19 Prairie's Shame (1)

"Qing Yi and Xiao-Qing! The two of you will choose one of the weapons from here. As for the other goblins, I need all of you to follow the girls in case of any fight happened. Your mission is to escape successfully, but also protecting the girls, understand?"

After the two evolved goblins took their weapon of choice and the one issued to Dou Yi, the hobgoblin, there are thirteen weapons left. Excluding Ka-Ba and Yulin who had their own, Mu Qing Lang can fit thirteen people with weaponry to protect themselves.

As for the arrangement, the barricade facing north will be thoroughly obstructed, with the eastern side remained open and western side under stricter security. As for the important belonging such as properties and food, they're all stored in Mu Qing Lang's Wondrous Carriage.

Additionally, to enhance promotes the growth of the goblins, Mu Qing Lang did not hesitate about providing them with another eighteen bottles of Recovery Ointment. With close to eight thousand stalks of Xian-Ren Grass, it was more than a tap of his hand to producing a thousand bottles of the ointment for future uses.

At the same time, the five youths received a set of Xian-Qin Pill and Small Xian Pill for the night. It might be just a 0.5 points boost, but that's better than nothing as the point is accumulated by days until that significant time.

On that night, Mu Qing Lang processed a thousand bottles of the Recovery Ointment, one hundred Small Xian Pills, popping in the two pills, and went to bed.

...

Day Seventeen.

Perhaps it was due to the stress from the upcoming battle.

Or perhaps, it was due to the constant usage of Recovery Ointment. On the seventeenth day of Mu Qing Lang in this world, two goblins evolved into hobgoblin Variant. This additional power into the Evolved party was a great help to their own defense, especially when one of the hobgoblins possessed a superior ability.

[Golem's Equip]

This ability allowed the hobgoblin, named Dou San, to put on the armor fit for a golem by through nature. If they're at places rich with soil, it's an Earth Golem Armor. If it is in the stone area, the armor will change to Stone Golem Armor.

As for the other hobgoblin named Dou Er, his ability called [Water Shield] is more straightforward. As long there is a water source for him, the shield can be reproduced until he's out of energy pool.

They proceed to the farm carefully, all under the surveillance of three hobgoblins. Although the harvest was the same amount as before, it took them longer to complete the harvesting process due to the restless atmosphere surrounding them.

At the end of the harvest, they added up to 2,000 stalks of Xian-Ren Grass, 1,000 Amber Roots, the 19.2kg worth of Prairie Herbal-Cress, and replanted the Demonic Juniper Flower into 640 plants. Once the handling is completed, the group gathered for another meal break.

But before that successfully happened, multiple visitors came from the western entrance, where the direction leads to the pond. They had a reddish armband woven from straws as a way to recognize fellow members of their settlement.

It was ten humans in total, age range from 25 to 30, with one fellow amongst the ten had an armband with a delicate bug sewn onto the straw linen. Without the need to guess, this person must be someone important to their settlement.

"Who is the chief for this camp? Crawl over here and pay respect to the great child of Namu Mayue, ruler of the Namu's Settlement!" the visitors behave haughtily by mentioning the name of their ruler. It is also from their words that tell who is the person with that delicate red armband with an insect brooch.

"Greetings to the visitors from Namu's Settlement. How about coming inside and share a pot of hot meal with us?" Mu Qing Lang replied politely. Although the other sides of people did not behave as they should at other's camp, it doesn't mean that he should act like them.

Through his way of replying, the fellow youths from Ka-Ruo Settlement and the goblins respected Mu Qing Lang even more. Such a reply without intimidated by their background made them feel safe in the hand of Mu Qing Lang.

With two additional hobgoblins from this morning, Mu's Camp fighting force increases from five to seven. It will be eight including himself. As for the people from Namu's Settlement, they're only ten before them, five more hiding nearby waiting for an order at most.

He could destroy them in one quick attack if Mu Qing Lang is prepared to pay the cost with the goblin's lives. But unfortunately, that wasn't how he does business with the lives of others. Mu Qing Lang believes that talents come from his people, and people come from how he manages everything.

