Night fell as usual, but the air did not.
The air was too cold.
Too quiet.
Too… sober.
The young goblins who had slept in the school began to dream. But not ordinary dreams. Dreams that felt real. Too real.
They saw power.
They saw thrones.
They saw themselves stabbing Shia in the back and sitting on Reed's throne.
And when they woke, they were sweating. But their eyes shone—not with passion. But with an ambition they didn't understand.
Three students had gone missing in the morning.
Shia immediately ordered a search. But it wasn't ordinary goblins she sent.
She called in a secret squad: the Green Shadows—assassin goblins, trained in secret, loyal only to Shia and Reed.
"Capture them. Dead or alive. Don't let them talk too much," she said coldly.
Rina took one of the dreaming goblins and connected its brain to an emotion-reading device—an experiment of ancient magic and stolen outside-world technology.
The results were shocking.
