36 Chapter 36 (1/2)
Aerwyn sat down around the fire in the square for dinner with Sera and Jeren.
”You've really fixed this place up quickly huh. How long has it been? A month since you left Setrhyn?” Jeren motioned his hands as if displaying the city around him while he looked around.
”Just about, we're clearing out the broken building for now and once that's done hopefully the mine will be ready too. I'd like to rebuild some buildings and remake the walls out of stone but that goal is far off in the future... A road to Setrhyn would be nice too but that's at the bottom of the list of things to do.”
”That's good, a man should have goals else you'll end up like Jeren.” Sera added proudly.
”Hey! What's that supposed to mean? I'm perfectly charming, handsome, and hardworking. I'm the very definition of a Fae'Laran man.” Jeren boasted with his chest puffed out but he wasn't much bigger than Aerwyn which only made it seem like a desperate attempt to recover his pride.
”Pfft, more like vain, messy and lazy.” Sera laughed at the false bravado. They argued back and forth like siblings for a while before Aerwyn chimed in.
”What are you guys going to Lyr Village for?”
”Just checking in on things. Lyr was only settled a few generations ago and the village is much smaller than Setrhyn so they don't have as many rangers as us. Every now and then if we don't have anything else going on in Setrhyn, we go down to see if they need help with anything.” Sera explained.
”Is Lyr far?”
”From here it'll take us about a day of running at full speed, then we just need to ferry across the river near Lyr. If we leave as early as slavedriver Sera likes to we'll probably reach Lyr by the next morning.” Jeren put his arms behind his head and laid down as he spoke staring off into the starry night's sky.
They talked for another hour and Aerwyn warned them he would be using his spiders to setup webs around the forest near Ardin, explaining that he intended to leave open a path for them in the future. They soon went to sleep and Aerwyn saw them off the next morning before looking for Erit.
Knowing what he knew now, his plans had changed. He didn't want to give the goblins the opportunity to hunker down without a fight. If he waited the full week, Rorik and his hunting party would certainly slow down construction but it wouldn't be nearly enough to satisfy Aerwyn. Once they fortify the settlement they could just sit inside and use the same tactics he used on Velk's army.
Aerwyn found Erit and the spiders before grabbing Velk and heading south. They arrived a few hundred meters north of the goblin settlement and stayed put on the forest's edge, watching the goblins work.
”Erit i want the spiders to cover the edge of the forest in webs. We're going to bait the goblins into our trap. They only need to be about a meter high and cover a few hundred meters of the forest's edge.”
”Master surely we can just charge them, it doesn't matter if there are five hundred or five thousand. They cannot hurt this lovely little spider.” Erit proclaimed using her voice magic.
”I'm not worried about the goblins, while their numbers are a problem they shouldn't have steel so you'd be able to kill them all without issue. I'm worried about the hobgoblins, Velk did a pretty good job of slicing your legs off and there's at least two of them in that settlement, maybe more.”
”HMPH! Master surely you don't believe that i'd lose to a mere hobgoblin. That Velk was simply so small i didn't even put him in my eyes and he snuck up behind me. If-”
”You've proven my point Erit. If Velk could sneak up behind you hiding amongst fifty goblins then surely Frakki and Glik can sneak up on you amongst five hundred. Just do as i say and have the spiders begin spinning their webs, i want it done quickly.” Aerwyn interrupted her with a smile since she too had fallen into his trap. It's just that this was a trap of words since he knew she would be too prideful to admit she had weakness.
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She mumbled some more excuses to herself before sending the spiders on their mission while Aerwyn reached out to Rorik in the darkness. He ordered Rorik to make a distraction so the spiders could finish their work without being spotted.