Chapter 44: Subduing Hobgoblins

As Alros walked deeper, he started to feel more and more excited. With the purge occurring in the outskirts of Lunos Forest, there is no powerful monsters near him, which is a good thing as he doubt he can match them early on.

It is also a double-edge sword, as wh he become strong ough, he was not able to get more powerful monsters to serve him. And heading deeper is a no go for the momt, as he lack knowledge of the creatures and dangerous places in the depth of the forest.

So, with a much safer option, he choose it, planning to find more powerful monsters ev if he unlikely to find a lot of them, as the forest is merely adjact to the real Mana Zone.

As he head deeper, he used the Skill Mana Sse to detect any powerful mana source. Unfortunately, most are just slimes and goblins, monsters he had abundance of, and he was not planning to add more of them yet.

He told himself to be patit. After all, there bound to be more powerful monsters as he head deeper, right?

-x-

"Where are the powerful monsters?" he lamted. He had spt almost two hours walking and yet did not find any monsters worth subduing.

He thought of subduing more goblins, or maybe ev creating more slimes variant but he pushed it away. He wanted to find better options to his currt monsters roster. After all, he cannot just depd on goblins and slimes to be his main force.

While both are useful and manage to become a strong ough monsters to ev challge a regular human after mutation, having stronger monsters is needed as he face stronger nations.

After all, Astor Kingdom is a Tier Nation. He did not know how many tiers there are but he believe the limit should be 5 or above. And if he ever face those nations in the future, he need more than cannon fodder.

As he thought of it, he heard the sound of people running. He quickly hide himself using Stealth and head towards the sound, before spotting the source, a group of advturers running away.

"Run faster! Or the hobgoblins will manage to catch us!" Alros' eyes lit up at the words. Hobgoblins can be called the evolution of goblins. He had spd a the daylight before by spding it in the library, so he had read of the monsters.

Trading their agility and speed, hobgoblins are stocky and big monsters, looked more like a fat human in term of shape and size. They are harder to kill, as their thicker skin make it harder to kill them, and they are strong ough to wield weapon that can kill a man with a swing.

He th walked away, wanting to deal with more important things, namely, subduing the hobgoblins.

-x-

"Looks like you are strong as they say," he said with interest. Looking at the monsters in front of him, he could guess why the advturers flee. While they might stand a chance against or hobgoblins, 5 is a stretch. Thankfully, he had st out nearly one hundred of his two main monsters roster.

Armed with better weapons, and ropes, plus a quick get away in the form of wolves, it was easy for them to sur and slowly worn down the gre big creatures.

They are currtly forced to kneel, growling as their hands were tied. While the monsters can easily break free, a single sign of it and they would lose their heads. Or his goblins told him.

He was glad there are no differt dialect in Goblinese or he would be screwed. He looked at his goblins and he began to speak once again. At the same time, Alros unleash his demonic aura, causing the hobgoblins to look at him in fear and awe.

One thing he had learn is most weak monsters would follow stronger one, if the stronger one did not just kill them, that is. While demons is not considered a monster, instead being put in a class of their own, the monsters still follow demon if there is one, and it is strong.

With how the hobgoblins lowered its head and whimpered, he knew he is consider strong. He put his hands and began to subdue them, one by one.

-x-

After subduing the last of them, the hobgoblin spoke to him, "Grrweehgh, wrugh,"

"Looks like there are more to claim, let's go," after all, there is a nearby village of goblins, with numbers up to 300, maybe ev 400. There is no way he will not accept such spoils.

"By the way, Gobruk," he call out his sole Greater Demonic Goblin, "make sure the prey did not escape, understood," the goblin nodded.

He smiled. There is no way he would let the trio advturers escape, could he.