@JKLnHYD The problem is that just observing can show there is something fundamentally different about these goblins. If they have any connections to their equivalent of military intel, then they failed HARD in not noticing the difference in behavior.
@Drifter Different behavior, not killing something fundamentally different, protecting this being... yup, not obviously something to observe longer to figure out why.
Also... why I can't take the soldiers seriously? They just sound like hunters who don't hunt for food/to protect, but for sport. If those end page bios for the monsters are within the universe rather than for OUR benefit, then they already know this is kind of a problem to just cause the extinction of a local population.
That elf guy said not to give the MC to the army, so they are a separate branch of something, possibly the equivalent of forest rangers? Then they fucking suck at their jobs because they have no awareness of behavioral difference.