Primordial Red Goblin

I rode on the lead wagon and kept an eye out for danger. After an hour of traveling I got off of the wagon to check on everyone. The twelve older kids were walking beside the wagons helping the combat slaves keep guard. The sisters had the kids spread out in the wagons and were keeping them entertained. The wives were also spending time with the kids. We stopped at midday to feed everyone lunch. As they ate I went from one wagon to the next emptying several of my storage rings into the wagons before giving each of the twelve armed kids a ring to keep their gear in. It took a full hour to get everyone fed before we began moving again. Once we got to the halfway point we pulled off of the road and setup camp for the night. I had the tents setup around the fire with the wagons surrounding the tents.

"We gave four of the tents to the kids, two for the boys and two for the girls. The slaves are sharing the rest." Sarah said.

"What about you and the girls?" I asked.

"We can sleep in the wagons that are still empty. Hopefully we can get more tents and blankets in Emerald City." She answered.

"Okay, make sure everyone keeps clothes on out here in case we are attacked during the night." I said.

"Some of your girls might not be happy about that." Lucy said.

After dinner we chose our wagons to sleep in and got comfortable. I laid down with my armor still on.

The next morning I was awakened by the smell of goblins and immediately jumped out of the wagon putting my helmet on. I made it to the perimeter of the camp and spoke to one of the combat slaves.

"Do you smell that?" I asked.

"Smell what sir?" He asked.

"You humans have a terrible sense of smell. There are at least a dozen goblins out there in the trees." I said.

"What?" He gasped.

He immediately notified the other guards and they took up defensive positions. Lyra also smelled the goblins and had the other wives and sisters get all of the children to the center of the camp with the armed kids taking defensive positions around them. Twenty minutes before sunrise the goblins attacked. They ran out of the trees and ran straight toward the smell of the women. Along with the ten guards I attacked the goblins. It took less than five minutes to put down all of the goblins, not a single one made it past the circle of wagons.

"Good work everyone, let’s pack up and get moving as soon as possible." I said.

The sixty peasant slaves had the camp broke down and packed into the wagons in under ten minutes and the wagons back on the road in the next five minutes.

"We need more combat slaves. I don’t like having only ten guards helping you protect thirty-one women, forty-three children and sixty peasants. The guards are spread too thin to defend against a real threat." Sarah said.

"I know. I plan on getting more in Emerald City." I said.

We kept moving for the rest of the way feeding everyone without stopping. We made it to Emerald City an hour after midday and stopped the caravan just inside the city gates. I left everyone with the wagons taking only Ginger with me. I went straight to the orphanage and emptied the safe while I waited for the sisters and children to pack their clothes before taking them to the caravan. Then I took the kids age sixteen and seventeen to the armoror to get armor and weapons. Not counting Annie and Ron there were nine. Five boys and four girls. One of the girls had trained with a bow so she got leather armor, a long bow, and two sheeves of arrows. Everyone else got a full suite of steel armor.

"Tomorrow I will take all nine of you to the goblin farm to reach level five like I did with Annie and Ron." I said.

They became excited and cheered as we walked back to the wagons.

"Why can’t we stay in the house tonight if we aren’t leaving until tomorrow?" Ron asked.

"Because as soon as they are finished at the goblin farm we are leaving." I answered.

After dropping the kids back off at the wagons I took my wives shopping for more tents and supplies. We got ten more wagons with six oxen each, twenty more peasant slaves, twenty more combat slaves including three archers to guard the caravan, enough supplies to fill the ten wagons, and livestock. All ten of the new wagons had cages hanging on their sides filled with chickens, geese, and ducks. I bought starter herds of ten cows, ten horses, ten sheep, ten goats, and ten pigs. Then we returned to the caravan. I emptied as many storage rings as I could into the backs of the wagons.

"We now have enough tents for everyone to sleep five to a tent and since they are ten person tents everyone will have plenty of room." Sarah told everyone.

Lucy then began passing out blankets making sure everyone had one.

I gave every slave the order prohibiting them from telling anyone what I am and told them to obey any order Sarah gives as long as it doesn’t contradict any orders I give. Then my wives and I took an inventory of the entire caravan.

"We have you, us four wives, Ginger, the eighteen sisters plus the eight sisters you bought, eighty-three kids twenty-three of which are now armed, eighty peasant slaves, and thirty guard slaves. That’s two hundred twenty-five people." Sarah said.

"We have forty wagons full of food, water, building materials, construction tools, farming tools, and camping supplies." Amber added.

"Not to mention the two hundred forty oxen pulling the wagons, and all the animals you just bought." Lucy said.

"We are going to look like a buffet to any monsters that see us in the forest." Lyra said.

"That’s why we need to keep the wagons close together while we’re moving. I don’t want any stragglers for the monsters to separate from the others." I said.

"So what are we going to do for the rest of the day?" Ginger asked.

"Lucy, go visit your mom. This is your last chance to see her for a long time." I said.

"Okay." She smiled.

"Ginger, if you want to see your parents I can take you but I will not let them near you without me." I said.

"I would like to see my mom." Ginger said.

"Lilly, take all of the sisters and children to the bathhouse. Once we leave it will be water buckets and creek water baths." I said.

"Thank you Erik." Lilly replied.

I then turned to the guard slaves.

"All of you will have an opportunity to use the bathhouse before we leave too." I said.

"Thank you sir." They bowed.

I then grabbed Ginger by the hand and led her to the arena to see her parents. We entered the arena and walked toward her father’s office. Once the secretary saw us she went into his office and notified him before coming out and letting us in.

"What do you want? Have you gotten tired of her already and decided to sell her back?" He chuckled.

"Of course not. We’re leaving the city and will be gone for a very long time so I am letting her see her parents one last time." I said.

"What? Where are you going?" He asked.

"That is not your concern. Call her mother and tell her to come say goodbye." I said.

He picked up a communication device and yelled into it telling Ginger’s mother to hurry to his office.

"Can I at least speak to her alone?" He asked.

"No." I answered.

"Fucking bastard." He growled.

Ginger stepped forward and glared at her father.

"Don’t speak to him that way. He is a great man." She said.

"What? A great man? He is your captor. He put a collar on you and enslaved you." Her father said.

"Even so he has treated me better than you ever did." She said.

Just then Ginger’s mother ran into the room and hugged her.

"I missed you so much." Roux said.

"This bastard said he is taking our daughter away from the city and will be gone for a long time and that he has brought her here to say goodbye." Her father said.

"What?" Roux said looking up at me.

"Where are you going? How long will you be gone?" She asked.

"As I told her father that is not your concern." I answered.

"Please. I beg you, please release her. I will give you anything you ask for." Roux begged.

"It’s too late for that, she is mine. I will not be letting her go." I said.

"I have ten thousand gold, you can have it all if you give her back." Roux begged.

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