Chapter 5 - Section 2: Capital Lament

Having arrived at the periphery of the royal capital, the newly arrived 3,000 goblin forces of Satou's legion melted into the forest depths, shortly afterward Satou himself and his self-appointed unit commanders arrived at the goblin command space, in a clearing within the forest.

Having seen Satou arrive, the goblins present who'd been discussing something around the stump of a large tree that was being used as a table quickly stood up and performed a Roman salute to their supreme commander who had returned.

<Reconnection with Minions established, processing minion command results>

Report start;

1337 Common Goblins (All set to Guard/Pillage surroundings area)

25 Uncommon Goblins (All set to Command/Guard surrounding area)

519 Common Orc (All set to Guard/Pillage surrounding area)

6 Uncommon Orc (All set to Command/Guard surrounding area)

**Temporary storage has been filled, and excess resources are being used by commanders for expansion

Unit numbers

107 Common Goblins slain

33 Common Orcs slain

Temporary storage (10,000/10,000)

(6,000 Food Items / 4,000 Ores)

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Having arrived he received a system-generated report on his two minion armies' results over the last few days, they'd lost some of their forces, but the attack of merchants and other travellers had resulted in a large amount of food being raided which was originally destined for the capital, and the ore's reported by the system were metalworks and crates of ores destined with the blacksmith forges, that were now never to arrive.

<Minion Control experience has reached maximum levelling up>

<Scavenging Proficiency maximum has been reached>

<Experience maximum has been met experience points reserved>

The results of his skills and proficiency were quite dulled compared to before but since their forces were quite smaller plus it hadn't been nearly as long it was more than understandable.

Having linked up the legion broke up and individual cohorts joined up with the existing goblin and orc units to increase their operations in the area, while Satou connected with Heracles to get a picture of how things were inside the city itself, since unless he could evolve them the goblins could only communicate with Kurama at the moment and well... it was more than broken information if he had to admit since Kurama at present still spoke like a little child and anything she relayed was missing vital information or points.

Choosing to hold their meeting within the sewers, after only just over a week master and servant reunited once again.

"Master!" <Heracles >

"Herc you're looking much better than you were before" <Satou >

"It's all thanks to your summons Master, our lives in the city have gotten better since the knights and guards focus has been drawn to outside the capital, and their patrols are regularly delivering us supplies through this passage at night." <Heracles >

"That's good to hear, but as you may have guessed since I've returned we've brought reinforcements, and with that, we'll be starting the next stage of the conflict by ramping up the embargo of goods into the capital, the surrounding villages and towns should already be known better than to send travellers to the capital but we don't know if any of them will send out a subjugation force since our forces have been operating under self-defence only without killing anyone if they can help it" <Satou >

"That is appreciated Master, if there were no deaths the surroundings should not send a subjugation force as they'll assume the monster horde is just passing through rather than actually staking a claim to the lands" <Heracles >

"Good it's better the more isolated we can make the capital for our purposes" <Satou >

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Having met Heracles returned to the city Satou meanwhile was in the midst of reorganizing his army to further enhance their guerilla tactics, while travellers to the capital had certainly lessened recently there still were those who hadn't believed the rumours or hadn't stopped in town to learn the peril the capital was currently under as it was besieged by Satou's forces,

As always Satou's Goblin's and Orcs would raid, attacking the humans and other races injuring them enough to not be able to continue the fight before sending them back the way they came without their belongings.

The most significant change came in the form of also taking ownership of any slaves possessed by the travellers, having been captured by the monster forces most resigned themselves to their fate as breeding grounds or food for these monsters only to have those fears dashed, as they were instead released from their slavery, and provided with new clothes and food from a lone human who seemed to be the monster's leader.

If they so chose upon being freed they could leave if they agreed to not share what happened here with the outside world and upon agreeing to receive a modest sum in which to start their new lives.

The other option was to join up with the monster army serving as support staff, who would help to sort through the captured items and provide training to the newly freed slaves.

The ratio of those who chose freedom over continued service was 2:8 and as time went on fewer opportunities to increase their ranks decreased until they'd stopped altogether.

The capital's knights did sortie a few times but not in force, and upon sighting this the guerillas would use hit-and-run tactics to assault these knights eventually forcing their retreat due to exhaustion from continuous combat.

After having discussed it with their newly freed companions about the plan in place they all agreed that once the capital had released their captives they all would follow Satou in the establishment of a village or town where the Hellenic faith could be practiced in peace, without persecution at least within the city limits itself.

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Satou (Kokei) Ekiken Age: 27

Race: Human Level: 45/45 +2 (Lvl: 105) +2 Class: Warlock summons 85 max +1

Title: From Another World, Dungeon Conqueror (54-Pale Grotto), Dungeon Master (54)

Health C Mana B

Strength D Dexterity D

Vitality D Intelligence B

Agility C

Unique Skill: Gamer [Yggdrasill] +1 - DLC: <Niflheim >

 Minion Control (6) +1

 Auto-Loot (2)

 Skills:

 Deception (2), Mana Sense (4), Mana Manipulation (6), Mana Vision (5), Demonic Charisma (1), Flock of Familiars (1)

 Magic

 Magic Hand (2), Fire Magic (1), Lightning Magic (1), Dark Magic (3), Light Magic (4) Havok (1), Chaos (1), Toll of the Dead (1), Unseen Servant (1), Depilate, Implant Urge

 Summon (4)

 Beast DEFG

 Insect DEFG

 Bird DEF

 Grass DE

Stone D

 Professions:

 Alchemy (6), Blacksmithing (2), Cooking, (2), First Aid (5), Herbalism (2), Leatherworking (2), Mining (1), Scavenging (10*) +1, Skinning (6) , Tailoring (2), Treasure Hunting (2)