He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 53

Became the Greatest Crazy Emperor of All Time – Episode 53

Became the Greatest Crazy Emperor of All Time Episode 53

“Hah, hah……”

“Work! You useless human!”

Thwack!

“Ugh!”

The goblins were unequivocally using the kidnapped people as slaves.

The gate [a portal to another dimension or location] was large enough to be used as farmland, but perhaps because there were no livestock to plow the fields, they cruelly exploited the people instead.

Besides that, they seemed to be forcing them into near-death labor to make iron tools, various goods, and weapons.

Thud-

“Get up!”

Thwack!

“……”

A goblin whipped a man who had collapsed from exhaustion, but the man couldn’t get up.

“Useless thing! Drag him away and offer him as a sacrifice!”

“No, you can’t!”

As the goblin supervisor tried to drag him away, a scrawny, emaciated boy, still in shackles, ran up and blocked him.

“Get out of the way, little human!”

“Agh!”

The goblins beat the child who was trying to protect his father, but the child remained steadfast, shielding his father.

“I’ve had enough! Kill him and offer him as a sacrifice!”

In the end, the enraged goblins pulled out goblin-made curved blades.

“This is quite a sight. Goblins have lost their nerve.”

“Kuek?”

Swish!

The goblin, about to kill the child, had his neck cut off before he could even turn his head at the sound of my voice from behind.

“Keeek! Human intruder-”

Shuuuuuk! Pow!

“Fire at will!”

Shushushuk! Shushuk!

As Jack shot down the goblin who was trying to react, the mercenary adventurers who had been hiding also shot arrows and bolts, suppressing the goblins.

“Keeeek! Intruders! Intruders-”

Slash!

“Where do you think you’re going?”

The outpost was quite large, and the goblins were spread out.

I chased after them with high-speed movement, preventing them from organizing a response and killing them so that not a single one could escape.

Shuyuk! Pow!

“That was the last one. It won’t be long before they notice, but……”

“We’ll strike first before that happens. We need to take them out one by one before they group up! Quickly clear out this entire outpost.”

To make up for the numerical disadvantage, it was necessary to move even more boldly.

Jack and the mercenary adventurers seemed to have no objections, or perhaps they knew that now was not the time to voice them, so they all agreed.

“P, please release us!”

“We want to fight with you!”

“Let us avenge ourselves against those bastards!”

At that moment, the people who had been captured as slaves shouted. There was no time to release them one by one, but I cut the shackles of one person nearby with my sword.

“There’s no time to release everyone. You take care of releasing the others.”

“A, understood, sir!”

He was surprised that I had cut through the iron chains in one go, but he soon obeyed my command.

After that, we ignored them and resumed our offensive.

Bang!

“Wipe them out!”

“Kuek?”

Shushushuk!

In various parts of the outpost, we mercilessly attacked the goblins who didn’t even know what was happening yet.

As the outside was gradually cleared, we kicked down the buildings where the humans were being exploited and swept them clean.

The humans captured inside were being abused and ridiculed in every way.

“You bastards!”

“Kueeek!”

Even the mercenary adventurers, who were only interested in making money and had no interest in justice, showed human anger and slaughtered the goblins.

“Overwhelm them all at once and kill them!”

Of course, the goblins didn’t just stand still, and they slowly regained their senses and tried to counterattack using their numerical superiority.

“Insignificant things.”

Swaaaaaash!

But I waved my hand once as if I was annoyed, and accordingly, shadow blades swept through them like a broom.

Only the remains of the goblins remained where the shadow blades had passed.

“This place is cleared too.”

“I think we can take a breather. The people outside have revolted, so it seems we don’t need to do anything.”

I nodded, agreeing with Jack.

“Let’s release the captured people.”

“Yes!”

Jack, who answered me, immediately released the people inside the building with the mercenaries.

Inside, there were mainly people who could do production labor, and the proportion of women was high.

But there was one very special person among them.

“Thank you for saving me.”

“I just did what was natural. But are you perhaps a mage?”

“You recognize that I am a mage, knight.”

He was a young mage who looked haggard from hardship.

“Well, I can feel the mana ring [a magical aura or signature].”

“If you can feel the aura of magic, your level must be extraordinary.”

“Well, that’s why I saved you.”

“Anyway, thank you so much for saving me.”

“Okay, then I’d like you to tell me what happened here.”

The reason I took the risk and set foot here was to find out the goblins’ purpose rather than saving people.

The goblins must be doing something in connection with the demons, and the kidnapped people were not just brought in for labor purposes.

Clearly, there was a guy who said ‘sacrifice’ earlier.

“I was kidnapped while I was in a village by chance. And what happened here is…… First of all, there is something I want to show you. I’ll tell you on the way. Oh, by the way, my name is Aitbahn.”

“I’m Shadow. Nice to meet you.”

“Yes, Sir Shadow.”

It looked like a pseudonym no matter how you looked at it, but Aitbahn nodded without asking for his real name and took him somewhere in the outpost.

“Our saviors have come!”

“Those people rescued us.”

“Thank you, knights!”

The people who had been kidnapped and looked shabby expressed their gratitude and praise with emotion.

I and Jack took it for granted, but the mercenary adventurers who accompanied them seemed to be in a good mood.

Even though they had to risk danger again if the goblins counterattacked, they couldn’t help but feel good when they heard the praise that was hard to receive normally.

“As Sir Shadow thought, the goblins didn’t just capture us for labor.”

Leaving aside those who were feeling like heroes, I continued to listen to Aitbahn’s story.

“The goblins are trying to help their evil god with the help of the demons.”

“Their evil god is?”

