New Century Warriors

Chapter 40: Attempts to Increase Motherhood

Chapter 40: The Third Attempt to Increase Motherhood

We're doomed!

Things happened so suddenly that Lei Ye didn't have time to think of anything, and by the time he realized what was happening, it was too late.

Anrashi had already made a waving gesture. Although Lei Ye couldn't see it, he was certain that there were three spinning dice in Anrashi's view. The numbers didn't matter; the key was that once she summoned a new monster, the old monster would be thrown back to the position it was when it was summoned.

"Guguga!" Wait a minute!

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Lei Ye leaped and flew towards Anlashi, landing in complete darkness.

It wasn't the kind of darkness you'd find under the night sky, but the absolute darkness of having no light source, like... like being deep inside a cave where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, and without a torch, you could only slowly move forward by feeling your way along the stone walls.

Raiye had this experience before. The first time he and Loya accepted a goblin extermination commission, Loya didn't buy enough torches, so they lost their light source halfway through. If she hadn't happened to be a light-attribute mage, the two of them would have died at the hands of the goblins because of this small mistake.

The scene has changed.

Raiye was unable to stop Anlashi in time. As a summoned goblin, he was sent back to the place where he was summoned when the contract ended.

This is... a goblin cave?!

As expected, it was a goblin cave. Lei Ye quickly smelled a faint stench, the aroma of roasted meat, and a peculiar, decadent scent in the air. After getting used to it for a while, he could vaguely see the way. Lei Ye realized that this was a characteristic of the goblin's body: a beast-like sense of smell and a certain degree of night vision. These green-skinned little monsters used these to gather intelligence and set up ambushes.

A scent was getting closer and closer. Before long, a small group of goblins—about four or five in total—ran over to Lei Ye, surrounded him, looked him up and down, and made gugaguga noises.

Lei Ye couldn't understand the goblin language, but he could tell that to them he was one of their kind and didn't harbor any hostility towards him, so he didn't move and let the goblins circle around him.

They chirped a few times as they turned around.

Judging from their tone, they were probably questioning where Raino had been all this time.

It's worth mentioning that these goblins were all wearing armor and carrying metal weapons. Moreover, it was just a patrol squad, yet there were five goblins in total, indicating that this goblin lair was extremely large.

This reminded Raino of an eroge where he had to build goblin dens himself. Towards the end, Raino forgot his original purpose for starting the game and only thought about breeding the strongest goblins and expanding his goblin rooms. So what was originally a game where you needed to breed goblins to catch beautiful girls turned into a game where you needed to catch beautiful girls to breed goblins. In the game, Raino became a real goblin.

At that moment, the best-equipped goblin patted Lei Ye on the shoulder, pointed in a certain direction, and left.

Lei Ye stood there for a while, watching the goblins leave, until his eyes had fully adjusted to the darkness.

He sighed.

The current situation is really bad, and he's at a loss for what to do.

But no matter what, he had to get moving and couldn't lose his composure. After hesitating for a moment, Lei Ye looked in the direction the goblin had pointed. It was from that direction that he had smelled Mimi's scent.

He ventured deeper into the cave in that direction and soon found a cavern faintly illuminated by torchlight. Lei Ye casually pushed open the small stone door at its entrance.

"gu..." tile..."

He stood frozen at the entrance, his mouth agape involuntarily.

This was a hellish scene that Raino had only ever seen in heaven.

As for which paradise it is, that's none of your business.

The cave was enormous and decorated with the bones of various creatures. Four burning torches illuminated the space, casting swaying shadows of the women's bodies on the stone walls. The smells that had been faint before were now strong and pungent, and the air was filled with gasps that, if described in detail, might not pass censorship.

In the guild's terminology, this is the goblin cave's gestation chamber, which serves the purpose of procreation.

Lei Ye counted; there were more than a dozen women, in addition to many pregnant female goats.

Lei Ye was shocked by the sheer number of wild animals like wolves.

Just by looking at the number of gestational sacs, he knew that this was the largest goblin cave he had ever seen.

Shocked, Lei Ye also felt despair. In his memory, there had never been such a huge goblin nest near Hillius, and these women were all unfamiliar faces, so he must be very far away from Hillius now.

Forget about that for now, let's save lives first.

He had only fantasized about this scene before; seeing it in person only filled him with pity. Justice Raino grabbed the nearest goblin, pulled it aside, and kicked it over.

guga!

