(MC POV)

*Present*

"Why me!!! leave me alone!!" (Sam)

"Give up, they won't stop until they are happy" (Will)

I regret ignoring that warning, now they won't stop until late at night.

*Before*

After walking for an hour or two... maybe more, I don't have a clock, we soon could see a wall.

"Ugh, I hate this" (Will)

"Hate what?" (Agness)

"I hate you..." (Will)

"Don't say that we will be here only this night, we will depart tomorrow morning" (Agness)

It's strange, Will was sighing for quite some time.

"Advice, hide that spear" (Will)

"Why? I feel safer with it" I said while squeezing my spear.

"Don't take it into account, he just said it because it's polite to do it" (Agness)

"You truly are evil" Will says softly, but because I didn't listen well I did not take it into account.

When we reached the entrance of the village we where greeted by a couple of guards, not the typical male soldier with a spear and bad manners, but two child about 10 years old, at least in appearance, because they good appearance had red eyes, black hair and a little pointy ears, dark elves maybe?.

"Oh? Did they change guards? it's a shame, I liked Shaea, she was a little enthusiastic about leaving to be an adventurer" Agness said with a little sad tone but soon she calmed.

"Yeah, that's normal for them, anyways welcome to a goblin village, a long-lived race... well if they manage to live over five years" (Will)

Goblin? I don't see any... aren't they dark elves? no wait, aren't there many kids with similar characteristics? are they the goblins? what happened with the green ugly little critter?! ugh... yeah multiples dimensions.

"Long-lived race? over five years? why is that?" (Sam)

"It's simple they are a..." Agness started to explain until the two guards arrived in front of us with bright and admiring eyes and said.

"Mister, miss could you spar with us!?" (Goblin guards)

They asked Will and me... but Agness goes to a side and looks us from afar.

"They are a battle junky race and die before the five years in a hunting" said Will with a complicated face, and after that continues "and they really love battle, so when they see a male with a good build and a female with a melee weapon they usually ask about having a fight".

"Leave them alone, you two can't fight with them" (Agness)

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"But... but..." the two guard said with a sad tone and puppy eyes.

"I hate when they do that" Agness said while sighing, soon she used a soothing voice and said, "Don't worry, isn't like you won't fight anything, but if you fight them now you won't have energies to fight anything that attacks the village".

"You sure?" The two little guards asked.

"Yeah! so, can you let us pass?" (Agness)

"Yeah... you can pass, you aren't bad people" (Goblin Guard)

I'm amazed at how she managed those two kids.

"What? you want to know how I did so fast?" (Agness)

Did she read my mind?.

"It's all over your face, well, I helped in an orphanage before being an adventurer so I can manage kids a little" (Agness)

Soon we reached the center of the village, but I feel a little strange when we were walking, they stopped doing whatever they were doing and observes us with attention and even following us.

"Now, you two start working or we won't be able to leave tomorrow" Agness said while clapping.

Working? what does she mean?

"She is evil herself..." (Will)

... Those eyes... every kid has bright eyes.

"Mister, miss!! Spar with us!!!" (Goblins)

At first, we had the same quantity of goblin, and we I mean only Will and me, Agness was sitting on a bench.

But soon they started to come where I was fighting and leaving Will alone.

When I realized, Will was drinking something while sitting with Agness while I was fighting five goblins at the same time, until I could not anymore so I started to run.

"Wait a second, Miss you forgot to spar with us" (Random Goblin)

"Why me!!! leave me alone!!" (Sam)

"Give up! they won't stop until they are happy!!" (Will)

I regret ignoring that warning, now they won't stop until late at night.

At the end, I gave up and started to spar again.

When the night reached we were lent a house to sleep.

"Why did you do that? and WHY they didn't want to spar with you?" (Sam)

I asked Agness a slightly angry.

"Don't be angry, that was the best way to make them lend us a house to pass the night, and the only likes fighter type class, archers and mages are not interesting to them, and if you fight everyone before night you will exhaust them all and they will wake up late tomorrow, you don't want to spar them again before departing" (Agness)

"Well, putting it that way..." (Sam)

"Thanks? It was nothing, we needed a plan to left this place the fastest way" (Agness)

"Liar... you only wanted to see us suffer" (Will)

Agness didn't say anything but only slightly stuck out her tongue.

They explained a little about goblins before we sleep.

In resume, they really are a long-lived race, but they have a characteristic, they are a fast-growing race and a really fertile one, you want to ask why did they haven't conquered the whole world.

It's simple, they are weak in the early years of their lives, before 25 years old they are as weak as a child, but they really are a battle junky race.

With those characteristics, anyone would want to ask why they didn't they organized to do war.

They did, but before the war started an alliance of kingdoms started to talk to the goblin king and convince to help them to fight in dungeons.

They fall on that and started to lose their fighting force, but every goblin village turned into an ally of every kingdom.

It works because they weren't the brightest race, they only wanted to fight.

But every kingdom realized something, the villages where disappearing, every time were fewer goblin villages.

So they started to put rules in every village, before ten years they can't leave their village, the fifth year they can work as a guard, over the eighth year they can start to hunt, after the tenth year they can leave.

So, before the eighth they can't fight many things, so is normal to be frustrated, so every time they see someone that can fight they asked to have a spar.

In the sixth year is normal for them to have children so they won't have problems with leaving a phantom village.

And in love, they don't have many problems because they have something they have in common, they LOVE fights.

"If they can live over 25 years they can use all their strength, but at that time is they manage to reach they can reach a legendary level, as the pair of goblins heroes, the two have 32 years and are truly strong" (Will)

"Yeah... that's interesting" (Sam)

The most curious thing is that everything was explained by Will, when I asked why Agness didn't explain anything instead, Will answered with "Because Agness is only good with magic not because she studied it, but thanks to talent, and she is really bad studying and learning history".

After that, we slept until the sunrise and leave the village before everyone wakes up.