"What is your business in these lowly parts of the forest oh Great one's!" The goblin asked, as he kept his head bowed, the rest of the goblins behind him were similarly shaking completely, they kept stealing glances upwards at Seiran and Rimuru however. And most of them were focused on Seiran who somewhat still shared resemblance to the goblin race even after his evolution.
"We were just passing through here, why have you decided to intercept us?" Seiran asked as he lifted his head slightly higher to properly look down on them, his eyes half lidded as he looked at the small goblins.
"We were simply on patrol when we sensed monsters with strong mystical force and came to investigate sir!" The goblin at the head quickly replied, it was clear that he was the oldest of the group.
"I see… well we don't really come here to cause any harm, we were simply passing through." Seiran replied as he gave a shrug of his shoulders.
"Actually esteemed sir's we were wondering if you could come and help us about a problem we have encountered since the disappearance of our guardian god." The goblin leader said as he looked at Seiran hopefully.
'Do they know that I'm an evolution of a goblin? Is that why they're trying to get my help first instead of Rimuru's even if Rimuru obviously has more magicules?' Seiran thought curiously before turning on his [ Tempest Communication ] skill.
'Rimuru, should we help them? Or atleast listen to them, it could be helpful to gain the favour of one of the races of this world and we could get more information that we dont know about, and i think its our fault that these guys are being attacked. Their guardian god is most likely Veldora.' Seiran transmitted to Rimuru through his thoughts.
'What? For real? That tsundere dragon was their guardian god? Damn it.. I guess we have no choice and it could be useful to gain their favour as you said.' Rimuru replied, his voice as always was high pitched.
Seiran nodded as he turned to face the goblins once more.
[ Tempest Communication has been cut off ]
'It's interesting how his voice has changed even in his thoughts, he should have been a thirty year old man so in his thoughts shouldn't he have imagined his own voice?' Seiran thought curiously for a moment before focusing on the goblins.
"Allright, we will hear you out, direct us towards your village, we shall talk with your leader." Seiran said aloud as he gave a nod towards the goblin patrol leader.
As soon as those words left his mouth, the entire goblin group started too cheer for a moment before bowing down repeatedly in thanks and starting to walk.
'Weird, cheering? I didn't even agree to help yet, I only agreed to listen to them… though their goblins afterall, can't expect their intelligence to be too high… wait fuck am i calling myself stupid?' Seiran thought to himself before shaking his head and starting to follow them together with Rimuru who hopped alongside him.
As they continued down the path, they learned some more information from the goblins.
Apparently, since the disappearance of Veldora a while ago, monsters from different places had been attacking them and trying to invade into the Jura Forest and take the place of the native monsters. One of these monster groups was the direwolves who had previously lived on the border with the Eastern Empire.
The goblins hadn't given much details however it had been enough for Seiran to use his skill and gleam the rest of it.
These direwolves didn't need sustenance to survive, for example flesh or blood, they needed magicules to both survive aswell as to evolve. They area they were native to was too close to the grain rich areas of the Eastern Empire and thus they were not able to hunt well as the Empire would squash any of their attacks. At the same time, Humans were not that rich in magicules which in the end wouldnt give the direwolves what they most wanted. An evolution atleast unless they killed droves of humans which was impossible.
Other monsters were scarce and so they had been stuck however as soon as they had felt the disappearance of the guardian of the forest, they had decided to migrate to his part of the forest where they had found droves of goblins and other monster races that would be much more beneficial to them than humans were.
Finally after around twenty minutes Seiran and Rimuru arrived at the destination after being led by the goblin patrol team.
They arrived infront of a small village that consisted of only small goblin huts made out of mud and hay and already infront of the run down gates of this village, a small goblin stood at the front with a dozen small goblins behind him.
The goblin at the front was much much older than the rest and had a small white goate and was holding a cane to support himself to stand.
"Welcome oh great ones." The old man said in a weak gravelly voice before coughing.
"Thank you, now then we don't want to take too much time without even knowing the situation, lets head inside and talk what exactly is this problem of yours." Seiran said taking the lead in the conversation as he motioned with his hand for them to continue.
The old man quickly gave a nod of his head and lead them to a larger hut in the middle of the village.
After sitting down in what looked like makeshift sitting pelts, Rimuru at his side. Seiran motioned to Rimuru to continue.
[ Tempest Communication has been used! ]
'What me? No no, you're doing perfectly fine on your own Seiran, go on!' Rimuru instantly said in his mind.
'No way, I already did like everything, gathered the info and all, it's your time.' Seiran replied instantly.
'But their technically your people! Give me a reasonable reason atleast!' Rimuru instantly complained.
'I'm lazy.' Seiran replied.
'And these are supposed to be your own damn troops not mine.' He thought inwardly to himself.
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