chapter 49
49
Goblin Savior (2)
There is a prophecy that has been passed down for a long time among the goblins of Outland.
[He will come down in fire. The Savior will lead us and save us with blood and flesh.]
‘It’s a typical Messianic prophecy, though.’
In fact, prophecies like this have appeared numerous times throughout human history.
It’s like an Indian prayer for rain that is appropriately put together.
If you pray for rain until it rains, the success rate is 100%.
Of course, in Ray’s case, there were a lot of questionable aspects.
What a being that comes down from heaven with a chariot of fire.
It may have been a coincidence, but I would say it was an amazing fit.
‘Hehe, you stupid goblins. I am not your savior. I will use it thoroughly.’
Ray looked at the goblin and twisted the corner of his mouth evilly.
Talking? Through language? They have their own culture and personality?
Even werewolves could communicate.
Yetis also had their own culture,
Vampires had a more noble quality than humans.
But are they worthy of negotiation?
no. An intelligent being with bestial nature cannot coexist with humans.
Pastor Kim knew well why ‘harmony’ had not been achieved as the fight against these troublesome tribes continued for hundreds or thousands of years.
How can coexistence and harmony be possible when people are considered prey?
Goblins are like that too.
No, it’s even worse than a werewolf or a vampire.
Compared to the two races with naturally smaller populations, goblins have superior reproductive ability, are more aggressive, and are more cruel.
Ray experienced how cruel and evil the goblins living in the mountains of Obello Village could be.
‘There is nothing more dangerous than clumsy sympathy and empathy.’
Ray understood the environment of the quarry here with the Named Goblin, with whom he communicated telepathically.
“The orcs kidnapped you and raised you?”
“Yes! We each had a designated territory, but one day they invaded our territory and captured us!”
Orcs killing goblins?
I think that may be the case.
Originally, intelligent races often used weaker races as slaves.
In human history, there is a history of white people kidnapping black people, making them slaves, and even forcing them to reproduce, so it is not difficult to understand.
What was truly difficult to understand was when it was meal time.
“Stay away!”
The orcs distributed meals to the goblins locked in cages. Then the goblins eagerly devoured the meal thrown by the orc.
The problem is that the meal is a very familiar item.
‘Isn’t this food?’
A basic feed consisting of grains and animal fats.
Unless the orcs suddenly made a technological revolution, this was definitely man-made fodder.
‘The orcs get food from humans, and the orcs feed the goblins food to fatten up?’
weird.
If you are simply going to use it for labor, there is no need to give it livestock feed to gain weight.
If you use them as slaves, the basic rule is to feed them just enough so they don’t die and then discard them like expendables.
There was a history of treating and abandoning even ordinary people like that. How much more so, that they treat goblins like this, who immediately kick their babies when they get distracted?
‘Is this raising livestock?’
Yes. Quarry miners were only an additional element, and their real purpose was closer to livestock.
They eat you when you gain weight.
“Are the orcs going to eat you guys?”
“Kek! We don’t eat it because it doesn’t taste good. We get annoyed because it’s annoying.”
It’s not even for meat.
So, why do orcs raise goblins as livestock?
Unless you’re going to use it for soap and cosmetics like people do.
‘There may be circumstances I don’t know about.’
I’ll have to find out more, but in any case, it seems like the Orcs’ goal is to increase the number of goblins and raise them.
Ray devised a way to get out of this situation by using these goblins.
To do that, he first needs to get the goblins on his side.
“Hmph! Yes, I am your savior.”
“Y-as expected!”
Okay, I’m following it perfectly.
To these foolish goblins, the savior in the prophecy must be an absolute being.
‘I’ll use you to the core and throw it away like trash!’
Ray first planned to wipe out the orcs using goblins.
Since the Orcs suffered significant damage from the fire tornado, the job will be easier than you think.
“From now on, you will follow my instructions… What are you doing?”
“Ritual! Preparing for the ritual!”
“Consciousness?”
Why do they take out all the salt they had stored away during a ritual? Why are you starting the fire?
“Oh! Our Savior has been born! He will save us with blood and flesh!”
“Kyaru!”
