Chapter 1318 The Beginning of a New Era
The Theocracy has been cracking down on human trade, but the goblins always have excuses for this - because the ancient Parthian Empire has a tradition of slavery and trade.
Perhaps because it is older than the Theocracy, or perhaps for some reason unknown even to the goblins, the Theocracy has always been particularly tolerant and forgiving towards Rest.
It is precisely because of the existence of Rest that these profit-seeking goblins have room to turn things around.
Elves are good people.
Good people always follow rules and reason.
But now, the ancient kingdom of Parthia has been completely overthrown... The Celestial Master has fallen, the Pillar God has been replaced. The ancient traditions that have lasted for thousands of years have died in a single day. Parthia has become Wanning, and this change will be easy without any resistance.
The Church naturally had no objections, and all neighboring nations would undoubtedly praise this. The vast majority of the Pillar Gods and Celestial Officials were optimistic about this change, and Aiwass even demonstrated strength enough to kill several Celestial Officials.
You know, this is a trap that has been planned for a long time and woven by more than a dozen sixth-level benevolent masters.
Even such a trap is of no use to Aiwass - if all these celestial officials were counted as Aiwass's men, he would have killed six celestial officials!
The first one is considered to be a mutual restraint.
The second one is lucky.
Then what are the third, fourth, fifth, sixth...?
Extra lucky? Super lucky? Extremely lucky? Extremely lucky?
Now Aiwass has completely proved that he is the world's number one in the true sense and is about to ascend to the throne of god on earth!
It is also because of this that the whole world has entered an unprecedented period of peace - those who have ulterior motives dare not act rashly in front of Aiwass.
And after the age of rest ends, it also means another thing:
That is, from now on... the only country in the world that still holds slaves is the goblins.
Of course, strictly speaking, they weren't nations—the goblins didn't have a nation of their own. And the trolls of the southern continent weren't really nations either... Their separatist villages, gatherings of closely related clans, were tribes at best.
If this worldly god doesn't like slavery, then what the goblins are doing now is courting death.
Goblins are always profit-driven; they are natural businessmen. So who are the biggest profit groups today?
That is naturally Aiwass.
Therefore, their best choice was to immediately abandon the enslavement of the trolls, disband their control over all plantations, and return the land of the southern continent to the trolls.
However, trolls and goblins have a long-standing blood feud. For the trolls, who eat everything, goblins were once high-quality food, raised like livestock. If the other goblins were ordered to immediately give up their enslavement of the trolls... that would be difficult to enforce.
Although the smartest and most correct choice was to surrender immediately, and although goblins were born merchants, not all goblins were intelligent. In other words, those who were intelligent enough would have already joined the Goblin Chamber of Commerce and become middle or high-level officials.
The average IQ of goblins is actually not as high as that of humans. It's just that because they are very fertile, it is more likely that intelligent individuals will mutate.
Take Grandet's family, for example—by the time Grandet celebrated his March Festival, just as March arrived, he already had fourteen brothers and twelve sisters. Because goblins have a gestation period of only two months, a litter typically produces one to three goblins, and they can reproduce year-round. To curb this ridiculous reproductive efficiency, the goblins even adopted monogamy after escaping the threat of the trolls.
Under these circumstances, a goblin family could give birth to more than ten little goblins every year, and in the past, even with the predation of trolls, many little goblins could survive for more than three months.
Goblins are able to walk at three months old, and they will be weaned from then on. Once weaned, the goblins' brains will begin to develop at an abnormal rate, and their bodies will become ugly and distorted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and emit a foul odor, just like an uncastrated pig.
Therefore, trolls like to eat goblins under three months old the most because the meat of goblins at this stage is soft, juicy and has no peculiar smell.
That's why goblins celebrate the "March Festival." As long as you survive three months, you'll basically reach adulthood.
Judging from the attitude of the goblins towards March Festival, it is clear that the goblins today have not given up their hatred.
In the past, when trolls hunted them, only those goblins who were clever enough could survive. If their brains hadn't developed by the third month, it would have been difficult for them to remain quiet and not burden their parents when being hunted. By then, goblins had learned how to use the most noisy and useless children as bait in traps, to fight back against the trolls or to attract their attention.
Therefore, in times of blood feuds, the goblins who survive are often the smartest ones.
But now, having lost this layer of natural selection... a large number of goblins are actually quite stupid. After all, their brains are just a little smaller than those of humans and elves, and in terms of pure intelligence, they are even inferior to trolls who have brains but don't use them.
