"What's the meaning of this Gobi"
Ryan said while noticing they were still in a kneeling posture and then Gobi raised his head and said in a pleading voice
"My lord... Please spare us, we goblins were forced to do those raiding and all by Orcs and as you said before my lord, I had poisoned them to death... and we clearly don't want to stand against our lord that's why I have told everyone here about your grace and might my lord, please give us a chance to serve you "
"Like you served your chieftain?"
Ryan said with mockery which was clearly reflecting from his voice and this response made Gobi's face fell from embarassment.
"We don't dare my lord... That chief was too cruel to us he was a tyrant and even some of us died out of hunger because he wanted all of us to serve him without expecting anything in return not even food "
"Hmm, that's a good enough reason but... I don't think that I'm much different than him, so if you become my subordinates you all will be worked to your death by me but here comes the twist, if you all work and perform well under me you all can expect few things in return which are food, clothes and better standard of living, so none of you will die because of hunger, cold and none of you will live for only those things from now on "
even Ryan didn't know how much these words meant to them, afterall goblins only live half of their actual life expectancy because old goblins can't hunt and those goblins which can always lose half of their group in hunting good enough beast to satisfy everyone's hunger.
"My lord this will be more than enough for us."
[ GOBO VILLAGE HAS SUBMITTED TO THE HOST
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CHECK VILLAGE STATS
Y/N ]
"Yes"
[ OPENING VILLAGE STATS
NAME : GOBO VILLAGE
POPULATION : 327/500 ( UPPER LIMIT CAN BE INCREASED AFTER VILLAGE EXPANSION )
FOOD : NO RESERVES
FUND : 450 BRONZE COINS , 70 SILVER COINS
MOOD : 70/100 ( ABOVE 80, SUBORDINATES WILL DIE FOR THEIR RULER. BELOW 50, SUBORDINATES WILL START DESERTION. WHEN THE MOOD WILL REACH AROUND 0, THE REBELLION CAN BE RAISED ) ]
Ryan expected the food status to be like that so he wasn't surprised but the mood thing was out of his expectations because this could aid him in avoiding the unexpected factors related to his subordinates. While he was thinking this he heard Robb's roaring voice mixed with grieve and anger.
"LORD SEE WHAT THESE FILTHY BASTARDS DID TO MY DAUGHTER!!!!!.... UWAGHHH!!!"
Ryan followed Robb's voice and what he saw was a group of girls in a room with tattered clothes and some of them even were naked, but this wasn't enough to make Ryan change his expressionless face but the eyes of those girls were like the ultimate darkness which haven't seen a glimpse of light for years and this greatly shook Ryan for first time after his reincarnation and he felt an emotion wailing inside of him and it was empathy for those girls and absolute anger for those who did it and for the world who yet again proved it no matter where you are jungle rule always prevail.
"Who did this ?"
Robb who was wailing to feel some relief after doing so and the goblins which were rejoicing of for their life being spared all heard this simple phrase and were frozen on their place cause the one who said this was expressionless but his eyes were telling them that his mind and heart was in war currently and this war could be the very reason to perish them all. After seeing this the first one to come out of the frenzy was Gobi.
"My lord, please calm yourself we aren't the one who did it, we only followed the orcs orders to abduct them out of fear for our lives, we never even touched them cause we were not allowed to these were clear instructions of chief afterall those were their trophies ... Please spare us my lord"
Gobi said with his shuddering figure cause he knew the one in front of him right now was a demon who can eat them alive literally but fortunately for him this reasoning made Ryan get his composure completely back.
"Hermes "
"Yes, my lord"
"Behead every single dead body of Orcs and place them on village boundaries fences to make example out of them and if any single of these goblins tried to do the same thing to any villager in future behead them and make some furniture out of their bodies for our townhall and for this you don't have to take permission from me in future"
Said Ryan with calm demeanor but the instructions were bone chilling nonetheless, which made Hermes smile go ear to ear and that day the goblins for the first time in their life they shuddered thrice.
...
The next morning you could spot two villagers of Timutha talking at the village entrance
"Do you think that those two bastards can achieve, what they said about getting rid of those filthy goblins which were raiding us "
"Nah, I don't think so afterall they are against numbers and the biggest problem are those Orcs which are leading them and you already know the extent of Orcs strength "
They were talking like Ryan and Hermes had no chances to begin with, against them.
" I don't think so "
Said a guy who looked like around early twenties with brown hair and handsome stature and by that response those two villagers frowned.
"What do you even know about them Zack that you are siding with our village chief killers"
"That's exactly why, we don't even know about them so just forget about assuming their extent of power, we at least know about orcs strength but those two who have came from unknown origin and dared to declare that they can take care of those goblins by themselves, I don't think that we should underestimate them no... At the very least we shouldn't underestimate them "
Said Zack with a smile and expression which was excited to see what comes next and what changes will those two strangers will bring to their life and on the other hand this reasoning made those two Villagers shut their mouth and forced them to revaluate their thoughts about those two. When they were doing so they saw some figures coming towards their village.