Chapter 2 . Certain spurious conclusions.
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The small army moved down through the lower levels and after a few days came to the Goblin City.
Sunite forces had killed everyone, without any mercy.
If it had green skin, then it died. That simple.
Even if that green skin was crying in its crib, helpless and innocent.
THIS IS WHAT MAL WEAR EXPECTED:
Dingy cave corners,
Piles of rubbish and bone everywhere.
Squalor and dung.
Crude goblin art and totems smeared with enemy blood and their own faeces.
BUT THAT DID NOT HAPPEN!
THIS IS WHAT MAL WEAR, ACTUALLY SAW
Hardened ancient volcanic rock carved into regular squares and all the surfaces highly polished.
There was far less dirt around than would be found in any human city. (Apart from the gore of all the dead from the recent slaughter of the goblin race.)
Mal Wear had no idea how this could be true, as there were no drainage or sewer trenches for toilet waste disposal.
There were not only any drainage trenches or rubbish pits but also no potholes or lumps in the roads.
The roads were perfectly flat, wide and polished to the same high standard that the house rooms were.
The polish was so high in the black volcanic rock that the slightest bit of light happily bouned around every surface, making the most of it.
This from a race that can see in pitch darkness.
“Ahhh!” thought Mal Wear, this city most have been abandoned by an ancient race and then the cave goblins moved in, hundreds, maybe even thousands of years later!
There were two problems with Mal Wears conclusion,
1)
It was wrong,
And
2)
It was bigoted.
This was a goblin city, made for goblins by goblins.
It was a city that was less than a hundred years old and one of their smaller racial examples that laked certain standard amenities, that the larger goblin populations centres enjoyed.
Mal Wears spurious, incorrect, conclusion comforted him.
After nearly a day of exploring some scout shouted out.
In a nearby arch temple or some sort of cathedral, (in reality what the goblins called a small local church) a large dead creature had been found.
Chaos symbols surrounded every surface.
It was bulbous and nearly formless.
A mass of tentacles, tendrils and carious sphincters and orifices.
It had been “Dressed” in glorious robes and decked in precious jewellery, denoting some kind or high office.
“Hell,” Thought Mal Wear “Did they worship this thing!”
The rebels super small army camped and set up defences.
The goblin contingent did not join them, as they usually did.
In the morning the streets were spotless and clear of any battle debris and goblin dead.
This amazed and puzzled all the humans.
Where had all the mess gone?
Something had taken bodies!
Rumours of shadows and evil things that stole the dead circulated among the humans.
Gobbycite the goblin chief asked his translator,
“Why are the humans so jumpy all of a sudden”
His translator shrugged,
“ ‘Law’ if I know!”
(‘Law’ is used as a curse or swear word in this context)
“They were ok yesterday,” Continued the translator, “Yet today they are all a bit freaked out.”
Gobbycite the goblin chief shrugged and continued his Human Language lessons with his translator.
Gobbycite knew there was no point expecting the humans to learn any goblin tongue.
Humans were notoriously arrogant and ignorant.
This was, unfortunately, Not just a mere spurious conclusion, THAT was a fact you could take to the figurative bank!
Because despite what the humans believed, the goblins were a very clean race.
Or as the goblins would have put it themselves instead, they kept to certain basic standards.
It could not occur to the humans that the goblins had, out of remaining pride, cleaned the city that they all would soon abandon.
Author Note:
Yes, the goblins did worship Chaos,
Yes, their society is “supper” well ordered.
Yes, the two facts do not seem to fit together at the moment,
Stay tuned and see if you can work out the details, Before I explain them!
The city had its large roads lead off in twenty-four different directions.
All eight points of the compass had three roads. Each compass point having a road that went up and down as well as straight and horizontal flat.
(There were, actually, twenty-six exits from the city, The Human rebels failed to recognise the up-down elevator system that they had mistaken for a very large empty caught yard.)
(There was far more than that if you also included the “Magic Portal Room” that acted as a public airport does in our world.)
With all these exits, how did the goblin inhabitants here get overwhelmed so quickly?
How come none of them managed to escape?
Because the Sunites had a demon seal possessed general leading them with immense power.
The possesses person was fooled and deluded into thinking that he was a holy warrior.
The human half of the army was not happy staying here,
For the sake of moral, Mal Wear had to order a move-out straight away.
But to where?
“Screw it,” thought Mal Wear,
“I will just keep faking confidence and take the north road with the middle, flat non elevation.”
Eventually, Mal would need to show some proper leadership.
Time was running out for merely, constantly, bluffing it!
Fate was about to throw some yucky poop at the very fast-spinning fan of life!
The Sunite’s had lost a valuable leader and four armies.
They did not know how it had happened.
But they were never going to let a handful of rebels get away with that!
If the sledgehammer did not crack this fugitive rebel walnut,
Then they would try a steamroller instead!
That walnut MUST be destroyed!
The pride and honour of the Sunite Empire demanded it!
No wasteful, time-consuming, armies this time.
This time just the five spiritual brothers of the fallen Sunite leader.
The remaining four “Fingers” of the sinister hand of the Sunite empire.
And the sinister hand palm herself!
Five super beings in total!
Each possessed by an evil soul seal demon of chaos, giving them a huge amount of power each.
Each a religious zealot, convinced that they were blessed and fighting for holly righteousness, order and holiness,
(While the demons inside, controlled them and giggled at their expense!)
Each member, self-inflicting victims of the ultimate, spurious conclusion.
This is the, all too common, Ultimate spurious conclusion of ALL religious zealots everywhere,
That any evil act, of any type, can ever be blessed or sanctioned by a truly good deity or faith.
How many religious wars and persecutions are likewise secretly controlled by the forces of evil.
Giving credence to the argument that all types of faiths are, therefore, logically, also evil?
Answer…
All of them.
Because, logically, a truly good deity or faith is forever truly good.
While all evil, lies, warps, obfuscates, blurs, and infiltrates the faiths of truth and of goodness and holiness and all those that worship it, in all its forms.
It is not rocket science to figure out!
If your faith ever tells you to hate,
(No matter what the reason)
Then it is no longer a holy faith.
It has been instead, been secretly taken over by evil forces masquerading and misleading you!
Easy!
This should be both, blatant, common sense, and extremely obvious,
BUT…
Humans ARE very, Very, VERY stupid creatures!
Don’t believe me?!
Then, Just ask any sentient non human?!
- Writer
