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читать дальшеDay 55
Informing everyone of the goblins that left the other day, I told the others that if there are those that want to leave, they can leave, so just tell me, I will give them a parting gift, this was my policy, but in the end there wasn't anyone.
Well, fine then, today I quickly finished doing minor changes to the rankings caused by the goblins who left, then went out hunting.
When I returned from the hunt, I worked on producing several items that I had previously thought to make.
Day 56
In the morning, I continued tinkering with the communication equipment (Self-made) that I started working on yesterday and now it’s finally completed.
I don’t think I know how it works, but a simple production summary is as follows.
The Mithril ingot that I got from Father Elf as a reward for sharing the information was absorbed by my [Self-Evolution] ability, which is one of the abilities of Airgeatlámh.
→ A part from the taken material is pressed out from the tip of my finger creating a cuff.
→ Several drops of blood are shed from my fingertip.
→ The decoration created out of them resembles a jewel, I then fit it into the blue metal cuff.
→ With that the communication equipment is complete.
In short, it’s a means of telepathic communication utilizing [Self Replication].
From what Redhead has told us, this world doesn't widely employ the use of communication equipment, since this is the case I expect that the ability to quickly share information will be extremely effective.
At any rate, however, it has taken more time than I thought to enchant the cuffs.
I provided everyone with a cuff, the ones that I had gone through a multitude of struggles to make.
The cuff is impossible to remove unless you cut the flesh around it, I have carefully designed it so that once the cuff is worn it fuses with the flesh, however I don't have to worry, as [Regeneration],[Lesser Strength],[Lesser Dexterity] and the like are activated if you try to remove it, as I explained.
Since I had grown tired from all the adjustments to the hearing and trying to make it comfortable for each individual, I went to sleep.
I awoke in the evening, and went for a good hunt before heading back to bed.
I went without sleep, since Gobumi-chan and the others came in and I had another hot night.
Day 57
I want a pet. Since I have the occupation [Job-Monster Tamer], I should put it to practical use.
Thinking that way, the four of us gobs went out together, for the first time in a while, to capture some.
My first target is a pack of Black Wolves. Because if it’s a wolf, it’s likely to make for a companion that is as good as a dog if I tame it, probably.
Because the Black Wolf is a monster, despite its appearance, it has lots of power. If I train it properly, I can use it as a mount for long distance travel.
But reality isn’t that simple. I couldn't find a Black Wolf.
I didn't have a problem with that since I captured five Three-Horned Horses and three Hind Bears today though.
Not to mention Gobumi-chan, Gobue-chan's activeness today gave me a surprise.
Though Gobukichi-kun and I tried hard, because we ended up killing a few by mistake due to how hard we hit, it was good that Gobumi-chan, who had been given [Failnaught], was able to shoot in between the gaps in the scales.
This is certainly because of the ability held by this magic item. You can say, I had to admire the surging waves of shots that it could fire.
But, Gobue-chan who used her pickaxe singlehandedly could overwhelm the Three-Horned Horses to this degree by herself, was above my expectations.
The pickaxe was something that she got from Velvet’s hoard, a [Rare] class item that simply held the ability of [Difficult to Destroy].
Yeah, the mining technique that she had cultivated as her hobby would be demonstrated here.
The superior speed and power of just one swing wasn't normal.
The gigantic figure of the Triple-Horned Horse that took a direct hit to the head, smashing its horn at the root and causing the head to rotate a half-turn at its starting point and fall from its body, was truly unbelievable.
She may be overshadowed by Gobumi-chan and Gobukichi-kun, but I truly felt that Gobue-chan belongs in the fourth place of the goblins of our generation.
Levels are important in this world, but with this one concentrated swing, it made me realized the the importance of the techniques that utilize the entire body, hips and legs.
I turned the three-horned horse that was trashed by Gobue-chan into a “familiar” with [Monster Tamer], somehow it rewrites a part of the brain. At most I can set two owners, and apparently the owners can talk with their pet with telepathy. What’s this, isn’t this too convenient? I set the three-horned horse’s owner to Gobue-chan and it turned into her personal mount.
Still hobgoblins, Gobumi-chan and Hobusato-san received Three-Horned Horses like Gobue-chan, while Gobukichi-kun and I, followed by Hobusei-san, got one Hind Bear each as a ≪Familiar≫.
There was one Three-Horned Horse left over, so I decided to leave it to the vice captain of Gobukichi-kun's troops, who was also a hobgoblin.
The reins and saddle magic items possessed by the twelve members of the reconnaissance group could not be used on Hind Bears, but since those could be used on Triple-Horned Horses, I gave it to them in advance.
And then in the evening, elves, three men and two women, had just fallen.
And so the same deeds were repeated again.
TL Note : Last time it was three men and 1 woman… so all that’s left is 4 men and 4 women. - Sarah
Yeah, it has been quite a significant day.
Day 58
I went out to look for Black Wolves again for the second day in a row. However, today I’m alone.
Gobukichi-kun and the others are in the middle of training to learn how to ride the ≪Familiars≫ from yesterday. I learned it easily because of the experience in my past life and also because of my ability [Horse Riding].
Being able to communicate was a great help too.
Gobukichi-kun and the others’ problems in getting used to riding were reduced because of the reins and saddle I made out of thread and leather to make riding easier.
But still, an armed Ogre riding on a Hind Bear is an awesome sight in many ways. I wonder what it would be like if the Hind Bear were also armed.
Today I caught a sign of Black Wolves on my [Presence Sensor], in the end, I successfully caught 8 Black Wolves and 1 Black Wolf Leader.
Although the Black Wolves' running speed, endurance, and body strength were excellent, they still couldn't measure up to Hind Bears. Even I didn't think that something with such a large body could run between the trees.
Having judged that they couldn't get away, the wolves stopped running. Though initially they bared their fangs rebelliously, after I glared at them with my ability, they wagged their tails like friendly dogs, and so I healed them a bit.
Afterwards, I toyed with the brains of the Black Wolves the same way as the former ≪Familiars≫, and then I returned to the den.
This time I gave the eight Black Wolves to the goblins belonging to the light armored troops ≪Red Surge≫ led by Hobusato-san.
They struggled similarly to Gobukichi-kun and the others to learn how to ride, I’ll do my best on finding a way for it not to happen in the future.
As for myself, I did many things with the Hind Bear named Kumajirou to deepen our relationship.
By the way, the Black Wolf Leader named Kurosaburou had become my beloved wolf.
I was healed by their cuteness.
Their previous ferocity could not be seen at all as they were being stroked comfortably by Redhead, Alchemist-san, and the others.
Oh yeah, after this I should add some «Familiars» to act as bodyguards for Blacksmith-san and the others.
Then, the remaining two Elf females and two males gave in. The ones who had resisted to the end were the previous two Elf escorts.
I tried to be gentle like I always did, but I might have gotten a little rough.
TL Note : Rou wanted them the very first time he saw them. This was to be expected. Also there’s something wrong with the numbering, so there’s 2 men and 1 female that gave in in between Day 58 and Day 57 - Sarah
Day 59
I rode on top of Kumajirou together with Redhead, to our side, walking along with us, was Kurosaburou. Together we made an unlikely party as we strolled through the uncharted parts of the forest.
Lately Redhead has had improved her combat skills, however, to her regret she hasn't killed anything so she hasn’t gotten any experience.
Basically, her level hasn’t changed.
Although her physical abilities have indeed risen from the daily training, it’s a trivial difference compared to the increase in ability from raising your level.
Incidentally, Redhead’s level is 18. Her level increased by ten during the hind bear hunt which is good, but frankly speaking she’s still beyond useless.
Her current physical ability is below that of any of the common goblins.
