Chapter Ninety-Five: The Next Step
After discovering that the goblin was fleeing to the forest, Arthur began to observe, he didn't want to scare the goblin away, and he couldn't find a trace, he also had his own thoughts, after all, he had such a huge power in his hands, if he didn't use it well, how could he be worthy of his identity.
Arthur is not stupid, he doesn't plan to expose himself to the sun so much, in the eyes of outsiders, Arthur can just contract goblins and then let them not move, but once there are more goblins, Arthur will at most just take them away, without any lethality.
That's right, Arthur is pretending to be low-key, after all, he has ten thousand goblins in his hand, even if he doesn't look strong, this is a force that is comparable to crushing the surrounding area of Morado, too ostentatious, but he is regarded as an enemy of the nobility, but there is really no place to stand.
"What's more, I'm still so weak, it's not okay if I'm not low-key, I really have Melissa's strength, who dares to say a word, fuck you!" Arthur is very self-aware, maybe there will be that day, but not now.
However, it can't be without a little hidden power, Arthur thinks so, in addition to the goblins delivered to Morado, Arthur is ready to capture a batch himself, hide in the mountains, and become a source of labor reserves.
Without seeing it as combat effectiveness, the little greenskin really wants to be put on the battlefield, and 100 armed professionals are enough to break through the defense line composed of tens of thousands of goblins.
Goblins are still low-level laborers after all, but they are an essential part of the lower-level labor force in order to capture higher-level labor.
The goblins around the town are equivalent to being kept in captivity, and the other goblins, Arthur is directly free-range in the forest, and he doesn't care if they live or die, whether they are full or not, whether they are hungry or not, as long as they need it, they can be replenished at any time, and the number is not a problem.
Goblins are also creatures, they breed and grow quickly, but they don't grow out of thin air, Arthur scouted inland through Lilia, and a large number of mole goblins led the way, and finally found a kingdom that belonged to goblins.
Childcare centers, or valleys where goblins breed, many goblins flee to which valley they go after being driven away.
The valley has a good topography, with passages at both ends, a very wide middle, and more importantly, there are no human beings, it is remote and difficult to reach, unless they have wings, and only they can reach it smoothly if they are so short and adapted to the mountain forest.
"There are so many, it's really effortless!" Standing outside the valley with no one around, Arthur spent the morning carving a huge summoning circle on a huge rock with a mixture of magic stones and blood, enough to hold hundreds of goblins.
Unlike the circle on the cloth, this circle is simpler, and the contract is ultimately just a reuse of the power of the summon book attached to the archdemon.
Arthur found out from his research that Aragorn's ascension was not the strength of Aragorn, a demon without a body, but his control of the law.
In other words, now the Great Demon can use the law of the abyss to make a contract with these monsters, instead of the original, by constantly consuming negative elemental energy to achieve this effect.
He can use it without scruples about the archdemon, and he won't consume any of Aragorn's energy, but if Arthur needs creatures with stronger contracts, in terms of class, such as those demons that have not yet reached the first level, and the creatures that are seriously classified as B-level in Arthur's data still need a lot of mana to consume.
As for why Arthur would know, it's too simple, when catching goblins, he will occasionally catch some other monsters, including the demon spotted rough-hoofed sheep that Arthur wants to summon, this kind of relatively stout labor.
Arthur tried to make a contract, and found that it was still the same as before, and Aragorn was unwilling to provide that energy even if he was killed, because once summoned, it would really be downgraded.
After discovering this, Arthur was not reluctant, and as for the demon sheep, after being seen as the horns and heels that could be used as alchemy materials, it directly became a delicious meal in Aunt Ledna's hands.
"The contract begins!" Arthur picked up the demon summoning book, and when he summoned it in front of outsiders, the summoning book was hidden directly in his backpack from being discovered.
And now there is no one else, Arthur has no scruples, the black mist that Aragorn turned into is like a huge demon god, towering on the side of the summoning array, and even if the goblins are charmed and lose their minds, they are still scared and trembling.
"Quack! Stupid greenskins, start being slaves to your master's today! Arthur didn't take Aragorn's self-talk to heart.
Even if, in fact, the object of these goblin contracts is indeed Aragorn and not himself, but Arthur is the master of Aragorn, which means that he is the master of these little greenskins.
The Demon King San Mario, imprinted in the rules of the Abyss, has a special pattern that allows Arthur to bypass the magic book without any obstacles and order these contracted demons.
"Maybe it's not that I'm too weak before, but the summoning book is too weak, as long as the ability of the demon summoning book is within the scope of my control, maybe I can control the contracted demons like the original ancestor." Arthur touched his chin.
He knew that he was a little different from his ancestors back then, not that he was not strong enough, and his control over magic might be enhanced through time, but if he really wanted Arthur to plunge into the abyss and become a part of the abyss, Arthur still had a lot of psychological obstacles.
Plunging into the abyss is not an easy choice, just like Lilia, if she wants to get out of the abyss, it means that she will lose some of her original strength and talent.
Even if some of the negative elements can be made up for in the future, but not all of them after all, maybe when she finds out that she has lost her strength, she will begin to regret it.
And for Arthur, throwing himself into the abyss is almost equivalent to no turning back, and if it is just for the sake of strength, it is better not to take this risk.
The goblins did not stop, they continued to walk from the valley above the circle, and the contracted goblins did not stop, but after going around in a circle, they returned to the valley from another way.
Knowing that the sky was dark, and the gray rocks were stained black by the footprints of the goblins, Arthur couldn't even count how many goblins had walked in front of him and Aragorn, and how many times Lilia complained to him about how tired he was from having to control so many goblins.
As time passes, the entire siege of Morado is complete, and Arthur will begin his next plan to become a real landowner of his own land