Forging A Demon Empire

Chapter 22

He was dead.

Loud cheers erupted around me as goblins echoed my name in their tongue, the word sounding only as Kef.

My grip had not let loose, and I remained frozen in place. Many thoughts passed through in my mind about what I had just experienced. My sister was alone, unsafe in a world I had departed from and there was nothing I could do. Why would Mangrela allow this to happen?

I felt a hand gently touch my arm. I turned to meet the face.

“Are you okay, sir,” one of my men asked.

I merely nodded my head, pulled up my blade, and walked away. I came to a stop before Caremila and the goblin shaman. 

My eyes gaze between them before resting on Sharx who gave me a foul look.

Monsters, none of them were good. I should kill them.

Caremila gave me a concerned look. “Seth, put your sword away and let’s get the information from the new Goblin clan leader.” She paused as the cheering around us got louder. “You do want to save your father, right?”

I shook the blood off my blade before sheathing it again. I knew it in my heart that these goblins would certainly betray us.

The men had gathered close to me and were deep in their own muttering:

“There are so many of them now.”

“These bastards killed our friends. I won’t let it go.”

“Was this a good idea in the end?”

“What is Caremila thinking?”

“Maybe we shouldn’t have left the farms.”

Caremila and the goblin talked in deep discussion for a long while. It was hard to tell where the direction of the conversation was going. Both sides seemed stoic in their approach. My eyes, however, were kept on all the surrounding others. While I thought through the dilemma before me, would it be possible to get back to my world from here? And how would I be able to help Malaka as a doll and even if I somehow got my body there, what help would I be if I was so weak? I needed to learn more about magic maybe Reno might know something that could help or find something. But is that possible with us both being weak?

“Seth, it’s time to go,” she said as she walked towards the wagon alongside Sharx.

Caremila’s calling made me return to reality.

The goblins had all congregated together as though they weren’t about to fight one another moments ago. I followed Caremila and my men did the same. The goblins shouted the name they had given me as I left, Kef.

“What’s going on?” I asked her as we got far enough away. “Is it done? Is the shaman goblin thing the leader?”

“This goblin will be our guide. The shaman has his own battle to fight I presume, but that’s not for us to worry about.”

I spat on the ground. “We only need directions. I see you have been hard at work but talking doesn’t do much with daggers.”

“Daggers,” Caremila chuckled as she had touched the door of the wagon. “Do you intend to get lost with the guild master again?”

We both went silent as something approached us. It was fast and loud, causing me to draw my blade, and my men did the same. Were they already planning to betray us?

Goblins poured out of the shrubbery from where we had just been. They were about ten of them for one of us.

Sharx gave a grin as he forced the words. “Bodyguards.”