Conqueror

We traveled a day to go back to my village. We were greeted by Rize and Zeta was still worried about what happened. I reassured him on that subject.

Ortov seems to be building the houses I told him. Three houses are already completed.

I told everyone to go get some rest. It seems that the women are still scared of the goblins. Well, 90% of my population except them are goblins. I just escorted them to my house and told Greta, Zeta and Precia to take care of them.

Grien and his team resumed their daily duties even though I told them to rest.

After everything was in order, I traveled to Itz to report what happened to the king.

The guards in Itz seemed to know me. When I entered, I was greeted and bowed to by the guards there. But the civilians still don't know me.

After a bit of walking, I arrived at the king's castle. I was guided to the king's chambers.

"Welcome Zieglind. Take a seat." The king greeted me.

"Will do." I sat across him. "We completed the job."

"I know. The messenger in Hajey told me. You were a day late, what happened?"

"It got that fast...? Anyway, we were late because I tried to go into the forest near Hajey."

"I'm surprised you're still alive." The king said jokingly.

"I know, we were nearly killed there. Have you ever gotten to the deepest part of the forest?"

"I sent some troops there but sadly, they didn't come back. There was one survivor that said that the deeper you go through, the harder it is to move forward. And there's a lot of monsters there."

"I also felt it too." It seems they don't know the strong monster in that forest. I better not tell anything for now. "Anyway, what do I get?"

"Straight to the point? I have another quest for you."

"What is it?"

"Scout the kingdom of Cagyer."

"Cagyer?"

"Its far from here. Just go there and register as an adventurer. Just monitor the events happening there."

"And why?"

"I plan to invade it someday."

"Interesting. Where is it on the map?"

"Here." The king stood up and pointed at the location of Cagyer in his world map.

"Oh that's pretty fa-... That's Cagyer...?" Cagyer was huge, its like if Itz was twice as big.

"Yes. If there's an easier target we could go there but there's sadly none. I would invade Polk first but the other neighboring kingdom would intervene. Cagyer is an independent kingdom and their allies are on the other side of the world."

"Polk...? Isn't that your ally?"

"Yes but I've heard in some reports that they've been cooperating with Cagyer."

"So you're using this to know if they're loyal or not huh?"

"That's the plan. Anyway, here's the reward for the raiders in Hajey. Bring it in!" Two guards entered the room and laid something on the table infront of us. "300 gold."

That's pretty cheap but since I didn't do anything in the mission I'll accept it. They were pretty weak anyway and I didn't get anything. "Thanks."

4400 gold left.

"I'll need you to depart a week from now. I'll only allow you to bring two people in this mission."

"Two huh... I got it. I'll take my leave now."

"I'll summon you when the time arrives."

I left the castle and went to black market under Itz again. I'm gonna leave the women for a long time so they need some company.

"Yo."

"Zieglind! Or should I say Lord Zieglind?" The slaver greeted me.

"Wow you even know that. Anyway, got something new?"

"Yes, what do you need?"

"How do you restock so fast."

"That's a trade secret."

"*sigh* Anyway, got some kids?"

"Oh my I didn't know Lord Zieglind is into th-"

"No I'm not. And that's disgusting. I just need some to make my place livelier."

"I see. There's some in the back. I recommend elves and beastman and woman."

We walked to the back of the store and I found hundreds of cages locked up. There's too much. If I could I'll buy every single one of them but sadly its impossible. One day, I'll rescue everyone here.

"I'll get 15. Its up to you on who you pick."

"Great. I'll get them all ready."

"And, don't hurt them."

"I know, I know."

I waited for a while until the slaver came back.

"Is that them?"

"Yes. 7 elves, 8 beastwoman. We're out of stock with the beastmen. I'm sorry about that."

"Its fine. How much?"

"700."

"700- you've got to be kidding me. 300 I'll do it."

"Give me a break dear customer, I'll do 600."

"I've been coming back here regularly, do 400."

"I'll do 500."

"400."

"450?"

"400."

"You're a tough nut to crack you know that? Okay okay I'll do 400."

I handed him 400 gold. I have 4000 gold left.

"Good. I'll be back. I'm going to buy something."

"I'll take care of them."

"I don't trust you one bit. *sigh* Barrier!" I put a barrier on all of the kids.

"That's cruel."

I went out for a bit and bought some clothes for all of the kids and for the women in the village. It was 50 gold for everything. I bought a lot of clothes.

I have 3950 gold left.

I went back to the black market, dispelled the barrier and made them all wear the clothes I bought them.

"Is everyone doing fine?"

The kids just nodded in agreement.

"Oh yeah I need to give you all a name. Hmm..."

I gave them all names. I named the elves first. For the youngest elf, I gave her Mare, the one with the long ears, Mira, the one who looked confident, Mir, and the elf who looked pretty was named Jasmin, the one who looked cute, Jam, the one who looked strong, Ike and the one who looked the oldest I named her Yuri. Are elves only woman or something? I haven't seen a male elf.

Anyway, I also named the beastwomen. The youngest, Hare, the one who looked scared, Nura, the one who looked fierce, Mila, the one who looked shy, Rea, the cute one, Zoa, the one who looked pretty, Ura, the one who looked intelligent, Brie and the oldest was named Nea.

"Do you like your names?"

They all nodded and said in unison, "Yeah, thank you Papa!"

"Pa-"