Chapter Twenty-Eight: Building the Village
The loss of their homeland has made the faces of the goats glow with happiness, and even the old goats seem to have become young and full of vitality in an instant.
Everyone worked hard to build a new home, and although the original houses were destroyed, because the goat people's buildings were originally made of wood, there were still abundant materials that could be used directly, and with the number of people we have now, there is no need to restore the original appearance of the entire village, as long as it is enough to rebuild about a fifth of the area near the lake. At my suggestion, the new house combines the characteristics of the goblin "stone house" with the goatman "wooden house" and introduces a certain foundation concept, and finally builds a more beautiful house with rock walls and wooden roofs.
The plan for the new village is to take my house as the center and extend the monsters' houses outward, with a lake as a natural barrier on one side, and a wall about five meters high on the other three sides made of rock and wood as raw materials, and every two meters or so, an arrow hole is opened in the wall where bows and arrows can be shot outward. Although the current village is only one-fifth of the original size, it is also a fairly large piece of land, so the construction of the fence is a big project, and it will probably take more than a month to complete it with the current labor situation.
The people who can fight now are 63 monsters led by Sack who left the underground fortress with me, as well as 198 goatman warriors led by Aceles, and Il, who has learned more than a dozen kinds of magic, although I feel a little reluctant to call him combat power, after all, with his timid and cowardly character, it is estimated that he will surrender directly when he encounters the enemy, but anyway, he has already learned several auxiliary magics, and it should still be possible to support this kind of thing in the rear.
In addition to them, there are 3,000 monsters that cannot participate in the battle. If I need to manage so many monsters, even if the skeleton's body doesn't feel tired, I still feel troublesome in my heart as a human.
So I thought of a good way to be lazy, that is, Acereth was in charge of all the goatmen's affairs, and the other monsters were left to Zack, so that after a simple division of responsibilities, the leadership of the entire village was elected.
Since my house was once again designed to be quite large in the plan, I also identified it as our meeting room to discuss various annoying issues such as the construction of the village. As for the person who participated in the meeting, I was temporarily determined to be the leader of the monsters; Il, the note-taker of the meeting; Ethres, the leader of the goatmen, and his two assistants, Gilta, a goat-man with a slightly blue coat, and Sam, a burly goat-man; Sack, the master of monsters, and Padra and Cardo as his assistants.
Acereth had asked him to help collect the weapons and equipment of the four humans, and Acelaceth seemed to have taken off their clothes, pants and even underwear, although I was sorry for the four people who were buried naked, but thanks to this, I had clothes to wear. I've been wandering naked for more than forty days since I came to this world, and now that I finally have clothes to wear, I really feel like I'm going to cry with joy, but the skeleton can't shed tears. Among the captured trophies, I chose the white robe of the human magician, and the golden magic staff, the identity of the undead and the white that represents holiness seem to be a little contradictory, but I still have to say that sure enough, people rely on clothes, even if the body is just a skeleton soldier, after wearing a robe, it feels completely different, and it looks a little stronger, which makes me a lot more confident, and I shouldn't be ridiculed by people or monsters who meet roughly as ordinary skeleton soldiers.
Sack chose the tall man's great axe as a weapon, and Acereth took two of his four swords and some light armor. The full body armor with seven holes was given to Padla, and the remaining two swords, one each for Gilta and Sam, were barely big enough to wear the clothes of a smiley man.
The main equipment of the village has been improved, but the equipment of the other members is still very worn, the goblins and kobolds still use spears made of wood, and many of the scimitars of the goatman warriors are broken, and some are even rusty. The collection of monster equipment is also something that needs to be paid attention to in the future.
Of course, these are all later words, and the most urgent problem that arises at hand is the daily supply of food. After all, it is not a simple matter to feed so many monsters with the current manpower. Originally, I wanted the old and weak goatman to go fishing, but I got "Fish?" from Acereth. The goat man never eats anything in the water."
After asking Zac, I also learned the cruel fact that other monsters don't fish from the lake, and my method of fishing is also fishing, which is not very efficient, so the idea of using the lake as a food source can only be put on hold for the time being.
