Rosch went out of his bed. His females were still lying in his bed. Rosch looked at Schajana, who has gotten a small belly already.
He went out of his cave, which was only possible because they digged snow tunnels to connect all of their caves. Nobody should freeze to death or die of hunger, which was common in the Goblin village, but Rosch didn't want his subordinates to suffer. As he traveled along the tunnels many kneeled and thanked him. Gorker and Gerhard could recruit many Goblins, which bolstered Roschar's military and work force.
But most were malnourished, hurt or sick. Many had to be fed and healed, while most needed to be trained, who were accepted as warriors. Right now Roschar's military force was 110 Goblins strong. Gorker, Rosch and Gerhard excluded. The 10 human mixes were group leaders, as they were promoted to footsoldier rank, leading 10 pawns. Gerhard was a warrior already and Gorker doesn't need to be questioned. He is a Vicemaster. They would lead half of the military force if needed.
The hundred pawn ranked Goblins are mostly pure blooded, but there are some mixes. Mostly from the Orc or Ogar mixes since they fight the most amongst each other.
But they seem loyal, maybe because they weren't treated well before. Now Schajana healed them, even saving some of them from severe illnesses, which would have taken them straight to Masarath.
"But never thought that they had something like a military. The ranks are Slaves and pawns, which is the lowest rank, but pawns can at least rise in rank and after pawns comes footsoldiers, warriors, great warrior or great rider, Vicemaster, Warmaster, General, Family head and Chief as the highest rank.
The dump thing is that I can only promote them to the great warrior or great rider rank, after that I need the chiefs consent, which is only given when you do enough missions or a really hard one. All planned by Randan in the end. A system that benefits him the most. ", Rosch thought a bit annoyed about what he learned yesterday from Gorker. He walked further and met some female lizard mixes and normal Goblins. They instantly went down and thanked him. Nobody would take them in and many die over the winter, which got him much respect from the lower ranks. His status as a family head got fortified. Many of the lower ranks looked up to Rosch for doing charity, even though Rosch doesn't think of it as charity. He needs work force, when others see it as charity it benefits him even more.
"They look healthy, that's good. Where was I, right, after that comes the working force. They grew to over 355 Goblins, which consists of 200 females, 100 elderly and 55 crippled. In those groups the range of different mixes rose. All mixes were present, since females, elderly and crippled were the first to get thrown out, if they had food shortage or almost no place to live anymore.
The crippled Goblins were the biggest group, but Schajana changed that to only 55 crippled, who are the once she couldn't heal for now. ", Rosch thought further about his subordinates, but he got distracted by the caves, the Dwarf mixes did. It was amazing, how efficient and good they were.
The Dwarf mixes did their work. They managed to build 100 small caves and 25 bigger caves, before winter came. All caves are occupied already, but there is still room, since not all cave rooms are in use. A whore house was even finished, which Galia put all her heart into. She even bought some females from other families to guarantee different girls and most importantly, only the most beautiful. To that comes, the animal barns, which got finished, too. 10 buildings were done by the Goblins with the craftsman as leaders. They did a good job and after the winter, they gonna start catching and breeding different animals for food and more importantly, as work and military forces.
Rosch was happy with what they accomplished. He looked around and took a breath, even though inside the tunnels he didn't have a great view.
But it was peaceful and that was what he needed right now. Since winter was raging outside, rising the snow almost to the height of the walls that they started to build. The wall was three meters high and the snow a bit over two meters.
The wall that was going along the forest edge was finished and the two sides that went up, too. Only the upper wall that would go through the village separating his territory from the rest of the village wasn't ready, because winter hit them.
The towers weren't even started, but he knows that when the war begins, even that would be finished. The towers will go up to 6 meters.
The village started to change, too. After the other families saw what Rosch did, they too did build walls, after hearing war was coming, even faster. Even the recruiting got harder, because the other families wanted canon fodder, but most came to Rosch already and the other families fought over those that didn't want to join him anyway, since they didn't want to bow their head to a youngling.
Rosch wounds healed, too and his life essence regenerated faster and faster, probably in a month he will be by 100 percent.
Two months passed after Rosch met Basarilia and one of those two months was winter and winter will probably last another two or three months. Rosch liked the cold, because it was a time of peace and fun. He engulfed in orgies of sex with his females, as well as trained some warriors with Gorker and Gerhard. Sometimes he trained Suz and Thulpina, as well as his mother, but she wasn't that keen to do it. She liked to teach Rosch about magic more. And she needed the distraction, because she was more nervous about the end of winter, when they would visit the Elves.
Rosch made his morning round and finally got back to his cave. His females cooked for him, but something was really weird.
"What's going on?", Rosch asked confused.
Galia was the one that drove her wheelchair in front of Rosch and whispered something into his ear, which shocked him.
"No way. You are pregnant." Rosch screamed with happiness. All the females knew that already and were happy for Galia and him. But the happiest of them all was Lunara. She couldn't believe it. First she lost her baby, that became an adult too fast, but now she gets two new ones instead, which is rare for Elven families.
"Good, get food and drinks and call all of our subordinates. I want to celebrate.", Rosch shouted excited.
All his Goblins heard of it and everywhere food was taken out. They had more than enough, as Gerhard trained the new ones while hunting and they brought meat with them, almost every day. The food was more than enough even for double the amount of Goblins.
Gerhard and Gorker were the first to congratulate them and after that all the other Goblins did the same. The feast went on for 3 days, and was known as the winter break feast from there on.
Meanwhile far north, right before the south gate of the Nightwalker city. Zas was walking still mumbling stuff. His feet had chillblains all over them, even missing some toes. He traveled through the snow completely unprepared, needing months to reach his home, but it looked as if he didn't care. His mind seemed completely damaged and he didn't feel pain anymore.
The guards, who saw Zas went to him, helping him and bringing him to his father.
Inside the main building of the city. It was still being renovated. Zas was brought over to his father.
"Son, what happened? Why are you all alone?", the chief of the Nightwalkers said, but he didn't get an answer only some mumbling.
"Demon... South dangerous..... Everything dangerous.....", Zas said emotionless.
They tried to get out more stuff of him, but everything was futile. The only things they could get out were southeast lair and southwest mountain. And all the time, demon.
"Fuck, we still don't know what happened. Listen, they killed 20 of our best warriors. We will murder them for that. I don't want 100 warriors attacking them. I want 200. We will attack them, as if they would be a threat. You will attack simultaneously, the liar and the mountain so they can't run away if one of those two locations is only a smaller side branch of them. Let's see if they can protect two places. And send Zeke, as general. He won't let me down. ", the Nightwalker chief said enraged. Sending his oldest and most capable son.