Chapter 297 - Preperation

The Demon situation appears hand down tamed, but Bittore can't risk for them to bash through the walls if more decide to come through that portal of which apparently wasn't destroyed. As far as Bittore theorized, that portal was just covered with Dirt and rock, it wasn't smashed or blown in to bits.

However, she can't risk for Demons to catch them off Guard. For example if the Demons appear at night when everyone is asleep, it would indeed be a terrible situation for this tribe to find their selves in. Even if they manage to tame the situation, there surely will be several victims at least.

So she came up with a solution, Fire Controlling ladies will take shifts to Guard the walls. They are the most vulnerable now that there aren't even 3 walls built so the whole tribe has to be secured right now. 8 Fire Controlling ladies have been assigned to Guard the walls!

8 does sound excessive considering that this Domain is too big and requires every available hand to make this place fully functioning again. And you do have a point, it is why all 8 won't be Guarding the walls at the same time.

They will take 6 hour shifts, each team will include only 2 people which equals to 4 teams. For example team one takes the morning shift today and tommorow will take the shift at noon. And the day after that they will take the shift at dusk and so on and so on.

Come to think of it, this is the most boring task yet the most difficult. It is boring because they would likely just have to walk around doing nothing for 6 hours every day, I mean Demons can attack but they won't attack 24/7.

"I doubt that Demons have the power to reproduce like Ratbugs." Bittore thought while she was putting this plan together.

At the same time this task is very difficult because each team will eventually face the night shift every 4 days. The shifts constantly move just for he soul purpose of one team not being stuck at the night shift all the time, it is fair and balanced.

Actually more than balanced since only 2 Ladies will be here each 6 hours while the rest will work at some other tasks. The Second section has 16 rooms and only half of them are explored until now, who knows what they behold!

Furthermore, they desperately lack Iron at the moment. They need to find where the mine is here quick and get some ore smelting, they only have Daggers and Short Swords as weapons and they desperately need Iron food containers. The Containers can be made quickly since only 6 thin plates are required to make one, but they still need enough to supply a tribe of people.

Because like it or not, considering how many people this tribe holds, half a container of food is required to feed everyone once a day and 1 full container is required to feed them twice. Lucky enough, they found a lot of gems, which moves us to another topic about food.

The reason why Bittore managed to keep Osira here at the first place, is because the Tribe needs her to handle the food situation. Meaning, this Tribe's leader will have to travel to a close by domain and get as much food as possible using these gems.

Bittore found it best for 10 men of the tribe to travel along with her just in case if any man from the near by domain becomes hostile, and because they are good at carrying heavy weight. For this she picked the most able bodied men who proved their strength through labour.

Along with these 10 men and Osira, will join 4 more Fire Controlling ladies. There are two reasons behind this choice, they too can lift heavy weight and they can dig the team out of trouble if the situation becomes too tough for peaceful or rageful communication to handle.

The Domain is approximately 140 Kilometers far, considering the snow it will take nearly two weeks to get there on foot and a week to return back with the Horses they have to purchase. I know what you're thinking, will this team of Ignites be welcome there?

Not in the least, but the residents there won't turn hostile right away. However, if anyone knows that this team is carrying over 5,000 Gold Coins worth of jewelry, bandits or thieves attacking would be a situation the lightest to handle. Kingdom officials would no doubt try "confiscate" the loot.

But Bittore of course has it thought out, at this specific domain where she plans to send the team too, which is named "Belinot Kingdom", they have a special someone from the inside. And when I say a special someone I ain't talking about Romance, I'm talking about a man who has connections with the local businessmen. A man who isn't brainwashed by all this propaganda and even helped the whole tribe slip through the Kingdom's reach undetected.

Oddly, that man isn't an Ignite. It is an ill.u.s.tratio, who at that time helped change Bittore's view of the ill.u.s.tratios just a little bit. Not to get confused, she hates the ill.u.s.tratios with all of her soul and still doesn't trust Ada but she knows for sure that they can trust this man.

Due to the fact that they had to be very sneaky at that day, Bittore couldn't thank him for his help and regrets it ever since. She wanted to be a part of this plan herself but she is still recovering and they need a more experienced individual here to run everything, to carry the entire burden of a tribe.

Osira is to sneak in the Kingdom while being invisible, seek out this man who helped them of which goes by the name "Kanel Root" and propose him the plan or at this case ask for help. Kanel is to purchase everything with the gems including Wagons, Horses and Foods. Telling everyone that he scored a big delivery down at the Low Lands, it is believable since he is a businessman.

Worth pointing out, Bittore just thought of this plan. She didn't share it in detail with anyone but Mollara yet. The plan will get in motion when the two teams of explorers scope out every inch of this domain, they are rather close come to think of it. Now that there are two teams it should only take a couple of days.

The reason why Bittore chose the risk of waiting, is because she can't choose the risk of making a team go to Belinot Kingdom twice. It is twice as risky and time consuming! What if the tribe finds more valuable gems? Who would have the motivation to go back right after returning from a 3 week cold long trip?

She has to wait for the whole place to be explored and then send the team of 15 to buy all that food. Risking to wait for a couple of days more might not be a good idea when it comes to how long these people would willingly eat Ratbug meat, but if anything the remaining Fire Controlling ladies here can shoot one or two Blue Eagles down and soothe everyone's taste buds. One of them is enough to feed this tribe enough until their tummies hurt.

Apart from all this thinking, once the Demon situation was tamed, the second team was left to guard the place just in case of another attack and the two teams of explorers went ahead to do their thing once they've reported what they found.

Bittore found this gem very interesting, and has no plan of selling it. For all we now, the fact that it is this rare, it can have some type of power she is eager to unlock. Every single individual of the tribe will be asked if they recognize this gem. If not, the chances of this necklace containing power is more than average.

As for the Demon situation, if the team and Alcon are even partially sure that one of the walls have been destroyed, the Stonemasons have to alarm more Fire Controllers so they can come here just in case the Demons manage to bash through all three walls. The odds of that happening are slim considering how much space the Demons have behind this wall, but it is always better to be safe than sorry!

Ada and Osira had it easy to explore their next tunnel since it is tremendously close to section 3, Exploring tends to take time here considering all those Staricases. They have explored Tunnel 7 a bit earlier and now they have to explore tunnel 8, on the right side of course. This made them feel a bit more motivated, especially Osira. They are so close to exploring the whole second section thanks to the new hands who can help.

As for Clarry and Jone, they had to walk a bit further to get their task started. They saw it coming but it still tends to become slightly tiresome, the urge to know what's through those tunnels keeps them going.