Goblin King: My Innate Skill Is OP

Chapter 380: Fortification

"...If all of us leave the clan for training and hunting," he said slowly, "wouldn’t that leave the settlement vulnerable?"

Honestly, it was a valid concern.

Most of the clan’s strongest fighters would temporarily be outside the settlement at the same time.

Under normal circumstances, that would’ve been extremely dangerous.

But luckily, we already had a solution for that.

"Not if the wall is completed first," I answered calmly.

Several eyes shifted toward Doro immediately.

"You’d only leave once the walls are fully connected and the barrier system has been established properly."

The room grew thoughtful after that.

Because once the barrier was active, the clan’s defensive capabilities would increase massively compared to before. Even if stronger fighters were temporarily absent, invading the settlement wouldn’t be easy anymore.

That was exactly why I had been pushing the wall project so aggressively in the first place.

"But that would still take at least an entire day," Doro said cautiously.

Then I turned toward him with a smile. Not a reassuring one either.

The moment he saw it, his expression immediately became wary.

"That’s why you’d have to finish before the day ends."

Doro’s eyes widened almost instantly.

"What?" he blurted out. "Chief, that’s impossible. I don’t have enough mana for something on that scale."

Under normal circumstances, he was right.

The walls surrounding the settlement were massive already, and connecting the remaining sections while reinforcing the terrain and preparing the barrier framework would consume an absurd amount of mana, especially if he planned on maintaining quality instead of rushing carelessly.

But fortunately...I have a solution for that.

"Granny can give some mana potions that should help," I said casually and Flogga nodded.

Doro immediately looked even more horrified instead of relieved.

"But the strain on my body..."

"More potions for that, too."

The room grew quieter afterward as several goblins slowly started realizing exactly what I was suggesting.

Doro looked like he was seconds away from collapsing from stress alone.

"It probably wouldn’t restore you to one hundred percent each time," I continued calmly, "but you’d survive."

"Survive?" Doro repeated weakly.

"That’s good enough."

A few goblins nearby failed to suppress their laughter.

"We’d start immediately," I finished.

Doro slowly turned his head toward Caius as if searching for support from someone reasonable. Caius, however, completely avoided eye contact and looked elsewhere.

After a few long seconds, he finally let out a deep, defeated sigh.

"Alright then... meeting adjourned?" I said casually, bringing the discussion to an end as everyone slowly began rising from their seats.

As the others started moving, talking among themselves about their new responsibilities and upcoming tasks, I turned toward Doro.

"Alright, time to work."

*

A while later, most of the clan had gathered outside to watch, the atmosphere carrying a strange mixture of anticipation and tension.

Doro stood in front of the massive vine walls that stretched across the surrounding terrain like giant roots woven together into defensive barriers. Then he slowly placed his hand against the thick vines.

I stared at the structure for a moment before speaking.

"Shouldn’t we remove the vines first?" I asked. "Would they get in the way?"

Doro immediately shook his head.

"No. There’s no need for that."

He tapped lightly against the wall itself.

"The vines are already saturated with mana after growing this long around the settlement. If I reinforce around them properly, they could function like veins running through the walls."

I raised a brow slightly.

"Veins?"

"They’d help stabilize mana flow throughout the structure," Doro explained carefully. "It should make the walls tougher overall and help distribute the barrier energy more evenly once the garnets are installed."

Honestly...I only half understood what he was talking about.

But it sounded intelligent enough that I wasn’t going to question it further.

"Go ahead then," I said.

Doro let out a long breath before lowering his hand toward the ground.

For a brief moment, nothing happened.

Then he exhaled again and activated his ability.

The earth trembled almost immediately.

A deep rumbling sound spread throughout the area as the ground near the vine walls began to rise upward in massive quantities. Unlike ordinary stone, however, the earth didn’t emerge in rough chunks or jagged slabs. It looked strangely fluid, almost like thick mud or condensed clay being forcibly pulled upward and compressed at the same time.

The rising mass wrapped itself around the enormous vines, swallowing them layer by layer as it continued climbing higher.

Gasps erupted from the surrounding goblins almost instantly.

Many of them had already witnessed Doro using his abilities before, especially during the arena construction, but this was on an entirely different scale.

This wasn’t shaping a platform. This was constructing an actual fortress wall.

The structure continued rising steadily, growing taller and thicker until it reached nearly the same height as the watchtower overlooking the settlement.

Only then did Doro stop.

He slowly clenched his hand. And the moment he did, the flowing earth compressed violently inward with a deep grinding sound, hardening almost instantly into a dense wall that looked closer to reinforced stone brick than natural earth.

And just like that, a gigantic section of the clan’s wall stood firmly in place.

I stared at it in genuine shock.

Doro’s level of control over Earth was honestly ridiculous.

Not only was he raising enormous quantities of material at once, but he was shaping, compressing, reinforcing, and integrating the mana-infused vines into the structure simultaneously without causing the entire thing to collapse under its own weight.

No wonder he claimed this would take an entire day.

Even watching him for a few minutes made it obvious how mentally and physically exhausting this process had to be.

But the truth was, we had no idea when Raghul might decide to move against us. It could take days. It could take a single night. Hell, if he already knew our location properly, it could even happen within hours.

Which meant the faster we completed the walls and activated the barrier, the better.

Doro let out another exhausted breath before...