After Grok finished talking about all his insights about the differences between Soul and Dark magic, the goblins started looking at my impromptu undead crafting lesson through a new lens, and actually started asking questions about the whole process!

Though, I’ll have to prepare a proper lesson plan, and actually allow them to make undead for them to fully understand the intricacies of the whole process, though, after I am done with building these 3 new humanoid undead, I should be able to focus on teaching the goblins while my lesser bodies go ahead and start mass producing humanoid undead of lesser quality.

Though I don’t think I want like a 100 humanoid undead or anything—just 30 on the low end and 50 on the high end for now would be more than enough as the construction projects they are going to work on are going to last for a few weeks at most, and after that, they’ll be mostly useless as I won’t have any weapons and armour to equip them with, and if they don’t have equipment, humanoid undead are just lesser in worth than any other type of undead I could make...

I mean, I could very well barter with Ryuji or Ojciec Lasu for some basic iron or steel equipment, or maybe even bronze ones, but I kinda... don’t have anything to barter with?

I can sell them favours, but I don’t want to even imagine in what way Ryuji will try to pull one over me with a favour, and I don’t want to sell favours to Ojciec Lasu as I don’t want to go on another wacky adventure after I am done completing Rifu-san’s favour.

Which I haven’t even started doing fully... I wish I’d I could just enter the dungeon back in the goblin village, and magically find a few veins of gold and silver to cover all my expenses, but for the foreseeable future I am just going to have to sell manpower in the shape of undead, and favours from me to cover my expenses, aren’t I?

Being a deity is really expensive, even more so than I would’ve thought, but I guess it makes sense... let’s hope I can get a few hundred refugees from here without basically enslaving myself... though a deity would probably go for a lot in a slave market, wouldn’t it?

Well, I guess I can find solace in the fact that I’d be worth a lot in a slave market... should probably tell Gram to ban slavery in his realm as I am not sure if that’s already banned or not... but I am just saying now, I am not letting any slaves exist under my rule.

Anyways. After the goblins went to sleep for the night, I spent the rest of the next finishing up the 3 humanoid undead I was making, and by the time I was done, I had a total of 4 peak F ranked undead, all of whom had the Intermediate Undead title.

Will I be making more of these? HA! No way in hell! They cost too much time and resources to make, I am returning to making peak G ranked undead with the Lesser Undead title.

That way I can actually make a decent amount of them, and if I use the 3 remaining E ranked corpses, I should be able to make 27 peak G ranked humanoid undead, which should be enough to get things going.

Though I need to ask the bishop when the next carriage will arrive as, if I want to make more undead, I’ll need to use the D rank, which I really don’t want to do right now.

Though it seems the goblins are waking up, so I should be able to quickly ask a few questions to the bishop, and after I learn when the next carriages are coming, and after my 4 F ranked humanoid undead complete the 27 G ranked humanoid undead, I’ll finally be able to start making my supply lines, and then I should be able to start pulling some people from Prady to Lublin, and then back to the goblin village!

Though, I will not be starting from the villages first as people would catch on that something weird was going on in the forest after a week or two of the first people disappearing.

The camps in the forest though? They mostly seem to be bandit camps, and if they go missing, hardly anyone would notice, and even less would care to investigate.

Though I may want to build a few cells first as if the people I talk to are less enthusiastic about leaving Prady than I thought... well, I am not going to bother killing them, and I won’t be able to let them go, so to the prison they will go for the next month or so!

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Because I hope I’ll be out of here in the next 2 months at the latest... I really hope so.

Anyways, after the goblins got up and had their breakfast, we returned to Lublin an hour or two before noon, and I quickly ordered my 4 humanoid undead to grab the 3 remaining E ranked corpses and a lot of the bones, and gave them a few golems to act as beasts of burden.

And they shouldn’t have to hunt for parts much as I don’t plan on making anymore 4 armed undead, at least for now, as, while they are simply superior to any other humanoid undead design that I can think of right now, they also require more mana upkeep and just cost more resources to make.

