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[Goblin]Gi Ga

The goblin in that estranged group that was with the protagonist when he defeated an orc. He is currently a n.o.ble cla.s.s, the highest amongst the protagonist's subordinates. He prefers to use the spear.

[Goblin] Gi Gu

The former leader of the village. He was pressured by the protagonist in his goblin n.o.ble form, and was added to his subordinates. He uses the long sword, and is relatively smart for a goblin rare. Became a goblin n.o.ble in chapter 39.

[Goblin] Gi Gi

Known as a beast warrior, a goblin with the ability to tame beasts.

He evolved while hunting spear deer with the protagonist.

He prefers to use the axe. His goblin cla.s.s is rare.

[Goblin] Gi Go

A goblin with many wounds on his body. The food of his horde was stolen by the gray wolves, so he made a decision to follow the protagonist. He is the most experienced amongst the goblin rares. His weapon is a curved katana. He acts like a samurai.

Recently became a n.o.ble, and received the divine protection of the Sword G.o.d, Ra Baruza.

[Goblin] Gi Za

The druid goblin rare that recently joined them.

[Goblin] Gi Ji

A goblin rare. He evolved in chapter 37 after hunting with Gi Ga. He has the <> skill which makes him great for scouting.

[Goblin] Gi Do

Druid. Uses wind magic.

[Goblin] Gi Jii

Goblin Rare. From Gi Gu's Faction. He is known for his <> which allows him to see his opponent's weakness.

[Goblin] Gi Da

Goblin Rare. From Gi Ga's faction. Notable skills are <> and <>.

[Goblin] Gi Zu.

Goblin Rare. The goblin favored by the Mad G.o.d (Zu Oru). Has the <> skill.

[Goblin] Gi Zo

Druid. Water magician.

[Goblin] Gi De

Beast tamer.

[Goblin] Aluhaliha

Leader of Paradua, one of the four goblin tribes and are known for their use of rider-beasts, which are essentially giant tigers.

[Goblin] Rashka

Leader of Gaidga, one of the four goblin tribes and are known for their valor and brutish strength.

[Goblin] Gilmi

Receiver of the t.i.tle, The First Archer. He is the second in command in Ganra, one of the four tribes known for their rare ability amongst goblins to use bows.

[Goblin] Narsa

The Princess of Ganra. She is the only female goblin rare introduced so far.

Spoiler Inside: Other Characters

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Humans

Res.h.i.+a Fel Zeal (17 years-old)

The priestess known as the saint. As the Healing G.o.ddess' follower, she lives to spread the word and teach righteousness. She has the divine protection of the G.o.ddess, and can heal others.

Lili (21 years-old)

She studied the famous sword style, Zweil Style, in the capital. She has sworn fealty to Res.h.i.+a. And while she may have lost to the protagonist in one hit, she has proven herself strong enough to easily defeat three normal goblins.

Mattis (26 years-old)

The second son of a farmer. He's largely responsible for drying the meat to preserve them.

Chinos (24 years-old)

The third son of a farmer. He plows the fields and is close to Mattis.

Keifel (28 years-old)

An adventurer who took on a request to escort Res.h.i.+a through the Forest of Darkness. He's strong enough that he could easily wield a steel great sword, but the protagonist still managed to kill him.

Zeon (32 years-old)

A follower of Ativ. He specializes in fire magic. In his battle against the protagonist, he used his fire magic, but still lost. In the end, he tried to blow himself up along with the protagonist, but the protagonist's words agitated him, causing him to lose the opportunity.

Tinra (23 years-old)

A villager. She is one of the women used by the goblins as a breeding machine that the protagonist killed.

Ashtal Do Germion (59 years-old)

The king that rules the western region of the continent in which the Forest of Darkness and the connecting borders are included. He is a powerful ruler with seven holy knights under him. He has recently ordered three of those holy knights to search for the saint.

Gowen Ranid (45 years-old)

The feudal lord that rules over the region next to the Forest of Darkness. As one of the country's strongest powers, he is renowned as the Iron-Armed Knight. He is currently leading his soldiers in a quest to find the saint.

Gulland Rifenin (31 years-old)

A former adventurer. As one of the country's strongest powers, he is renowned as the Storm Knight. He'd been stationed in the northern mountains, but the king called him back to send him off in a quest for the saint.

Gene Marlon (24 years-old)

As one of the country's strongest powers, he is renowned as Lightning-Fast Knight. He was previously stationed at the south, but the king called him back to send him on a quest to search for the saint. Killing is his favorite past-time. Whether it's a man, a demihuman or a monster, they're all just pieces of meat to be cut down before him.

