Chapter 11
Yes, that’s right, we would have to prepare some crude tools first, and then we could build some high-precision tools with them later on. There’s the flint used for making a fire that we took from the adventurers the other day, so aside from that, it was necessary to procure some iron ore.
Thinking about this and that, I finally realized the most essential thing. To collect iron, a pickaxe was necessary, so we needed to make a pickaxe out of suitable rocks first. In other words, it was necessary to complete “all the stone tools” first to acquire iron.
(What a pain……)
In any case, we would be going to the mines deep in the forest. We would only be making a preliminary inspection, since there was no means to transport it even if we dug up the iron. It’s also a possibility that we would need to move the settlement depending on the situation…
Well, if we keep on robbing adventurers, they would eventually notice and destroy us, so we had no choice but to look for other alternatives. And so, the three of us — Buster, my sister Dagger, and I went on a month-long journey.
As a general rule, it is important to consider taking a route that focuses on bodies of water when going on a journey since the amount of water living things need is so large that it would be difficult to carry it around.
The average horse, for example, drinks approximately 30 liters of water in a day. By contrast, a reasonable load for each horse is 90 kilograms. In short, the most a horse could survive in a place without bodies of water is around three days, provided that it would only carry its own drinking water and nothing else. Taking this into account while using the common sense of my days as a mercenary, the most we can move around in a place without a water source would be four days at most, and it would be a death march if we fail to find a water source during that time.
And so, we too would be relying on the river that runs through the forest as we advance.
Besides, the riverside is the perfect hunting ground for the animals that live in the forest.
“Wuon!” (I’m going to shoot!)
I aimed at the deer with the bow and arrow that I’ve finally learned to handle lately. Unfortunately, it’s not a monster, but a normal deer…
For some reason, we feel a part of their life force and magic flowing into us whenever we defeat a monster, and if we continue hunting them, it feels like we could aim to increase our levels.
(I was a little off the mark……)
I looked back and saw that my arrow had hit the deer’s torso.
With this, I can now say that I am a great kobold archer. Not really, it’s just something I came up with when I was naming my friends on a whim…
Despite being hit by the arrow, the deer was still desperately struggling, and as it tried to stand up, my sister gleefully charged at it with daggers in both hands.
“Wu, wuaooonn♪” (Meat, we can eat meaaat ♪)
“Kiiiaa…… a……”
After the deer stopped moving, Buster, who hid at the other side in case I missed my shot, appeared and lifted our food by its legs.
“Guruu, guuagauu voa.” (Chief, let’s prepare this somewhere we can hide in.)
And now, we feast.
None of us could keep ourselves from drooling at the thought of all that deer meat.
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