The Morality System

A rickshaw showed up to pick up the crystals. A freaking rickshaw. I had never seen one in real life. Just on TV.

It was a buff dude wearing a red shirt. He didn't read as evil. He carefully but easily picked up the chest of crystals and placed it on the rickshaw. He threw a large white cloth over the chest to obscure what it was. Then he pulled the rickshaw out of the alley and onto the road.

We followed above him in the flying bubble. He kept looking around to make sure he wasn't being followed but he never once looked up.

"Someone else is following the cart," Abigail said.

I looked back and saw the same thing she did. A small shadow darting from alley to alley, always staying in the dark.

"I see them," I said.

"What should we do?" Abigail said.

"Nothing," I said. "They don't read as evil. A non evil person following the cart could be a potential ally. Or they could be a good distraction. Let's see what they do."

"Yes sir, Jarnathan, sir!" she said.

"Not so loud," I said.

"Oh, the bubble is soundproof. We can hear outside but they can't hear us," she said.

"Wow, that's really useful! You're like a swiss army wife!" I said.

"I don't know what that means, but if you keep making jokes about me being your wife, I might make you put a ring on it," she said.

"I don't know if I'd say yes, but I certainly wouldn't say no," I said laughing.

"Noted," she said. She stiffened up. "Look! He's going into a barn."

I looked. She was right. The buff dude was going into a big red barn. It made sense. A barn would be the best place for storage and frequent comings and goings. It would also explain the frequent cargo. They could always explain it as feed or hay for horses.

The barn doors closed behind the cart. I was coming up with a plan of attack when the small shadow ran out into the open and up to the barn doors.

They were dressed in all black like a rogue or thief. They were really short. They peeked under the barn door and then began to push their body against it.

They slowly flattened and reshaped their body to fit under the door like a mouse. They disappeared into the barn.

There were roads around the barn and another building. The roads separated the barn and the building from all the other buildings. This made me conclude that the barn might be for storage and the other building might be where they had meetings and discussed business.

"The little one might alert the others and allow the branch leadership to escape. We should do what we came to do before that happens," I said.

"Ok. How do you want to make our entrance?" Abigail said.

"I wish I could see if there were any innocents in the building, instead of only being able to see the evil ones. I can see a decent number of evil people in there, but I don't want to kill innocents with a full-on assault," I said.

"What if I shot a giant spike through the roof and down onto an evil person? If I target an evil person, a good person can't occupy the same space. And the spike can give us a roof entrance."

"That's really smart! Let's do it!" Abigail said.

"Now you're acting surprised I'm smart." I smiled and laughed.

"No, I'm just teasing you. I know you're smart baby," she said, kissing me.

"Good," I said.

We hovered over the building as I formed a massive spike and shot it at an evil person on the second floor.

It made a huge hole in the roof. I made sure to target someone in a room with only one evil person. That way we were less likely to get attacked upon entrance.

We didn't take any chances though. I covered myself in bone armor and Abigail lowered us through the hole in a protective bubble.

When we touched down, I immediately stepped out of the bubble and locked the door. No one but the person I killed was in the room. They were mostly obscured by the spike. All I could tell is they were a man.

I heard people scrambling up the stairs. Someone tried to turn the knob but the lock stopped them. Then a voice said, "Hey, Kevin, are you ok? What was that noise?"

"Kevin is unavailable right now. Can I take a message?" I said.

"Who are you and what did you do to Kevin?" The voice said.

"Exactly what I'm about to do to you," I said.

The people on the other side were a densely packed group of evil people. I formed a large spike, shot it through the door into the middle of the group, and used Bone Shards to explode it into hundreds of sharp pieces. The evil people fell to the ground.

I opened the door and looked around. They were all very dead. No evil people were left in the building and I didn't see any good people either. Abigail followed me down the stairs and we found a large empty room.

We were going to look around, but we heard a massive explosion in the direction of the barn. We ran outside to investigate. The barn was on fire.

The flames were blue. The doors were still closed and locked. I raised a bone platform underneath the doors and shattered them into pieces as they were crushed by the rising platform.

We ran into the barn and saw an awful scene. The short person dressed in black was lying still on the ground. They were surrounded by charred bodies and their body was similarly marked with charring but not as bad as the others.

I could see green skin where parts of their clothes were burned off. Three evil men were standing over her, kicking her repeatedly.

"You fucking bitch!" One said.

"Die scum!" Another said.

"Green cunt!" The third one said.

I summoned 60 small bone spikes and shot them through the bodies of the three evil men. They came out the other side red and bloody. I dispelled them. The men fell to the ground.

Abigail and I ran up to the body of the short person.I pulled their hood down, revealing their appearance. They had green skin and pointy ears. They were a female goblin.

I didn't know what to make of it. I didn't know the nature of goblins in this world. In most of the books I read they were supposed to be evil, tribal, murderous, and unsophisticated. But she didn't read as evil.

I didn't physically react to the goblin reveal, but Abigail did. Her eyes widened, her eyebrows went up, she gasped, and she put her hand over her mouth.

With all those different reactions, this must have been very unusual. So goblins were probably normally like I had read.

I put my fingers against her neck. She had a pulse. She was still alive. I turned her over to get a better look at her injuries.

She had a charred hole in her side and her right leg was black. I pressed my hand against her stomach and her eyes instantly opened. She opened her mouth and chomped down on one of my arms.

"Fuck! Ow! Stop! I'm trying to help you!" I said.

She looked at me and then Abigail, then back at me. She reluctantly released her teeth from my arm.

"Thank you," I said.

She gave me a vulnerable look.

I turned my attention back to her injuries. I used Advanced Diagnosis to find out that along with the charred body parts, her ribs were broken in several places from the kicks she received from the men who were now dead on the floor.