The goblin army pierced through the border pass of Otto the Papal State and drove deep into its territory, leaving a trail of atrocities in their wake. Ultimately, they converged upon the theocracy's capital — Auroraburg.
Within the city, the surviving priestesses pooled their last vestiges of divine power to erect a faltering holy barrier, desperately defending this final bastion of hope.
Most of the nations surrounding the Otto Theocracy had already fallen to the goblin hordes. Now, those very goblins who professed conversion to the Holy Church have treacherously broken their oaths and launched a massive invasion into this last bastion of faith. Although the high walls of the capital, Aurora-Burg, still stand, it faces a more cruel internal trial: the already scarce food reserves must be prioritized for the cleric knights holding the walls, necessary to maintain the holy power needed to resist the enemy. Yet, at the same time, the countless refugees who have flooded into the city cannot be abandoned and must receive the bare minimum of sustenance to survive.
Each day, the bell signaling the food distribution strikes at the heart of everyone in the city. Even the Pontiff herself must, in the lulls between battles, join the clergy in soothing the fears of the people.
Some refugees believed that since the goblins had also professed conversion to the Holy Church, the war was meaningless. Thus, on a night when all were exhausted, they chose to betray the Theocracy, sabotaging the sacred barrier from within. In the end, for the sake of the people remaining in the city, the Pontiff decided to surrender to the goblins.
It was her hope that, having chosen conversion, the goblins should not commit excessive atrocities against the clergy within the walls. The Pontiff was not naive in this; she was forced to cling to this one last, slim hope as the only choice left in a hopeless situation.
Chapter 2 After the city gates were opened, the female Pontiff entered into negotiations with the goblins' representatives. However, she was secretly detained during these talks and compelled to acquiesce to all of the goblins' demands: to transfer the religious authority to a new Pontiff appointed by the goblins, while she herself was forced to abdicate and perform a public act of penance.
After securing a promise from the goblins that they would neither massacre nor publicly humiliate the clergy, the Pontiff agreed to their terms. However, this was merely the prologue to the tragedy. With most of the Western Continent's nations already fallen, the victorious goblins had no reason left to honor any promises made to the conquered.
The female Pontiff was bound beneath a table, her feet protruding through the surface and locked into a foot stock. The goblins intended to tickle her soles, making her acutely aware of her position and forcing her complete submission to their will. Perhaps, not making her publicly endure this humiliation while being identified was the last vestige of the goblins' twisted mercy.
"The human body is such a delightful plaything! No matter how holy, noble, or powerful you once were, you all end up crumbling before mere tickling torture. Your helpless laughter and desperate struggles are the finest nourishment for our goblin spirits!
"Your laughter is particularly delightful, even among the multitude of our tickle slaves. If the mere soles of your feet can provide us with so much pleasure, I dare not imagine how utterly captivating you would be when subjected to the same... comprehensive tribulations as the others!"
An incessant stream of laughter from the female Pontiff beneath the table reached the goblins' ears, thrilling them beyond measure. They knew that this time, beyond seizing resources, wealth, and religious authority, they would also be gaining a new batch of premium tickle slaves.
Chapter 3 Three women, their heads hooded in black sacks, were bound fast to wooden frames. Though their faces were concealed, their voluptuous figures were left completely exposed and naked. The one in the center had snow-white skin, with glimpses of silver hair escaping her hood. The woman on the left also had pale skin and golden hair, while the one on the right sported a olive-toned complexion and dark, black hair.
A faint tremor ran through the bodies of all three women, born of the shame of their present nakedness. But for the two on either side, it was likely eclipsed by a more potent fear—the dread of what was to come
Soon, that familiar, unnerving sensation from their soles shot through their minds. It was a feeling they all knew too well, and one they had all learned to dread—especially those for whom it had been a prolonged and particular torment.
The tentacles crept relentlessly over their naked forms, gliding across the soft skin before zeroing in on their most ticklish spots—those secret zones of hypersensitivity that could not bear the slightest touch.
Unbridled laughter soon echoed through the once-hallowed church—a harrowing blend of the women's despairing and terrified shrieks of mirth, mingling with the goblins' hoarse, triumphant roars. The branding iron in the brazier glowed red-hot. The tickling had ceased momentarily, leaving the woman gasping weakly. Then, an excruciating, searing pain shot through her pubis—the goblins had seared the mark of disgrace onto her very skin.
