As Alros woke up, he felt the two wom beside him stir before they continue sleeping. He smiled at their sleeping form, especially at Alina, the marks from the ropes, whip and his hand remained on her beautiful body.

He already plan more masochistic play on the former captain, and ev plan to buy more sex related items just for the occasion. However, for now, he need to make sure his plan to make the Advture Guild sd more members into the forest work.

He walked straight towards a set of equipmt he never used before. It only find it use yesterday, wh he get his hand on a more powerful monster. The hobgoblins.

In the system space, 5 remain inside while the other had walked at the outskirts, leaving tracks and making it seem the hobgoblins began to have idea on the outskirts.

With such pottial danger, there is no doubt that the Advture Guild will sd more C-rank advturers. While he could not kill all of them, having his hobgoblins do so will be better.

But, he did not plan to lose such powerful monsters, especially with him not turning them into a demonic variant yet. But he still need to sacrifice some hobgoblins if he want to maintain the facade of hobgoblins threating to come out of their previous area.

So, he wt to the best thing, cloning the hobgoblins. Finally, the growth tube he never use before finally be used for something.

The reason he did not use it is one, the cloned product is usually weaker than the original, unless if one ready to sacrifice some LP to make do of their weakness. Two, the cloned product have limited lifespan, not in year's, but in months, maybe ev days.

He likely able to offset such weakness in the future with better equipmt and more experimtation, but both require funds and time and he did not have those yet, so he had to make due.

With the previous monsters he can clone are both goblins, wolves and slimes, there is no reason to do such thing, especially as his demonic variant have very little success in being cloned, ev with the upgraded Growth Tube.

As he thought about it, the Growth Tube let out a hissing sound, the sign of the cloning process being completed.

He head towards the Growth Tube, as he received a notification.

< Hobgoblins had finished being cloned. Release them from the Growth Tube?

Yes/No >

He pressed yes, watching as the hobgoblins exited the Growth Tube, growling before cowering, his demonic aura unleashed.

He subdue them, though he make sure to not mark them as it would cause some questions to be asked. After that, he quickly planned his move, namely going to the Advture Guild and get another mission before heading towards the forest and take the not-cloned hobgoblins and sd the cloned one to their death.

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"There seem to be tracks of hobgoblins. But to think they will get so close? Why do you think it happed?" a veteran advturer asked his fellow C-rankers. The two had be frids and so had team up to take the mission together.

However, they are not alone, as there are other C-rankers, the guild offering a lot of money to check on the hobgoblins' incursion.

"No idea, but considering the Violet Maid get annihilated, the hobgoblins likely have trouble, as they would have captured them instead of killing them," the other C-rankers said. The first one nodded, after all, goblins' lustful nature is known by everyone who did not live in a cave.