Such being the case, Redhead could no longer win against the surrounding goblins who daily went out to hunt and by the mysterious power of the world had their levels rise.
The reason we went out hunting this time was for her to improve.
Redhead wasn’t equipped with anything special. There’s a high chance that an inexperienced person would mistake the performance of their equipment for their own ability, thus she wasn’t equipped with any magical items.
Her weapon of choice is a steel kukri knife and she kept three ring daggers for backup.
For defense she has a Round Shield reinforced with shell, the same item provided to the general goblin infantry which are [Normal] class items.
She was wearing her everyday wear made by the sisters out of hind bear fur and my thread, as well as a breastplate and a grey cloak.
Her forearms were protected by steel gauntlets, her legs were protected by steel cuisses, steel kneepads, steel greaves and steel sabatons. All this equipment together looks very heavy, so I enchanted it to make it lightweight and the end result is that it’s actually quite light.
Thus Redhead’s movements were still nimble.
Her first prey was an Armored Tanuki.
She was struggling a little bit against the defense of its back shell, but because of the [Job-Warrior]’s ability to do battle corrections, or perhaps from the results of her training, or maybe both, in any case, Redhead succeeded in dismantling the Armored Tanuki.
The meat was given to Kurosaburou to eat.
The next prey were three night vipers. Even though she flinched from the piercing gaze, she calmly assessed their movements and was able to guard against their attack with her round shield, and she succeeded in decapitated them.
Their meat was given to Kumajirou to eat.
Three kobolds were next. I quickly captured two with thread, creating a situation where she’ll be able to fight one-on-one. Perhaps they determined there’d be no use in escaping and set their sights on Redhead, challenging her to a fight fair and square.
The kobold was a monster that had superior physical strength, but the combat skills developed by training with goblins every day covered the difference in physical ability.
Dodging the kobold’s slashes, sometimes parrying their attacks, Redhead managed without having serious injuries and finally decapitated it.
After a short break, I released one of the caught Kobolds after confirming Redhead’s stamina recovered to some extent. Not to set him free, but to have it fight Redhead.
Although she had a few injuries at the time, Redhead once again cut the kobold’s body into pieces.
From the last kobold, I asked for the location of the kobold village before I had them fight.
As a result, I learned of its location.
While thinking whether or not I’ll go to the village if given the opportunity to, Redhead who had more or less naturally recovered her physical strength said “Next Please” so I released the next opponent.
Then the final kobold put up a better fight than the last two, but in the end Redhead sliced off its neck with the sharpest slash of the day and killed it.
After curing Redhead's injuries and fatigue, I let Kumajirou and Kurosaburou each eat a kobold whole.
As for the remaining kobold, when I was about to start munching on it Redhead told me that she’d like to try eating it too, so I grilled it and ate together with her.
But nevertheless, I was impressed by Redhead's adaptability. She ate monster meat without any hesitation.
Well, I’m not sure I could call the action she did “eating”. I’m sure no matter if it was raw or metal, almost anything would be gulped down.
Yeah. Redhead is very courageous, it’s a good thing because it’s something you should be if you’re coming with me in the future.
Ability [Mountaineering] learned
As I was thinking "Okay then, our next prey is…", Redhead tugged on the edge of my coat.
“What’s wrong?” I asked as I looked down on her, those blue sapphire eyes were now a dull red.
What’s more the once circular black pupil was now a rectangular shape resembling that of a monster’s.
Tl Note: www.9mmsfx.net/goateye.aspx if you’re interested - Vidar
Alternative colouring: s5.postimg.org/44d96unjr/Goat_Eyes3.jpg by Chronos
But they still seemed to differ somewhat from a monster's eyes.
Rather than calling them ominous, those somewhat strange eyes gave off a chilling feel.
Somehow, she obtained a new [Job]. Maybe because she ate the kobold, or maybe because she trained with the goblins.
Well, putting that aside. I tried to listen to her story.
Redhead obtained a [Job], called [Noire Soldier].
After greatly increasing their affinity to monsters, those with the [Job-Warrior] had a constant chance of obtaining this rare job by clearing the condition of "eating a monster they killed themselves".
As usual, I thought was I the main cause of this, huh? I really didn't feel anything like regret, so I thought nothing of it.
Having gained a new [Job], Redhead's combat abilities rapidly rose.
Although there is the outrageous risk that a [Noire Soldier]'s body would rapidly deteriorate and would soon die if they don't consume monster meat or blood at fixed intervals, let's just say for now that they need a regular intake of monster parts, but the growth rate of their combat abilities is amazing.
No matter how you look at it, she now had physical abilities equal to or better than that of a hobgoblin.
Her combat power couldn't be compared to how she was earlier.
Considering that earlier her ability was equal or worse than the usual goblin, she really has made rapid improvement.
Redhead who kept saying “Awesome, Awesome!” while she deflected the Red Deer’s two horns, kicked its body so it flew up in the air and then cut its thick neck covered by strong muscles with the kukris blade, was somehow cute.
The horns were collected, the meat was shared cordially.
Ability [Wild Horn Dance] learned
Ability [Red Crystal’s Tone] learned
After that we hunted various things.
When evening came, I took a short stopover together with Redhead.
I confirmed that Redhead's new job [Noire Soldier] increased her abilities in a big way when she took in a part of me.
Since it was so, by taking in stronger monsters, she would become stronger herself.
Anyway, as for what she took in, it was something private.
TL Note: she ate thousands of Rou's potential children -larvyde
This can be some kind of plot hole. I mean, what if the others took it in too? -Kouta
Sexual Innuendos. So she’s gonna be drinking his semen from now on. - Sarah
During today's hunt, Redhead’s level rose to 34 and it was rapidly rising.
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Rou and Redhead’s Private Time.
After resting a bit, it seemed like we still have a bit of energy despite hunting out the whole day.
Since Redhead is clinging to me while we were sitting on a log. She looks like she’s still embarrassed about it, but she wants to have a go since she’s staring at me with pleading eyes while blushing.
It seems like I’m getting the heat too. So I might as well take this chance to see if a part of me would drastically change her ability.
Then I told her to sit in front of me in all fours, and try to lick my member down there.
She replied, “What are you saying all of a sudden!?” her face flustered and slapped my head as if she was retorting to me, nice comeback but it didn’t hurt though.
“Its an experiment for your new job”, seemed like she was anticipating something romantic from me.
She nodded after a few moments, she went down on all fours and crawled in front of me.
As soon as she was unfastening the ties in my pants I told her to stop.
She asked me why did I have to stop her, “Well, try using your mouth only since it would be more interesting that way”
Though she was a bit reluctant, she slowly nudged her face into my crotch and tried to open my pants with just her mouth, with a bit more time she finally unleashed my inner D.
As usual, it’s pretty well endowed that she has stare in amazement at it’s glory even if it’s still asleep. I inquired her if she’s okay finally snapping back to reality she got flustered and told me to just sit and relax. Closing her eyes, she pulled her tongue out and drew closer to my thing. Licking the tip first, even if she’s already used to it from our orgy nights, you could really see her trying her best on licking it even though it might taste salty.
A bit more later, she’s now licking from the tip to the side then to the base moving her face left to right as she also lick the side of my dragon. It’s already to the point where my dragon is almost rising, so I told her to put it in her mouth, she opened wide and tried to fit it in, but alas she can only reach up to the head. I used my metamorphosis a bit and tried to decrease the circumference a little but she stopped me with eyes filled with determination.
