Chapter 309 - Different finds. (1/2)

Although absolute hell has happened down to the low lands, the tribe of Ignites here in the High Mountains have kept up their pace of work even though the fact that Ignis can become worse than it already is discouraged them a tad bit. Whatever the odds, they can't wait and see what will happen and drop every bit of work as an excuse.

Now that Progress is a topic, Osira along with her small group successfully came back from the neighbouring Kingdom carrying various foods. As a start she brought 2 tons of wheat Grain, along with many other types of meat that can be preserved here.

Short to be said, they could afford buying meat thanks to that Cart of Gold Ingots who helped sum up a total worth of around 13,000 Gold Coins! Meat that stood out, is the Blue Eagle meat. They've bought 300 Kilograms of it since the seller tried to get it off his hands desperately.

Thankfully with the help of the man from the inside who doesn't hate Ignites, they managed to get many discounts too although not necessary at this rate. When all combined, the good tasting types of meat sums up 1,000 Kilograms and has cost them 8,000 Gold Coins! Generally such an amount costs a lot more, but discounts were given.

As for the ones that don't taste that good but still can be preserved for a long time, they got a thousand Kilograms of it. What Meat could it be you might ask? Well none other than Ratbug meat.

A hunter has found a nest near the Domain, so he used to opportunity to make a small fortune here although he claimed that he almost died in the process, A tribe of Ratbugs can count up to 250, even Fire Controllers have it hard to survive such an attack.

The hunter offered a thousand Kilograms of it for half the price, which summed up to 2,000 Gold Coins. Typically a Kilo of it costs 4 Gold Coins but due to the lack of Costumers because of the drastic population drop, the Hunter easily dropped his price from 4,000 to 2,000.

What was left of this fortune was used to buy Horses and Wagons to carry all this loot, they barely got enough Wagons to fit them all. Everything is scarce up here now, as if it wasn't before. So as a start of carving their way to survival, the hidden domain must establish their own steady food resource. They can't depend it on another Kingdom.

Combined with the meat they already had, and some hunted by the fire controlling ladies after Eric and Mogranius left for their Quest, this tribe has enough food to last for 6 months. Osira even brought some coal up to the domain where she got a good deal out of, they need it right now a lot.

The better part is that thanks to this reserve, they can hunt without desperate measures which will only increase their overall food supply. After all they don't need to wait until the food supply is over so they can hunt.

But along with this food situation came a task that has to be rushed, like the amount of Iron containers they will need to fit all this food in aims of preserving them better and protecting them from a possible Ratbug attack.

They need the metal containers to organize their foods better, they have so many tons of it and need to know which one is older and which one is the freshest otherwise a lot of food will be forced to go to waste if not instantly.

Osira is deep in to that task now that she has the opportunity and Ada has become her assistant to this task. Originally Osira was supposed to work with Eric but obviously that's physically impossible at the moment.

Getting the Horses up in the domain along with the empty wagons became a bit tricky. Obviously they can't leave the 5 Horses down there now that they've spend gold on them and leaving the wagons too is just stupid.

Lifting a Shire Horse became no easy task, but they come along with a bold character. When they were lifted off the ground they didn't panic too much which is great because no one wants to see a Horse go splat or be kicked by one of them either.

A better idea became to tie their eyes so they don't know what is going on, and admitably it made the whole task a lot easier for the 14 ladies set in charge to carry each one up there, they are for sure heavy. 900 to 1,100 kg.