PFM: LEGACY
Ep. 32 The Past of a Goblin and a Scroll of Banishment
A goblin hides in rocks that are partially covered in snow. If not carefully observed, it will be difficult to find it.
He had been lurking for hours in this snowy area. He was used to the cold snow. Because where he came from, at least in the goblin kingdom where he lived all this time, for 6 months of the year, snow always fell.
According to his friend, a merchant who often to the South, in the kingdom of the orcs, winter is not as long in the kingdom of goblins. He wanted to visit the place, but his work did not allow it. He only had one day off in a month.
He was the 35th child of a hunting family. Every day, Dad and his 13 siblings hunt horned rabbits and blue haired boars in the woods near his village.
He lived four years of his life, which was the happiest time of his life.
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Since the age of 6 months, she and her four twin brothers have been used to helping her mother do homework. Skin the game animals, help his mother cook, splitting firewood, to clean her house.
After doing her duty, along with her four twin brothers, she will play in a small river beside her family's vegetable garden which her nine brothers take care of.
They usually play until the afternoon. After that, they had to go home to get a lesson from his great-grandfather.
His great-grandfather was different from the other goblins, he was at least twice as tall as his fifth brother, who was his supreme brother.
According to his father, his great-grandfather's age was now 30 years. For the record, the average lifespan of a goblin is 15 years. If a goblin reached the age of 20 years, then he could be said to live a long life.
Very few goblins reach the age of 25, and the goblin's lifespan stops if he reaches the age of 30. When a goblin exceeds 30 years old, he will stop counting his age. His great-grandfather was one of those lucky goblins.
Every night, his great-grandfather would teach the hunter's family the things he knew. Starting from letters, numbers, history and general knowledge that goblins need to know.
If one of the children in the hunter's family was intelligent enough, then his great-grandfather would teach accretion, subtraction, multiplication and division.
A smart measure for his great-grandfather was if a goblin could read, write and spell numbers up to a thousand.
Until the goblin left his home, only his father, his seventh brother and he had the opportunity to learn about addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
His father said, it took him 5 years to memorize up to a thousand. His seventh brother is better, it took him 4 years. And he himself only took a month.
When his great-grandfather found out he could spell up to a thousand in a month, his great-grandfather ordered him and his family to keep it a secret.
Since then, after all his family had gone to sleep, in addition to teaching him addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, his great-grandfather also taught him strange things, such as reading with strange languages, numbers, and letters, speaking that language, how to make and repair things, and many other things that the goblin did not find in his family.
The goblin knew his great-grandfather had plans for him, and the goblin trusted his great-grandfather.
His great-grandfather one day told him that his world was not the only one. There was another world that was bigger and more fertile outside of his world. That world is the origin of everything that goblins and other creatures know. And in that world every intelligent being has a name.
Hearing him, the goblin was fascinated with that world.
For a goblin, the highlight of his life was if he could marry a female goblin and have a name.
Getting married to a goblin is something to be proud of. This is because, the ratio of male and female goblins is 100 to 1.
His father was fortunate enough to marry because his deceased grandfather's friend betrothed his daughter to his father, because his grandfather's friend saw his father as capable of accretion, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Having a name is the highest honor for a goblin.
In the goblin kingdom, only a goblin king can bestow a name on someone. Normally a goblin king would bestow a name only to the strongest or smartest goblins. Even the sons of the king had no name until he was considered worthy.
Hearing all beings who have intelligence have a name in the other world, the desire of goblins was to go to the other world.
A year after his great-grandfather taught him things, his great-grandfather told him his biggest secret about the goblin. His great-grandfather told him that he had once been summoned by a creature called man to another world.
The man lived in a castle. He was the master of that castle. In the surroundings, there were many incredible creatures that his great-grandfather had never heard of or seen.
The man made his great-grandfather a servant and gave him a name.
There are also some goblins. One of the goblins became his great-grandmother. Along with several other imps, succubus, fairy, pixie, golems and water elves, his great-grandfather and other goblins were assigned to care for the castle and serve the needs of his master.
His great-grandfather served his master for 23 years. His lifespan was so long because his master gave to his great-grandfather strength. According to his great-grandfather, the stronger he was, the longer he would live.
Until one day, when his master felt his death was near, he summoned hundreds of servants and his troops.
His master told him that he would soon die. When he dies, all his servants and troops will return to their respective worlds. When that happened, he asked the deigned, to find a way back to that world and to seek the descendants of his clan who fled and delivered his will.
His great-grandfather then asked the goblin if he was willing to replace his great-grandfather to pass on his master's will to the descendants of his master's clan. If the goblin was willing, his great-grandfather would pass all his knowledge to him.
Goblin is a gamelan. His childhood dream was to become like his father, learn to hunt and marry a female goblin. But now his great-grandfather asked him for help to go to another world in search of the descendants of his master clan.
The goblin then said, if he really went to the world his great-grandfather master came from, how would he look for the descendants of his master clan. Because his great-grandfather himself said, the world is bigger than his world.
His great-grandfather assured, if the goblin really came to the world where his master came from, he would soon meet the descendants of his great-grandfather. Because his master used to say, there was a fateful bond that bound him between his servant and his army with the descendants of his master clan. So the chances were that, if one of his servants or his troops or their descendants came to his world, it would soon meet the descendants of his master clan.
Since then his great-grandfather often brought the goblin on adventures. He taught all his knowledge and skills to the goblins. The goblin took 2 years to learn all the science of his great-grandfather.
