Nazu and the agility type Hobgoblins approached Alex who was now standing in front of the Lord's manor gate. Standing behind him was Urim with a bored expression as he yawn rather loudly.

Nazu's eyes glowed with joy and was about to say something when Alex cut her off with the words "Lets head inside, the rest of you can go rest, call Dabok".

"Hm" There was a grunt from the Hobgoblins, signifying that they understood, Nazu narrowed her eyes intently at Alex before following him inside the Hall. Just like the village, The lord's manor had some changes as well. The building was a beautiful mix mash of stone and green bamboo, it had a natural scent that lingered in the air, making one calmer once you enter the Hall.

The small fire place in the left corner of the hall, remained there but was a tad bit bigger to match the increase in the hall's size. The Throne was also covered in black fur but it's feet now attached another set of black wolf furs and the head of a dire wolf as a foot stool. The number of Bamboo pillars increased as well as the number of seats beneath the throne. They were a total of twelve now, six on each side and they were arranged in a semi circular shape facing each other.

A wide fur rug trailed from the first seats below to the throne platform, making you wonder what animal was killed to make such item. Black as night, it matched the throne and chairs but contrasted the green bamboo pillars. Nazu took it all in, luckily this was the first time in here, so he didn't have to explain, the others were somewhat used to seeing this changes after the last upgrade.

Alex sat on the throne and subconsciously touched the beard on his face while looking at Urim who just followed and stood behind him. He raised an eyebrow when the latter performed the same action before scratching his bearded face.

Nazu continuously turned around admiring the place, the small torches attached to the walls lightly lit up the surrounding but didn't affect the solemn vibe the hall was giving. She then went to the first right seat next to Alex and casually sat down, saying "good" repeatedly with a grin.

Again Haji comes running passed Dabok who was now following behind, He looked at the now matured goblin curiously for a second before laughing out loud, no one knew what he was thinking. His attention was now brought to the hall as he inspected it before nodding his head.

Dabok had evolved during the war, When Alex looked at his stats he was surprised to find that he didn't go through the generic shaman pathway but branch out into something else.

[Name: Dabok Blackmoon]

Race: Orc (Cursemancer)

Level: 20(Order of the second circle)

Power rating: 10444

This once again confirmed Alex theory of how evolution is affected by one's prior actions, Urim as a guardian, Torrelsav as a brutal berserker now Dabok as a Cursemancer.

"My Chief" Dabok greeted as he bowed slightly, his speech much more fluent.

Alex nodded in response before turning to look at the Goblin that had somehow turned himself into a messenger. "My Chief, T...The" He tried to think of words but failed, so resorted to gestures that Alex tried to understand, 'Hmm? disappear? ah!'.

Thinking of something, Alex asked, "Haji, what is it, is Moz back?".

"Yes My Chief!!" He answered obviously relieved.

"go bring her here" Alex added while feeling amused, Haji immediately exits the hall with quick steps.

"Lets wait" Alex said as he once again began to go through his inventory, it didn't take long for the shadow orc to arrive. She went down on one knee and said, "Greetings My chief, I have news".

A sharp glint flash through Alex's eyes as he sat up, honestly he was impressed with this Orc as she was very good at adapting but he couldn't make conclusions yet. "Speak"

"There are two villages close to us, one big and one small but..."

"go on"

According to her, although The two villages were far away, they were close to other tribes in the area. According to her explanation, two more tribes were found 10 kilometers and 15 kilometers away from their town, All of them fell under Black moon territory.

Her reports were quite detailed which made Alex nod in appreciation, Nazu then spoke up saying two big villages laid in the direction she went, but they were too busy fighting each other to bother with us. Alex agreed with her thought process but they were the ones closer to them than the other wing, At such a close distance, if it wasn't the woods blocking the view, they would have discovered each other long ago.

The tribe ten kilometers away from them is a small-sized tribe with more than 150 Orc with about 60 warriors. The big sized tribe had about 450 with close to 200 Goblin warriors, 15 kilometers away from it is a tribe with two hundred goblins and Orcs, with 80 or 90 warriors and the final one had 300 people with at most 90 something warriors.

As for the Black moon, they only have 154 fighters. Counting the wounded, 60 out of that 154. The wounded are not suitable for battle at present, so the number they can dispatch is only more than 80.

However, they also have an advantage here, that is, we have lots of powerful people, Alex, Nazu, Torrelsav, Urim, Dabok are all very powerful, and they can play decisive roles at the critical moment, so Alex had no plans to avoid the battle this time.

He planned to Annex those four tribes before fighting a decisive battle with whoever wins amongst the two massive ones in the end. He began discussing his plans with the others, Urim suggested we wait for the wounded to heal, which Alex agreed with after all he planned to perform the attack during the next purple moon for more experience. His intention is to evolve the third time before using the character card to upgrade, if that day would be anything like he imagined, after all the author was very descriptive. According to him, it was a very active night with monsters and humans alike striving for better opportunities to aid with their evolution. Obviously the Monsters had the advantage due to most of them having night vision.

Alex wasn't worried about being attacked that day as the Aegis still had power, it would protect the town while he and his warriors go plunder to their hearts content.

"we should train the grown ones too" Dabok suggested, he was referring to the children who were now adults like Haji. Moz was already standing with her arm folded she nodded in agreement, Alex's finger drummed for a while as he thought about it as well. Honestly, he had not thought of them as he had been so focused on gathering more already made warriors.

He then said, "Call all the newly grown, let me see!".

"Yes hehe" Urim said rushing out with a mischievous grin, Alex could only laugh shaking his head. that fellow developed a new 'joy' for 'training' people recently.