When Charles and Momiji came to the hotel the next morning to report, they found that it had almost become a battlefield.

A place was cleared in the open space behind the hotel, and in the middle was a huge pot that put Charles in and stewed without stress. A cheerful flame danced on the wood beneath the pot, and white water vapor was constantly coming out of the pot.

Around the pot are five long tables that resemble flower petals, and beside them are baskets and barrels filled with various medicinal herbs. Each table is labeled with a number of 1~5, and the corresponding baskets and barrels are tied with strips of cloth of different colors.

Not far away, at the well, several barrels and men were waiting there.

Chef Tonyo, Veterinarian Phil and many caravans were chopping herbs at the long table, and then putting the chopped herbs into the corresponding baskets and barrels for later use.

At this time, Halkala was wearing a blue long-sleeved overalls, a white apron around the front, and waist-length long blond hair was tied up and coiled behind his head.

"Is Table 1 Red ready?" Halkala didn't think that anyone else would be able to tell the names of the herbs in their entirety, and it would be a big deal if someone got the wrong type of herbs, so she thought of this way to direct the people to do.

"Ready!" Tonyo replied aloud.

"Table 2 red?"

"Ready!"

After confirming that all the medicinal herbs were ready, Halkala waved his hand, "Red One, Up!"

Keane, who was next to the cauldron, immediately cast a spell, blowing away the flames on the side of the pot with a gust of wind, and then Donio rushed up with a basket and poured the medicinal herbs inside into the pot.

Halkala, who was standing downwind, ordered Phil at table number two to pour the first basket into it after smelling the smell of medicinal herbs wafting out of the pot, followed by tables three and four.

At this time, Halkala was like a general, directing everyone to pour various medicinal herbs and water into the pot at different times.

After working for almost an hour, after a few people had added a few buckets of water, Horatio put a large wooden board that could be used as a table over the pot, and then pulled out a lot of firewood from the bottom of the pot and extinguished it.

At this time, Halkala announced: "Everyone rest for an hour, and the filling group is ready." ”

This pot of medicine consumed about one-third of the medicinal herbs, and Halkala took advantage of this time to check the order of medicinal materials for the next second pot of medicinal herbs.

When the time came, the flame under the pot was extinguished.

Someone stood up after placing a small table next to the pot, lifted the lid, and scooped the steaming potion out of it into a clean wooden barrel.

Then someone carried the wooden barrel full of potions and poured them into thumb-sized ceramic vials on another long table.

Charles helped to stuff the waxed cork on the top of the bottle, and the person who was cooking the wax on the side would seal the cork with melted wax.

For the rest of the day, Charles, like everyone else in the caravan, drank a bottle of the thing every half month.

Looking at the green potion, Charles knew that it was his fate.

The last residues were taken out and piled aside to cool, as they were about to become feed for the horses.

Immediately afterward, Halkala began to instruct everyone to make a second pot of potion.

From this day on, the people of the caravan began their respective work.

Aubrey sells the horse that is no longer suitable for pulling a cart and buys a new one with Phil.

The Parma is the most robust of the continent, weighing up to a ton. They have strong endurance, are not picky eaters, and are not easy to get sick, and are the best horses for civilian convoys.

Although the wurm beast commonly used by the army has high combat effectiveness, the survivability on the battlefield is much higher than that of horses. But they are too difficult to serve, they are not easy to replenish, and the most important thing is that they eat too much, and the amount of feed consumed per 100 kilometers under the same conditions is much higher than that of horses. Therefore, they can only be used by the army, and the caravan will be used to be eaten poorly.

Elizabeth was in charge of the sale and purchase of the caravan goods, and she negotiated directly with the bosses in the Chamber of Commerce, and soon negotiated the sale of goods and the goods to be purchased. The empty part of the wagon was also filled with goods from several dwarven artisans. Because the next stop is a place with a strong military atmosphere, those weapons and armor will not be sold.

After buying the horses, Phil helped the two members of the escort choose new horses, and then went around the city to buy concentrate feed.

Donio took Charles to buy food in the city as well, this time with the help of Momiji, and Charles had his own face halo here, they only took one day to bypass the middlemen in the city and go to the nearby village to buy the dried meat and other food they needed. Since there were few oats in the area, corn was purchased as a substitute.

The rest of the members also do some private work in their free time, shopping for interesting goods in the market, putting them in their luggage, and then selling them elsewhere.

