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Goblin Slayer: Self Insert

I somehow got reincarnated in Goblin Slayer World. At least I got born in the Royal family even if my father is sometimes a dick. Still, it's not all bad. Look out monsters here I come. I will definitely try to better this world by hook or crook. Self Indulgent. Self Insert (SI). Will contain harem later in the story. Lemons are also heavily featured.

Hit1903 · 漫画同人
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A New Base

Chapter 10

A New Base

But getting the horse created some problems for me.

The owner of the house in which I rented a room, refused to have a horse tied near his home. He asked for more rent if I wanted to have a horse. Obviously, I refused. After a little bit of negotiation, he agreed to give me a week's worth of time to find a new place to crash for a silver coin extra with the rent. With my negotiation prowess, the silver coin also included hay for the horse to eat.

Truthfully, I was already thinking of moving out.

I had no problems with the house or my landlord.

Well... I had some problems with the landlord. But it's not like I had a line of houses that I could rent.

The main reason to move out was that I just liked my privacy. I liked to come and go without anyone poking their heads out from the window to see me. I have gotten the taste of freedom and I didn't want to budge an inch on that.

Moreover, I couldn't draw runes on his house without his permission and thus was unable to erect wards on the house (Not that he would have agreed if I had asked as he would have been wary of me). And it takes a fourth of my reserves to erect temporarily wards around the house daily just so I can sleep at night without any worry. They only last for half a day. And if I want the house to be protected for the entire day at the weekends, I had to sacrifice half of my reserves.

I didn't want that.

It was good that I only took low-level quests, otherwise it could have gotten me in some serious problem without my magical reserves to back me up.

In the end, I decided to buy a piece of land here. I didn't want to do that before as that could mean settling my roots here but I had no other choice seeing as I was here for the foreseeable future.

Usually, tomorrow would have been my day off but I have decided to take a day off today to find a new place just in case I need more than a day to find one.

After I woke up today, completed my morning rituals, and ate my breakfast, I exited the house in search of a house that is habitable for me in my civilian get up.

Unfortunately, no one was willing to sell the land even to my civilian persona. The only people willing to sell me the land lived farthest away from the Water town and they asked exorbitant price for a small plot of land.

I only learned the reason by chance. I went back to ask some more questions to the family with whom I was negotiating for the land. When I reached the door, I heard them talk. I used a spell to hear them clearly.

It was good that they didn't notice me otherwise I would have never learned that tidbit of information.

Apparently, they don't own the land. They just took it when they settled here. But they have to pay taxes to the higher-ups according to the land they own. Only the people living in the city and near the city own the land.

They were laughing at me for being so gullible. Apparently, they thought they could get away with it as once I paid them the price, I wouldn't be able to do anything to them, they said.

I scoffed at that. They didn't know that I am an adventurer and could have killed them 10 times over without breaking any sweat.

On one hand, I was angry at the deception. On the other hand, I knew that it was my own fault. I should have researched before jumping into the fray.

I sometimes curse my luck. Being a prince of a country has its uses but things like these aren't known to me. I have no doubt there are many more such things which I am unaware of and the common men know as a fact.

In the end, I just shook my head and walked away back to the house to eat lunch. After all, I can't exactly do anything for their deception. Technically, they didn't do anything harmful. They were just trying to do that.

Still, I was happy that I learned that tidbit of information with the last day for leaving the house coming up the next day. I already wasted a day trying to buy the land.

While I was eating lunch, I got an idea.

Seeing as I didn't have any other choice, with the date of leaving the house being tomorrow, I decided to capture a plot of land quite a bit away from the other houses.

After I ate lunch, I went farther from the city. After a few hours of looking around, I found the perfect plot of land. It was practically between the forest and river which were 100 meters apart from each other. It was enough space to make a small base.

Once, I found the spot, I went back and packed my stuff. There was not much extra stuff since I came here about a month ago. I only bought a few kitchen utensils to make my own food when the tavern food started emptying my pocket faster. And there was enough space in my trunk for them due to my space expansion runes.

