Now, I don't like the idea of someone invading me or my settlement. I got enough of being a citizen of an invasion-riddled country, so I immediately decided to be the one to fire the starting shot. It is not like my ego is unfounded because this forest is the property of the undead and I am the hero of the god of the undead, so I have the authority to even call this place mine.
But of course, I will not do that until I finished the hero's test. Thinking of such things, I immediately made a simulation of the war I want to make, this simulation however is just the result of my already known knowledge of all the primates that are in the Theory of Evolution and the more weaker normal monkeys in modern times.
This meant that my simulation did not include any special traits possible for the otherworldly monkeys and we don't want some flawed simulation to be the base of my plans. Thus after a long day of organizing things for the recovery path of the settlement, I immediately ordered Kabuto to venture to the second layer and find a monkey to tail and look for their hideout.
After which, he has to spy on every single one of their secrets, except for useless ones like toilet times, etc.
"Then, go ahead."
Kabuto nodded receiving my order with a wide smile.
"Yes, rest assured that even their toilet time will be revealed."
Oi, I just said that toilet time is not needed! Well, who cares I guess, I thought so as Kabuto turned translucent, and with a blur, he disappeared. I looked at the spot in which a subordinate of mine is in just a while ago for a moment, my heart is still beating uneasily because of a command that I am reluctant to do so until now.
"Please be careful."
I muttered and sighed, as I went inside the cave, the entrance have a residential area and I don't have anyone to talk to there so I went to the section which I gave to Ellie as her laboratory.
[You're not even in the talking stage and you already gave her a nickname?]
Hey now, there's no need to think too deeply about it... we will be heading into that stage very soon.
[I see, that's some arroga- I mean confidence.]
I ignored [Guide] and then looked at the two goblins who are heads of the crafting team named Kabra and Bang, they have a blueprint of some sort in their hands, they did not even notice me as I slithered out of their way and went to look at Eleanor who already has a microscope and many Petri dishes among other lab apparatus in her table.
How did she grab all of that? She doesn't have anything when she first came here, she even grabbed a tong in between her cleavage...
[Women's Secret.]
Hey, no dirty joke! I immediately corrected my naughty unique skill as I stared at Ellie's mumbling and note-making figure.
She is always adjusting her microscope as she scribbled with a tablet made of earth, seems like that's her attribute. Well, scribble I say but she just uses her precise control to take notes without the use of a carving stone or something. Yeah, that's right this is a somewhat medieval world (Exclude Slavery, Racism, and extreme poverty) so paper will never be a staple equipment for ordinary people.
Even I would need a proper amount of time and a suitable alternative to modern methods of paper making and also an alternative that is not cumbersome like those big fat-ass paper-making machines in the early phases of the industrial revolution.
[That is not a challenge... Though it is a lengthy procedure.]
Yep, if it's magic, then it is possible but it will be lengthy because I never made paper before and only knew how it is made theoretically.
I have that industry planning ideas as I continued to watch Ellie who have a frowning face that will turn happy, and the frown again and then smile again and again.
"Oh..."
"Huh?"
"How weird... Isn't it supposed to..."
"But then..."
I unconsciously smiled at the sight of her being engrossed in her passion and was interrupted by the creepy guy inside my head.
[You like them weird huh?]
What do you mean weird? Didn't she look cool when she is doing something she genuinely likes? I think that's attractive.
[Oh... here it is, I saw something that says you completely folded to this girl who loves bugs... That explains it.]
Hey! Th-that's against the 1987 Philippine Constitution, Article Three also known as the Bill of Rights, Section Three by which it proclaims that: The privacy of communication and correspondence shall be inviolable except upon lawful order of the court, or when public safety or order requires otherwise, as prescribed by law.
Furthermore, Any evidence obtained in violation of this or the preceding section shall be inadmissible for any purpose in any proceeding!
So you better not do that again!
[You're embarrassed huh? Well, I would agree with you though, in all seriousness, people engrossed in things they love have this certain charm on them.]
Yeah! Right! Right! Calling them weird is just an overstatement.
I made a little commotion and Eleanor noticed me, I made a "geh!" sound and smiled awkwardly, she also smiled faintly and nodded while waving her hand that is bound by a sand tentacle and continued her work.
Now that I think about it, is she using my goblins to create her lab? Well, not like I mind but why do those green-skinned people can be attached to a stranger who sneaked into their place and not me who created it in the first place? I cannot understand.
[Like you didn't just call her cool a while earlier.]
Eh, like I said, I do not mind.
Anyway, I just sighed and looked at her for a little while before entering my new dwelling, it is a room furnished with stone, as what would you expect from a cave right? I then recalled the passionate face of Eleanor one more time as I closed my eyes.
I can't wait to grow up... Oh, and I wish she was into girls.
