In her mind, a childhood memory emerged at this moment.

 

“It’s a curse, something the White Cat Clan abhors. She must have been abandoned by the White Cat Clan and picked up by these humans.

 

These humans will take her to the side of human nobles. Not only will she become a plaything for the nobles, but she will also be transformed into a puppet dead soldier.”

 

“This child, she’s not even two years old yet, she doesn’t understand anything. Shouldn’t we save her?”

 

“No. A beggar, a livestock, they’re worth more in terms of salvation and value than her.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Why else? Because she’s from the White Cat Clan, who have always been hostile to our Black Cat Clan. The moment I saw her, I restrained the impulse to kill her. That’s already the greatest kindness I can show her. We don’t need to risk everything for this baby!

 

Our child is only one year old now. What if something happens to us?”

 

“But she’s just a child under two years old. If even a child is to be hated, this world is too pitiful.”

 

“You pity her, but who pities us? We’re hiding everywhere, barely surviving, skinny like skeletons. The little food we have, we have to ration it out with water every day.

 

Now we’re desperately working for those disgusting and ugly human nobles just to secure this bit of stability. Do you really want us to offend those nobles for the sake of a White Cat Clan member? Is that possible?

 

Alisha, we are destitute low-level migrants, not respected philanthropists. Before making a choice, consider us first.”

 

…

 

…

 

“Alisha, she must have gone far by now, right?”

 

“Koji, you… you said you wouldn’t save this baby girl, right? Why…”

 

“Ha ha, I don’t know why either. It just happened, seeing her terrified gaze seeking help from others. Every time I recall it in my mind, I always mistake her for myself when I was captured as a child. Back then, no one extended a helping hand to me.

 

I longed for someone, a fool who would unconditionally bring a glimmer of light to a child in the darkness. But in the end, there was no one.

 

Now, as I think about it, unknowingly, I’ve become that fool.

 

Take her away from here, take good care of her.

 

Don’t tell her about what happened today. Redemption isn’t about making her live her whole life in the cage of gratitude. If one day she wants to leave, let her go.”

 

This is the memory engraved in the heart of a girl who was not yet two years old that day, unknown to anyone.

 

The wise stay out of love’s river, while fools meddle in right and wrong.

 

Adas raised her head, opened the room, faced the man in the room, and closed the door behind her.

 

“My future is determined by my own will.

 

And I will give that father’s child and the Black Cat clan a future!”

 

If humans can’t provide this future, then let the goblins do it.

 

That morning, with the weather fair and beautiful, and the scenery pleasant in the Strange Misty Forest, filled with the scent of flowers and the songs of birds.

 

In the underground goblin nest, in the room filled with the scent of a woman’s first night, a woman with beautiful, silky white long hair, a pair of lively and cute white cat ears, and a smooth white back lay quietly wrapped in the bedding, facing away from the male goblin sitting on the other side of the bed, lying quietly on her side.

 

Suddenly, the woman spoke.

 

“If… if I want the child to be free, would you let her go?”

 

The woman’s voice echoed in the empty room, and a smile gradually appeared on the corner of the goblin emperor’s mouth.

 

“I’ve said it before, come to me, and you’ll get everything you want.”

 

That day, a girl from the White Cat clan gave her life without regrets for the girl from the Black Cat clan.

 

The goblin emperor successfully recruited a loyal follower—Adas, the White Cat magician.

 

Chen Le stretched lazily in bed. The goblin emperor’s energy was endless, but last night, he slept with a woman in his arms after a long time.

 

Sure enough, he felt more refreshed after waking up.

 

Chen Le glanced under the bed and checked Adas’s information.