Herculean Wyatt (40 years-old)

A member of the Blood Oath of the Flying Swallow. He specializes in handling great s.h.i.+elds. He has a gentle personality, but beware for his anger isn't one to be taken lightly.

Mage Killer Mill (19 years-old)

A member of the Blood Oath of the Flying Swallow. She is an a.s.sa.s.sin that favors the use of talons. Renowned as the mage killer, she is a mage's worst nightmare.

Wand of Destruction Bellan (37 years-old)

A member of the Blood Oath of the Flying Swallow. He wields a fire staff. As a former knight, he cares a great deal about honor.

Hawk-Eyed Fick (31 years-old)

An adventurer with two names. He has exceptional perception and skill. He is currently searching through the Forest of Darkness under Gulland's lead.

The White Hand of Life (Previously translated as divine hands) (Age Unknown)

A priest robed in white. She specializes in healing and support. Her age, name, and origin are all unknown.

Vitz (25 years-old)

A talkative sword-wielding adventurer. He's actual strength isn't bad, but he's still far from being deserving of a second name.

Yugil (26 years-old)

An adventurer and an unwilling s.h.i.+eld bearer. He might appear old, but he is actually still young.

Yoshu (26 years-old)

The younger brother of the slaves Gene purchased. The collar of obedience around his neck keeps him from going against Gene's orders. Healers are rare, so he's been made into a s.h.i.+eld bearer.

Shumea (28 years-old)

The older sister of the slaves Gene purchased. The collar of obedience around her neck keeps her from going against Gene's orders. Contrast to her brother who bears a s.h.i.+eld, she uses a spear.

Altesia.

The G.o.ddess of the Underworld and the G.o.ddess of Valor. As the G.o.ddess the snakes serve, she has given her blessing to the protagonist. She is a dangerous woman with her deep jealousy and fierce temperament.

Zen.o.bia

The G.o.ddess of Healing. She has given her blessing to Res.h.i.+a. She has also warned the protagonist to protect her. Altesia might hate her, but she doesn't feel the same way toward Altesia.

Pitch Black (Verid)

A one-eyed red-eyed snake that belongs to the G.o.ddess of the Underworld.

Twin-Headed Snake

Known to the goblins as the Lord of Decay. He is one of the snakes that fought the world with the G.o.ddess of the Underworld.

Selena

The elven woman Gene purchased. She became a slave after running away from her tribe.

Hasu

A high kobold. She is one of the protagonist's pets.

The protagonist managed to tame her by giving her orc corps and other meat as bait.

She is a fortuitous kobold who somehow managed to become the leader of her pack.

Cynthia

As the pup of the gray wolves, she has been given the elven name that means lady of the lake. Res.h.i.+a, Lili, and other children and women are quite taken by her lovely fur.

Gastra

As the pup of the gray wolves, he has been given the name of a wise human monarch that means sovereign of the wind's howls. His uninhibited personality leads him to battle Hasu for ranks on a daily basis.

Bui

A timid orc. Gol Gol had taken a liking for him despite his small body. After Gol Gol died, he led the orcs to the west, but the protagonist managed to capture them.

Gol Gol

The orc king that attacked the village. He is a berserker who can use skills. He was defeated by the protagonist.

Volume 2: Chapter 126 – Sylph Unification War I

Status

Race

Goblin

Level

53

Cla.s.s

King; Ruler

Possessed Skills

Ruler of the Demon Children of Chaos; Defiant Soul; World Devouring Howl; Sword Mastery A-; Dominator; King's Soul; Ruler's Wisdom III; Household of the G.o.ds; One-Eyed Snake's Evil Eye; The King's Dance at the Edge of Death; Magic Manipulation; Soul of the Berserk King; Third Impact (The Third Chant); Warrior's Instinct; Blessing of the Underworld G.o.ddess; Guided One

Divine Protection

G.o.ddess of the Underworld (Altesia)

Attributes

Darkness; Death

Subordinate Beasts

High Kobold Hasu (Lv77); Gastra (Lv20); Cynthia (Lv1); Orc King (Bui) (Lv82)

Abnormal Status

Blessing of the One-Eyed Snake; Protection of the Twin-Headed Snake

With the unruly soldiers and the gradually approaching Rustling Forest (Forni), the goblin-elf coalition caused Fenit’s mood to worsen by the day.

