I'm just standiaking in the fact that the remaining three goblins are groveling on the ground before me. Of course, that's thanks to the leader goblin pushing them down. Although it seems like they've stopped fighting it now. Oh, the leader is tilting his head up.

  "Derin zerb-zernak." The goblin leader says.

  "Uhhh. I don't uand." I reply. My voice has a deep gravelly too it now, and I'm slightly surprised by my own voice.

  "Derin zaka." The goblin leader says while tilting his head further up.

  I've got no clue what it's saying. I take a step forward. The goblin faces the ground again.

  "Naka. Naka!" The goblin leader yells.

  I still have absolutely no idea what's going on. Well, I've got two options here. First, just kill them. Sed, try to work through what is going on, and spare them. The goblin leader seems pretty scared. Well, I did bring some dried imp meat up with me to eat ter. I slowly bato my doorway, and grab the meat, and toss it over to the goblins.

  "Goru den." The goblin says, looking up to me, then the food.

  I step back a little and watch them. After a minute or so, the goblin gives it a taste, and after determining that it's edible, he splits it with the oblins, and all three rapidly eat all of it. I don't want to drop my on or anything, but I'll sit down at least to appear less threatening. We both just sit and look at each other for a while. After a few mihe goblin leader goes to stand up, so I do as well.

  He takes a hesitant step towards the inside of the cave, so I step back towards it as well. Eventually, I'm standing in the opening I made in my wall, and he's only a few steps ahead of me. I hold my spear towards him, aops moving again.

  He points past me and says, "Naka doru."

  Of course, I have no idea what that means, so I just shake my head no, aure with the spear towards him. He takes a few steps back, and I wait for a little bit. We both stand there, and then he eventually points at me, and then towards the outside.

  "Deru den-unar gora." He says, pointing to me, then him, then outside.

  I look at him for a while, before stepping forward a little. He and his goblins walk out of the cave, and then stand even further out from the entranbsp; I close the opening behind me before eventually following them out. I'm doubtful that they'd ambush me given their behavior, but just in case, I'm carefully treading forward. When I make it out of the cave, the goblin points again to me and him, and then down the mountainside.

  The goblihe way down the mountainside. Initially the path we follow is simir to the way I've headed down in the past to where I harvested the Lion Root, but after a short while we start heading in a different dire. The whole process is kind of surreal sidering a bit ago I inteo kill them if I could.

  The trip is taking a long time. We keep heading further and further down the mountainside, and the biomes tinue shifting. The alpine gives way to a more mild temperate forest, then even further dower a rai. The slope of the terrain has been steadily decreasing this whole time, and now we're barely even headed down hill. I hope we're getting close to wherever we're headed.

  Evidently, we weren't that close because we've been traveling for hours now. Although more than half of that was the initial dest to the lower altitudes. Now the majority of the time is actually navigating the rai, with its thiderbrush. I was initially a little worried about wildlife, but I haven't seen mubsp; Maybe it's because we're making a lot of noise? Either way, I'm happy that for the most part, all I've heard have beeher small animals or birds.

  Soon, we e across a stream running through the forest, and the goblins begin following it, with me close behind. At this point, I'm quite a ways from home, and I don't think I'll be going back up by tonight sidering how long we've been traveling. As I'm thinking that the goblins stop.

  The head goblin yells out, "Goru dekata! Goru dekata derin!"

  I still have no idea what he's saying, but he steps forward with the oblins through the underbrush, so I follow him. We've entered a clearing in the forest. As I look around, from underh piles of branches, some goblins scramble out. As I'm looking about, one of the gobliravelled with goes over to one of the piles of branches and goes into it.

  The rest of the goblins all e up to the head goblin, and keep nervously looking at me as they stand around. O seems like noblins are ing, the head goblin begins talking again. As he talks, I start ting the goblins. Twenty two in total, not ting the ohat went into a brush pile. I pretty much tu what the head goblin says at this point, as none of it makes much seo me, but he gestures to me throughout his speech a few times, and the goblins look at me then ba. It makes me a little nervous, so I re-adjust my grip on my spear, just in case.

  After he stops his speech, the oblins all kneel down before me, which at this point is making me feel very self scious. After a few moments, they all get back up, and go back to their brush piles and crawl in. The head goblin leads me over to a slightly rger one, and puffs his chest out, and points into it before crawling in. I clearly won't fit in, but I at least peek down in. I put my head down through where the goblin crawled in.

  On the i at least looks more well maintaihaside appears. It's actually deeper than the brush pile would make you think, as he's dug down into the floor, and ed up the ceiling of any errant branches or leaves, so it somewhat resembles a small room. Although there isn't much other than a leaf pile that I presume is his bed.

  After I pull my head back out, I stand for a bit before the head goblin es out of his presumable home. A few goblins are nervously peeking out from their own homes while I stand there. I mean, they holy have a good reason to be terrified of me, I did eviscerate a goblin only a few ho, and my mana is fully recharged, so I could do it again, but I'd probably fall to their numbers if they all tried to fight me. I don't io fight if I don't have to though.

  When the head goblin es back out, he yells out, "Peku denden!"

  All the goblins e back out of their homes, and start getting into groups. Ohey do, they all head out in different dires out into the rai. The head goblin gives me a toothy grin, and waves for me to follow him, and we head out into the forest.

  As it turns out, we're hunting for food apparently. Meat food. I'm pletely unfamiliar with the wildlife, so I'm basically useless when it es to hunting down here. The head goblin shows off his fireball skill a few times, taking down birds from up on branches. I carry them as he tinues about his hunting. At one poiually e out onto a beach, and walk along the forest line. I'm intrigued by what I presume is the o nearby, but I follow the goblin close to the tree line instead of iigating. If he's avoiding the water, there might be a good reason for it.

  After gathering a few birds, we start heading back the way we came, and I'm lucky enough that a somewhat rge bird runs out from a bush as we move through it. I miss with my spear, but as it tries to run behind me, quick reflexes result in a successful earth spike impaling it. Of course, a lot of the body has been brutally destroyed by the spike, but some of it is salvageable at least. I gather what I as we return to the clearing in the forest.

  Whe back, I see around half the goblins from before are standing around a dark spot on the ground, and some have piled loose wood into the spot. On the ground nearby there are a few birds and a small lizard. The head goblin goes up to the pile and uses a fireball to start a fire on the wood, and the goblins begin skewering their kills, and some of ours, and start cooking. Well, at least I'll seemingly have something for dionight.