My stats when I first prestiged were:
Improved Earth Spike: Spell. Forcibly erupt up to three, three foot long spikes of earth or stone from the ground at up to three points within 10 feet of you. Costs 400 mana.
I've been using Improved Earth Spike take out multiple lizards in a single blow from the other side of the wall, and then go to recharge. A few of the goblins that prestiged while fighting with us have also been killing lizards from atop the walls. I 't say for certain what their magic is, since I haven't asked, but they're throwing spears that are being given to them with incredible forbsp; They also o recharge after a single spear is thrown though, so they also are stantly going back to the crystal baths to recharge.
After only a day, I'm already up a signifit amount of levels sidering that I'm an Epic tier creature now. It takes about eight lizard kills for me to gain a level.
Although I 't say for certain, surely there are a finite number of these lizards in the area. If that is the case, we'll eventually get through all of them.
Five more days, and although we're clearly close to getting rid of most of the lizards, the smell has started to bee unbearable. Initially, the lizards that died were devoured by their living rades. Now, they're left to rot, and there are so many corpses piled up, that I only imagine we'll have to use a signifit amount of the stockpiled wood to burn all these rotting corpses.
The pace that we're killing the lizards has also slowed dowo the piles of lizard corpses about. Often times, the live lizards are on top of dead lizards, and I 't impale them. We ended up having to fight a sudden burst of lizards trying to scale the walls using the corpses earlier today, during the eclipse. I only assume that due to the ck of natural mana in the air thanks to the eclipse, that however the crystal is drawing the lizards in, it was more pronounced, and they became even mitated at the ck of ability to get to the source of the mana.
Soon, the number of lizards will probably deplete enough that we'll actually be able to exit the vilge and begin culling the remnants that are further out.
After four days, we've finally made our first excursion out of the vilge since all this began. While it is still too dangerous for the average goblin to make it out, roup, sisting of those of us who survived the failed initial culling trap, were able to handle ourselves as we ran into groups of lizards beyond the tree line.
With that proven, our pn moving forward is to start burning all the rotting bodies he vilge, and while the bonfires burn, go hunt down additional lizards. We also o haul in additional wood into the vilge from the outside stockpile to replenish supplies. It'll probably be a few weeks until we feel fortable letting the gobliurn to normal activities, but we're finally oail end of the siege.
While we've been going on the excursions for the past week, I've started to hear murmurings from goblins that quiet whenever I get close. I obviously don't speak their nguage, but it's b me that they go quiet when they see me. I'll have to ask Zeb if he's heard anything the ime I'm w with him. Since he's not bat oriented, he's been taking care of tasks in the vilge during the whole siege. He's tinued my project to expand the floors uhe pavilion, including a sed screw pump to remove water from that floor. The siege has shown that having increased ste ihe town should be sidered in case a future event like this were to unfold.
I got around to asking Zeb yesterday why the goblins have been whispering when they see me, and it worries me slightly. A handful of the goblins are apparently fed up with my presen town. Initially, they were quite pleased with the increased safety and quality of life that I brought to them. As time has gone on though, a few of them have sidered my projects to be disruptive at the least, arimental at the worst.
This group kept this opinion to themselves while most of the oblins seemed to be appreciative of the new workshops and buildings that I brought to the vilge. Now however, two things have apparently tipped the bao this disgruntled group's favor. The first thing being the siege. I'm not the only one who thinks I'm at fault for the lizards all swarming the area apparently. The reasons I'm at fault vary from goblin to goblin, most revolve around a curse that I brought on the vilge in some way or another, and few seem to have any basis in the likely actual cause, the artificial crystal. The sed reason is the death of Kaga.
For the loime, I've sidered not speaking the goblin nguage to just be a bit of a nuisance, but I've likely missed quite a few intricacies of the goblin vilge as a sequence of w through Zeb rather than speaking to the goblins myself. Despite his demeanor, Kaga arently quite the positive for support of me. A lot of the other craftsgoblins looked up to him, and he apparently took some degree of inspiration from how I was always ing up with new projects to make the goblin's lives better.
Hearing about all this, and the details about Kaga, has put me bato quite the depressed mood. I myself have been thinking that I made quite the blunder. After hearing that there is an increasiiment among the goblins that they'd be better off without my tinkering in their lives, I think that that they might be right. At the very least, I o be much, much, much more careful iure when I'm tinkering with things that I'm not certain of.
After another week of clearing out any remnants of the lizards in the nearby forest, Zaka has deemed that the goblins leave the vilge again, as long as they travel in groups. The outside of the vilge is charred with burned remains from the massive bohat we set to burn all the corpses that had piled up from the siege. Unsurprisingly, Zaka isn't the only Hobgoblin in the vilge anymore. Two of the goblins that were in the group of us that dealt with all the lizards have evolved. Before this, they were hunters, and were some of the oblins in the vilge, so them finally reag this point isn't that much of a surprise. Among the oblins that fought during the siege, it probably won't be long before three more evolve.
After the annou, Zaka approached me. Long story short, he's also aware of the anti-me fa that has been gaining power in the vilge. He insisted that he's never doubted that I've had good iions, and that he still believes that I do, but the other fa has started to solidate it's power around one of the new hobgoblins. They seem to advocate for returning to a simpler time, free of all the plexities of trade and hard tasks. The majority of the goblins disagree with that se, but many agree that if Zaka is going to tio support me, that new leadership should be chosen. Despite this, Zaka would support me, which was toug.
However, I feel like this would be a bad dire for the goblins. Rather than cause the political death of someone who has supported me for so long, I've offered up an alternative. Ohat I hope will pcate the opposition enough that they don't decide to overthrow Zaka. I'll leave the vilge after winter, and I won't return. I'll still have my residen the cave, and do work up there, but I won't e down to the vilge any longer. During this winter, I won't work on any projects that goblins in the vilge as a group don't approve of. As for my own safety, I'm less ed. I doubt a new hobgoblin is strong enough to fight me in my current state after killing all those lizards.