Alros stare at the beautiful Jewel in front of him. What is perhaps the greatest yet most useless thing he could get from the system store.
Greatest due to it being able to evolve a monster into a stronger variant, and that include all of its stat. The useless due to evolving the monsters requiring the monsters to reach the necessary requirement, at least if he want the evolution to head the way he wished it to.
He had been trying to get a Goblin Chieftain, but he only get Goblin Guard so far. Using it on the Demonic Goblin transformed them into Demonic Goblin Guard, not Demonic Goblin Chieftain like he hope for.
That is why he had been holding off from using it with his most prized Goblin and the current strongest one, Gobruk.
He wanted to research the requirements for Goblins to become Goblin Chieftain. Alros did this by asking his the Goblin Chieftain he have.
However, they seemed to know very little. But, one of the most important requirement is to gather a small group of Goblins and building up a tribe of their own. But, this is just one of it as he had seen some tribes without a Chieftain, though those either small nomadic group or have another powerful champion serving as the leader like a Hobgoblin or Goblin Shaman.
"What could be the reason for the transformation to become a Goblin Chieftain," he muttered to himself. With his current injured state, this is the only thing he can do, aside from giving orders to his monsters.
Currently, they are forming a territory for themselves under his order. However, none of his Demonic Monsters took the lead, letting the regular, but enhanced monsters forming the territory.
The main reason for this is the fear of being attacked by the A-rank monsters. Since he was attacked, he assumed it is because of his Demonic aura. While that is merely the theory, it is better to be safe than sorry, or in this case, getting his force annihilated by a large Drake.
The other reason is he wanted to see if he could create other variants aside from Demonic ones. While the Demonic Monsters will be the main part of his force, they will not be the entirety of his force.
His master looked at him before giving him a single Jewel. He wondered why his master did that. Monsters like them have no use for such thing except for collecting it due to how shiny it is.
Yet, for some reason, he could feel a shackle inside of him shaking by being closed to it. The monster pointed at him, as information flooded his brain. At the new information, he quickly learned of the use of the Jewel, as well as answering some of the question it had, namely, why did some of the Demonic Goblin transformed into a more powerful variants without receiving the blood of the master.
He wondered why he did not get the Jewel at first but a little explaining clear his doubt. To think his master wanted him to become something better than Demonic Goblin Guard, and instead become a Chieftain.
He would do his best to become a Demon Goblin Chieftain. As he took the Jewel, the power coursed through him as he could feel himself growing stronger. The shackle he felt also began to break, as he could feel a path forming inside of him.
Wait, no, there is two path forming inside of him. He wonder why that is but if he had to guess, one would lead him to become a Demon Goblin Chieftain while the other one would lead to him being a Demon Goblin Guard.
Since his master wished for him to become a leader for his kind, he would do his best to achieve that. He began to sense the two different path inside of him. The only question is to choose which one.
It all depends on his instinct. He wanted to feel the path first but his instinct telling him doing that would lead to him choosing the first path he picked.
This is hard for the first Demon Goblin. He did not to fail his master, but failing to advance, as he could feel the path starting to close would be even worse. In the end, he decided to pick the one path that feel domineering.
As he step through the path, he could feel himself being pressed, ordered by those superior to him to bow. But he refused. He will not just become a Chieftain. He is going to be the strongest Goblin in existence, a being that could even fight against the hero his master talk about!
With a roar, he jumped into the path, officially stepping into the path of evolution.