As expected of a warrior, she doesn’t want to back down though I shrank it just a little bit to somehow fit into her mouth. Moments later she started to produce saliva and layer it all over my dragon, and continued where she left off. I’m surprised how she can manage to slowly move deeper finally reaching the base. I could see the bulge in her throat and she’s actually shedding some tear. I comforted her by patting her head, it seemed like she’s happy getting patted as she moved slowly with an up and down motion, then finally separating since she needs air.
I told her you can now use your hands since it seemed like she’s having difficulties though I didn’t tell her about it since it might hurt her in a sense. Next thing she did was sucking the head of the dragon while caressing the balls of darkness.
It was a blissful feeling, it seems like she got a knack on things like this.
Finally she’s starting to suck quickly, while also moving both her hands up and down starting from the base of the dragon upto the middle.
Feeling the urge to come, I held her head and told her to take it all. Seemed like she steeled her resolve as she suddenly ravishly swallowed my dragon reached the base. At this sudden of turn of events, I came inside her mouth, my bodily fluid flowing into her throat.
She’s twitching from the burst, some of the fluids flowed out into her mouth and nose because it was overflowing. Her eyes was rolled up, and the color of her pupils has turned blood red. It seems like it activated her ability of absorbing monsters.
Slowly pulling away my dragon while holding her head, she coughed a bit whilst saying it was how my burst was going overboard. Well I apologized about that while wiping the fluid off her face and other places, though she was pouting for a while.
Not knowing what to do, I involuntarily caressed her cheeks. Told her that she did a good job, she blushed a bit and showed a mischievous smile while saying “Guess we’d do it from time to time~ Hehehe” while rubbing her nose from embarrassment.
She’s really a cute tomboyish girl, I gave her a light kiss. Caught a bit off guard from my kiss, she said “Really, doing that so suddenly…” with a soft voice.
Her red snake-like eyes staring at me while pouting again, she suddenly hugged me and kissed me. “Well, I guess just once wouldn’t be enough right? Wanna check if my other mouth would also work?” Teasing me like that, I couldn’t refuse. So we had sex a couple more times before finally leaving.
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Day 60
I felt something with [Presence Sensor]. Even though it was 2 hours after midnight, I wanted to say, I was still too energetic.
Recently, I’ve been able to perceive a considerably wide area. I have it activated at all times prior to sleeping and because it awakens me times like this, it’s very annoying.
That’s the reason why I’d made it so only those picked up by [Sense Enemy] will trigger it. However, the number of picked up targets this time was excessively large even though it’s in the middle of the night.
For one moment I thought the humans had come to attack, but I soon concluded that that is highly unlikely.
At night, the dark forest is monster territory.
If the humans were to attack now, they would be facing too much disadvantage.
Then, I immediately confirmed what it was.
The species name that was displayed in the tactical intelligence I constructed using my two abilities [Mental Map] and [Presence Sensor] was Kobold. I thought it was revenge already, but... that might be wrong.
There were 53 Kobolds indicated by red dots on my Mental Map. There were also 38 blue dots that appeared to be chasing them. Then, from the furthest edge, there was a rather large gray dot. Since individuals of the same species were indicated by the same color, then that means there must be three species.
What the blue and grey dots were was for now unknown. However, what I could tell was that when the red dots made contact with the blue dots, the reds were disappearing.
Apparently the kobolds were under attack by something.
Stuff like this happens all the time which is why I can ignore it.
But the problem was that the kobolds who were losing in numbers where heading straight for this cave.
I’d rather not have anything to do with this troublesome thing. However, since they kept coming closer, I decided to wake up everyone in order to prepare for the intrusion.
I could kill kobolds easily at any time. So, the threat I recognized was the blue and gray dots.
After a short while, the greatly reduced group of kobolds dived with a frantic expression, they’d been reduced to 36 members. Among the kobolds, there were not only males, but also females, elderly and children.
At the end of the line of armed male kobolds were the blue dots. They were white bleached skeletons armed with swords, shields and armor. The kobolds were desperately trying to hinder the skeletons' advance.
“….”
I was at loss for words for a while.
When I was inside Returners’ dungeon, I didn’t see a single skeleton. So this is the first time I’ve seen the real thing. However, no matter how I look at it, aren’t these skeletons the magical creatures guarding Velvet’s Dungeon?
Why are they here? …Ah, one Kobold got killed. It seems that I have very little time to think.
Thus, I sent down orders using the cuffs as a communication device and persistently attacked the skeleton group with bolts from the crossbows as a preemptive strike.
To start with, even getting a hit in on them is incredibly difficult. But even if they got hit head on, the bolt would simply snap. That’s how tough they were.
In all likelihood, there was some kind of ability at play here.
Judging that the crossbow attacks were ineffective, I stopped the attack from the long-range force. «Tirard» had the logistical support corps, «Patri» lead the escaping Kobolds to jail, and had Gobuji-kun in the middle of the Kobold group to administer simple medical treatments.
If they stayed here, they will only be a hindrance. Also, I wanted them under watch.
Having understood that long range attacks were ineffective, this time I ordered the main combat corps «Revolution» and light armed corps «Red Surge» to engage. The black wolves also helped.
However, cutting through bone with a sword is hard. It was a tough fight in the beginning.
But all that changed when Hobusato-san, with a wisdom born from experience, broke the bone with a scabbard. The skeletons were resistant to slashing attacks but are largely vulnerable to blunt force attacks.
I immediately relayed that information. Then, as if the tough fight until now was just a bad dream, we brought down the skeletons in no time as if we awoke from it.
But most importantly, now that we knew their weakness, the main problem was solved.
Gobukichi-kun equipped with his huge battle axe and tower shield was almost like a moving wall.
While bellowing resoundingly, the sight of that huge figure going through the skeletons and turning them into dust was refreshing.
Gobue-chan was equipped with a pickaxe as usual. But it’s not an exaggeration to say that she has already a certain kill swing; by swinging downwards from a higher elevation which resulted to crushing the skull in one hit all down the way to their sacrum without the momentum stopping. It was a terrible blow. The skeletons were simply being dug out.
TL Note: Sacrum - Triangular bone at the base of the spine, between the hip bones.
Gobumi-chan's [Certain Hit] skill with her arrow at the skull was not very effective as expected. But, she was able to ignore that; not only the amount of rapid-fired arrows were in numbers that hit their mark, but also the change of the arrowhead resulted in increase of penetrating power.
The skeletons did not have a way to defend against her rapid-fire that was like a raging wave.
Hobusei-san burned and scattered the skeletons around using her fire magic. Of course, she did not choose to use her wide-area destructive magic because there were allies at the vicinity. But due to her ranking up, her magic effectiveness had increased; her encounter with the skeletons wasn’t much of a handicap.
As for me, it goes without saying.
Unlike the Kobolds, we had many ways to deal with the opposition. We did not expect just to lose against these skeletons.
Also, because of the aggressive charge of Hind Bear and Three-Horned Horse from the «Familiars», we had too much war potential to be worried about losing.
I thought that I might not get a turn this time. But it seemed that thing didn't go that way since the number of Skeletons were not decreasing.
Despite the clattering Skeletons inside the cave were destroyed until they were nothing but a white heap of bones, more and more came from the cave entrance; there were no end to them.
Thinking about their origins, I remembered what Returner told us.
There were things superior to Skeletons called Greater Skeletons, which had the ability to produce Skeletons.
In addition, by absorbing the mana that was surrounding the darkness, the number it could produce seems to be near infinite. As what you would expect from Velvet-sama. That was something to boast about.
Ed Note: Credits to Tensaizz and honor. -Earl
"Ah, so that's how,” I came to an understanding, "I should immediately go and crush it."
However, I was discouraged by the amount of EXP that could be gained by killing the skeletons here.
"This is a good time for a level up!" I thought.
