World Seed

If he was planning on turning that goblin village undead then he needed many more souls and now that he had enough goblins, he could spare a few to go hunting. He separated a dozen of the new goblins and sent the rest to Kabba to work on the walls. The dozen that were separated he ordered to begin clearing out the underground pa.s.sage Bon had shown him.

Unfortunately they didn"t have any shovels so the goblins would have to break the compacted dirt and rubble with sticks or by hand. Making a mental note to buy pickaxes and shovels the next time he went to Setrhyn, he headed to his broken spire to rest. He began to undress but paused with his s.h.i.+rt over his head, out of the small slit he could see Ren playing with a string on the fur pelt that she rested on.

Walking over he grabbed the string and began to dangle it. Ren"s expression showed disinterest but her eyes betrayed her resolve as they tracked the string while it skittered across the floor. Soon she could no longer fight back her instincts and darted after the string. Aerwyn played with her for half an hour before cuddling with Rin and going to bed. Aerwyn would never notice but Ren moved her fur pelt a little closer to the pair that night.

The next morning a boar carca.s.s was sitting in front of the entrance way to the spire. While the fact the boar was on the ground wasn"t really all that important he still wished for some civility in his life. Perhaps he"ll have Bon make a box when he gets the saws from Marik, then the direwolves could drop off his food there instead of just leaving it out front like a dead rat.

He cut off some meat with the knife Tylin had given him before cooking it on an open fire. The meat was bland, he ran out of salt a few days ago and forgot to get more from Setrhyn thanks to Tylin"s poison juice. The direwolves would have to drop off breakfast and dinner for the time being as he was already pus.h.i.+ng the limit when it came to how long it took for the meat to go bad.

After he was done eating he decided to go and check on the underground pa.s.sage. The goblins were quick workers and they had already made it almost two meters down. Aerwyn could see the stone steps and it seemed like it wouldn"t be long until it was cleared. To pa.s.s the time he practiced his spearmans.h.i.+p nearby as they worked.

Only an hour had pa.s.sed when the goblins punctured through the dirt to the other side. It caused a minor cave-in but no goblins were lost and it only took a few minutes to dig the little guy out. Aerywn sent a goblin each to go and bring Bon, Velk, Teek and fifty goblins, leaving Kabba in charge of the rest to work on the wall project.

Teek"s work ethic was phenomenal like always and she appeared first with fifty goblins all endowed with bone armor while thirty had the new steel spears. Aerwyn watched her stand at attention and decided she deserved a unique weapon like the hobgoblins, he patted her on her bald head and asked.

"I"m going to get you a new weapon the next time i go to Setrhyn. What kind would you like?" Teek looked at him and then grabbed onto her spear like she didn"t want to let it go causing Aerwyn to laugh.

"Pfft, you can keep the spear too. Maybe we"ll get you a sword and s.h.i.+eld that are big enough for you when you evolve into a hobgoblin. What do you think?" Her eyes noticeably perked up at the mention of evolving and she shook her head up and down really fast. It seemed to make her dizzy and as she stopped she was forced to use the spear for balance. Bon arrived as she recovered.
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"Hey Bon, how can we help Teek evolve? How did you Kabba, and Velk do it?" Teek once again began shaking her head up and down excitedly almost falling over this time.

"Master, she needs to eat and absorb mana cores. The stronger or the more numerous, the better. As long as her body absorbs enough mana she will evolve."

"You can eat mana cores? Will i be able to use mana if i ate them too?"

"No master, people can"t eat mana cores. Only lesser beings and beasts can, it said so in the tomes left behind from Millin. You would die if you attempted such things."

"Hmm... Ok well if were going to be using mana cores for evolution"s and trading them in for weapons we"re going to need to be far more aggressive in our hunting... I may have another way as well but we"ll need a lot of souls for that too."

"Are we going inside master?" Bon asked as Velk arrived.

"Ah, yes. Teek and Bon stay with me. Velk will take point with the goblins. Bon do you know any spells that can give us light? Otherwise ill need to use my flames which aren"t very bright."

"Yes master, i know a torch spell that can create multiple small flames to brighten our path."

"Great, let"s head off."

They entered the dark pa.s.sageway five goblins abreast, as Bon lit a dozen small flames that s.h.i.+nned their light on the path. Aerwyn couldn"t hear any sounds like Bon had claimed but it was certainly a long pa.s.sageway. They walked for almost fifteen minutes when it opened up into a much wider cave and an hour later it opened up once again revealing a large cavern that seemed to go on forever in all directions.

The darkness of the cave swallowed the tiny flying torches Bon had made and they provided very little illumination for the group. Aerwyn could hear the sound of an underground river in the distance along with what sounded like loud thumps coming their way.

"Bon create more torches and send a few torches that way. We need to see what"s down there."

"Yes master, i can try."

Half a dozen tiny flames appeared and glided in the direction Aerwyn pointed. When the light was barely visible, dozens of shadows of shadows appeared to skitter past it. They still couldn"t see the creatures but the pitter patter coming their way could now be heard in conjunction with the thumping sound that appeared to be getting louder and louder.

Aerwyn took aim at the ground where the torch had flew past and fired a flame lance. It hit the ground, exploding and allowing the group a short moment to see their opponents. Hundreds of cat sized spiders were scurrying towards them. Aerwyn was stunned for a moment at the sheer number of them and began calling out commands.

"Fall back into the cave and setup a defense line where they cant surround us! NOW!" The group took off in a sprint to the cave entrance a hundred meters away where only ten goblins could stand abreast.

"Bon, setup two torches every twenty or so meters in a straight line so i can shoot. Quickly!" Bon immediately followed his command and once the last few torches were in position the first dozen spiders could be seen. However it wasn"t the spiders that he COULD see that worried him, it was the ones he couldn"t see. The loud thumping that was getting closer by the second only adding to his problems.

Aerwyn opened fire the moment the spiders appeared under the torchlight. He shot as fast as he could and with every explosion he could see more and more charging their way. There were far too many and the only good news Aerwyn could come up with was the a.s.sumption that these cat sized spiders wouldn"t aim for the heads of his undead.

He also had to allow his undead time enough to harvest souls so he didn"t end up over exerting his own soul. Nearly two dozen purple souls had left his body by the time the spiders clashed with the front line. Aerwyn turned to look back at Bon.

"Bon! Can you fire over their heads and deal with some while keeping the torches lit?"

"I can"t master, i can only cast one spell at a time!" Bon yelled over the sound of fighting.

Aerwyn turned his gaze back to the battle and saw Velk out in front of the defensive line spinning like a madman with his battle axe, killing any spiders that came near him. The rest of the goblins seemed to be holding up ok but a few spiders wasn"t the problem. If they couldn"t kill them quickly enough then their number will continue growing as more and more pile on and that isn"t even mentioning what is making that G.o.d awful sound in the distance.