Upon her pubis, the word "HERETIC" had been branded, a mark that mirrored those upon the two women beside her.
After applying the salve and healing magic, the goblins wasted no time and resumed her tickle torture. Pain and itch now intertwined, a twin assault that ravaged both her body and her already frayed spirit simultaneously.
The once most authoritative religious leaders and spiritual faiths have now been branded as heretics, while the orthodox theocracy of the Western Continent has almost entirely fallen into the hands of the goblins.
Ch.4 As the Holy City settled into a new, oppressive “order” under the control of the goblins and their collaborators, the secret of the captured female Pontiff’s descent into being a “tickle slave” was secret no more among the goblin elite. A public humiliation ceremony, designed to shatter her dignity and divinity utterly, was now imminent, scheduled to take place within the very heart of what was once the city’s most sacred space. Upon the platform at the center of the square, a woman with a soiled sack over her head was locked in a humiliating position within a pillory-like contraption reminiscent of a guillotine’s frame. Her body was forced to kneel upon a crude wooden box, and the ropes binding her legs were nailed directly into the planks of the box itself. This merciless design served a single, explicit purpose: to render even the slightest struggle utterly futile. She was presented—a meticulously secured offering—displaying the fate of all who dared rebel to the silent crowd below.
A heavy silence was broken only by the deliberate thud of boots on wood.
A towering goblin, unnaturally broad-shouldered, ascended the platform draped in the stark black robes of an executioner. He removed a leather glove, extending fingernails filed into glossy, dark points that caught the light for a sinister moment.
Kneeling behind the woman, he gripped one of her heels, pinning it down.
The razor edge of a nail made contact with the most tender arch of her foot—a touch so feather-light it was almost a caress.
Her body arched like a bowstring pulled taut. The wooden crate groaned; the ropes bit deeper into her flesh. From under the sack came a sound—first a choked gasp, then a shriek of laughter that tore at her throat. “St-stop… ah! AHAHA! NO!” It was neither prayer nor plea, but the raw, animal scream of a nerve pushed past its limit.
Her head thrashed wildly, the coarse fabric growing damp with tears and spittle. Her mind was a maelstrom of shame and visceral terror—this square, once a place of prayer, now a theater proving even her god had forsaken her. Yet, a shred of will fought against the rising tide of sensation, her body straining against its bonds in a futile, instinctual rebellion she knew was hopeless. Yet this was only the overture.
Two more goblins in identical garb ascended the platform with a ritualistic gait. In silence, they pressed rough fingertips against her exposed skin and began their “work.” Knuckles scoured the delicate folds of her armpits with precision, then crept like insects over the frantic rise and fall of her ribs, finally descending upon the helplessly upturned curve of her buttocks. There, fingers employed a twisting, circular motion, tormenting every inch of sensitive flesh. This was no random tickling; it was a precision craft, honed by training to locate and detonate every nerve ending.
The woman’s struggles escalated from violent to frenzied. Muffled, choking sounds escaped the sack over her head. Her shoulder blades jerked like dying wings, and her waist twisted in a futile attempt to escape the inescapable touch. Yet, the yoke around her neck, the bonds at her wrists, and the cruel fixing of her calves to the box below transformed every surge of desperate strength into nothing but a futile tremor. All she could perceive was the traitorous, uncontrollable frenzy of her own body and the humiliation of sensation exploding from multiple points at once, merging into a boundless sea of itch. Her mind screamed, while her body convulsed in silent laughter—this was the most complete form of deprivation imaginable. The dominion of torment continued to expand. Now, it was no longer just her soles, underarms, sides, or buttocks. Even her breasts—the most intimate and vulnerable—were invaded, becoming territory ravaged by those practiced fingers. As calloused knuckles and sharp nails scraped across skin that had never known such exposure, a piercing shame, sharper than any humiliation before, fused with the overwhelming tickling sensation and pierced her through.
A wave of frenzied excitement rippled through the goblin crowd below. Murky eyes glinted with avaricious arousal.
“Look! Look how she shudders!” a scrawny goblin squealed, standing on tiptoe to point a bony finger at the form writhing on the platform, convulsing with uncontrollable sensation.
