Today is the day we will attack the goblins. I was in front of all war-ready hunters and guards wearing a complete set of defenses and weapons of their choice.
"All my brave hunters and guards. You do everything to cleanse these forests of any danger and guard out people from them. But if these goblins are allowed to live this close to our towns and villages. Then we would not be able to live our wife, children, and elderly home in safety. So, let our children grow without any danger. We have to win this war and exterminate these goblins from here."
"All hail the King! Kill the Goblins!"
"For our King!"
People, guards, and hunters all shouted.
Our group of 753 moved towards the goblin settlement in the closest one in a south-east direction. At our speed, we will reach near it by the time it is evening. So, we will have to camp outside for night as our poor night-vision will stop us from fighting effectively.
We stopped about 2 km from goblins, and I assigned 50 guards to rotate night guard duty in 10 groups of 5. thanks to my leadership skill leading these people was smooth, and coordination was also excellent.
I do not plan to attack goblins all-in-one go. Instead, we will divide into seven teams of 100 people and attack them in rotation while others remaining will be there stand-by to help if the need occurs. We aimed to fight for long and exhaust goblins and kill them with minimal casualties. We have with us food for a week and have instructed Ramu that if it goes for more than 7 days, then I will send someone to establish a logistic route for the regular supply of food and other needed items.
The next day, I woke up by the noise of commotion in the camp. Goblin hunt teams have spotted the camp early morning and attacked a guard who has managed to defend without any loss. But We lost the benefits of a surprise attack to goblins. We need to revise our strategy for the fight. We are now preparing to receive the attack from goblins. The attack came in the noon, there were more than a 1,000 goblins and in the lead was a hobgoblin much more significant in height than goblin same as human, but much more muscular. After the war cry of the hobgoblin, all the goblins attacked without the care for their life. It was our first time seeing a Hobgoblin and after seeing how all the attacks by hunters and guards did not affect it, and we're getting killed. I know that it is about to reach 100 in HP, MP, and SP, and I asked my people to leave this hobgoblin to me.
After exchanging blows with this monstrosity, I know that this was far more powerful than any enemy I have faced until now.
After the initial shock of a new powerful enemy was over, I started to overcome it, thanks to my superior agility and strength. As it became clear that I was stronger than this hobgoblin, our side's morale became high, and we started to kill goblins much faster. While we were engrossed in this fight, a powerful enemy was eyeing an opportunity to attack us. No one has guessed that there was a goblin magician in this group. Magicians are very rare in humans. But sudden magic attack pushed me back and did first substantial damage of -14HP. While hobgoblins, each attack did only -1HP attack, and I did -6HP.
I know that if this continued, I would die here. I have to stop this by first killing that goblin mage. I neglected the hobgoblin and run for goblin mage. The goblin mage was seeing this and started to run away while hobgoblin was running behind me. But I am much faster than anyone present here and caught the goblin mage very fast, and we started to attack each-other while running. When I killed goblin mage, my HP was (99/165), and I began fighting with the hobgoblin. Without the help of that goblin mage, this hobgoblin was not much against me and died soon.
After the death of two leaders of goblins, all goblins started to run away back to their settlement. I stopped hunters from following them. We lost 154 people and killed 800 goblins. This marks the end of our first battle and death in our camp. This war has shown me that without real battle experience, no matter how better training you have, will be nothing in war. As there were less, then 300 goblin warriors left all hunters wanted to kill them for all. I asked everyone to take rest for today and recuperate.
In this war, 7 hundred-man captains did very well. I congratulated them for their first win of war. I told them a bold idea I was having in my mind: we will keep goblins in a controlled confined area and use them for training our graduate from the military academy. In this war, we lost many people because we never fought any weapon welding humanoid and high-level creatures. The highest level we usually fought was only level-2.
So, instead of killing all goblins, we decided that we will spear hundreds of goblin couples. We will let them grow for four months, as goblin pregnancy require only two months and two months to grow old and become a warrior. Then, we will cleanse them of all new growth other than a hundred goblin couple.
I know many will say I am cruel or whatnot, we need strong warriors to win our coming war with kingdoms. We need training before a strong enemy.