 

Name: White Cat Noble (Conde Adas)

 

Age: 62 years

 

Attack: 7 (+12)

 

Health: 28 (+67)

 

Magic: 92 (+543)

 

Intelligence: 40 (+92)

 

Physical resistance: 2 (+6)

 

Magic resistance: 6 (+20)

 

“Attributes: Extreme Ice (Level 2), Wind, Water

 

Occupation: Advanced Mage (Cannot be specified)

 

Special Skills: Predator Instinct, White Cat Mark, Curse Crown of Ice Ghosts

 

Inheritance: Curse Crown, Extreme Ice, Ice

 

Current Hope Value: 50

 

The White Cat Mark should be the silver-white magical mark on Adas, similar to the one on that black cat girl’s body.

 

The curse, however, is different. In the memories inherited from Chen Le’s goblin ancestors, it’s a curse with random effects that manifests at birth, targeting only those cursed individuals.

 

Such curses are considered ominous among the White Cat Clan. Once a clan member shows signs of this curse, to prevent the spread of this gene, the baby is usually abandoned.

 

However, apart from imposing negative effects on the cursed individual, this curse can also allow the cursed person’s power to influence others. This is the reason why this ‘Curse Crown’ is a special skill.

 

In simple terms, it’s an uncontrollable double-edged sword.

 

If humans discover such a baby, they would be overjoyed and would train and transform it into a killing machine.

 

With such a tragic background and fate, Adas’s hatred for humans and her own kind must have been deeply rooted. In the past, she had no choice but to seek survival opportunities in the human world.

 

But now, she has a new choice and has placed all her hopes on the goblin emperor who appeared before her.

 

A hope value of 50 is enough to prove her determination.

 

Chen Le got out of bed, dressed, pushed open the door of the room, and went up to the hall of the goblin lair, deep in thought.

 

This time, he bet right.

 

After Chen Li captured that black cat girl, he actually didn’t need to show up anymore. The rest could be left to Hiba and the others to handle.

 

Even if he showed up, he couldn’t stop Adas from leaving. On the contrary, it would expose his existence.

 

But Chen Le chose to show up to inform this White Cat Clan girl of his existence and extend an invitation to her.

 

Even if he didn’t show up, Adas would assume there’s a goblin king here, but a mere goblin king wouldn’t gain Adas’s approval.

 

She would hesitate about who to tell to figure out how to safely rescue Sevradore and Casandra from the goblin cave.

 

This time, the bet of showing up wasn’t too big, just a small gamble.

 

Now, the addition of the Black Cat Clan was undoubtedly a good thing. It could provide him with more suitable females for pregnancy and maids to take care of the emperor’s harem.

 

Of course, everything had to be done gradually, without being too hasty.

 

The goblin emperor, who understood human nature deeply, knew that only in warmth would they continually fall into darkness.

 

In the dark goblin lair, the mysterious and magnificent goblin emperor gradually revealed a devilish smile.

 

…

 

…

Outside the Strange Misty Forest, the tranquility of the night was broken by the morning.

 

An old man and several people dressed in black magical robes sat together by the extinguished torch, their gaze falling on a certain area in the center of the Strange Misty Forest.

 

“Everyone, we’re getting close,” the old man reminded, a hint of joy appearing at the corner of his mouth.

 

Sitting on a stone, her lower face covered with black cloth, and a woman with a broad and majestic figure, raised her indifferent gaze along with the old man’s to the direction of the goblin lair in the Strange Misty Forest.

 

On the other side of the tree branch, a middle-aged man was lying there, he took off the sleep mask blocking his eyes and fell from the tree.

 

Shaking the black sleep mask on his fingers, he leaned against the tree and said expressionlessly, “Miser, you should know, we didn’t come here for nothing.”

 

This old man was none other than Miser, who had previously made a deal with the goblins in the Strange Misty Forest!

 

Miser’s eyes flickered. “Rest assured, we’ve already investigated. That red devil goblin is most likely a goblin hero, born under the patronage of a Silver King Goblin somewhere in the world.

 

If we capture it, we can use the patronage on it to find the Goblin King.”

 

Chapter 74 No, it will be bad if it breaks…

 

“The medicine it gave us shouldn’t be wrong. It can’t be an ordinary red devil goblin.”

