Urist woke to a strong scent that invaded his sleep. His eyes quickly focused to see Herb Keeper Uroa hovering over him about to place a green paste on his chest.

Grabbing her hand Urist stopped her movements, “What are you doing?!”

Looking at him with pure eyes Uroa blushed and looked away. “I just wanted to treat your wounds boss I’m sorry for not telling you. On the watch last night I borrowed the medicine book and learned a recipe that’ll make a healing salve to hasten wound recovery. I made a batch just now and wanted to treat as quickly as possible, I should have woken you up boss, I’m sorry, please forgive me.”

Hearing Uroa explanation Urist calmed down and let go of her hand.

“I see, thank you very much for making them Uroa. Please apply it, I am sorry for grabbing you so suddenly. Though next time please wake me up first if this happens again, I’ll be in your care.”

“Understood. Then I shall apply it. Please stay still.”

Urist watched as Uroa with a beat red face turned serious as she smeared the healing salve on his chest in a professional manner. Despite only having less than two weeks of learning medicine she had shown a natural talent for the subject.

After she finished Urist got up and woke up the dwarfs to begin work today while he and Unicy headed to the back to check on the new arrivals. Urist had learned his lesson from Unicy to not receive the dwarfs alone anymore.

Although having that exact one that had just threatened his life the other day was another matter altogether. Walking deeper into the new well-lit tunnel Urist took stock of the crystals and noticed they had grown a quarter inch.

He had to take notes to remember to break these crystals every so often so they wouldn’t gain sentience. It wasn’t that hard of a job to do as at this stage they were easy enough to break, unlike the crystal wolf.

Reaching the back, Unicy followed behind Urist by a few steps very respectfully unlike the other day. Today two earth mages a female and a male named Elana, and Thar respectively. They had brown eyes and hair with one of them having a hair beard. He also saw that they had similar features and found out the two were actually twins.

Next, he talked with the female warrior named Dane had orange hair and blue eyes having a heroic aura about her with her cute face. She was eager to use a blade so he had Unicy take her for the exploration today.

And finally, there was the tall lanky fisherman called Mo. He had a dark tan, thick black hair, a majestic beard, and silver eyes. In his hands, he held a finely crafted fishing pole that had some quality line.

Urist talked with the dwarfs to understand them and found out they were quite eager to get to work. So he told Unicy to take Dane with her on the hunt after they set their skills. He gave Mo over to Rork and Rat so they could fish together.

With those two settled in, it left him two earth mages to handle. Talking with them he learned they could move earth, change the earth to mud, and use the earth to attack. The more he listened the more his eyes shone as if he was looking at golden eggs.

He got so excited that he called the Miner Roche and Carpenter Saera over to introduce their new team members. They came over pretty quick since they were already in the cave already planning out the tunnels. Now that the dwarfs were together, Urist talked with the two about the plans they did the other day.

They pulled out the map they were working on and showed Urist their current design. The cave walls would be smoothed out for safety reasons first. Then, in the middle of the hallway facing the cave entrance outside would be the dorm area for the dwarfs where they would sleep which was on second priority.

Thanks to the earth mages it wouldn’t be hard to start smoothing the walls by midday. They could also get one of the rooms dug out by the end of the day with the help of Roche and Saera. When they finished up about four rooms they would switch over to the left-wing. The left-wing would go down a hallway which would open into a T with the left side opening to a Workshop and Smith area.

With the right side opening into another T with water storage and treatment having their own rooms. To the right path, it would open back up into the main hallway but the side would have a large open room for all storage. There would be a small wall spitting between the storage and the main pathway to make a path for easy access.

They estimated that the expansion should only take about five days since the twins were confident that it wasn’t that hard to pull off. Urist approved of the plan and let the dwarfs get to work, he wanted to strike the earth with them if he wasn’t so injured.

Sulking, Urist left them to start carving and smoothing out the tunnel. Since he was injured he might as well look over the base and see how everyone was doing. He noticed that the garden that Yri handled had started sprouting up green leaves.

Also that the two fanatic dwarfs working experimenting with the iron in between smelting up the bronze and help to build the large brick fence. For their experiments, Urist made sure to tell them to use charcoal or they wouldn’t get any results with messing with iron. He made it a point later today to teach them how to make it. He wanted to see how the fishing was doing as well since it had been a while since he checked it over.

The more he thought the more he figured it still was going to be a busy day.