At the age of 4, the goblin was a teenager. His great-grandfather felt that his provisions were enough. So he ordered the goblin to go to enlist himself as a soldier in the royal capital of the goblin kingdom.
But his grandfather warned him not to show his abilities to his superiors and only showed himself to be the son of a hunter, who was skilled at searching for tracks and using sling.
His great-grandfather then said, if the time comes for the goblin to get a chance to the other world, to look for the creature named behind the Mythcaller. That's his master's last name. His full name is Untara Mythcaller. The goblin remembered that name.
The goblin then asked how to recognize the person named Mythcaller. His great-grandfather said the goblin would know by itself.
He said there was a way in the other world to know a person's name and that person's strength. His great-grandfather once acquired that ability. But ever since his master died, that ability disappeared.
His great-grandfather then remembered something, the characteristic of people who had the name Mythcaller was to have the ability to summon creatures from another world, just like his great-grandfather had been summoned to his master's world.
The little goblin then enlisted himself as a soldier and was accepted. Like his great-grandfather's orders, he only showed his ability to look for traces and use a sling.
He was then placed in the reconnaissance division. He trained again for a year to be a scout.
After completing his education, he served around the capital as a counter intelligence agent. He disguised himself as a fruit trader, carrying out a guard mission over suspicious activity in the capital. For a year, he had no achievements whatsoever and did not stand out.
Until two days ago, the goblin received news that a team in another world led by captain Todo, the favorite son of the goblin king, had been found by the enemy and destroyed.
At first the goblin king sent Todo to another world to open a permanent portal to that world. The task was actually quite safe, Todo only needed to make an altar and keep it for 3 months.
Next, the portal core will work to create a stable dimensional crack that can be used as a permanent portal. When the portal is permanently open, Todo will be welcomed as a hero and have a strong foundation to become crown prince.
The goblin king did not know, due to his boredom, Todo as captain ordered the goblins under his orders to rob the merchants. This is what triggered his own death.
The goblin king was very sad and angry and ordered the formation of a brave army to die that was ready to attack the enemy in another world. The task of this army is only two, namely making chaos and killing as many enemies.
Back then, a veteran shaman goblin named Merton ran for the commanding officer of the daring to die army. He is the older brother of the shaman goblin who accompanies captain Todo. His brother was killed by enemies in another world.
The goblin king prevented it, but Merton persisted. The goblin king reluctantly agreed and gave Merton a scroll of banishment.
The scroll of banishment was one of the gifts from the shadow emperor to the goblin king. The scroll of banishment did not have any destructive power, but it would move all living beings in a radius of 10 km to a very dangerous place in that world. And going to that place is synonymous with death.
The goblin king advised that the time had come for Merton to have no more hope, whether it was because it was besieged or would die, to tear this scroll. Then all his enemies will also die in a place worse than hell.
Merton promised to do it. So Merton recruited an army of 100,000 soldiers on this suicide mission. According to other races, the number of 100,000 might be a lot, but for goblins it was like a glass of water taken from a pond.
During their lifetime, goblin couples can raise about 50 to 70 children. It's just that the chances of a baby girl being born are very small. Having a daughter is the dream of every goblin couple.
But even though 100,000 soldiers were nothing to the goblin race, gathering them in a short time was no easy feat. When the volunteer army dared to die reached around 88,000, no more goblin warriors were willing to register. Merton then recruits an ordinary goblin.
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The goblin had managed to infiltrate that death-defying army. Actually this was not a difficult thing, with his position as a trained scout, the moment he signed up, he was instantly accepted.
As he was about to depart, the goblin felt that he might never return to this world again. He would no longer see his father, mother, brothers and great-grandfather who had taught him everything that other goblins did not know.
Merton then gathered the 100,000 troops he led into the square in front of the goblin palace. In the square was already made an enormous formation.
The goblin entered the square with mixed feelings. To be honest, he didn't really care about the goblins gathered in the square including Merton or the goblin king who let them off. He only felt a yearning for his family, and a hope of finding the descendants of his master clan.
The goblin then looked to the left right to distract him, while the formation activation ritual to send the troops was being performed by hundreds of shaman goblins.
Then the attention of the goblin was on a goblin who mingled among the goblin troops to be sent. The goblin was at first glance similar to other goblins, with greenish skin, a body size smaller than a typical goblin warrior.
As a scout, the goblin was very sensitive to suspicious things. Then he looked at the goblin again, then he saw the end of the goblin's ear, although it looked green, there was a little skin of his ears that was a bit pale and if noticed, if noticed, its earlobes are not as wide as the ears of a male goblin.
The goblin then pondered the results of his observations. The body is smaller, pale green skin camouflaged with certain herbs to make it look darker and the earlobe is not as wide as the male goblin earlobe normally. In conclusion, only one, the goblin is a woman who disguises herself as a man.
The goblin was surprised by his conclusion. He then looked again at the female goblin and saw the already active formation. He shook his head, it was too late.
This formation will not be stopped just because a woman infiltrated the army. The cost the goblin king incurred was huge to send this army. He would not throw away all the formation materials for trivial reasons. Moreover, this was the choice of the female goblin. He has no right to interfere in his affairs.
The formation in the square then shone and 100,000 goblin troops led by Merton along with a goblin who had another agenda in another world and a female goblin disappeared from the square and did not will be back again.
