"Hey! We found him!" A voice echoed in the distance and other goblins quickly gathered around the scene of the commotion.
"Is he dead? Why did he come this far out?" A goblin questioned but it fell on deaf ears.
No one had an answer but the most important thing was that Byung was alive, however, the path that had opened up to him was nonexistent.
"What the hell was that?" Byung slowly came to it, his eyes opening but his head rang.
"Huh?" This was the next word that came out of his mouth because he was bound by chains in a dark room.
He couldn't move an inch but Byung wouldn't fight to forcefully free himself.
He did break a rule and knew that there had to be repercussions but the booty he found was better than he could have imagined.
Byung was certain this was the jackpot that could change all of their lives because what he saw could last several lifetimes.
"HEY!" Byung screamed at the top of his lungs, alerting them that he was awake.
And in came two goblins, these were much older goblins that Byung hadn't seen before.
They must belong to another section but Byung wasn't going to make a fuss.
"He is noisy… What should we do with him?" The goblin on the left said but the one on the right didn't seem interested in this.
"Why did you go?" The goblin on the right asked but this seemed to surprise the one on the left.
"I wanted to show my willingness to the cause and how my life means nothing if it helps our people," Byung responded in a heartbeat.
He knew he wasn't reaching the full potential of his body and the fact that he no longer had to wonder about having a healthy body.
"Is that so?" The goblin on the right responded with a smile.
"You can't be buying this crap!" The one on the left exclaimed, not believing a word that came out of Byung's mouth.
"He has no other reason to walk that far, does he?" The one on the right responded, making the other one shut his mouth.
"Congratulations young one, you have been promoted," The goblin on the right said with a thumbs up. These creatures were no doubt ugly, there was no other way to phrase this.
"Hey! He broke a rule!" The one on the left attempted to protest but the one on the right wasn't having it.
"Do you not know why the rule was put in place?" The one on the right asked the other goblin.
"Grrrr!" The goblin grunted in response.
The truth was this was a test, there was no danger and a goblin was willing to throw away their life to explore for the greater good of his kind.
Then they were ready for the next stage but this was the youngest goblin ever to do so.
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"It looks like the goblins have a new litter and they have yet again failed to produce a girl so business as usual!" A man exclaimed excitedly with a cup of ale in hand.
"Those filthy monsters, I cannot believe we are doing business with them. Maybe this is nature's way of getting rid of those abominations," The man seated across from him responded but unlike his friend, he was sober.
"Hey, at least we get minerals in exchange for giving them the uglies," The slightly drunk man teased.
The truth was, they could easily raid and wipe out the goblins due to their limited numbers but they were getting something from leaving them alive.
The mining that they carried out made things a lot easier as this meant all they needed to was trade.
If they wiped them off, they had to worry about who to employ to mine these places as well as the potential risks that came with it.
It isn't like the goblins could distinguish the beautiful women from the ugly ones and this was to be expected considering how they looked themselves.
Unlike the goblins, the humans had developed their city into something of a kingdom with solid structures but they knew the goblins were trading with other races.
This was why they had to be careful in provoking them because if they decided to stop dealing with them, it would give the other races an advantage over them.
"You two! Quick slacking and get ready to go collect the package!" A man said and the two men immediately straightened up.
"Yes sir!" They said in unison and there was a woman in chains ready to be shipped off.
This was another criminal on death row and the fact that the survival rate of reproducing with a goblin was 0.
And the condition was that if they could survive, they would be free so the women saw this as an opportunity so they were all consenting adults.
It beat having their heads chopped off and they had a limited amount of freedom until they were due to give birth.
The two men looked at the woman and wondered how desperate goblins must be to stick their cocks into something this heinous. For some twisted reason, the woman looked excited.
Imagine a world where the most repulsive of women were treated like goddesses and sought after. In a world where ugly was the new pretty, this was what the goblins provided.
And the excited tremor of her fingers was proof of this alongside the sickened grin on her face.
"Crazy bitch…" The tipsy man muttered under his breath.