The time when the former leader finally died was the moment sunlight reached the entrance of the cave.
Clearly, I went kinda nuts and overdid it a bit.
Because his vitality was stronger than a goblin’s, he simply didn’t die easily. I did, however, continue to heal him as well which contributed to his prolonged torture.
When I returned to my senses, I looked at my surroundings. Everyone was terrified.
Pleasantly smiling I laughed. “Have I made myself clear enough?”, I asked the gathered goblins who all nodded their heads with astonishing vigour. Feeling satisfied with that answer, I disbanded the meeting and ordered everyone to sleep till noon. If everyone managed to sleep it would be nice, considering they'd been forced to watch my torture all morning they must be tired, but somehow I doubted anyone would fall asleep today.
So almost everyone except those who had fainted didn’t go to sleep like me.
Thus I ordered everyone to sleep. I also told them that today’s training was cancelled.
After creating a water ball with my abilities to wash away the blood from my hands and face,
I had noticed that Redhead, who had watched me work more than anyone, was shivering uncontrollably with vacant eyes.
In order to snap her back to her senses, I created another water ball and threw it at her.
Then I picked her up and carried her like a child to their bedroom. I disregarded it when she began to shiver even more. When I safely dropped her off, I returned to the spacious area again, and because the other four still couldn’t move themselves I repeated this four times.
After confirming that the other goblins had returned to the bedroom, I also went to sleep.
I woke up sometime in the middle of the afternoon.
As a replacement for lunch I ate the hearts and stomachs of the goblins I killed, whereafter I buried the rest of their bodies with my [Earth Control] ability.
Around this time the other goblins woke up, and because I had said we would skip practice today, I and the three other goblins went hunting.
I left the Goblin Elders, together with five of the goblin minions, to protect the human girls. Earlier, I asked, "You know what'll happen if they are assaulted, right?". It was when they nodded vigorously that I decided the girls were probably safest with them.
Well, the girls were within a walled off area I had made with my thread, and with the short-sword wielding Redhead there, at the very least, they should be able to buy some time if there was trouble.