The goblin that was kicked over roared angrily, glanced at Lei Ye, and then, even more enraged, lunged at him with bared teeth and claws.

That glance was probably to judge size. I've heard that goblin groups have a very strong hierarchical system, and smaller goblins have a lower status. This goblin was angry because it felt that Raiye was weak but still came to provoke it.

Unfortunately, he wouldn't understand that this weak goblin had a human heart inside its body. This small difference in numerical values ​​could be easily made up for. Lei Ye dodged, grabbed its wrist, and used the force to push the goblin away with a simple Tai Chi technique. Lei Ye then followed up with a kick, striking its temple with his heel. The goblin screamed and fainted.

Lei Ye then approached the short-haired girl who had been standing there and tried to help her up. However, she was groaning and talking incoherently, looking completely dazed. Lei Ye didn't know if she could stand up and walk away from the cave on her own.

"dad..."

Some sounds escaped her mouth as her wrist was grabbed.

Just hearing who she was calling out to made Lei Ye unable to bear listening any longer.

Perhaps behind this young girl lies another tragic story of a family being torn apart and lives lost.

Lei Ye had seen enough tragedies like this on Line 1, but he never expected to experience it again. This was a huge test of his rationality, especially now that he was in such a predicament. After hesitating for a moment, Lei Ye decided to listen to her murmurs and learn a little about the victim's experience so that he could say something to cheer her up. At this moment, a word of encouragement from Lei Ye might become the strength that helped her escape from hell.

The short-haired girl opened her mouth, making a gurgling sound, and two tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

"Dad... I'll never call you Biology Dad again. I shouldn't have forced you to marry me and take half your fortune, and I shouldn't have stolen money and run away after being rejected. How was I supposed to know there were so many goblins in the forest..."

"Dad, come save me! I don't want to marry you anymore! Just find me some guy who's about as rich as you and marry him off! Come save me, Dad..."

Lei Ye silently got up and left, to see if there was anyone else worth saving.

She should stay here and not go back to bother her old man at home.

Soon, Lei Ye spotted a beautiful young woman dressed in gorgeous attire. Although her white dress was torn to shreds, it was still evident that it was once a magnificent garment made of extremely expensive fabric. The necklace hanging around her fair neck was inlaid with a huge gemstone. As an engineer, Lei Ye could tell that this gemstone was a top-quality item, and if he pried it off and sold it, it would fetch at least ten large gold coins.

This shows the noble status of this young woman.

Four goblins are working on her.

After a moment's thought, Lei Ye decided to find a weapon first, just to be on the safe side. Fortunately, there was a female guard lying on the workstation next to the noblewoman. Although the guard's weapons had been removed and her armor had been stripped off, Lei Ye noticed that one of her swaying feet was barefoot and the other was wearing a leather boot. Based on his experience, Lei Ye removed the leather boot from her foot and, sure enough, found a hidden dagger attached to the leather.

With his hand reversed, Raino walked to the side, grabbed the nearest goblin by the shoulder, and slit its throat the instant it turned its head with a "ga?"

Then press him down on the foul-smelling muddy ground and cover his gushing blood with mud. The smell of the room can greatly mask the stench of blood and delay the arrival of reinforcements.

"Gu." Two.

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The other three goblins were startled by Lei Ye's inexplicable ruthlessness and stopped their work, swinging their fists to try and beat him up. This time, Lei Ye used Anto Laura's fighting techniques, gracefully retreating and creating distance like a dancer, then dodging and weaving amidst the three goblins' chaotic attacks. Suddenly, he struck, piercing one of the goblins' eye sockets with a single blow and destroying its brain, then grabbing the goblin by the neck and slamming its face into the mud.

He also stuck the dagger into the soil to wipe away the bloodstains.

Since the remaining two could be easily dealt with without weapons, Raino easily rendered them incapacitated with elbow strikes and knee strikes.

"Ga." Five of them.

Lei Ye grabbed his dagger again, ready to face the horde of goblins. Interestingly, while the fight was raging on one side, the other goblins showed no intention of joining in.

It seems that fights over the right to use gestational sacs happen frequently here.

Lei Ye was unfamiliar with such matters as a goblin for the first time and could only guess. However, it was good that he hadn't been surrounded and attacked. He immediately went to the noblewoman's side and used his dagger to cut the knots in her hands.

