Chapter 30: Returning To Ironhold
For all their excitement, the so-called adventure turned out to be a peaceful hike and a fruit-picking session.
There was only one fruit that could survive the harsh winter on top of a snowy mountain, and it was a fruit with no name. It was well hidden, and the only reason Lucen knew about it was because he had scoured this area before in the game.
The moment Lucen got hold of the fruit, he ate it. The taste was nothing special, and the stat increase wasn’t that big. Still, it was good enough since it was getting hard to get a stat up through training.
"So did you really go up a mountain just to pick up a piece of fruit?" Harlik asked Lucen.
"You make it sound like that’s a bad thing," Lucen answered while shrugging his shoulders.
"If this is all we were going to do, then we couldn’t have just moved with a smaller force. Why did we need to bring everyone?" Harlik asked the question every mercenary present had in mind.
"Better safe than sorry. No one was expecting the young fire dragon in the cavern, but it was still there. Who knows, maybe there was a possibility that there’s a wyvern nest up here."
Hearing Lucen’s answer, Harlik and the other mercenaries did not say anything and could do nothing but sigh.
During their trip back and forth, for some reason, the spies followed them for a bit but then backed off at some point during the hike on the mountain to get the fruit. As they were going back down, the spies were no longer there. It was weird, but not weird enough to warrant too much attention.
’How strange, did they just leave or perhaps did something eat them?... Well, either way it doesn’t really matter to me.’
When they returned to the caverns, they found the monster harvesters were almost done with the task.