Chapter 130 - Arriving at Neighboring Village (2/2)

“Bodies with no heads or missing limbs won’t turn undead, but even if they did, they can’t move.”

“I shouldn’t have asked…”

Ange said with a sullen face, but to Loren it was nothing out of the ordinary, and it was something he had gotten used to.

Of course, there was a small bit of unpleasantness that didn’t disappear, but Loren thought that such things could become bearable with experience.

“Anyways, lets get ready for dinner. Tonight’s is going to be good, isn’t it?”

“Yes. We got the ingredients and the water from the well is good to use so we have a lot of that as well.”

While they were looking through the village, they found that the village’s well was still okay.

For the water, Loren some up and rubbed it on his arm, and after waiting for a while, this time he put a little bit in his mouth, tasting it then spitting it out, and seeing that nothing happened, he then drank some and waited for a bit again, making sure it was safe.

“It’s probably fine. But boil it just in case.”

“Got it. Should I use <

>?”

“Feels like a waste, but if you’re just going to sleep after go ahead. But if you were going to do that, did I really have to go through the trouble of checking it?”

“It’s not that I don’t trust you. But there’s the possibility of something we might be hesitant to put in our mouths even though it doesn’t hurt us.”

Loren guessed that could be so, but Klaus and the other girls started looking at the water like something scary was in it.

“There’s a limit to how much I can clean with <

>, so let’s use it on the water we brought to lower the chances of getting upset stomachs.”

There were two priestesses in the party.

They had many uses of Divine Arts, but they still couldn’t waste a charge just for cleaning water.

“<

> is a simple Divine Art, so I’ll use mine. Roll should save hers.”

Lapis said and proceeded to use <

> on the water.

From Lapis’ point, it seemed that Roll was more skilled as a priestess than she was, and skilled healers should save their strength in case something happens, so Lapis decided that a common Art such as <

> could be done by herself.

“So that means Roll is a better priestess than you are?”

“Unfortunately, yes. Only as a priestess, though.”

Lapis seemed to imply something, and Loren knew what she meant.

Since Lapis was a demon, all her abilities combined, Roll was no match for her, but there was no way she could mention that in front of everyone.

It seemed that Roll had more charges of Divine Arts as well.

“Difference in amount of faith?”

“Something like that.”

Lapis sadly agreed, and Loren patted her on her head to make her feel better.

As they had such conversations, Lapis continued to prepare the food.

Although, it wasn’t much in the first place.

She just cut the ingredients they gathered from the houses into pieces and threw them into a pot they had found in one of the houses as well, poured water in it, and added salt they had found and herbs they had picked in the area and prepared to stew everything, but it was still better and warmer than eating rations, and dinner with soup was nice as well.

The only downside was that they had to eat the bread they had brought.

There was bread left in the village, but they were all rotten and weren’t in a shape to be eaten.

“Women who can cook are nice.”

When Klaus said such carefree words so nonchalantly, while in a village where the villagers had mysteriously disappeared, Loren replied in a cold voice, as he thought that Klaus might be something on a whole different level.

“If you try to hit on her, I’m going to make you go cold.”

“You see. I’m not really into sleeping with other another man’s woman.”

“I haven’t slept with her. And she’s not mine, either…”

“Oh? Then there could be an opportunity…”

As Klaus started to say so, the blade of the great sword that Loren had drawn from his back plunged into the ground less than an inch away from his foot, making the smile on his face freeze as he saw a black wall suddenly appear in front of his eyes.

“You say something?”

“I can’t wait for dinner to be done.”

As Loren asked Klaus in a cool voice that didn’t make it seem like he had just plunged his sword into the ground, almost stabbing someone in the foot, Klaus immediately replied in a bland voice.

Everyone was at a loss of words at his quick-wittedness and guts.