The next day, Finn and Darwin continued exploring the forest, hoping to find the goblins. However, this time they were accompanied by a slime hidden in Finn's backpack.
"Do you really think the slime will be useful to us?" Darwin asked curiously.
"Of course I think so. Just wait and see how it helps us against the monsters. Or did you learn nothing from yesterday?" Finn asked.
"Well, I have to admit, it's a bit versatile" Darwin said, and Finn nodded.
"Of course it is" Finn affirmed with a big smile.
The two continued their journey for a few hours until they finally found what appeared to be a makeshift goblin base; it looked as if it was just being built.
The goblins were hard at work cutting down trees and gathering stones from the surrounding area, as well as creating stone and wooden weapons. Finn and Darwin looked at them curiously, as their job also consisted of finding out how advanced the goblins were. As they watched, Finn and Darwin quickly noticed that this time the goblins seemed calmer and more willing to work with each other.
"They look more developed, I'd even think they're somehow transforming for the better" said Darwin, watching the goblins work.
"Yes... if it weren't for the fact that they're still in the same habits" said Finn, looking at some harpies locked in a makeshift cell and a few human bones scattered on the floor. Darwin nodded beside him.
"Well, we have to wait for the goblin witch to appear, then we kill everyone and interrogate the goblin witch" said Darwin, receiving a nod from Finn.
The two climbed a tree to wait more peacefully and in a more hidden area where they wouldn't be easily found. After a few hours of waiting in some trees, Finn saw a hooded goblin arrive with a squad of hobgoblins, quickly alerting Darwin. The goblins quickly gathered around the goblin witch, telling him about their progress and captures.
"Okay, now we just need to lure the goblin witch away somehow so we can capture him and kill the others more easily" Darwin said, trying to come up with a plan, but Finn interrupted him.
"Got it!" Finn said, extending his hand toward the goblin witch and pulling him in with his telekinesis.
Before the goblin witch could reach Finn and Darwin's location, the slime burst out of Finn's backpack at high speed and stretched out until it transformed into a rope that tied the goblin witch to the tree he was in.
"Well, that solves everything" Darwin said, jumping out of the tree and landing directly on top of some goblins. "Don't let a single one escape!"
"Understood!" Finn said, also launching himself at some goblins.
The goblins and hobgoblins didn't hesitate to rush at Finn and Darwin in order to get their leader back. Darwin swung his sword back and forth, cleaving the goblins without a problem, dodging them as if he knew in advance where they were going to attack from, and sometimes grabbing them by the face and causing severe burns with his fire magic.
Finn also swung his sword rapidly while dodging goblins and using his telekinesis to restrict the movements of others or simply throw them away with a flick of his fingers. Extending his hand, Finn immobilized four goblins in front of Darwin, allowing Darwin to cut off their heads with a simple swing of his sword.
Darwin, seeing that he had some time before they attacked him again, held his sword with both hands and, concentrating slightly, was able to manifest fire on the blade, scaring away several goblins and even hobgoblins. The monsters tried to move away, but Finn held them back again for a few seconds so Darwin could kill them.
After a few minutes, the smell of burning flesh and blood spread through the forest, causing disgust in Finn and Darwin. While Finn was busy getting the goblin witch down from the tree and immobilizing him, Darwin walked over to the harpies' cell and quickly killed them, as well as the goblin babies that had already given birth.
'Deep throats, huh?' Darwin remembered what Cristel had told them about the harpies.
Shaking off those thoughts, Darwin turned to Finn.
"You've really made progress with your telekinetic magic" Darwin mentioned, approaching Finn.
"Have I made progress? You're the one who can now draw fire from his sword" Finn said, remembering the flaming sword.
"Nah, I just replicated what I did with my light magic, but this time with fire magic" Darwin stated, dismissively. "Although, it was a little more difficult."
"Well, I did something similar. Instead of focusing on stopping each goblin's entire body, I just stopped a single part of it. That prevents them from moving no matter how hard they try," Finn revealed, surprising Darwin. "That's how I stopped the goblins before you killed them. I simply focused on using my telekinesis on their heads, so they couldn't move."
"Now that's a clever way to use magic" Darwin said, turning to look at the goblin witch, who was upside down, spinning rapidly with his head on the ground.
Taking a rope from his backpack, Darwin told Finn to remove the slime so he could tie the goblin witch to something more solid. Once they tied him to a tree trunk, they began the interrogation.
