Chapter 17 - Gathering Allies

"What... Are we doing now huh?" Rafael put his hand under his chin thinking seriously.

Seeing as how their teamwork is so good, I can't pass that up. "Well I have a preposition. I really want to party up with you all."

"That seems good and all but it seems you two can handle yourselves pretty well."

"Its helpful to have more allies too you know?"

"For now we would like to go on and leave. But if we ever meet elsewhere someday then I'll give you the answer."

Guess they aren't ready yet. Well anyway, its good. I need to focus up on leveling anyway.

"Well. Thanks for everything." I reached out my hand for a handshake.

"Same here. Goodbye Zieglind and Rize."

"Oh and Zieglind here's your shield." Tas suddenly spoke and handed me the shield. "Thanks for this."

"No problem."

We shaked hands and bid farewells. We saw them walking off the distance waving goodbyes.

"Rize, let's go hunt."

"Mhm!"

"Let's go back to the forest."

We went back to the forest swarming with goblins.

We spent all the rest of the day to hunt some goblins. Half of our time was us messing up and killing them. I wanted to turn them into slaves.

After all that battle, I got about 3 levels. These goblins were giving low exp. Maybe because I'm a higher level now?

<You leveled up to Level 18!>

At the end of the day, I caught 20 goblins. 5 Goblin Sages, 10 Goblin Tanks and 5 Speed-Type Goblins. They all evolved into,

Goblin Sage >>> Goblin Mage

Goblin Tank >>> Goblin Protectors

Speed-Type Goblins >>> Goblin Assassins

They looked like humanoid forms while keeping the green skin and the characteristics of a goblin.

"Goblins, you all will be called Group Assault. And for you..."

"Me?" One of the Goblin Mage looked at me as I pointed at him.

"Yes, you. You'll be named Grien."

"Thank you so much Lord!" He bowed sincerely.

"You'll be commanding the rest of your team. I expect great things from you."

"I'll be sure to live up to your expectations lord!"

"And by the way. Do your species have builders?"

"Yes lord."

"What's the location in this forest?"

"South of here my lord."

"Let's go."

We got to the location Grien said. Its not much but there's a big ogre there. Might be some trouble.

"Rize and Group Assault, kill any goblins that are not builders."

Making a slave isn't easy. It drains a lot of energy.

"Leave at least 8 builders alive and 2 Goblin Alarms."

"Got it!"

We went into the town and wrecked havoc.

Rize took care of the archers resting in their tall towers. She got a lot of experience killing them I bet.

Group A is doing okay. They're level 5 right now so they're pretty weak.

The Group A mages used their immobilizing crowd control spells and the assassins and tanks killed them off in a couple of hits.

I took care of the big ogre. He wasn't that much but it seems he was high level. I got 2 levels from that.

<You leveled up to Level 20!>

[Do you want to get the Level 20 reward?]

"No not now. Maybe later."

The raid ended and there were exactly 8 builders and 2 alarms. I used my slave spell on them and they too evolved.

Goblin Builders >>> Goblin Craftsman

Goblin Alarms >>> Goblin Watchers

"Nice. Goblin Builders and Goblin Alarms you'll be named Group Workshop. And you, you'll be named Ortov."

"Me?" One of the Goblin Craftsman asked.

"Yes. You'll report to me when I ask something."

"Thank you lord."

"Goblin Assassins! Come here."

They quickly moved from the back to the front.

"Yes lord?"

"Run around the plains and find a nice building spot."

"Will do lord."

The Goblin Assassins ran around outside of the forest.

"Group Assault and Rize, wait for the Goblins I sent out. I'll go back to Itz. It'll be quick."

"Okay Zieg."

"Will do!" The Group Assault exclaimed in unison.

I went back to Itz and went into Ruz and Ruf's repective shops and bought some armor and weapons. I went ahead and bought some already made armor. Since there were 50 of them, for the Goblin Mages I bought 5 sets of mage armor and for the tanks I went ahead and bought some heavy armor, for the assassins and alarms I went ahead and got them lightweight armor. For the builders I went ahead and bought the enchanted set of armor that increases their craftsmanship progression. For the weapons, I bought two staffs of healing and three death staffs for the mages. For the assassins, I bought 5 twin blade butterfly sword. Weird name. And also this unlimited throwing knives. Its pretty useless for strong enemies but good enough for low level hunting. For tanks, I bought 5 greatshield and 5 normal sized shield. I also bought 5 Zweihander greatsword for those who are using the normal sized shields and 5 Longsword for the greatshield users.

It all cost a hefty price of 550 gold. My previously 2098 gold is now 1548.

I then went into the market inside. I asked if foods rot here but they said it doesn't and jokingly said only monsters rot. I bought 100 gold worth of food. This can last us a year.

My remaining gold is now 1448.

I put all of these in my inventory.

I left Itz kingdom and went back to where they were earlier. It seems the assassins found a great spot.

"Lord, we have found a spot for building. Its in that direction."

"Okay thanks. But first of all equip this."

I gave all of them some food and all the armor I bought earlier. They seem to like it.

"Thank you so much lord for letting us creatures wear this armor."

"No problem. Group Workshop, your time to shine is now."