"These are the kids that I saw from last night...? They are tiny adults...I'm sorry for being a prude but please do forgive me for my insolence. I thought these tiny people only appear in the mythical realm?"
Jean Lethal inquired me as it was the first time he saw such colourful characters in front of his eyes, just like Matilda had done in the very first encounter. The questions he asked was well within earshot of them and one of the dwarfs answered the queries that Jean Lethal had asked in search for the answers.
"We can be seen by those who we think would qualify to see. Since Robin here is the head of this group, it enables anyone who is in his buddy list to see us. Or else, we would appear as invisible to them."
Jean Lethal nodded his head in acknowledgement of the knowledge of being able to see then if they wished to be seen et cetera.
Soon, everyone enjoyed a steaming large bowl of green beans soup with milky base, whole bananas and glutinous rice balls and a piece of grilled bread each. The 7 dwarfs took seconds and some even thirds of the sumptuous breakfast that they had never tasted before and had another piece of the grilled bread.
"Every week, I would prepare something like this but of different variations. Its a way to enhance my cooking skills as well as to let you enjoy the love and tender care of preparing these dishes for all of us."
"We would be expecting something nicer to eat during dinner time, and I think I'm going to make some sweet and sour pork with steamed fragrant rice. How about it?"
Matilda clapped her hands at the idea of me taking over the duties of preparing the meals later as she could concentrate on mining and collecting the resources. As I had suggested to her we would discover the monsters to grind afterwards with the information provided by the dwarfs.
"Yes...there are monsters around here if you haven't noticed. Just an hour's hike from here beyond the mountains lived a few types of Female Bandits. Sick, Injured, Normal and Vicious Female Bandits."
"What are their levels, may we know since we are just below-average adventurers. We don't wish to find those who would be higher levels than us."
"They are about level 7 to 10. You three should be able to handle them effortlessly. These bandits terrorise the paths leading towards the copper, tin and silver mines. There's an abundance of such mines there. Also, there are some vipers ranging from level 11 to 14 and tarantulas from level 15 to 18."
"Thank you for the vital information. Let me mark a spot on these and write these monsters down and their levels."
"Be careful though...there are Grey Wolves nearby a cave. Don't venture too close to it. Those grey wolves are levels 19 to 22 and there is a BOSS inside that spawns every 5 minutes and its level is UNKNOWN."
"Thank you, my friend...your information is truly vital for our survival. We hope you enjoyed today's breakfast and if get ready the steamed fragrant rice and the sweet and sour pork for dinner later."
"Thank you too again, young adventurers. As usual, we will bring the shards with us once we had completed our tasks. Have you made the fusion yet to make the poor quality gems?"
"Yes, I've already done so for the 1st batch, the 2nd batch had been gathered for a week and I would be doing them soon. I will collect for another week before I do the mass fusion for each one of them."
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"You will be a good craftsman in time to come. Just maintain the tenacity of yours and you will be a Master Craftsman soon. We are off now, young adventurers. Be seeing you by nightfall..."
The 7 dwarfs shoulders their picks and thanked us for the great breakfast and heads to the mine shaft and enter it while singing their whistling song.
"They sure a happy go lucky lot. So, they passed you the shards without any payment and you just provide them with meals? That's pretty neat...How many shards do you require to make a gem?" Jean Lethal commended on my persuasive and influential skills on the dwarfs and asked me on the technique and I explained thoroughly.
"It's a BIG risk if you were to perform to fuse Good ones now right? You won't be able to know the results but your status would be able to show on your sub-levels on Fusion, Creation and Crafting. Check it under Special Skills in the interface."
Matilda had picked all the used bowls and utensil and had it sent to the dishwasher machine and automatically rinsed and sanitised them for later use. Hahahahaha.
"Alright, ring leader...what would you like to do first? Grind or gather resources...?"
"For the time being, we gather resources first. JL you start with the stone mines and until you managed to gather them in a single strike and had managed to gather up to 6 stones, join Matilda to head to the iron mines."
"I'd join up after I've gone to the market to buy about 5 catty of pork belly and get the butcher to slice it up for me and separate the skin. I'd like to make some Chicharonnes later. It's crispy pork rinds and I need to gather up the oil. It's yummy delicious...!"
"Alright, see you soon boss. I'd let you know the progress when you return," answered Jean Lethal earnestly as I soon took off to the market using my Cruising Along. I bought the 5 catty of pork belly (butcher helped to remove the skin for me to make pork rinds), 3 pineapples (skin and spiky eyes removed), 1 catty of cucumber, 1 catty of half-ripe tomatoes and a bottle of vinegar and 2 packets of grounded black pepper.
As for the rice, I had bought 5 packets of the 5 spices. I packed everything and off i went back to the encampment on my Cruising Along. I placed everything off on the table for preparation of the dinner later and i went to the duo to observe how well they gather the resources especially Jean Lethal.
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"Boss...I've managed to strike once and gather up to 6 stones now. I had gotten Matilda to gather up for me since my storage bag has limited caps. So, I just break up the mines and gather just the iron nuggets for this moment."
"Yup...thats right. There are 4 mines here so take equally 2 each to mine. Don't worry about me, I'm going to fuse the shards over here. Matilda, may I have the 2 pouches of shards? You had separated the poor gems in your slots right?"
"Ya...they are all inside here in my storage bag. Here's the shards...good luck...!"
"I'd just be around here...if there's an emergency,just shake my shoulders."
"You going to fuse the shards here? Where's the rest of the equipment? Are you just going to sit here and fuse these shards? Eehhh...it sure sounds and looks weird..."
"That's our ring leader, JL. He's one of a kind...Even till now he didn't tell me his secret...always diverting my questions tactfully."
"Alright... let us work on the iron mines. I will pick up my own iron nuggets and you pick up everything ok?"
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Meanwhile, I had already appeared in front of the Fusion Chamber in the Realm of Mind and there are 343 pieces of shards for rubies and emerald and i soon got to work.
This is the 8th day we had interacted with the dwarfs and with the number of shards, we are going to create 68 pieces of rubies and emeralds each and had a total of 78 pieces altogether. It is still too early for me to fuse the Fair gems and there are another 2 more weeks for us to give and grind when the time comes.