Minecrawlers [XII]

Within a few minutes, most of the light runes had been extracted from the walls and laid at Lucius' feet. For some reason the furtong were working at an almost frantic rate, as if there was some sort of time limit to their task.

He wasn't complaining though. If they had found some kind of motivation to work harder, then that was good for them.

Once all the light runes had been collected, he began to explain his plan.

...

"Your wisdom knows no bounds, Lighted One," Pagan whispered under his breath once Lucius had finished explaining, his eyes staring at the ground in pure awe.

"It's really not that impressive," Lucius replied.

For the first time in a while he was reminded that the leaflings weren't really on the same level as humans in terms of creativity and ingenuity. Even after having explained the idea to Pagan a few times, he clearly couldn't fully comprehend why or how it worked.