For that reason, I informed everyone about it. Though it was suddenly held past midnight, the festival for earning EXP begins!
Because the gray dot would be the Greater Skeleton that spawned Skeletons was still outside and didn't move, I had little worries.
At the beginning we were thinking, "Did anyone get killed by a skeleton?" but after a short while, everyone seemed to have gotten used to fighting them so they got by with almost no injuries.
There was a possibility that something unexpected could happen because of fatigue, so I fixed that by having them attack in shifts.
The long-range and logistical support corps can also hit and break them with blunt objects relatively easily while my bear buddy made sure no skeletons got away.
I munched on a pile of white bones while watching. Redhead came to take a break in the middle of fighting and also munched.
Blacksmith-san, the Sisters, and Alchemist-san went up in an uproar. I wondered if the bones are some kind of material? So I consulted it to them.
It can be used as an ingredient. Not only it is a high quality material but also pretty rare. That is I saved some of them and stored them in another location. You can also gain a good amount of gold from selling them. I have many expectations for the future if ever I can find someone to be a good source of funds.
As what you would expect from a Peddler.
When it comes to trade they are reliable.
Ability [Slash Resistance] learned
Ability [Pierce Resistance] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Sunlight] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Blunt Strikes] learned
Ability [Null Critical Hit] learned
Ability [Tireless] learned
Ability [Synostosis] learned
Ability [Joint Magic] learned
Ability [Equipment Materialization] learned
Ability [Evil Miasma of Life] learned
Ability [Negative Energy] learned
Ability [Null Abnormal State] learned
Ability [Null Cold Damage] learned
Ability [Null Electric Damage] learned
Ability [Acid Damage Resistance] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Light Damage] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Holy Damage] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Fire Damage learned
Ability [Anaerobic] learned
TL Note : Anaerobic means, does not need air to live/move around. We couldn’t find a better name for it since, almost all life needs air to live. - Sarah
More Note: Anaerobic in the raw literally says “Don’t need to breathe”, a typical undead ability. - FB
More like, typical undead “racial trait”
Since I ate a lot of them, I have secured quite a lot of abilities. Though there are many useless ones, it won’t be a problem since I won’t be activating them.
It’s probably been around 4 hours since we started gaining experience. It’s about time dawn will break. And because everyone has already acquired a good amount of experience and leveled greatly, I guess it’s time to end this festival.
More like, I wanna sleep.
Yeah I’m convinced; I’m definitely putting an end to this festival. I began charging towards the exit tearing the hordes of skeletons asunder with my silver arm and red spear, until I was finally outside.
Right then a black long sword was swung towards my head. However, I saw it coming so I parried it by swinging the red spear and thrust my silver hand’s fingers forward.
The black long sword wielding skeleton—a “Greater Skeleton”—was twice as large as the others and wielded an imposingly grand sword. My silver arm smashed through its large chest bringing this festival to an end.
The skull made a nasty grinding and rattling sound when I ate it. Of course, I shall still devour every last bone.
As expected of a higher species, you can gain experience from breaking them. The taste wasn’t bad when I tried eating the skeleton’s bone.
Also, it had obviously never occurred to me that bones could feel this appetizing.
What is this, high-grade bone? It had a nice consistency. Yeah, tasty.
Ability [Summon Lesser Undead] learned
Ability [Greater Equipment Materialization] learned
Ability [Mana Drain] learned
Ability [Lesser Damage Reduction] learned
Ability [Lesser Magic Damage Reduction] learned
Well, at first I thought, "How dare these kobolds bring us trouble," but now I see them as dogs that brought us good fortune.
Anyway, while looking at the cleric Gobuji-kun who was frantically healing the seriously injured kobolds, I finished the treatments for the rest of the kobolds and gave them all some sleeping drugs afterwards.
Since it would be troublesome if they went violent while we were asleep.
As for us, we had become worn out because of the festival so we went down to sleep.
And then evening came.
I woke up the drugged kobolds who were sleeping and asked their so called leader—“the foot soldier kobold equipped with a short spear"—and some of his associates about their situation.
As a result of that, I was able to establish the following:
They were a clan of Kobolds who lived in a cave just like us (though a little airheaded. They didn't do any expanding).
→They had been living by hunting in the forest and the mountain. But everything changed when they killed an orc and obtained an iron pick.
→ Recently, the female kobolds worked on expanding their home by digging holes while the males were out hunting for food.
→ Thus they were able to improve their living space. They were happy about it, and they were able to expand, too.
→ Then, the incident related to Velvet's Dungeon happened.
→ Not understanding what that space was at first. But since they decided that the male kobolds would investigate tomorrow morning, so for now they went to work filling up the hole, but it was already night, and a large mob of skeletons appeared.
→And they were forced to flee without getting what they wanted.
→Fatigue, a concept not known to a skeleton, soon overtook the kobolds and were mercilessly killed. Whether they were a warrior or not, old or young, male or female, none of them were spared.
→So… where do they all decided to go? Right. There was this cave owned by a renowned Ogre. One way or the other, it may work out if they all went there, right?
→But they could still be killed.
→So their leader declared “Either way... we’ll all be finished at this rate… So let’s make a gamble”
→You know the rest.
....What the heck?
Uhh, hmm... nevermind... as long as everything’s okay in the end.
Once their story had ended, I fiddled with my horn as I tried to sort the details in my head while the Warrior and Footman Kobolds, who fought the skeletons, made a single line kneeling before me.
Footman Kobolds were the ones who ranked up first, the Kobold lifestyle is fundamentally that of a warrior or a Samurai. I, who have so far only killed and eaten several Kobolds, have finally understood this.
“Yeah, we even eat our own kind lots of times. The strong inevitably feed on the weak. Fuelled by the ambition of one day becoming “Lord”, we killed and ate each other.”
That’s right, “Lord”.
I am usually called “Chief” by normal Kobolds, but the Footmen Kobolds call me “Lord”.
A life saved is a life worth selling in return was what they seem to believe. That’s all there is to it.
But if someone betrayed me, their lord, his blade would be gladly ordered to execute them.
Ed Note: Credits berserkknight on this part. -Earl
That was what he declared.
Well, understandably nobody would buy his word just like that. But it feels like the earnestness in those eyes would eradicate any remaining doubt. Eyes that are earnest aren’t to be taken lightly.
And so, I decided to prepare something just in case.
I opened my item box, picked the magic items before I ate all ten of it without leaving anything behind.
Ability [Enslave] learned
The item I ate was called “Collar of Slavery” which belonged to the adventurers that died in “Velvet’s Dungeon”
It was so obvious to explain its function. Evidently, it was just something guards could put to good use.
An incredibly useful ability which I’m still wondering why I never stumbled onto it before.
The reason was plain and simple: I tried eating one as an experiment before and it was because it was awful and unpalatable.
I didn’t feel any texture from it: The surface was sticky and its contents awfully hard, the more I chewed, the more I was overcome by a feeling of nausea.
The taste was also bitter, sour and spicy, should I say the exquisite taste from that triple trouble was indescribable?
It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten something this horrible. I usually keep these for convenience instead. But I actually came this far with that.
That’s what you call “a moment of need”—you put up with what you eat because you need to.
There you have it, the ability [Enslave]. An anti-treason ability, but this ability won't show any effect just by possessing it. To solve this, I should probably start manufacturing cuff-type communication devices.
Ed Note: Must be equipped, instead of just possessing it, before the effects shows, I guess? -Earl
Eh? What about the Kobolds you ask? I’ll think about it in the morning. But for now, they can use the cells to sleep in.
The Kobolds are being surprisingly obedient. I feel like I shouldn’t be too hard on them.
What a dilemma… Do I kill them or do I let them join our ranks?
