Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today.

Chapter 711 Eating Habits and Reservoirs

On the way of the operation, Itsuzumi's participation soon showed results. The transformed monster ambushing in front of the road was discovered in advance, avoiding a troublesome battle. After that, they also did not encounter too many monsters.

Due to the encounter with the Kikuro team and the action in the Golden Country, there was not much time left today. After moving forward for a while, everyone chose a relatively safe place to camp. It was expected that they would reach the place where Laos and others had been killed the next day.

However, when he woke up the next morning, Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly felt that his pillow was a bit hard, as if something hard was stuffed into it. After reaching into the pillow and feeling around for a while, he actually turned out a pile of shells.

"Isn't this a nightmare?"

Seeing this, Laos looked a little surprised, while Falin looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with concern and said:

"Ritsuka, did you have a nightmare last night?"

"No."

Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head, looking as energetic as ever. Laos scratched his head in confusion and said:

"Could it be that they just invaded and haven't had time to act yet?"

Although the nightmare itself has no offensive capabilities, it is a relatively dangerous monster.

The nightmare demon's alias is Mirage, which is a species of dragon. It devours people's emotions by causing them to have nightmares constantly, eventually causing adventurers to become mentally exhausted and die of heart failure.

At the same time, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought about it and felt that the reason might be that there were too many people in her dream, which made the dream demon have no chance to attack. Of course, it is also possible that the dream demon did it, but a cave king had helped her deal with it.

...Well, thank you anyway.

All in all, these nightmares became breakfast delivered to the door. Sensi stewed them with butter and red wine, and they tasted delicious. However, as a new member, Izuzumi was very resistant to it.

"I don't want to eat monsters!"

Itsuzumi frowned and resisted firmly. Fortunately, they had just obtained supplies from the villagers of the Golden Country and still had a lot of reserve food. Therefore, Senxi did not say anything and made a normal breakfast for her alone.

However, Laos reminded:

"It doesn't matter now, but after all our supplies are used up, we will eventually have to eat monsters to survive. You'd better prepare yourself mentally."

"do not want!"

Even though he said that, Izuzumi still refused resolutely:

"If I eat monsters, I'll get a strange disease and turn into a monster. I don't want that!"

"Hey, really?"

Mashu paused, her expression suddenly panicking. Fortunately, Laos immediately explained:

"of course not."

"After all, monsters are just creatures, no different from cows, sheep, and pigs. People won't turn into cows just by eating beef, and they certainly won't turn into monsters just by eating monsters."

"Mandra is a common ingredient for making magic potions, and treasure insects often appear as garnishes in dishes at high-class banquets...Human consumption of monsters is actually quite widespread, but many people have not yet realized it."

"That's it."

Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded in realization. At this time, Malucier asked curiously:

"Speaking of which, Ritsuka, why do you want to eat monsters?"

In fact, Izuzumi's reaction was normal in their eyes. If they were not forced to do so, they would not try to get used to eating monsters. In their eyes, Laos and Sensi were the weird ones.

Therefore, the behavior of Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu seemed somewhat abnormal to them.

"Um……"

Regarding this question, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought about it and said:

"To be honest, in my hometown, people will eat anything that is not poisonous. If it tastes good, they will even try to remove the poison from it."

"Is this like this?"

The corner of Malucil's eyes twitched slightly. She always felt that the people in their hometown were a bit tough. Was this the reason why they were so strong?

Chilchak thought about the location of Fujimaru Ritsuka's hometown: It sounds like a diet that is forced to form in a place with scarce resources. Is it the western continent? Or the northernmost region... It seems wrong.

Back to the point.

After breakfast, everyone continued their journey. After another half a day, they finally arrived at the location where Laos and his group had been killed, and successfully found their luggage.

Most of the supplies in the luggage were intact, only the remaining food was gone. Chilchak guessed that perhaps the monsters had rummaged through it and eaten all the food in their luggage.

At the same time, they also encountered an ice golem, but the battle process was nothing to say. Ritsuka Fujimaru killed it in one second with one stick.

The only thing worth mentioning was that they found a lot of frozen flying blade fish in the body of the ice golem, which gave them another lunch, and it was rare for Itsuzumi to be able to accept this type of monster.

Perhaps this is why fish are so attractive to cats.

Malucie also used Namali's clothes to make a thick coat for Itsuzumi, which looked very suitable. Itsuzumi seemed a little disgusted on the surface, but she put it on obediently.

After lunch, everyone continued on their journey. However, the next road they were on was an unknown road that Laos and the others had never explored, so their pace of movement was obviously a little slower.

Another half day passed, and everyone finally left the long waterway and suddenly entered a very open but dark space without any light.

Malucil and Falin used illumination magic to illuminate the surroundings, and everyone could see clearly the countless huge and towering stone pillars standing in front of them, supporting the open space in front of them, while the depths were still pitch black, as if there was no end.

Laos guessed:

"This area should be the reservoir built by the ancient dwarves, right?"

Judging from the building structure, walking here means that they are not far from the entrance to the seventh underground floor.

"But I have no idea how to proceed."

Chilchak looked at the magnet dangling in his hand and said speechlessly:

"The magnet doesn't work. What a hassle! Dwarves love to do annoying things like this!"

"Maybe it's because this place used to be a defensive stronghold? But as for the dwarves..."

Laos seemed to have thought of something and tried to ask Sensi:

"Sensi, do you know any way to get through here?"

What he didn't expect was that Senxi really nodded and said:

"If nothing goes wrong, there will be some special marks on the surrounding pillars, and we should be able to get the approximate direction from those marks."

"Eh?"

Chilchak was a little surprised and said:

"how do you know?"

Sensi said with certainty:

"There must be such a place. After all, not every dwarf has an excellent sense of direction, so there will be secret codes to point out the direction for their companions."

Everyone looked at each other and decided to follow Senxi's instructions and start exploring the surrounding pillars. Sure enough, they soon found some special marks as the other party had said.

At the same time, Malucier made an unexpected discovery during her exploration——

"Everyone, come and look! There seem to be footprints of a large monster here!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately came to Malucil and found a series of large footprints on the snow. They were about one meter long and looked like the claw marks of some large bird monster. In addition, there were some scattered feathers.

"Um……"

After Laos pondered for a while, he made a judgment:

"It looks a bit like a griffin's paw print."

"!"

After these words were spoken, Senxi's expression suddenly froze for some reason.