Chapter 18 – Female Knight: You Can Take My Body, But You Cannot Take My Heart!
"Praise Your Majesty."
Hearing this, the old Goblin scholar happily left the room.
The best chamber in the cave now belonged to Lyra, and the second-best chamber belonged to Altair.
Considering that a certain female knight would be bearing the goblin clan in the future, Cassvia's cell was next to Altair's room.
In the hall, Altair began assigning better jobs to the goblins.
After selecting professions for the goblins twice, Altair discovered a few patterns.
The goblin professions Goblin Knight and Goblin Scout had a high chance of appearing at the same time, so Altair uniformly chose Knight for them.
The number of scouts did not need to be too high, but the greater the combat power the better, and Goblin Knight was almost the best combat profession among green goblins.
Strangely, three new professions had appeared among the green goblins here: Goblin Bandit, Goblin Blackhand, and Goblin Miner.
Goblin Bandit had a special skill, namely plunder.
Plunder: Seize an item from a target that is unguarded or cannot be defended by the target. (Release range: close)
Goblin Blackhand was a new type of military class, similar to an assassin class, and could conceal its breath and sound extremely well.
Goblin Miner was as rare as the other two classes, because they had a passive that granted an additional earth-breaking effect, allowing them to dig holes better than other goblins.
Some goblins seemed to have the potential to discover special professions later on.
When it came to the white Goblins, Altair found that there were eleven white Goblins in this Goblin Cave, and they were the survivors after the overlord's attack in the central area.
Among these eleven white Goblins, two could choose their professions.
Optional professions for white Goblins: Giant Goblin Warrior, Goblin Tank Warrior, Goblin Roll Warrior.
Giant warriors focused on offense, tank warriors on defense, and the disgusting roll warriors focused on size and using their bodies as weapons.
Alright then, you, Rollerball Warrior.
As for Violet Goblins, there were still only four professions: Shaman, Priest, Scholar, and Commander.
Most goblins were shamans, and learning the latter three professions naturally required quite high prerequisites. Therefore, Altair chose the latter three professions for the Violet Goblins who could choose a profession.
Finally, in the Goblin Cave in the central area of Qirwood Forest, the Goblin Army preparations were as follows:
32 old, weak, sick, and disabled goblins
108 ordinary Goblin soldiers
145 strong Goblin soldiers
52 Goblin Archers
18 Goblin Scouts
22 Goblin Knights (Light)
15 Goblin Knights (Heavy)
3 Goblin Bandits
5 Goblin Blackhands
4 Goblin Miners
3 Goblin Lookouts
9 White Giant Goblin Warriors
1 White Goblin Tank Warrior
2 White Goblin Rollerballs
4 Violet Goblin Shamans (Elemental)
1 Violet Goblin Shaman (Illusion)
1 Violet Viper Goblin Commander
1 Violet Goblin Commander (Wolf Clan)
1 Violet Goblin Priest
2 Violet Goblin Scholars
Total: 407 Green Goblins, 12 White Goblins, 10 Violet Goblins
After selecting many rare professions, the goblins knelt enthusiastically once again, praising the emperor's miracle.
In addition, there were five ordinary human women here.
Altair clearly forgot that green goblins could not bear children for higher-level goblins, so there must have been human women captured here.
Individual Name: Human Commoner (Anlini)
Age: 51 years
Attack: 3 (+8)
Vitality: 24 (+81)
Magic: 2 (+3)
Intelligence: 19 (+39)
Impact Resistance: 3 (+13)
Magic Resistance: 0 (+1)
Attribute: None (uncultivated)
Occupation: None (cannot be determined)
Special Skill: None
Genetic Talent: None
Current Hope Value: 42
Seeing the eye-catching hope value of 42 points, Altair widened his eyes and felt a great shock in his heart.
The hope values of the other four human women were surprisingly similar to this number.
This hope value was even higher than the 38-point hope value of the noble human female knight Cassvia before she was captured by them. How did they do it?
Altair looked at one of the human women who was caring for several goblin children with a smile on her face. Altair recalled Cassvia's determined expression and the despair in her eyes, then fell into deep thought.
In the afternoon, Altair came to the cell to bring food for Cassvia, and took some medicinal plants to grind in front of the cell where Cassvia was imprisoned.
I usually pray, thinking about what my mistake is and why Lyra's hope remains so low.
Cassvia was slightly stunned when she saw Altair's face, almost more handsome than 100% of humans.