“Kyaru!”
Blood and flesh?
It was a time when Ray was overcome with anxiety as he recalled the backstory of the prophecy he had inadvertently overlooked.
“From now on, we will take the blood and flesh of our saviors! We will regain the freedom of the goblins!”
“······yes?
Ray had forgotten.
The only good goblin is a dead goblin.
***
Immediately after Ray was caught in a tornado and ascended to heaven, Cream members did their best to search for Ray as much as possible.
“It’s dangerous to go any further than this! There are a lot of orc tribes around here! Even those who attacked us!”
Outlander is a dangerous and lawless land.
I could tell just by looking at the Orcs walking around right away.
“Many of them have damaged carriages. Mobility is not guaranteed, so one-third must return to the city immediately.”
Additionally, there are many people injured in battles with orcs. In such a situation…
“Risking your life for a priest who is most likely dead…”
“No, Ray isn’t dead!”
Ophelia’s stern shout attracted everyone’s attention.
“I know! Ray is not the type of person to die in a place like this!”
“Sister, there is a problem with thinking like that…”
“Probably not dead.”
It was Aaron who stepped forward.
He was a learned master who should be more rational than anyone else, but he had a strange faith in Ray Anderson.
“He… he must have survived somehow because he won’t die even if you kill him. That’s because he has that kind of talent.”
“You’re right, Master. Even if younger brother Ray really tries to kill you, he won’t die. He’s that natural little brother.”
“That’s right! I can’t even imagine Brother Ray dying like this!”
It was something completely different from reason and logic. Of course, this cannot convince union members.
But Aaron had no intention of convincing them all.
Basically, you only have to persuade the leader, not the entire group.
“Director Maria, please lend me your ears for a moment.”
“Please speak.”
Aaron spoke privately with Director Maria and whispered carefully.
“Ray Anderson… is an adult candidate.”
“······!!”
Director Maria’s eyes widened.
Adult candidate? Isn’t this a being with stigmata engraved on it?
“Is that true?”
“How could I tell a lie? You can believe it. Although the Vatican and armed agencies did not announce it for security reasons, he is a candidate for sainthood.”
“······Then the story is different.”
An adult candidate is not an adult, but is a being who has the potential to become an adult.
This is a process that all saints have gone through, and Saint Elizabeth of the Ax Sisters also had stigmata before her awakening.
“We can’t mobilize all the union members. Some of them are injured.”
“We don’t want to do that either. However, the orcs also died in that tornado. They won’t attack us carelessly either.”
Director Maria made a decision.
This is an issue that Ray would have thought about if he were an ordinary bride.
However, if you were an adult candidate, it would have been worth risking your life to gamble.
“If Father Ray is alive, there is a high probability that he was taken by the orcs. The good news is that the orcs know how to enslave humans.”
“Orcs taking slaves? This is the first time I’ve heard of that.”
Aaron had a lot of experience dealing with monsters in the territory, but he didn’t know much about the Orc tribe.
The estate of Count Graham was a famous noble family, and of course the surrounding menacing monsters were regularly cleaned out.
The orcs were not given time to form a group. The exception is goblins, which reproduce very quickly.
“Yes, but… the Orcs… treat humans as ‘s*x slaves.’”
“······yes?”
“It doesn’t discriminate between men and women.”
“······.”
“······.”
Silence for a while. Aaron nodded and told this story to the party members.
“Ray’s chastity is in danger!! I haven’t taken it yet!!”
“Miss, be careful what you say!”
Anyway, Aaron and his group began a search with Director Maria to find Ray.
It wasn’t that difficult.
All they had to do was follow the tornado that Ray was swept through, and the Orcs’ base was discovered near where the tornado disappeared.
“That place is a quarry that has been controlled by a powerful Orc tribe for a long time. Although they are crude, they have steadily supplied weapons with the iron they obtained there and increased their strength.”
Jenny, a native of Melpasa, seemed familiar with the orcs in the quarry.
“The people who attacked us this time are also from that tribe.”
“Anyway, I can’t see any orcs. I think they’re all inside?”
“There are just a lot of goblins.”
“I never thought the orcs were using goblins as slaves.”
