Time seemed to fly past. Some orcs hammered away in the smithy, some others were swinging their axes wildly in the main squares. The miners had also not ceased their activity and Yerghug was still carrying on the legacy of Bulwud by constructing houses and fortifications. The changes the busy orcs had made could be seen everywhere as a result.
First, the patrolling orcs wore light armor and their axes seemed to shine like new because they were. Second, in order to better defend the settlement, the area inside the stalwart stone walls was being flattened by some captured orcs using new pickaxes.
The orcs were now surrounded by flat fields which they could observe in theory. But the reality was that another wall was being slowly etched out of stone. For now, they were just these etchings, these markings but the walls would soon rise.
