Since so many things happened today, it would be difficult to mention everything.
Thus I think I’ll do my best to avoid the useless stuff, and write about it from start to finish.
First, the number of Hobgoblins increased by eight. Two of them became mages while one of them became a cleric.
The one who had become a cleric was already close friends with Gobuji-kun; he might have been drawn into becoming a cleric because of this. The number of clerics increased as expected, and I found myself grinning wickedly.
The next part concerned Gobumi-chan.
When Gobumi-chan woke up today, she had become an entirely different race called a [Dhampir - Variant].
The change in her appearance cannot be compared to the time when she ranked up from Goblin to Hobgoblin.
Or perhaps I should say, it’s unnecessary to compare them.
These were her features: her height is no less than 180 cm, a clearly charming body with a narrow waist accentuated by her breasts whose size would overflow in your hands, a moon-like beautiful face more fleeting than an Elf's, her glittering silver hair that flowed down to her waist, fine skin, and finally, red eyes with golden pupils.
Also it says that she acquired the ability [God of Ice’s Divine Protection]; a wonderful ability that allows the user to generate and manipulate large amounts of ice with little risk towards the user. According to Gobujii, the blessing of a [God] is above that of a [Demi God], even when compared to the rare blessing that Gobukichi-kun possesses.
Moreover, it's hard to imagine from looking at her delicate appearance that her strength and agility was remarkably different from before. I dare say that she would be evenly matched with Gobukichi-kun whose base stats were higher than me.
Even with the [Blessing of God] in the daytime the undead body of a Vampire would carry a weakness to the sun. But because she is a [Dhampir-Subspecies], this weakness is not an issue.
As always, she was able to go out without any limitations even in the day time.
In other words, to get to the point, Gobumi-chan has become immensely beautiful.
If you understood that much, then, there won’t be a problem.
But her appearance bothered me... I felt like I have seen that face somewhere before... like the adult face of a certain childhood friend.
I’ll keep this story for the time being as it does not concern today. Let us focus more on the changes.
These changes are really hard for me to grasp in just one day.
Now, about Gobue-chan...
What Gobue-chan had turned into was a species of [Lord] called a [Half Earth Lord]. Anyway, she was not *from a subspecies.
She was at least 240 centimeter tall, approaching my height with a stout and solid muscular physique. She also had two large horns that extend 20 centimeters out and curve back on her forehead while having short yellow hair and garnet-like eyes. Her skin appeared to be firm but also included all the softness that came from being a woman, and her breasts were comparable to the size of watermelons but had better shape to them. Lastly, a yellow looking stone, around five centimeter in diameter, embedded in her abdomen as well as under both her elbows. They appeared to be the same type of stone that Hobusei-san’s [Lord] species had. Those stones, called “Ogre Orbs”, were always imbued in a [Lord]’s body and contained the abilities and characteristics of their species
Abilities of her species included manipulation of the earth. One of those was particularly related to mining; the ability [Complete Geological Comprehension] was able to see the brittle points of the bedrock's areas. This aided the mining for more types of ore while, at the same time, strengthened her body.
As a trial, she attempted to dig through a wall with her bare hands acting similarly to a drill and the ground gave way. Barehanded, she dug more effectively than when she was equipped with a pickaxe as a Hobgoblin.
There was no point in complaining about this; we could mine more ore and spirit stones faster than ever before.
Also, it seem that she can use lightning based magic, and it can occasionally be useful during mining to locate ores. She was able to obtain a variety of ores because of this.
What can I say, Gobue-chan has leveled her mining skill well. It is amazing to see the things that happen when you push forward with your all towards a passion.
In combat Gobue-chan is nothing to fool with either, she can easily break rocks with her bare hands. Imagine what would happen if a soft living thing was caught with one of those blows.
A body is frailer than bedrock, it would become like meat paste.
She sure is scary.
Now, moving on to Hobusato-san.
