Chapter 16: Skirmish

After gathering the necessary information, he began to make preparation for his plan.

"And that is another one," he exclaimed, looking at the subjugated goblinin front of him with a smile.

He had st the rest of the rodts in his disposal to die to make space for the new arrival, and it is a good decision. He now have 40 Demonic Goblins and 60 Normal Goblins in his forces, filling up the system space's space limit.

"Hopefully, this will be ough," he muttered.

[ What are you planning, Master? ]

"A little skirmish. I want to see what the settlemt can do and if they possess any powerful people inside, which is highly unlikely but one can never know," he explained.

[ Is that why you subjugate a lot of goblins this time, without demonifying them? ]

"Yes. I afrain if we attack them using the Demonic Goblins there will be some questions and they might just report this to a nearby force," he told the system space.

[ That seem to make sse. But what will you be doing during the skirmish? ]

"I will do a little espionage and grabbed as many books and records as I can. If necessary, I will ev record it for further use," he answered, as he make one last preparation before the night skirmish.

-x-

"Hhmm, what is that?"

"What, do you have too much to drink two days ago?"

"Dammit, it's not like that! I feel like something big is about to happ. Something dangerous,"

"Yeah sure, lets not talk about your delusi-"

For their credits, the goblins seemed to realize this as they back away, with some began to pelt the militia with stones. Thankfully, they also have slingers at the back who return the favor, with greater force and accuracy.

The goblins number began to go down but they also brought them makeshift shield, namely tree barks they rips of from decaying logs which did not serve as much protection but still ough for now.

As they began to push the goblins back, some managed to sneak past and attack his m. Their claws could do significant harm and they also wield bone daggers and stone daggers.

With their smaller size, it is hard for the spear man to kill them wh they get to close, resulting in some loses in their numbers. Yet, they still have the advantage especially wh the leader barked another order.

"Spearman to the back! Swordsm to the front!" the spearm quickly exchange places with the sword militia, who began to overpower and slaughter the goblins.

Yet ev as their numbers dropped, the goblins did not retreat, charging like a bunch of lunatic as they seemed to spout out curses in their language.

This confirms the hungry theory and so, the leader keep giving orders to his m to attack the goblins, preparing to exterminate them.

-x-

"Looks like this is the last of them, leader," his right hand man stabbed a goblin at it's head before looking at the leader, who was busy scouring the place while grabbing the mana core of the goblins.

"Seems that way. Sd our messger to go to a nearby town and sell all the mana core. The money should be ough to allow us to expd some more," the leader said.

The right-hand man nodded before leaving, as the leader pondered over something.

"Does another more powerful creatures appear, scaring away all the prey of the goblins and forcing them to attack us? I better tell the man to prepare, though hopefully the creature, whatever it is, will not target us,"

-x-

"Looks like I get a bunch of good loot," Alros said happily. He looked at the documt he had copied along with some books. Thankfully, he had bought some books, all of the blank of course, and replace it with the one he get from the settlemt.

"With this, we will understand more of the world, or at least this area,"