I led the Goblin Culture to victory.

Chapter 116 Baron Talis

"Your Excellency, Knight Valos requests an audience with you."

The servant opened the study door and respectfully reported.

The study is located on the second floor of Baron Talis's main residence. It is built of high-quality pine wood, and you can smell the pine fragrance as soon as you enter.

In the center of the study, near the fireplace, stands a large oak desk, its corners and edges carved with lifelike scenes of various animals hunting.

Baron Taliss handled important matters here.

Baron Talis was only twenty-two years old, having inherited his father's title seven years prior.

At this moment, he was wearing a blue military uniform made of melanin and calculating how much money he needed to acquire to cover the fine imposed on the Holy See.

The servant felt sorry for her because of her messy light golden-brown hair.

Upon hearing the servant's words, Baron Talis put down his pen, frowned, and looked up.

"ask?"

"Yes, sir."

The servant lowered his head again.

"Sir Valos is already downstairs waiting."

Knight Talis nodded: "Let him come up."

"Yes, sir."

The servant left the room.

"Ugh."

Baron Talis looked at the sky through the crystal window, then found a decent hat and put it on.

He rolled up the parchment on the table and listened as the servants' footsteps faded into the distance, followed by even heavier footsteps coming upstairs.

Knight Valos should be exploring the ruins of the divine war for him, so why is he here to see him?

So hastily, that they didn't even have time to send out appointment letters between nobles.

Did he go too far and attract the attention of the Silver Dragon?

But there was nothing unusual about the sky.

Judging from the footsteps, it seemed like they were carrying something.

Could it be that a valuable mineral has been discovered?

The study door opened once more, and the Knight of Valos, dressed in green armor, appeared in the doorway.

He looked rushed, but there was a hint of joy in his eyes.

A corner of a leather bag was peeking out from his shoulder.

This puzzled Baron Talis even more.

He looked relaxed. "Come in, my Varos. What happened that you're in such a hurry?"

Nobles would send their children to the homes of feudal lords for education from a young age.

Baron Talis and Viscount Valos were childhood friends.

He showed appropriate friendliness.

Knight Valos pretended to catch his breath a few times and then smiled.

"I have found a harvest in the forest. Today I have both good news and bad news for you, Baron."

Why are you reporting both good news and bad news?

Baron Talis beckoned to the door: "Come in and talk."

At his repeated invitation, Knight Valos entered the study.

He flipped his wrist, turned the leather bag to his chest, and then bent down to gently place it on the ground.

Baron Talis waved to the door, and the servant closed the study door.

He leaned on the desk to get up, walked half a circle around to the desk.

"What is this?"

The sound just now was soft?

Living thing?

What value can a living creature have?

This piqued Baron Talis's curiosity.

Knight Valos has plenty of cunning ideas and tricks up his sleeve, but he always manages to get things done beautifully.

No matter what happened, I never let him down!

"Look, sir."

Knight Valos bowed and untied the hemp rope binding the leather bag.

A green blob appeared before them.

"Wow, the smell of wood?"

The strong goblin, who had been bouncing on Longma's butt all the way, was already dizzy.

It looked around in confusion, but only saw houses made of wood.

This made it feel a sense of loss.

It thought that humans had finally stopped bothering it!

How come there's another human I've never seen before?

This human is wearing the same clothes as the humans who are messing around with themselves!

The strong goblin felt as if the sky had fallen.

Baron Talis looked at Valos: "Goblin?"

He did order the knights to lead the slave-hunting team to hunt down goblins, but he didn't order him to capture them for himself!

Is this good news?

Is this bad news?

Knight Valos's smile widened: "Baron, this is excellent news. This goblin can farm! And it farms better than the serfs!"

Is that true?

Baron Talis was somewhat skeptical.

"You better explain yourself properly."

"Yes, sir."

Knight Valos spoke while maintaining his smile.

"After we got to that area, we killed a group of goblins. Then we encountered another group of goblins that were very fast runners, so we chased them all the way to the area between two mountains further north in that depression. There was a tribe of several hundred goblins there!"

"They used the terrain to their advantage and caused some setbacks for my team. But I still managed to capture one of the stronger ones after a fight."

Baron Talis nodded.

This seems to be bad news.

Knight Valos continued.

"This goblin is really good at farming. Although I haven't observed it, it can make the wheat seedlings grow an extra finger's length in three days! In almost a week, the wheat seedlings have grown two fingers' length."

"And the fields it cultivates are not yellow like those cultivated by serfs; the whole field is lush and green! You can go to my estate to see for yourself, sir."

Baron Talis did not dwell on the matter.

He asked, "Where is Tufate? Where is your slave-catching team?"

"Him, sigh."

Knight Valos showed a hint of sadness.

"Tufat and the slave-catching team were not careful enough and fell into the goblin's ambush. Tufat was injured and probably won't be able to see you for a while. The slave-catching team was even weaker and fell into chaos after being ambushed, so I don't know their current situation."

"Furthermore, judging from the battlefield at the time, the small slave-catching team in the south should have also been defeated. For some reason, the bear-beastmen inside were standing with the goblins."

Baron Talis nodded slightly.

Having spent so many years together, he could naturally tell that everything Valos said was true.

"Don't be sad, at least you've reaped the rewards of your efforts."

He gently patted Valos and glanced down at the strong goblin with his eyes closed and head hunched over.

How many goblins are there?

As a baron, Talis knew that goblins in the same tribe shared similar habits.

Whether it's the way they fight or the way they live, it's all the same!

They are not much different from wolf packs or other wild animals that live in groups.

If this goblin knows how to farm, then other goblins will naturally know how to farm too.

In this way, what he was facing was not a goblin that could farm, but a group of serf miners who could reproduce on their own!

If he can capture these goblins, he won't even need to maintain a slave-catching team anymore!

Varos gestured with his hand and said, "Three hundred, there are over three hundred goblins in this group!"

"You did a great job."

Baron Talis smiled.

"I'll have soldiers ride off to inform the slave-catching team to assemble and make sure they don't miss a single goblin!"

It's been so many days, the goblins in the forest should have been mostly cleared out by now!

You should have memorized the general terrain as well.

Letting those guys wander around inside any longer will only waste his food!

This hurdle has been overcome.

Knight Valos breathed a sigh of relief.

He raised his head: "Your Excellency, winter is approaching soon. The time it takes for a regular horse to travel there, plus the time it takes for the slave-catching team to assemble, would be too long. Perhaps I should ride the dragon horse."

"He truly is my best knight!"

Baron Talis smiled and patted Valos on the shoulder.

"But you can't. We can only explore northwards for a day at most, and the slave-hunting team's stronghold is too deep inland. It's best if neither we nor Ryoma go there. You go back and prepare to lead the way for me when we set off."

"Yes, sir."