“Opportunity is knocking, we must imprint on to them that the Cook Job is important.”
“Of course! The ingredients aren’t even ours so let’s use them to our hearts’ content!”
The cooks, due to the abundant food ingredients, had peace of mind and instead of what they usually created they dared to develop novel fine cuisine.
“Matsutake mushroom and crab dish!”
“Snail in honey!”
Making good food improved their cooking mastery even more. Therefore, the cooks spared no expense in ingredients to make food. Since the expedition also gave a positive reaction, they didn’t hesitate.
Ingredients were rapidly consumed. At that time, at least those managing the supplies should’ve stopped them. But those responsible for managing supplies were completely relaxed.
“Well, we can get food materials anytime we want.”
“Captain Oberon did order us to raise morale so give them supplies in large quanities as they want.”
They did nothing even though the food ingredients were decreasing very rapidly. When they realized the remaing ingredients had been reduced to almost 30%, the mood finally changed a bit.
“From now on, save a little food before the main course.”
“Need to get food ingredients.”
“Right now it will be better to generously fill the inventory stock.”
Then the big problem occurred. It was very difficult to obtain food ingredients in the cold North. In the mountains of the center of the continent, chestnuts, acorns and fruits like apples were readily available, and they could even hunt.