“Hahaha! We haven’t even started on the soles proper, just a few scratches!” another bellowed, waving a filthy cap, spittle flying. “A ‘reaction’ this good… she’ll breed the finest ‘laughter-stock’!”
Excited whispers spread like blight through the throng. Goblins jostled and shoved, eager to press closer, to drink in every detail of her agonized twitches, every choked whimper that escaped the sack over her head. To them, this was no mere punishment; it was a public audition, an appraisal of a potential acquisition’s quality.
An older goblin with a wispy, tangled beard squinted his shrewd eyes, leaning to rasp to his companion: “We’ve got plenty of ‘stock’ in the pens, aye… but a ‘prime piece’ like this, one that sings so sharply at just a touch… that’s rare.” He grinned, yellowed teeth bared, every crevice of his face etched with cruel delight. “See the life in that struggle? So vivid! Once she’s properly… broken in, kept in one of the ‘giggle-cages’… why, just watching her shiver with her own terrified thoughts could amuse us for half a day.”
His companion grunted in agreement, gaze glued to the spectacle. “Aye. Some in the warehouses are getting a bit… dull. This one’s fresh. The trainers will have their work cut out, unlocking all that potential.” He stressed the word “unlocking,” prompting a round of knowing, gravelly chuckles from those around them.
The ongoing struggle on the platform and the casual, brutal critique from below wove together into a grotesque tapestry. The goblins didn’t merely desire another slave; they reveled in the act of acquisition itself, and in the certainty that yet another once-lofty being was being meticulously crushed, remolded, and ultimately cataloged into their vast and darkened collection—a living “treasure” to be enjoyed again and again. The woman’s fear and sensitivity weren’t flaws to pity; they were the most exquisite seasoning, making this cruel entertainment all the more savory. She didn’t know how long it had been—a quarter of an hour, perhaps an eternity—but the mind-breaking tickle torture finally ceased.
The woman slumped within the pillory, gasping like a fish stranded on land. Her tears and sweat had soaked through the filthy sack over her head, plastering it to the contours of her broken expression beneath. Each inhalation hitched with a sob, each exhalation dissolved into an uncontrollable whimper. It’s over… finally… over… The thought surfaced in her blank mind like a lifeline, bringing a wave of drained relief.
But then, a coarse, excited murmur rose from below the platform. It was a bucket of ice water dashed upon that fragile spark.
“My turn next!” a shrill voice crowed.
“Let’s see how long she lasts now!”
Heavy footfalls thudded on the planks once more—not receding, but approaching. More hands, bearing textures of varied cruelty—chipped and jagged nails, skin like coarse sandpaper—descended upon her skin, which still twitched with the ghost of the previous torment. Her underarms, the tender dip of her waist, even the vulnerable inner skin of her thighs… every recently violated area was now reclaimed as communal territory.
Her body flinched violently, as if seared. Not a full-throated struggle—that currency was spent. This was a neurological spasm, utterly beyond her control. The sobs twisted into a raw, animal keen forced from deep in her throat. She began to shake her head, the sack rasping a futile plea against the wood of the pillory, a sound she knew would meet no mercy.
So, the torment had not “stopped.” It had merely transitioned from a solo performance of cruelty to a communal sport. She was not a prisoner awaiting the end of a sentence, but a dish being passed around at a feast. This realization, colder and more penetrating than any scratching nail, froze the very core of her being.
The goblins jeered and laughed, placing bets on who could elicit the strongest tremors, debating which part of her was the most “entertaining” to exploit. Their language was a vulgar, degrading filth, each word stripping away another layer of her dignity. In this public, raucous defilement, her final, fragile fantasy—that it might end—was pulverized. And in that moment, she heard something within her crack with terrible clarity. It might have been her last shred of composure. Or perhaps, it was the final, dying echo of the idea that she was still a person, and not merely a thing. A hand viciously yanked the sack from her head.
“Pah—! Cough! Hack!”
Chilly air, tainted with the salt of her own tears, spit, and sweat, flooded her mouth and nostrils, sending her into a fit of choking coughs. Her vision cleared abruptly—to reveal the squalid reality below. Countless pairs of goblin eyes, glinting with morbid curiosity, now reflected her image back at her.