Cassvia's face turned slightly red, but when she realized this was actually an ugly goblin in disguise, she immediately reacted and felt a surge of anger.
The story began when she was a child.
When she was young, Cassvia, as the eldest daughter of the Baron Cass family that had not yet fallen on hard times, was in a far better situation than those commoners.
She was young and naive at the time, and had lofty ambitions. She saw the beautiful elves for the first time in fairy tales in picture books, and was fascinated by them. She felt that elves must be the most beautiful creatures in the world, and that she had to seek out the elves in the future.
Coincidentally, at that time she was taught about marriage between men and women. From then on, she dreamed that one day she could go to the Elven Forest and the Elven Sea, meet the noble elves who lived there, and then find a handsome elf as her husband.
For this dream, she was actually delighted that there were no boys in her family, which gave her hope.
Even the eldest son of Prince Reichenbach proposed to her on the condition he would make her his lawful wife, but she refused him.
Everyone who knew this was very surprised, because there should have been no reason for her to refuse.
However, her younger brother was born not long ago.
Hope was extinguished at that moment. She was no longer the hope in her parents' eyes. Instead, she became a bargaining chip and lost all her opportunities.
Her heart had once felt despair.
In Cassvia's mind, the perfect figure and beauty of an elf were God's gift to this world, a beautiful and flawless treasure, and the most noble and precious glory in this world.
Such perfect looks should not be exploited by ugly goblins!
Although she knew that the appearance of a goblin before her was an illusion, its purpose was to seduce simple-minded human women.
However, when she imagined that such a beautiful and nearly perfect noble elf truly existed, and that this noble elf would be defiled by the behavior of this goblin, she felt heartbroken and could not endure it any longer.
This perfect face was her first choice for an ideal husband.
Don't think that if you disguise yourself like this, others will like you and slowly accept you. If they believe you're truly a goblin, they will only be even more disgusted by you!
The female knight declared this firmly, even though she feared the intimidation of the white Goblin.
However, because of the steadfastness of her belief, the female knight declared that she would never yield!
"You can take my body, but you will never take my heart!"
Altair didn't care and was grinding herbs nearby.
"You're right. Your strong will is indeed admirable. But, I truly am like this."
Cassvia: ?
Element detection!
"I am of goblin and elf blood, so I am different from other goblins. This is my true appearance."
Altair lied, saying he was clearly a goblin with very pure blood.
Cassvia was stunned, disbelief on her face. Her tense body became even more taut than when she had shouted in front of Altair earlier, and her heartbeat quickened.
"You… you can't trick me. If you truly had elf blood, why would you be with these goblins?"
"Because I am not only an elf, but also a high-ranking goblin, the boss of them all."
"…"
Cassvia curled up in the corner and fell silent, but her mind was filled with splashing mud and stones.
After all, she had never heard of goblins being so troublesome as to not directly assault a captive female knight, but instead disguise as an elf to deceive and launch a sneak attack.
Suddenly, Altair realized that Cassvia looked somewhat dazed. He stretched his hand toward Cassvia through the wooden cage, and a warm pink pair of panties appeared in Altair's hand.
"Hey, it worked."
I copied the Goblin Bandit profession to obtain this skill, and unexpectedly I succeeded on the first try.
Altair looked at the warm and cute pink panties in his hand and felt very satisfied.
When Cassvia saw Altair holding a woman's underwear in his hand, she was stunned for quite a while, and a moment later her face flushed red.
Cassvia lowered her head, gnashed her teeth, and whispered, "This behavior is truly lecherous. Please give it back to me!"
"Alright, alright, I'll return my spoils to you."
"This is mine… mine…"
Altair returned the little panties. Cassvia blushed and lowered her head, then immediately clutched her underwear tightly in her hands.
At this moment, Altair had finished grinding the medicinal ingredients, so he stood up.
Cassvia closed her eyes, calmly waiting for goblins to come from outside, begin tormenting her without her consent, and then rip her clothes, and then…
The more scenes flashed through Cassvia's mind, the more confused her pupils became.
As a result, the sound of someone's footsteps grew farther and farther away.
"Eh? Wait, where are you going?"
"Where? The medicine is already ground, so of course I'm going to deliver it to Lyra."
"…the medicine you're giving her, you ground it here with me?"
"Of course. Do I need to go out of my way to disturb Lyra?"
"…"
Cassvia stared at Altair's back as he left, curled up in the cell, and finally put on her underwear in shame and anger.
"Damn it, just a goblin!"