Chapter 272 - Bittore outmatched

As Osira and Eric walked closer towards the first tunnel, they saw seven of the Fire Controller ladies walking towards the first section carrying bones on their arms, Ratbug bones that is and a couple of them were dragging a dismantled Snow Ignite skeleton along with them.

Stopping the last lady on the line, Osira asked. "Where are you taking all of these bones?" If they dump them in the dungeon it isn't exactly the best idea, who knows maybe it will prove handy to hold something else. They likely won't have prisoners since intruders are killed and traitors would share the same fate.

"Grand Leader Nardone has ordered us to toss them down the rocks underneath the entrance, as soon as we dump all of them down we will melt them." Replied the second youngest Fire controller of the 15 and walked away with the Ratbug bones, it isn't exactly nice to keep them on her arms. It stinks rather badly.

As far as dumping what they don't need all the way down there, it is actually a great idea. Primary reason would be the fact that they would be able to obtain a lot of space here, the Storage room is close to being cleaned considering that the ladies are up here and not down there.

Getting a 45 meter long storage room to their advantage is more than great, they can practically store anything there since it will likely be hard to fill it all with food. And considering that they are melting the practical trash down there it is a great idea as well.

Or at least it is a great idea if you take it from a faithful perspective, how come? Well to begin with it would also be a good idea to not melt the trash since it would tangle up anyone who wants to invade and it would smell bad enough to shoo people away, but that would also stink up the domain.

Such a small good idea has a couple of benefits but comes with bad perks, as a start if it keeps piling up it will eventually reach the entrance and at that point it would take a month to melt it all. But if they melt it from now?? The smell would still be bad enough but not for the above domain to experience it.

And the melted Iron along with the torched bone will one way or the other make it harder t walk over the rocks, the more rust the better for the Ignites above. Not to mention it would make everything more slippery, Iron and snow don't mix well.

Osira thought a bit about those benefits, but just didn't waste more time on it since she knows that her mother has likely thought about it in further detail. Her body might be recovering but her mind is still as sharp as a new blade.

So Osira just told that, "There are a hell load of Iron ingots at tunnel 6 on the left. We need to get rid of all of them since they have all caught rust." A good idea indeed, she will need that room ready as soon as possible to transport extra badges of Iron Ingots.

But the lady who just walked away didn't hear her, however Bittore did since she is the closest to Osira. "Osira come here." She gently spoke, trying to figure out more of what they found.

"Coming mother." Osira replied and just decided to not repeat her words again on the lady who couldn't hear her.

"Did I hear that you've found Iron Ingots?" Finding a room full of Ingots is great indeed but she already figured that they have caught rust even though she didn't hear the part where Osira pointed it out. "Mollara just gave us an idea which I think is more than useful!"

"Mother before you tell me your idea, know that all of the Iron Ingots are rusty." She specified as she walked closer towards the Fire her mother is sitting near at. "We can't use them, we can't risk getting any form of illness up here."

"You are right, I already thought so. But the idea is still great!" Replied Bittore with her enthusiasm remaining undamaged as Mollara sat close holding a half smile towards Osira for a couple of seconds before she continued to strip the Ratbug Queen out of her meat. Luckily they've sent the kids in another room and left a few elderlies to play with them and keep them under control. "We can use it when we find where the Iron mines are."

"What kind of idea could it be to make you wait this much?" Osira became quite curious even though she asked her question as if she just cracked a joke, thankfully she already has fought the tears away. Or at least, rubbed them off using Eric's fur coat when they clung in a hug.

"Metal containers!" Bittore answered shortly to let the idea out already and lightly added after. "To keep food safe."

When food was mentioned, one thought stormed through Osira's mind and she put it by word too. "That would require a lot of Iron but can be made a bit faster. 6 plates just need to be pounded on and connected!" This made one thing clear, like most good ideas this one also has a bad side. It is made fast but needs a lot of Iron.

"I thought so, but you found a room full of Iron Ingots." Bittore reminded, but her daughter didn't quite catch up.

"So? That Iron can't be used!" She repeated in case her mother didn't hear it thanks to the crackling fire nearby.

"Oh I know that. But if you found a room full of Iron Ingots, there must be a good resourceful mine who provided the past residents with them." At this point, Bittore's point was made clear but one thing still remained a puzzle to Osira.

"Why do we need containers though? We can just make a few new shelves to keep the food off the ground." She makes a good point, especially since she saw a lot of rusty shelves down there she figured that's how the Snow Ignites did it.

"Yes but, we can't be sure that Ratbugs won't ever appear here again. There were 3 clans down there, they likely sniffed out food and made their way in." Now at least Osira started figuring out what her mother and Mollara are up to, but she still has another question.

"So you think that the containers would keep our food safe?"

"Yes indeed, because with hunting being generally dangerous up here the last thing we need is to throw all our food out to avoid infection." Bittore always carried good ideas, but this time Mollara out competed her. This idea is gold... um well Iron.

Eric surprisingly, jumped in the conversation to furthermore convince Osira. This is no time to be savvy with the Iron, "Yes, and with the Containers available to us we can shoot the Ratbugs before they get their dirty hands on our food. Even a Queen would have it hard to bend metal or rip it off!"

"See even your lover boy agrees with me!" Bittore couldn't help but joke, her morale was already high and with this joke it arose even higher along with her laugh.

"Mother!" Osira shouted once more, and felt her cheeks getting red already. But she decided to blame it on the fire if someone mentions it, she is sitting close to it after all.

"Oh just calm down, I'm messing with you." Afterwards she thought about all that Rusty Iron and ordered. "We can't melt all that Iron at once along with all the bones, we will melt this portion at first and melt the rest later. Perhaps tomorrow since this would require a lot of Fire power as you know. We have been dumping down Garbage since yesterday!"

Having her slightly red cheeks already calmed down now that the topic has shifted towards work, she just decided to agree with her mother because she is spitting strong logic here. "You're right."

But she can't have the conversation go cold here or else Bittore will start teasing both of them to pass a bit of time, so Osira asked. "How is our food situation?"

With noticable enthusiasm Bittore answered. "Quite good actually, we had to throw some meat that looked too rotten but after stripping all the meat from the bones of the fresh looking meat, I think we have broken around 2 tons of meat!"

Feeling a bit shocked of all that amount, but afterwards remembering that she saw over 200 Ratbugs down at the storage room, she simply answered. "Wow, sounds like we have enough food for a couple of months."

"Indeed we have, but this Ratbug meat tastes so terrible. We need to bring some Blue Eagle meat up here."