude the differences in forces.
“So it’s a battle.”
The rest of the guys began to smile, with Gark and Hark being the most excited. Therefore, the meeting concluded quicker than I had thought.
Anyhow, the job should be quite simple. There should be only about 30 people of forces moving at best. Unlike before, we didn’t lack in numbers for once, and it was a battle that Black Spear didn’t necessarily had to participate. Not to mention, Black Spear was already busy due to the Little Finger Clan so I had decided not to bother him this round.
Whenever the executives walked in and were contemplating in my tent, the other clan members would pretend that they weren’t interested in what was going on, but would always eavesdrop from outside. To be able to relay them the message that they so wanted in a long time, I left the tent first and informed them.
“It’s a battle.”
“Ggirik! Ggirik!”
“Kereeeeeuk!”
In a split second, the village became loud as even the young Green Skins that were born and growing were also screaming together.
I wasn’t sure if they were screaming because the adult Goblins were or because they knew that a real battle was going to occur, but the young Green Skins certainly looked pleased. It seems that they couldn’t hide their innate nature.
“For Blood Dagger!”
Though it has not been one year, the children began to run around smiling. Seeing that they were growing well, it brought a smile to my face. Young Goblins would be able to enter battles after three years, and seven years after they were officially recognized as adults. Of course I wasn’t going to send them to the battle lines right away. Then I saw Nicole running around, causing me to head over and stroke her head.
“For Blood Dagger!”
A cute voice rang in my ears.
I smiled at Nicole once more as I saw her preparing the weapons with the other guys.
The quick-witted ones had already been preparing their weapons and bags in advance, and the Goblins and Orc administered by Hakajin were preparing all the necessary provisions and supplies. Food and drinking water were basic necessities, and there were also supplies prepared in case of unexpected variables. Thus, we were able to soon depart from Storm Shadow’s village.
TL Afterword:
Calvis: Nico-Nico-Nicole! Finally nice to have such a large family of young Green Skins now (waiting for Mev’s child now). Also, keep Lee Wangyong. It’s nice to have a Human once in a while.
PR Afterword:
T0ngan: First 100 chapters of GS... we’ve done it!!! We made it.. Congrats & hi-5’s all around!
Translator: Calvis
Editors: T0ngan