My life as a reborn monster-Chapter 74 - Leaving The Dungeon Behind 5/?
As the group of small green goblins and the larger red goblins stood frozen in place with wide eyes and puddles of piss under them, I leaned down closer to the so called boss and sniffed the air.
"Sniff" "Sniff" ..... "Hey, I think a little bit extra other than piss came out of ya there didn't it big hoss."
"Now I'm gonna repeat myself, which isn't something I like to do but for you I'll make an exception. Who. Is. The. King. Of. The. Lizardmen?" I stare directly into his eyes while he quakes and shivers with uncontrolled fear. Gotta admit this feels good, like a primal urge is being fulfilled. My body wanted to shiver with excitement but I had to keep up my appearance as a scary dragon.
Thankfully that moment passed and my attention was back on the goblin as he started to stutter.
"I-I-I-I..... He.... I mean...."
"T-T-T-Today Junior. I got places to be you little butt ugly shit stain."
He nodded quickly and took a deep breath before starting again.
"I-I "Ahem" I never met the King himself but I would meet with his secretary. She was a lizardman like you.... or well how you used to look. She would always come monthly when it was time for the deliveries and things like that. She had green scales and was a bit on the lithe and skinny side, but she always had almost a malnourished look to her." he spew the words out, almost to fast for me to understand.
"Ok, good info, did ya happen to get a name?" I said after a few seconds as I let what he said sink in.
"OH yes, i did but only after I got cocky and made a remark about how she looked like she could use a night of being dominated." he said while nodding rapidly then ended with a cocky smile.
"haha. OH yea? and how'd that go?" I was still planning on eating them but if this guy is gonna give me some info might aswell lead him on.
"Yea not so good. She proceeded to plant me into the ground like a tree and stomp on me. She said. "Don't you ever speak to me like that again. My name is Marico Pride and my brother is your king. Remember your place little peasant.".... Yea it didn't feel good."
As he said that name I had a majorly bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Marico? No it couldn't be could it? But then again he said that her last name was Pride, she was also a lizardwoman. The only Pride that I know of is my Grandfather that was chief of the Pride village.
So many questions arose in my mind after that but I pushed that to the side as I thought up something on the spot. I looked down at the red goblins and seen that there were 5 of them and they all were different.
The boss was a heavy hitter type with that axe and his body type. 'Squirt' as they called him was more of a rogue like and with that invisibility of his I could totally use that. I don't know about the others but I got a feeling that the one who spotted me coming in has to have good observation abilities.
"Hmmmmmm, Well thanks for the info, now I'm hungry so let's eat." I said with a smile as I opened my mouth wide and started leaning towards them.
"WAIT, WAIT, I GAVE YOU THE INFO PLEASE SPARE US. OR ATLEAST LET MY MEN GO AND JUST EAT ME I PROMISE YOU'LL GET YOUR FILL OFF MY FAT BODY." He then rushed forward and put his arms out wide as if protecting the others behind him.
Well that was a bit unexpected. I didn't think he would be so caring towards his men, I think someone got their script wrong in this scene. Shouldn't the boss try and give up his men so that he could escape.
being shocked by what he did I closed my mouth and shook my head in surprise. "The hell? Shouldn't you be trying to sacrifice your men to escape me?"
"Absolutely not, Me and my men are in this together, I wouldn't be the leader of the red goblins without them, they are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them in return."
"How the fuck does a goblin like you have loyalty, You said just minutes ago that you rape and pillage to your hearts content. That doesn't exactly spell loyalty in my book."
"And who are you to judge me, you have 4 goblin chicks with you I'm sure more than once you've had them 'Service you', I will die in the place of my men even if your some 2 faced dragon."
"Ok, OK, hold on things are a bit screwy here. You shouldn't have the moral high ground here. And I don't have them 'service' me, They are my minions and my family, I treat them like my family and care about them that's all."
