Chapter 381 - Strange Sounds

Alcon Epke, a beautiful name isn't it. Some consider him a genius and a lot consider him Crazy, and he is a little bit. But mostly he is bursting with ideas, has an unmatchable work ethic and furthermore is topped off with a strong dedication to help his tribe progress.

The Tribe's most recent Dilemma, is down at the mines of the third section. For months now, they were unable to break through these weird rocks. These rocks can be barely scared by Pickaxes, the most one can do is break a small chip.

Well, Alcon Epke has thought of a beautiful plan regarding how to break these rocks that block the passage in all three of the mines in the third section.

First things first, it was absolutely necessary to propose this idea to the Grand Leader Bittore Nardone first. Since this idea, will include the Blacksmiths and the Miners. In other words, it has nothing to do with the craft he favors and is tremendously good at, Stonemasonry.

Bittore accepted the idea right away, and in a way found it dumb how she didn't think of it, considering that Alcon's idea is actually based on a Fire Blasting move.

The Idea, is to make a 10 meter long pole which is half a meter thick! Who would be able to lift that thing though? Ten people! It isn't really important who those 10 people can or will be, but the point here is that 10 handles will be attached to this big pole's sides. Meaning, one side will have 5 and the other will have 5 as well.

This pole, has a cone like shape right in front of it. And that is the bright idea behind this plan, carried, ran with and bashed against the rough rock which blocks their way, will cause a concentrated blow.

Its genius, and it is actually working but it is as tiresome as it is effective. This pole took over a month to make, took a hell load of Iron and weighs a tad over 300 Kilos. Thanks to the weight distribution to each man it will feel like carrying 30 Kilos, but carrying 30 kilos all the time is tiresome, and teamwork ironically makes it worse.

In a matter of a day, the 10 men manage to puncture through this large previously thought unbreakable rock. They had to bash the pole against the rock, stop so they can remove debris and then bash again.

Once successful, they ventured deeper in to this first tunnel of the third section, it has precious yet strange minerals inside. This mineral, was gone for nearly 3 Volumes now but has managed to make a stunning entrance, an entrance with a "blow".

Of course, we are talking about Dark Blue Ores! They are used to form nearly indestructible ingots, in other terms they can be used to make Weapons and Armour. The Snow Ignites of Maleemia actually broke through this discovery, but their work and research is sitting under the rumble of the mountainside.

Now it appears that the Snow Ignites who have abandoned this place hundreds of years ago, wanted to put this metal in to use their selves. Perhaps they failed to do so, because the Demons might have prevented them to do so?

Or perhaps they just have chosen not to use these Dark Blue Ores, considering the large almost indestructible boulders, it isn't surprising if the Snow Ignites put them there.

Regardless, this is a big discovery and a huge advantage in battle. Unlike Iron Armour, it would take a far stronger force to penetrate through Dark Blue Armour, only a mature Calidum Lutum can deliver such a devastating blow, or someone as strong as Saleem.

Come to think of it, even Demons might have it difficult to kill a man or woman dressed with this armour. The Armour could definitely be penetrated by one, but at a very limited extend, it can be considered as a dent.

Now imagine if Grand Masters in Swordsmanship dress in this type of Armour, it would be practically impossible to stop them without tremendously heavy weaponry, like a Ballista.

They have indeed made a tremendous discovery, and if the situation requires it, they will be even stronger in war.

But furthermore, this new discovery has caused a lot of excitement throughout this hidden domain. Most in this tribe, have found a sudden motivation to drop everything and rush to work in the mine.

Most tasks are taken care off ever since they settled in, now they mainly focus on food so it isn't a surprise if a lot of men and women have free time. But in another point of view, all this excitement can cause disorder and maybe even accidents.

The Tunnel is only so small, it isn't wise to put 40 people in there regardless of how much they want to lend a hand. It is obvious that Bittore has a lot of work in front of her with this new discovery, but at least it is for the better.

In related information, people working in this Tunnel have reported hearing weird sounds. Sounds that they can't really specify. As if a wet boulder tapped against the ground, tripped and shouted after. It is obviously a horrible description, but no doubt the most accurate one Bittore heard so far.

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Hunting, for what is it neccesary? Well in these Medieval times, it is mostly done in the means of survival with a small percentage doing it in the means of profit.

Hunting was and is remaining the most providing food supply, one hunt can bring a weeks worth of food for an entire tribe, not to mention how much it would bring for one person.

In the Duty of hunting today, is Jone Weiss and Clarry Ritter. There are a couple of other Fire Controlling ladies in the duty of hunting today, but they are as a separate team in order to include the chances of success.

Furthermore, there is a group of 10 men considered as the third team, hunting. They are obviously hunting a few Kilometers away from the tribe, the next meal won't walk or fly over to you.

Clarry and Jone are about 3 Kilometers South, actually able to see enemy territories from the view here, these Domains are lower so survival can be more plausible.

Clarry and Jone are carrying 2 Backpacks each, so when they shoot a Blue Eagle down, they can carry as much meat as possible with one go. Of course they can come later and carry the meat that they couldn't in the beginning, but it can't be guaranteed that the Meat will stay there.

There are Bears, other Blue Eagles and a hell load of different predators who too are trying to survive, they won't think about other animals and they will definitely be greedy with the food.

Each, these two ladies can carry around 40-60 Kilos of meat for an extended period of time so it only makes sense if they try to shoot down just one Blue Eagle. One of them can averagely weigh 90-120 Kilos so it makes sense to shoot just one of them down.

It does make sense, but is it easy? Hell no. These Blue Eagles rarely travel alone, most commonly they travel in pacs or herds or however you would like to call it. And even if they somehow managed to sneak a shot, kill the Eagle and hide. It wouldn't work, because in these Mountains, Cannibalism between Predators is rather common. They would make a meal out of the shot down Blue Eagle.

"Let's shoot one down as soon as possible so we can be done with this day already." Jone spoke, at a low tone no doubt but it still came out harsh.

"It's a beautiful day, have a little bit of enthusiasm in you please." Clarry complained about her friend's depressing behaviour.

"All I see is dark and grey." Jone answered, practically adding fuel to her own fire.

"Stop being so dramatic." Clarry answered, as she took a second to stalk her own surroundings.

"No, I'm serious. I don't see the green you all kept talking about in summer when we were on the low lands, all I saw was a dark shade of green." Thinking it through, based on what she remembers of her childhood. She added, "In fact everything has become more and more grey throughout my life, maybe it is because of my age..."

"Age likely doesn't have anything to do with it, just have more enthusiasm and the colours will return." Clarry replied, trying to help her friend.

"There isn't much to be happy about, all our lives were terrible." Jone wasn't planning to hide this little fact.

"But we are better now, we have our own place and all we have to worry about is food. What other Ignite in Ignis is blessed with this luxury?" With these couple of sentences she managed to return a glimpse of gratitude back to Jone, I suppose Clarry is the only one close enough to do it.

But of course Jone has it tad hard to accept this fact. "You are right I guess, let's just focus on our Hunting for a while?" Although sneaky, she had a smile on her face and avoided to face Clarry.