"What did you say?" Everyone present stared at Merlin—or rather, Fou—in disbelief. None of them had expected Merlin's final answer to be this. It was simply ridiculous. The destruction of the entire world had happened because the Goblins had slacked off and skipped work.
"So that was the outcome. Goblins truly deserved to die, though I never expected them to be the so-called raw materials of the planet. No wonder the Star-Forged Holy Sword was forged by Goblins."
The Excalibur in the King Arthur's hand was said to have been bestowed by Goblins. Shen Fei had not understood what that meant before, but now he did. This included the Star-Forged Holy Sword. He had always been curious about how such a weapon could be forged. It was unlikely that the planet had personally forged it, but now he finally understood. He also understood the true nature of Woodwose, the Heat Dissipation Duke: the planet's heat-dissipating organ.
If the planet were compared to a human body, the Heat Dissipation Duke would be its heat-dissipating organ. Since Goblins were resources of the planet, anything forged by Goblins was equivalent to something forged by the planet.
Generally speaking, however, ordinary people did not distinguish so clearly between star-forged armaments and god-forged armaments. Take Mash, for example. She had always called the Holy Sword a god-forged armament rather than a star-forged armament.
"That is the truth. The ones responsible for forging the dumbbells in the Sea of Stars—the Six Goblins—thought it would be fine to take a break, so they all ran off to play. Later, when they realized something was wrong with the world, they came to the surface and saw the consequences of their actions. But what had become settled could not be changed, and they were unwilling to bear the blame