 

“A red devil hero…”

 

Wuze, the middle-aged man, furrowed his brows slightly, seeming to find the trouble in front of him not easy to solve.

 

“Hero goblins are not easy to deal with. Among goblins of the same rank, they are weak and can’t usually defeat their peers in one-on-one combat. But these special individuals are troublesome.”

 

Miser’s old face, wrinkled like tree bark, showed a smile that was unsettlingly kind at first glance.

 

He said, “It’s probably equivalent to a high-level magical beast of four or five stars. Plus, with the blessing of a Silver King Goblin, the level of this red devil goblin is probably close to a six-star high-level magical beast. If it’s equipped with suitable weapons and equipment, it’s at least a top-tier seven-star high-level magical beast.”

 

“The team led by this red devil goblin hero is simple, just a dozen or so purple demon goblins, white ghost goblins, plus hundreds of ordinary goblins and some wild forest wolves commanded by the purple demon goblin commander. There’s no second red devil goblin.”

 

Wuze pondered as he swung the eye mask.

 

At this moment, Miser shook his head and corrected, “No. A red devil goblin hero is capable of giving birth to red devil goblins, and more than twenty days ago, Kemon’s beloved wife, the stunning beauty Naga from our noble mercenary guild, was already dragged back to their nest by those lustful goblins.

 

Before that, there was also a noble miss and a female knight who were captured and taken back to the goblin nest.

 

It’s not ruled out that these lucky women have already given birth to several batches of new goblins for the goblins. In this generation of goblins, it’s still possible for a new red devil goblin to appear.”

 

“Are you overestimating the probability of high-level goblin births?”

 

Wuze said casually, “Even if it’s a red devil goblin hero, the probability of it giving birth to a red devil goblin within half a year is not high. Moreover, how long has it been born? Even if it has given birth, the new goblins may not have grown up yet.”

 

Miser chuckled, “Heh, perhaps you’re right.”

 

The man next to him, with a sinister expression, licked his lips and said, “That life fairy, the beautiful woman, I’ve seen her before. She’s indeed beautiful, but unfortunately, she has her husband around, so I couldn’t play with her. Now she’s been used by those disgusting goblins, what a pity.”

 

“Hehe.” Miser chuckled softly, “She’s still alive now. If you want to use her, it’s not impossible.”

 

“That might work too, hehe.” The man grinned widely, his expression particularly dangerous.

 

The other people had no particular opinion on the man’s words and thoughts; they simply ignored them.

 

The middle-aged man’s gaze fell on the voluptuous woman next to him at this moment. She was the one the others were wary of and dared not approach.

 

“Hey, newcomer, we’re counting on you.”

 

All eyes turned to the purple-haired girl sitting on the stone with her head down and expressionless.

 

Despite her youthful appearance and the black cloth scarf-like covering around the lower half of her face, she was considered easy to deal with, like a vase.

 

Her name was Dunei, a super rookie who had recently joined the organization known as the “Traffickers.”

 

Her ruthlessness sent shivers down the spines of some of the older members of the organization, and her strength surpassed everyone present.

 

Even Miser, who wasn’t a member of the organization, had heard of her recent joining.

 

With this powerful figure around, there was no need to fear the red devil goblin hero. Even if they couldn’t kill it, holding it back wouldn’t be a problem. Once the other goblins were eliminated, everyone could join forces to attack the red devil goblin hero. Then, these thieves could easily take over the goblin lair.

 

No, wait, they were here to rescue the heroines who had fallen into the goblin’s nest. How could they be considered thieves?

 

However, unbeknownst to everyone, this young woman had her own agenda.

 

Dunei’s expressionless gaze fell on the extinguished matchsticks in front of her, but her mind was already elsewhere.

 

Dunei, a former member of the Secret Service of the Holy Covenant Church, was now working as a spy, infiltrating the notorious international criminal organization known as the “Traffickers.”