CHAPTER 31

Present time

Nio met with the war chief of the Mui tribe. There were eleven large lakes and four larger

rivers in his lands. His people had by then already received the food from the dwarves and

famine had diminished, but those supplies would not last forever. The war chief banned

fishing throughout Mui because Nio needed to inspect several live specimens. They reached

the first lake surrounded by hundreds of goblins waiting for a miracle. Nio felt a rush of

anxiety. He had been very confident in himself until now, but now, as all those goblins

watched, his confidence turned to fear. Still, from the outside he remained calm and cool.

He approached the shore of the lake and one of the goblins pulled out a fishing net. Within the

net were three species of fish and a pair of crabs. He asked the goblin to submerge the net

back in the water and ordered everyone around him to move away. Very far a