It took me a while to get Érica to let go of me, it seems that revenge against those who did so much harm to her was very important, she was crying while holding me until she fell asleep, after that, I carried her to one of the huts and let her sleep.
While Érica slept I went through all the cabins and took anything I needed and took it to the equipment room, then I went back outside and burned the three dirtiest and smelliest cabins and fixed the last one as best I could, took out all the garbage and the rags that must be the clothes of the Goblins in the hut and I burned with [ Puff of weak fire: 3 ].
With a tidy cabin, I use the [ Line Production: 5 ], [ Sticky Line Production: 7 ], and [ Line Control: 6 ] skills to build four comfortable beds for me and the girls.
Ding!
<[ Her skill leveled up [ Line Production: 5 > 6 ] ]>
While I was tidying up the huts and beds my subordinates Ibuki and Diana were carrying the corpses into the cave, when they were finished I called them close, as soon as they were close to me I told them to rest on the beds I made along with Erica that I had already placed. on one of the beds.
"Thank you □■■□□ on me master." (Diana)
It looks like Diana didn't expect this because she jumped and rolled over with a slight smile on her face, Ibuki wasn't surprised as she was already used to my nest-shaped beds so she went to sleep in her bed.
Today was tough, we killed a lot of Goblins and I was on guard the whole time, not to mention the situation that happened with the girls in the cave, I'm exhausted both physically and mentally but before I go to sleep I go to the cave to eat Goblin meat Killer.
I found it strange that I didn't get any skills from him when I drank his blood, but if I think about it it makes sense, I've eaten a lot of Goblins and I have a lot of skills that came from them, if I keep eating Goblin Killer meat I can get at least one his skill, after eating I'll go to sleep too.
Ding!
<[ You have acquired the following skills:
• [ Basic knife handling: 1 ]
• [ Hide: 1 ] ]>
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I woke up the next day feeling a person on top of me, I started to open my eyes and see Érica sleeping holding me with an innocent face, she is hugging me not only with her arms but with her legs as well and her head is lying in my chest, I can't get out of here without waking her up.
"(I can't wake up a girl with an innocent face like that, it reminds me of the children at the orphanage who slept in my bed back in the difficult times when there weren't enough beds.)" (me)
I decided to wait for her to wake up, while I wait I think about what to do now and think of an idea that will also serve as training for me.
I'm going to climb over the trees and I'm going to cut the thicker branches that I'm going to use as columns and I'm going to make the smaller branches into walls, I'm going to use my two-line skills to build this instead of using vines like the Goblins.
With that I will be able to build at least one wooden hut and will train both my three line-related skills at the same time as the skills I will use to cut the branches that are [ Wolf Claw: 1 ] and [ Magic Body Reinforcement: 1 ].
I will leave to identify the skills and titles I acquired for tomorrow as it tires me a lot mentally, I will relax my mind today and train only my body and skills.
"Hmmm...HH????" (Érica)
"Good morning... Érica" (me)
"..." (Érica)
It seems like she has come into shock with this situation and keeps looking at my face and how she's clinging to me and repeating this movement of raising and lowering her head, then she jumps out of bed and gets down on her knees apologizing.
"Sorry master." (Érica)
"You don't…have to….apologize." (me)
I give her head a little and rub her hair, then I get up and go to the cave and cut several slices of meat and bring it out and use [ Low Fire Puff: 3 ] to roast the meats for everyone to eat.
Ding!
<[ Her skill leveled up [ Low Fire Breath: 3> 4 ] ]>
The smell of the roasting meat wakes the others up and they get up, Ibuki and Diana are drooling watching the meat and Érica is sitting in silence waiting to get ready, when everything is ready they attack, Ibuki eats fast often even forgets to chew and Diana is filling the mouth of meat, Érica is eating in small bites at first, but seeing the other two finish the food, she starts eating voraciously too.
After everyone is fed I share the tasks, I tell Érica to catalog the items and equipment inside the cave, I tell Ibuki and Diana to follow me and we head towards the exit of the gate, stop near a tree that I consider adequate, and climb up, from up the tree use [ Magic Body Reinforcement: 1 ] on both arms to increase my strength and use [ Wolf Claw: 1 ] on both hands to cut off the thicker branches.
It took a while as each branch needed several hits and I had to rest and meditate to regain my MP whenever I zeroed, and when the branches fell I would tell the girls to take out the smaller branches, leaves, and bark with their swords.
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In the end, it took all morning and I only got three thick branches that I needed the help of the three to bring into the camp.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
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We took a break and went to eat, when we arrived we found Erica leaving the cave tired too.