To put it more simply——
Only the smart goblins in the Goblin Chamber of Commerce know what to do, but the vast majority of goblins either don't know or are unwilling to give up.
After all, goblins have no country of their own, no monarch, and no laws.
The Chamber of Commerce's internal constraints were clearly weak. The title "Hidden in the Horse's Belly" itself stemmed from Grandet's family's involvement in the Chamber of Commerce's factional infighting. His entire family was murdered on Grandet's March Day, with only he, trapped in the horse's belly, surviving... and the perpetrators were goblin merchants from other factions.
If the goblin merchants were willing to obey the orders of the Chamber of Commerce, the tragedy of the Grandet family would never have happened.
He realized that Aiwas's morality was aligned with the elves and would inevitably be unhappy with slavery.
——And since it has been confirmed that those stupid goblins will never respect Grandet's advice, Grandet decided to cut ties with them before the goblins do anything suicidal!
That's why Grandet rushed to Evans at this time.
Before Aiwass remembered "Oh yes, it seems that the goblins in the southern continent also keep slaves", he took the initiative to apologize and pointed out the many serious sins of the goblins!
This is also a reminder to Aiwass - look, there are still goblins that have not been dealt with.
"...And so it is, Great Aspect of the Halo, Son of the Candle, Lord of Miracles."
Grandet knelt respectfully. "I will dedicate the rest of my life to furthering your many great deeds and wonders. I vow to eradicate all vices and command my blood relatives and my guild to join me. We will strictly observe your prohibitions, abandoning what needs to be abandoned and forgetting what needs to be forgotten... We will honor your glory and spread your gospel."
"...I don't ask you to forgive all goblins, only my family. I am powerless to change them, so I must become independent from the goblin clan. From now on, we will no longer be goblins.
"——Please give me a name!"
This is absolutely unprecedented.
Some have gained independence from their former organizations, some have gained independence from their former countries... but I have never heard of anyone gaining independence from their former race!
Even Shylock and Isabel were shocked by Grandet's determination.
"...What a clever man, Grandet."
After a long silence, Aiwass's voice finally rang out: "Are you so sure that I can win?"
"—No matter who your enemy is, you will eventually triumph. Just as the sun will eventually rise."
Grandet flattered Aiwass in a firm, sonorous, low and magnetic voice.
In the face of absolute power, there are certainly those who are blind and unable to see the overall situation...but fortunately, smart people are often in high positions.
Although there are definitely confused people, it is not necessarily impossible to replace those confused people.
"Forget about renaming it... But I do still need you."
Aiwass pondered for a long time before making his final announcement: "Give your troll employees an identity, and bring them, along with the members of your Chamber of Commerce and family, to join Wanning. I only give you two weeks to transfer personnel and assets—before the end of the month, I will initiate a trial on the Southern Continent."
I have to say that Aiwass had not thought about the goblins before.
After all, the arrival of the Great Abyss and the founding of Wanning were too much...
But now that he remembered it, he really had to take care of it - just like completing an important side quest that had been shelved for a long time before entering the final battle where the save file could not be loaded.
Yes, by the way...
It's impossible that after he defeats the enemy, these villains will appear and steal the benefits, right?
Let’s get rid of the restless rats first - from what Grandet said, some of the goblins must be hostile to Aiwass.
But perhaps because the gap was too big, Aiwass didn't even have any intention of killing them.
For Aiwass now, freeing the goblins from their slavery to the trolls is really not a difficult task.
He had no good feelings towards either goblins or trolls. Some of them had committed some terrible things against humans and elves. He was only responsible for conducting a round of vengeful judgment, punishing all those who had committed unforgivable crimes justly and abolishing slavery, an ancient contract based on the Abyss.
After that, let them fight it out.
Change the terrain and lock up the island, let those who have grudges take revenge, and those who have been wronged redress their grievances - whether it means the annihilation of one side, shaking hands and making peace, mutual destruction, or separatist opposition... Since it is a blood feud between each other, don't affect others, just fight your own battles.
As for the goblins willing to enter the new era, let them follow Grandet. They would flee to the Kingdom of Wanning, abide by the new laws, and enter a new era. Although Aiwass did not grant them names, it was only because he feared that this would have some unknown impact on the mysticism - in fact, they were no longer the same species as their own kind.
After all, even Aiwass himself doesn't know what he will become after August 8th.
So before that, he wanted to make up for all his regrets and finish everything he wanted to do.
For that decisive battle with no escape and no witnesses.
Aiwass decided to leave no regrets.
(End of this chapter)
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