After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 107

Goblins, eh?

As a mining village, Guia Town naturally had a lot of goblin slaves.

It was just that they were all concentrated in prohibited areas and they had yet to see one up close. Similarly, in other territories, most goblins were also confined in well-protected mining spots. Normal people wouldn’t be able to see them at all.

In fact, if Guia town didn’t just have the most common iron-like metal, their team wouldn’t even have the right to stay overnight, no matter how well-connected Bart was.

Guia village was divided into two areas: One was the village center where the accommodations of majority of the population—mostly miners’, the guards’, their families, as well as guests like them—were located.

This was very restrictive in itself. Because guests like them could only get visitors pass and had to pay 10 silver per day. This was not including the inn fees that rivaled those of large towns.

They heard a lot of refugees from the adjacent villages that were destroyed came here, but were eventually kicked out due to not being able to pay the visitor’s fee.

They could imagine the tragic sight of desperate people simply trying to find a safe haven, only to be denied because of people’s greed.

The other area was the actual mining area, which took up over half of the territory’s land. This was strictly prohibited to outsiders.

It was heavily guarded and monitored, taking up nearly half of the guard team. This was also where all the goblin slaves were.

They turned to look at Gaudi, the ’veteran’ who had been here for nearly three decades.

"What do you know about the other races and how do us humans fare amongst the forces in this world?" Gill asked the old man.

They also tried to find out, but this type of knowledge would take years if they didn’t have the right channels.

Bart was fine, but they feared things would change if he found out they weren’t from this world at all by asking too much, so for this they could only ask a fellow outsider.

The older man nodded, as a slave of the mercenary union, he had indeed overheard a lot of news through the years. "As far as I know, there has never been a hegemonic force among intelligent beings, even among humans.

"It’s sad, but amongst the human territories, there was always in-fighting."

"As for the other races…" He paused, recalling his limited knowledge on the matter. "Other than goblins, I have heard of various races like dwarves, mermaids, the undead, trolls, ogres, and elves."

"The Goblins, as you may already know, are small and weak. While rare, you can still see goblin slaves from nobles and central territories. They comprise the most population next to humans in the human territory.

"They specialize in detecting minerals and ores. Amongst all intelligent beings, no one can compare to them in terms of detecting such things.

"They said even a goblin child was better than a human expert that studied stones for decades."

"What? That’s amazing. There must be something to their physiques, then…" Luis mumbled, chewing on something. Gaudi nodded.

"Goblins also had the strongest fertility, so even if they’re the weakest, they could make up for it in numbers. I heard of a small mercenary group from a border village had an unfortunate skirmish with a rare aggressive goblin group.

"There are still horror stories about the status of their corpses even until now, many years later."

Gaudi paused, rummaging his memory, before speaking again. "They’re also extremely skilled at digging; I heard their abodes are generally dungeons and caves they created themselves. Next to the orcs, they were the other race who often attacked human territories, especially those with goblin slaves…"

"Ferrol Town and Guia village happened to both be territories near the borders of the Goblin and Dwarf territories."