Chapter 18 - Raid the wolf's nest

When Andrew wakes up the next day, he immediately gets out from his hut to inspect his subordinates works.

And what he sees is not disappointing, a large net made from vines already made and prepared. His subordinates who see Andrew coming greet him in unison

"Captain Brakke!!"

"How's your work?"

"Everything is ready Captain Brakke. Large net from vines and bamboo spears already prepared, waiting for your instruction"

"Good! Assembly the group, we start to hunt those wolves soon"

"Yes! Captain Brakke!"

Not take a long time, the whole group of his subordinates already gathered in front of Andrew. They line up in front Andrew with carrying bamboo spears on their hand like soldiers who will go to the battlefield.

"Okay, it seems you all already gather here. I will not talk much, first, we will do wolf hunting today. Don't get reckless and do as I order you to do. Second, this is not just a mission to avenge our fallen goblin comrades that killed by those wolves, but also to secure our territory. We can't go hunting peacefully if those wolves still roaming in the nearby forest. Third, let's get back alive after the wolf hunting over"

"Yes, Captain Brakke!! Long live captain Brakke!"

After that short speech from Andrew, they move to start wolf hunting. Andrew divides them into three groups, the first group is to bait and weakening the wolves and the second group is to trap the wolves using the nets and kill them. The last group is the reinforcement group just in case the plan goes south and works as plan B.

"Are the preparations done? If so, let's move out!"

With high spirit the goblin flocks start moving, leaving their camp and heading to the wolf nest. Along the way, Andrew told his subordinates to collect any dry woods they found along the way. With those dry woods, in the middle of their walks, Andrew makes some torches with those dry woods and flintstones he found in the forest. Since no human exploit the forest, the minerals and resources inside the forest are quite preserved. It easy to find the stone that can be used to flints, such as quartz, chert, obsidian, agate or jasper. Andrew's ability to make fire by using stone is something he learned during his years on forest exploration before his death. Nevertheless, this kind of skill he still remembered and use in his second life.

Goblin no needs to use lighting because their eyes can see in the dark nor use fire to cook their food since they ate them raw. Andrew's ability to create fire make them see Andrew in awe because no goblin ever did it before.

"Captain Brakke is amazing!!"

One of the goblins even goes too far by touching the fire, which makes his hand burned. Normally, people will not get burned because of touching fire, they only feel hot and will immediately take off their hands from fire. But this goblin is a different story, they eat their food raw, and the fat from the meat they eaten attached in their hands. Don't expect this goblin know sanitary and hygiene knowledge by washing their hands, no, they just keep their hand as it is and let it dried. This dried fat is the feed for the fire to burn.

"Be careful!! This is called fire and it's dangerous. Don't casually touch with your hands"

Andrew grabs the burning hands and shoved it to the sandy ground to put the fire off.

Learned from the pain experienced when their comrade hand's getting burned by fire, no goblin will disobey Andrew's instruction. Andrew handed the torches he just made to some goblins who he thought will be capable to hold it.

"Hold this and never let the fire off"

After making the torches, the goblins under Andrew's command continue their raid to the wolf nest. And about half an hour later, they arrive in the cave where the wolf nested. Andrew immediately orders his subordinates to arrange the dry woods they collected along the way surrounding the cave entrance. He pours the papavers over the dry woods and still and more dried leaves on the dry woods to make more smoke when the wood burned. Fortunately, the wolves seem still resting inside the cave and no single one of them roaming outside the cave.

When the arrangement is done, Andrew told his subordinates to take position around the caves.

"Spread to your destined position. The first squad, readied your spears, second squad start climb the tree and the third squad hide further in the woods, wait for my signal before you launched an attack"

"Yes, Captain!"

The goblins dispersed on their respective post. Now, it's only waiting the right time to start burning the dry woods. Andrew is waiting the wind blows toward the cave, and when the wind starts blows into the cave direction, he shouts the command to goblins who hold the torches.

"IGNITE THE WOODS!!"