Here you go, one more chapter . Fully pr now, credit to Mek and DarkD.

Like always, thank you for reading this!

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The fourth storage room in the secret warehouse was now filled with logs and stones. Chrono and his slaves worked together to turn the logs into lumber and the stones into bricks.

The waste from the lumber was burned by using the ember skill. And the waste from bricks were used to create cement.

With the massive amount of logs and stones, Chrono and his slaves finally finished on their task of making lumber and bricks. On the second day, Chrono’s wisdom, stamina and endurance increased by five while the goblins’ stamina and endurance increased by eight and their wisdom increased by one.

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“Now, it’s time to start the construction.”

“What did you want to make master?”

“I plan on building a few things in the warehouse. Let’s start with building your homes.”

“B-But master, for we lowly slaves … something … something like homes is too much for us.”

“Just be glad that I am a kind master.”

“T-Thank you master, we lowly slaves have nothing to repay your kindness.”

Using the fifth storage room, Chrono and his slaves moved the construction materials from the fourth storage room to the fifth storage room. After careful planning, Chrono and his slaves started their task.

The construction was placed at the far left corner of the storage room. After Chrono helped with the work, Chrono let his slaves do the rest.

“(With this, no matter how poor their work was, the house would not fall.)”

While his slaves completed the house construction, Chrono took out the ‘research skill scroll’ he received from the scroll shop owner, Gotika.

“(What kind of requirement do I need to learn this skill? Was there no other way than learning a thousand skill? If that was the case, I think I would acquired the skill naturally without needing a scroll.)”

Chrono tried to searched from the internet, as expected, he found no answers. Since the skill was extremely rare for users to have, and the skill scroll existence was unknown, it was hard for Chrono to find the clue.

“BAH!”

Having no idea on how to learn the skill, Chrono started to do random things to learn the skill scroll.

Holding the scroll while being naked.

“Learn!!”

Unable to learn skill due to unfulfilled requirement

Doing ultraman pose

“Learn!!”

Unable to learn skill due to unfulfilled requirement

Putting the scroll three meters away from him, he furrowed his eyebrows and tried to learn it using his mind.

“LEARN!!”

……………………………

Standing upside down while holding the scroll using his feet.

“LEEAARRNN!!!”

Unable to learn skill due to unfulfilled requirement

Trting!!

You felt frustrated,

As a result of being frustrated, wisdom and intelligent decrease by 25% and skill efficiency decrease by 15%. Effect stay for one minute or until new emotions status overrides it. it.

“(What?! Is this the new function after the updates?)”

The new function told Chrono his inner feeling as if to mock him. Chrono gritted his teeth,his blood pressured start to rise and his blood vein shows up.

Trting!

You felt angry

As a result of being angry, wisdom and intelligent decrease by 50% while your other physical attribute increase by 50% and your rage bar increase. Effect stay for one minute or until new emotion status overrides it.

“Damn it!!”

On impulse, Chrono throwed the purple skill scroll towards the working slaves making his slaves stop their work,looking at him. The act itself calmed Chrono and he quickly regained his composure.

“GOBLIN FAI!! TAKE THE SCROLL I THROW!”

Chrono had thrown the scroll inside the house; he ordered goblin Fai, the only goblin working on the interior design - to get the scroll for him.

From inside the house, goblin Fai’s voice was heard as he replying to his master order.

“Yes master, thank you for your kindness.”

“(........... Don’t tell me he misunderstood my order?)”

Chrono hastily walked towards inside of the house; as he felt goblin Fai’s answers were abnormal.

“(Nah, there’s no way he could fulfill any of the scroll requirements to learn the skill.)”

Wooo…….

Voouummm…..!!

As Chrono calmed himself, he saw a green light coming from inside of the house. He quickly rushed to the source of the light to see what happen.

“M-Master?”

“...... Fai?!”