Then I took my leave from the house after paying 2 gold and 1 silver coin for rent to the landlord and walked away with my trunk and horse to the land I found. He was quite surprised that someone was willing to house an adventurer. He even asked where I was going as I sat on my horse, but I didn't answer him and galloped away.

I had to hurry up as it was getting dark.

When I got there, no one was around for hundreds of meters so no one took notice of the stone hut forming from the ground, a few minutes later.

It was nothing spectacular.

Just 4 walls in the shape of a square, a roof, and a floor of stone that I raised from the ground with my magic. From the outside, it looked like a boulder in the shape of a 10x10x10 (in feet) cube.

I then hollowed out a door and a window from the opposite walls so that air could ventilate. I then made a bed of stone on one side while I also made a chimney on the other sides of the wall.

And Voila!

A temporary house was ready.

Once I raised the house from the ground up, I was spent magically. It took 40% of my magical reserves in total to build the house.

But the work was not done.

I had to do the same for my horse too otherwise he could get cold and sick. If he makes noises, people would also notice him and no doubt steal him. Not to mention the monsters that could try to kill and eat him, especially goblins. While I don't think that they could come here this close to the town without creating a ruckus, it could still happen. I didn't want to leave it at a chance.

So, I raised a similar structure though without any chimney and bed so that he could move a little around. Instead of them, I made 2 big bowls on one side of the room for him to eat and drink. I think he loved his new home.

All in all, I spent 75% of my magical reserve in just a few minutes.

I took a little break after that as using three fourth of my magical reserves in 2 minutes comes with a cost for me.

'Why don't the people who use stave get magically exhausted when they use their quota of daily spells?' I wondered.

Side by side, I also checked if there was anything else that needed to be taken care of.

In the end, without some experiments and observations, I could only theorize the cause of my magical exhaustion. So I decided to take a look at that in the future.

Once I had rested for a few minutes, I gave my horse his food. The problem of the water was taken care of with the river only a few dozens of meters ahead from his housing. Since the water was downstream, we didn't get any contaminated water too. It was one of the main factors in capturing the land here in this direction.

With my horse taken care of, I started preparing my food.

First I collected some firewood from the forest. Then I used the firewood to cook food and stored the extra firewood for future use.

While I cooked food, the fire from the wood also warmed my house. Today was the 1st day of the 2nd month. I knew that the winter season was still here for at least a couple of months. It was one of the reasons why goblin quests were so few. After all, many small and big monsters hibernate in the winters if the food sources are scarce.

Once, I had eaten and recovered some of my energy, I started carving runes on the outside walls. While there was darkness, no one would notice my house but in the morning, everyone and their mothers would be able to see it. And that would create problems.

Obviously, I didn't want that.

I used the runes to create wards around the house that would block people from scrying me. They would also not notice it unless they are actively searching for it. And naturally, it would paralyze a person for 24 hours who would try to enter the house forcefully.

The runes were of Elvish tongue seeing as it was probably one of the earliest languages of this world. Moreover, the elves were famous and known for their work of warding the structures before it was lost to them. So I knew that they would work effectively.

I could have used the Dwarfish language as it also one of the earliest languages of the world but I believe that dwarfish runes are better in enchanting weapons and armors. I would know, seeing as I used them in enchanting my own weapons.

The elvish runes are only a little worse than them in enchanting weapons and armors as they are more attuned to nature.

I drew more runes and filled all of them with my blood as the conductor as I have found that it is more magically conductive than any other material. I had already filled 2 bottles with my blood for these types of situations so I didn't have to injure myself to get it. But I was only able to power runes for the above-mentioned wards before I succumbed to the magical, mental, and physical exhaustion. I was unconscious in a few seconds.

In those few seconds, I cursed myself for not going to the brothel before coming here as it was my off day. Now, I could only go there next weekend as I wanted to complete my half-century in the next week.

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