After the night of celebration, Weed left Morata along with Seoyoon and Alveron.
“From now on genuine travel?”
He gathered as much information in advance as possible about the region he was heading to.
He meticulously learned the general direction and the paths he had to cross.
But food supply was the one thing he needed the most at the moment.
“Let’s see, how long will the food last?”
Shuffling through his bag, the food supply that was always filled to more than a certain size was now frozen into one piece. Nowhere in that piece remained essential food.
At the Morata Festival, he could only spend it all on villagers eating and drinking in large quantities.
Fortunately, the alcohol bottles were still there.
Before leaving the Yurokina Mountains, he plucked and immersed the wild grapes in them!
Sitting there, it silently ripened.
But Weed shook his head.
'Alcohol will not fill the fullness factor.'
Alcohol cannot fill one’s stomach. Of course, you will get some degree of fullness, but there was a problem. As the amount of alcohol rises beyond a certain point, strength and agility declined. In more severe cases, disabled in battle! In the worst case scenario, you may die due to excessive drinking.
‘Still, later on drinking just a glass will be fine.’
In life, alcohol is absolutely a useless thing! However, alcohol also had its advantages. In Royal Road, after getting attacked, it doesn’t end with only just a temporary drop in life.
You should give immediate treatment by rubbing herbs or potions and wrapping bandages. Also, when there is swelling in the wounded area, it has the effect of disinfection that will help prevent additional damage.
Furthermore, alcohol is good medicine against the cold. When it’s cold, drinking about a cup of alcohol will allow you to withstand the cold much better.
‘I can’t use this precious alcohol. Conceivably, when it matures quite a bit, I’ll be able to receive money……..’
Leaving the wines in his bag as they were, Weed went to obtain food.
***
Sarak.
Terose felt refreshed stepping on pure white snow.
‘Finally the beginning of our resurrection.’
The imposing Barbarian Warrior Pline’s forehead frowned slightly.
“It’s very cold here.”
Dane covering his face with a robe spoke.
“It’s fine. Fighting will warm you up quickly.”
Terose looked at his colleagues that believed in him and followed him all the way here and nodded.
“We must fight for sure.”
Scorpion King’s Tomb Quest!
Due to that incident, the Crimson Wing Guild disbanded, but the people that formed the core did not leave.
Magma Witch Psyche and Light Bearer Mako. Assault Captain Bastien. The elite of Crimson Wing Guild hid their names, switched armors, and took part in the Cold Rose Guild’s expedition.
From the beginning, the last thing in the world they wanted was to mix in with another guild’s expedition. Crimson Wing tried to directly set up their own expedition group. But bad things happened all at once and the situation continued to worsen. Guilds seceded from the alliance. As a result, the towns they held were attacked from the front and because of the Scorpion King’s Tomb, they were pressured with funding.
This chain of bad events was enough to crash Crimson Wing from the top 10 guilds in Versailles Continent. As a result, the guild inevitably had to disband. The heads remained till the end defending it to the death, but the slowly crumbling guild was seen to not even number in the tens of thousands.
‘But we will rise once again.’
Terose wanted to regain his honor and revive Crimson Wing.
‘The place will be the North.’
To reverse everything and revive the guild, the expedition!
‘To return the continent to normal is our responsibility that cannot be passed to anyone.’
Terose smiled coldly.
***
The expedition led by Cold Rose Guild was still in trouble. They confidently brought a large number of people, but all kinds of problems appeared one after another.
The expedition brought a massive number cooks! Nothing went well in the early days of the expedition. To raise the morale of the expedition crew, they made lots of food to give them. Eating delicious food would bring up their spirits.
To Oberon and Drum, it looked like they bought enough supples to not be overburdened. But the amount of food ingredients used by the expedition was beyond imagination. Those who had nothing much to do in this cold place relieved stress by eating food the cooks made.
“Delicious.”
“Wherever you go you have to eat good food.”
“Yeah. It was a good idea to follow the expedition. There’s a reason the Cold Rose Guild is famous.”
The expedition gave their thanks as they reasoned about the name of the guild.
Cooks also became enthusiastic.
“People are eating the delicious food we made.”
“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.
Even if there was a food shortage that made their stamina decline or stiffen their movement, cases where they died from starvation were quite rare. With money, it was possible to buy food ingredients from passing travelers. But in the North, because of the cold they couldn’t get fruit. It was also impossible to obtain food from travelers.
Inevitably, the only option left was to hunt, but this was a formidable task. The monster infested areas were limited. It was unreasonable to provide food for the many number of personnel in the expedition through hunting. It could only be attributed to them overlooking the importance of food.
As the food ingredients rapidly decreased, the morale of expedition fell as well. Food quality declined and the situation of saving food to eat later came up. Not only did the quality of food drop, they had to save as much food possible.
“I’m hungry.”