4 days later, Nora awoke, feeling Evelyn stroke her head again.
Sighing after seeing Evelyn’s creepy smile, Nora did her morning routine and prepared herself to leave. After spending 4 days cooped up in her room, Nora was finally ready to start the quest. Everything was ready.
Her armour was fully crafted and enchanted. However, except for her shirt and pants, every piece of her armour was only enchanted with 2 small enchantments. This was due to the size of her equipments. Due to their smaller size, they could only handle 2 small enchantments, while her shirt and pants could only handle 1 big and 2 small enchantments.
For her shirt and pants, they were both enchanted with 1 big enchantment and 2 small enchantments. Unbreaking silk fortification, magic shroud and auto cleanse. Auto cleanse was a small enchantment which made the object automatically clean itself of everything the user finds dirty. This made it so that if clothes ever get dirty, they would automatically clean itself of blood, sweat, dirt or mud.
As for the rest of her armour, they were all enchanted with 2 small enchantments, magic shroud and auto cleanse. Thus, since her whole attire was enchanted with auto cleanse, it meant that she would be able to wear the same outfit everyday without ever feeling dirty.
Her whole attire was fully enchanted except for her accessories. This was due to the fact that they were too small to place enchantments. Even for the best of enchanters, it was extremely hard to place enchantments on accessories. The best Nora could do was place 1 enchantment on it. Even with her experience and skill, she only had less than 10% of succeeding when trying to place 2 small enchantments.
Thus, she decided not to place any enchantments on her accessories. Since she could not place magic shroud in conjunction with the other enchantment, she decided not to place any other enchantment. She didn’t want to attract unnecessary attention by wearing enchanted accessories.
As for the other stuff she enchanted, she had stored them inside her ring. She was going to sell them when she find a town with an auction.
Thus, fully prepared, Nora left the town towards the goblin camp. She knew it was somewhere on the other side of the alla forest.
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Half a day later, Nora and Evelyn arrived at a small clearing. In front of them was a large group of goblins carrying a small group of tied up unconscious girls. The girls were all of varying age, from as young as 10 to as old as 40. However, Nora and Evelyn did nothing to rescue them while the group of goblins continued their march.
Although the two groups were just right beside each other, both group did not do anything. The reason was because Nora was hidden by ‘stealth’. The goblins did not noticed Nora following them.
Meanwhile, Nora was just silently following them instead of rescuing the women. She was thinking of what her next course of action will be while Evelyn comb through a goblin’s memories.
Though she could save them, she decided not to yet. Before she knew exactly what was going on, she wasn’t going to any risk. She knew that the quest was going to be hard. She had no reason to make it even harder.
Although she had a few ideas on what was going on when she saw the women being kidnapped, she wanted to make sure by having Evelyn check first. She knew that they were too stupid to coordinate their movements in kidnapping women without alerting authorities.
Soon, Evelyn returned to Nora’s side with an expression of disgust and spoke, “Master, you were right. A hobgoblin commander has been born.”
Hearing her confirm her suspicions, Nora face turned pale. Just by knowing that a hobgoblin was born, Nora knew exactly what was going to happen to the prisoners. Evelyn didn’t need to say it out for Nora to understand why Evelyn felt disgusted. Nora felt disgusted and angry as well. Soon Nora felt a chill down her back as she realised she was now a girl as well.
There were a few things in the world that Nora hated most. First was slavery, Nora detested the idea of turning another human being into a slave. Seeing how cruelly slaves from other were treated back when she was a prince, she knew exactly what the horrors of slavery were. This was one of her values she took along from earth.
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The second thing she hated most was racism. Nora felt that as long as one had the same mental and emotional capabilities as man, they should be treated as one. Nora felt that elves, beastmen, torrens and man of various colours should all be treated equally. This was another value she took along from earth. People shouldn’t be treated differently just because they look different.
The third thing she hated most was rape. Nora hated the notion of forcing another being and performing vile acts onto them. After living as a prince for 15 years and seeing first hand how people abused and raped female slaves, Nora detested rape. She hated it more than murder as murder would at least put the victim out of their misery. However, rape victims had to live with the experience for the rest of their lives.
This was the reason why Nora always ignored Evelyn advances. Nora was not blind. Nora knew Evelyn liked her but Nora couldn’t help but feel that she was abusing their master and servant relationship if she accepted. Nora couldn’t do it.
Moreover, after becoming a girl, Nora negative views on raped increased. Now that she was a girl, she knew that it was possible for her to get raped. Thus, thinking about how a person might rape her sent shivers down her spine. Her heart burned with hatred and made her want to kill the goblins immediately. However, Nora controlled herself before making rash decisions.
She decided to learn as much as possible before acting on her thoughts. She didn’t want to make any mistakes and make the quest harder. With the intelligence of the hobgoblin commander, Nora knew that if she made any of the goblins arrive late, he might notice something and that her element of surprise might be gone. Thus, despite feeling horrendous and angry at what was happening to the prisoners, Nora decided to not save them yet.
