During our short break, I gave the Lightfoot tomes for them to learn and I myself took the Farming to enhance on my farming skills. That's what I could think about during the offer for 3 free basic tomes.
They thanked me and quickly placed the book in their inventory and chose to learn it and once it is completed, it totally vanished from it. It did the same way for mine too and at least with those Lightfoot, they would be able to get to one place a third of its time.
"Ring leader... This is great. WOW...! I didn't know that learning a basic skill like this would only take about 10 seconds. I wonder if the rest are the same too?"
"Thanks, Boss... This basic Lightfoot sure would save a lot of time covering great distances. However, it does require 2 energy per 5 seconds. And my Essense only have something below 200."
"Same as me, ring leader... Should we fix our attributes to make it 200 then? How many minutes can we use if it's 200 points?"
I made an estimate calculation of 200 points and depletion of 2 points for every 5 seconds and came up with 8 minutes of continuous running before it became totally depleted.
"Boss, how if our Essense is totally depleted? Any methods to regain it?"
"There's always resting, eating some foods, getting healed by a healer and also meditation. The healing part is the fastest, followed by meditation, eating and sleeping. I'm a healer... I would be able to heal you. Matilda, do you remember how you came out from the river and got the chill that night?"
"Ya... I remember. You used the Psy Gangnam Style and I got healed fast and also you use the Fire and dry my clothes and body. The Psy Gangnam Style was very good... It is like almost heal instantly."
"Psy Gangnam Style...? What's that?"
"Don't worry... These dumplings are already a 5-minute buff. We could reach our encampment before it depletes. I will show you what's she spouting about. Let's go..."
The moment we walk, they can sense spring in their steps and when they spring forward, they automatically activated the Cruising Along with ease and they both were laughing and giggling heading back to our encampment while I was slightly behind them.
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"Just pile the armour inside the hearth, and read up all your tomes in Peace Mode. Start from Level 0 to Level 5. Leave me out first, I'm going to prepare dinner."
They both nodded and selected the pile of tomes that I had placed on the floor, not in accordance since everything was piled up in one mountain of books. I saw Matilda sorting out the books with Jean Lethal and they looked just like me and Izumi in the business conference room sorting out the report books from the whole of Japan's municipalities.
I chuckled to myself as I prepared to cook the steam fragrant rice. While waiting for the rice to be cooked, I sliced the pork skin (the fine bristles had been shaved clean first... Hahahha) and I threw it in a wok filled with a bit of water and made a V-shaped fireplace stand with 2 logs and some embers in the middle.
Once the water had boiled off, I covered it with an overturned plate and it slowly simmers and the fat would be released as it will slowly become crispy pork rinds. I will use a few spoons of that oil to mix with the steamed fragrant rice to give it a nice flavour.
All the cucumber, tomatoes, pineapples and onions were diced accordingly and the pork had been cut up according to my desired chunks. I checked the pork rinds and its ready to be sieved and place on the plate. The oils had been placed in a small rice bowl where it could be used to fry vegetables and other dishes.
The smashed garlic was placed inside the wok and more wood had been placed between the two logs and fire had been started nicely. After the garlic had been fried, I placed in the chunks of pork and fried till its almost three quarters done and dumped in the vegetables and poured in about a ladle full of vinegar. I added sugar and black pepper and covered it with the upturned plate.
After getting it to simmer for 15 minutes, I checked the appearance and didn't use the lid anymore to let the watery contents evaporate and the fragrant rice that had been set aside was done. I took a ladle and mixed up the rice and place it next to the embers to be radiated and warmed.
In about 10 minutes, the sweet and sour pork is ready and I scrape away the excess embers and let the radiated heat warm both the wok and rice pot. I looked at the setting sun and soon the dwarfs would be heading back to our encampment.
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"Thank you once again for accommodating us for our dinner, Young man. We really appreciate your fine cooking and we hope you would be staying here till we depleted the mines. It would be another 2 weeks before we look for another place."
"So you have by any chance have a plan to go to Brotherton? We still would like to gather the shards from you, let's say for 45 days more in the new place excluding the rest of the days remaining here?"
"Sure... If you'd like us to be in Brotherton, it's much better too. At least we do have the same destination and we could have proper meals prepared by you or the missus."
"Yes... Our ring leader had learned Farming... So I guess he would be doing his own farming and cultivation as well... Cultivating lands I mean. We would be having more vegetables and fruits and we could have all kinds of fruit Jams to eat with our pieces of bread."
"Yeah boss, I could help you to irrigate and toil the lands for you. I've had land before and its a 35x10 and I had plenty of rows of fruits and vegetables growing there. It would be fun and fulfilling as our days would not be numbered by grinding and gathering resources too."
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"We would be staying for longer than 45 days... In fact, we normally stay for 90 days and then we leave and shut the mine shaft. In every 180 days, the shards would grow back and we would be able to cultivate them. It's the way nature works, Young man."
"No problem, my dear friends. As long as you wish to dine with us, we would be of service to you. If not for you, we would not be able to FUSE these shards to make poor gems. In God's will, I hope to turn them into Normal ones soon."
"That's good to hear, Young man. Here is your share of 49 pieces of shards each. We will be here tomorrow. Thank you for the hearty meals... You made Sleepy sleepier... Haha hehe huhu..."
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"Have you guys done with your tomes yet? I'm going to start mine. How was the process like?"
"Every level of the upgrade has a multiplier of 2. The level 0 was 10 seconds, Level 1 was 20 seconds, Level 2 was 40 seconds, Level 3 was 1 minute and 20 seconds, Level 4 was 2 minutes and 40 seconds and Level 5 was minutes 20 seconds."
"We had completed ours, you should do yours too, ring leader. It seems you had double the book we had and you had 3 sets for the skills to enhance, right?"
"Yes... That's right Matilda... I'd be at the hearth learning all the level 0 first and then gradually until I hit the level 5 ones. You too can do what you wish to do and if possible get a book on Basic Meditation. We might have a project to do some time later. "
"Alright ring leader..."
"Alright boss..."