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Day 61

Since so much happened today, it'll be difficult to mention everything.

I’ll do my best to not mention anything useless, and write about it from start to finish.

First, there are eight new Hobgoblins. Two of them were mages and one was a Cleric.

The one who became a Cleric was close friends with Gobuji-kun, so he might have been drawn into becoming a Cleric. The number of clerics increased as I expected, and I found myself grinning wickedly.

Next up is Gobumi-chan. When Gobumi-chan woke up today, she had become an entirely different race called a [Dhampir - Variant]. The change in her appearance isn't even comparable to the time when she ranked up from Goblin to Hobgoblin.

Or perhaps I should say, it’s pointless to compare them.

She was at least 180 cm tall with a charming body, a narrow waist accentuated by her breasts that would overflow in your hands, a beautiful moon-like face more fleeting than an Elf's, glittering silver hair that flowed down to her waist, fine skin, and finally, red eyes with golden pupils.

She also acquired the ability [God of Ice’s Divine Protection]; a wonderful ability that allows the user to generate and manipulate large amounts of ice. According to Gobujii, the blessing of a [God] is above that of a [Demigod]. It's extremely rare, even when compared to the rare blessings that Gobukichi-kun possesses.

Moreover, it's hard to imagine from 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 a [God] the undead body of a vampire would be weak to the sun. But because she is a [Dhampir-Subspecies], she doesn't have this weakness.

As always, she'd be able to go out at any time, even during the day.

Gobumi-chan has become immensely beautiful. If you understand 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 to myself for now as it's not a concern for today. Let's get back to the other changes. There are so many changes I'm having trouble grasping them all at once.

Now, on to Gobue-chan...

What Gobue-chan had turned into was a species of [Lord] called a [Half Earth Lord]. She was not from a subspecies.

She was at least 240 centimeters tall, approaching my height with a stout and solid muscular physique. She had two large horns that extended 20 centimeters out and curve back on her forehead. She's got short yellow hair and garnet-like eyes. Her skin appeared to be firm but still was soft like that of a woman. Her breasts were comparable to the size of watermelons but had better shape to them. Lastly, she had yellow looking stones 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 imbued in a [Lord]’s body and contained the abilities and characteristics of their species.

The abilities of her species generally helped with manipulating earth. One of them was related to mining; the ability [Complete Geological Comprehension] made her able to see the brittle points in the bedrock. This would help her mine different types of ore while also strengthening her body.

As a test, she tried digging through a wall with her bare hands which acted like a drill and the ground gave way. She dug more effectively barehanded now than when she was equipped with a pickaxe as a Hobgoblin.

With this development we could mine ore and spirit stones faster than ever before.

It also seems that she can use lightning based magic now, which can occasionally be useful during mining to locate ores. She'll be able to find a variety of ores now.

What can I say, Gobue-chan's mining has improved a lot. It's amazing to see the things you can accomplish when you push forward with your all towards something you love.

In combat Gobue-chan is nothing to fool with as well, she can easily break rocks with her bare hands. Imagine what would happen if something alive was caught with one of those blows.

A body is more fragile than bedrock, it would become paste.

She sure is scary.

Now, moving on to Hobusato-san.

Because Hobusato-san has always been good with a sword, she became a [Lord]. She turned into a [Half Bloody Lord]. Like Gobue-chan she is a normal [Lord] and not a subspecies.

She is two meters tall, with clearly defined muscles. She has modest breasts, and in the center of her forehead was a 15 centimeter ruby that extended out. She has carnelian colored pupils, slightly red skin, and long blood red hair that was bound by string into a ponytail. She also had two bright red Ogre Orbs about five centimeters in diameter embedded in her hands. Note: a carnelian is a brownish red gemstone

Although she didn't gain the ability to use magic, her physical capabilities had grown in leaps and bounds. It seems that the [Bloody Lord] species excels in close quarters combat.

It is with a race that includes the "Blood Sword", and as is suggested by the blood in their name they can manipulate their own blood and the blood of others. There are conditions to do so though.

Even if she cannot use magic, these abilities made her strong. If we are talking about only direct combat ability she would likely be in third or fourth place in our group, and certainly be in the top five.

Although she might fall behind Gobukichi-kun and Gobumi-chan in terms of physical power, in close quarters combat I expect that [Predict], [Precognition], and [Intuition] would even out the match.

At any rate, everyone mysteriously developed a black tattoo similar to mine like Hobusei-san, but they differed slightly in the design and placement.

Hobusato-san had one on her 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 can feel a power coming from them.

I expect that I'll understand what they're for in the future.

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To celebrate their Ranking up I passed out two magic items to each Hobgoblin.

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's not a good idea to look into her eyes for too long. I also gave her an enchanted claymore called the [Drop of Moonlight], the sword looks like a piece of artwork made from 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. Because her old clothes didn't fit any more I also gave her a new set of clothes consisting of surplus magical items, and a new towel made from my thread to wipe away the sweat from her hard work.

To Hobusato-san, I gave a set of magic items consisting of full plate armor made with red iron, a red cape which is a good match for physical and magical attacks. Lastly, I gave her an enchanted long sword [Blood Princess], that has the ability to suck blood, 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 identical bracelets.

But, yeah.

Gobumi-chan has the look of a noble's daughter. She doesn't pull the zipper in front all the way up, liberating the rest of her top. Gobue-chan is dressed like a farm boss. She wrapped the towel I made her around her body and tucked it into her breasts, exposing the top of her chest and her navel. Hobusato-san has the look 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 weren't Goblins anymore.

I asked Gobujii, and here's what he said our names would be:

- 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 new names.

Though I didn't expect Gobujii to have a good naming sense, this was terrible.

It's not like a person can decide his or her own name either though, so I let it go.

Also, because this will likely be asked, I will go ahead and mention it here.

If you take the average strength of the races and place them in order, it would look like this:

Dhampir ≧ Half Spell Lord = Half Earth Lord = Half Bloody Lord ≧ Ogre ≧ Elf > Kobold Foot Soldier > Kobold = Hobgoblin = Human > Goblin.

This list is only considering their races, it does not account for skills or weapons.

An Ogre can beat one of the Half-Lord race in terms of physical strength, but unfortunately their intelligence is usually lower, so their tactics are simpler and they are weaker.

There is not much of an opportunity for exceptional individuals.

Now, about the Elves and Kobolds.

I decided not to eat the Kobolds because they wanted to join us.

Well, even if I did eat them, they wouldn't strengthen any of my abilities. It appears t