Because Hobusato-san has always been good with using the sword, she became a [Lord], specifically Hobusato-san turned into a [Half Bloody Lord]. Like Gobue-chan she is normal and not a subspecies. Note: the half of ‘half bloody lord’ means she’s a ‘half’-’bloody lord’, e.g. ‘half’-‘lord’
She is two meters tall, with clearly defined muscles; she has modest breasts, and in the center of her forehead a 15 centimeter ruby extended. She has carnelian colored pupils, slightly red skin, and long red hair the color of blood, that was bound by string into a ponytail. A unique characteristic of hers was that she also had two bright red Ogre Orbs about five centimeters in diameter embedded into her hands. Note: a carnelian is a brownish red gemstone
Although it was not likely that she would gain the ability to use magic, her physical capabilities had grown, compared with before her combat strength grew in leaps and bounds. It seems that the [Bloody Lord] species will excel in close quarters combat.
As it is with a race that includes the "Blood Sword" and blood in their name, they have the ability to manipulate the blood of themselves and others, although there are conditions to do so.
Even if she cannot use magic, these abilities made her strong. If we are talking about only direct combat ability she would probably be fourth or third place after me and Gobukichi-kun, and she will certainly be in the top five.
Although it seems that she falls behind Gobukichi-kun and Gobumi-chan in terms of physical power, in close quarters combat I expect that [Predict], [Precognition], and [Intuition] evens out the match.
At any rate, mysteriously everyone developed a black tattoo similar to mine like Hobusei-san, but differed slightly in the design and placement.
Hobusato-san had one on the back, Gobue-chan on the arm, and Gobumi-chan on the leg. The other Hobgoblins had them on the leg, arm or neck.
I am not worried about them, because I feel that a power boils up from these.
I expect that I will gain an understanding of these in the future.
Action
As a celebration for Ranking up I passed out two magic items to each Hobgoblin.
Out of the magic items that had not been used yet, Gobumi-chan received a blue and white dress made with dark magic, and bound together with steel like thread, she also got glasses related to her new ability that is a trait of her race, the [Eyes of Bewitchment]. These glasses work to seal the effects of her eyes’ ability, it is best not to look into her eyes for too long. As a present she got an enchanted claymore called the [Drop of Moonlight], the sword looks like a piece of artwork made with ice crystals.
Gobue-chan got two new weapons, the [Earth Goddess War Pick] and an enormous [Earth Goddess Shovel] as a set that have the capability to accommodate her new, larger, size. Also, because of the change in her size due to changing species, she was given a new set of clothes consisting of surplus magical items, and I also gave her a new towel to wipe away the sweat from her hard work made of my thread.
To Hobusato-san, I gave a set of magic items consisting of full plate armor made with red iron, and a red cape which is a good match for physical and magical attacks. On top of this I gave Hobusato-san an enchanted long sword [Blood Princess] that has the ability to suck blood, even though this hardly seems necessary with her abilities.
To the three people who became a race above and beyond that of a standard Hobgoblin, I supplied them with bracelets that have the storage ability, Gobukichi-kun and Hobusei-san already have these.
But, yeah.
Gobumi-chan has become like a noble's daughter, on her front side the zipper stops just short, liberating the rest of her top. Gobue-chan is dressed like a farm boss, she has the towel I made her wrapped around her body and tucked into her breasts, exposing the top of her chest and her navel. Hobusato-san has the composure of a knight with her whole body dyed in red.
Nevertheless.
Even though we had ranked up so much, we still call each other by our old names, like Goburou, Gobukichi-kun and such, and it was beginning to feel odd.
Well, we are not Goblins anymore.
I asked Gobujii, and it happened like this.
- Goburou → Ogarou
- Gobukichi-kun → Ogakichi-kun
- Gobumi-chan → Dhammi-chan
- Gobue-chan → Asue-chan
- Hobusei-san → Supesei-san
- Hobusato-san → Burasato-san
- Gobuji-kun → Hobuji-kun
- Gobu-chan → Hobufu-chan
- etc.
TL Note : TOLD YOU THERE’S A REASON WE DIDN’T DO THE NAME CHANGES EARLIER - FB
The individuals who had ranked up each received their new names.
Though I did not expect Gobujii to have good naming sense, this was terrible.
People just have to understand, since it is not like a person can decide his or her own name either, so I just let the matter go.
In addition, since this will likely be asked, I will go ahead and say it here.
If you take the average strength of the races and place them in order, it looks like this.
Dhampir ≧ Half Spell Lord = Half Earth Lord = Half Bloody Lord ≧ Ogre ≧ Elf > Kobold Foot Soldier > Kobold = Hobgoblin = Human > Goblin.
This is a list of only the races, it does not include skills and armaments.
Although an Ogre can beat a Half-Lord rac