Informing everyone of the goblins that left the other day, I told the others that if there are those that want to leave, they can leave, so just tell me, I will give them a parting gift, this was my policy, but in the end there wasn't anyone.
Well, fine then, today I quickly finished doing minor changes to the rankings caused by the goblins who left, then went out hunting.
When I returned from the hunt, I worked on producing several items that I had previously thought to make.
Day 56
In the morning, I continued tinkering with the communication equipment (Self-made) that I started working on yesterday and now it’s finally completed.
I don’t think I know how it works, but a simple production summary is as follows.
The Mithril ingot that I got from Father Elf as a reward for sharing the information was absorbed by my [Self-Evolution] ability, which is one of the abilities of Airgeatlámh.
→ A part from the taken material is pressed out from the tip of my finger creating a cuff.
→ Several drops of blood are shed from my fingertip.
→ The decoration created out of them resembles a jewel, I then fit it into the blue metal cuff.
→ With that the communication equipment is complete.
In short, it’s a means of telepathic communication utilizing [Self Replication].
From what Redhead has told us, this world doesn't widely employ the use of communication equipment, since this is the case I expect that the ability to quickly share information will be extremely effective.
At any rate, however, it has taken more time than I thought to enchant the cuffs.
I provided everyone with a cuff, the ones that I had gone through a multitude of struggles to make.
The cuff is impossible to remove unless you cut the flesh around it, I have carefully designed it so that once the cuff is worn it fuses with the flesh, however I don't have to worry, as [Regeneration],[Lesser Strength],[Lesser Dexterity] and the like are activated if you try to remove it, as I explained.
Since I had grown tired from all the adjustments to the hearing and trying to make it comfortable for each individual, I went to sleep.
I awoke in the evening, and went for a good hunt before heading back to bed.
I went without sleep, since Gobumi-chan and the others came in and I had another hot night.
Day 57
I want a pet. Since I have the occupation [Job-Monster Tamer], I should put it to practical use.
Thinking that way, the four of us gobs went out together, for the first time in a while, to capture some.
My first target is a pack of Black Wolves. Because if it’s a wolf, it’s likely to make for a companion that is as good as a dog if I tame it, probably.
Because the Black Wolf is a monster, despite its appearance, it has lots of power. If I train it properly, I can use it as a mount for long distance travel.
But reality isn’t that simple. I couldn't find a Black Wolf.
I didn't have a problem with that since I captured five Three-Horned Horses and three Hind Bears today though.
Not to mention Gobumi-chan, Gobue-chan's activeness today gave me a surprise.
Though Gobukichi-kun and I tried hard, because we ended up killing a few by mistake due to how hard we hit, it was good that Gobumi-chan, who had been given [Failnaught], was able to shoot in between the gaps in the scales.
This is certainly because of the ability held by this magic item. You can say, I had to admire the surging waves of shots that it could fire.
But, Gobue-chan who used her pickaxe singlehandedly could overwhelm the Three-Horned Horses to this degree by herself, was above my expectations.
The pickaxe was something that she got from Velvet’s hoard, a [Rare] class item that simply held the ability of [Difficult to Destroy].
Yeah, the mining technique that she had cultivated as her hobby would be demonstrated here.
The superior speed and power of just one swing wasn't normal.
The gigantic figure of the Triple-Horned Horse that took a direct hit to the head, smashing its horn at the root and causing the head to rotate a half-turn at its starting point and fall from its body, was truly unbelievable.
She may be overshadowed by Gobumi-chan and Gobukichi-kun, but I truly felt that Gobue-chan belongs in the fourth place of the goblins of our generation.
Levels are important in this world, but with this one concentrated swing, it made me realized the the importance of the techniques that utilize the entire body, hips and legs.
I turned the three-horned horse that was trashed by Gobue-chan into a “familiar” with [Monster Tamer], somehow it rewrites a part of the brain. At most I can set two owners, and apparently the owners can talk with their pet with telepathy. What’s this, isn’t this too convenient? I set the three-horned horse’s owner to Gobue-chan and it turned into her personal mount.
Still hobgoblins, Gobumi-chan and Hobusato-san received Three-Horned Horses like Gobue-chan, while Gobukichi-kun and I, followed by Hobusei-san, got one Hind Bear each as a ≪Familiar≫.
There was one Three-Horned Horse left over, so I decided to leave it to the vice captain of Gobukichi-kun's troops, who was also a hobgoblin.
The reins and saddle magic items possessed by the twelve members of the reconnaissance group could not be used on Hind Bears, but since those could be used on Triple-Horned Horses, I gave it to them in advance.
And then in the evening, elves, three men and two women, had just fallen.
And so the same deeds were repeated again.
TL Note : Last time it was three men and 1 woman… so all that’s left is 4 men and 4 women. - Sarah
Yeah, it has been quite a significant day.
Day 58
I went out to look for Black Wolves again for the second day in a row. However, today I’m alone.
Gobukichi-kun and the others are in the middle of training to learn how to ride the ≪Familiars≫ from yesterday. I learned it easily because of the experience in my past life and also because of my ability [Horse Riding].
Being able to communicate was a great help too.
Gobukichi-kun and the others’ problems in getting used to riding were reduced because of the reins and saddle I made out of thread and leather to make riding easier.
But still, an armed Ogre riding on a Hind Bear is an awesome sight in many ways. I wonder what it would be like if the Hind Bear were also armed.
Today I caught a sign of Black Wolves on my [Presence Sensor], in the end, I successfully caught 8 Black Wolves and 1 Black Wolf Leader.
Although the Black Wolves' running speed, endurance, and body strength were excellent, they still couldn't measure up to Hind Bears. Even I didn't think that something with such a large body could run between the trees.
Having judged that they couldn't get away, the wolves stopped running. Though initially they bared their fangs rebelliously, after I glared at them with my ability, they wagged their tails like friendly dogs, and so I healed them a bit.
Afterwards, I toyed with the brains of the Black Wolves the same way as the former ≪Familiars≫, and then I returned to the den.
This time I gave the eight Black Wolves to the goblins belonging to the light armored troops ≪Red Surge≫ led by Hobusato-san.
They struggled similarly to Gobukichi-kun and the others to learn how to ride, I’ll do my best on finding a way for it not to happen in the future.
As for myself, I did many things with the Hind Bear named Kumajirou to deepen our relationship.
By the way, the Black Wolf Leader named Kurosaburou had become my beloved wolf.
I was healed by their cuteness.
Their previous ferocity could not be seen at all as they were being stroked comfortably by Redhead, Alchemist-san, and the others.
Oh yeah, after this I should add some «Familiars» to act as bodyguards for Blacksmith-san and the others.
Then, the remaining two Elf females and two males gave in. The ones who had resisted to the end were the previous two Elf escorts.
I tried to be gentle like I always did, but I might have gotten a little rough.
TL Note : Rou wanted them the very first time he saw them. This was to be expected. Also there’s something wrong with the numbering, so there’s 2 men and 1 female that gave in in between Day 58 and Day 57 - Sarah
Day 59
I rode on top of Kumajirou together with Redhead, to our side, walking along with us, was Kurosaburou. Together we made an unlikely party as we strolled through the uncharted parts of the forest.
Lately Redhead has had improved her combat skills, however, to her regret she hasn't killed anything so she hasn’t gotten any experience.
Basically, her level hasn’t changed.
Although her physical abilities have indeed risen from the daily training, it’s a trivial difference compared to the increase in ability from raising your level.
Incidentally, Redhead’s level is 18. Her level increased by ten during the hind bear hunt which is good, but frankly speaking she’s still beyond useless.
Her current physical ability is below that of any of the common goblins.
