Book 2: Chapter 18

She picks up one of my sex dolls and rips the spine right out of its throat, much like I had done to a certain group of thieves the other day. Yikes, she is quite scary. I am glad these dolls aren’t as finished as Cindy, which is to say that they don’t have any blood or inner parts. So, for the most part, the pile of parts the goblin was tossing the dolls into looks more like a pile of prosthetics rather than any kind of gory scene.

The goblins who lost their sex toys were quickly distracted by another sex toy, although given the growing ratio of goblins to sex toys, many of the toys were taking 2 or more men at a time. One girl was fucking eight men at a time. As to how that is possible, let’s just say during experimentation I added a few extra holes in some of the dolls as an experiment.

“Keep working hard ladies.” I silently give them a thumbs up for continuing to battle the Goblin Queen’s army by putting their bodies on the line.

At this point, the Goblin Queen has finally noticed my approach and stopped bringing down sex dolls. She gives me a cautious stare as her head cocks to the side.

“Is it you, human, who seduced my army so?”

I'm not sure “seduced” is the right word. Is hanging bait in front of a fish “seducing” the fish if they happen to take a bite? Still, I'm glad the Goblin Queen can talk. It’d be awkward if she could only responds in grunts.

“Your army is meaningless.” I give a shrug and point at her. “You’re mine.”

“Courtship, is it?” The Goblin Queen growls back. “You wish to make me submit and take my army for yourself? Many have attempted to tame this Queen and all of them have lost their heads.”

I find myself a bit surprised that she is on board. Perhaps this is an aspect of goblin culture. A goblin man must beat down a goblin woman in order to conquer her. Well, this is certainly more applicable to my way of thinking.

“Very well, if I win, your army leaves, and I claim you as my prize.”

“And what if I win?”

I give a chuckle. “Well, that’s not even possible, but if you somehow win then what would you want?”

The Queen stares darkly for a moment. “You’re a mage, yes?”

“Ah, you could say that. I can use a large variety of magic. I suppose at the core, that’s my strength.”

The Goblin Queen cracks a smile. “Very well. I might need a mage. If I win, you will be my royal dog. You can sit at my feet, licking up the scraps I throw to you, and cast the spells I want when I want them.”

I shrug, “Sounds fine. After all, I’m very confident in my magic.”

The Queen’s smile grows as her eyes gleam. “I’m counting on it. It’ll serve me well as I conquer this world and make it my own. Shall we begin?”

“Ladies first.” I smile.

“Then excuse me if I won’t be polite!” As she says this, she pulls her sword and swings it at me.

At the same time, there is a glow shockwave that shoots from her body. It doesn’t appear to be dangerous, just some kind of supplementary skill, so I ignore the shockwave and move to strike the sword. As it comes down, I go to meet it with my hand. I use a spell that will cause the sword to turn to dust the second it strikes my hand.

The sword strikes my hand, and then keeps going. Pain shoots through my arm. I leap back as the remaining strike barely misses me and strikes the ground with a thunderous roar. I look down at my hand in shock. A long brutal gash has formed, blood leaking out, and it throbs in pain. If it wasn’t for the stats I had modified to make myself generally slightly OP’d, I’d have died already.

“What’s a matter mage?” The Goblin Queen laughed. “Things not going according to plan?”

“What have you done?” I ask nervously.

She pulls her hair back and gives another laugh as she shakes my blood off her sword. “I have an anti-mage skill. Prevents you from casting magic for the duration of our battle. For a man ‘confident’ in his magic, you could say I am your worst enemy.”

The blood drains from my face. It didn’t matter what spell I could create now because I couldn’t cast them. So even if I created an anti-magic immunity spell, unless I could cast it the first time, then I would never be able to use it. Now, my stats are only strong. After Kida, I had scaled them back a bit so that I didn’t overdo it. I also can’t make my magic armor and weapon appear either!

While the magic I had cast in the past would make sure I didn’t die from this match, no matter what, that didn’t speak to being temporarily knocked unconscious. Should that happen, then I’d be stuck as the Goblin Queen’s new dog. The first time since I had been to this world I feel a bit worried.