The sun is gradually setting.

The sky was covered with the sunset, so that the sunlight shining on the earth was softer and less intense than during the day.

Rig and Artoria walked along the shore together, listening to the sound of the waves and the sea breeze.

It's just that neither of them spoke, neither of them turned their eyes to each other, they just walked quietly without saying a word.

This state has been maintained for a long time.

After coming out of Eckert's workshop, the two of them were in this state. Rieg didn't take the initiative to speak.

Artoria didn't know what to say.

As a result, the two of them became what they are now, and for a while, it was as if they had nothing to say.

Of course, this silence does not make people feel uncomfortable, but there is a feeling of serious thinking and careful consideration of what is going to be said next, as if an extremely tense debate is about to begin, and people always feel that they are full of strength in their bodies.

Finally, Artoria was the first to speak.

"So you know about the Child of Prophecy." Artoria smiled silly, and said as if she haha, "I thought you wouldn't know anything to save me."

After being silent for so long, as a result, the first topic that Artoria provoked turned out to be like this. This made Rieger feel a little ridiculous.

"Is there a difference?" Rig didn't look at Artoria, just looked ahead, and as he continued to walk forward, he said, "Whether you are the Child of Prophecy or not, I will rescue you in that situation, so you don't need to worry about this."

It's true.

Artoria saw through this instantly, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in her heart. On the surface, though, Artoria was nonchalant.

"After all, you are a good person, and you will definitely not die without help." Artoria held the staff of choice in both hands and followed behind Rieger, but whispered, "It's strange that a good man like you would say that this country is not worth saving."

This is the second point that Artoria cares about after the identity question just now. She really didn't expect that someone would say something like that.

For as long as Artoria can remember, everyone around her has been telling her that she is the child of prophecy, destined to defeat the queen, be crowned the true king, save the goblins, and save the existence of this country, so it is the first time that someone has told her in front of her that this country is not worth saving, and she does not need to follow any mission at all.

This kind of remark was quite new to Artoria, and at the same time made her feel strange.

But Rieg said so.

"First of all, I'm not a good person, at least the kind of statement you said that I would definitely not die without salvation is absolutely wrong." Li Ge didn't look back and said, "I'm not the kind of person who will not hesitate to rescue anyone in trouble, for example, if I were you, I would definitely not have any attachment to the village of Tintajel, let alone prevent others from drawing knives and hacking the village goblins to death when they were thrown into a dungeon, I would never be so kind."

Artoria knew that Rigg was referring to what had happened when she first encountered the goblins of the Wind Clan in the dungeon.

At that time, seeing that Rig was about to draw a knife to attack, Artoria saw through the confidence in Rig's heart with her unique "eyes".

If this man drew his sword, the goblins of the Wind Clan would definitely be hacked to death. Artoria, who was so convinced, didn't even think about it, and directly shouted out to Rig and made him stop.

Obviously he was imprisoned in the dungeon by the villagers and was ready to be handed over to the execution squad for execution, but Artoria was still willing to help the goblins in the village, and Rieg made it clear that if it was him, he would definitely not be able to do it.

"What kind of good person am I? You're a good guy, aren't you? And he's a bad guy!" Rieg said, "Based on this, your opinion was wrong from the beginning, understand?"

With that, Rig stopped and walked no further. "Ahh

Artoria, who almost hit Rige's back, couldn't help but exclaim, quickly stopped and braked in time.

Rige turned and looked at Artoria.

"Secondly, I don't think there's anything wrong with what I'm saying." Rige looked at Artoria and said, "I ask you, do you think this country is worth saving?"

This question directly stumped Artoria. Is this country worth saving?

Artoria really didn't know.

Before that, Artoria had basically never left Tintagel, and although she had seen a lot of goblins, they were basically goblins inside Tinta Gir, and she hadn't seen many goblins outside.

In other words, although Artoria knows that she is in the country of goblins, what is this country like, even if she has seen it, where has she seen it all?

Since she hadn't seen them all, and didn't know the whole face of the country, how could Artoria have a way to boast about the sea and evaluate whether the country was worth saving?

Rieger seems to see this, too.

"What I'm going to say next is that from my point of view, which is from a human point of view." Rige first stated, and then spoke.

