Engage start

Simmon handed over the ring of slaves into my hands. 

"Are you sure, you want to do this," Simmon felt doubting. 

"Yup, it's better than nothing, I guess."

I walked towards the oldman, as for the other had already left and was preparing to defend the house. Even though the city was so big for us to defend and might not cover everything, setting up our tarps at least we might reduce some of the goblins ' numbers. 

"Oldman I'm putting this slave ring into you now, so get ready."

"Go ahead kid" I don't know what to feel about his words but I feel like he is confident and also he is more relaxed and calmer than ever.  But at the end without hesitation I put the ring on his neck and I repeated what the oldman said before. 

Later on, the spell was lifted up and not only that I also felt something itchy on the back of my left hand. 

"Ouch!?" I yelped, I held my left hand with my right hand. As the spell was continuing, he made a contract with the oldman. As if it was nothing for him. 

Once the spell was calm down on oldman and also my itchy left hand. I looked at where the itchy of my left hand was, and saw a drawing on the back of my left hand. It was a skull head of a gecko. 

"What the, what is this?" I asked the oldman while staring at him. 

He replied "Since we are now master and servant. First, I'll introduce myself, my name is Camelion," He bowed at 2 O'clock angle. "As I said before it was something of the slave you did in the bunnies you did. But." he pauses before he continues. "This one is different, since you are my master now and I'm your servant I'll tell you anything but not everything."

"Just tell me, what did you do to me." I shouted and felt irritated by this oldman or Chameleon. 

"That's a contract between you and me, the symbol of gecko is the symbol of my power. Just like mine, you have yours to." He showed me the drawing on the back of his left hand. It was a straw hat skull with a bag behind the head of the skull, also the eyes socket was a gold coin and diamond. 

"What the heck is this drawing, is that how my power looks. What's that mean?" I'm a little bit panicked right now. 

"Don't worry it won't harm you..." he paused first and patted my shoulders. "You will be fine, kid." 

I brush-off his hands on my shoulder and I told him "Am not a kid. I have a name" I yield to him.

"Woa, woa, chill out. Okay, fine, what's your name then. Since we are now master and servant. Master."

"Ahh, right. Just call me Jack, not master, kay?" It felt weird when he addressed me, Master. 

"As you wish, Jack. and you can also call Chameleon or lion, not oldman" he said.

"Fine by me. Anyway how you gonna help us?" I asked, I'm quite a little concerned for baby Jill safety here. So I might ask him if he could protect Jill while we work on the battle.

"I will instruct you guys behinds," he said bluntly. I dunno know if I either laugh or cry. 

I knitted my brows "instruct?"

"Yes"

"For real?"

"For real" 

"Then you are useless then," I sighed. "Anyway, you can just stay here and protect Jill with all your flesh." Man, what a waste of contract. 

"Ohh no no , it's just like this is I stay behind with a bow while I instruct you guys in fighting. I can also shoot a bow to support you guys." He's trying persaud and explain many things of how he can support us.

"Ughh fine fine, so where's your bow? I have only." before I could finish my word. There's suddenly a bow in his hands. He smirked at me, I know that we already stripped him of all his items like bags and others but except the ring in his finger we couldn't remove it from it. As if it stuck like glue. 

"Where that came from?"

He gestured in his finger, "this not an ordinary ring, just like on my knicks' ' he pointed at his collar. "This ring is a symbol I construct with my bow."

"Oh no wonder it won't be removed from your finger."

"What did you just say!?"

"Nothing," I mumbled  "tsk so that's how it is, huh." 

So after conversation for a moments, we came out to our base and we are getting ready for the war on the goblins. O climbed one of the wall of the defensives towers. Even though we can't protect everything, we just have to reply to our traps and kill them one by one from a distance. And if we can't win. We just need to fleed and find new settlements, this is what our plan B if our plan A would fail. 

The sun was already seated on the west mountains. 

"Is everything prepared?" I asked them.

"Yup, everything was prepared."

"Yosh. Let's do this and make our own history here, not we just have to run. Btw guys, did you all store all your own treasures."

"Yup we already did everything on those three carriages."

"Good, our life is set then," we then looked at the goblins' camps who were busy lighting up their own torches. Before we thought we just poisoned them, the problem is they don't bring their own food. They then send their scouts to look for food. After they find hunting grounds, the scouts will switch to hunter and live to hunt the beast or other monster for their own food. but also the scouts on guards far from their teams and alerting them if they meet unexpected things or dangers.

That how Roger's team scouted and deducted how they acted. After listen to their reports, we realized what we should do next. That's right, we just need to get rid of the scouts before they know what happened to their scouts. and Then, the second thing was to lure out the hunters and the rest would be easy, that's how we planned. As for my servants, he didn't say anything, he just stood there and played with Jill. We then re-review our strategy, and we felt everything was just fine of our plan. 

And here we are scattered everywhere and looking for the scouts. The problem is, it's too dark to see them. I don't know if goblins scouts are akin to the dark and they didn't use torches to look for their own prey. After waiting for a while I heards one of my traps I sit up, got snaps or someone triggered. I hurriedly went to where my traps got triggered. 

When I arrived, I saw a goblin laying on the ground and squeaking loudly while holding his own legs. It's one of the bear traps I set up on the bush. next to the castle gates. I grab my short bow and arrow, Aimed the arrow towards the goblin who was still squealing loudly. When I released the bow string on the arrow...

Pew!

It flew so fast, since it was point-blank range. I didn't miss to shut the goblin on heads. I walk toward the goblin, and kick the goblin head to make sure it is dead. and it is. I grab my arrow hurriedly before his other companions find the corp of their own kinds. When I grab the arrow on the goblin head, it gushes out of green blood, and and also stinks, I almost get puked.

The first traps and kills were perfected but I can't celebrate yet if we can't driven away the goblins entering from the city. I know the city's ruins were so big but we are trying our best to defend.