Magical brick

"Everyone! Gather round!" Layn shouted, instantly drawing the attention of the few mercenaries that just so happened to just come back with a new shipment of logs.

"Sir?" Surprised by the sudden change to the routine, the mercenaries only looked up at the archmage, before dropping their jobs in a way that wouldn't destroy all their efforts so far before following his order.

"We don't need much more wood. What we have already should be enough." Layn pointed his hand at the massive piles of logs that the mercenaries busied themselves with gather for the entire day. "Because from now on, we have a new building material." Layn smiled before pointing his hand at a lump of clay that Irea brought with her.

"Clay? What, are we going to pave the roads with it?" Some of the mercenaries started asking around, in hopes of someone else understanding the intent behind Layn's words.