"To humans, goblins are actually a terrifying existence." There is no doubt about it.

This is not only because the elves are inherently far more powerful than humans, but also because the humans in this country are dominated by the elves.

The real horror of the goblins, as far as Rig is concerned, lies in their minds.

This kind of creature that is different from humans has a different worldview, outlook on life, and values in all its worldview, outlook on life, and values.

"Human beings have their own code of conduct and their own moral bottom line, but goblins don't." "Humans know what to do and what not to do, but elves don't." "Humans will know how to restrain themselves and influence others, but elves can't."

"The elves I know are such beings, they should be no different from what you remember, right?"

In response to Rige's question, Artoria chose to remain silent. She couldn't refute any of this.

Indeed, the goblin is what Rieg calls such an existence.

Take the goblin prank incident mentioned earlier in Scotland, where some goblin pranks are mentioned in the goblin legends.

For example, they can make people who happen to pass by lose their memory.

For example, they lure children into the forest so that they can't go home for a week.

For example, they will replace newborn babies with fairy children, or secretly put some animal carcasses in front of someone's house to scare humans.

These pranks are just pranks in the eyes of the goblins, just a small joke, they just do it for fun, just to have fun, to see the panicked appearance of humans to have fun, but these jokes of theirs are an out-and-out crisis for humans.

People who lose their memories will forget all the important people and things and become the walking dead.

When the children lured into the forest were found a week later, they had been reduced to food for the beasts, and only the remains remained.

Newborn babies are lost, parents cannot be found, desperate deaths abound, and people who are secretly placed on the doorstep of animal carcasses are suspected of being a cult, and then arrested, slandered, and finally run away amid other people's rumors, some move to other places, and the most serious are autistic and depressed.

This is known as a goblin prank.

In their eyes, it is just a game, but for humans, it is a matter of life and death.

To them, it's just a frolic, but to humans, it's deadly.

Fairies are like this, they have no sense of gain or loss, they don't have the idea of importance, they will do something for pure pleasure, even if it will not have any benefit, as long as it can be entertained

themselves, and they will do it.

The goblins in this country are also the same, and they don't have the same concept of good and evil as humans. They are sometimes very kind and will treat you kindly.

They are sometimes cruel and will not hesitate to twist the heads of the people around them down. They are moody.

They have a changeable temperament.

As long as there is a reason, they will even want to sword each other against those close to them, or even torture them to death in pain, this is the goblin.

Because elves are long-lived and tenacious, they can do almost most things just by existing there to survive, so they don't work hard and grow, they don't try to survive and prosper, they don't accumulate knowledge, they just do things they think are interesting.

What is the value of saving such goblins and the countries in which they exist? "You know that, right? How selfish the goblins are!"

Riger's outspoken words made Artoria choose silence again.

Others don't know, but Rig knows, what this girl, who is regarded as the son of prophecy and the savior, has experienced in the village of Tintager.

Sixteen years ago, when Artoria was a newborn baby, she and her chosen staff drifted here together, where they were discovered and taken in by the village elves, but the treasure that came with her by boat was divided among the village elves.

The villagers of Tintagel knew that Artoria was the child of prophecy and raised her, but they kept her in the stables as a horse.

The elves in the village were intended to be sold to the Queen when Artoria grew up, as the Queen was looking for the Prophecy Child.

Artoria also lived a life in the village where she was watched, brutally trained, and even bullied, and a few years ago two toes were frozen off because the place where she lived was too cold.

Because she was not born strong, but will grow up like a human, until now she has not been able to show the power of the child of prophecy, and the belongings that drifted with her to Tintagel have almost been used up by the villagers, so, seeing that Artoria is about to turn 16 years old,

It was almost old enough to embark on a pilgrimage tour, and the elves in the village were in a hurry.

If Artoria fails to demonstrate the power to match that of the Child of Prophecy, her identity will be questioned.

If her identity is questioned, and she is suspected of not being the true child of prophecy, then the queen will not pay a high price for her.

Therefore, in order to prove that Artoria is the true Child of Prophecy, the elves of the village will ask her to kill Eckert.

Artoria didn't do it, and the person who exposed her like this was the one who grew up with Artoria since she was a child, claiming to be her friend, her little goblin.

"Is such a goblin worth saving?"