Instead of a normal goblin, Chrono found a green goblin inside of the house. Somehow, he knew that was goblin Fai although he tried to deny the reason goblin Fai sudden evolution. The other goblins peeking from the house’s door while trembling; deep down they knew goblin Fai did something unforgivable.

“W-Where is the scroll?”

“L-Like you ordered, I…..I…”

“WHERE IS THE SCROLL!!”

Fai’s heightened intelligence made him understand his situation.He blames his past self that misunderstood his master’s ordered. The other goblins knew the situation by instinct after looking at their master’s sudden rage.

They slowly distanced themselves from Chrono, as they foresaw something scary about to happen. After a mere three steps, all the slaves suddenly knelt on the ground; they terribly trembled as they felt the aura of death itself.

Crying, peeing, trembling, they cannot help but felt a great terror. The reason Chrono’s slaves acted like that, was not because of Chrono’s anger or his shouting; it was due to one small physical action ...

Chrono had unequipped the ‘One Ring’.

As Chrono unequipped the ring, his infamy status became visible again, making those around him tremble in fear. Chrono takes out Grave, preparing for something unimaginable.

Trting!!

Your rage bar is filled! Berserk mode activated.

The berserk mode decrease your wisdom and intelligent by 90% while your other physical stat increase by 200%. The skill was unavailable in this mode. Berserk mode will stay for one minute unless another status overrides it.

Later on, the goblins learned their master’s great terror; from that moment on, they swore that they would never do anything or let anything bring out their master’s anger ever again.

“””Eeekkk!!”””

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Standing in the middle of the brutal scene of carnage, was a man with red eyes. After he finally calmed down, Chrono examined goblin Fai’s status screen to see his slave’s status update after the evolution.

Stat Window

Slave name

Fai

title

None

Level

40

Race

Yoblin

Health

500

Mana

2500

Fame

0

Infamy

0

Strength

80

Dexterity

20

Endurance

50

Wisdom

250

Intelligent

250

Sense

80

Luck

8

Stamina

100

Looking at goblin Fai exceptionally high wisdom and intelligent, Chrono can’t help but felt jealous. Those status gained could be him if he patiently looking for a way to learn the purple skill scroll.

“(By learning the skill, this one gained massive amounts of wisdom and intelligent stats! But how could he learn it while I could not learn the skill no matter what I tried? )”

“..........Get up!”

“Y-Yes, Master.”

“ Your mistakes shall be punished by death, but you are now too valuable to be killed.”

“My apologies, master. I will compensate this mistake of mine by working harder in the future.”

Fai’s manner was changed matching his heightened intelligence. Unlike his kin’s yellow brown skin color, Fai’s skin was a green color; he has the same body sized as other slaves but his eyes shows a true wisdom.

“Let’s see how capable you are, lead your friends for the house construction”

“As you wish, master.”

The house construction resumed soon after Chrono appointed Fai as the slaves’ leader. Unlike the other slaves, Fai’s work was meticulous, he calculated everything for the house construction so the house would be strong and comfortable.

“No, a bit to the left so we can have a ninety degree angle. And remember, every room should be 8 X 8 feet wide, wait, forget it I will calculate it myself when we do the room part.”

After five hours, the house was completed. With Fai’s lead, the house was nicely done, comfortable enough for the goblins to live in.

“I would like you to allow me to craft the house furniture too, master.”

“Do what you want later, but now, we need to build the blacksmith workshop, alchemy lab, kitchen, tailoring workshops, freezer room and training room.”

After the house completion, Chrono helped with the other construction work. Unlike his previous workshops, he planned on making the whole storage room as his workshop.

Chrono need a huge workplace so he and his slaves can work together and produce the items en masse. His clan’s workshop room was good enough, but Chrono cannot use it while travelling.

The class upgrade quest for merchant proved as the most difficult class upgrade quest among the other classes. Chrono needed to travel indefinitely to complete the quest; this made it hard for Chrono to access his clan workshop room later.

