5 Chapter 5: New Goblins

A large spotlight illuminated the area, and little by little it was reduced until it was concentrated in a point opposite Klart. He covered his eyes, and the next moment a little figure was kneeling in front of him.

He was wearing a leather red armor, that covered almost everything in their body. In his waist he carried a short blade and in his back a short bow. None of the weapons looked fancy but they did not look like garbage either. His appearance clashed with the depressing aspect Klart had.

The goblin looked up, staring Klart in his eyes. After two long breaths a spark of life seemed to appeared in his eyes, as if he had seen the best treasure of his life.

"Red Moon pay respects to the King!!" said loudly the goblin.

"Pleese mai King let me introduce myzelf" He took a long breath. "I is Red Moon, small boos of infantry troops, me good in train runts. Me skillz go from leading small groups to explore mission an' order groups of archers. Me no best goblo, but I will die to serve m'a king wishes."

Klart tried to udnertand what the goblins had just said. It seemed that goblins couldn't talk properly, maybe their tongues and mouths were not good formed. They call themselves "goblo" what is some way is kinda funny. And he could train runts? But what Is a runt?

Klart try to analysed the situation… so the system could provide him of soldier and different goblins to reach his objective. So, if his guesses were correct the other two cards could provide him with something useful too.

Without even saying a word to Red Moon, Klart touched the two cards in his mind. The next moment two new spotlights illuminate the area. One of them with the same intensity as when he summoned Red Moon, but the other one was just the light one could get from a lantern.

The big one concentrated in a spot next to Klart's cabin, and a building that remember a farm appeared. The little one divided in five little sparks of light that go into the ground disappearing into nothing.

After some seconds in the five spots where the light had just disappeared the soil started to tremble, as if something wanted to dig his way out. Little green hands started to show his ways out the ground, and after a minute five little goblins stand up in front of Klart and Red Moon.

Reed Moon was the same height as Klart but the new goblins were half their size. They were completely naked, with hungry eyes and child faces. After a moment of hesitation, they started to explore their surroundings with their eyes, and when they met the others little goblins theirs face changed.

Their eyes turned furious, like if they were gonna fight for their lives or the last piece of meat. Two little goblins that were a bit further from Klart were already fighting.

"Stop you szupid runts in front of yo king" Shouted Red Moon.

At that moment, they all shocked and stayed firmly.

Klart in that moment understood that runt is the word they used for little goblins, like childs. But it shocked him a lot that goblins could grow from the earth like a plant.

But on the other side, that could explain why there were a lot of goblins in all the fantasy books and games. They didn't have to reproduce between themselves, so they could plan they infants in caves and no one would find out, making it impossible to destroy all the race.

The five runts looked at Klart with eyes of veneration and before he could mutter a word the other light finished the building.

It was like a small cave that stood out a lot in the middle of the desert sand. It was not very big, Klart was not the best at measuring distances mentally but he thought it would be no bigger than four meters long and 4 meters high.

He walked to it and could see that in the line that separate the entrance to the cave to the desert one could find soil. It was weird but not so much compared to everything that had happened.

In the cave there was little mushrooms of different sizes, their colour was plain so it didn't seem they were poisonous.

"Oi, we have runt cave, with datt we can hafe new runts fom time to time" Reed Moon said with a smile.

The runts once again began to get excited when they saw the cave. His eyes looked like those of hungry wolves. One of them tried to swoop into the entrance of the cave directly with his mouth open.

But quickly Reed Moon hit him with his fist, pulling him to the side, and very angry:

"Don't disrespect o'ur King, we all hungry, but King first" he shouted angry at them. "O we will eat little runt for dinner". And he made a malicious smile. The runt panicked and again stay in their spot firmly. The runt that was hit ran to the place where it was before.

Reed Moon made a kind of bow revelation while one his hands pointed to the cave.

In the cave he noticed two types of mushrooms, one that formed the center of the cave with brown spots that he had seen from outside, but on the walls, there were completely grey mushrooms.

"Why there are two types of Mushrooms?" Klart asked Red Moon.

Red Moon was puzzled, as if the question he had just asked was something of common knowledge.

Quickly realizing that perhaps the question was something that as a goblin, or rather, as a goblin King should know, he said:

"Eeeeeh, it's to know if you know it. It's a test." He said nervously. It was the worst excuse ever seen but the intelligence of the goblins is not its most outstanding feature.

So immediately Red Moon recomposed and proudly, as one who demonstrates a skill in front of a father:

"In da center da mushrooms are for runt, only runt when they born eat it, we can eat them too, but less runts in new circle. In da corners there we are mushrooms for big boys, better to be strong. " he said. "No mushrooms for King, but we can cook a new runt for m'a Lord".

Again, he put the malicious smile while looking at the runts.

"No need, we need them at this moment" Klart said trying to sound benevolent.

This was way too much for him, he didn't know a shit about goblins, and less about being a King. He didn't know if he could lead these goblins, and more important, lead them for what? He didn't know, but he thought that if goblins were as hate in this world and they were in the novels, he needed as much soldiers as possible to defend himself.