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.”
“Please bring me something to eat.”
The expedition wallowing in hunger! If they started off poorly in the beginning instead of stopping in the middle of eating well, in theory it would be much more difficult to go hungry. The Cold Rose Guild took the initiative and starved themselves.
However, even in the midst there were those that did not starve. They were not part of the elite Cold Rose Guild. There was no way the righteous and highly respected Oberon would give them permission to eat their secretly packed food.
The Geomchis! Geomchi 306 pulled out barley bread that had been hidden away in his backpack and secretly chewed. Old, cold, hard and frozen bread, but as saliva moistened it, he ate as it gently dissolved.
“No matter what, barley bread tastes best.”
Ever since starving to death, they decided to always have a plentiful amount to get ride of hunger. So barley bread always generously went in their backpacks. Basically, in Royal Road there was an inseparable relationship between the Geomchis and barley bread.
However, a majority of the expedition was forced to endure as they clutched their empty bellies. They realized this fact at the end of such a failure.
‘Difficult to find food in the North. Must conserve food ingredients as much as possible.’