Fenit sought to gain support by visiting the other village through the Elven Road, but the walls the villages had erected interfered with the spell, preventing him from reaching them.

“Silver Sheng, Nash Jirad, even Priena! What is wrong with you? Have you been seized with fear!?” Fenit slammed the table as he yelled at the soldiers of Symphoria standing before him, not an elf looked up to meet his gaze. “How infuriating… Fine, if this is how they want to play it, we’ll just to go ourselves. I, Fenit, will open the eyes of the Forni myself! But before that I’ll start with that brat, Silver! I’ll show him the price of humiliating me!”

In his anger, Fenit ordered his men to march to the nearby Forest of the Lost (Sheng). His army numbered 500-men strong. There was no power in the hot sands of the southern desert able of contesting the elves, so the Tranquil Forest (Symphoria) had much room to grow. Fenit took roughly half of their great army.

The army included Pale, who was also an elf of Symphoria. Since returning to Symphoria, she has bowed her head countless times to strangers in her search for Selena; and in the end, she concluded that Selena must be with the goblins.

She would go to them now to prove her conclusions true, but she didn’t think it feasible to grab Selena from right under the goblins’ noses. Moreover, Forni had formed an alliance with the goblins. As far as they were concerned, she was an enemy. The Elven Road was not omnipotent.

Even if she manages to make contact with Selena, how would she escape with her?

To go by herself meant to move through enemy lines alone; the goblins and the Forni who have accepted them. Running away surely wouldn’t be easy. Not to mention, Pale wouldn’t even dream of taking an army alone, though it was precisely because she understood her limits that she was cautious.

The first most important thing an adventurer must learn is to know one’s limits.

After discerning what one can do and cannot do, one must then do his best according to those limits. Pale learned that after joining the Soar to Freedom ClanElks.

Using the same method, Pale concluded that the best way to meet Selena was to move with Fenit’s army.

“I’m not wrong, am I, Touri?” Pale muttered to herself, calling out the name of their leader as she rebuked herself for her weakness.

“So this is were you were,” a voice called out from behind Pale as she was doing maintenance on her bow and quiver. When she turned around, a young elf her age was there.

“Felbi, what’s the matter?” Pale said.

“…Nothing. I just wanted to see your face a bit,” shrugged the elf who was one of the commanding officers of Symphoria’s army. Felbi Anthra, though young he is an elf accomplished in both archery and magic. He is one of the friends that Pale still has contact with even after her long absence.

“Is Fenit still throwing a tantrum? Sorry about that. I’m his relative, so let me apologize in his place,” Pale said.

“I haven’t even said anything,” Felbi said.

“You’re making that face though.”

“Alright, I give. You got it right on the money,” Felbi sighed as he sat beside Pale and worked maintenance on his short sword. As he rubbed his short sword made out of Srilana, he talked about Fenit. When he got to the part where Fenit ordered them to march to the Forest of the Lost, Pale raised her two well-shaped brows.

“It’s not something to laud, but… I don’t think he’s wrong,” Pale said.

“And I thought you’d surely be against it,” Felbi said, looking at Pale as if he was looking at someone for the first time.

“You might not want to hear this, Felbi, but I think the Goblin-Forni Alliance is a force to be reckoned with. Gathering numbers to overcome that isn’t a bad move; and since they agreed during the meeting, they should honor their promise… even if that promise was made due to a threat.”

“Because it’s the duty of the n.o.bles, huh. Pretty harsh, aren’t we?”

In the end, negotiations were just tools executed upon the stage that is power. That was true for the humans; and it rings true even for the elves.

“But I guess it can’t be helped if we’re to defeat Forni,” Felbi sighed as he sheathed his short sword.

“Perhaps,” Pale agreed. “For the sake of peace.”

When they stood up and were about to bid each other farewell, the tumultuous noise of a violent wind and the sight of the chief’s roofs being blown away hit them.

They’re not attacking.

That’s something to be celebrated, though.

This whole thing began because of Shure’s unexpected declaration of war, but it seems to be going exactly as he planned. Currently, our forces are marching together with the goblins surrounding the elves to protect them.

The road in the forest had been maintained well enough to allow even an army our size to go through. It wasn’t paved with stones, but it was wide enough to accommodate us; moreover, the needless stones have been removed and the land has been leveled.

I wanted to ask Shure why their roads were like this, but after seeing him busy dealing with all the reports, I decided to postpone the trivial questions for later. In fact, even the usually chattering goblin horde was acting as if they’d been forbidden from talking.