Such being the case, Redhead could no longer win against the surrounding goblins who daily went out to hunt and by the mysterious power of the world had their levels rise.
The reason we went out hunting this time was for her to improve.
Redhead wasn’t equipped with anything special. There’s a high chance that an inexperienced person would mistake the performance of their equipment for their own ability, thus she wasn’t equipped with any magical items.
Her weapon of choice is a steel kukri knife and she kept three ring daggers for backup.
For defense she has a Round Shield reinforced with shell, the same item provided to the general goblin infantry which are [Normal] class items.
She was wearing her everyday wear made by the sisters out of hind bear fur and my thread, as well as a breastplate and a grey cloak.
Her forearms were protected by steel gauntlets, her legs were protected by steel cuisses, steel kneepads, steel greaves and steel sabatons. All this equipment together looks very heavy, so I enchanted it to make it lightweight and the end result is that it’s actually quite light.
Thus Redhead’s movements were still nimble.
Her first prey was an Armored Tanuki.
She was struggling a little bit against the defense of its back shell, but because of the [Job-Warrior]’s ability to do battle corrections, or perhaps from the results of her training, or maybe both, in any case, Redhead succeeded in dismantling the Armored Tanuki.
The meat was given to Kurosaburou to eat.
The next prey were three night vipers. Even though she flinched from the piercing gaze, she calmly assessed their movements and was able to guard against their attack with her round shield, and she succeeded in decapitated them.
Their meat was given to Kumajirou to eat.
Three kobolds were next. I quickly captured two with thread, creating a situation where she’ll be able to fight one-on-one. Perhaps they determined there’d be no use in escaping and set their sights on Redhead, challenging her to a fight fair and square.
The kobold was a monster that had superior physical strength, but the combat skills developed by training with goblins every day covered the difference in physical ability.
Dodging the kobold’s slashes, sometimes parrying their attacks, Redhead managed without having serious injuries and finally decapitated it.
After a short break, I released one of the caught Kobolds after confirming Redhead’s stamina recovered to some extent. Not to set him free, but to have it fight Redhead.
Although she had a few injuries at the time, Redhead once again cut the kobold’s body into pieces.
From the last kobold, I asked for the location of the kobold village before I had them fight.
As a result, I learned of its location.
While thinking whether or not I’ll go to the village if given the opportunity to, Redhead who had more or less naturally recovered her physical strength said “Next Please” so I released the next opponent.
Then the final kobold put up a better fight than the last two, but in the end Redhead sliced off its neck with the sharpest slash of the day and killed it.
After curing Redhead's injuries and fatigue, I let Kumajirou and Kurosaburou each eat a kobold whole.
As for the remaining kobold, when I was about to start munching on it Redhead told me that she’d like to try eating it too, so I grilled it and ate together with her.
But nevertheless, I was impressed by Redhead's adaptability. She ate monster meat without any hesitation.
Well, I’m not sure I could call the action she did “eating”. I’m sure no matter if it was raw or metal, almost anything would be gulped down.
Yeah. Redhead is very courageous, it’s a good thing because it’s something you should be if you’re coming with me in the future.
Ability [Mountaineering] learned
As I was thinking "Okay then, our next prey is…", Redhead tugged on the edge of my coat.
“What’s wrong?” I asked as I looked down on her, those blue sapphire eyes were now a dull red.
What’s more the once circular black pupil was now a rectangular shape resembling that of a monster’s.
Tl Note: www.9mmsfx.net/goateye.aspx if you’re interested - Vidar
Alternative colouring: s5.postimg.org/44d96unjr/Goat_Eyes3.jpg by Chronos
But they still seemed to differ somewhat from a monster's eyes.
Rather than calling them ominous, those somewhat strange eyes gave off a chilling feel.
Somehow, she obtained a new [Job]. Maybe because she ate the kobold, or maybe because she trained with the goblins.
Well, putting that aside. I tried to listen to her story.
Redhead obtained a [Job], called [Noire Soldier].
After greatly increasing their affinity to monsters, those with the [Job-Warrior] had a constant chance of obtaining this rare job by clearing the condition of "eating a monster they killed themselves".
As usual, I thought was I the main cause of this, huh? I really didn't feel anything like regret, so I thought nothing of it.
Having gained a new [Job], Redhead's combat abilities rapidly rose.
Although there is the outrageous risk that a [Noire Soldier]'s body would rapidly deteriorate and would soon die if they don't consume monster meat or blood at fixed intervals, let's just say for now that they need a regular intake of monster parts, but the growth rate of their combat abilities is amazing.
No matter how you look at it, she now had physical abilities equal to or better than that of a hobgoblin.
Her combat power couldn't be compared to how she was earlier.
Considering that earlier her ability was equal or worse than the usual goblin, she really has made rapid improvement.
Redhead who kept saying “Awesome, Awesome!” while she deflected the Red Deer’s two horns, kicked its body so it flew up in the air and then cut its thick neck covered by strong muscles with the kukris blade, was somehow cute.
The horns were collected, the meat was shared cordially.
Ability [Wild Horn Dance] learned
Ability [Red Crystal’s Tone] learned
After that we hunted various things.
When evening came, I took a short stopover together with Redhead.
I confirmed that Redhead's new job [Noire Soldier] increased her abilities in a big way when she took in a part of me.
Since it was so, by taking in stronger monsters, she would become stronger herself.
Anyway, as for what she took in, it was something private.
TL Note: she ate thousands of Rou's potential children -larvyde
This can be some kind of plot hole. I mean, what if the others took it in too? -Kouta
Sexual Innuendos. So she’s gonna be drinking his semen from now on. - Sarah
During today's hunt, Redhead’s level rose to 34 and it was rapidly rising.
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Rou and Redhead’s Private Time.
After resting a bit, it seemed like we still have a bit of energy despite hunting out the whole day.
Since Redhead is clinging to me while we were sitting on a log. She looks like she’s still embarrassed about it, but she wants to have a go since she’s staring at me with pleading eyes while blushing.
It seems like I’m getting the heat too. So I might as well take this chance to see if a part of me would drastically change her ability.
Then I told her to sit in front of me in all fours, and try to lick my member down there.
She replied, “What are you saying all of a sudden!?” her face flustered and slapped my head as if she was retorting to me, nice comeback but it didn’t hurt though.
“Its an experiment for your new job”, seemed like she was anticipating something romantic from me.
She nodded after a few moments, she went down on all fours and crawled in front of me.
As soon as she was unfastening the ties in my pants I told her to stop.
She asked me why did I have to stop her, “Well, try using your mouth only since it would be more interesting that way”
Though she was a bit reluctant, she slowly nudged her face into my crotch and tried to open my pants with just her mouth, with a bit more time she finally unleashed my inner D.
As usual, it’s pretty well endowed that she has stare in amazement at it’s glory even if it’s still asleep. I inquired her if she’s okay finally snapping back to reality she got flustered and told me to just sit and relax. Closing her eyes, she pulled her tongue out and drew closer to my thing. Licking the tip first, even if she’s already used to it from our orgy nights, you could really see her trying her best on licking it even though it might taste salty.
A bit more later, she’s now licking from the tip to the side then to the base moving her face left to right as she also lick the side of my dragon. It’s already to the point where my dragon is almost rising, so I told her to put it in her mouth, she opened wide and tried to fit it in, but alas she can only reach up to the head. I used my metamorphosis a bit and tried to decrease the circumference a little but she stopped me with eyes filled with determination.
As expected of a warrior, she doesn’t want to back down though I shrank it just a little bit to somehow fit into her mouth. Moments later she started to produce saliva and layer it all over my dragon, and continued where she left off. I’m surprised how she can manage to slowly move deeper finally reaching the base. I could see the bulge in her throat and she’s actually shedding some tear. I comforted her by patting her head, it seemed like she’s happy getting patted as she moved slowly with an up and down motion, then finally separating since she needs air.