The next day I saw several materials being transferred in the lab of Eleanor, most of them are tables, wooden faucets, and other ancient-looking lab tools. Ellie is sleeping on her table with the microspore in front of her, and should I say that sleeping in a fucking lab is dangerous?
"Seriously..."
I made several tentacles and gently grabbed her like a princess and then placed her on the section that she particularly partitioned as her sleeping quarters, the gaps between the plywood divider is filled with tree sap.
I then placed her on the simple mat made of weaved palm leaves and coated her with a blanket made of the same material. I then left her room and waved my hand to a goblin who with her eyes in the opposite of my direction waved back.
Haha, rowdy aren't they?
I continued to stroll away from her lab and immediately went to continue the adjustments of my settlement. The adjustments yesterday of course are not yet finished, in that day I have to instruct them how to dry age meat how to make Palm leaves mats and blankets as well as how to cure the pelt of the wolves and make leather for clothes and armor.
After that I have to help Lyra with the arrangements of the houses being transferred inside the cave, I also tabulated all of the soldiers that evolved and memorized their names, after which I have to listen to the civilian count report of Lyra, a good thing none of them died and a few injured are the only worst damage in the report.
All of that was finished in half a day, but the military ones are more complicated. First I instructed the lumber team to focus their tree-cutting activities in an area a little far from the settlement to make a clearing wide enough for a unit-unit war to happen, this is a place in which the soldiers will train as they will not hunt for a while and hone their Martial Arts skills, I am not to believe that they don't have that when they can kill wolves with spears made out of a chiseled stick and sharpened stone.
Furthermore, they really can't hunt any games right now because of the amount of meat we acquired, we will be in serious trouble if they did so.
This however requires time as it's only the lab that is being made and the housing of people tending the salt pans as well as the farmers I recently assigned to cultivate plants.
And then I also have to designate my subordinates as the official generals of the army, they are lower than the commander Bernardo, but hey, they are my subordinates so their appointments are just temporary until I find soldiers among the ranks that fit the requirements of being a general.
And so all of that required another half a day resulting in the delay of the additional orders, these orders are quite complicated and the soldiers have to rest so I did not make them have overtime because that would be pushing them.
And so now, I have to continue my commands by rearranging the army. This is quite a good problem I have, I have many goblins here that have the potential on being high-ranking people in my future military so all of them will become unit leaders.
However, the good thing about Isekai worlds with an MMORPG-like system is that potential has nothing to do with your genius, I mean it has but not to the point that normal people will have an utter inferiority complex towards those prodigies, they just have to work extra hard and the gap between talent will become irrelevant in the long run.
That means, that even though I have said that there are people who have potential, that doesn't mean the other goblins I will not assign as leaders will not have a chance to bypass these people. All of my soldiers understand this logic, thus resulting in an intense yet healthy rivalry between them.
Remember that, their fear of me is just activated by the skill, and upon sight of me, though it is etched in their heart because of their nature as monsters, they have already forgotten most of it and only the skill keeps them from completely wiping it out of their memory, so they have this "I have to be strong for that Tyrant... B-but it is not like I want to serve her or anything!"
Something like that.
[Don't call them tsundere... I mean, they are but don't call them that.]
I snickered a bit listening to [Guide] as I looked at the assembly of soldiers in front of me as I announced my commands, Lyra and Kabuto are absent and Philo's still training the goats so I am only here with Agilus who is angrily peaking my head because of me almost dying.
And also Bernardo, the commander of the soldiers.
"Guardians of my Land, I am here to thank you for your..."
I made a short speech of made-up crap thanking them and whatnot that spanned for about thirty minutes until it was finally finished.
"However, with this encounter, I noticed flaws about my organization of your ranks thus the following commands will be implemented, first..."
The command is as follows: the goblin soldiers will be reduced by a hundred, which means there will be 200 left in their ranks, these 200 will form 20 people units led by people I designated. That means 10 units, this unit will be training day in and day out for their chemistry to build up and every week, there will be mock battles for them to be tested.
The other 100 will form the goat cavalry, this unit will be our war unit and cannot be used as hunters because they will make big commotions because of their size. Sadly, the lack of people prevented me from expanding the army, this is because all of the pregnant women goblins have to carry a child for 5 months from the moment they were named.
And I named them just recently and I am just in my second month of being transported, so you can understand why.
That's all I will be saying and Bernardo will be the one to say the auxillary matters. Why? Because I have been itching to test my new magic powers.
Specifically, the fire element... That Ember Magic came a long way...
Anyway, I proceeded to go to a clearing after making sure that Agilus knew of my absence.
I cracked my little knuckles as I stretched a little.
"Alright, let's start."
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Special:
Other people when they get embarrassed: *stutters like mad.
Sophia: *Proceeds to recite the Philippine Constitution.