"Crabs huh, reminds of the seafood cuisine I eat back on Valovo Citadel," Verina comnted. "Also, nice lantern you got there."
"It is my favorite lantern now."
"I'm assuming that you're relying on to suppress the sll for the giant crabs because you aren't planning to work on it as of now."
"Yup."
The scavenging hunt went on for 5 hours before I settled on the extracted materials to work on sothing.
Of course, before actually working on the material itself, I also needed to establish so important facilities for the materials to be even workable.
Verina's ohrtending ability was definitely the saving grace to trivialize most of the annoying stuff when it cos to establishing these facilities.
"That gauntlet you got from the Wild Hunt's stray gives you so much strength, it seems," Verina comnted as she helped with the building. "It might actually be on par with a high-quality Theotech, at this point."
The strength from the Wraithgrip really does change everything, huh.
"It can't be removed unless I sever my right hand, however. It also saps my vitality everyti I draw strength from it. So it definitely has its price."
"Looks like you're not surprised by that cost."
"Well, not like it imdiately kills or anything. I just need to eat well and live well in my available lifespan."
The 'Info' section of my detail screen did have information for the estimation of my entire lifespan if I were to live without consequently dying to any unnatural causes.
If only that the numbers weren't a bunch of question marks.
"This makes want to have Qliphoth prosthetic legs."
"I doubt that we will stumble into that kind of Qliphoth Object."
From a complete workshop with a forge where I could finally process everything that I brought back to my storage, to a man-made loom where I could weave the essence produced by the death Sorrow Weaver—I also flattened the uneven ground in our proximity for ease of traveling with Verina, since she was in a wheelchair.
I also found out that the Burrowing Terror's corrosive sli could be used as so sort of solvent to clean the Sorrow Weaver's webs of their stickiness, so I just dumped all of our remaining sli canister into a big tub made out of the monster's innards.
And then clean all of the silk by just dumping it on the pool of sli.
The silk was strong enough to not get damaged by the tal-eating substance.
"Phew."
After working for 8 hours non stop since the Ordeal of the Midnight, I decided to rest on my polished wooden bed, inside the very sa design of wooden cabin that I built on the first day.
It might not be the best platform to rest in this world, but any kind of surface felt comfortable after moving around for hours.
And for so reason, Verina was there lying next to .
"These cauterized wounds… does it hurt you?"
"Well, like all wounds do."
"If I touch it like this, will you feel anything?"
"The lack of reaction of my face doesn't an that the pain doesn't exist, Verina."
"I thought that you would be much more expressive."
"Said the person with an eternal poker-face."
Sotis, I forget to give an empathetic impression within my actions and calculation.
Like right now, I didn't really think much about how devastating it must have felt to lose both of your legs while you're still alive and kicking.
Without anyone to support you, you won't be able to do many things. Even soone taking care of you, it would definitely still be demoralizing to realize that you were severely limited on what you're capable of doing as a living being.
Not to ntion, her friend ca back from the Ordeal as a cryopreserved head.
I didn't take into account the emotion factor, for soone to shoot a preserving spell on their own friend right after a one-day stranger beheaded them.
Then again, I had already established myself as a consistent leader figure for them.
It still didn't make Verina's burden any less significant, however.
"You can just continue your sleep, if this situation comforts you, you know?" I said while I started to close my eyes.
"I thought that you would be more defensive around ."
I wanted to say 'why would I be defensive around soone who can't even escape?' as a joke but I assu that would be too heartless.
"How about you reveal your reason for coming to this desolate land without any civilization around, if you want to have an ease of mind in my sleep?"
I might as well probe her into answering this curiosity of mine.
"Huh, is the wind telling you sothing again?"
"Who knows~"
Verina lay her body flat as she gazed at the ceiling.
"It is true that there is an ultimate reason why Lupina and I wasted a lot of bloodies to survive the Ordeals in our journey, just so that we can avoid needing a bigger party of bastioneers."
"I assu so." I chuckled. "Is eting one of those reasons?"
"At first we were not sure, but at this point, it might be." She then laid on her side as she stared at again. "Want to tell you the proper version or the quick version."
"Tell the proper one. We have a lot of ti in the world, after all."
I felt like if Verina had the capability to change her expression, she would be snickering right now.
"It started with an informative encounter with a group of drunkards in a tavern inside Torie Citadel."
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