It had been 2 whole months since the 12 brothers had come to this world, during this time things in the town seemed to work slowly, the ostriches were already almost half a meter long and had become accustomed to humans, due to their growth rate Leo estimated that in a couple of weeks they would complete their growth so they could soon travel to other towns.
The newly formed body of soldiers advanced arduously in their daily training, teaching them to use firearms had been ruled out for the time being, since ammunition was limited, they seemed more and more like real soldiers, as well as planting malderia and gathering food. and salt had begun to bear fruit.
With the vegetable fibers of the malderia, some branches of certain trees and with the help of electric locks that they had in the armored vehicles, they had been able to make bows and arrows whose tips were made of compressed clay that they were able to create by taking advantage of the mud extracted from a small stream. that passed near the hill.
In recent days they had noticed an increase in the sighting of certain wild creatures, until now they had seen from huge black boars with 6 horns, to giant spiders, all these creatures came from the northeast where the mountain range was located, so they they had permanently installed 2 tanks in this area, in turn they placed 2 drones that permanently flew over the area, they also placed 2 50-caliber machine guns on the fence, however, for now the 40 soldiers were the ones who had to defend the village with their bows, heavy weapons were only used in an emergency.
During this time, the villagers had learned to lose their fear and had already made several kills against the invading creatures, the bows used a kind of rudimentary pole to multiply the force of the shot several times, so they could easily pass through the defenses. of most invaders.
Under the surveillance of the drones, the origin of these wild creatures could be determined, apparently they came from the huge cave previously found to the northeast, it was a huge cave formed by a network of branching tunnels that ended in huge rooms, many of these rooms they had certain minerals such as iron and gold.
There were also some caves with electromagnetic interference affecting the drone instruments so they couldn't determine what they contained, the most interesting thing about the cave was that it had a huge room that was the end of many of the branching paths.
Glem guessed that it should be a dungeon or was it what his experience reading fantasy books told him, after all if there was magic and the creatures came from that cave there was no other explanation, by asking Giso they could find out what really in this world Dungeons existed and were created due to the accumulation of mana.
Giso did not know much about magic, so he could not define what mana was, the most he knew was that dungeons were considered dangerous places from which monsters originated, there was an organization called the adventurers' guild that was in charge of cleaning them and harvest the magic stones.
However, in this remote place there was no branch of said organization so they would have to figure out how to solve the problem of the dungeon by themselves, since it was something that could threaten the safety of the town in the future, William had gathered Giso with his 11 brothers in to talk about it, Giso had a lot of life experience and usually gave good advice.
They were currently gathered in a huge wooden house located in the northern part of the village, this area had been cleared and fenced as a new area of the village, the plan was to use this new area to build workshops, in turn this cabin would be the village operations center.
While the group was talking, a guard ran in "Sir, sir we have a problem on the beach that requires your attention", the guards had been instructed and educated with military training so they had become quite disciplined, so the group surprised by the sudden intrusion, and guessed that it was probably something urgent.
William asked "What's wrong?" to which the guard replied "a small boat has just run aground on the beach and its occupants are requesting help as they are being chased by pirates, according to the lookout there are 5 pirate ships approaching the coast".
Upon hearing the situation, William knew that he could not take it lightly, just like on land pirates looted ships and towns, if they discovered the town they would not hesitate to attack, so he quickly ordered the deployment of 2 tanks and 3 vehicles armored vehicles were being used for defense work as the wagons had been separated and placed as temporary storage.
The beach was located to the west of the town a few kilometers, since it was an area of important resources for the town, a rudimentary road had been created with rocks and earth, therefore, the tanks were able to pass quickly.
About 30 minutes before the soldier notified William of the incident, on a ship that was out at sea, two people were sitting on the decks while he clutched his knees.
Both people had their faces completely covered with some pieces of clothing, it could be distinguished that they were both women because the clothes revealed a few curves, however, because they were covered, not even the color of their skin could be identified.
The ship was mainly occupied by people who wanted to leave the mainland for some reason, everyone kept a low profile and didn't want to reveal their identities so no one tried to socialize.
The destination of the ship was the turtle island since there was a city where any humanoid race could enter without problem, while the ship advanced in the middle of the sea, the lookout shouted, "Pirates".
The crew was about 60 people of which 20 were sailors, it was not the first trip to the turtle island that these sailors made, and usually these were calm waters so a pirate attack was quite rare, upon hearing the alert, the captain He quickly ordered to turn at full speed in the opposite direction of the pirates, however, unfortunately for the crew members they had already been seen by the pirates.
In this world where magic existed, other types of technology were somewhat abandoned, so no type of cannon or the most rudimentary ones existed, however, as the pirate ships approached, a strange 2 meter tower could be seen in the deck of ships.
The towers had symbols that glowed in different colors, and at the top had a blue sphere that glowed slightly, at the base of the tower there were 3 people who had their hands placed on the strange tower.
The hooded girls who were on the deck were alerted by the alarm and when they noticed the strange towers, they began to worry, they knew very well that those towers were not good news, since they were a device that allowed the use of spells, it was a device used on ships as long-distance weapons and would soon come within range of such weapons.
As the chase continued one of the pirate ships was able to get close enough to the crew ship to fire, the first salvo being a ball of fire measuring about 1 square meter.
The fireball managed to hit the mast, so it soon began to catch fire, seeing that the ship lost speed, the captain yelled to use the small boats that were hanging to starboard.
The girls were quick as they knew the danger posed by the magical device and soon boarded one of the small escape boats along with 5 other people, after several salvos the boat stopped moving and was soon boarded by the pirates, who managed to escape were praying that the pirates would decide to leave them alone.
But to their bad luck, the ships began to chase them, they had begun to shout to stop and board the pirate ship if they would not be attacked, everyone knew that if they were caught by the pirates, a good fate awaited them.
Some boats decided to stop, others were sunk, however, the boat where both girls were had managed to move away, it was not by chance since one of the hooded girls had taken out a necklace that had a small blue sphere, after a few seconds the ship began to increase its speed.
The pirate captain had noticed a faint glow, he knew that there was probably a wizard on board the boat, therefore, he ordered all the ships to chase after them, after all wizards were rare, they themselves were a group consisting of 150 pirates and barely had 15 wizards.