I told her you can now use your hands since it seemed like she’s having difficulties though I didn’t tell her about it since it might hurt her in a sense. Next thing she did was sucking the head of the dragon while caressing the balls of darkness.
It was a blissful feeling, it seems like she got a knack on things like this.
Finally she’s starting to suck quickly, while also moving both her hands up and down starting from the base of the dragon upto the middle.
Feeling the urge to come, I held her head and told her to take it all. Seemed like she steeled her resolve as she suddenly ravishly swallowed my dragon reached the base. At this sudden of turn of events, I came inside her mouth, my bodily fluid flowing into her throat.
She’s twitching from the burst, some of the fluids flowed out into her mouth and nose because it was overflowing. Her eyes was rolled up, and the color of her pupils has turned blood red. It seems like it activated her ability of absorbing monsters.
Slowly pulling away my dragon while holding her head, she coughed a bit whilst saying it was how my burst was going overboard. Well I apologized about that while wiping the fluid off her face and other places, though she was pouting for a while.
Not knowing what to do, I involuntarily caressed her cheeks. Told her that she did a good job, she blushed a bit and showed a mischievous smile while saying “Guess we’d do it from time to time~ Hehehe” while rubbing her nose from embarrassment.
She’s really a cute tomboyish girl, I gave her a light kiss. Caught a bit off guard from my kiss, she said “Really, doing that so suddenly…” with a soft voice.
Her red snake-like eyes staring at me while pouting again, she suddenly hugged me and kissed me. “Well, I guess just once wouldn’t be enough right? Wanna check if my other mouth would also work?” Teasing me like that, I couldn’t refuse. So we had sex a couple more times before finally leaving.
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Day 60
I felt something with [Presence Sensor]. Even though it was 2 hours after midnight, I wanted to say, I was still too energetic.
Recently, I’ve been able to perceive a considerably wide area. I have it activated at all times prior to sleeping and because it awakens me times like this, it’s very annoying.
That’s the reason why I’d made it so only those picked up by [Sense Enemy] will trigger it. However, the number of picked up targets this time was excessively large even though it’s in the middle of the night.
For one moment I thought the humans had come to attack, but I soon concluded that that is highly unlikely.
At night, the dark forest is monster territory.
If the humans were to attack now, they would be facing too much disadvantage.
Then, I immediately confirmed what it was.
The species name that was displayed in the tactical intelligence I constructed using my two abilities [Mental Map] and [Presence Sensor] was Kobold. I thought it was revenge already, but... that might be wrong.
There were 53 Kobolds indicated by red dots on my Mental Map. There were also 38 blue dots that appeared to be chasing them. Then, from the furthest edge, there was a rather large gray dot. Since individuals of the same species were indicated by the same color, then that means there must be three species.
What the blue and grey dots were was for now unknown. However, what I could tell was that when the red dots made contact with the blue dots, the reds were disappearing.
Apparently the kobolds were under attack by something.
Stuff like this happens all the time which is why I can ignore it.
But the problem was that the kobolds who were losing in numbers where heading straight for this cave.
I’d rather not have anything to do with this troublesome thing. However, since they kept coming closer, I decided to wake up everyone in order to prepare for the intrusion.
I could kill kobolds easily at any time. So, the threat I recognized was the blue and gray dots.
After a short while, the greatly reduced group of kobolds dived with a frantic expression, they’d been reduced to 36 members. Among the kobolds, there were not only males, but also females, elderly and children.
At the end of the line of armed male kobolds were the blue dots. They were white bleached skeletons armed with swords, shields and armor. The kobolds were desperately trying to hinder the skeletons' advance.
“….”
I was at loss for words for a while.
When I was inside Returners’ dungeon, I didn’t see a single skeleton. So this is the first time I’ve seen the real thing. However, no matter how I look at it, aren’t these skeletons the magical creatures guarding Velvet’s Dungeon?
Why are they here? …Ah, one Kobold got killed. It seems that I have very little time to think.
Thus, I sent down orders using the cuffs as a communication device and persistently attacked the skeleton group with bolts from the crossbows as a preemptive strike.
To start with, even getting a hit in on them is incredibly difficult. But even if they got hit head on, the bolt would simply snap. That’s how tough they were.
In all likelihood, there was some kind of ability at play here.
Judging that the crossbow attacks were ineffective, I stopped the attack from the long-range force. «Tirard» had the logistical support corps, «Patri» lead the escaping Kobolds to jail, and had Gobuji-kun in the middle of the Kobold group to administer simple medical treatments.
If they stayed here, they will only be a hindrance. Also, I wanted them under watch.
Having understood that long range attacks were ineffective, this time I ordered the main combat corps «Revolution» and light armed corps «Red Surge» to engage. The black wolves also helped.
However, cutting through bone with a sword is hard. It was a tough fight in the beginning.
But all that changed when Hobusato-san, with a wisdom born from experience, broke the bone with a scabbard. The skeletons were resistant to slashing attacks but are largely vulnerable to blunt force attacks.
I immediately relayed that information. Then, as if the tough fight until now was just a bad dream, we brought down the skeletons in no time as if we awoke from it.
But most importantly, now that we knew their weakness, the main problem was solved.
Gobukichi-kun equipped with his huge battle axe and tower shield was almost like a moving wall.
While bellowing resoundingly, the sight of that huge figure going through the skeletons and turning them into dust was refreshing.
Gobue-chan was equipped with a pickaxe as usual. But it’s not an exaggeration to say that she has already a certain kill swing; by swinging downwards from a higher elevation which resulted to crushing the skull in one hit all down the way to their sacrum without the momentum stopping. It was a terrible blow. The skeletons were simply being dug out.
TL Note: Sacrum - Triangular bone at the base of the spine, between the hip bones.
Gobumi-chan's [Certain Hit] skill with her arrow at the skull was not very effective as expected. But, she was able to ignore that; not only the amount of rapid-fired arrows were in numbers that hit their mark, but also the change of the arrowhead resulted in increase of penetrating power.
The skeletons did not have a way to defend against her rapid-fire that was like a raging wave.
Hobusei-san burned and scattered the skeletons around using her fire magic. Of course, she did not choose to use her wide-area destructive magic because there were allies at the vicinity. But due to her ranking up, her magic effectiveness had increased; her encounter with the skeletons wasn’t much of a handicap.
As for me, it goes without saying.
Unlike the Kobolds, we had many ways to deal with the opposition. We did not expect just to lose against these skeletons.
Also, because of the aggressive charge of Hind Bear and Three-Horned Horse from the «Familiars», we had too much war potential to be worried about losing.
I thought that I might not get a turn this time. But it seemed that thing didn't go that way since the number of Skeletons were not decreasing.
Despite the clattering Skeletons inside the cave were destroyed until they were nothing but a white heap of bones, more and more came from the cave entrance; there were no end to them.
Thinking about their origins, I remembered what Returner told us.
There were things superior to Skeletons called Greater Skeletons, which had the ability to produce Skeletons.
In addition, by absorbing the mana that was surrounding the darkness, the number it could produce seems to be near infinite. As what you would expect from Velvet-sama. That was something to boast about.
Ed Note: Credits to Tensaizz and honor. -Earl
"Ah, so that's how,” I came to an understanding, "I should immediately go and crush it."
However, I was discouraged by the amount of EXP that could be gained by killing the skeletons here.
"This is a good time for a level up!" I thought.
For that reason, I informed everyone about it. Though it was suddenly held past midnight, the festival for earning EXP begins!