So, only 27 normal 2 armed undead, nothing more, nothing less.

And, luckily for me, as I was sending out the undead, from the corpse carriage, I encountered the bishop and asked him when the next corpse carriage would arrive.

“Though this second shipment has taken longer than we anticipated it to arrive, it should arrive by tomorrow, if not later today, Lord Eternal, and after that, every other shipment should arrive every 5 days or so, with each carriage having around the same number of corpses for your use, and around the same number of bones, give or take a few.

“Of course, if you want to modify the shipments in anyways, we would be more than happy to oblige to the best of our capabilities.” The bishop said, and I hummed thoughtfully.

Getting 10 corpses every 5 days would give me the opportunity to make a lot of undead, though with that many high tier corpses, I’ll have to move my undead making operations to somewhere else as if I keep making undead in only a certain part of the forest, sooner or later, I am going to scare away or just kill most of the bigger animals... though, when I inevitably move my undead making operations elsewhere, I have a few packs of terror birds and wolves that I can make use of.

“Bishop, correct me if I am wrong but, I can do whatever I want with this carriage, and any future carriages, right?”

“Well... I don’t see a reason why you wouldn’t be allowed to do that Lord Eternal... bu—”

“Perfect then! In the future I’ll move a few of the corpse carriages elsewhere as I know a few other areas in the forest with more abundant material, and if I kept hunting for parts around these parts, I may dry out the forest of animals large enough for the people of Lublin to hunt!

“Though, don’t worry, I’ll return all the carriages I take... in a few months, after I am ready to leave the north for the foreseeable future, and return down south, though, if you want the carriages before that, I’ll oblige to any requests from Ojciec Lasu to return them before I am done with them!” I said, as I cut the Bishop off, and he just smiled and nodded along.

“Of course, Eternal One, you may use them however you wish...” He said, but I could tell that he was not really happy with me just taking their stuff.

But, in my defence, I was going to use them a lot better than they ever could!

...Well, not really, I was going to use them to carry people and undead, but for that I’ll probably have to disable the inscriptions that turn this thing into a freezer off... well, I hope they are not worth that much because I am not telling Ojciec Lasu I am damaging his stuff.

Like I said before, I don’t have the money to pay for anything, so let’s hope he just isn’t reported about this, or ignores it if he’s reported about it.

Anyways. After doing what was the equivalent of a daylight robbery, I started asking the bishop questions about what type of modifications I could make to the shipments, I learned that I could basically get at most 2-3 D ranks every week instead of 1 every 5 days like I was doing right now.

Other than that, I could also get around 7-8 E ranks every 5 days, and around 20 or more F ranks every 5 days.

But if I were to get 2-3 D ranks every week, I would be getting only 3 D ranks a week, and a pile of bones, and the same with the other options.

And, thinking about the options, on paper, the best one was just to ask for 2-3 D ranks a week, as that’d allow me to make the highest quality undead, but in reality... just sticking to the current plan seemed like the best option as I was basically getting 2.5 D ranked undead every 5 days anyways.

Sure, like .3 or .5 of those 2.5 D ranked undead were F ranks, and a further 1 was just E ranks, but just getting 7.5 D ranked undead every 15 days instead of 6 was just better.

Who cares if I miss out on the option of getting a few more peak E ranked undead? Right now, I am just deconstructing all of the undead, other than D ranks, for G and F ranks anyways.

In the future, I may take that 7-8 E ranked undead deal as that gives me the equivalent of 2.5 D ranked undeads’ worth of stat points, along side with allowing me to get away with less processing of the undead as they already arrive as E ranks to my doorstep, no further processing needed other than putting in a Lesser Soul!

Though... I may still want to rearrange them to get the bonus from the Lesser Undead title... though, that’s something for later.

Now, I just need to wait for my humanoid undeads to make those 27 peak G ranks, and then I can start actually proceeding with my plans.