Charles had originally planned to sell the necklace made of the wolf's magic core, but now it was hanging around Momiji's neck.

And Cromwell, a self-proclaimed bard, disappeared after entering the city and saying "I'm going to collect wind."

Then, every night in the tavern, everyone could meet him playing the six-stringed piano and singing his voice.

He was not an employee of the caravan, but a passenger who paid for a ticket and traveled with the caravan.

It's very dangerous to go far away these days, and there are endless monsters and bandits along the way. Most solo travelers will choose to let the large caravan drop by take them to their destination, and the caravan will have people vouch for the travelers, otherwise who knows if you are a spying for the robbers.

Some adventurers would also buy tickets to follow the caravan, and if they were in danger along the way, the caravan would pay for free.

So there were two buses in this caravan for these people.

Occasionally, small caravans will seek refuge in larger caravans on dangerous sections of the road, and the two sides will exchange some commercial information.

Cromwell was quite popular in the caravan because he was guaranteed by Elizabeth and sometimes helped the caravans with some things.

For example, last night, a young green-skinned woman who had been conquered by Cromwell's singing in the tavern chased Cromwell to the inn, and then the members of the caravan kindly told her Cromwell's room number.

In the end, Cromwell slipped out of the third-floor window in disheveled clothes.

The day of the caravan's departure was approaching, and the afternoon before leaving, Momiji rode a borrowed horse and led Charles to the grasslands to the north.

Then stabbed it with a knife......

Oh, and it wasn't Charles, of course, who stabbed.

The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the slime low.

Momiji stabbed the nearby slimes to death.

There are many small rivers and streams in the maple forest that flow from south to north to the grassland.

More than 300 years ago, the orcs were pure nomads, and after a year of drought, a large number of victims were on the edge of the maple forest.

At this time, Philip, who is the priest of the Harvest Temple, and his two sisters come here.

Over the next five years, he taught generations of herding orcs to cultivate pasture and drought-tolerant grains in rotation on the edge of maple forests, to grow wild vegetables on the grasslands, to raise chickens in the pastures, and to use farm manure to improve the fertility of the land.

He also led everyone to dig a rammed wall to defend against the demonic beasts on the grassland, and turned the soil pit into a pond to store summer rainwater, spring snowmelt, and river water flowing from the maple forest.

Here he worked with the craftsmen to make the best plough to date, and later with the orcs the technique of lighting up the parchment.

Five years later, when the Great Sage and his two sisters who had been canonized by the Temple of Harvest had left, the orcs of the land had stepped into the age of semi-nomadism and half-farming. In the years that followed, the model of Corn City and its surrounding farms spread to the north of Maple Grove. One tribe after another began to establish settlements north of the maple forest, and then built a large road that ran from east to west according to the plan left by the great sage.

To the north of Corn Castle is a large lake that was left behind when the Corn Castle was built. At some point, the small river flowing out of the maple forest brought a lot of edible fish, and these fish lived in this lake, which the locals called "North Lake".

As the parting was imminent, Momiji didn't say anything different from Charles, but brought him here to eat grilled fish.

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Momiji and Charles stand together on the grass by the lake. Momiji sprinkles a handful of corn on the surface of the lake, attracting a school of fish to grab it. Charles then threw one of the largest fireballs he could throw right now, and after a "boom", several fish were blown up.

It's nice that there is no ban on fried fish in this place.

In this world, spices are also luxuries, and almost all tropical spices are monopolized by the elves of the south, and sometimes there is no place to buy them if they have money.

Fortunately, there are many wild onions and thyme plants in the area, and at noon, Momiji picks a lot of fresh maple leaves from the maple forest in the south. So after disemboweling the fish, they stuffed some wild onions into the belly of the fish, then smeared a little salt, then wrapped it in maple leaves, wrapped it in a layer of mud, and finally threw it into the fire.

There is a huge salt lake on the north side of the prairie, and there is no shortage of salt in the prairie.

At this time, the sun is setting in the west, and the fiery red sunset slowly climbs into the sky.

The two sat side by side by the fire, and Momiji once again told Charles about the things to pay attention to when he was in the field. Although she herself knows that these experiences on the prairie are not necessarily applicable in the south.

By the time the two of them finished eating the grilled fish, the sun had already set and it was completely dark.

Not long after, two green spots of light appeared in the meadow.

Then these points of light grew more and more, eventually encircling the two of them in the middle.