24 Big hunting

Thanks to the help of Drew men and dwarves craftsmen, the small village of Mountass has completely changed face. Where there were battered huts, there are now houses made of stone or masonry. Where there was mud now there are gravel roads and even the main stone slabs recovered from the waste from the mine. Where there was only the well now stands a square with some stalls and shops.

Imitating the dwarves, a small hut was set up with the purpose of temporary village hall. Thanks to the idea of Simon and the experience of the dwarves, the yield of the mine has been increased by twice. An excellent result if combined with new crops and livestock, mostly chickens, that new families are growing visibly.

Satisfied Simon "I'm happy, seeing this place become a respectable village fills my heart with joy."

Elza "Do not overdo it, it is a village with just over two hundred souls. You must aspire to something more noble. I told you that the heroine of order already commands an army of thirty thousand units. From what I know he conquered the neighboring state in less than a week. It is said that no one can face it when it wields the sacred sword! "

"Easy when you're the strongest person in the world!"

"True, but then how do you explain that the favorite of the chaos has subjugated the monster of the Strait of Hurt, opening a new commercial road and bringing a respectable guard dog to the palace?"

"I can not stand you. You must understand that I have my times. I have must. First and foremost, do not die and second become stronger without dying so as not to die. "

"You are a little fixed with the story of dying. Do not you think?"

"Since the ability 'Emperor' has been activated I had several head shots and I risked dying several times. However, I believe that my most phenomenal talent is luck! Some gods love me! Probably the Madame of the Mountain. "

Elza snuff "I had to take a female soul, they are the strongest!" And then she disappears walking towards a shadow of the room.

Knock Knock

"Who is it?"

Selin "It's me, there's Reginald who wants to talk to you."

"Come here," the boy says as he releases space on the table.

Reginald, the head of the guild of Vanein makes his entrance with the girl and without saying anything, giving a pat to Simon's shoulder he sits down.

"I go straight to the point. I do not have enough adventurers for a subjugation mission. I need some of your men. I would say twenty. "

Simon "What is it?"

"As you know, this area is far from the land of the monsters, so they have always struggled to get here. It has come to me, however, that for some time a certain stretch of sea has been reopened. Now some tribes have decided to take new paths in search of new places to raid. Some of my boys have seen, not far from the border, Goblin's footprints. I think they landed on some of the coast of Luberistan, but since they started coming towards us, they let them pass. We do not know exactly their number but we think it's about one hundred and fifty. We also think that they are not naive at their first battle because of the way they did. "

"Since the villages on the evacuated border have not yet been able to do damage, the more they enter the territory of Vanein the more difficult it will be to identify them and probably a small village would be wiped out."

"Exact. I want to gather a force of about sixty people, forty of mine, some veterans and some twenty of you. "

Selin "Soldiers are training in the use of new weapons and we decided to have them participate in jobs where they can reinforce their technique. I do not think that fighting with adventurers helps, you know that they are used to working alone or in small groups. For our military training it's not good. We will have to send those who are not training or are not doing accommodation work. "

Simon "True, I think I'll come, Desmond, Igor, another dwarf, ten archers and six warriors. In this way we should do it. Also you arrived at the right time, I just want to try a little thing that I have prepared the dwarves. It's a little wasted on Goblins, but it should be fine as a test. "

Reginald "Ok then decided."

Simon "Yes, but we will not leave Vanein, I propose to take them from two sides."

Reginald "So we will divide the forces and we will not know how to set up."

Selin "Keep this stone. With this you can hear Simon at any distance and he can hear you. See this ... press here ... talk here. "

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The next day, early morning, Simon prepares to check the small troop in front of him. Desmond "Ready to start in five minutes. As you were told yesterday, we want most of the prey. First goal not to die. The strategy is simple, we will hit from the distance, the swordsmen will defend the rear while the officers will test a new weapon. "

"Ready to go."

Light-armed soldiers ascend and leave. Reginald's indications coincide with Drew's idea of where to find monsters.

Fast gallop for the first part. Afterwards, thanks to Simon's ability, walking smoothly without horses, they follow the traces left by the Goblins. Simon turns to Desmond "I hope to arrive before the adventurers, I do not want them to see 'the spider's web'."

A few hundred meters, the Goblin camp is in full swing. Simon thanks to the 'observer' ability is able to see some prisoners, merchants, beaten by some monsters. For the moment, however, there seems to be no other victims or torture.

Simon "We will split into two groups, archers and swordsmen will stay here, I want you to hire them. We will get behind them. Keep the runic box handy. "

The four move slowly, bypassing the field at a safe distance. Along the way, Desmond eliminates four enemy explorers.

Once placed Simon from the order to start. From the raised area where they are located, the soldiers of the Force of the Fate Company begin to shoot dozens of arrows on the unprepared Goblins. Someone, in an unorganized way, reaches the soldiers only by swathing.

Desmond "A few seconds then they will organize themselves. They are gathering and taking merchants as hostages. "

Igor "True, but when they are grouped it should be the best moment for the weapon."

Simon to the nano craftsman, after taking from his demonic bag a ball as big as a watermelon but much lighter "Check that the device is activated properly."

The Goblins, led by a monster sturdier than the others, with a face full of scars, gather like a well-trained troop and raising the shield neutralize most of the arrows.

"Now" Simon throws the ball in the air. The 'lightness' rune extinguishes once above the Goblins, the 'open' and 'air' symbols light up. The ball opens like a huge sheet and the air spreads it completely. The canvas is more like a huge fishing net, the threads are very fine, like a spider web.

Now more difficult to notice, the runes 'glue' and 'hardness' are lit in sequence.

The effect is amazing. The goblins are enclosed in a network as hard as the rock glued inextricably to their bodies, shields and weapons.

Desmond, Igor and the soldiers do not waste time and with smooth and decisive movements they easily eliminate all the Goblins out of the net.

Simon with an evil smile approaches the monsters trapped and with the halberd infiltrates the defenseless enemies. Liberated merchants watch the scene shouting like crazy. "Kill them all bastards!" "They killed my children, slaughter them all!" "Look what they did to my poor daughter, not even the dust must remain of those monsters!"

The battle lasts about half an hour but to flush out the various explored it will take hours.

Simon's runic box begins to transmit "Do you hear me Simon? Can you hear me Simon? Can you hear me, Simon? "

"I can hear you, let me answer though!"

"I'm Reginald, where are you? We are at the Goblin camp but my assumptions were exaggerated. We killed about fifty. Fortunately we only had a few injuries. I'm sorry to have mobilized you for nothing. "

"Well, we are in the forest area southeast of your position and we were waiting for you while we killed about a hundred Goblins. We also have survivors, some merchants. We thought we'd take them to the city. It would be useful for one of you to come here to count the prey so as to be paid. "

"Are you kidding! One hundred? Someone got hurt? "

"We all fine. I'm sorry to have thrown such a costly weapon for Goblins, but I'd say the test was a success. "

Igor throwing buckets of water on the spider web dissolves it and tells the other dwarf "What an absurd idea. If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. You will see what my mother Velda will do when we show it to her! "