The construction work was done in the early morning and finished once the sunset. After the slaves return to their house to cook for dinner and rest, Chrono returned to the hideout to repair or create his equipment for his clan members.

“( I need to grind my blacksmithing and repairing skill to repair ‘Ragnarok’)”

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For the blacksmith workshop, Chrono and his slaves built an entire new room inside the storage room. Using the bricks, Chrono made the walls on all sides creating a new room.

The whole room was made as the blacksmithing workshop, the furnace equipped with five ‘Large Blazing Stone’ - which is five times of the melting capabilities compared to his old clan’s workshop.

Everything in the new blacksmithing workshop was twice the size of his old workshop completed with high level crafting tools and small material storing room. With this, Chrono and all of his slaves can work together to craft something.

For the alchemy lab, Chrono made it look like the slaves’ house. Using the lumbers, a two storey wooden house was made.

The first storey was for the potion creation while the second storey made for the explosive creation. At the back of lab house, a room was made for Chrono and his slaves to sterilize themselves.

Like the blacksmith workshop, a whole new room was made for the kitchen. The room was split by a freezer and the actual kitchen. Chrono predicted he may not used the kitchen much since many placed already have great kitchen and he can’t enter the warehouse while in the field.

“Remember, only used this kitchen when I’m around. You can take the food ingredient here, but use your own kitchen in the house when you cook your own food.”

“Yes, master.”

The tailoring workshop was made like the alchemy lab, it was built using the wooden house design. Instead of two storey wooden house, Chrono made it only one storey, only the house was as big as the alchemy lab.

The tools for the tailoring process was especially heavy duty and big for the mass production. With a massive work space and heavy duty tools, one does not need artifact level tools to make better products.

Artifact level crafting tools was often small and easy to carry around. Crafting using the artifact level tools usually produced a better result compared to normal crafting tools.

But to make it fair, if a user crafted in a specialized building with heavy duty crafting tools, it brings the same result as crafting with artifact level crafting tool. In return, users cannot carried around these specialized building like artifact level crafting tools.

“Master, from this book I read, we can create better heavy duty tools. This book can guide us to make the tools with the ancient technology.”

“........Where did you find the book?”

“In the other storage rooms, among the items you robbed, there were some great books.”

“Let me see that.”

“Here you go, master.”

“(Hm….’Machinery Basic’? I don’t know we can create a real machine in this game, maybe it was one of the game’s hidden fact? It seems the owner of this book considered it extremely valuable since he kept it in the ‘grand safe’)”

“I don’t think I have the time to read the book as thick as the wall of China, maybe you can guide us to make these tools?”

“Unfortunately, I only read until a quarter of it. To make the tools mention in the book, I need to finish reading it first before I fully understand the content of the book.”

“I see, you can read the book first and teach us later. And feel free to read any books in the storage, you can take all the books in your room if you want…….”

As Chrono about to finish his words, he finally noticed Fai attire. Unlike his shabby looking old cloth, Fai wear a white robe, hiding his brown shirt and pant and a small glass was hanging on Fai’s nose.

“Anything wrong, master?”

“Your attire…..”

“Ah, this? I crafted it when I had a free time since I cannot stand my old cloth.”

“And the glass?”

“I also crafted this, I need it to read books.”

“..................”

“Master?”

“No, nothing, continue your work, you can read the book later.”

“Yes, master.”

The construction continued for a few more days before Chrono noticed goblin Kai strange behavior. Since goblin Kai have the highest physical stats among the slaves, Chrono expected him to work more.

It was strange, Kai would be still up and moving while the other slaves were left panting for breath at the end of the day. Kai was so loyal that he would follow his master’s direction without expending his excess stamina; he would not reach his limit with the same workload as the other slaves.

Strangely, Kai reach his limit with the same workload as the other slaves.Chrono ignored Kai’s strange behavior until one day.