"Speak quickly or else…"
"Or else what? You'll kill me? Hahahaha" the goblin witch interrupted Darwin, mocking them. "Stupid humans, dead or alive, I won't tell you anything, hahaha! You're idiots. If you think you'll be able to get information from…"
Smack! Smack!
Silence reigned for a moment. The goblin's rosy cheeks and the incredulous looks of the goblin and Darwin said it all. In front of the goblin was the slime floating in the shape of a large cock, swaying from side to side.
"Talk or this will go straight into your mouth…" Finn threatened, his gaze serious and emotionless as he faced the goblin.
"Do.. do you think I'm going to give in for a damn slime? I'd rather die than… ARGH, ARGH, ARGH." Before he could finish speaking, the slime furiously entered and exited the goblin's mouth.
This lasted at least 15 seconds before Finn finally decided to pull the slime out of the goblin's mouth. Darwin covered his mouth, staring in horror at what Finn had just done. It had never occurred to him to use the slime to do such a thing, but then he looked at the goblin with renewed resolve and malice.
"Tell us, how the hell your're gaining intelligence and the ability to use magic, or next time the slime will be up your ass!" Finn demanded, directing the slime to the goblin's back entrance.
"Ptth... never," the goblin said, spitting at Finn's feet.
"Too bad... Stick it in" Darwin said seriously.
"As you wish..." Finn said before raising his fingers.
—
"IT'S THE ARROW-SHAPED STONE!!… It's the stone!… Sob… Please… Stop… Please" cried the goblin, lying on the ground, tired and humiliated.
"That's it… Now we're getting somewhere" said Darwin, stroking the goblin's head. "Now tell us, where is that stone?" demanded Darwin.
"I don't know… I swear…" said the goblin, shaking his head.
"Tsk, I see you're still stubborn… Or maybe you like the slime now?" said Darwin, signaling to Finn, and the slime began to spin rapidly, heading toward the goblin witch.
"NO!! I SWEAR I DON'T KNOW, PLEASE, NO MORE!!" The goblin cried, scared and crying.
"Give him a double portion, lets see if he remembers something" Darwin said, looking at Finn, who nodded.
"Now you'll know why they call my slime the donkey" Finn said, as the slime began to stretch until it split in two.
"No… NO… NOOOOO!!!!" the goblin cried. "SOUTH! SOUTH! SOUTH!" he cried desperately.
"South what?" Finn asked, slowly bringing the slimes closer to the goblin.
"There's another base in the south. That's where I just came from. I gave them the arrow-shaped stone!" the goblin confessed, crying.
"Good boy!" Darwin said before piercing the goblin's chest with his sword.
"So it must be south…" Finn said, looking west. "Where is south?"
"I have no fucking idea, but the goblin was coming from there" Darwin pointed in one direction.
—
Six hours later, Finn and Darwin were eating protein bars by a campfire. They had both gotten information about the possible location of the stone arrow, and if it wasn't there, they'd just have to repeat the process again.
"I have to admit. At first, I didn't think that slime would be useful to us, but now I regret having doubted it," Darwin said, looking at the backpack where the slime was trapped.
"Yeah. This guy will definitely make our job easier," Finn nodded.
"Once we finish the mission, what will you do with the slime? Will you kill it?" Darwin asked curiously.
"No way, what if we have to go on another interrogation mission? Where will we get a new smile?" Finn asked, causing Darwin to nod in agreement.
"Right, we have to keep this boy with us" Darwin agreed.
"Besides, I'm sure Cristel will love the slime. Knowing her taste for monsters, she'll surely find more ways to use this little guy with the monsters" Finn affirmed, and Darwin fully agreed. "Besides, I think he complements me a lot in the fight."
"In what way?" Darwin asked curiously.
"Well, it's very versatile. I can use it as a whip, a rope, a shield, among many other things" Finn replied.
"If you put it that way, it does sound very useful" Darwin said.
"By the way, you didn't forget to take a video, right? Amelia said that videos from now on would be very important for evaluating adventurers" Finn asked, and Darwin nodded.
"Don't worry, I shot everything in high definition" Darwin affirmed. "Although I think we should make two types of videos, one recording everything and the other just the most important moments."
"And that way Amelia can watch the video and report back faster. Good idea. I'll just take care of recording the most important things" Finn said, and Darwin nodded.