In his mindset, protecting the goblins is equivalent to guarding the lifeline of his farm and the harvested products. This is the first reason why Mu Qing Lang treated the goblins generously. As for the second reason, of course, it's due to their loyalty.

Based on the sheer figure of loyalty shown by the goblins, Mu Qing Lang dares to say that even if a Goblin Lord appeared they will not leave his side. This explained his confidence on the goblin's loyalty, from the moment they followed him.

In return of this, Mu Qing Lang made no promise but tried his best to leave Mu's Camp a place goblins can call home before he left them to be independent in the future. It's more or like taking care of an orphanage until all of them fly and chase for their future.

"You dare? Kill one of your tiny slaves to appease our young lord's anger!" the one ordering Mu Qing Lang to crawl out pointed at him and gave another order that should be arranged without further questions. And this was the end of his patience.

Not the one from Namu's Settlement, but Mu Qing Lang.

He stretched his hand and grabbed one of the goblins and steps forward to the people from Namu's Settlement. The action obtained the approval of a few, including the young master himself.

Unfortunately, there weren't single people in this era understands the depth of deceit. Mu Qing Lang throws the goblin on the ground. Just two steps before the one talking to Mu Qing Lang from the start. Mu Qing Lang pulled his copper sword out from his back and pointed at the goblin.

This sight made those from Namu's Settlement happy. Their laugh was so loud that it covered the cry from this person when the goblin turned around and stabbed the copper knife right into his throat. With that deep hole around his neck, that fellow just gasps for his last breath before falling.

Mu Qing Lang's sword swung from the bottom to top, taking off the head of this rumored young master in a flash. The action of these two brought the goblins and humans together and charged out from their settlement. Those listened to their laughing sound relaxed and left the camouflage foliage, only to be killed by an arrow from Qing Yi.

In a flash, their party of fifteen people is slaughtered by those from Mu's Camp without a single scratch on their own members. But the victory did not end with this small victory. Under his leading, Mu Qing Lang brought the three hobgoblins, Qing Yi, Ka-Ba, and Yulin to follow him and deals the final blow to the Namu's Settlement party.

The unprepared team of ten people taking a turn to guard the slaves they gathered. From how it looks, the Namu's Settlement not only catches non-human tribes as their slaves but some humans too. Based on how the captured human dressed, they are either taken in the wild or kidnapped.

Altogether, the ten members party is handling twelve goblins, one satyr-like creature, and two humans. A total of fifteen slaves is quite a tremendous increase in term of the working force. Additionally, the two humans are female, and it should make the goblin goes crazy for them.

Qing Yi's released the arrow in her hand. Swift but deadly, the arrow pierced through the skull of a member and dead. That's how easy the fight started. With a member dead, the party now ready to fight with a team of nine people.

Two single-side axes user came forward against Mu Qing Lang. As for the remaining seven, all of them uses a club in their fight. While a short sword may seem like a better choice in combat, it was in fact at disadvantages against a blunt club.

Added with the differences of six against seven, it becomes even more challenging to the three hobgoblins and two youngsters. The moment this fight started, Dou Er cast the Water Shield to protect Qing Yi, while Dou San had the soil below his feet came onto his body and formed into an oversized set of armor.

Once it was fully deployed, Dou San charged and ram at an opponent until that fellow flies more than ten steps back. That momentum is taken into consideration by Yulin as she sneaks behind the enemies while they are surprised by Dou San. At the end of her first move, one opponent falls under her club.

Qing Yi fired another arrow, and it killed another person. In less than three minutes, two of the seven fellows had fallen to Qing Yi's arrow. The other one is lying far from the fight, unknown he's dead or alive. As must Mu Qing Lang, his performance is even more mesmerizing.

Without a weapon, Mu Qing Lang palm strike at the starting of the battle throws the innards of the two fighters inside out. Both fallen to a mere slap without too much of an effort needed.