“(If this kept on going, he can’t reach his maximum potential, I need to let him work more.)”

“Kai!! You are the strongest amongst my slaves, you need to work more!”

“YES,MASTER!!”

On that day, Kai worked harder for the construction work. Once the sunset, everyone stopped their work and returned to the house. Like usual, Chrono returned to the hideout to repair his clan member’s equipment before he logged out.

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Like usual, Chrono quickly went to his secret warehouse soon after he login. Once he entered the fifth room, the factory construction site, goblin Ai urgently ran to him while looking teary on his eyes.

“Master! Master!!!.”

*huf* *huf*

“M-Master, thankfully you came.”

“Calmed down Ai, tell me what happen.”

“My precious….my precious son Kai!! Please stop him, Master! PLEASE!!”

“What?!”

Chrono hastily ran to the slaves house at the goblin Ai’s remark. Once he arrived a goblin with a big body stature standing in the middle of house yard while his whole body trembling.

His hands swollen, his body full of sweat and he trembled where he stood. Holding a sword, he swings it - although there was no power or speed behind it.

As the sword swing is completed, his body fell to the ground. Using the sword supporting his body, goblin Kai gets up again while muttering something.

“.....N-nine thou..sand..ni.ne h-hun..dred...eighty..”

“(He is in extreme fatigue!!)”

Chrono quickly rushed to goblin Kai’s side to help him stand. Chrono was sure goblin Kai has reached his maximum stamina limit. If he keeps going, goblin Kai may face certain death.

“Kai! Stop why did you…….”

“M-Master?”

“You reach your maximum limits, you need to take rest.”

“N-No”

“Look at you! You can’t even speak like you usually do!”

“B-But….I CANNOT STOP UNTIL I TRAIN TEN THOUSAND TIMES A DAY!!”

As goblin Kai made his resolve, he stands again, while holding his sword high. His loyalty was unquestionable, but his pride and stubborn nature divided him from the actual slaves.

“(No, if he died my hard work raising him will come to naught!)”

“M-Master, please stop him….everyday he make ten thousand wooden axes and practices his sword ten thousand times.”

“W-What?!”

Now, Chrono realized, the reason goblin Kai could craft his equipment was because he already practiced it before. As he never practiced making the wooden axe, he failed terribly.

Chrono never told Kai to practiced, but Kai always feel the need to ‘practice’ everytime he failed to fulfill Chrono’s order.

As Kai’s father, goblin Ai always worry about Kai. But as a slaves, he would not dare to tell Chrono about Kai’s secret ‘practice’.

“The rest of you, go to work first. I will do something here.”

”Yes, Master.”

“Kai, how many more sword swing until you finish your ‘practice’?”

“TWENTY MORE, MASTER”

*Sigh*

Chrono quickly takes out a few high grade herbs and beefs. Using the slaves’ house kitchen Chrono cooked something giving it to goblin Kai.

“Here, at least eat something.”

“.............”

“Don’t worry, I don’t want to hurt your pride by putting a sleeping pill in your food. But you need to eat to refresh your stamina.”

From that day on, Chrono stayed by goblin Kai’s side to monitor his training after the construction work. With Chrono’s careful guidance, Kai could finally craft the wooden axe. Kai stopped the wooden axe craft training after that.

“Kai, when will you stop training your sword?”

“Until I can beat protect master at will”

“That….will take a long time.”

Looking away from the goblin Kai, Chrono noticed one of the slave’s room is still lit. The room with the light was Fai’s room.

“(Someone else also works hard over there. I should buy him more books later, or maybe I should let him enroll in ‘Lumia Combat School’ so he can learn magic and read books there.)”

With the slaves’ heightened physical stats, they could take to work over time. The construction work hastened with the slaves’ improved manufacturing skills. Construction work that should be done in a month was completed in less than two weeks.

As soon as the factory was completed,, Chrono was already fully prepared for the upcoming long journey.

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