Goblin Dependency
Chapter 144 - 95: Secrecy_3

Chapter 144: Chapter 95: Secrecy_3

Just like those cockroaches and mosquitoes lurking in the grass and floor crevices, no matter how you try to eradicate them, they’re never completely gone.

Even if you deploy professional adventurers to regularly clean a certain area.

It might be peaceful for a while.

It seems like they’ve all been wiped out, not a single one left.

But every ten or twenty days, a large batch emerges from who knows where.

As if they sprouted from the ground.

In this situation, given the race’s characteristic of lacking females, for goblins to maintain such a large population, they must capture females from other races in vast numbers.

However,

the goblin caves Xia Nan has cleared over these days are not few, but the imagined foreign females tormented by green skins for breeding offspring...

There are none!

Not even young goblins are seen frequently.

They all seem like products of an assembly line, replicated from the same mold.

Strange, so strange.

Questions grow in the mind like weeds, unable to be restrained anymore.

Looking across the campfire at the barbarian fondling the necklace in his hand.

Seeing that he has already woken up and doesn’t intend to rest anymore.

Xia Nan organizes his thoughts internally, unable to resist asking the barbarian about his doubts.

He thought, given Frogon’s silent personality, that even if he knew some inside information, he wouldn’t divulge much.

Unexpectedly, it seemed the mushrooms that grew from the Earth Goblin in the daytime stimulated something within him.

Facing Xia Nan’s question, the barbarian slowly began to speak of a secret passed down among professionals, originating from ancient times.

It is said, in a time long ago, measured in thousands of years.

Goblins, or should say goblins...

were no different from other creatures in this world, they were male and female, capable of normal reproduction.

Despite having the same vile nature, with occasional attacks on passing caravans and pedestrians, they were nowhere near as frequent as now.

They were just a common and ordinary type of low-level demon.

Until that legendary battle, which engulfed the entire continent, affected countless kingdoms and races, and involved several Divine systems.

The "Legends" standing at the pinnacle of the biological pyramid were like ordinary adventurers under the claws of Bear Goblins, their corpses could fill the dwarven underground kingdom’s broadest Holy Melt Square.

Every night, one could see shooting stars crossing the night sky — those were gods falling and perishing from above Heaven.

The [Supreme Chief], the [Lord of the Dark] "Magrubie", as the main god of the goblin Divine, was naturally drawn into the war.

The detailed development of the situation has long been buried deep in the river of history.

But the most crucial turning point has been passed down through countless retellings.

It’s said that at a certain point in time, the allied attacks of enemy gods almost drove the goblin race to the brink of extinction.

Goblins across the continent were cleared out, only a small number survived under their god’s protection.

Magrubie, who commanded the domains of "war," "domination," and others, and possessed immense Divine Power, gradually lost those powers in the fierce battle against the gods.

And just as the Divine system collapsed, with the goblin race on the verge of total annihilation...

Magrubie suddenly disappeared.

Taking with him the few hundred goblins left on the continent, he disappeared entirely into the Multiverse.

"Ran away?" Xia Nan’s face was full of incomprehension and doubt, "Then where did the green skins I chopped during the day come from?"

To this, Frogon merely shook his head.

"When goblins reappeared in the eyes of the world, the war had ended for hundreds of years."

And the goblins’ main god "Magrubie" also returned to his Divine Country.

No one knows what exactly happened during that time.

Why did goblins, upon returning to the continent, suddenly lose the concept of "gender"; why was Magrubie able to regain his powers and become even stronger; why did the gods above Heaven seem to tacitly approve of it all, without any reaction...

The air in the camp became incredibly silent.

Only the crackling sound of burning firewood remained.

Xia Nan was digesting the large influx of information in his mind, not knowing what to say.

He had just casually inquired, not expecting that there really might be some explanation.

Without overthinking, he merely retained this knowledge in his memory.

He wasn’t even a professional yet; instead of worrying unnecessarily about these high-level affairs that his current abilities couldn’t even touch on,

he might as well think about when he could truly get started with [Teeth Hunting].

Shaking his head, Xia Nan glanced at the barbarian Frogon in front, who had already put his necklace back on.

"So the plan now is to send me to the nearest town first, and then you handle your own matters?"

"Yes."

"Back to River Valley Town?"

"Too far."

"Then where to?"

"Kalanfor."