Chapter 243: The Real Reward (1/2)

What did the Players do right after arriving at the new continent?

Explore the completely unfamiliar land, search for interesting quests, mysterious treasure or valuable prey in the brand-new region. (X)

Declare the greatness of the God of Games to the natives of this land, preach their religion and bring in new converts to strengthen the influence of the Church of Games. (X)

Help their fellow brother Zonyan get even, strutting to the Grayclaw Village with no quarter given and beat up Swordtail and reclaim Zonyan’s place as chief. (X)

Anything can wait. The feast comes first (✓).

And naturally, the feast wasn’t held in honor of arriving at the new continent.

The truth was that the feast was more a celebration for the perfect conclusion of the previous even, [Undead Disaster ~The Creeping Shadows].

And with the scrumptious food put right in front of them, Zonyan’s trio naturally ignored all else and started wolfing everything down.

Moreover, unlike the wood elves, although the Long Ears Tribe weren’t strongly positive about the Players, they didn’t regard them with indifference or disdain either.

For the Long Ears, since the Players were using food which they brought here themselves for the feast, wasn’t using their storage (which were all Betula) and were actually exchanging some grounded sweet wheat powder for their seafood for barbecues, there wasn’t any need for hate at all.

And what few children of the Long Ears tribe were drooling at the sight of the grill stalls that the Players had put up…

In a cheerful mood, the Players naturally wouldn’t be thrifty and invited the whole tribe to join their festivities.

With the assurances from Zonyan’s trio with their strong reputation, more and more Long Ears who were unable to resist the lure came to feast away with the Players. Eventually—even before the skies darkened and the largest bonfire unlit—the Long Ears tribe had integrated with the Players…

“Oh, the crabs here are so huge?! Wonderful!” Gou Dan said, gnawing at a freshly cooked crab emotionally. “Those fellows farming the Fishmen Island every day had cleared out the crabs back there… Last time I was there, I couldn’t even find one over three hours!”

The other Players were heaping praise on the Long Ears’ seafood as well.

It was true that the marine life was rich and scrumptious back at the Gray Fjord Cape. But either because the Dark Tidal Coast was more dangerous or the tides there being more rapid, the seafood which the Long Ears managed to catch was fresher and tastier than the seafood at the Gray Fjord Cape.

That said, the taste of the sea monsters was more or less the same, but some were grilled wrongly that caused a weird taste and less delicious than the ones the Frogmen grilled.

But unlike the Players who were picky about taste—some of them who didn’t like doing daily quest or farm dungeons had begun exploration in search of better food ingredients—the Long Ears were much easier satisfied.

They refused nothing, be it charred, over-fried meat or pasty bread that wasn’t baked long enough—even savoring the taste.

After all, they had been caught in food shortages ever since they were chased out of their homeland at the Vierlin Plains. Even though they could afford to have Betula every day and occasionally get their hands on some seafood, there was no hiding the signs that food sources dwindled with every passing day.

In fact, when Zonyan’s trio arrived at the Long Ears’ village and would take up three additional portions of food, their daily rationing became stricter and they had to stay hungry constantly.