When Shure finished hearing out the scouts’ reports, I spoke to him. “Things sure are going smoothly. I thought for sure the other villages would attack you.”

“We’ve already made our move. Right now, the other villages shouldn’t even have the leisure of sending out their army.”

a.s.sa.s.sins? Shure was still free, so I asked.

“Did you have the other leaders a.s.sa.s.sinated?” I asked.

“No… Well, we’ve gotten this far so it shouldn’t make any difference. There are other people among the sylph who share my misgivings; such elves aren’t limited to those in my village,” Shure said.

So he had those elves do something then? Did he tell them to attack? No, that would be too weak. A separate attack force isn’t impossible, but he said the other villages won’t even have the leisure of sending out their army, so it would have to be something even stronger than that.

“You incited a rebellion?”

“…Bingo.”

Just a bit I saw a glimpse of what this man is worrying about. There were indeed people who share his misgivings in the other forests, but they were by no means many. Otherwise, he would have simply had the other chiefs exiled. The fact that he had to resort to a rebellion meant that he didn’t have enough influence otherwise to cripple the other forests.

The only way to affect the other forests was for him to make a desperate move. A desperate move that would mean death if anything were to go wrong.

“We can go faster if you want,” I said.

“But…” Shure said, hesitant.

“It’s fine, we’re used to wars. We’re not pus.h.i.+ng ourselves.”

“…Thank you. Fei, order the army to go faster!”

Nodding, his secretary ordered the soldiers. “Elites of Forni! Let us make haste! There is no weakling among us only capable of moving so slowly!”

I raised my voice as well.

At that, the elves and the goblins both quickened their pace.

Like that we headed to the Tranquil Forest (Symphoria).

Bui groaned when he saw the goblin that was brought to the village.

“Food!” The kobolds, on the other hand, demanded food as usual as they bit him by the legs.

“What to do, Bui? That goblin is that goblin’s subordinate, right? It’s black and big too,” Gui said.

Bui could only nod his head despite being troubled. “Let’s heal him first. Remove the arrow lodged into his back, then apply some herbs.”

“Wouldn’t that be bad? If he dies, it’ll be our fault,” Goi said as he quivered in fear.

Bui shook his head. “I think it would be worse if we just threw him away and did nothing. Even if he dies, it should be fine as long as we tried our best.”

Bui’s words gradually grew weaker until they were completely powerless by the end of his speech. Gui and Goi glanced at each other at that, then sighing, they carried the goblin into a house. It was a house made only out of wood and the skin of animals, but it was much better than nothing.

Was.h.i.+ng the goblin’s wounds with water purified by Doralia, they rubbed some herbs on them to hasten their recovery. After that, all that was left was to wait for the goblin’s leaf-covered wounds to recover.

“Food!” Meanwhile, the kobolds were still clinging onto Bui. When he finally took out some meat, they started salivating.

“Aight, now you boys go over there-” Bui threw the meat away, causing the kobolds to run after it. It was then that someone called out to him.

“Bui! The goblin is awake!” When he turned around, he saw that it was Goi, who had come running out from inside the house.

Inside the house.

“…Ugh, b.a.s.t.a.r.ds… you’re… orcs,” the goblin said, still clearly in pain.

Contrary the goblin’s seemingly hostile appearance, however, Bui was quite relieved to see him alive.

“Don’t worry, we won’t eat you,” Bui said.

“b.a.s.t.a.r.ds, I know… you… eat our kind!” The goblin said.

“I am Bui, the ruler of this orc village. I have no intentions of antagonizing your king.”

The blue goblin – the a.s.sa.s.sin, Gi Ji Arsil – groaned when he heard those words tinged with intelligence; that was something far too rare for the orcs.

“Anyhow, it should be far too difficult for you to be moving around, so just lie down and rest,” Bui said before leaving Goi behind to tend to the goblin, while he left with the others.

“It’s good he didn’t die. For the meantime, let’s observe him. He’s probably hungry, so we’ll have to feed him some meat,” Bui said as he ordered the other orcs and thought of the actions they would be taking.

The wounded goblins was found in the area the king gave them, the area south the lake. The arrow lodged into his back was exquisitely made, something far too difficult for the goblins and orcs.

That being said, the enemy was most likely human.

Had the humans invaded the forest once more? Or did the goblin come from outside the forest?

There was much to confirm.

“Gui, I have a request.”

The chief of the orc village began his own investigation.

—316 days until the war with the humans.