Marching through a forest at night with an army this big did not seem like a good idea, but in all honesty Tetum didn't care, there was not a single force around to challenge their power and might. It was so strong that even the wildlife in this part of the forest had moved in deeper to avoid the wanton hunting and foraging of the goblins. It was only those elves that turned out to be the closest neighbors, along with that necromancer that popped out of nowhere. The elves on their own were actually not that much of a threat, they were intellectuals, choosing to build a territory ran by magical and technological advancements, and in the process their military suffered a lot.
Tetum had to be honest, it wasn't a wise choice or a wise move at all, the way he saw it, they should have developed measures that would keep them safe, if they were not interested in conquest that should have been the priority. That way they could have developed in peace and not have anybody come rain on their parade just like just did, but it was unfortunate. But they looked like a new species of elves, so for what is worth, they'll fetch quite the price in the slave market, especially with how inventive they seem to be.
[Fire Arrow]
The arrow flew forwards and pierced through the head of a girl who looked no older six, Tetum caused at his abysmal aim, but he really couldn't be blamed about that, he was preoccupied with thoughts of how stupid these people were, so if one of them died in the process, then it was all their fault. Him thinking about them and their value was given them way too much value than they deserve, oh! That's great! This time he took a leg off, the value reduced, but at least it was still alive to be sold for a pretty penny. Besides this was Elysium, a leg can be regenerated for quite a pretty sum.
But as he marched forward, with a rather nasty smile on his face, he had no idea what was going on behind him as both their captured prisoners and much of his soldiers started disappearing into the dark forest around him. And his pursuit continued this way for the better part of an hour, eventually they came up into the plains, before their eyes a wooden fence with spiked stakes had been driven into the ground, and in the distance the fence could still be seen being spread and grown like some sort of plant being grown out of the ground.
Tetum knew what this was, for every settlement this was the first sort of fortification you could build, but given the sheer amount of wood it sometimes required, it was always better to wait for the settlement to upgrade to a village and get the blueprints for a palisade or wait till upgrades to a town and get the blueprints for a stone wall. This wasn't cost effective and it would have been better to wait until the blueprint for the palisade is obtained, the cost to build id would actually be roughly the same as the system won't put too much pressure on account of the territory being fairly new.
It would usually cost three to four times as much wood resources to build any sort of fortification or building manually. But this wasn't a problem for him, he could just as well take care of the wooden stake fence by attacking it once he was done dealing with his slaves. However, the advantage he had here was the fact that the wooden wall, has put a stop to the advancement of slaves. Tetum went forward with his brownish red hair waving in the wind, his four feet tall frame covered in and extremely gaudy and elaborate purple mage outfit, one look and Rezar could tell there was hardly any sort of enchantments or bonus from that gaudy thing.
Rezar stood hidden behind the tree line and watched as the scared elves turned around watched as Tetum and his goblins marched closer and closer with a rather nasty look on their face. At first he had thought that he had set a trap for Tetum by having his moles dig was pretty much a pit fall trap and a cave in waiting to happen. But with the ways things seem to be going here, Rezar changed his mind, he was going to kill the fucking Hobgoblin right here.
"You all have e run pretty far, but do you think you can escape? Did you think salvation laid waiting for you if you ran towards the sea? Or is it that you weren't looming or thinking of salvation and you just wanted to run; wanted to get away from me. But is that right? I am your destiny! It is I who will give your mundane lives purpose and meaning, by having you all slave for the gloriousness of the goblin King's army.
So please for your sakes lay down your lives to me, I'll be sure to put it to good use. And beyond that the territory you see behind you belongs to an evil cursed and degenerate necromancer who will have his legion of corpses rape you all one by one whilst taking your bodies apart for experiments piece by piece until there's nothing left behind but your soul which he would in turn use to strengthen himself and gain an unnaturally long life. Compared to him, I'm the lesser evil don't you think?"
"Now that's just bullshit of the highest order! I mean seriously! How far up your ass is your stupid green head?"
Tetum was startled and shocked, he turned around swiftly to see Rezar marching out of the forest with a couple hundred undead goblins and their mounted wolves. It was then he realized the very small amount of soldier he had left, but of course over four hundred plus wasn't small, but compared to the undead that felt no fear or pain and could only be killed by destroying their brains, he knew he was terribly outmatched and also trapped.
"I'm only going to say this once, and I'm saying it to both the goblins and the fucking elves that just trespassed my land. Surrender now, or die! Just so you know elves while most of what he said about my necromantic tendencies were total and utter bullshit, he was right about one thing though… I'm a greater evil than he is, so choose wisely,"