The group of demons that was led by the shaman goblin went through the camp on their tour.
The camp was the definition of organized chaos, there were leather tents established everywhere with the goblins running/fighting/defecating everywhere, and yet when the group approached the goblins dispersed and made way for the group. Strangely enough, even though some of the goblins were clearly stronger they held respect for the demons.
After a while the group got to what they assumed was the training area, there was a large space without tents and many goblins were gathered there, the goblins were divided into two groups with similar numbers.
Some of the goblins had a stick and the bigger more muscular goblins even had blunt weapons, each one of those goblins looked beaten and various bruises and the wound could be seen on their bodies and yet they all had a ferocious look in their eyes, on the side there one huge goblin stood with a whip in hand and front of him there were several goblin corpses.
The shaman goblin that led them started to talk, almost like a proper guide "there is where we train our soldiers, we guarantee that as long as you feed them they wouldn't retreat, from our training only 6 out of 10 goblins survive and that guarantees that there are no weaklings among them, add this to their low intelligence and you gain ideal meat shield or frontline fighters"
The shaman signalized to the big goblin that was near the dead bodies and with several loud snaps of the and of course loud shouting and encouragement he probed the goblins to fight, the goblins shrieked and at first slowly but with increasing speed they began to attack each other, the two groups were fighting for about ten minutes and then they were dispersed by the big goblin with the whip.
The shaman goblin "those are our early warriors and after a week when their growth stops you will be able to buy any of them, 10 crystals each, we don't care how you treat them but we don't guarantee that they will be loyal if you don't feed them or abuse them too much, now let´s move on"
Next, they visited the tent where the evolution for the three meters high and incredibly fat goblins was triggered, there was another patch of goblins, while those at the training area were just like ferocious cornered beasts, these one had plates that were filled with all kind of food that Jordan wouldn't give even to his dog but those goblins were eating it without even chewing.
The shaman goblin "there is where we forcefully evolve those that have potential to be giant goblins, those goblins are innately at the peak of the second rank with their bodies and thanks to their giant mass they hold much more power than many third ranks, you can see many of these around" said the goblin while pointing on several of the big and fat goblins around.
The shaman goblin "they are the best choice for killing large groups of low strength enemies, their only downside is their food consumption which must be regular and is quite big, if the food isn't delivered to them they enter food frenzy and will eat anything near them, their price is 60 crystals"
The group moved on and approached another group of goblins, those were as big as humans except for their ugly looks and thin bodies, this group was about 20 goblins big and was led by a bulky goblin with a whip, those goblins were making a stone wall, the wall looked bit unstable but mostly fine.
The shaman goblin "those are our goblin workers, they have low intelligence and are quite cowardly if you want to utilize them you have to buy also the goblin watcher, goblin worker is for 5 crystals and the goblin watcher is for 25 as he can speak demon language and have high enough intelligence to guide the goblin workers and knows how to build simple buildings"
After that they visited another tent, that one was of surprisingly good quality they went inside and there were many goblins reading books and practicing magic spells that were formed from various circles.
The shaman goblin "these are some of our goblin mages, to buy them you have to provide a price that differs from one another and is mostly around 100 crystals and you will have to provide them with books about magic or they won't join you. The goblin mages have free will and as such, they can choose to join you or reject you as they can become competent magicians or shamans and run the camp together with other leaders."
The group moved out and continued for a while, the shaman goblin "our last stop is the breeding room" the closer they got the worse got the smell and sensual shrieks could be heard.
The goblin shaman stood before the entrance to one of the tents and uncovered the leather rag that was supposed to be the door, several goblins were around one big nad very fat female goblin that was 3 meters tall that is if she could manage to stand on her legs that were 0,5 meter long stumps, her arms were of the length 1 meter and in each of her arms the female goblins was holding pieces of meat and was eating them while several goblins were copulating with the female's goblins legs where many holes were located, the female goblin had several nipples on her torso almost like a dog and there were also small ugly goblin babies that were drinking her milk.
