Homesteading in a fantasy world

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The few millennia back, a team of goblins were working around a big female goblin. Soon guards in elegant armor starting to secure the exits. An old regal king and an elegant-looking queen walking in, followed closely by a young and beautiful princess. The king speaks in a powerful yet sad voice.

“Is it done? Is your plan finally completed? Can we take back our lands now?”

One of the goblins turns around. He looks like he ought to be a soldier, a knight, a hero.

“Yes, my king, all the blood mages are finished, and the tests are completed. We are ready to start deploying.”

There was silence as the king examined everything. No one dared even to breathe loudly as all could see a single tear running down the King’s face.

Taking a final look towards the first female breeder and the warrior goblins beside them, same yet different from the goblins.

“May the gods forgive us for what we have done, and may your souls end up in the sparkling forest where we all must go when our journey ends.”

“You have done well, captain. Yet we lose our great forest fortresses one by one. Even if we get them back by using these creatures, will we be better than the ones that attacked us?”

After a moment, the captain wanted to answer, but luckily, just before he looked into the princesses’ eyes and saw that he should stay quiet and so he did.

All remained quiet after the king’s statements and soon the kings and the queen started to leave, only a few guards stayed behind as the Princess didn’t leave.

Instead, she did what her father did and walked closer to inspect it all.

“Will my father see the end of this war, or will I need to be the one to end it?”

There was silent for a moment, but this time there was no one to say no to his answer.

“No, my Princess, you father will not see the end. This will be a long war against an enemy we still yet do not understand. What we have done will give us time and help us to push back.”

The Princess now looked at the young man of a similar age to herself. This man had already seen war against a terrible enemy that has broken many. But after seeing such horror, he came up with his own to combat the horror.

“Thank you for giving us a chance of victory.”

With those words the Princess also left, leaving the young men there anger in his eyes against his enemies and the burning passion to kill them all for what they have done to his loved ones.

The war was long and horrible, and the young boy was no longer young. He was old, sad and tired, yet a glimmer of anger still in his eyes giving him fuel for one last mission before it will all end.

He looked at the people around him and listened to the latest news before they go on their last mission.

“Princess, commanders, we have finally discovered what went wrong in the Alpine planes. It turns out a small detachment of swarmers were able to escape there after the burning of Holdorn forest.

“With no leaders to guide them, they still follow their basic instincts and started to gather all around them for food and feed the breeders to make a horde.”

“We have now been able to take full control of that horde thanks to our superior levels and we were able to send them to destroy the Gray rock bastion around the Frankonian forest.”

“The last portal now rests in the capital, and we have our forces currently fighting their way into the capital. The magical defences will be down in a few hours at most and we can teleport into the main chamber. It's the closest location to the portal we can teleport.”

“We suspect heavy resistance, and we believe the leader will be there.”

The Princess then spoke up, asking a question.

“I believe we have captured one of their commanders recently and I have heard success in interrogating it. Did we get any new information?”

She looked sad, tired and broken as the remnants of the once great goblin civilization were in this room.

“Princess, like any other commander or any other soldier we have captured, none have spoken under torture, yet we were able to trick it to speak by letting it gloat about how we were going to die soon.”

“They call themselves demons. They enter from another realm as we already know, but it seems that they go around invading places like ours and taking all the resources back to their home planet.”

“We also believe that they are immortal. At least the commanders are because, as we were going to kill him, he was still telling us that he will be returning here to make sure that we were all dead.”

This silenced all for a moment and another question was asked and then another until they finally reached the point of how to close the last portal. The oldest amongst the current goblins spoke then.

“I have learned all I can about the portals, and I have made this final device that will shut down this main portal and make sure no portal of this kind will be able to connect for millenniums to come.”

“However, this will burn our capital and all inside and it will require us all to die so we have the energy to do what must be done, but I believe we all are ready for that.”

Another silence and a long one as the old goblin slowly nodded and sat back down. No one spoke or did anything until another runner came into that tent and brought news of the defences being broken. It was time to ready up the last assault of the goblin civilization.

The attack went as expected, with heavy resistance from the demons inside with many commanders and the Demon Lord there that faced the goblins. Yet the goblins were magnificent, their magic casters holding down the Demon Lord as the rest carved their way through the hordes of demons to enter where the portal is.

That was as far as they could reach as they spent their strength. An assault group of 300 was left with only 30 and soon only one remained the now old, once a young boy who vowed to kill all the demons holding his love, the Princess now Queen as she died in his arms.

“You useless goblins. You have been a pain in the ass, but your resistance meant nothing. Why attack this place? You know your fate is inevitable. Yes, you have been able to close the minor portals, but this one will never be closed. We will strip your lands like we have done hundreds before and take the riches back to my home.”

The last goblin didn’t say a word. He kissed his love and took his knife and plunged it into his own heart.

The Demon Lord started to laugh at that, yet only a moment later, a pulse of energy erupted. Soon all the dead were disturbed as all their energy was sucked up and converged around the last goblin. A moment later, another pulse erupted, seemingly doing nothing.

That Demon Lord was no longer amused, but he didn’t understand what was happening. But it was too late. The portal that was always red and gave off a light that comforted every demon started to change. Before the Demon Lord could do anything, it turned to green and started to gather more and more energy.

The connection was lost and while the Demon Lord tried to get back to his home, a few moments later, the portal exploded, killing the Demon lord and burning down the last standing city of the goblins.

All that was left of the Copeland civilization was the living weapon they made to try to help and save it. Over time, the goblin hordes lost the ability to get classes and all the history once there was burnt to ashes under the footsteps of battling hordes. And so, the goblins became the first fallen race of Talina

POV Rich Dirt

Time went past quickly, and I watched as the first pup was born. I decided not to help if not needed, but my conviction broke down quickly and I couldn’t help myself.

I picked up the first one and looked at him. He was so beautiful, and he deserves a name. But before giving a name, I quickly checked if he had the evolution, and he did so they would be a lot like their mother. Hopefully, all will have this evolution.

Before I put the first one back down, I checked it with my energy sight and tried to help the energy move inside a bit better and try to give a bit of mine to him and at the same time named the first one Bingo.

On it went; the next was a female and after I did the same checks, I named her Lady. The next one was a boy, Blue, and so was the next one, Comet.

Then came another girl, Pearl, then another boy, Toto. But the last one had some trouble and wasn’t breathing as she was born.

For a moment I contemplated about not helping because I already had six pups I will need to take care of, but I couldn’t let myself do that and still tried to help.

I cleared her airways and massage her chest and that was all that was needed as she started the whining like all the others. I looked towards Freya and the look of gratitude in her eyes will be something that I will never forget.

You have gained a new skill basic taming level 1

You have gained the new skill basic first aid level 1

“I think we should name you Lucky.”

I quickly put her down so she could also find her way towards mother’s milk. I was quite tired now and as I looked around the barn, the cows and the bull were a bit further away looking at all that was happening.

As I soaked in all that was happening. I realised we currently had quite the happy little family here. I wonder how much longer I can stay away from humans. They always bring problems.

I curled up beside Freya and fell asleep while it was still raining, and the lightning was still striking.