“Gobomein. A lower god of the Greenskin race [a collective term for races like goblins, orcs, and trolls]. Ruling the goblins……”

Goblins’ god…… There were other gods besides the Empire’s Guardian God.

Well, there’s no way there wouldn’t be. That means that being blessed by a god, just like receiving power from the Empire’s Guardian Gods, may not be a unique thing that only happened to me.

“They started kidnapping people rapidly to offer sacrifices to that evil god.”

“I see. So what happens if that evil god gets stronger?”

“Of course, the goblins will become stronger than they are now.”

After hearing Aitbahn’s answer, I felt like I had heard something obvious, but I also felt a bit let down.

“Of course, that’s true, but…… Even if the goblins get stronger, isn’t it pretty much the same?”

Of course, it was difficult to be optimistic because I didn’t know how strong they would become, but I wondered if goblins, whose basic stats were terrible even if they were covered in buffs, would really be a threat.

“It’s not that easy to see. Goblins are weak, but their numbers are overwhelmingly large among the Greenskins.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

I could see what I had overlooked at Jack’s words.

Orcs, ogres, green trolls, and other Greenskins are basically all creatures with good reproductive abilities.

But goblins are the most overwhelmingly fertile among them.

While other guys give birth to two or three at most even if they say they are prolific, these guys easily give birth to six.

“The guys who were weak and couldn’t use their strength even if they had a large number of individuals will be in trouble if they become stronger.”

“Yes, the demons decided to receive their cooperation in exchange for giving them that method.”

“Then how can we stop that?”

Aitbahn stopped walking at my last question.

And he pointed to a strange statue on one side of where he stopped.

“We must destroy that totem.”

“Well, then it’s not difficult.”

Swish- Kagagak!

I swung my sword infused with aura and destroyed the statue, which was the epitome of ugliness modeled after the goblin’s evil god.

-Kiyaaaaaaaaaaak!

“Wh, what!”

“The curse is being released!”

When the statue was destroyed, a strange crimson smoke rose from the broken statue, making a ghostly sound.

Jack, the mercenaries, and Aitbahn maintained their composure, but the commoners shuddered at the eerie sight.

But soon the fog was being drawn towards me as if it were being sucked in.

The fog tried to escape, but it was soon absorbed into me.

Swoooooosh-

[You have destroyed the statue of Gobomein and stolen some of the power residing in it.]

“That’s strange, it must have been the magic power left in the statue. It was absorbed into you without scattering or returning to the main body.”

“I guess so.”

The ability to absorb power, which was fixed by taking elixirs [magical potions], seemed to have sucked in the power residing in that as well.

“It might be an impure power…… Are you okay?”

“It’s okay. It doesn’t seem to be anything wrong.”

If there was anything wrong, it would have appeared in the status window. The status window was quiet without any warnings.

“Then is this the end?”

“No. There are things like this all over this outpost. Drawing a magic circle. We have to destroy them all.”

“And of course, the goblins are guarding it.”

After hearing Aitbahn’s words and understanding the situation, I pondered what to do now.

As important as that is, there will be an enormous number of goblins in this gate.

This outpost is just one of them. Already, at least 300 goblins have been killed here.

Not all of them were strong individuals, and they couldn’t resist the surprise attack, so they were defeated, but it couldn’t be the same in other places.

“If you think about safety, it’s right to retreat.”

“Then all the people who are still captured will die. There will be at least thousands. But it’s more of a problem that we can’t stop their plan.”

If we leave here now, they will somehow move and hide the gate.

And there is no way to find it again. If that happens, we can’t stop the plan for the goblins to ascend.

“There is no other choice. We stop them here now.”

“But there are not enough troops to do that……”

Jack said with a troubled look, though he wasn’t scared.

The number of goblins in this place is at least thousands, no, it wouldn’t be strange if it exceeded tens of thousands.

No matter how much better their combat power is than those guys, they will run out of arrows to shoot.

“We have no choice but to plunder the arrows. The problem is the number of people. But there are people who can help.”

After speaking to Jack, I immediately took the Holy Sword and went to the people around me.

“Imperial citizens, listen to my words! I am Shadow, a knight of His Majesty the Emperor. I have saved you by his order.”

Of course, that emperor is me, and I have never given such an order to myself, but I didn’t feel guilty about that level of fabrication.

“Now that I see it, it was His Majesty who sent you!”

“His Majesty tried to save us…… Well, thanks to him, we’ve been able to live a little better lately……. If it weren’t for those goblin bastards.”

Most of them were people from the Central Territory, and they were friendly to the ‘Emperor’.

This was because he had moderately taken care of the merchants who used to directly exploit them or act as henchmen of the lords, and started businesses that would be helpful to the people’s livelihood.

The frontier development project was booming from the start, so these were the people whose lives would have been a little better if it weren’t for the goblins’ rampage.

“However, there are still those who have not been saved. Your help is needed to save them. Those who have received His Majesty’s grace, would you please fight to repay his grace?”

I was thinking of persuading them by using the good public opinion about the emperor.

Of course, I could threaten them with a knife, but it was better to persuade them because their morale wouldn’t be good if I forced them.

Of course, I didn’t intend to appeal only to this grace.

“They exploited you, took away your precious things, and killed you. Won’t you take revenge on them!”

“Please let us do it!”

“If you don’t like that, are you even human!”

“Let’s kill the goblins!”

“A good goblin is a dead goblin!”

Fortunately, the speech was effective.

Everyone was about to become goblin slayers, so there was no need to worry about troops anymore.

We can recycle the goblins’ weapons too…….

[The crowd is inspired by your speech.]