"Are you over...there?" (me)
"Yes master, it took me for separate■□■ thing to sort and tidy up." (Érica)
"Well sit down... I'll go get some food." (me)
I go into the cave and do the same in the morning, take meat and cut it into slices and take a little pile outside where I use my skill to roast everything, Goblin meat tastes and smells bad, but we eat it anyway, it even does. more meat in the food depot but I don't have time to check which is rotten and which is still edible, my priority is to build a bigger cabin for us all to stay in and then organize the rest.
After the food, I tell Ibuki and Érica to dig a deep grave and we're going to throw all the bones in it tomorrow.
I go back outside with Diana and keep cutting more branches, with higher skill levels it takes a little less to cut.
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Ding! Ding! Ding!
<[ Strength stat increased by 1 point ]>
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<[ Your skill leveled up [ Wolf Claw: 3 > 4 ] ]>
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We stayed until late afternoon and this time I got four Big branches, all these big branches are over two meters in size and around 20 to 25 cm thick, tomorrow we're going to look for smaller branches and go back to my old base to pick up some things I left there.
Now I head towards the Goblin hut and see that Ibuki is sleeping and Érica is lying on the bed looking very tired.
"Is she tired… Érica?" (me)
"I'm a fine master." (Érica)
When she hears my voice she sits up quickly and tries to look like she's not tired, she suddenly looks at me, and her eyes sparkle and she falls into thought for a few seconds, it seems like she's remembered something.
"Master has System □■ group?" (Érica)
"Yes, why?" (me)
"I remembered □■□ telepathy spell □■□□ that only works on members of the same group." (Érica)
"This will help □■■ use sends the thoughts through □■ a Mana connection, can I test with the master?" (Érica)
"(A thing like that exists, it can help in communication between all of us.)" (me)
"Yes." (me)
Érica raises her hand towards me and some geometric shapes form and combine, it only takes a few seconds so a thread comes out of what I think is a magic circle and connects to me and Érica, then she does the same with Diana who is silently sitting behind me all the time.
Ding!
<[ Telepathic link format with a member of the Érica party ]>
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<[ Telepathic link format with party member Diana ]>
"(Can you hear me better now master?)" (Érica)
"(Yes, now I can better understand you Érica.)" (me)
"(Can Diana hear us too?)" (me)
"(Yes my lord, I can hear you two in my mind, but I must remind you Érica that the magical telepathy connection you are using cannot be used in battle, after all, it connects the minds of members of the same party, but it doesn't you can stop, in a battle, everyone will be thinking about what to do and listening to the others in their minds, which will generate deadly confusion and distraction in battle.)" (Diana)
"(I know Diana, you don't need to remind me, I'm not a fledgling adventurer anymore.)" (Érica)
"(This will help us a lot Érica, thank you.)" (me)
"(But turn it off now, let's save this for tomorrow morning after Ibuki wakes up, let's keep talking in Common Language for me to raise the skill level.)" (me)
"(Yes master.)" (Érica)
Ding!
<[ Telepathic link disabled with party members ]>
So I spent a few hours talking with the two of them before they went to bed, we talked about what we'll do tomorrow and Diana came up with the idea of making a bigger cabin because we can store some things in the cabin or find new members for the group in the future.
Ding!
<[ Your skill leveled up [ Common language: 6 > 7 ] ]>
With that in mind, I decided to get some more big branches tomorrow, I also said that we are going to my old base tomorrow to get some things, when they finally went to sleep I will see the group system.
<[ Group Name: None
Number of members: 4/7
Leader: Zenos (Blood Goblin)
Membership Status:
{ Name: Diana (Familiar)
Race: Wolf Man-Beast
Gender: Woman
Level: 52/450 Exp: 350/378
Job: [ Swordsman with two swords ]
Work Level: 08/50
HP: 100/100 MP: 33/33 STM: 98/98 }
{ Name: Ibuki (Subordinate)
Race: Goblin (Variant)
Gender: Woman
Level: 8/15 Exp: 5/53
HP: 35/35 MP: 30/30 STM: 35/35 }
{ Name: Érica (Slave)
Race: Lesser Demon
Gender: Woman
Level: 37/250 Exp: 194/197
Job: [ Fire Mage Novice ]
Work Level: 08/30
HP: 60/60 MP: 153/153 STM: 50/50 }
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It seems that Érica is a complete magician with all this MP, as I thought Diana is a warrior and has even less MP than me, she also has jobs but neither I nor Ibuki has, maybe if we evolve more maybe we can.
I'll leave it for tomorrow to see her status, I'm going to sleep because I have to cut more branches tomorrow.