Day 71-80/Day 71

Today the hobgoblins increased by eight. Three have become Mage's, one is a Cleric and one other is the first Shaman ever to be born, while the other three turned out to be common hobgoblins.

I was glad that individual magic had played an active role during yesterdays ambush, and now shamans can increase the speed of, and give [Light Resistance] to the undead races, so they can last even longer. It is very convenient because now they can be used for an even wider variety of tasks.

In addition, three Kobold's ranked up into Kobold Footmen. When a kobold ranks up to a footman, a weapon called a "Living Body Spear"(name tentative) also appears with them. The spears were a part of their own body, so if the kobolds grow stronger their spears will grow longer and stronger too, so when they reported in the morning, they were already armed with their spears.

It should be the first time those three had ever held a spear, but since they were "born" with it, they can handle the spears like extensions of their own limbs. However, it's still not perfect yet, and since he was the first one to become kobold footman, the kobold leader has become their trainer, focusing on spear techniques.

Ever since the war with the human army, these guys have been gaining experience smoothly, so many of them are going to rank up soon. And the number of slaves have also increased into a force to be reckoned with. The first goal is likely to be fulfilled, which is to increase the number of female slaves that are going to used as a breeding stock. But... that also means an increase to the food we need, which will have to be adjusted. However, I don't know the pregnancy time of other races beyond Goblins and Hobgoblins. Gobujii don't know either. But we do know that a Goblin child will be born from a Human woman in twenty days, and twenty five days from a Female goblin, and it took forty days for a Human woman to give birth to a Hobgoblin's child and fifty days for a female Hobgoblin. Although there are variations for the period of giving birth, it's still surprisingly fast. So humans have a very good reason for hunting Goblins regularly because of our fast breeding

As usual, I give celebration gifts to new ranks. While giving out the magic items, Ogakichi-kun was looking for any signs of subspecies. But there haven't been any sub species other than me, Ogakichi-kun and Dhammi-chan. It seems no one else has met the requirements to get a Divine Blessing like us. This is something that I'll have to figure out later.

After morning training, we put slavery cuffs on the prisoners that were led by the Rusty Iron Knight who looks like the commanding officer. The Woman Knight, who has been separated from the rest of the group since the previous fight, was interrogated for information about the war.


 * TL Note: last paragraph was roughly translated

As a result, I was able to understand the whole situation of the war.

It seems the cause of this war was the "Sternbild Kingdom", (Since no other kingdom has been mentioned yet, it will be called the Kingdom from here on out) telling the tale from the beginning: it all began with the princess who fell sick with something nasty. An incurable plague called the [Undead Disease] (tentative name since the literal translation name was Chestnut/Clichy command Disease) and if it's not cured, it will be fatal. Usually the disease will rot the victims organs slowly while they are still alive, progressing as time goes by. After a year, the mortality rate will increase to 99%. Although there has been a survivor who lived for two years, he died without ever being healed, for now, no one has ever been cured from this disease.

Fortunately the disease does not spread by air, but because the number of cases is small, so are the chances of salvation. It may be a terrible disease, but since there have not been many cases, there haven't been many chances to study it and find the cure.

Of course, the Kingdom has done everything to cure the Princess from this disease. Famous as the "Wise Princess" due to her political marriage (although it seems like a political marriage, apparently they also loved each other). But I think there are more reasons to it than what I heard. By the King's order, all doctors, healers and otherwise talented men have been gathered from all around the kingdom.

However, no progress was made. And despite the rate the disease spreads, nearly half of the Princess's organ has begun to rot. To relieve her from the pain,  they sedated her with magic constantly, and her organs has been replaced with artificial organs made from magic. But since the origin of the rotting was unknown and so strong, it was not possible to cure her.

It had seemed there was no other choice but to wait for her to die, until recently.

A woman with the job [Saint], who has been praying everyday, suddenly had a revelation from the [Demigod of Healing].

To cure the [Undead Disease], they must acquire an elven elixir made by an elf with the Blessing of the [Demigod of Lush Green]. (TL note: its written as fukamidori which separates as depth and greenery so I think this is more appropriate.)

The forest where I was born in fits in accordance with the [Revelation]. In order to get the elixir from the elves, the Princess's fiancé, a young crown-prince (24 years old) from the "Kirika Empire", (for the same reason as the Kingdom, I will call that place the Empire from now on) went into the "Great Kuderun Forest" to negotiate with the Elf's.

