After some time, I handed over the matter of the adult goblins that I had beaten to Grandpa Ohji, while I went to my cave room and prepared my hanging mattress... but...
I was suddenly approached by a dozen of the goblins my age who were bullied earlier...
They asked me to teach them how to be stronger... Interesting. Motivation comes after resolution.
I told them what Grandpa Ohji had told me, I taught them how to hunt Horned Rabbit... and
「That's it! From now on I'll divide All of You into teams! 」
In order to be more effective and efficient, I divided all of them, 18 Goblins in total, into 6 groups, when he was hunting, they hunted together in one place and slowly spread out to another place...
[Day 33]
「 Wow, they've started hunting from the morning, more than me who just woke up... Great... 」
I started my day by exploring the outside of the village to the top of the cave where the village's main refuge is, until on the north side of the village I found a kind of lake filled with fishes with strange heads similar to those of martyr sharks, but they were the size of salmon...
I caught one of them with my bare hands, brought it to the edge of the lake and burned it with a makeshift fire that I made and it turned out... Delicious! It tasted like Cork Fish and had a sweetness to it...
I recorded the location of this lake in my brain, hoping that one day when I needed it I would come here fully prepared...
Go to the south. I met up with one of the groups that I've been following secretly for some time... they turned out to be Tenji, Kanami and Haku... it turns out that Tenji was the previous Goblin protecting Haku from the bullies of the previous Adult Goblins...
From my own analysis, Tenji has a physique that is above average... Kanami is a girl who relies on her brain enough to provoke her hunters while Haku uses a kind of inflatable pipe that can shoot a kind of needle made of wood...
I guess it can be used as a diversion huh? Even so, the composition of their team is worth paying attention to...
Srek!
Srek!
Srek!
They were found by four people who looked like dogs, but they stood on two legs...
〔 Permission to Inform Master 〕
〔 The one in question is the Kobold Race 〕
Ahh I see, Kobold...
〔 The Kobold Race is indeed similar to the dogs that you usually meet in your world, because the evolution of the Kobold Race itself is Shepherd, a larger and stouter dog 〕
Ahh, Wait?! Instead of talking about that, didn't the three of them get cornered?!
[Tenji Group's Viewpoint]
「 I think it's around here」 Kanami
「 What exactly are you feeling right? Kanami」 Tenji
「 Yes, we just killed those 4 Rabbits and you want to postpone the hunt because you feel something」 Haku
Srek!
Srekk!!!
「 Who's there!」 Haku
「 T-That, Kobold!" Kanami
「 Don't be afraid! Use the Formation we used before」 Tenji
Tenji is at the forefront of their formation, Kanami is to Tenji's right and Haku is in the back row...
「 ****! ****! 」
We don't understand what they're saying, do they want to fight?...
「Tenji! Tenji! Don't think too much! They're attacking!」 Haku
「 Alright!」 Tenji
2 of them used their spears and tried to stab Tenji with it, Haku immediately shot the wooden needle into the eye of one of them on the right, so Tenji fought one on one with the one on the left while Kanami used her knife to slash their necks...
Unfortunately the Kobolds had thick Fur, slowing down their bleeding, so the Kobolds were still putting up a tough fight against Kanami... While Haku was refilling his pipe, he was surprised by the arrival of the Genie...
「 Fumu, this fight is great!」
[Original Point of View]
I think it'd be fun if I joined in!...
「Fumu, this battle is great! Hey, your name is Haku-chan if I'm not mistaken, there's no need to continue shooting, I'll just fight!」
I darted at the other two kobolds who were trying to join the one-on-one battle between the two of them... Using my blood-coated blade, I slashed at them and dodged their final attack that was a waste of energy...
Beating them to death...
「 Fuuh~ Tiring」
〔 Individual Receives Skill [ Kobold Language ] 〕
〔 Individual Receives Skill [Close Ranged Telepathy] 〕
〔 Individual Receives Skill [ Spear Mastery Lv.1 ] 〕
Woaahh!!!, I finally have a skill that I can increase the level of, Wisdom! How do I level it up?
〔 Masters can increase it by using the spear more often and practicing your understanding of the fighting style that uses the spear 〕
But come to think of it, without a support skill like me, Tenji is able to win their battles with less injuries... Kanami-chan gave those kobolds some serious wounds with minimal injuries to her... they're great!
After that, Kanami thanked me for helping them, she realised that if those two kobolds had interfered with her and Tenji's fight, they would have lost and died...
「 Never mind, I like your fighting style! I'll be in your group from now on!"
They seemed to be happy with my arrival, I taught them little by little my fighting style, corrected their main hunting strategy and made arrows for Haku-chan who seemed to have trouble refilling the pipe...
For myself of course I took the Kobold's Spear as a substitute for my Knife which has no Skill Mastery...
We continued hunting until late afternoon, killing dozens of Horned Rabbits...
〔 Skill [Spear Mastery Lv.1] has risen to Lv.2 〕
..
The sun is sinking... My hunting group started walking back to the village... that's when I found some kind of human base in the southern region... which turned out to be a prison as well as a warehouse for slavery run by humans... I saw dozens of humans armed and armoured with silver there... saw humans, short humans, even short old grandfathers locked up there and tortured...
I'm sure that if I were to attack there right now even with this group, I would definitely die!...
「Jin, that human... Hey Jin, those humans... aren't they no better than the adults of our village?"
Kanami said that while looking at me with tears coming out...
I didn't expect my generation to have feelings like this... I thought most of them would have the same feelings as the barbaric old generation...
「 ...Mark my words, one day when we get stronger, we'll finish them off」
I took them to continue walking, towards the village, it took about an hour to return to the village (I guess because we hunted too far from the village)...
We brought the loot of leather armour obtained from the kobold killed earlier, I shared it with them...
After some time, I felt... The adult goblins looked at me with an unpleasant look... Envious... they were envious that my artificial group system managed to hunt more food than them...
My group cooked dozens of rabbit meat beforehand and ate it to a brutal satiation...
Talking briefly about the future, and at that moment I understood, I recognized Kanami's intelligence above the other Goblins I met ... at least by talking a little and giving elementary level counting lessons, Kanami managed to learn it in minutes ...
「 We're only a month old」
after that we returned to our respective rooms (sleeping caves)...
「 Hey Jin」
Tenji approached me, and greeted me..
「 what Tenji? Why aren't you sleeping?」