THEY were green and small in size, and some of them were almost skin to bones and filled with wounds.
‘I guess even monsters are affected by the curse,’ Aldric said in the back of his mind as he kept observing them without uttering a word.The gobliins' faces were dirty and devoid of intelligence.Their swords had rust on them, and their armor was thin and torn at the edges. Some of them were dressed in nothing but stained rags.Their suken eyes that showed signed of dehydration, as well as their weapons, were trained on Aldric, although a few of them were ready to flee at the least provocation.Aldric smelt blood on them. Blood of other goblins.[Appraisal Activated][Name: Unnamed Goblin][Level: 5][Stats: - HP: 35/35 - MP: 15/15 - STR: 8 - AGI: 5 - INT: 2][Skills: - Basic Swordsmanship - Scavenge][Info: A small and weak goblin, often treated as the lowest rank among their kind. Their survival skills are essential in harsh environments, and they rely on scavenging and basic combat to stay alive.]“One, two, three…. there are ten of them…They look fierce, but they are so weak that one hit they would surely explode, and they also seem to be afraid of me. Is it because I am a human?”Aldric then noticed that they did not seem to be threatening, and instead, he looked at them with pity.He notices a child goblin hiding from one of the goblins who is bigger than him, and unlike the other goblins he wasn't shaking and looking at Aldric with fear instead he was looking at the meat that Aldric's was holding while rubbing his stomach.Saliva was gathering at his mouth as he eyed the meat with longing. His whole body was so thin that Aldric could see his tiny bones.Aldric suddenly remembers the kids when he was at the orphanage.He sighed and took some cooked meat and threw it away in their direction, but this only made the goblins alerted."Krk!"They let out a goblin yelp, and all stepped backwards, but the child goblin was desperate and hungry. He ran towards the meat without hesitation, scared that his family would steal it from him.The little goblin cautiously sniffed it, then tentatively took a small bite. As soon as the taste of the meat entered his mouth, his eyes gleamed with pure delight.Aldric could not help but find the little goblin cute.The little goblin was about to take another bite when one of the goblins who was holding a staff and looked older than everyone smacked the little goblin on his back and the piece of meat in his mouth fell to the ground.“No! You idiot!” the old goblin shouted angrily as it kept smacking the little goblin. “Spit it out!”Watching this scene, Aldric was too shocked to move. “T-They can speak? I didn't know monsters could speak! I didn't anticipate that these creatures would possess the ability to communicate in a language I could understand!”“Stop! It's poisoned!”Another goblin joined in and tried to stop, but the child didn't show any sign of stopping as he almost gobbled up all the meat.The next thing that happened almost made Aldric spit the meat out of his mouth when suddenly one of the goblins who seemed to be female, according to her lavender skin color and her faintly bulging chest, chanted a healing magic on the child goblin!Her hands were glowing as she said some spells that Aldric's could not understand.“D-Did it not work?” the elder goblin nervously asked.“No, there is nothing wrong,” the female goblin answered, and Aldric managed to see her licking her lips while looking at the meat. “The meat isn't poisoned.”Aldric shook his head and threw more meat on them and this time the Goblins were hesitant but driven by their hunger they finally ate it, but they still didn't let their guards down as they kept looking at Aldric with fear in their eyes.The leader and the woman were every bit up to the post, his steely eyes practically drilling holes at Aldric.*****Aldric had finished eating, and his energy was restored.“Night is approaching. I should go and make a door for the cave,” he mumbled to himself and left the cave again, leaving some meat cooking for him to eat later and for the goblins to steal.When the goblins saw him standing up, they were all alerted and pointed their weapon at Aldric while chewing the meat and stepping backwards until they hit the corner of the wall.Aldric didn't cast a gaze on them and left the cave.“It might be good to make friends with the locals,” Aldric joked.****IT didn't take him long to find another Gila monster. He found out that this certain area was their Egg-Laying area when he saw a Gila Monster laying eggs.He didn't hesitate to kill it and took the eggs with him.[You have obtained Gila Monster Hide.][You have obtained Gila Monster Meat.][You have obtained Gila Monster Scales.][You have obtained Gila Monster Fang.][You have obtained Gila Monster Eggs.]“Maybe I can make the eggs hatch and tame them. I have a tame skill, but I can also cook them,” Aldric said as he put the items he got in his spatial magic. “This should be enough. Overall, I hunted five of them, but I didn't level up this time. Is it because I need to kill a stronger monster?”Aldric wasn't disappointed. He wanted to get stronger quickly.Aldric nodded in satisfaction as he saw his inventory.