I was starting to get a bit pissed off about this situation. This guy was actually acting all high and mighty right now just because I doubted his loyalty? Things were not how I thought they would turn out. UGH screw it I'm already tired of this.
"Ok Fuck it, I'm not hungry anymore after all this nonsense. I've got a job for you 5 if you want it. I make you my minions and you guys serve me. We are leaving this dungeon and establishing a base above ground to prepare to fight the Shadow Eaters. You can either A. Join me. Or B. Get eaten."
I went ahead and decided to offer them to join me because I really didn't want to continue arguing over this crap. Plus I needed more capable allies even if they were goblins I could always try and power them up somehow and make them stronger. I've read plenty of novels where even the weakest monster can turn into an undefeatable demon lord... Like one about a famous slime for example.
I focused back at the goblin boss and I could see that he had a mixed bag of emotions in his eyes.
I could see confusion about the situation aswell as multiple different scenarios by the way his eyes were moving. I stood there for a couple minutes before I heard Sondar from behind me.
"Hey are you fucks gonna agree or not? We got places to be and if you don't decide soon I am more than happy to eat goblin meat. You fat boy, I could make a nice stew out of you so let's GO ALREADY!"
I turned around and chuckled. "He's thinking man chill. But also yea hurry up or we will eat you."
He froze up for a second when he heard that and I could see the others behind him start to shuffle nervously away from me before he flung his arms in the air. 𝑓re𝘦𝔀𝗲𝘣𝘯𝘰νℯ𝒍.c𝗼ｍ
"FUCK fine, fine We will become your minions. Just please don't make us do all the heavy lifting ok?"
"Are you kidding me? Listen here asshole If I decide to make you and your little gang here haul giant stone blocks to build a pyramid for my home than I'll do it. Don't think your in a position to negotiate." I said with a bit more attitude than I wanted to leak out. On one hand I was a bit peeved at the balls on this guy but I couldn't help but be impressed how he went from pissing himself to trying to negotiate with a literal dragon.
"I'll give you guys adequate living conditions and meals in exchange for you doing missions and tasks for me and the other leaders in my group.... Deal?" I set the short and sweet terms for them as I lifted my paw towards the boss goblin to shake. But then one of his lackeys who didn't look anything special spoke up.
"Sweet, so what about women? I like the look of those goblin ladies you got hehe can I have a turn with them? After today I could definitely use some relief HEHEHEHE."
I didn't say anything and before the boss could say or even see I took my outstretched hand and quickly grabbed the nobody and brought him up to my face.
"NOO WE GOT A DEAL DRAGON SO DON'T KILL HIM HAVE MERCY!" The boss said but before he could beg anymore I took my thumb and placed it over the goblins head and pressed down with barely any power behind it and I was rewarded with a sickening crunch and a warm oozing that flowed between my fingers.
I then dropped the body down for them to see. "If any of you think of trying to take advantage of the female members of my group." I then nodded towards the crumpled up mound of flesh at my feet. "This is what's going to happen, I will not give you a warning, I will not say anything whatsoever. All you will feel is a sudden rush of wind and the feeling of weightlessness as your souls leave your body. I promise that I'll put your flesh to good use afterwards." With nothing more than a calm voice I said this before waving at Sondar to bring the others out.
"We will rest here. Sondar your team is in charge of fortifying for the night. You can decide whether a full fortification is necessary or if you want to just post guards in shifts. Kitsoma, you and your group settle down and take inventory of what we have. Sylvania take care of the humans and give a once over for my new friends here. then send them back to me so we can get the pact set in stone."
I went and sat down infront of the other green goblins and looked at each of them hoping one of them would have some fire in their eyes. But alas none of them had anything other than fear. So I just shot them with space bullets and shoved the dead bodies into my mouth for a quick snack.
I sat there waiting and thinking about what I could do with the new guys but was then interrupted by a unknown male voice.
"Excuse me, I hear you're the one who save me and my companions?"