—
Over the next three days, Finn and Darwin dedicated themselves completely to attacking base after base around the forest, in order to find the aforementioned arrow-shaped stone. Each time they reached a new base, the witch goblins claimed that the stone was in the hands of other witch goblins. Until they finally found a base a little larger than the previous ones.
The two didn't hesitate to attack it with the same strategy they had been using for the last three days and quickly killed all the goblins and hobgoblins, leaving only the witch goblin alive, currently lying unconscious in front of them.
"Have you noticed there are no ogres in these bases like the ones in the border forest?" Finn commented, making sure to record every detail of the monsters and the base.
"Yeah… I don't think they've become extinct from killing them. These monsters must be planning something" said Darwin, finishing killing the female monsters.
Approaching the goblin witch, Finn used the whip-like slime and woke him up with a sharp lash across his back. The goblin screamed in pain and writhed in the mud. Darwin approached, watching the goblin writhe, and with a kick, sent him crashing into a tree.
"Stop the theatrics!" said Darwin seriously.
"Tell us where it is!?" asked Finn, using his telekinesis to keep the goblin in the tree and lift him a few inches off the ground.
"I don't know what you're talking about…" the goblin responded haltingly, but another sharp lash made him scream in pain again.
"The arrow-shaped stone! The other goblin witches already told us that you were the last one to obtain it!" Darwin said, and the goblin looked at them in disbelief.
"Those bastards… snitches!" the goblin said angrily.
"Answer me!" Finn ordered.
"Never!" the goblin replied.
"As you wish" Finn said, causing the slime to begin to change shape.
"Wait, wait… What is that? What are you going to do with it?!" the goblin asked, frightened.
"You'll find out soon" Finn replied with a cold look.
—
"So, in the big monster city, huh?" Finn said, dropping the goblin's lifeless body.
"A city as big as a human city… is what he said even true?" Darwin asked, putting away his sword.
"I don't know, but he also said that ogres are currently there. That would explain why we haven't run into any of them so far" Finn said, and Darwin nodded. "You still have potions on you, don't you?" Finn asked.
"I haven't even used them, did you?" Darwin asked, and Finn shook his head.
"I still have them all" Finn affirmed.
"That means we're ready to attack that city" Darwin said, sighing.
"According to the goblin, the city is a few days away. We just have to follow the markings on the trees" Finn said.
"Well, in that case, let's not waste any time!" Darwin said.
—
In another remote area, a group of hooded figures arrived at the first base where Finn and Darwin had passed. The hooded figures approached to observe the scene, one of them approaching the cell where the harpies and the goblin creatures were being held.
"I told you something was wrong around here" said a boy, taking off his hood and revealing wolf ears.
"They wiped out the base quickly, they definitely knew what they were doing" said an older man, also removing his hood and revealing other wolf ears.
"Ugh, how disgusting!" shouted a girl a little farther away. "Those creeps raped this guy!"
The others approached, seeing the goblin lying with a sword mark piercing his chest from side to side.
"Oh, gods! Did a centaur rape him or something?!" The young man asked, looking at the goblin's ass.
"No... this is torture. They wanted something from him" the older man said.
"And boy did they get it" the girl replied, covering her backside.
"Don't be stupid! Didn't you learn anything from what you were taught in the animalia kingdom?" the man asked. "Don't just observe with your eyes, smell your surroundings, sense the magic in the area."
"I'm not going to smell anything here" the boy said, covering his nose.
"Magic! The goblin has residual magic in his body!" the girl answered quickly.
"That's right, this goblin possessed magic, just as the other adventurers had described" the man said.
"Okay, but what was the need to do that to him?" The boy asked, looking at the goblin.
"Torture, both physical and mental. Whoever did this knew exactly how to break a goblin's pride" the man commented.
"Oh, and boy did they break it" the girl said, unable to stop staring at the goblin. "So it was a centaur?"
"I doubt it. Centaurs have a certain appearance to maintain with outside races, especially humans. If someone were to spread the rumor that a centaur was doing this, then it would only tarnish their reputation further" the man replied.
"So what was it?" the boy asked.
"Most likely, they inserted something into him, not necessarily a penis" the man replied, standing up. "Come on, we have to go back to the kingdom to report this."
"That they raped a goblin? Aren't we against them?" The girl asked.
"Don't be an idiot. We'll report that there are indeed goblins capable of using magic" the man said.
"Oh, of course…" the girl replied. "I hope we don't run into the guys who did this…"
"Why, couldn't you resist trying the same thing?" the boy asked mockingly.