Extermination

At the first ray of dawn, Luke gathered his men, this time he would be take 10 militia along with Derick, leaving behind 5 men, he also told the hunters to stay in the village to help guard the village.

Although, they aren't warriors like the militia, but they still have some fighting skills, it's better than nothing.

everyone was standing in orderly formation, wearing their leather armor, and their sheathed swords hanging on their waist.

Luck was in the lead with Derick on his side, standing as a loyal bodyguard.

After getting ready, Luke gave the marching order, their destination is the Goblin Cave.

The Distance between the Kaylin Village and the Goblin Cave wasn't far, about 6km or so, taking one hour to reach there.

When they reached there, Luke let them take a rest while he and Derick observed the surrounding, and making planes, although he was 90% sure he could win, but he wanted to win without taking any casualties.

For Kaylin Village the most important resource is people, everyone of them has great importance for the village's future.

Luke called for George and Mat.

"George, Mat, I want you to go scouting the cave, I must know if the hunting team is out or not."

"Yes, my Lord." Both George and Mat nodded.

They descended the cliff and then entered the cave sneakily, these two men are very talented, and Luke has high opinion on them, even Derick paid them a special attention during the training.

Luke decided to ambush the goblin's hunting team in the wildness, instead attacking the cave directly.

There would too many variables if he attacked the cave.

George and Mat didn't stay long inside the cave, before came back while running at top speed.

Luke was puzzle, could it be they were discovered by goblins that fast.

When George and Mat reached the Luke, they were panting unable to say a word.

But Luke understood the situation.

At this time, the goblin's hunting team led by the hobgoblin was coming out of the cave, they didn't seem to no about George and Mat intrusion.

"Sorry, my Lord, when we were half through the cave tunnel, we heard the goblins coming, so we retreated as fast as possible, not alarming them.'

"no problem, you two did well."

Luke told his men to get ready, and then they followed the goblins, they would attack when the goblins leave the valley and enter the forest.

The plan is to launch a pincer attack on goblins.

Derick will lead a charge with half of the militia, attacking from the front.

While Luke will mount a sneak attack from behind with the other half of the militia.

As long as Derick can handle the hobgoblin, the rest would be easy.

....

Luke signaled for Derick to start, the latter nodded, and charged at the goblins from behind the bushes at the side, followed by his man.

The goblins panicked after being attacked, but at that time the hobgoblin gave a shout, and all the goblin took battle stance.

The hobgoblin took his great sword from his back and clashed with Derick, the soldiers and goblins also started their fight.

Watching the battle beginning, Luke stood up from his cover and pointed his finger at the goblins and casted his new obtained spell [Fireball].

A ball of flames materialized on his finger tip, in a second it reached it the size of a child head, and flew in straight line hitting the back of a goblin.

The fireball exploded sending that goblin flying, while another two by his side were thrown on the ground almost losing consciousness.

As for the flying goblin, he hit a tree then fell on ground, twitching a bit before dying, his back was still smoking.

Everyone was shocked by this turn in event, but soon all Luke cheered out and attacked even more vigorously.

"You have killed a goblin, gaining 20EXP"

Luke was pleased with the result, but it not the time to idle, he took a sword and joined the battle.

The battle didn't last long, the two goblins that were knocked on the ground by the fireball, were quickly dealt with, and the rest was powerless against the militia.

Derick duel with the hobgoblin also didn't take long, not because the hobgoblin was weak, on the contrary, it was strong forcing Derick to use his skill [Berserk], making his physical stats increase sharply, and finally killing the hobgoblin

After the fight, Luke order his people to clean the battlefield, while was taking a rest, using his skill [Berserk] will leave in weak state for a sometime.

These goblins didn't have much on them, except for the hobgoblin armor and great sword.

Luke decided to granted these to Derick, as he was his only expert, no one was displeased with that.

There was also a silver ring with an exquisite design on the hobgoblin finger, after taking, Luke used [Scan] on it as the ring seemed special.

[Agility ring: can increase Dexterity by 1 on equipping.]

Luke surprised by the ring ability, although it wasn't rare to find such items but, only rich people could have them as it cost a lot.

It also confirmed something, this hobgoblin definitely had a lucky encounter, and receive his armor, sword and this ring.

The goblins are primitive creatures they won't be able to make such items.

Luke kept the ring for himself, it's advantages of being a Lord.

After resting they continued to the goblin cave.

...

"All of you must be careful, there's probably more goblins inside."

Luke waned his men while entering the cave, he won't believe there only 10 goblins, in this tribe.

