Chapter 37: A Day in the Black Forest
Adventurers don't go to the Black Forest in order to dig for gold, in fact, the task of exploring the Black Forest has been posted a long time ago, although the civil servants of the town hall didn't say anything, but the adventurers tacitly took the task of 'exploring the Black Forest'.
They can earn two jobs for one job, and because it is tacitly approved by the employer, they will not feel sorry to do so.
In fact, even if the client doesn't like this kind of thing, they don't feel sorry, after all, they are risk-takers, risk-takers who take risks for money.
Although this is another big expense, the profits from the development of the Black Forest and the excavation of gold mines are enough to fill the gap, not to mention that it is only a by-product, and the merchants who smell the 'smell of money' are the main ones.
Chambers of Commerce attracted by the gold mines and adventurers will officially enter the Grim Wind, as only large or medium-sized chambers of commerce will dare to eat the goods of the Grim Wind.
It's not a matter of whether you can eat or not, not to mention the gold mines, just the fact that 'exploring the Black Forest' is enough to attract many merchants, after all, the Black Forest is not only synonymous with 'danger', but also has the reputation of 'mage's paradise', and the number and variety of magical materials in the Black Forest are also well known.
In the Black Forest, there are all kinds of environments, snow-capped mountains, deserts, swamps, you name it.
Not only are there many magical materials, but there are also many types of monsters and beasts, such as fur, bones, bone marrow, blood, etc., which can be obtained from monsters and beasts.
The Northern Black Forest in the south of the Sloh Continent and the Southern Black Forest in the north of the Mendes Continent face each other across the sea, and the combined area is almost half the size of the Sloh Continent, but now the Sorrowful Wind Leader is only opening up the Southern Black Forest, and it is only a part of the periphery, which is actually not too difficult.
The number of beasts that had been driven out of the Black Forest had plummeted before they had just experienced a beast tide, and the overlords on the periphery had also been eaten by the people of Wende City, and the overall strength of the periphery of the Southern Black Forest had been greatly weakened.
Cervantes did not lead the team into the Black Forest to cut down trees, their main task was to remove the beasts in the Black Forest and reduce the danger, and then someone would come to slowly clear these trees.
After cleaning up the beasts and monsters in an area, you also need to check if there are any wandering monsters in the vicinity to ensure the safety of an area.
Cervantes looked down on the beasts and monsters that he easily killed, so he did not take his prey, as previously stated, unless he was hungry and needed food.
His cooking skills were so good that everyone was frightened, and they couldn't believe it was food made by a black dragon, even if it was just roasted meat.
Cervantes carried the extravagant salt and spices with him, and he brought almost nothing else, but the thought of who he was was relieved - he was a dragon, after all!
Although the black dragon can eat anything, he doesn't want to treat himself badly, otherwise he wouldn't have learned to cook with the maid in order to satisfy his appetite, which is simply an 'unimaginable' thing among the dragon clan.
Chewing down on the meat with his hard, sharp teeth, the taste buds exploded, and Cervantes felt that he had made a wise decision.
After the maid learned to cook, Cervantes realized what kind of dogs he had eaten in his previous three hundred years of dragon life...... What kind of junk food are you eating?
The spicy taste hits his tongue and makes the salivary glands secrete more saliva uncontrollably, and the 'cumin' and 'hot sauce' stain the roast meat in the light of the fire stain red, and the 'pepper' as a garnish sprinkled in the well-cut cut to bring out the flavor of the roast itself.
The scent wafts through and is carried away by the breeze, and many people feel like they can eat more than usual by eating dry food on the scent.
However, I still want to eat it!
The adventurers sitting around Cervantes looked at the barbecue in his hand, but they could only eat the dry and rough dry food, smelling the pungent fragrance in the air, and the salivary glands were stimulated, so that they took two bites of the dry food, but they were irritated by the rough food, and they couldn't help coughing twice.
Glancing at the Duke of the Black Dragon, most of the adventurers chose to walk away silently, and only a few adventurers chose to stay, nibbling on dry food with this aroma, and the food was quite fragrant.
The black dragon's appetite is not large, it can also be said to be very large, but he can eat a full meal for a long time without eating, and now he is just satisfying his appetite, and if he wants to fill his stomach, he estimates that he still needs two wild boars of such a big size.
The dragon's stomach can digest most substances, but he has never eaten any raw food since he met the maid, and he can't even understand how his cousins had swallowed animals raw in the three hundred years before him, and why they didn't think that animals would have feces in their stomachs.
After a tentative struggle, the black dragon gave up thinking about the problem, and refused to recall the memories of the previous three hundred years.
After a break at noon, there was a black dragon lying next to it, and there were not many wild beasts that dared to run over, and those who dared to run over were stunned green like honey badgers, except for these stupid and bold, no animal dared to approach the black dragon.
Usually walking with the black dragon, you can feel a faint majesty, and if the hunter and the animal trainer were not well-trained, they would have left their master and fled.
However, the facts have once again proved that the reason why the honey badger dares to be so arrogant is because of the stinky glands on their bodies, and the average adventurer does not dare to provoke such a small thing, not only is it particularly reckless, but also the meat is particularly ugly, and it is the best choice to choose to run away rather than fight after encountering the honey badger - this is a valuable experience left by the pioneers of adventurers for hundreds of thousands of years.
Don't try to eat the meat of a honey badger unless you have to, it's a hard lesson.
So the black dragon felt very irritable, this little thing that dared to show its teeth and claws in front of him was a honey badger, he had encountered it before, tried to eat one, and then took a bite and vomited, and then he was even more upset.
"Look at you, look at people again!"
A huntress pointed her dog's head with her index finger and admonished, "Why are you so cowardly when people dare to face the dragon head-on?"
The dog glanced at his master very aggrievedly, and then lay on the ground, tilting his head aside, too lazy to take care of this woman whose menstrual period had arrived early.
Among the adventurers, there were many clever people, who stepped forward step by step, covered the honey badger with a bag, and then tightened the mouth of the bag, tied the honey badger in the bag with a rope, and let its claws be sharp, and its limbs could not move and could not escape.
The clever wanderer smiled flatteringly at the black dragon, and Cervantes looked approving, then closed his eyes and rested for a moment, without saying a word.
The wanderer was left to hang, and awkwardly glanced at the honey badger who was tied to the bag with only one head exposed, and the honey badger grinned so hard that he could only laugh twice, scratch the back of his neck, and carry the bag into the crowd.
This is a matter of course in the eyes of the black dragon, but as an adventurer, if you can't make money, not many people will like such a life of wandering.
After a while of jokes, most of the people fell asleep, leaving only a few on guard.
The mages took a nap and prepared to memorize the spell once again.
As long as a mage is energetic, he is not only able to memorize spells once a day, but most mages are rarely able to adjust their sleep to keep them energized like wandering mages and battle mages, and ordinary mages cannot endure this kind of suffering, and they are not as poor as them.
Wandering mages and battle mages who don't have much money to copy scrolls can only do so, and they usually need to be careful when studying spells, let alone copying scrolls.
After waking up, the adventurers and soldiers began their afternoon work, after all, the sad wind did not invite them to eat for nothing.