Rig didn't even bother to laugh, he just said a word. "I'm sorry, I don't think so."

When the words fell, Artoria was able to react to silence in addition to silence. To be honest, Rigg's feelings, Artoria is not incomprehensible.

If you were someone else, being treated like this by the goblins, you still have to save them, save their country or something, it's a big joke in the world.

However..... Artoria herself didn't feel much about it. Because she has a pair of eyes that can see through lies.

Because she knew that the people in the village didn't have any good intentions towards her.

Therefore, even if she was abused like this, Artoria actually didn't have much emotional ups and downs, because she had known for a long time that things would turn out like this.

To sum it up in one sentence, we are all mentally prepared, how can we have other emotions?

It's just that "that's what I said."

Artoria couldn't help but blurt out her inner thoughts.

"I don't actually have much motivation to save the Fairy Country." That's right, Artoria has no incentive to save the Fairy Nation.

She knew her mission was to save the country. She knew she was here to redeem the goblins.

But knowing that she didn't get any good memories in this country, she really didn't have the urge to do something for the goblins here.

So far, she has only lived to this age in a daze, because the people in the village want her to be the Child of Prophecy, and in order not to be devoured by the evil intentions of those demons, she has to cooperate with them, trying to do what the Child of Prophecy would do.

"After all, you're confused, aren't you?" Riege said lightly to Artoria, "I wonder if I should embark on a pilgrimage journey after I leave the village, and whether I have to work hard to save the fairy country."

These words hit Artoria's heart.

「..... What about you?" Artoria disguised her feelings, smiled at Rige, and said, "You're so powerful, don't you want to do anything for the humans in the fairy kingdom?"

In Artoria's opinion, Rige's power is much stronger than that of most elves.

Although she didn't see Rig actually fighting, the fact that he could fly around the sky as he wanted, and flash around as casually as he could, was already more powerful than most goblins.

Although the goblins of the Wind Clan are not as powerful as the goblins of the Tooth Clan, Li Ge can easily trap them, and he can also see that his strength is far stronger than that of ordinary goblins.

In this way, even if he raised the anti-flag to the queen for the treatment of the human race, Artoria did not find it strange at all.

If he really had such thoughts, he, the son of prophecy who defeated the queen in the prophecy, should be a very useful weapon for him, right?

Just as Artoria was thinking this, a hand quickly reached out in front of her at a speed that was difficult to catch.

"Smack!"

In the next second, a brain exploded in front of Artoria's forehead. "It hurts!"

Artoria clutched her forehead and cried out as she stepped back. "Y-What are you doing!?"

Artoria glared at Rige with tears in her eyes.

"I should have asked you that, right?" Li Ge withdrew his hand casually and said, "Although I don't have goblin eyes like you who can see through lies, I can probably guess that you were thinking about something very rude, right?"

"I—I'm just thinking about it!" Artoria complained, "And you didn't say it, as for playing my forehead?"

"It's good that I didn't spank you."

Rig glanced behind Artoria, causing the girl to jump out in fright, and subconsciously covered her back.

Rige smiled wordlessly, turned around again, and turned his back to Artoria. "I haven't decided what to do yet, after all, I'm a newcomer." "I'm not sure I won't go to war with that queen in the future."

"But, even if I'm going to war with her, I won't make a fuss about you as a fledgling goblin."

As he spoke, Rig stepped forward.

"If I really want to fight, I'll rush into Camelot's royal city and have a few tricks with that queen." "To be honest, I'm looking forward to it."

"Whether it's the queen or the knights who serve the queen, they should be very strong, right?" Speaking of this, a little vindictive energy emerged from Riege's body.

Artoria, who knew that this was what Rieg was talking about, could see that this person was indeed expecting, even excited.

"Battle Maniac.... ＂

Artoria sneered, and as she hurried to follow Rige, she felt a pang of peace of mind in her heart for some reason.

At the very least, none of what this man said was false.

Compared to the people I have seen so far, compared to the malice and ugly thoughts I have felt so far, the person in front of me is so real and so calm.

pander to

Ertoria smiled unconsciously. Until, Rieger stopped again. "What's wrong again?"

Artoria hurried to the brakes and grumbled.

Li Ge looked straight in one direction, and only spoke after half a ring. "Looks like we're in trouble."