The cave was long, but straight forward without forks, that was good, as Luke didn't spend too much time here, he took most of militia with him, the Village is in weakest state, hopefully nothing bad happen during their absence.

When they reached the end of the tunnel, there sought a huge cavern, with many big holes deg on the walls, serving as rooms for the goblins.

There also about 20 goblins inside the cavern, mostly children and females' goblins.

There was no one with fighting capabilities.

"My Lord, should we attack." George asked.

Luke stayed silent.

"My Lord, I…"

"there is no need to say anything, Derick."

They must exterminate all the goblins without an exception, since they begin a fight with these goblins, them must end it for good, not keeping any hiding danger.

As Lord, Luke must be decisive in his action, but after all, he's been a Lord for only 3 days, when it came to management there wasn't a problem, he was good at that, and with Lydia help, Luke done quite good job.

As for the battle against goblins, it was to protect Kaylin village, those goblins are capable of fighting after all.

But the goblin in front of him are defenseless, but he has no choice but to kill them, this made conflict for the first time since coming to this world and becoming a Lord.

As for taking them as subordinate, that was out of the question, although they might submit now due fear, but he doesn't have enough power to keep them at bay.

Being a Lord might not be easy as he through but it is something he would learn with time.

After a while Luke made his decision.

"Derick, kill them all."

"Yes, my Lord."

Derick led all the man and attacked the goblins, no one showed any mercy, killing children, elderly and females.

Soon the cavern was filled with the goblin's miserable screams, their blood dried the walls and ground with crimson color.

Luck didn't participate, but he kept watching without blinking, these goblins died under his hands, the militia are just swords, and extension of his will.

This scene is manifestation of his power.

A power to govern others life with words only.

This is the power of a ruler.

.....

"You have eliminated a goblin tribe, gaining 500EXP."

This system announcement concluded the massacre with the fall of the last goblin.

Luke was surprised for a moment, but he returned to normal, and begin arranging his man.

Luke split his man into two teams.

The first team, were ordered to pile the corpses outside and set it on fire.

As the other one they begin searching the cave.

After a half-hour, everything was done, and the loot was placed in front of Luke.

The loot was mostly some animal skins, and few magical beast skins. Some weapons probably made by humans, but were unsuitable for the goblins to use.

These weapons are in bad shape, since these goblins didn't maintain them, but the village's smith maybe can fix them.

There was also 142 copper coins and 6 silver coins, it's the human's currency used in Argus, one currency used by all humans in the world.

There was also a sack that contained 2 books written in the common language along with a map.

Thankfully this uncivilized goblin didn't damage these items.

This made Luke very happy, books is valuable source of information, Luke only received some basic knowledge when he came here.

As for the map it's a gift from the heaven, it would allow him to have a better idea about his location and surroundings.

Luke ordered his man to pack everything, he was preparing to return back to the village, but at this time Mat run to his side holding a stone his hand.

"My lord, Mine… this cave is an Iron mine."

"what did say? Are sure?"

Luke ask in surprise, he personally didn't know what an iron mine would look like, or how to identify it.

"Yes, my Lord I'm not totally sure, but Grant told few things about iron ore, here do…"

And then George begin to explain to Luke, as for Grant that George spoke about it's the village's smith, and his quite good at his job.

Although George wasn't sure, but as long they took few pieces of stone and let Grant examine them, they would know the answer.

After finding about the possibility of an iron mine existence, Luke was very happy, unfortunately, even it was true, he won't be able to mine it, because of the lack in man power and transportation issue.

But still the operation was great success, and it worth celebrating when they are back.

"Everyone, you have worked hard, one we go back we should make a feast as a celebration."

All the people cheered out, while marching home.

.....

Returning to the village just before sun set, all the villagers where celebrating.

Grant the smith was given some samples of the goblin cave and he confirmed George would, it was iron deposit.

After the celebration, Luke gathered Lydia and Derick in the Village Hall, studying the map they found with the goblins.

The map showed the south-east part of a forest called The Endless Green Forest, this forest was massive, Luke estimated it size is large as the Amazon forest back on Earth, and this only a part of it.

According to the map, Kaylin Village was situated within the forest at the southern edge.

The map showed few towns at the forest's border, the closest one was 45km away from Kaylin Village.

Luke decided to make a visit later when the village is more stable and maybe establish a trading relationship with them.

South that town, about 30km there is a city named Arbura, it was the only city on the map.

Luke was really excited to explore this new world, if not that he had many obligations, he would have begun a journey right now.

After some discussion both Derick and Lydia left, Luke was also tiered and he collapsed on bed and fell asleep