One of the elder villagers comes near the Voice of Altus. He said “But when Baron Herch learns what you have done he will punish us.” Voice answered “Can’t you see, your fear and cowardness angering Altus, his wrath is much worse than any human. He decided to punish villages of the south with never heard of goblin hordes. Why because in their hearts there was no wish for fight just submission. If you do not gather yourselves together and join our fight he will punish you too. Now feed yourselves with food, gather your strength and when you feel strong enough to fight, join us.” When the village elder left with concerned eyes my father took me into a corner. “What happened to those people?” I said “Maybe I am not lying and Altus actually sports us.” He looked at me “The stuff about goblin horde you made me tell, what is all that about?” I said “Just massages from Altus. Dad, we have no options, we need to move forward don’t question what's happening, just move forward.”

He looked somewhat desperate. And he said to me “Who are you?” I said “I am the sword of Altus like you said.” And smiled.

In a week 7 villages were saved by us, and 5 villages burned by goblins. The first village who got burned long ago made 6 villages get burned. Herch managed to gather a total of 300 troops to march 300 of Gloria’s. But Gloria as I said constantly moved and didn’t engage with him. Soon around all villages words of Altus get heard. And many people from villages started to join our ranks. I already readied more spears and shields, but no armor for them. They quickly trained for stabbing, forming a spear formation they were much inferior in quality to my regular troops or even ex bandit ones. But nonetheless they expanded our numbers.

While I was moving a terrified hobgoblin came to me, he said “We need help, a group of warriors came, they are strong. We need help.” I left my father and new spearman groups to their own devices. They were more than enough to deal with few stragglers left in villages. I bring my 110 man with me so we can kill the goblin hunting menace.