The stuff a goblin will do to avoid being cooked into a stew is unreal. Jaakx ran into that very problem when his schooling scores came back a failure. When your Ma is one of the highest-ranked warriors in goblin history to do anything but join the Corps was stew-worthy. It didn't help when your sister was the perfect little replica of Ma. To save his skin and find a way to join the Corps Jaakx must traverse the portal to the human realm and kill one of the ugly creatures. A goblin with a Slaughter Badge was a much more desirable recruit than some dumbass kid who failed his lessons. It should be an easy enough task. Any human would do. Maybe even the feeble Grandmother hobbling through the market with her little wicker basket. Or, maybe not...