In a small town in the west of Themo kingdom a beautiful woman accompanied by two men was stopped at the town's entrance for inspection.

"What is your purpose for visiting Tulber, miss Jasmine?" asked the guard, looking at some doc.u.ments in his hands.

"It's trade of different monster's parts, rare herbs and weapons. We are traveling across the whole kingdom searching for rarely seen things and selling them for a living." she said with a charming smile.

"Your doc.u.ments are in order, you may enter. Welcome to town Tulber, the fiefdom of Count Windsor." said the guard, handing her the doc.u.ments.

"Thank you." said the woman and departed towards the nearest tavern.

Once they got a place to stay at, the men accompanying her asked.

"Jasmine, what's our next step? It will be hard to get the count's attention without arousing suspicion."

"We'll trade a little first and gather information. No matter how hard it's going to be, it's an order from the queen. We have to convince count Hussein Windsor to help master get the throne, and failure is not an option."

"Understood!" exclaimed both at the same time.

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Meanwhile, at Cavetown was ongoing the daily morning report.

"Emily, Jasmine should have reached the destination already. The other groups should reach their's soon, too." said Ramiya.

"Good. Tell me the general situation here."

"Nothing new, newborn goblins and kobold eggs keep coming, the seeds on the fields started to reap, the army training is going as always and the hunters managed to get some game. The new goblins' looks are way better than before, so we suspect it might be becouse of the environment they grew in. Also, we found an egg from the kobolds that still didn't manage to hatch. It is bigger and looks different from the other ones."

"Hmm... Let's go have a look."

On the way there, everyone they passed by bowed to show their respect. They passed by the training grounds, where the adventurers were sparring with the goblins and the undead. It was a month since they've come to Cavetown, so they felt relaxed around everybody.

When they reached the hatchery, there were a lot of little kobolds being taken care of by the goblins. Some of the first batch reached a.d.u.l.thood already and started to lay eggs. The fire mage was in the middle of the room, managing the temperature. When Emily came in, all the a.d.u.l.ts bowed.

"Show me the egg."

A nurse took the egg and carefully brought it to Emily. It was bigger than the rest and had an unusual color, orange with some pink and golden parts. Emily decided to use "Discerning Eye" to inspect it.

[Item name: Kobald Royal Egg

Description: Even though the kobolds have high fertility, it becomes harder to lay eggs as they evolve. In rare cases, such an egg might appear between the kobald king and queen. It needs twice the temperature to hatch into a kobald king or queen.]

"Ram, bring here another fire mage and assign him to use twice the tempreture to hatch this egg. Take utmost care of this one."

Ramiya nodded and went to fetch the mage while Emily went to the alchemy room. There, Goldy and the other metal mages were trying to make gold and precious stones from useless ores and weapons. Even though they managed to make gold, it takes a lot of mana for a small quantity, so they are researching other possible ways.

Then, she went to the weaponry where Drago and his brothers were making more weapons from blood, while in another corner Ledia and some subordinates were making bombs. Blood was donated every two weeks by the residents in small quantities and the bombs were made using the kobald eggshells.

On the way back to her room she stopped to consult with Elise a bit about the future plans. Elise was an easygoing person with charisma and high leading capabilities, so she got friendly with everybody there. Also, since the last incident, Faust became less arrogant and even apologized for his words.

Cavetown now looked more like a town than before, it had buildings made by earth mages, fields for cultivation, hunting groups, training fields, a big wall for protection, high population that's still rapidly growing, an army of living and undead and some other facilities.

Emily sent spies to the territories of possible allies based on Ramiya and Elise's opinions. Some of them might help becouse of the relation they had with Ram's noble family, some for their own gains and some for the people that are suffering from war, famine and slavery. Strangely, a lot of people were against King Fergus's rule, but stayed still until now.

Two weeks passed by really fast, and this time was used to further train the living army and improve Cavetown's fortifications. Emily wanted to send expeditions to other goblin tribes and unificate or destroy them, and at the same time train the army through real combat.

There were two goblin tribes known, the Golak's tribe in the west and Jagga's tribe in the east. Golak's tribe was more powerful 'couse they had a goblin king and some hobgoblins, while Jagga's had no king, but had nearly twice the amount of Golak's hobgoblins.

The meeting about the tribes took place in Emily's room, at which were present some representatives from the goblins and kobolds, the adventurers, Robell, Leyla, Ramiya and Emily.

"The Golak's tribe will be our first target as they have a ruler and I don't think they'll want to surrender. After this, it will be much easier to get Jagga on our side without a fight, but we'll have to organise and discipline them and put some spies in their ranks in case they want to rebell. On the battlefield will be mainly the goblins and kobolds. Some vampires will be mixed in so they could help if the need arises and protect the inexperienced bunch. You will also have the assistance of the flying division led by Bat. They will shot the dangerous guys from distance. It must be an easy battle, but never let your caution down, or you'll die. Understood?" said Emily.

"Yes!" answered all at the same time.

"Then go and make the last preparations, we'll depart in the morning." said Emily, placing her fist near her heart.

The others responded in the same way, then left the room one by one with the exception of Ram. It was a military salute, that represented the love and loyalty the subordinates had towards their ruler, and the ruler's faith in them. The culture and ideas they implemented into society could be seen already, and they are still progressing little by little.

Emily saw that Ramiya was still there and asked "Ram, why are you still here? Go to sleep."

Ramiya steeled her resolve, and said with rosy cheeks "I want to sleep with you!"

"W-What?!"

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