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The shaman goblin "this is our rare evolved female goblin variant, there are many female goblins but they are mostly unrecognizable from normal goblins, those goblins can't have kids, only the mother goblin can, she gives birth from 5 to 10 goblins at a time and her pregnancy last for two weeks, after a month of growth the goblins are fully mature"
"The prize for the mother goblin is 1000 crystals and if by any chance the female goblin evolve from any of your goblins we will buy her for 750 crystals"
All of the female demons in the group were utterly disgusted and some were even fighting the urge to puke, most of the male demons were fine including Jordan who no matter what kept smiling, the smile that didn't leave Jordan even after seeing the scene inside made other wary of Jordan and they rather kept save distance from him.
One of the male demons asked the shaman goblin "So, you goblins do not reproduce with human females?"
The shaman goblin "WHAT? No why would we do that to our food… you demons from earth truly are weird… Anyway, that concludes our tour and you can now buy any goblins you want"
In the end, Jordan bought 20 workers one watcher, and 6 fighters the total was 185 crystals, even though Jordan could spend even more he wanted to check out the world that sells the magic tomes, and maybe if he has spare money he can buy some weapon for himself, the two-handed hammer proved to be a good choice but it already began to have problems in battle, If Jordan uses the mana strengthening he has to watch out and make sure that he hits correctly with the hammerhead otherwise he risks shattering the handle.
With this done Jordan went back together with the goblins he bought and teleported back to the castle and then went through the space gate back on the platform.
But on the platform, Jordan faced a problem he didn't expect, and that were the goblins, he didn't know what to do with them when he wanted to explore the moon platform bit more.
Luckily after searching Jordan found that he can rent a room for a while so he left his goblins in a small room that could be temporarily rented for 5 crystals, a bit expensive but better than going back to earth and then wait for the crystals cooldown and so on.
Jordan whipped up his paper notebook and checked the list of things ´either weapon or basics of mana... well let's go for mana, if it comes down to it I can make do with the hammer, the magic could be a decisive factor in a fight...´ and so Jordan went to the world of Esphar that sells basically anything related to magic.
The world Esphar was quite different from the goblin world, first, there was no castle that different where is who going, everyone was teleported through several space gates to the huge hall that was supposed to be part of some library, but the hall was just too big.
The ceiling couldn't even be because of how high it was, it was mostly because the mist was already forming way up there.
Stairs were flying around, and various demons, goblins, unknown creatures, and even humans were flying around. The size of the library was so massive that Jordan believed that several cities could fit in, as searching for any book would be useless Jordan began to look for some sort of clerk or a librarian.
While Jordan was searching around for the clerk he noticed one thing, some of the demons were just like him with modern cloth from earth but most of the demons and creatures had robes with various marks and so on, it looks like the library should be part of some monstrously big academy.
It took about ten minutes but Jordan managed to find a clerk in a designated area for trading. And after some debating with the demon clerk, Jordan bought a tome that was concerning basics of magic for 125 crystals, with the remaining 40 crystals Jordan felt quite poor, and he will have to wait for his annual monthly pay for at least two weeks.
In the end, Jordan decided to visit the world named Elkular that sells weapons, even if only to look around.
Just like the world Esphar this world had once a central area to which led the space gates and this time the area was a huge cave system, lava was flowing there instead of the rivers and everywhere could be seen shops that displayed various weapons and armors.
Just the amount of ingots required for all those displayed weapons and armors must have been astronomical.
Jordan went on a tour around and was stunned while also pleasantly surprised, the weapons and armors ranged from few crystals for scrap weapons to hundreds of thousands of crystals for weapons that could only be described as godly.
Those godly weapons were in some of those luxurious shops but Jordan only saw them from afar, they did not even allow him to be close to them.
In the end, Jordan found a decent looking shop with an annoyed, and yet kind lizardlike creature, the creature was bright red and smoke was constantly coming out of its mouth as it was speaking.
After a bit of bantering and haggling, Jordan bought a two-handed axe and two-handed hammer, both were completely made from unknown metal to Jordan including its handles, the shopkeeper said that it was black iron but Jordan had no way of confirming it, either way after testing the two weapons Jordan had no objections, the weapons were way beyond anything the humanity could currently produce.
And while being at it, Jordan also bought a small round shield, the idea was that he can use it by strapping it on his hand while also freely using the two-handed weapons, in total that it all cost Jordan 40 crystals. and so he was left with grand total of 0 crystals.