Return of the Goblin King

The Return of the Goblin King is a recurring special battle event on Elder Tale ' s Yamato server. In the old world, it runs for one week every two months; in Theldesian time, this event occurs once every two years.

After the Catastrophe, the adventurers were so engrossed by the changing situation around them that they failed to notice that the usual Return of the Goblin King situation was occurring. By the time they did, the next part of the event's lore had triggered:


 * If the Goblin King doesn't get subjected within that one week, he'll unite the surrounding goblin tribes and form an army dozens of times bigger.

Before the Catastrophe
In Elder Tale, the Return of the Goblin King was a popular event that was enjoyed by players across the server. The plot was to slay the chosen Goblin King in Seven Falls before he was crowned. The entrance to with players being given a week to accomplish the task. Defeating the goblin clans beforehand weakened the potential Goblin King and his forces, and succeeding in the quest rewarded the players with rare items and such. In the event that players were unable to accomplish the task, the Knights of Izumo would step in and defeat the Goblin King.

Synopsis
After the Round Table Alliance was formed, a decision was made to hold a training camp for new players so they could level up quickly and be able to fend for themselves. After a couple of uneventful days at Zantleaf Peninsula and Ragranda Forest, the members of the training camp are attacked by absurdly high numbers of Sahuagin and Goblins.

When word of the attacking hordes reached the Ancient Court of Eternal Ice, where the Conference of Lords was taking place, the Earthling nobles began demanding that the Adventurers fight off the monsters, insinuating that it was their fault that the goblins had not been weakened before the Goblin King was crowned. Due to the Catastrophe, the Adventurers had been too preoccupied with settling down in Elder Tale to pay attention to the event; unfortunately, this made the Goblin King and his armies more powerful than ever in the history of Elder Tale.

Furthermore, the Knights of Izumo went missing, a fact that was hidden by the nobles from the Round Table Alliance delegates, though the Adventurers were able to assume such by the large amounts of monsters. Inevitably, without Adventurer assistance, the People of the Earth would be forced to sacrifice at least one of their cities and thirty percent of their overall forces to defeat the goblins. Even then, the defeated hordes would scatter and rampage throughout the country until they were hunted down, which would cause catastrophic damage and countless deaths.

Since Akiba was not recognized as part of the Eastal League of Free Cities, the Adventurers felt that they had no obligation to accede to the nobility's demands. To bridge the gap between the Earthlings and Adventurers, Princess Rayneshia went to Akiba to raise a volunteer army, which met resounding success. Krusty and Shiroe immediately established themselves as leader and strategist, and gave orders for those who volunteered to gear up for war against the Goblins and move out.

The Round Table Alliance Expeditionary Force easily defeated the Goblin hordes, with Krusty beating the Goblin General personally. Afterwards, the expeditionary troops secured areas and mopped out any remaining goblins left after the scattering of their forces. However, they did not defeat the Goblin King, reserving that for another moment.