"I haven't seen you around these parts. Just who are you?? Grigeuk"
"Well I am..."
As soon as Bane got out of the nest after taking care of a few 'important things' he was greeted with two goblins holding onto something resembling spears?
'Those are too crude to be called spears.'
Bane was more used to seeing those expensive spears that humans used imbued with magic enhancement jewels and spear heads made of admontite.
What were these in front of them? They seemed more like stupide stones fixed atop of sticks.
But that didn't mean that these spears weren't of any less threat to the current Bane. The stones looked sharp... sharp enough to slice his neck at his current level. And what was the purple fluid smeared on top of them? Bane was wary.
He raised his arms in surrender not being sure if that was a gesture that the goblins understood.
"Brother, I think he lost his clothes and has come to our clan looking for one, Grigeuk" the other goblin holding his spear pointed out.
"Shut up, that's no reason for him come out of the nest."
Bane raised his brows as he looked down.
His brother was hanging freely in the air.
'Of all the things!'
Who would have thought that goblins would find him suspicious just because he had no clothes?
He prepared so much but he couldn't be too prepared.
'Well, there is no way I could have prepared clothes in that nest anyway....'
That is when a sudden thought came to his mind causing his eyes to glitter.
'Wait maybe, I can skin out humans and make clothes of them? Why didn't I think of this before? I have to try this sometime.'
The thought of using humans as materials never crossed his mind.
After all, humans usually used monsters as materials. Bane being a former human had some man made rules injected into his brain.
But if he flipped the situation then wouldn't goblins be perfectly be capable of using humans they captured as materials as well?
It was only fitting for those despicable humans to be used that way considering that they themselves invented such methods.
But it was only a speculation on Bane's part. The ways of the goblins had yet to be confirmed.
'At least the speech recognition is helping a bit but I literally came out of a fuck nest. I was just a baby but a moment ago. Why the hell do they care about clothes! And they are monsters at that.'
Bane could find no other way for them to have figure out that he was an outsider.
To him all the goblins looked the same with virtually no difference.
it was the same green skin and the same features to him with no way to distinguish.
But for the goblins that was hardly the case.
"Brother, let's take him to the central. He should be punished for taking our women. Grigeuk Grigeuk!"
"Griguek Griguek! Punished. Punished! Cut it off! Cut it off!"
The situation was quickly sloping off Bane's fingers.
"Wait, you are all wrong! I belong here. I was born in this nest and just evolved into a goblin," Bane cried curbing the truth a little bit to make it a little bit more believable.
"An evolution so fast? Griguek! Brother, he is lying."
"I am not."
Bane shook his head fervently as if his life depended on it. He didn't even know any routes to escape so his only hope was to persuade his kin to believe him.
Was perhaps his decision to come out too hasty to get him into trouble?
Bane had to do something fast.
"Today, I was served human meat as food by the adults with something mixed in it. It had a strange fragrance that immediately made me hungry. After eating it, I evolved into a goblin."
The goblins glanced at each other as they nodded.
Bane wasn't sure what they had just agreed upon and could only squint his eyes.
One of them held the spear a bit closer to Bane's neck. Bane could feel the coldness of it already. While the other one approached Bane from the side and sniffed onto his body.
"Keuk Keuk."
*Sniff* *Sniff*
The sniffing goblin with the long nose pulled back as it held onto its chin.
"Grigeuk, strange. Looks like he might be saying the truth. He doesn't have any male odor despite being in there. Keuk Keuk."
Bane could leave a sigh of relief.
It was quite counterintuitive to what Bane had expected but the goblins seemed to be capable of reason at least.
He wasn't sure what they concluded with, but Bane could only thank his luck. He had a little idea though...
Bane was in a fuck nest, and despite that he hadn't had any sex.
So his body wasn't giving out any male pheromones either. His body still probably gave off a pungent smell of ammonia owing to the fact that he was born where his mother had pissed.
That probably went a long way it proving his innocence.
'But why does it feel like they are mocking me?'
As if to prove Bane's suspicion the other one holding the spear pulled back and started laughing as well.
"Keuk Keuk, new goblin couldn't do it. Keuk Keuk, new goblin is barren."
"Can't even get it up. Keuk Keuk."
"Oy, aren't you guys expecting too much from a new born kid?" Bane retorted.
'And here I thought they are reasonable. Sorry, I take that back.'
Bane had still some of his human habits left after all. He could hardly pay notice to those blood soaked women who were already raped by multiple goblins. They were not even the least bit alluring to him who in his previous life had already gone through the charms of flesh.
"Anyway, come with me. Can't have you moving like that. Griguek."
"Brother, I will come too. Griguek."
The goblin glared at his brother.
Bane was now starting to wonder how these goblins even knew who was whose brother if all of them came from the same fuck nest?
How would they know there fathers if the same woman was being raped by multiple goblins?
'It kind of seems weird.'
"No! Who will keep watch if both of us are gone?"
"Griguek... griguek," the younger one shriveled up.
Bane couldn't help but think that the exchange between the two was kind of cute despite both of them being vile green monsters.
They started moving. With Bane's earlier experience with the goblins and being treated as an intruder, Bane was avoiding acting suspicious.
Bane was aware that moving anywhere else other than the goblin guard would only leave Bane with even more trouble since he wasn't properly recognized as part of the tribe.
"Let's get you something for you wear first. Griguek."
"Eh why? I mean... yes as you say."
"No one here wants to see your willy, so you better hide it properly."
Bane nodded fervently though he still had doubts.
The guard who was leading him had something of a hide wrapped around his waist the covered his nether regions. Judging by the flow conversations Bane was going to get something similar.
But Bane couldn't understand why.
They were monsters anyway. An all male race at that.
What was the point of monsters trying to hide their groins? At least Bane had hardly seen any monsters do that other than the goblins.
Bane did recall that most of time he had fought goblins they were wearing something or the other.
But leaving that out most monsters did indeed moved around naked.
And all last but not the least, all of them had a habit to fuck the same woman together in circles. Bane clearly remembered the things he had to bear in his vicinity while he feasted on human flesh. He had lost his appetite because of it.
If they had no sense of shame, then why wear clothes?
"Must be a goblin thing."
As Bane looked around he did find the surroundings quite interesting.
The weakly build structures of leaves and bamboos. It was that perhaps tents where the goblins lived?
But there were no pathways paved or anything like that. They were only walking over grass that had already dried out due to being stepped on far too many times.
'It seems like they have their own society here. If I want them to accept me, I have to learn about them and try to adjust to their tastes, if I want them to help me survive.'
Bane planned to move on his own once he grows confident in his strength. At least confident enough that he could survive on his own. Till then he had to rely on this goblin settlement.
Not to mention he could always count on the humans to carry out a surprise goblin extermination anytime. Some jobless hunters might even drop by just to kill time.
"Here take this, grigeuk."
Taking Bane to what seemed like a similar tent to the others, the guard picked out something resembling his own clothes and tossed it to Bane.