The previous Hobgoblin leader, Goten, had ensured that there were multiple captain-level goblins embedded among the Tier 1 ranks; this way, a new leader could always rise if Alec eliminated the current one.
It was one such captain who now led the detachment group of three thousand goblins that was tasked with assaulting the Gordons clan, yet he was already sweating profusely, silently thanking his stars that he hadn’t charged at the front.
Instead, he had delegated that to his deputies while issuing orders from the rear, a decision that had kept him alive thus far.
He had heard chilling tales from senior Tier 2 goblins who survived the last two Blood Moon Wars; they spoke of a human clan whose Tier 1 mages were like devils incarnate, and how they single-handedly wiped out the entire Ti