Nora felt that it was easier if she found where they were being taken and saved them together with the rest of the prisoners instead. Moreover, Evelyn had already taken a look through one of the goblins memories and knew that nothing bad won’t happen until the sun sets. Thus they knew that as long as they don’t dilly dally, nothing will happen to the girls. Furthermore, she knew that If she saved them, she would have to protect them and escort them back to where they were from. It would take too long and she didn’t have the time to waste.
“Master, the goblins don’t know much. Only hobgoblins know more and I don’t think i’ll be able to take over their bodies. The best i can do are goblins, hobgoblins are too strong for me right now. Thus, all i know is that the camp is a wooden fortress that surrounds a large cave by the mountainside, the cave is that the cave have many rooms and one of the room contain all the new prisoners. Usually only hobgoblins are allowed inside the cave. The only time goblins are allowed to enter is when they are carrying new prisoners.”
“Eve, what do you think we should do then?”
“Master, I don’t think we’re strong enough to waltz right in. There are more than 20 hobgoblins and more than a few hundred goblins. Given their sheer number, we won’t be able to kill them fast enough to use them as undead. I think we should sneak in and kill the leaders first to disrupt their chain of commands. Without the hobgoblins and the hobgoblin commander leading them, the goblins will disperse. Moreover, those who stay and fight will not be coordinated enough as there’ll be no one controlling them. Their coordination will be too weak to put up a fight.”
“That’s a good idea but the question then is how do we sneak in? Even if we sneak in, the moment the commander sense mana fluctuations, he will sense our presence. I can’t sneak in with ‘stealth’,” Nora spoke out loud while rubbing her chin in deep thought.
Hmm, looks like things will be a bit difficult. Moreover, I can’t send Evelyn into the cave to scout for more information, the commander is probably strong enough to sense her. What to do, what to do. I don’t have enough information. Wait, i got it! It’ll be a bit risky and embarrassing though. Sigh, but it’s the best idea i can come up with.
After thinking about it for a few seconds, Nora replayed her idea to Evelyn. Evelyn face immediately turned into a snarl and Evelyn hastily declined. However, after seeing Nora’s determined face, she soon conceded. Despite disliking the idea, she knew that once her master was determined to do something, there was nothing she could do to stop it.
Evelyn led Nora towards the direction the goblins were heading to. After making sure that she was way ahead of the goblins, Nora laid down and got out of ‘stealth’. She used a death magic spell and made herself enter a half death state. Her body became extremely pale and slouched onto the floor. As if she was unconscious, Nora laid quietly on the ground and waited for the goblins to find her. She knew that low level goblins were dumb enough to fall for it.
After a few minutes, the goblin group arrived at the scene and saw Nora lying on the ground. The goblins scratched their head in confusion as to why a girl was randomly unconscious in the middle of a forest. However, Evelyn took over a body of the leading goblin and told the rest of the goblins to take Nora as well.
Evelyn walked towards Nora and tied her up before carrying her. The rest of the goblins were too dumb to comprehend anything and accepted it before continuing their march towards the camp.
Meanwhile, Nora cursed at Evelyn silently as she felt Evelyn touch her in appropriate places while she was being carried. Taking note to get back at her later, Nora silently endured and continued to curse Evelyn for taking advantage of her once again.
Soon, they arrived at the goblin camp. Evelyn immediately left the goblin's body and entered Nora’s ring. This was now the dangerous part for Nora. With her eyes closed, Nora couldn’t see or feel anything around her. Moreover, she couldn’t use mana to sense the surrounding in fear of alerting the commander. Thus, all she could do was wait till she was thrown into the prison before doing anything.
As for Evelyn, she had no choice but to hid in Nora’s ring. If she was out in the open without and body or inside the ring, the commander would sense her. It was too much of a risk for Evelyn to stay in the goblin body and transfer later as the commander might sense her. Moreover, Evelyn could not stay inside the goblin’s body forever as Nora needed her when fighting the commander. Thus, they decided that for Evelyn to stay with Nora for now.
After a while, Nora soon felt herself get thrown onto the floor. However, she felt nothing as her stats and physical defense were high enough to negate all pain and damage from the small fall.
She could hear the goblins and hobgoblins talking but she couldn’t understand what. Their language was something no sane human learnt as it was just a mixture of grunts and gurgles.
Soon, she heard the sounds of wood scratching rock. Evelyn knew from the goblin’s memories that it was the sound of the wooden gates locking the cave room and telepathically spoke to Nora, “master, you can open your eyes now, they don’t guard the prisoners. They just keep the new prisoners here until they need them. The breeding room is in a separate chamber.”
Opening her eyes, Nora felt the shackles of her death like state release. Coloured returned to her skin and Nora got out of the loosely tied ropes. Getting up, Nora saw a small number of women unconscious on the rocky floor. She didn’t know what the goblin did to make them sleep so long but she decided to not worry about it for now.
It was now time for her to hunt once again. She couldn’t wait to feel blood on her blade once again.