In the end, the following distributions were made after discussion:
Some of the goatmen who could not participate in the war entered the nearby canyon to gather fruit, and Padra led twenty kobolds as escorts. The other group of goatmen continued to build the village, and Cardo and thirty goblins were responsible for the defense of the village. Sam trains young goat people. Sack leads ten giant wolves and 180 goatmen warriors led by Ace Race to hunt. Gilta and the remaining 15 goat-man warriors were tasked by me to investigate the monsters beyond the canyon.
Although it is not necessarily scientific and reasonable, everyone's work has finally been assigned, and the whole village has slowly begun to get on the right track, and all the work is carried out in an orderly manner. Although the food was barely enough to eat, and the monsters with a lot of food needed to be relatively restrained, everyone showed a very happy look.
It was so leisurely, no, busy for ten days. What the? You say I didn't do anything? I've been thinking about something important about the future.
Just as I was training the nine-pointed star to sit down and stand up, the scouting team led by Gilta returned, and they bowed to me respectfully.
Asked Il to take the nine-pointed star to play elsewhere, and I nodded to the crowd and motioned for them to get up.
"Then everyone has worked hard in the past few days, you go back to rest first, Gilta, please stay for a while, and tell me the results of your investigation."
"Lord Kilgaru, you're too polite, this is what your subordinates should do," Gilta took a step forward, "There are some small streams on the edge of the canyon, and the natives are some fishmen, but recently it seems that a goblin group with a considerable size has broken in, and now the two sides are fighting for territory, and the fishmen are resisting by virtue of their geographical advantages, but the number of goblins is large, and I am afraid that the fishmen will be defeated soon." ”
"Have you counted the number of sides?" Although I didn't expect Gilta, who was on a first-time reconnaissance mission, to investigate very carefully, I questioned it.
"The forces of the fishmen are scattered but the overall number is about nine hundred, but it is estimated that only half of them can be called combat power, and the goblins are two thousand, and they are all warriors equipped with weapons." Judging from the answer that Gilta blurted out, it is by no means a random nonsense number, but the number of the two has been carefully calculated, and it has to be said that its work is really done quite meticulously.
"Do you think the battle between the goblins and the fishmen will affect us?"
"Although there are some small rivers outside the canyon, the water source is quite sufficient, but the amount of food is definitely not enough for this number of goblin groups, after plundering the good fishmen, they should continue to go deeper into the canyon, but the goblins are definitely not our opponents." Gilta's words were full of confidence, but if you listened closely, you could still feel a little worry in her tone.
It is true that in terms of individual strength, goblins are no match for the goats at all, but now the number of goatmen's troops is less than two hundred, and if it is ten against one, the chances of the goats will be greatly reduced.
"I see, don't worry, I'll leave the goblin business to me, Gilta, you've done a great job and brought back quite useful information," I said, patting Gilta on the shoulder, not just a cliché I said to encourage Gilta, but a heartfelt appreciation for his work.
"These are the things I should do!" Gilta smiled smugly like an employee who had been praised by his boss.
As I watched Gilta's back fade away, I began to think about goblins and fishmen.
How to say it?,Maybe it's lucky.,I'm still worried about the lack of combat power in the village.,I got the information that a monster group is approaching.。 Although the goblins are weak monsters, if they can have 2,000 of them and train them well, they should be able to have a certain amount of combat power, and even if they can't form an effective combat force, they can speed up the construction of the village.
Although I haven't asked for the other person's opinion, I still took it upon myself to include 2,000 goblins in my heart. At this time, the frolicking sound of Yir and the nine-pointed star came to my ears, and it is said that these days, the relationship between these two guys has become really good.
The first meeting was held in the newly built conference room that night, and the countermeasures against the large goblin groups were determined, and although both Zac and Ace Rose thought that I didn't need to deal with the goblins myself, I still insisted that I should do it, after all, if the persuasion was unsuccessful, I could still use force to force them to obey, in short, it was a strategy to defeat them if they didn't agree.
While I didn't think the goblin group posed any real threat to the village, I had Zac and Ace raise their guard. In the past few days, the two of them, no, they are two monsters, and they have become my right-hand man by managing the monsters in an orderly manner, and the private relationship between the two of them seems to get along well, and they often learn martial arts from each other.
And just like that, the first meeting ended without a hitch.