The face once revered by the faithful for its divine serenity was now exposed in its most profane state. Her meticulously braided silver hair was a soaked, tangled mess plastered to her forehead and cheeks. Long lashes, clumped together by tears, failed to veil eyes that had once radiateed sacred light but now held only a hollow, shattered vacancy. A continuous stream of tears mingled with uncontrolled saliva, tracing paths down her jaw—which trembled with each ragged breath—before dripping onto the rough wood of the box beneath her, leaving dark, spreading stains.
Yet the most piercing sound was the manic laughter that continued to tear from her throat.
“Heh… haha… n-no… stop… HAHAHAHA!!”
It was a sharp, fragmented sound, having lost all rhythm of human speech. It resembled a physiological noise wrenched from the depths of her being by pure agony. Each paroxysm of laughter was punctuated by desperate, sobbing inhales and choked whimpers. She was weeping, yet her body convulsed in laughter; her will screamed for it to end, yet her nerves spasmed uncontrollably under the torment. This total schism between mind and flesh stripped away the last vestiges of her dignity as a person, reducing her to a primal, animalistic vessel of pure reaction.
The goblins watched, enthralled. To them, this was not cruelty, but a form of purification—a ritual to reduce the exalted sacred down to its base components: fragile flesh that wept, laughed, and broke just like their own. The more twisted her face became with anguish, the more despair saturated her laughter, the more successful the ritual proved to be. When that face, slick with tears and sweat, was exposed to the light, a wave of commotion swept through the crowd below—a cacophony of whistles and raspy cheers.
“Look! Look at that hair!”
a goblin shrieked in broken common tongue, a grimy finger stabbing toward the platform. The papal silver hair, once a symbol of sanctity and wisdom that had flowed like molten silver under the ceremonial sun, now hung in damp, pathetic strands plastered to her flushed cheeks and neck. A few locks, caught in her violent thrashing, were even clenched between her own trembling lips. The ends trembled pitifully with each uncontrollable burst of laughter and convulsion.
“Sacred? Pope? Now she’s just a ticklish puppet who might wet herself! Haha!”
a cruder voice roared, triggering a wave of raucous laughter. The goblins strained their necks, their muddy eyes wide, greedily devouring every detail of her degradation—the face trying to turn away but jammed by the pillory, the lips bitten tight in humiliation and ticklish agony yet still leaking hysterical sounds, the slender wrists that once held the holy seal now raw and red from the ropes.
Her “pitiful” state, her “wretched” appearance, every single moment of her dignity unraveling burned through the conquerors’ nerves like the strongest liquor, delivering an unparalleled high. To destroy beauty, to defile sanctity, to drag a being from the clouds down into the muck to writhe with them—this was the ultimate sweetness the goblins could savor in their cruel game. Her distinctive silver hair no longer signified authority; instead, it became the perfect footnote identifying who she had been, thereby dramatically underscoring what she had become, bringing the theater of her fallen to its most poignant climax. Ch. 5 As part of the goblin regime’s “orthodoxization,” countless nuns were systematically condemned as “heretics.” Stripped of their vestments, branded with humiliating sigils on their bodies, and assigned serial numbers, they were converted into public assets known as “Tickle-Slaves.”
The dungeon had been retrofitted. Less a traditional prison, it now functioned as a high-efficiency, utilitarian “sensory farm.” Thick stone pillars were studded with iron rings, each holding a figure secured in a meticulously calculated, leverage-less position. The air was damp and chill, carrying the smells of sweat, the salt of tears, and the faint, clinical scent of cheap antiseptic ointment.
There was no day or night, only perpetual “utilization.” Goblin soldiers came here to “unwind” after their shifts. Human collaborators—those eager to prove their loyalty or seeking a sense of belonging through shared cruelty—were even more frequent patrons. They were adept, well-versed in the minimal effort required to elicit the most prolonged reactions.
Thus, laughter became the omnipresent soundtrack. It was not joyous, but a sharp, shattered shrieking, interlaced with sobs and choking gasps. It erupted, echoed, and interlaced from every corner simultaneously, eventually coalescing into a boundless, mind-numbing ocean of sound. This ceaseless tidal wave of noise eternally washed against the stone, drowning out the last fading echoes of reason for all those trapped within its depths. As part of the incentive structure, the "valiant" soldiers from the front lines were granted the first privilege to "enjoy" the spoils of war. These spoils were not gold or silver, but the registered, numbered "heretic" prisoners and "tickle-slaves."
