Red returned to the village with a sword in his hand, keeping up the pretense to keep his Storage Pouch secret. He was satisfied with the harvest. He got five levels and increased the size of the Storage Pouch. Though he was low on core reserve now. He only had twenty Magic Cores now, but all of them were Mediocre Quality.
The "fight" was not over yet; the hobgoblins were finishing off the trapped kobolds now. They grabbed the weapons on the ground and threw them at the kobolds inside the pit. He counted the number of the hobgoblins with a frown.
They won the battle, but they paid the price. Only fifty-eight hobgoblins survived the battle, losing half of them. Considering the number of kobolds they killed, that was the best outcome. Half of them survived against the kobolds that were three times bigger than them.