“Ah! Brothers and sisters! Look over there!”
“That one?”
The direction Henry pointed was in the middle of the quarry.
There was a carriage left unattended there, and it looked quite familiar.
It is one of the wagons of the Melpasa Cream combination.
“The carriage that was swept away by the tornado is over there…”
“It means there is a high probability that younger brother Ray also fell here.”
The question is, where is Ray in that vast quarry?
“Let’s sneak in.”
“Are you out of your mind, master?”
“Well, I guess there’s nothing that won’t work, right?”
When Ophelia agreed, Jenny and Henry’s attention focused.
“Orcs and goblins generally have poor eyesight. I would say astigmatism is the default for their species.”
“If you camouflage it well and hide the smell, it’s surprisingly worth it.”
“Goblins are physically difficult, so I guess I’ll have to disguise myself as an orc.”
Fortunately, the Cream Guild’s carriage is full of Orcs and Goblins.
“Here is the Orc’s armor and helmet. We will wait outside.”
The Ax Sisters had a carriage on standby so that Ray and his party could escape at any time once they left the quarry.
“Ugh… the smell of blood. I want to wash it.”
“Sounds like you’re full.”
Aaron secretly infiltrated the quarry with his party members.
Fortunately, there were no orcs to be seen and it was full of goblins, but perhaps because it was a den of orcs, no guards were set up properly.
“The quarry is deeper than I thought… I don’t know if I’ll be able to find this.”
“What should I do if I run into goblins on the way?”
“You can just give them a quick scolding and chase them out. They’ve been using you as a slave. They wouldn’t dare attack you.”
However, Aaron’s expectations were different from the beginning.
“Kya la la kor kku!”
(You damn orcs!)
“Kyaalakyalakyakong!”
(Is anyone still alive!)
The goblins they first encountered pointed their fingers at them and immediately attacked them along with their companions.
“Oh, what! You said you wouldn’t attack me!”
“I don’t know! Damn it, take off your disguise and run!”
Slave goblins attack orcs right away?
I couldn’t believe it, but the situation had changed so suddenly that I had to leave the quarry.
but······.
“Kyaalakyun! Kyuhah!”
(There it is! Surround it!)
Goblins in front, goblins in back.
Hundreds of goblins immediately surrounded the party members, wondering where they were giving birth to.
“Crazy! So many goblins!”
“I will break through!”
A sudden moment.
“Roaring! Roaring! Hosanna in the highest!”
A somewhat familiar melody.
The sound of a peaceful hymn reached them until the steam was gone.
“Lift up the name of the Lord! Everyone! Praise! The precious Lord is my Soltera! Glory to the Lord!”
“person?”
Aaron frowned as if he had seen something hideous.
It was worth it. The person who approached with a familiar melody was a human riding a palanquin carried by dozens of goblins.
The half-naked man with his entire body covered in metaphysical powder had an oddly familiar face.
“······ray?”
Ophelia was the first to notice and tilted her head, but the man’s reaction was stern.
“Catch those guys! I’ll make them a living sacrifice!”
“Kyaarakyukkukyakku!”
“”Kyasu! Wow! Kyasu!””
Goblins attack the party under Ray’s instructions.
Aaron and the party members desperately resisted, but they had no talent to withstand as hundreds of goblins attacked at once.
“Ugh, ugh!”
“Eup! Eup!”
The group’s hands and feet are tied and their mouths are blocked by the goblins’ massive offensive.
Ray said, pointing at them.
“After finishing the ritual to take the savior! They will come to the dinner table with me! I will eat them as side dishes!”
“”Kyaaa!!””
“”Kyaaa!!””
The goblins cheered.
However, Aaron and his group, who were treated like side dishes at a banquet hall, could not just ignore it.
“······!”
“Hey! Eup!”
It’s a dog! I came to save you!
If he hadn’t kept his mouth shut, a series of curses would have poured out of the nobleman’s mouth.
But apart from that, the people who made eye contact with Ray read his lips as he desperately conveyed his thoughts as if in a whisper.
“As expected, they are my colleagues. Are you here to save me?”
“······.”