BXBX NOVEL Chapter 16: Skirmish
He had st the rest of the rodts in his disposal to die to make space for the new arrival, and it is a good decision. He now have 40 Demonic Goblins and 60 Normal Goblins in his forces, filling up the system space\'s space limit.
"Hopefully, this will be ough," he muttered.
[ What are you planning, Master? ]
"A little skirmish. I want to see what the settlemt can do and if they possess any powerful people inside, which is highly unlikely but one can never know," he explained.
[ Is that why you subjugate a lot of goblins this time, without demonifying them? ]
"Yes. I afrain if we attack them using the Demonic Goblins there will be some questions and they might just report this to a nearby force," he told the system space.
[ That seem to make sse. But what will you be doing during the skirmish? ]
"I will do a little espionage and grabbed as many books and records as I can. If necessary, I will ev record it for further use," he answered, as he make one last preparation before the night skirmish.
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"Hhmm, what is that?"
"What, do you have too much to drink two days ago?"
"Dammit, it\'s not like that! I feel like something big is about to happ. Something dangerous,"
"Yeah sure, lets not talk about your delusi-"
A raspy gasp replaced the ergetic order, as the two other guards looked at their fall frids with a shock look on their faces. They squinted at the origin of the arrow before their eyes found something of interest, goblins did not wear human\'s armor and equipmt.
"Goblins!" one of the guards yelled while the other headed towards the other location of the war horn, only to be sounded during emergcy. Yet, their currt situation warrant it as the goblins coming numbered more than 0.
"Every able m, to do the front! Grab the weapons and th set up the perimeter!" the leader, hearing the horn, immediately bark orders, his m following it to the best of their abilities.
He scowled, the number of people in the settlemt is a 50, yet not all of them are able fighters. He is lucky this is a rectly formed settlemts so there are no childr yet, but they still need to protect the wom, who while could fight, can still be overwhelmed by the goblins.
He had hear ough horror tales of what happ to wom captured by the gre monsters and he has no desire to allow them to do as their please.
"Make sure the wom are all at the cter, and armed them," he reminded. "I also want 0 m protecting the warehouse!" he added.
After all, there is a chance that the monsters are after their food. A hungry goblin\'s tribes would brazly attack a settlemt to feed themselves, or so he heard.
As if to confirm his thought, one of his m shouted, "There are 5 goblins heading towards the warehouse but we managed to repel them!"
"So they are after food," he talked to himself. Which is both bad and good news. Bad because they will not run after many of them being killed, forcing them to kill to the last monsters. But good because they will be running on instinct, making them easier to kill.
Still, he expected casualties, maybe ev deaths from the amount of goblins. While they are in a defsive position, they have to spread their forces in case they created a diversion to just get into the settlemt.
So, he has to be vigilant for any sign of trouble. The goblins seemed to be gathering, their numbers rising to 50. Wh it seem their numbers did not rise, the leading goblin roared, the tire tribe bearing their tire force on the northern side.
"I want the rest of the m, except for five at each sides to go to the northern palisade!" the leader ordered. The settlers all headed towards the north.
"Gave the wom weapons and order them to head to the warehouse!" he gave another order, this time for the wom.
The settlers did what their leader commanded, showing great discipline though there is a lot of mistakes they make.
However, they still arrive first than the goblins, who all worked on destroying the barricades. "Superman to the front!" the spear militia all pointed their spears to the front as they began to move forward, their spears ready to impale the goblins.
For their credits, the goblins seemed to realize this as they back away, with some began to pelt the militia with stones. Thankfully, they also have slingers at the back who return the favor, with greater force and accuracy.
The goblins number began to go down but they also brought them makeshift shield, namely tree barks they rips of from decaying logs which did not serve as much protection but still ough for now.
As they began to push the goblins back, some managed to sneak past and attack his m. Their claws could do significant harm and they also wield bone daggers and stone daggers.
With their smaller size, it is hard for the spear man to kill them wh they get to close, resulting in some loses in their numbers. Yet, they still have the advantage especially wh the leader barked another order.
"Spearman to the back! Swordsm to the front!" the spearm quickly exchange places with the sword militia, who began to overpower and slaughter the goblins.
Yet ev as their numbers dropped, the goblins did not retreat, charging like a bunch of lunatic as they seemed to spout out curses in their language.
This confirms the hungry theory and so, the leader keep giving orders to his m to attack the goblins, preparing to exterminate them.
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"Looks like this is the last of them, leader," his right hand man stabbed a goblin at it\'s head before looking at the leader, who was busy scouring the place while grabbing the mana core of the goblins.
"Seems that way. Sd our messger to go to a nearby town and sell all the mana core. The money should be ough to allow us to expd some more," the leader said.
The right-hand man nodded before leaving, as the leader pondered over something.
"Does another more powerful creatures appear, scaring away all the prey of the goblins and forcing them to attack us? I better tell the man to prepare, though hopefully the creature, whatever it is, will not target us,"
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"Looks like I get a bunch of good loot," Alros said happily. He looked at the documt he had copied along with some books. Thankfully, he had bought some books, all of the blank of course, and replace it with the one he get from the settlemt.
"With this, we will understand more of the world, or at least this area,"