“I should go back. The night is approaching. It will be dangerous for me to stay here."As soon as Aldric stepped inside the cave, he saw the goblins kneeling in front of him, and the only woman, the mage, was standing and look at him with soultry eyes and she wasn't wearing anything, exposing her body parts.Her lavendar exposed skin flashed Aldric's eyes, and he abruptly turned his gaze somewhere.‘W-What the hell is happening? W-Why the hell is she naked and staring at me? Where are her clothes? Did she use it as fuel?’Taking a deep breath, Aldric faces the kneeling Goblins.“What is happening here?”The elder goblin shivered a bit. Then, firming up his resolve, he raised his head.“Oh, strongest one, we will offer our kind to you, my daughter. She is the most beautiful and is knowledgeable about night duty. I beg of you to accept our offering and let us live in your cave and serve under you. We have seen your abilities and seen how you killed those lizards. We wish to follow you.”Aldric's eyes widened in disbelief at the unexpected turn of events.“I-I appreciate the gesture but—”[Goblins have requested to be your subordinates and join your kingdom. Do you accept?]‘Kingdom? Subordinates? Right, the Dreadwolves are now also my subordinates after the system gave me $3,000,000,000,000 as a reward. If I accept, will I receive money again? But Kingdom? Is it because my class is the King?’ Aldric curled his lips.“I don't need night duties. What else can you offer to me?” Aldric asks, his tone cold and his expression serious. “If I take you all under me, what will I gain? What will you give me? Do you even have anything to give?”After everything that happened to him, he couldn't trust anyone anymore, even if they were monsters, but he also hated being thrown away because of being weak and the state of the goblins reminded him of his past self.Aldric knows what will happen to the goblins if he refuses. They were weak and will be another meal for either the monsters that roam this land or the Demonic Monsters that wreaked havoc at night, but he wasn't too kind either to simply accept them. He must know if having the Goblins under him will be worth it or not.The elder goblin bowed his head, “We will swear our loyalty to you! If you want me to kill myself right now, I shall do so, and the same are for others! Please accept us! We beg of you!”The whole body of the elder was shaking uncontrollably, and it was obvious that he was afraid of Aldric, but it didn't stop him from begging and saying what he wanted to say.‘Impressive,’ Aldric said in the back of his mind.“Then, I shall accept your loyalty,” he said. "You will be my people from today on."“Thank you, mighty one! We shall serve you with all our might!” They all said in unison.After he said that, the elder still pressed on with having his daughter serve Aldric, but Aldric refused.Having his entire life ugly, fat, and despicable, Aldric never even had a girlfriend in all his life. The first time he saw a woman’s naked body was today, and it's from a monster.Aldric could only sigh at his future.HAVING dealt with all of that, Aldric gave Goblins the scales that he got from killing Gila Monsters and made them pile into a neat stack. But because the Gila's Monster scale was strong and sharp, he warned them to be careful, but it didn't take long before one of the goblins accidentally cut themselves on the sharp edge of a scale.Thankfully, the female goblin was there to heal them. Aldric found out that from the female goblin that the reason for her skin color being different wasnt because she was a woman but because she was special from the others.Aldric could not understand any of it.[The Goblin (10) has pledged loyalty to King Aldric. Goblins are now under your command.][Your Kingdom grows stronger.][You have received $1,000,000,000,000][You can now name the Goblins.]Aldric was making a weapon when the translucent screen appeared before him again."Name?" Aldric nodded, having understood what the system meant. "That's good. Since I will be living with them, it will be i
"It is finished, our Lord," the goblin with spiky silver hair said as he approached Aldric. Aldric named him Snik. "We have done as you ordered. The scales have been perfectly arranged."Aldric nodded and stood up. He cast a fire magic on the scales and burned them until they melted, forming a molten substance. As the molten substance glowed with intense heat, Aldric skillfully manipulated it, shaping the material into a door that fits the cave's entrance."How powerful!""Our Lord is powerful!"The elder goblin Grom and the others yelled with awe.But Aldric wasn't finished. He put another layer of scales and attached them to the door. This time, he didn't melt it and just used the fire magic to melt the back of the scales so they would stick together. He then took the venom he got from the Gila Monster and poured it on the scales, and he conjured a small amount of his own poison-infused blood, adding it to the venom-coated scales. After all of that work, he used 'All Healing' to
As soon as he said that, a spectral aura enveloped the space, and Aldric's shadow became alive. It flickered like there was an ethereal flame within it. The atmosphere grew heavy as if the very air was responding to Aldric's command, and then coming out of Aldric's shadow were the forty-five Dread Wolves, slowly materializing.Their haunting eyes fixed on Aldric, ready to heed his commands. Right at this moment, the goblins outside the room felt an ominous yet familiar presence. They exchanged glances, immediately grabbed their weapons, and hurriedly ran towards their Lord, praying that nothing had happened.But as soon as they stepped inside, what they saw made them tremble with fear. They couldn't even move as they exchanged a glance with the monsters before them."P-Protect the Lord!" It was the elder goblin who broke the silence between the Goblins, but although he said that, he too was trembling uncontrollably.He couldn't even move from his spot. He gritted his teeth and swal
