46 Chapter 46 (1/2)
”It's fine Cogg, leave them be.” Aerwyn called out as he walked to the cave entrance.
”OGG!” Mogg's voice boomed as Aerwyn got close. He opened his hand and displayed the giant abyssal spider's mana core within it. Aerwyn took it, sliding it into his pocket for now and looking towards the pile of spiders corpses.
”I want some zin beetles... Will the bodies attract them?” Aerwyn changed his gaze to Erit as he spoke.
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”Teehee...” Erit giggled to herself. She didn't notice Aerwyn's gaze and appeared to be in her own little world. He could've sworn she was smiling but his mind told him that such a feat was beyond the capabilities of a spider's anatomy.
”Erit... Zin beetles, will they be attracted by the bodies?” Aerwyn waved his hands in front of her face to finally gain her attention.
”Ah! Yes master, the tzintatchik's are mere bottom feeding scavengers. They should be here shortly.” Erit awoke from her day dream only for but a moment before giggling to herself and escaping to her thoughts once more. Aerwyn let her be and turned to Velk and Jinn.
”Collect the mana cores and pile the bodies a hundred meters out from here.”
”Yes, great one.” Jinn still refused to meet his eyes but Aerwyn couldn't be bothered with it anymore, it was clear that resurrection affected everyone differently and until he fully understood his power there was no sense in trying to figure out something so small. Aerwyn turned to Gebb and spoke.
”Gebb, where should we start looking for ore?”
”Dis way mastah.”
Aerwyn motioned him to lead, taking the three trolls along just in case an enemy popped out. Gebb followed the cavern wall to the right of the cave entrance and every few steps he stopped to sniff the rock wall which made Aerwyn curious.
”Can you smell different types of ore through stone?”
”Dat i can mastah, da vosk eat ore... No for food, make claws strong.” Gebb clacked his six long claws together and swiped the wall, displaying just how strong they were as they pierced straight through solid stone like it was water.
”Dis way mastah, big vein.. ova deya.”
They walked for a few more minutes until they were about four hundred meters away from the cave entrance. Gebb stopped and began clawing at the stone. He dug a meter deep before he began to struggle to cut through the dark stone that appeared.
”What's wrong?” Aerwyn asked.
”Strong ore underneath, hard to cut... Mastah no worry, i get it.” Gebb sent a flurry of claw strikes and with each one the dark stone broke off revealing a silvery metal behind it. A chunk of the silvery ore broke off and fell by Gebb's feet. Aerwyn picked it up and analyzed it, the ore looked like revarium but he couldn't be sure until he met up with Marik or Lyr's blacksmith.
”This is good, go back to the cave and grab four more vosk. We'll setup camp here for now.”
”As you say mastah.”
Aerwyn walked back to the entrance and waited for Gebb with the rest of his forces. A few spiders and zin beetles showed up that were swiftly killed by the trolls and Erit. Aerwyn needed souls right now if he wanted to start resurrecting more undead so for the moment anything that came near was simply killed and thrown onto the ever increasing pile of coreless bodies a hundred meters away.
Gebb returned a few hours later and the group moved the pile of bodies over to the area the vosk would be mining. Aerwyn used the formula Tylin had devised of three souls per one resurrection and as a day passed he soon had four undead zin beetles. The vosk work was much slower than when they worked the cave due to how hard the ore was but if it turned out to be revarium it would all be worth it. He wouldn't have to worry about money for a while and he could even name a few more undead.