Chapter 342 Hatching a plo (1/2)

[So how many people did you bring?] I led off with.

Isaac drew himself up.

[I've got eighteen o' the villagers finest, as well as some of me old guards back from Midum. They'll give a good account of themselves, no doubt about it.]

I nodded.

[That's great Isaac, just fantastic. So your thought is to form a spear wall with less than twenty people against a horde of a hundred thousand monsters?]

[Well uh, not exactly, you see, uh … how many?]

[Did they tell you anything before they sent you out here?!]

[Ms Morrelia did try to explain the details of the threat but I was a little … distracted … at the time.]

This guy… I can only hope that he wasn't staring at anything he shouldn't have been, I don't think he'd have any eyes left if he had.

[Alright, look. We've got a powerful Kaarmodo wizard with a cadre of its slave people a.s.sisting a Crocodile that looks so thick it shouldn't be supported by the surface of the freakin' planet. I'm talking about a reptile so ma.s.sive it should have its own moon! Surrounding those creatures is a horde of monsters almost 100,000 strong. So let's think about some hit and run sort of jazz, ok?]

[Y-Yeah] Isaac stuttered, [sounds good.]

He paused.

[We are deep in the plops, aren't we?]

[All the way up to our necks, Isaac. Not going to be easy to dig out of this.]

[S'all right] Isaac chuckled, [I've been shovellin' most of my life. You couldn't have a better man along for the job.]

[Good stuff.]

We sat down under the watchful eyes of the villagers and began to plan our strategy. With such a small number of fighters, we couldn't hope to engage the horde directly in any form, not even using the methods the colony had adopted thus far. That goes double now that the Kaarmodo had begun to take a direct hand in the conflict. Everything had become much more fraught with peril and the risks we could take had to be minimised.

In those sorts of conditions, it was unrealistic to expect that this small detachment would be able to inflict meaningful damage on the enemy, so we should instead turn our goals to more reasonable objectives.

[What would those objectives be?] Isaac asked me.