Her wrist was red and swollen, and the injury was relatively fresh compared to others, suggesting that she was a pregnant woman who had been captured recently.

However, the noblewoman seemed to have suffered particularly severe torment, and her mental state was even worse than that of the short-haired girl from before.

"6

Lei Ye paused halfway through his sentence, realizing that he could only utter these syllables, so he couldn't persuade the noblewoman to cheer up and escape from here.

Should we carry everyone out of here one by one?

...This is a bit of a problem. This goblin's body can't even move the thinnest girl, let alone such a plump noblewoman.

At this moment, the noblewoman murmured.

"My precious son..."

Lei Ye's heart stirred, and he felt that urge to stop listening again.

He could never bear to see a mother suffer.

"Oh, my dear son, I'm so sorry. I only changed that law because I wanted to marry you after you ascended the throne and take half of the kingdom from you. I never thought it would cause me so much trouble. I was wrong, I was completely wrong. We love each other, we must love each other. Since we love each other, why did I have to go through all that trouble to change that law?"

Lei Ye silently put away his dagger.

He stood there pondering for a very long time, so long that he recalled what the slave trader had told him: the king of the neighboring country had been assassinated, the prince was young, so the young queen was now ruling in his place, and the first thing she did after taking office was to amend many laws.

It's you, fucking bastard!

Thinking of this, Lei Ye looked up at the sky and roared.

"6

"Gugu-Gaga!" Where did I end up? Is this still in China?!

As expected, it's quite far from Hillius; this is the goblin cave on the Celia side.

Considering the demi-human we saw earlier, the circus might have come from the land of demi-humans. Taking the shortest route, they would indeed pass through the Kingdom of Celi. Anrashi probably summoned the monster from there.

Right.

So the noblewoman before us must be the Queen of Celia. She went too far and angered some people in the country, which led to her current predicament.

With a slight jolt, Lei Ye suddenly lost his motivation to save people.

He silently turned and left.

It would take him about half a month to walk back to Hillius from here, so he had to set off as soon as possible.

He stopped at the entrance of the cave.

He sighed, then silently turned back.

The second rule of the Seekers of Hillius Guild is that life is above all personal feelings.

Even the most extraordinary humans are still humans, and Raino has an obligation to take them away from here.

Ke Lei patted his green bald head, unable to figure out how to rescue these women.

Just as he was thinking.

"Ah... my child, you're back?"

Having gotten a brief respite, Queen Celia opened her eyes at some point and was looking at Raino with hazy eyes.

Lei thought to himself, "Are you crazy? I'm not that little boy you're thinking about. I'm a goblin now." But then he thought, "This is a goblin cave, and she's not some Queen Celie anymore."

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"Guga..." "No way..."

The Queen reached out and pulled Lei Ye close, trying to lean him against her ample breasts. Lei Ye, disgusted by her smell, twisted his body in refusal.

She sighed as she was rejected.

"Oh, my poor child, it's all my fault for making you so small and thin. You must have been bullied again today... Let me hold you, let me comfort you..."

Just as Raino guessed, the goblin possessed by Raino was born from the Queen.

Unfortunately, goblins cannot experience familial love. Even if the Queen, in her delirium, truly treats goblins as her own children and showers them with maternal love, the word "mother" will never exist in the goblin worldview. These green-skinned monsters are born only to plunder, synonyms for evil.

...Wait a moment?!!

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"Guga..." Mom?

Lei Ye suddenly realized something and immediately checked himself. The number displayed below the skill description of Ma Bi had changed from 4 to 5.

This even counts?

Ever since hearing the phrase "I'd die for you," Lei Ye completely gave up on increasing his Mom's currency; the conditions were too heavy for him to bear.

I never expected to gain new Mom coins in a place like this.

Such an extraordinary woman could have such deep love for her child, even if it's just a goblin.

No... Lei Ye pried open the Queen's eyelids and saw that her pupils were somewhat unfocused. She was in a state of mental confusion, and her mind was probably automatically filtered, thinking that she was not in some goblin cave, but still in her magnificent palace, and that her child was her real child born to her child, not some goblin.

Wow...

The idea has been opened up: the condition for "Mommy Coin" is love, but this love doesn't necessarily have to be directed at Lei Ye, or even genuine. There's still room to exploit loopholes.

Raino turned his head to look at the women waiting to be rescued in the cave.

He has a solution.