Their "valor"—often quantified by strongholds captured or resistors slain—was directly convertible into "priority passes" for the dungeon. It was a meticulously calculated reward feedback loop: using the most direct sensory stimulation and thrill of domination to reinforce combat morale and deeply intertwine violent instinct with loyalty to the new regime.
Thus, the arrival of victory dispatches often coincided with another batch of "spoils" being delivered to the "experience zone." Soldiers would shed their blood-stained armor and, carrying the brutality that had not yet cooled from the battlefield, approach the bound figures. For them, this was more than relaxation; it was a ritual of extended dominance—conquering territory on the front lines, and conquering dignity here. The laughter, therefore, became the signature soundtrack to the celebration of victory. The re-education quota knew no bounds. Whether it was a Cardinal in scarlet robes who once held the power of life and death over a diocese, a battle-hardened Templar Knight of unshakable faith, or even a dissident cleric who had miraculously evaded the Norse Unionen's dragnet only to be branded a "dangerous ideologue" by the new order—eventually, all their paths converged here.
There were no exceptions, and no one inquired about their past. All titles, feats of arms, and sectarian differences were systematically erased the moment they passed through the dungeon gate. They were uniformly logged as "high-value re-education assets," categorized by physiological tolerance and mental fortitude, and fed into the ceaselessly grinding re-forging machinery.
The goblins' "re-education" was a precise re-conditioning program. Its goal was not mere punishment, but complete formatting: using the most primal physical response (laughter) to overwrite past faith and glory, grinding down independent will into conditioned neural impulses. When knights‘ battle cry and cardinals’ prayer dissolved into the same rhythm of uncontrollable hysterics, the re-education was deemed "successful." The old world's hierarchy collapsed utterly here, as new, compliant subjects—responsive only to specific stimuli—were mass-produced amidst the laughter. They had no names left, only sigils serial numbers branded onto their inner thighs, and a uniform designation: "Tickle-Slave - Public Asset." Only the head is still covered with some cloth, and its sole function to denote zoning. Designated sectors of the dungeon were marked as "Public Access Bays." Here, there were no "executioners," only "users."
An ordinary goblin grunt or laborer could trade a pittance of their pay or contribution points for a timed "usage permit." They entered bearing post-shift fatigue, boredom, or simple mischievous intent.
Here, torment was stripped of ritual, downgraded to a form of casual recreation.
Hands caked with mine dust or mud would casually grab a shackled ankle. The grit under unkempt nails scraped against the tender skin of a sole, provoking a grating, persistent tickling—not meticulously calculated, but all the more maddening for its crudeness. They might clumsily imitate half-remembered "techniques," skittering fingers along the soles, but more often it was a disorderly poking, digging, and prolonged scraping.
Coochie… Coochie… The sound of nail on skin was audible in brief lulls, then swallowed by the inevitable eruption of laughter. This laughter was no longer the sharp, theatrical shattering of the high platform, but a weary, broken, hiccuping keen. Their abdominal muscles ached from constant spasms; tears had long been exhausted, leaving only dry, retching sounds hauled from deep in the throat. Their bodies betrayed them with incontinence, the floor a mingled map of waste and damp, the sharp tang of ammonia layering over the dungeon's base notes of mold and sweat.
The true cruelty lay in the arbitrariness and intermittency. One goblin might grow bored after minutes and wander off; another might take his place. No warning, no promise of an end. Fixed in place, they endured brief, terrifying respites, waiting for the next pair of hands whose arrival was never predictable. This waiting itself became a torture deeper than the tickling. Their consciousness, under this sustained sensory assault and hopeless anticipation, was gradually ground down into a hollow residue, responsive only to specific tactile stimuli. The litanies of old prayers fragmented into meaningless syllables in their minds, until finally, the very concept of "self" dissipated under the weight of this repeated, mundane dismemberment of the spirit. The women laughed hysterically, tears streaming down like a burst dam. Their bodies writhed and slammed frantically against their restraints, trying to escape the unrelenting tickle torture from the soles of their feet, only to make the bindings feel more desperate. Hands that once wielded swords or delivered sermons could now only open and close in futile weakness. In the end, after a relentless “performance” administered by numerous hands in turn, their laughter grew hoarse and hollow, their gazes completely vacant, leaving only their bodies twitching and laughing mechanically.
P.S. the first chapter is illustrated with only one picture (The frist page)