IT took Aldric three seconds to comprehend her sudden seductive presence, and he stammered, "L-Lavena, what do you mean by 'serve'?"'What is the point of asking, Aldric? You know what it means!' Aldric could feel his heart racing. After only being bullied and the women being only disgusted with him, Aldric never had any experience with a woman.He didn't think about doing it or having a relationship with a woman because he only thought so lowly of himself. He already accepted himself that he would die a virgin.Suddenly, Lavena leaned in, her lips grazing Aldric's ear as she whispered, "Anything you desire, my Lord. I am yours to command." Her touch sent shivers down Aldric's spine, and he couldn't deny the magnetic pull of her enticing offer.Aldric reddened as he gulped the saliva that he didn't know was coating hia mouth, his gaze lingered on Lavena and finally noticed that she was completely naked. Aldric didn't know where to look, and now she was close enough that he could fee
WHAT Aldric saw made him gasp in shock. How could evolution cause this much change?"Thanks to Your Highness' blessings, I have evolved into an Oni and…" Lavena trailed off and blushed before she flashed a wide and ecstatic smile. "I… I have become your wife."“W-Wife?” Aldric asked and realized that he wasn't dreaming when he heard the system's robotic voice.“Y-Yes, Your Highness..." Lavena's red face became even redder.'Appraisal.' Status WindowName: Lavena Fellon Level: 50Race: OniClass: MageTitle: [King's Consort], [■■■ First Wife] [Seeker of Wrath] [Holder of Wrath] Stats:HP: 15,000/15,000MP: 15,000/15,000STR: 15,000VIT: 15,000AGI: 15,000INT: 1000Skills:ArrestPhoenixElectric CompressionRecover MagicDemonic Strength Dark ManipulationHellfire StrikeTeleportation Mind DominationRegeneration Infernal Resistance Oni's RoarSoul Devourer Foresight Night Vision Perception Expansion Weapon Mastery BloodlustRavenous SurgeSelf-replicationOni's Howling of
‘Assassin? This little goblin is?’ Aldric was once again taken aback. ‘Those skills! I was excited to use them! They got taken too, but does my choice of skills really influence their evolution?' Aldric's mind wondered as he looked at the little goblin with curiosity.Drub, not knowing how powerful he had become, he was depressed. He woke up to find out that this family had evolved. Their bodies weren't weak-looking anymore, but when he saw his body and face with no horns and no change, he was disappointed. He wanted to cry but held back his tears. Just when he thought that it was his chance to be strong and finally be able to protect their new Lord! He didn't want someone in his family to fall into the hands of humans.Unlike his fellow goblins, Drub families were killed by humans. His mother was killed by an adventurer. He saw how the adventurer skinned his mother after slashing her head to sell his body parts to the guild, and his father died, avenging her death by going to the vil
Aldric removed the door he made and found it clean, without any blood on it, as he expected.The poisons and venoms were all used up, too. Aldric maintained his skill 'Five Senses Super-enhancement' throughout the night just to be careful since he knew that the night would be long and he was worried that high-level monsters would appear and the door might not hold up, but it proved effective.‘Maybe there's no high-level monsters last night and only weak ones?’The goblins said that low-level monsters don't have the ability to think and will just attack anyone they see so the weak monsters mindlessly attack the door, mistaking it for Aldric due to the scent of his blood.Aldric leveled up multiple times, but it eventually plateaued. The monsters were so low-level that further advancement became challenging.He needs to hunt a stronger monster for him to level up again.''No, blood and no bodies. It was the same with the spider last time, too. When its corpse hit the sun, not even its
[Content Warning: This chapter contains graphic scenes depicting sensitive subjects, including [Sexual Violence, Assault, Trafficking and Gore.] Reader discretion is advised.]“Because of me?” Aldric asked, puzzled.“Yes, Your Highness,” Lavena replied, her grin widening. “I believe they are hiding because they felt threatened by your presence. They can sense that someone stronger than them is living here now. They must have moved somewhere. ”The wolves nodded in agreement, confirming Lavena's explanation.Aldric didn't say anything and thought, 'There's a possibility that it could just not be me. A terrifying aura is coming out of these monsters who were once goblins and these Shadow Wolves who were once Curse Monsters. It is reasonable that the monsters run away out of fear, but this isn't good for us. With the additional mouths to feed, we need a stable source of food. We also need water. ’The biggest issue of all, however, was where the heck he was gonna keep all these guys. Th