Since the Elf's only have a small amount of the elixir, and because of an ancient law (Basically the Elves are conservative and have lots of awkward law's) they can't give the elixir to a Human. Negotiations have been done repeatedly without any breakthrough.

Elves are a proud races and they look down on Humans, even if there wasn't any law forbidding them, I think they wouldn't give them the elixir anyway. So anyway, it's a fact that there's no elixir in the Kingdom and in the Empire.

The failure of these negotiations is definitely what triggered the war. After hearing the story, the reason first seemed more humane, but after gathering a more detailed part of the story, it became like this:

"Humans are greedy creatures", I think that roughly sums it all up. That's the conclusion that i reached when 4 more selfish reasons were mentioned.

Reason 1: Elves are beautiful creatures, making them ideal for sex slaves. Reason 2: Elves are more superior then Humans, so they make an excellent vanguard. Reason 3: There are a lot of rare magical items and resources, like mithril, that can only be obtained from the forest which is very tempting from an economical point of view. And last, Reason 4: The forest is placed in a strategic location which is very useful as a relay point in times of war against other nations.

Hearing the story, things ended up being terribly in-practical for the elf's, what with them not giving the elixir away. If only they'd just allow the humans to buy the elixir to cure the Princess's disease. But in this war there's a lot of dark intentions and greed mixed into it, causing this mess to shift from its original purpose.

Even if it's in a different world, I can't help but to think that the human race is pesky.

Since we are in a good position, if trouble comes, we can hide for a while. So I don't have to worry too much. I kept on interrogating the humans to get more information, especially about the situation and structure of the human army. I have to be careful since there might be an opponent that even I can't beat.

The Rusty Iron Knight belongs to the empire, as such he knows very little of the kingdom's army structure (Since his army was made from the alliance of the Kingdom and the Empire), but the Woman Knight that we caught before was from the kingdom, so we have no problem.

The Empire's war potential is huge, not only in numbers, but also in quality. Because this time they also bring Ogre's, Demon's (can also be translated to ogre in Japanese), Dragonnewt's and mass produced Chimera's. While the monster troops are quite powerful, most of them are slaves that are forced to fight and risk their lives while protecting their masters. It's troublesome and annoying to hear, but when things become troublesome, it is likely they will surrender very quickly. For now, I ended the day by playing a game to train my sub-commanders in leading others.

After listening to their information, I mixed the slaves among the goblins and divided them in two for the game, so my commanders can improve their abilities as leaders; Each team has 2 players that hold the title of captain and are given roughly the same number of pawns and the goal is to make full use of them to crush the other team in a simulated war game. Some are equipped [Shields] and [Wooden Swords], the other are armed with either [Blunt Spear]'s, [Dull Axe]'s or bows. All that matters is how to use each pawn based on their weapon.

Since I didn't participate due to my role as referee, the Dhammi-chan and Supesei-san team are favorite to win since they are better leaders compared to their opposition: the Ogakichi-kun and Burasato-san team (they are too eager to charge in front of their own team). E|Asue-chan was sitting this one out, this time. It's easy to tell the difference in brain, brawn and etc.

I didn't go hunting today, since we took a lot of food from the human army yesterday. So we just did indoor training in the cave. but it has become more like a game rather than training.

Recently a mutual trust between the goblin, elves and kobolds has been born trough the intense training, this is something that I want to strengthen in the future. When the human slave's arrived, I didn't hide the fact that we were training, but as soon as the training become more intense I laughed at their surprised expressions when they watched the training process.

Its good that there's not much movement from the human army, so I can focus on today's training.

(the rest is mostly Google TL. Feel free to show us your own tl-powers)

And at night, the human women had happily raised their lovely voices. Just to greed was early for either fall of stronger than elves, I also like fast adaptation. Although excepting Blacksmith-san, who had shown a slightly complicated look, it seemed there was a variable change of mindset compared to when they just came in here. But apart from that look, complaining was not likely. I mean, because of the war, such things are unavoidable. And history how rather than go corrupt been there forcibly ya, because he has been asked like from yourself. Well, there wonder if wrong, to it each happy people, and things.

She is a good, understanding women. Maybe much too good for me.

Since the human women are in charge of libido relief currently, elves are not going to be forced now. After, human women the envious seen have been elf figure also looks tidbit of was so, I tried addressed wants became Kobold and our hob-goblins to the footmen.

I was pretty happy.

Once you break their pride, it seems effortless to break and tame the elves. Well, just because I'm not going to hit the people themselves. And so I'm fully satisfied with today's state. There is no need to create enemies with no reason.