Everyone agreed that this was the necessary hardship that every warrior needs to face in the future. It was decided that we will attack in the morning. This new area will be named the warrior-graduation area.
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In the morning, When everyone was ready. Captains briefed everyone on the idea. Many disagreed, but i addressed that we need to do so, to make sure that such death does not occur in the future. With new determinations, we attacked goblins in their home.
Compared to the previous war-hungry goblins, what we got were old, children, women, and scared cowards. The total population was 800, much larger than us. Only about 300 who run from the battlefield showed some resistance. After killing about 500 goblins, we left 200 goblin children and 100 goblin females and 50 males. We kept way more than We planned alive because no one wanted to kill children. So, we left this many female-male to take care of them.
We planned to make a permanent post 5 km away from this settlement to keep an eye on these goblins. A total of 300 hunters will be posted here. A messenger was already sent to inform Ramu of the logistic of all arrangements.
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These are the Status of the MC, animals, and plants used in this chapter.
Adventure level: H
Name: Kola Age: 25 years
Job: King, hunter Level: 5 (12,874/100,000)
HP: 165/165 MP: 138/138 SP: 165/165
Body Attributes :
1. Physical Strength: (8+3.2)/50 2. Magical Strength: 1/50
3. Physical Defense: (8+3.2)/50 4. Magical Defense: 1/50
5. Body Density: (8+2.4)/50 6. Intelligence: (6+3.6)/50
7. Agility: (10+5)/50 8. Wisdom: (6+2.4)/50
Skills (divine mercy) :
1. Absorb to learn, level–7 (3,433,800/100,000,000)
2. King, level-3 (1,640/10,000)
- Population ruled : (1,420) (average level-4)
- Economic power: 1. Merata Company, 2. Storage House
- Land area ruled: 1. New outpost:1-10 villages, 2. outpost town
- Military power: (402) hunters, (350) guards (average level-5)
- Influence to neighboring regions: none
3. Status check, level-3 (9,000/10,000)
Skills (earned) {Passive}: [Agility up, level-5 (747,569/1,000,000)], [Physical Strength up, level-4 (38,138/100,000)], [Vitality up, level-3 (156/10,000)], [Physical Defense up, level-4 (1,421/100,000)], [Cooperate, level-4(8,005/100,000)], [Leadership, level-2 (855/1,000)], [Poison resistance, level-3 (4,129/10,000)], [Swordmaster, level-1 (30/100)], [Spearmaster, level-1(30/100)].
Skill (earned) {Active}: [Healing, level-4 (38,141/100,000)], [Straight charge, level-4 (1,466/100,000)], [Poison, level-3 (4,129/10,000)], [Jevalin thrown, level-1 (20/100)], [Stone throw, level-1 (80/100)], [Sex, level-1 (80/100)].
Equipment :
- Dura-Steel Sward,
- Wolf leather armor.
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Species: Goblin Race: Monster
Job: fire Magician/mage level: 6(0/1,000,000)
HP: 70/70 MP: 90/90 SP: 70/70
Body Attributes :
1. Physical Strength: 4/60 2. Magical Strength: 8/60
3. Physical Defense: 4/60 4. Magical Defense: 8/60
5. Body Density: 4/60 6. Intelligence: 8/60
7. Agility: 4/60 8. Wisdom: 8/60
Skills (divine mercy) : Sex level-3(0/10,000)
Skill (earned): [Stone Throw, level-2(0/1,000)], [Fire Magic, level-2(0/1,000)] [magic correction, level-1 (0/100)], [mana sense, level-1 (0/100)]
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Species: Hobgoblin Race: Monster
Job: warrior level: 6(0/1,000,000)
HP: 120/120 MP: 90/90 SP: 120/120
Body Attributes :
1. Physical Strength: 8/60 2. Magical Strength: 4/60
3. Physical Defense: 8/60 4. Magical Defense: 4/60
5. Body Density: 8/60 6. Intelligence: 4/60
7. Agility: 8/60 8. Wisdom: 4/60
Skills (divine mercy) : Sex level-3(0/10,000)
Skill (earned): [Stone Throw, level-2(0/1,000)], [Swordmaster, level-2(0/1,000)], [Superstength, level-1(0/100)], [war cry, level-1(0/100)]
