The number of orange dots increased while gaining some yellows too. This frightened the children as this was their first time facing any true danger since being born.
"What do we do?" asked Eve.
"I know, we fight them and tell them who's boss." Adam declared.
"Lets not make any rash decisions. Being reckless would only lead to our demise." Lilith added while looking at Adam. "This Threat needs to first be evaluated and then we can determine a plan of action once we acquired the necessary information."
"So what do you suggest we do?" Adam asked sarcastically.
Glaring at him she said smugly, "I suggest we go and greet them."
"Greet them! They are the enemy and wouldn't that be too dangerous?" Adam exclaimed.
"Yes it would be but they are not entirely hostile to us, their orange not red meaning they are neutral to us. Plus there are some yellows mixed in there which would mean they can be convinced not harm us. A large group of neutrals that wanders suggest that they might not be beast but people like us and if they are people, they may be able to be spoken to."
"So you just want to talk to them?" Eve asked.
"I don't assume they would be friendly at all but I would not want to take the risk of fighting a group with superior numbers plus meeting them would allow us to hide the location of Father so if things do go wrong, he won't get hurt."
"What is your plan so far?" Adam asked.
While they talked, I let their voices fade into the background as I check on these invaders. What I saw quite surprised me. They were goblins too. Well, not anything like mine. They were filthy ugly things that seemed not too intelligent. Didn't the system said goblins are not normally fully sapient? So this makes sense as they acted so simple and primitive. They were raggy hides and held crude weapons and tools. The bigger and stronger one, not by much, were barking orders at the others to move along. More in the center were weaker goblins and women goblins with their children. There were also what looked like sickly barely alive ones carrying the majority of the items and even pulling sleds. Is that how they treat their sick, how cruel, some were even missing some limbs.
I decided to hide this information from my goblins as I should not hold their hands for everything, being aware of threats beforehand is what some civilizations would literally kill for unless they already have some form of divination, whatever they need to do things for themselves like learning about the enemy they will face. Talking about these new ones, I wonder can I assimilate them into my dungeon. This would be better since they have knowledge about the surroundings but also know how to provide for themselves already. Plus it would increase the gene pool a lot, don't want my three to technically commit incest if they don't have to.
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As I listened more closely to their conversations I got a new notification.
Skill Gained [Language Comprehension] allowed you to quickly learn the skill, [Grukst (Hungry Drake Tribe dialect)]
So I gained the [skill] for their language but I already understood them from my [ability] but I do admit they do sound more clearer. It looks like that grukst is their natural language, is that for all goblins or is it just for the goblins in this valley. Anyways this group seems to be the Hungry Drake Tribe. There no hungry drakes around here currently so obviously they gave themselves an imitating name.
When I received the notification, my children was about to come to view to the interlopers. Adam was in front due to his superior weapon and training while Lilith and Eve was behind him holding bone spears I quickly made for them earlier when I noticed the intruders. The fog was able to obscure them until they got close enough, not too close for it to be too dangerous but close enough for the two groups to see each other clearly and communicate without yelling.
Adam declared, "Who goes there!"
This caught the attention of the other goblins and the closest guard responded, "Ho we, ho ye!"
"You are trespassing on Father's domain, leave now!" Lilith commanded.
Another guard told her, "Shut gir, we no take oder frum ye!"
"Yah, tee of ye vs many we. We oder now." A third guard giggled.
"This is our land, all you need to do is go to another direction and we would not need to fight." Lilith said.
"Gir scair. Haha."
"I bet I can defeat any of you so come and try!" Adam declared as he challenged them.
"Adam! What did I said about taking unnecessary risks."
"Don't worry, they look like they are all weaklings, can't even hold a weapon properly and look at them. We should pity them not be afraid of them." Adam said intentionally antagonizing the enemy.
The largest and strongest goblin with the best gear, no where near good but compared to the others, came forward, "Shorty tawk big woods for weeklin." said a guy not even half a foot taller than Adam. "Wat make deel. Stwoger wins, take all. Weeklin bye bye."
"Oh you want to fight, duel one another and winner takes all. That sounds like a deal to me."
"Adam this is a very bad idea, you just got the spear days ago and you never fought anyone else before." Lilith told him.
"Come on, I have a feeling that I will win."
"I'm with Lilith on this, you can die. We can always just try to talk this out like we originally planned." Eve added.
"Yettin girs bos ye aroun. Fiet me yike a reel wawwior." The largest demanded.
Once he finished talking, everyone went silent as these two walked towards each other and prepared to fight.
I would be on the girls side but like Adam my intuition is telling me everything will be alright with battle so I did not stopped him. Lets hope it turns out that way and I'm confident I have the means to heal him if he did got hurt but that does not stop me from worrying.