Chapter 218: Early Bird

Chapter 218: Early Bird

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Seeing that the others planned to sleep now that they had gotten back to the base, Lake told one of the dwarves that would most likely be one of the first guards. "I'm going back out there to hunt for a while. I'll be back every hour or so." Once that was said he walked out the door.

Switching Detector to look for gargoyles Lake started down the road. "Hello, I need help." Turning around Lake saw someone on the street coming towards him. He wasn't sure where they had come from because the road had been clear when he opened the door but he was pretty sure they were an undead so he was just going to kill them and move on.

He made sure before he attacked though by switching Detector to look for undead. Seeing the guy start to glow, Lake asked. "Are you an undead?" He already knew but he wanted to see what the guy would say. "No, I'm not." It was a pretty weak lie but Lake was sure it would get a lot of people because it was so simple.

"Can you prove it?" The guy was getting kind of close now and Lake thought about ending this but he was kind of interested to see if they would drop the fa?ade and attack or would keep it going even when he got close. "How?"

Lake wasn't sure how they differed from normal people in ways that you could see so he had nothing to say to this that made sense. "Cut your finger off." He was pretty sure undead would regrow their finger so this was a real test but it was impractical. "No. I can't." Lake didn't see why they couldn't so he said. "Why not?"

"Because I can't afford to grow it back. I'll be fingerless forever." This was a good cover story but Lake had an offer a normal person couldn't refuse. "I'm an alchemist. I'll get you a potion to regrow it once this is over."

"How can I trust you actually will?"

"Why did you come out?" This person wasn't a fighter so they should have stayed inside unless there was a good reason they couldn't. "We ran out of food or the people that were letting me hide with them did and since I was the reason they had run out so fast I agreed to be the first to go out and try to find more."

Lake hadn't thought of the fact that other people wouldn't have enough food to last till they were let out of the barrier. This could be a real problem if this imprisonment lasted for a long time. He needed to lead his group to stock up on as much food as they could while there was still some that hadn't been claimed.

He should also make himself a secret stash that he could use if the others went through all the stuff they gathered. He didn't need to eat much so he would definitely be the last one left if they ran out of food entirely. "Well good luck with that." Lake turned to leave towards the market where he could start to bring food to a secret stash when the person stopped him.

"Would you mind helping me get there and back? I have money." Lake would usually help if someone paid him enough but keeping himself fed was more important and he didn't want to be in competition with the person he had saved while he was scavenging for food. "No I'm sorry but if you get attacked again just yell and I'll come running."

He might actually do this depending how successful he was in his hunt for food. There had been plenty of food when they had gone to get some last time but there was no way to know how many people had been there since they had. If people were starting to run out of food they would risk a trip out to get more and since he had killed a high percentage of the monsters that were here they had a good chance of making it there just fine.

Arriving at where they had gotten their food, Lake saw that it looked very similar to what he had seen when they left yesterday so it looked like there hadn't been any people here since they left. It seemed the person he had just saved might have been the first to come out and from what they had said about them being a guest that wasn't originally supposed to be where they were it made sense that they had been the first ones to start to run out of food since they had an extra mouth to feed.

It was probably uncommon for people to let strangers come into their shelters so it would probably be another day before other people needed to come out to restock. Scooping a large amount of food into his arms, Lake started to run towards their base. He wanted all the food he gathered to be close to where he was staying so he was going to hide this in the building next to them before going to his group and telling them to get up.

He wanted to get at least half of the food in the market for them so he was going to need help. The building next to them had its door closed so Lake used Mana Vision to see if there were any people inside. He had looked inside a few times passively but never really taken the time to do a good job.

Seeing no one, Lake took his bundle of food into one of the bedrooms and slid it under the bed. Seeing that he had a lot of stuff all mixed together, Lake took the time to take out the stuff that would go bad first and move it to another part of the house. He chose to just set it on the table in the front room so if anyone came in they would see it and think it had been the food of the family that lived here.