Because the gray dot would be the Greater Skeleton that spawned Skeletons was still outside and didn't move, I had little worries.
At the beginning we were thinking, "Did anyone get killed by a skeleton?" but after a short while, everyone seemed to have gotten used to fighting them so they got by with almost no injuries.
There was a possibility that something unexpected could happen because of fatigue, so I fixed that by having them attack in shifts.
The long-range and logistical support corps can also hit and break them with blunt objects relatively easily while my bear buddy made sure no skeletons got away.
I munched on a pile of white bones while watching. Redhead came to take a break in the middle of fighting and also munched.
Blacksmith-san, the Sisters, and Alchemist-san went up in an uproar. I wondered if the bones are some kind of material? So I consulted it to them.
It can be used as an ingredient. Not only it is a high quality material but also pretty rare. That is I saved some of them and stored them in another location. You can also gain a good amount of gold from selling them. I have many expectations for the future if ever I can find someone to be a good source of funds.
As what you would expect from a Peddler.
When it comes to trade they are reliable.
Ability [Slash Resistance] learned
Ability [Pierce Resistance] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Sunlight] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Blunt Strikes] learned
Ability [Null Critical Hit] learned
Ability [Tireless] learned
Ability [Synostosis] learned
Ability [Joint Magic] learned
Ability [Equipment Materialization] learned
Ability [Evil Miasma of Life] learned
Ability [Negative Energy] learned
Ability [Null Abnormal State] learned
Ability [Null Cold Damage] learned
Ability [Null Electric Damage] learned
Ability [Acid Damage Resistance] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Light Damage] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Holy Damage] learned
Ability [Vulnerable to Fire Damage learned
Ability [Anaerobic] learned
TL Note : Anaerobic means, does not need air to live/move around. We couldn’t find a better name for it since, almost all life needs air to live. - Sarah
More Note: Anaerobic in the raw literally says “Don’t need to breathe”, a typical undead ability. - FB
More like, typical undead “racial trait”
Since I ate a lot of them, I have secured quite a lot of abilities. Though there are many useless ones, it won’t be a problem since I won’t be activating them.
It’s probably been around 4 hours since we started gaining experience. It’s about time dawn will break. And because everyone has already acquired a good amount of experience and leveled greatly, I guess it’s time to end this festival.
More like, I wanna sleep.
Yeah I’m convinced; I’m definitely putting an end to this festival. I began charging towards the exit tearing the hordes of skeletons asunder with my silver arm and red spear, until I was finally outside.
Right then a black long sword was swung towards my head. However, I saw it coming so I parried it by swinging the red spear and thrust my silver hand’s fingers forward.
The black long sword wielding skeleton—a “Greater Skeleton”—was twice as large as the others and wielded an imposingly grand sword. My silver arm smashed through its large chest bringing this festival to an end.
The skull made a nasty grinding and rattling sound when I ate it. Of course, I shall still devour every last bone.
As expected of a higher species, you can gain experience from breaking them. The taste wasn’t bad when I tried eating the skeleton’s bone.
Also, it had obviously never occurred to me that bones could feel this appetizing.
What is this, high-grade bone? It had a nice consistency. Yeah, tasty.
Ability [Summon Lesser Undead] learned
Ability [Greater Equipment Materialization] learned
Ability [Mana Drain] learned
Ability [Lesser Damage Reduction] learned
Ability [Lesser Magic Damage Reduction] learned
Well, at first I thought, "How dare these kobolds bring us trouble," but now I see them as dogs that brought us good fortune.
Anyway, while looking at the cleric Gobuji-kun who was frantically healing the seriously injured kobolds, I finished the treatments for the rest of the kobolds and gave them all some sleeping drugs afterwards.
Since it would be troublesome if they went violent while we were asleep.
As for us, we had become worn out because of the festival so we went down to sleep.
And then evening came.
I woke up the drugged kobolds who were sleeping and asked their so called leader—“the foot soldier kobold equipped with a short spear"—and some of his associates about their situation.
As a result of that, I was able to establish the following:
They were a clan of Kobolds who lived in a cave just like us (though a little airheaded. They didn't do any expanding).
→They had been living by hunting in the forest and the mountain. But everything changed when they killed an orc and obtained an iron pick.
→ Recently, the female kobolds worked on expanding their home by digging holes while the males were out hunting for food.
→ Thus they were able to improve their living space. They were happy about it, and they were able to expand, too.
→ Then, the incident related to Velvet's Dungeon happened.
→ Not understanding what that space was at first. But since they decided that the male kobolds would investigate tomorrow morning, so for now they went to work filling up the hole, but it was already night, and a large mob of skeletons appeared.
→And they were forced to flee without getting what they wanted.
→Fatigue, a concept not known to a skeleton, soon overtook the kobolds and were mercilessly killed. Whether they were a warrior or not, old or young, male or female, none of them were spared.
→So… where do they all decided to go? Right. There was this cave owned by a renowned Ogre. One way or the other, it may work out if they all went there, right?
→But they could still be killed.
→So their leader declared “Either way... we’ll all be finished at this rate… So let’s make a gamble”
→You know the rest.
....What the heck?
Uhh, hmm... nevermind... as long as everything’s okay in the end.
Once their story had ended, I fiddled with my horn as I tried to sort the details in my head while the Warrior and Footman Kobolds, who fought the skeletons, made a single line kneeling before me.
Footman Kobolds were the ones who ranked up first, the Kobold lifestyle is fundamentally that of a warrior or a Samurai. I, who have so far only killed and eaten several Kobolds, have finally understood this.
“Yeah, we even eat our own kind lots of times. The strong inevitably feed on the weak. Fuelled by the ambition of one day becoming “Lord”, we killed and ate each other.”
That’s right, “Lord”.
I am usually called “Chief” by normal Kobolds, but the Footmen Kobolds call me “Lord”.
A life saved is a life worth selling in return was what they seem to believe. That’s all there is to it.
But if someone betrayed me, their lord, his blade would be gladly ordered to execute them.
Ed Note: Credits berserkknight on this part. -Earl
That was what he declared.
Well, understandably nobody would buy his word just like that. But it feels like the earnestness in those eyes would eradicate any remaining doubt. Eyes that are earnest aren’t to be taken lightly.
And so, I decided to prepare something just in case.
I opened my item box, picked the magic items before I ate all ten of it without leaving anything behind.
Ability [Enslave] learned
The item I ate was called “Collar of Slavery” which belonged to the adventurers that died in “Velvet’s Dungeon”
It was so obvious to explain its function. Evidently, it was just something guards could put to good use.
An incredibly useful ability which I’m still wondering why I never stumbled onto it before.
The reason was plain and simple: I tried eating one as an experiment before and it was because it was awful and unpalatable.
I didn’t feel any texture from it: The surface was sticky and its contents awfully hard, the more I chewed, the more I was overcome by a feeling of nausea.
The taste was also bitter, sour and spicy, should I say the exquisite taste from that triple trouble was indescribable?
It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten something this horrible. I usually keep these for convenience instead. But I actually came this far with that.
That’s what you call “a moment of need”—you put up with what you eat because you need to.
There you have it, the ability [Enslave]. An anti-treason ability, but this ability won't show any effect just by possessing it. To solve this, I should probably start manufacturing cuff-type communication devices.
Ed Note: Must be equipped, instead of just possessing it, before the effects shows, I guess? -Earl
Eh? What about the Kobolds you ask? I’ll think about it in the morning. But for now, they can use the cells to sleep in.
The Kobolds are being surprisingly obedient. I feel like I shouldn’t be too hard on them.
What a dilemma… Do I kill them or do I let them join our ranks?
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