Chapter 471

Do you really need to offer up jewels? Is there any need for that! How many ingredients can you buy with just one gem?

‘Cook with it and win the love of the overwhelming majority of the crowd!’

The following went around Blaugrun and the underground city to purchase ingredients.

It was as expected that most of the ingredients would be unfamiliar, but even Blaugrun’s nose could not be fooled.

Bluebeard’s absolute sense of location and awareness of monsters approaching was equally applicable to food.

Just the sight of buying and carrying ingredients was enough to get the attention of the Gorilla Paleo NPCs.

A species I’ve never seen before, carrying a strange bird on its head and having something squishy carry a lot of ingredients?

“Jelapon, are you still okay?”

[Mmmmmmmm....]

“When I finish making it, I will feed it to you too, so help me.”

[Munch, mumble....]

Gelapon’s eyes were all over the place and it was scary. It seemed disgusting at first, but now I’m pretty used to it.

When we bought all the ingredients and even a few cooking utensils, a show was literally going on in the gorilla paleo plaza.

“okay. The fire is—uh, to light the fire... everyone! Please step back a little! More, more! Now then, don’t be alarmed~”

After gathering the firewood he had purchased, Leeha lit a fire.

This was the reason why Blaugrun squealed above Leeha’s head.

“Flame Throw!”

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

“Ukit, Ukiiiiit——!” “Ugh! Light the fire— Ukit, Ukuk!”

Using a flamethrower to light a fire to cook food!

The gorillas Paleo were startled and ran away, but soon gathered again, showing curiosity.

‘Hehe, where are you going? Then, make the broth by roasting it to create incense...’

Leeha quickly and skillfully refined the ingredients.

Buying ingredients wasn’t just for cooking.

‘I roughly figured out the types, shapes, and characteristics of animals found nearby.’

There was especially a lot of meat with large areas and firm muscles.

Considering that this place, right above the underground city, is an open area consisting of grassland, it is undoubtedly an animal similar to a horse.

If you can tame it and ride it, moving around will be much easier.

‘It’s a shame that there’s a little less fat, but I think the chewiness is quite good. It has a unique target, hmm, let’s try catching it with this.’

[Kyuuuu....]

Blaugrun shook his head as he looked at what Leeha had picked up, but this time Leeha’s stubbornness won out.

Cheeeeeee──────!

As the meat was being grilled, an appetizing smell wafted through the air.

I wondered if it had a slight smell, but before I knew it, the spices were added and it became savory.

[Kyuu? Kkyukkyun!]

“Hmm~ It smells good. It’s not that bad when it turns out like this, right? “Although it is difficult to eat the originally musty smells individually, mixing them together has the effect of suppressing the scent.”

What Leeha took out and put in was the yellow bodily fluid that came out of the severed leg of the Rhinodillo.

At first glance, I thought the smell, similar to salted cutlassfish, would have some kind of effect, so I added it... and it was quite an excellent match.

The grilled meat was procured in a local way, and the soup made with rich broth was flavored with plenty of fruits received from red goats and black-crowned paleos.

Moreover, some spices from the Old World are essential!

After completing the setup so that the tastes of the New World and the Old World could be enjoyed on one plate, Leeha quietly recited one of his skills.

“〈Soul Link〉.”

Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The Gorilla Paleo NPCs were startled by the exploding red light. No matter how much artificial light is provided, it cannot compare to the light on earth!

The light generated by the creation of the little boy was visible everywhere in the underground city.

Harhei seemed to ponder for a moment. Then suddenly it started moving on the jungle gym.

Up, down, down, up, the monkey-like spirit creature wandered around for a while as if playing a game, and after a while, it came down in front of the three musketeers.

“good. good. As much as he did for us, you also did for us. We should also be able to give you a little something. “Big brother!”

“Rowland!”

“Guide them there.”

“...Rowland!”

The eldest gorilla Paleo hesitated for a moment, but had no choice but to follow the guardian spirit’s orders.

Leeha clenched his fist tightly.

Finally, a hurdle has been overcome. All that’s left is to enter Kaztor’s 7th laboratory!

-You both remember the bet, right? The first step is mine. The first time you stick out your toe, the Black Bass will blow you away, so take care of it! Well, our Kid and Luger are not small people who don’t keep their promises, so you don’t have to worry.

The bodies of Luger and Kid, who had calmed down as they listened to the following whispers, began to tremble once again.

They are so stupid and good-natured that they seem like idiots to other users, but how can it be that the three musketeers are so cruel and good at teasing each other?

It was proof that a lot of intimacy, camaraderie, rivalry, etc. was running deep between the three, but Lee Ha was not aware of it.

* * *

“This is the place. “A space used by a ‘friend’ who was with us 50 years ago.”

The three musketeers followed their older brother, Paleo, the gorilla, and stood in front of the stairs leading down to another level at the very outskirts of the underground city.

Compared to Gorilla Paleo’s construction work in various places to raise and expand the underground city, this space was showing no construction in the vicinity, as if it was saying ‘the end’.

“Is this also the same place I visited 20 years ago?”

“No, my friend visited us 20 years ago, but he didn’t stop by this space.”

“You said you definitely came earlier-”

“Coming to the underground city and visiting this space are different things, Luger.”

“Ugh, huh, huh huh.”

Luger didn’t try to refute, but quickly cleared his throat. This is because the expression of big brother gorilla Paleo was not wrong.

Why didn’t I stop by here when I came 20 years ago?

Unlike Kid or Luger, Lee Ha was able to think of a different thought just from the one word he just said.

‘There was no need to come. Then there is only one reason.’

Because there is no more business to do in this lab. why?

‘Because the research... has probably been completed successfully.’

What was the research Kaztor was doing? To sum up his purpose in one word, it is [the revival of the dark elf race].

Dark elves, a race that was persecuted and persecuted and wandered in search of sanctuary.

A current elder of the dark elf race said that Kaz’tor was trying to find a way for his race to find light again.

Kaztor ran out with all the dark elves’ long-standing records to conduct research. Since we could no longer resolve it internally, we wanted to find out more information from outside.

Of course, without internal data, they could not know all of the records or information about their race, so they had to bring all of the internal data with them.

Then, they wandered all over the continent, perhaps even coming to the New Continent, combining information and methods from the outside world with internal data to find the surest way to revive the Dark Elf race.

‘Well, since it’s a game, I guess ‘becoming stronger’ would be close to the goal. It was said to be a way to make the entire dark elf race stronger... At Research Institute No. 6, there was even talk of it being the ‘sword of God’ or ‘suppressing demons’. In order for the minority race, the Dark Elves, to not be persecuted by the majority race, such as the Wood Elves and humans, all they have to do is to become overwhelmingly stronger than them. The only problem is....’

It’s the way to become stronger and the results after becoming stronger.

How, how strong do they become, and through what actions are they trying to achieve the revival of the dark elves?

In front of the stairs going further underground, Leeha looked at his older brother, the gorilla Paleo.

“I’m not going?”

“I don’t go from here. “I will guard this place until you return.”

“Hmm, that’s when something goes wrong-”

“Our friend showed us how to get this space and come down underground to ask for protection. “It will be safe inside.”

“Eh? What-”

“Is that really so?”

Leeha tilted his head at the words of his eldest gorilla Paleo, but Kid nodded instead.

This is because Kaztor realized that what he got in return for informing them about space movement was not only hiding the location of the laboratory but also providing a border.