Chapter 218: New Goblins
There was a difference between monsters and beasts.
Monsters were sent from hell and resemble humans, while beasts were naturally occurring and sometimes influenced by magic.
Where they were the same was their desire to slash down humans and cause chaos. There wasn’t a reason for their actions other than the survival of their own.
This brought up the fact that goblins were the lowest classification of monster that the world had ever seen.
Mindless creatures that only knew how to fight, steal, and procreate. There was much debate on whether or not they even had a brain behind their eyes or a heart in their chest. Those with enough curiosity explored the mindless theory, performing dissections that led them to a mess of organs unrecognizable by humans.
Their dark insides, along with nearly black blood, made anything inside of them indecipherable. The conclusion was mostly that they had small minds and hearts that wouldn’t lend much to them in terms of anything beyond living.
Irene had discovered this in the many books she had read through the winters at the Duke’s Tower. There was an endless library with new books always added or exchanged. Despite what many might think, Duke Arlin found the search for knowledge an important pursuit. Most sword-wielders only knew enough to read because all they were required to do in chivalry was uphold the teachings of religious texts, but he wanted his knighthood to be different.
As Irene sat atop her horse, pointing her bow in the direction of more goblins that came from the mist of the northern mountains, everything she thought she knew about goblins seemed to go up in flames.
In the back of the sea of monsters, there were goblins larger than the ones she was used to seeing. However, their size wasn’t what bothered her the most.