Goblin Subjugation ii

Magnus could see his fellow recruits clash with the goblins. Most of them had not mastered their abilities so they relied on brute strength to fight . The ones who had mastered their abilities actually thrived .

Under the guise of checking the houses for goblin stragglers, Magnus would enter into buildings, ransack the place and take any money he saw lying around.

He had done this for over ten buildings till he came to one particular building. It was a duplex and from the design and opulence, it could have belonged to one of the mages .

Magnus then enters the building and after checking for a while, he came across the money kept in a box . He couldn't even comprehend how much that was , all he needed to do was to get it out of this place as quietly as possible.

His mind was still on the money and then he heard the sound of a door being broken down.

It was clear that he had been discovered,either by the the mages or by the goblins , Either way it was bad for him.

He quickly arranged the money and his it someplace else.

He then picked up his weapon and headed out to go check on the intruders.

As he came out of the room , he was met face to face with a lone goblin that lunged straight at him , subconsciously as the goblin got closer, he used the shield to push back the goblin so hard that it smashed into the wall and lay on the floor, dead .

The noise had attracted what ever was outside because Magnus could just hear the rushing of feet coming towards him so he decided to take advantage of his position.

He stood behind the narrow doorframe with shield and spear in hand . He had just controlled the field of battle and with how narrow the area was , his chances of getting overwhelmed was greatly reduced.

Magnus could now see the goblins rushing towards him from the hall way with their blunt and rusted weapons and he braced for impact.

It was a stupid thing for him to do , but Magnus closed his eyes for a moment and then they hit him pushing him back a step but then he opened his eyes and started stabbing with the spear.

The narrow doorframe really did wonders for him , but after abiut ten minutes in , the doorway started piling up with goblin corpses which they then used as a platform to try and jump over his head.

Well the two goblins that tried this were viciously impaled with the spear. And seeing that the spear had lost its advantage Magnus then switched to the short sword and started hacking the at the goblins. For some reason, the goblins kept coming, the entire floor was littered with corpses and was now affected his mobility.

He then charged placing his shield in front of him and ploughed through the goblins that were right in front of him and then stepping out fully into the hall .

By now he was covered in blood from the goblins , a purplish red liquid.

There were still quite a few goblins in the hallway but they were no longer attacking recklessly as before so Magnus not wanting to waste time stretched out his hands and conjured up flames that poured out of his hand like a gyser , easting up everything in its path including the unlucky goblins whose dying screams pierced Magnus' ear .

He wasted no time and quickly went back to the place he hid the money and retrieved it and then escaped from the window before the house was engulfed in flames.

Magnus didn't know how long he was in that house because when he stepped outside, it seemed like the sun would be setting soon .

Soon the sun had started setting and within that time period Magnus has been involved in various minor skirmishes with the goblins and when he was done with the last one he heard the sound of a horn .

The horn signified that the town was clear of goblins so what remained now was the portal that was still open. And as long as the portal was open the risk of goblin or other monster infestation would still be great.

" Congratulations on defeating the goblins ." Captain Kyle said to the now worn out recruits. " You have all served the clan well . The transport wagons will take you back to your residences while I and the other captains would focus on closing the portal."

Back on the wagon, Magnus could see some of the people he came with , others were either missing or dead . But there was no sadness in their faces , mostly tiredness and relief.

It was by 2 am the next morning that Magnus finally arrived in his room . He was quite lucky, the tiredness and the darkness were tools that helped shield his loot from the recruits eyes , or perhaps it was that the recruits were too worn out to care.

He then laid down all the cash he gathered and started counting, he had gotten one hundred and fifty thousand tokens.

( The tokens came in 50 , 100, 200, 500 and 1000 denomination.).

This should be enough for him to scale up production and move his work out of his room and into a small factory for convenience.

This was just a small step in the direction he was going . With this money , he could actually live frugally in some village but that wasn't what he needed. He needed to invest in his future, he needed more .

After arranging the money , he checked on his brew before falling asleep.

In his dream he could see himself driving fast cars , with airplanes flying about.

He could see signs of industry on the background. He had changed the world , destroyed the demons and had ushered humanity into an age of progress.

He saw the name Waterrock spreading throughout the earth and him controlling powerful men as puppets.

But that was all a dream, turning it to reality would be another task .