The group was on their way back to town to meet back up with the others. They had to make sure that there were people there that could prepare for the arrival of the original townsfolk in a few days. Asmond reassured Eisen that he would try to convince everyone to come, but there seemingly were a couple of people that, after building their life anew inside of the hill-village, maybe wouldn't want to come along after all. That should be a complete minority, however.
Either way, now that they got through everything in relation to this Island of Craftsmanship, they only had to head to the Island of War and take that over as well. In particular Jyuuk would be on the frontlines there, as he was the only one that was really capable of making use of a really huge amount of troupes in the form of his beasts or undead.