I turned my head to look behind me and saw a man with bandages around his mid section aswell as over half his face covering up one of his eyes. He was limping and had to have one of the females support him while the other 2 were behind them.
"Yea I am, well my children had a hand to play in helping but yea it was mostly me who defused the situation. But I gotta ask why did you bring 3 females into a goblin cave? You had to of known what they do to women?"
He looked down with shame. "Yes I do.... But the money that was offered to us was just to much to refuse. A notice on the board said that whoever could come and find out why there were localized earthquakes coming from this dungeon would get paid 10 gold. We are a poor adventures group and there wasn't a restriction to the group level. None of the other teams wanted to come because this is a F+ ranked dungeon.... or well it was supposed to be but nobody knew about the red goblins being here."
The woman next to him continued the story while he took a breath. "We knew coming down here with only one guy was bad but we needed the money. Plus we are F ranked adventures so we though goblins wouldn't be to hard to deal with by ourselves."
"Oh you guys are just dumb... I see now, Well I hope you learned your lesson and make better preparations in the future. Now once your healed up we can provide some minor rations and you can be on your way tomorrow." I said before I turned back around but was stopped again by the guy.
"I'm sorry I don't mean to be nosy but is it ok if you tell me why a dragon like you is wondering around a dungeon... and with so many followers?"
"Well since you asked nicely." I closed my eyes and willed the change back to the humanoid form. It took almost just as long but the pain was not as bad and before long I opened my eyes panting and was now a little more than a head taller than the guy. They had wide eyes but I wasn't in the mood to showboat.
"Me, that Armadillo demi-human, the Harpy, and the Fox demi-human were all captured and were going to be sold off as slaves. But we escaped and dug a tunnel leading to this dungeon, we found the hobgoblins you see over there upon entrance and I turned them into my first minions. Some things happened that we aren't close enough for me to tell you and lo and behold we are here. Now I got some planning to do so if you don't mind?" I said before turning back around but the woman popped off at me.
"Hey, I know you rescued us but that's no way to treat us." I looked back at her with an eyebrow raised at the ovaries of this chick.
"Excuse me? like I told the chubby goblin before, Who the Fuck you think your talking to? I know it's not the dude who rescued you? It certainly isn't the guy who came and stopped a train from being run on you chicks before it even started. IF ANYTHING it was you guys who got in my way, I want to leave this place but thanks to you and your parties stupid decision, we have to hole up in this cave and make sure your ok before we leave. I was being nice before but if you wanna smart off to me than I'll gladly leave your asses here with nothing more than the bandages on your mans body. I'll take everything you own and maybe even a limb or to to serve as a lesson. So take your limping boyfriend here and fuck off over there to the impromptu healing station."
She was stunned and just looked at me with wide eyes that even started to leak a little. I guess she never been talked to like that before but I certainly wasn't feeling like being a good host to idiots. I got a goal that needs to be accomplished but thanks to the nice side that decided to show itself, I now have to make sure these weaklings are healthy enough to leave the cave.
I heard them walk off but then heard a set of feet walking towards me.
"You didn't have to act like that towards them you know?" said a female voice that was a little bit more than ticked off.
"Yea I know, but still, how could you bring women to a dungeon filled with known monsters that are more than happy to break and use women like hole in the ground. I just couldn't be nice anymore towards them."
"Yea I get that but still. Your the leader here, you need to show us that you can handle all situations not just fights."
I turned towards Kitsoma with a cheeky smile. "Aint that what I have you for beautiful." 𝗳𝒓𝙚e𝓌e𝚋𝙣𝚘𝐯𝙚𝙡.𝑐૦ｍ
She instantly blushed and started stuttering. "D-d-d-d Don't do that to me. You can't just make me blush like this and think it'll side track me from you being a dick to people." She said before she huffed and turned to walk away.
"Yea but it worked though.." I muttered as I watched her walk away.
