35 Battle for the Mine part 4 (1/2)

Blaire finished inspecting the injuries of the team members and her face showed deep concern.At the very least, 4 people were unable to continue the task and the worst part was the need to return them to the village for further treatment.

There was no way to continue the expedition for the time being.The shields also took a heavy beating and there was no way that they could provided any sort of protection in the upcoming fights.After careful consideration, they decidedto send the healer and the warrior back with the 4 wounded people as well as the banged up shields while the rest of the team set up for the next day of hunting.During his time in the village, the warrior was responsible for taking the damage shields to Rahz father for restoration and to request 2 new shields.

Once they had their instructions, the warrior picked up the scout with the worst wounds to their legs and started heading back to the village.The Task Team opted to continue the expedition with only six people as there was nobody else in the pre-evolution category that could really help them, anyone else they brought along would just be a burden to the Task Team unless it was a First Evolution Fighter.

The Elite Team plus Arne went up to the surface and prepare a camp so they could wait for the remaining members to come back from the village and take a well deserve rest.

Bhirl requested Arne to bring a couple of beast so they could cook them while he started preparing the fire.It had being and extremely long time since they had Rahz's BBQ and they were salivating.Rahz skills only got better with the passage of time and he had been experimenting with different herbs and spices during his trips outside the village in order to take BBQ to another level.

Rahz went around the area and pick up some berries and other herbs before returning to the camp to make a marinate paste for the meat.Blaire had been studying medicinal cooking with the elder and found it fascinating that somebody without any guidance could come up with recipes thatturned something so uninspiring like a meat on a fire into something so delicious.

Rahz pulled up a chair next to a decent size rock with a flat surface and tossed snow on it to clean his working station.He smashed the berries with his hands until they were completely mushy and placed them on the surfaced of the rock before he took out an elongated rock in the form of a rod from his leather pouch.

It had taken Rahz hours to convince his dad to help him polish a piece of rock into a rolling rod , and then hours of convincing both of his parents that he was not losing his mind.

Rahz decided to cook a BBQ for them using the rolling rod to prove he was not crazy.He created a paste with his new invention and coated meat before placing it in the fire, the smells floating out of the BBQ pit were incredible.After tasting the results his mother made her husband create another pestle for her.

When Arne came back to the camp and saw Rahz making something extremely pointless like putting weeds into a pile of mush and rolling them, he was pissed.Arne stepped forward to tell Rahz to do something more productive with his time but he was quickly stopped by Bhirl and Blaire that told him to go prepare the beast and to not disturbed the chef.

Arne reluctantly went to skin and prepared the creatures to place on the pit and thought about cooking his own meal since he didn't want to be sick of the stomach from eating something that looked so weird.

Rahz finished combining all the herbs and after adding some salt to it, he used his knife to scrape every little bit from the rock.He took the paste and was about spread it on the beast when he saw that a big chunk was missing from one of them.Rahz sneered at Arne's actions and continue preparing the meat.

Bhirl helped Rahz place the animals on the fire sat and sat down beside the fire waiting patiently for the masterpiece.Once it was cooked, the competition for the legs would be fierce and he did not want to miss out.

Arne which was cooking his steak on the side found the situation amusing and in his opinion the Elite Team were in for a rough night in the woods due to indigestion.

It was magic!!

As soon as the fire started hitting the marinated and the fat started rendering from the meat it created a wonderful smell that made the mouths of everyone water.Even Aya that was protecting the team in the shadows found her stomach growling and craving for a piece.

As time passed, Aya couldn't take it anymore and rush towards the meat with a fierce momentum that made the trainees feel that death was upon them.Bhirl knew better than to attempt to take a piece before Rahz said it was ready and used all his will power to stop the scout leader but he was too slow.

Stop!!