Chapter 309 - Different finds.

Although absolute hell has happened down to the low lands, the tribe of Ignites here in the High Mountains have kept up their pace of work even though the fact that Ignis can become worse than it already is discouraged them a tad bit. Whatever the odds, they can't wait and see what will happen and drop every bit of work as an excuse.

Now that Progress is a topic, Osira along with her small group successfully came back from the neighbouring Kingdom carrying various foods. As a start she brought 2 tons of wheat Grain, along with many other types of meat that can be preserved here.

Short to be said, they could afford buying meat thanks to that Cart of Gold Ingots who helped sum up a total worth of around 13,000 Gold Coins! Meat that stood out, is the Blue Eagle meat. They've bought 300 Kilograms of it since the seller tried to get it off his hands desperately.

Thankfully with the help of the man from the inside who doesn't hate Ignites, they managed to get many discounts too although not necessary at this rate. When all combined, the good tasting types of meat sums up 1,000 Kilograms and has cost them 8,000 Gold Coins! Generally such an amount costs a lot more, but discounts were given.

As for the ones that don't taste that good but still can be preserved for a long time, they got a thousand Kilograms of it. What Meat could it be you might ask? Well none other than Ratbug meat.

A hunter has found a nest near the Domain, so he used to opportunity to make a small fortune here although he claimed that he almost died in the process, A tribe of Ratbugs can count up to 250, even Fire Controllers have it hard to survive such an attack.

The hunter offered a thousand Kilograms of it for half the price, which summed up to 2,000 Gold Coins. Typically a Kilo of it costs 4 Gold Coins but due to the lack of Costumers because of the drastic population drop, the Hunter easily dropped his price from 4,000 to 2,000.

What was left of this fortune was used to buy Horses and Wagons to carry all this loot, they barely got enough Wagons to fit them all. Everything is scarce up here now, as if it wasn't before. So as a start of carving their way to survival, the hidden domain must establish their own steady food resource. They can't depend it on another Kingdom.

Combined with the meat they already had, and some hunted by the fire controlling ladies after Eric and Mogranius left for their Quest, this tribe has enough food to last for 6 months. Osira even brought some coal up to the domain where she got a good deal out of, they need it right now a lot.

The better part is that thanks to this reserve, they can hunt without desperate measures which will only increase their overall food supply. After all they don't need to wait until the food supply is over so they can hunt.

But along with this food situation came a task that has to be rushed, like the amount of Iron containers they will need to fit all this food in aims of preserving them better and protecting them from a possible Ratbug attack.

They need the metal containers to organize their foods better, they have so many tons of it and need to know which one is older and which one is the freshest otherwise a lot of food will be forced to go to waste if not instantly.

Osira is deep in to that task now that she has the opportunity and Ada has become her assistant to this task. Originally Osira was supposed to work with Eric but obviously that's physically impossible at the moment.

Getting the Horses up in the domain along with the empty wagons became a bit tricky. Obviously they can't leave the 5 Horses down there now that they've spend gold on them and leaving the wagons too is just stupid.

Lifting a Shire Horse became no easy task, but they come along with a bold character. When they were lifted off the ground they didn't panic too much which is great because no one wants to see a Horse go splat or be kicked by one of them either.

A better idea became to tie their eyes so they don't know what is going on, and admitably it made the whole task a lot easier for the 14 ladies set in charge to carry each one up there, they are for sure heavy. 900 to 1,100 kg.

Lifting the empty Wagons became more of a breeze, they were half the weight of the horses and thanks to the weight spread between 24 ladies it felt like carrying a bag of wheat grain for each of them.

Now when they would need to go to the neighbouring kingdom again, they would need to lift the Horses and Wagons down in order to do so, a tiresome task but the best idea they've got. But Bittore used all this structure as a motivation to carve an idea, meaning she wants a small tunnel to be dug near where Maleemia used to stand so they can hide the horses there. A lot easier even though it requires hard work at first.

As for what they discovered at the tunnels that were left to explore, the finds are indeed interesting. Apparently the Snow Ignites found it smart to store spare weapons at the fifth tunnel in the right, it is a bit too far away battle wise. Because the Guard room is all the way up in the first section at the right.

For whatever reason they stored it up here, Bittore finds it troubling and would rather store extra ores. Which is a brighter idea considering that the room is 20 meters long and 10 meters wide. Eventually the tribe won't need that much Iron, so they would need to store it there. The general storage room can't fit everything after all.

What they found at tunnel 6 on the right side, got them confused at first. They automatically assumed that it is just another sleeping area, and considering the three mines near it, it made a lot more sense. "Perhaps this is where Miners rested." The two explorers thought.

But after giving this straight 30 meter long and 10 meters wide room, and the way three rows of beds occupied 3/4th of the room. It made more and more sense for this place to be a medical room.

Because at the very end of the room, occupying 1/4 of the of this room they found things resembling medical tools. For example there are a lot of smelted quartz, which turn in to a crystal otherwise known as a healing stone.

Along with all those crystals, came all these tools used to squeeze medicinal qualities out of certain vegetation. Some glass tools used to purify certain liquids in order for use are there too, which says a lot because these types of tools are a late discovery down at the low lands.

Hell there even are cauldrons here, the Snow Ignites sure knew a lot more about medicine. Giving it a bit more thought, it makes sense how the medical room is closest to the mines, that is where most accidents likely happened.

As for how to use these tools, there are plenty of books in this medical room too including some experiments. But thanks to the different accent, the timeline when this was written and the fact that the Snow Ignite language was slightly different even at that time, half of the contents in the books look gibberish. The people who will be set up here to work will have to use their imagination to progress.

Tunnel 7 got the explorers the most confused, because it looks nothing less than empty. They had to give it a good detailed look and formed a base theory of what this room was used for. To aid their theory, they found needles who shone thanks to the fire burning on the two explorer's palm.

They have a theory that this used to be a sewing room, it would make a lot of sense if it was so. There are two sleeping areas here carrying 200 beds combined, there for sure were a lot of people here and someone had to make all the fur beds and clothing.

Considering that fur and leather has it practically impossible to be preserved for hundreds of years, everything here decomposed and all that was left were countless needles and dry blood on the ground, a Demon likely bashed here with the over animalistic rage it has.

At room eight, the final room at the Second section they had to explore. They found something that makes a lot of sense for it to be here, it looks like some type of classroom. 20 meters long and 10 meters wide, both of the walls at the left side and the right were filled with books. Carrying information from the earth, the plants that grow above it and all the way to what each animal can bring.

Bittore considers this find, along with the bookshelves at the sorcery room very great. They still don't like the Snow Ignites, but their knowledge can be used. Elders were given a task to read these books since they don't have any other task apart from taking care of the smallest children.

They can understand more of these books due to their older age and knowledge of what words were used at earlier times. Even if they don't understand what the sentences mean, they can just explain what most of the words mean to everyone else so they can use this knowledge.