Building a World Class Empire in another World
Chapter 95: Taking out the goblins

Chapter 95: Taking out the goblins

The grey ogre with red stripes stepped forward, locking gazes with Aric. "We thank you for helping our people, but as their prince, I can’t run to safety while someone I barely know saves us," he said.

"Hey you, keep your pride and ego aside for now, we have bigger issues to deal with. Stand back and allow my Master to do his thing," Pentharis said, and the spirits all nodded in agreement.

"Enough talk, they are close, we have to get ready," Aric said. He jumped down from his rock, turning to face the ogres.

"I understand that you wish to protect your people, and your pride won’t allow you to see us do it, but right now, this is not a matter of pride.

So the five of you stand behind me, and do nothing, please," Aric begged and then turned to face the incoming goblin army.

"We have to make sure that very few of them get through. I don’t know what means you all will use, but use it. Fight to kill," Aric said.

The spirits nodded and immediately spread out into the forest both ways to make sure that they blocked the goblins.

Soon the goblins came into view. The ogres behind Aric immediately got ready to fight, but he glanced at them and spoke with a voice as calm as a lake.

"Leave it to me," he said. They heard his words, and for some reason, they felt they could actually place their trust in him.

Aric took a few steps forward, walking at a steady pace. After a few steps, he came to a halt and raised his hands, pointing his palm at the raging goblin army.

He took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and with a low voice, he spoke, "Titan’s Domain."

As those words left his mouth, the ground began to tremble, shaking violently, and right before their eyes, shifts and changes began to happen.

The entire terrain changed, as far as a few hundred meters. Rocks and walls, chasms and more, trees fell into the chasms, destroyed by the spell.

The goblins didn’t expect this change in terrain, it was sudden. The terrain kept shifting and changing actively to fit Aric’s imagination.

Aric poured his full attention into it. The spell weighed heavily on his mind, the weight on his body almost made his knees buckle, but he didn’t budge.

Inside the Titan’s Domain, he was near Almighty. He could tell where each and every goblin was, and he could control the earth around them.

Aric would have loved to use this spell to capture the goblins, but the spell was already so much to handle, he couldn’t risk trying to capture them.

So he started taking down the goblins. Spikes shot out of the ground, stabbing goblins and killing them, decapitation and mutilation.

He moved fast, trying his best to ensure that he got everyone. He tried to reduce the blow and only knock out some, but it was far easier said than done.

[You have killed a hobgoblin, 100 Exp]

[You have killed a hobgoblin, 100 Exp]

[You have killed a hobgoblin, 100 Exp]

Notifications soon started rolling in, but Aric couldn’t pay any attention to them. He continued his attack, taking out the goblins.

The ogres behind Aric watched in shock as he did this. They could hear the cries of hobgoblins before they died and the smell of blood filled the air, even though the terrain barely allowed them to see what he was doing.

[Level up, 4 free stat points.]

He had leveled up, but it didn’t stop there. The EXP kept coming in, as more and more goblins died. He killed over three hundred, leveling up three times.

He was now at level 21, with 9 free stat points, but that wasn’t all he got. He seemed to have gotten a reward for crossing level 20.

[Special item box in inventory]

Sadly, Aric couldn’t pay attention to any of that. He was still focused on his spell. Now that he had cut down the population of the goblins by close to three percent alone, he stopped the spell, and the terrain slowly returned to normal.

But the blood and bodies that stained the ground were a testament to what had happened there. The ogres stared at the bodies littered all over the floor.

They could see some whole bodies, but they didn’t know if they were alive or dead.

"My spirits should be able to take care of the rest of the goblins. This went easier than I expected," Aric said, walking toward the ogres, but immediately when he came close, they moved backwards.

"Huh? What happened?" he asked. He noticed their eyes glance at the bodies behind him.

"Sigh, I’m not going to suddenly hurt you. I did all that to save you, after all," Aric said. "Normally, I would have preferred to keep them alive. Their actions were not their own, after all," he said.

"What do you mean that their actions are not their own?" the grey ogre asked.

"Oh, yeah that. The goblins are minions for the forest Terror. They don’t do this of their own will, they are simply pawns, and that’s what makes their deaths more unfair," Aric said.

"If what you are saying is true, then why did you do it? Why did you help us?" the ogre asked.

"It was a necessary sacrifice. I wish I had more time to prepare and I would have captured them rather than kill them, but it didn’t happen that way.

The only options that existed were for us to let them kill all of you and still come to attack us, or kill them," Aric said.

He bent down near one goblin body. "Luckily, I managed to keep some alive, but out of three hundred I killed, I only saved a measly fifty," he said, his tone sour. He propped himself up and faced the ogres.

"But all that is not important now," Aric said. He raised his hands into the air and roots came out of the ground, pulling all the dead bodies onto the ground, deep, deep into the earth, burying all of them, with only fifty bodies left on the ground—the ones he had managed to keep alive.

"Ron, I need you to march out and carry the captives back to the village. We have fifty of them," Aric said lightly. He acted like he had not just wiped away hundreds of lives.

[.....]

Pentharis stood within the forest, his eyes locked on the incoming army of goblins, nearly a hundred of them rushing in his direction.

His lips curled into a smile. Metal lances began forming beside him, all of them a foot long. He raised his finger and with just a snap, the metal lances shot at the goblins at an amazing speed.

The lances stabbed and tore through the goblins, some killing them instantly, while some managed to evade and get close to Pentharis.

The few that got close to him attacked with full force. They swung their rusted blades at Pentharis, but he didn’t flinch. A metal wall shot out of the ground and blocked all their attacks simultaneously.

Spikes shot out of the wall and stabbed into the goblins, killing the ones that were remaining. Pentharis undid the wall. He looked at the bodies on the ground with his smile still hanging high.

"Weak," he said and turned around, walking away.

[.....]

Unara and Treshan found themselves standing against another group of the goblins, but Unara simply sat on a rock while Treshan stood watching the goblins heading for them.

"I don’t know why Master is very cautious. With us alone, he can, for a fact, defeat the Terror. The only reason the Terrors exist is because the higher spirits have no business with them, or else they would be dead," Treshan said.

"I think Master doesn’t have a good concept of our powers yet," Unara said. She looked at the goblins that were now closer, "You should handle that," she said, pointing at them.

"Yeah yeah, I’ll do it," Treshan said. He snapped his finger and swords of fire formed in the air.

"Seriously? That’s what you are going for?" Unara asked.

"Hey, stop that. You are supposed to be the calm one," Treshan said.

"Being calm doesn’t mean I don’t have criticism or sarcasm. Also, your flames will definitely burn down the forest. Let me just handle this," she said and got up from the rock. She pointed her palms forward, and a massive blast of light shot out.

The light exploded out in a massive shot, evaporating the trees and earth and goblins that were charging at them, leaving a very deep and very large crater.

"That was too easy," Treshan said.

"Yeah, well, either way, let’s head back, Treshan. The others will be done soon," she said and turned around to leave.

Suddenly, a goblin that had hidden in a tree leaped from the tree. With its sword in its hands, it went for a stab. The goblin felt like it had succeeded. Sadly, a fireball fell from the sky and killed the goblin.

"You should watch your back, Unara," Treshan said.

"Thank you, Treshan, but we both know that attack was useless," she said with a calm smile.