The next day, after the feast, rimuru gathered the entire population around him. looks like he is planning to tackle the problems the village is currently having and hammering out the rules.
"Everyone here? All right! I have some rules to give to you! Three, to be exact. The bare minimum I want all of you to follow."
And so rimuru laid out his standards:
1. Do not attack human beings.
2. Do not fight among your friends.
3. Do not look down upon other species.
The rules he came up with are not bad but, the first one is very naive, I get where he is coming from he doesn't want to empower monsters to slaughter humans but, he has to realize that there are humans who are worse than savage monsters.
"Could I ask a question?" Rigur shouted. "Why are we not allowed to attack humans?"
Rigurd gave his son the dirtiest look I've ever seen from a hobgoblin. Was he afraid rimuru was offended?
"Simple: Because I like humans! That is all."
"Ah! Very good! I understand!"
That was easy. I couldn't read a single hint of dissent on any of their faces. Looks like hierarchy is quite important in monster society.
"Human beings live in groups," rimuru continued, giving them full explanation whether they needed it or not. "If you lay hands on them, they may retaliate in force—and if they throw everything they have at you, I doubt you would be able to defend yourselves. That's why I prohibit interfering with them. It'd help you all if you were friendly with them, besides…"
Really, though, it just came down to him liking humans, seeing as he used to be one, but there are some truth In what he said If a country retaliates again the village it will be quite difficult to defend.
Ranga nodded deeply at this. It seemed to make sense to him. He must have had his own reasons to think challenging mankind was a bad idea. The hobgobs, meanwhile, appeared even more convinced than before.
"Is there anything else?"
"What do you mean by 'Do not look down upon other species'?"
"Well, all you guys are freshly evolved, right? I'm just saying, don't let that get to your head and start lording it over all the weaker species! Just because you're all a little sturdier doesn't mean you're some high-and-mighty race now. Sooner or later, your rivals will get just as strong—or even stronger—and they'll want to get back at you. That'd suck, wouldn't it?"
He had the ears of everyone in the audience. Looks like that worked well enough. putting guidelines early will make interaction easier in the future.
"That's pretty much it. Stick to those rules as much as you can, all right?"
The first rules the village ever had were set in stone. Everyone nodded their approval, and with that, the curtain rose on a new life for them all.
With local laws out of the way, it was time to start divvying up roles. The village watch, the food-prep team, the group collecting materials for the village to make things with, the ones building homes and tools and such…
it was decided to assign police duty to the extra Thought Communication–wielding tempest wolves. There were seven left after all the hobgobs were paired off, and with Ranga practically glued to rimuru's back all the time, that made six that could be send on patrol.
Beyond that, he figured I'd leave the assignment details to Rigurd.
"Rigurd, I hereby appoint you 'goblin lord'! It will be your job to keep this village well run and well governed."
In other words he tossed everything on his lap, truly the style of a big boss.
"Y-yes, Sir Rimuru!! I promise you that I, Rigurd, will devote myself body and soul to this vital post!!"
He was sobbing tears of joy again.
Well at least rigurd wasn't an elderly goblin at the end of his life anymore, Now he's a hobgoblin in the prime of his life—fit, muscular, and bursting with energy. He might even be stronger than Rigur.
"Very well," he crowed. "It is in your hands now, Rigurd! Now, I was watching the construction work. It's terrible, isn't it?"
One could barely call the structures houses. These were stronger, smarter goblins now, but I suppose asking them to suddenly develop technical skills was asking a bit much.
"It pains me to admit so, Sir Rimuru. We never had a need for very large buildings in the past…"
"Yeah. You guys are bigger now, after all. As for clothing… You guys are all exposing way too much flesh. Could you maybe pass some clothes around?"
"Ah! Yes! There are some people I know that we've had dealings with several times. Perhaps they could supply clothing that could fit our needs. In fact, with their skills, they might know how to build homes as well!"
"I see," rimuru replied. "It wouldn't hurt to talk to them. What did you pay them with, though? Money?"
"No, Sir Rimuru. We do have some currency that we confiscated from adventurers, but that remains in storage. Instead, we have obtained the materials we need via either barter or short-term work."
"Oh. So who are these guys?"
"They are known as dwarves."
As soon as I heard the word Dwarves I realized they are an infamous smithing race! maybe they can make a suitable sword to house shingetsu, I couldn't help but interject on thier conversation.
"Hey rimuru, we should make a visit to the dwarves, I am in a dire need of a suitable sword and they could help with the other problems that the village has."
"You right they might be able to build better houses, we'll try visiting them. Can you make the arrangements for me, Rigurd?"
"Ah! Ah, of course, Sir Rimuru! I'll have everything for your journey by tomorrow afternoon!"
Currency, though, thinking about it I don't have much money, either I guess I have to think of a solution on the road.
Once I reach a human town, I'll have to go around and check out prices. But that can wait until after the dwarves. After all the hard work getting this village in shape I think rimuru will settle here, I will want to visit other places-checking out one of the races could help me learn a little about this wacky game-like world.
Although technically a subrace of people, the dwarves apparently lived in large towns of their own. They had a king as well, although no goblin was ever permitted even a glance. Just being allowed into their towns was considered an all-time achievement for goblinkind.
And I have no idea if I can enter either, do they allow a spirit to enter their towns? maybe I need to find a way to disguise my semitransparent body.
But at least I found a way to get my hands on good sword maybe I will be able to find a material suitable and release Shingetsu.