306 Negotiation 2 (1/2)
Jinpok burst out into laughter.
”Hahahaha! Duvall!! Hahahahaha!”
Duvall frowned as Jinpok laughed out loud. Duvall was one of the highest-ranked officers within the army and the only ones who spoke casually to him were the emperor, Jinpok, and Doral.
”Ha… thanks for that.”
Duvall responded bitterly to Jinpok's laughter.
”Oh, but I should congratulate you all for that too.”
”Huh?”
”For what?”
”The goblin king has many wives and daughters. Hahaha. I suspect you will have more wives coming for you.”
Jinpok, however, laughed it off.
”Oh! I welcome daughters of the king. Well, but let's not try to make interspecies babies.”
Everyone became shocked. Jinpok glanced around at everyone and spoke.
”Why? It's only the beginning you know. It's not only the king. All those goblins will be sending females and we cannot reject them. If we do, it'll be another war… We all know that, don't we?”
Jinpok spoke as he looked at Joonbum. Duvall also added, ”Yes. There will be more coming… they will be trying to use it to their advantage. To sell their daughters.”
”Sell?”
”They will want to receive something with them.”
”Oh.”
Humans did the same thing when Joonbum became the emperor of the new Khalodian Empire. They requested marriages to the emperor and the empire had to take many of their requests so that they could avoid war and stabilize the new empire.
It was the same here as well. This world was no longer owned by humans. It was controlled by monsters and required coexistence with them to live in peace.
”Well, we do have the choice of using weapons of mass destruction to wipe them out… but that would ruin the lands so we'd have to leave. Besides, that might bring about another disaster that we cannot foresee. From our reports, Earth has now been stabilized so it's better not to disturb it in any way we can. So the easiest way is to accept the goblins' requests.”
Whatever happened in the negotiations was no longer amusing to Duvall.
”And what are we getting from it?”
”Trust with the goblins?”