Readily, I could build something that would be helpful. I told them to come back the next day. They did not like that answer, but it was the best I could give them. Once I saw that they were gone, I decided to go into the tower. I could make something very useful. I went into the control room and made a forge on the outside of the tower. It would only have iron ingots stocked, but I would make sure it was always filled. I also made a new Protector to run it. A pink male Elitper would be the master blacksmith and he would have the smith tree maxed out. He would also be level 100 and wield a steel glaive. His name was Gnaw and I made him a femboy to make him a bit less intimidating to the Ynnub. Epsilon was confused and asked what I was doing. I explained it to him and he shrugged. "If you think it'll work, we can try it." he said. When the 6 came back I introduced him to Gnaw. They were all a second from running before I calmed them down. "This is the master blacksmith that will help you. He'll teach you to make weapons so you can get stronger." I explained. They looked at him.
I told Gnaw not to attack the Ynnub tribesmen unless they attacked first or tried to steal from the forge. Gnaw then began showing them how to smith tools to make their farming better. He gave each pair an iron hoe. They took it back to their tribes right away. The next day, 6 new tribesmen came. These were all adolescent males that were specifically sent to learn to be blacksmith from Gnaw. Gnaw chuckled and began to show them. After learning, it was clear that they were tired. Tired Ynnub were easy targets. I sent Ryder, Gary and Percy to escort them home everyday. After a couple of weeks, they were able to make simple daggers. It was hard to do as, every so often, their libido would spike and they would try to hump each other. Gnaw could easily pull them apart and discipline them with corporal punishment. They would all whine and tear up about it, but they soon learned not to do it in the forge. The daggers were of decent quality. When I saw this, I told them to try to make another set without Gnaw guiding them. Gnaw and I stood back and watched them work through it.
Since they were on their own, the quality of the daggers were a little less. That was fine as they could now do it. We just had to teach them to fine tune their technique a bit and they would be fine. That took about another week for them. The next thing to learn was how to make swords. Once they had some good swords, the tribes could advance into a new warrior class. They could certainly breed quick enough to make warriors. Gnaw could give them a few more hoes for farming efficiency later on. Their tribes would be better defended from random enemies. Swords took much more training and effort, but I was sure they could handle it. In the meantime, another Ekans came around the brown tribe. The daggers were not strong enough to pierce the armored scales on their skin. The Ekans ate 2 of them and was going to try to attack the tribe, but Yawni chased him off. When the same Ekans came back, I knew this had to be handled. I went other and found him. He was a white Ekans and he gave us a death glare. "You again! I will have my revenge." he hissed. It was typical of an enemy.
