Legend

Elaine left Gilm for about a month. The season was already past spring and summer.

Still, it's not the hottest time of summer yet, so many people are active even though everyone says it's hot and hot.

Naturally, the adventurer is also moving vigorously, scratching sweat at the heat but doing the request that was pasted on the request board.

In the meantime, Ray says...

"Can't you do this, too?"

"Right. Tastes the same as before, and costs extra."

To Ray's words, who groaned after a bite of dried meat, a man in his late twenties tells him so as he shook his neck to the side.

As the man wipes his sweat with his hands, he removes cold, cold fruit water from a box of refrigerated magic items nearby and drinks it with a breath.

He's a lot taller than Ray and will have a hundred and eighty centimeters. But it is also wide on the side as if it were proportional to its height, and it definitely weighs well over a hundred kg.

This man by the name of Maryo was the third generation of the Percy Tool Store selling all kinds of tools for adventurers and was the person Ray asked to cooperate with this time in an introduction from the marina.

The Percy Tool Store is quite a big one among the guilds, but still not as top-notch.

Sometimes they still sell good products for a price of conscience, which is pretty high on Gilm's adventurers.

Sometimes even the pedestrians came to buy the goods.

The third generation of such a store...... it is desirable to call it the next third generation precisely because my father works for the store owner, but that Maryo has a strong interest in food as you can see from his physique.

Not only did he want to eat something delicious, but he was someone who, from the side, might as well run a dining room rather than a tool store, who wanted others to eat something delicious and cheap, but he was the one dressed up for Ray because he was such a person.

If the things that the Rays are working on right now go well, it wouldn't be strange to have a name in the history of this world, joking or anything. That is...

"It's hard to get rid of the smell of goblin meat completely, and the taste is egumi and bitter. We also need to do something about the texture of the meat... Hmm, that's hard."

Yes, because I was thinking of a way to make the goblin meat delicious.

Of course, even if history has a name, it is if it succeeds, and how many, dozens and hundreds of people have so far challenged that proposition and ultimately failed.

Goblins, needless to say, are very fertile.

Even the guilds on the periphery are able to survive without annihilation, so their fertility can be said to be very threatening.

But if you think of it as meat, the threat turns to advantages.

Strong fertility would require some control, but it meant we could increase meat as much as we thought of it as meat.

Besides, goblins are omnivorous and anything... eats fine, even if it's about to rot. On the contrary, I eat even what is rotten.

I mean, I don't have any trouble feeding them.

The only biggest problem is the smell of the meat.

"Dear Maryo, isn't it still impossible to make goblin meat into meat?

That's what I told him, a servant man caught in the bad luck of being fed goblin meat in the same way as Maryo's men.

Ray brought this story and Maryo got on board, about a week after he started researching it. The man who has been fed goblin meat many times in the meantime tells him to give him a break.

"What do you say? You were caught in the reward in the first place, and you offered to cooperate with this research from yourself, didn't you? Then you have to work hard for the reward. In the first place, I and Lord Ray eat just as much goblin meat, so I'm sorry to cry."

The words out of Maryo's mouth were true.

Both Maryo and Ray have eaten about five kilograms of goblin meat so far.

If we consider all of that to be about a bite of the prototype, it would be obvious how much goblin meat has been wasted so far.

... I have the most extra goblin meat and can get as many as I want.

Also, not all the goblin meat from that failure has been wasted.

He releases it as a donation in the name of Percy Tools Store to Slam Street and earns some reputation.

For those who live in the slums, many delight in eating even goblin meat.

Especially now it was summer and the joy was remarkable just because the food was perishable.

"That's true... because I never thought it would taste so bad"

It seems this was the first time a man had goblin meat, and no matter how well paid, wasn't it a mistake to join him as a taster? I can't help but think.

There's no way they'll listen to such a cry, and Maryo and Ray will continue to discuss how they can eat this goblin meat.

"Who uses more spices in bulk?

That was the first thing that came up behind Ray's brain because it said it would eliminate the smell of meat, but Maryo immediately dismisses it.

"That may have some effect, but spices are basically expensive. Cheap is the biggest feature of goblin meat, so if you use spices, you'll have problems there."

"... will it"

"Yeah. Plus, there are a lot of other things about meat that tastes better if you use spices. It's about the same price, and it's exceptionally good when it comes to flavor... then you decide which one you want to buy as an adventurer, right?

Maryo's words were an indisputable truth.

Goblin meat that has become expensive using spices and meat from monsters with similar prices. If you ask me which one to buy, I would normally buy the latter.

"Dear Maryo, if you're an equally fertile monster, how about an oak?

To the servant's words, Maryo... and opens her mouth as Ray tells her.

"Orcs are extraordinarily smart compared to goblins. Your abilities as an individual are not comparable to those of a goblin, and it would be difficult to match the numbers. Sometimes you're just smart and you don't show up like a goblin."

You can say that goblins and oaks are both sociable monsters. But there is also a huge difference in its sociality.

Orcs sometimes even make settlements and houses, but goblins don't have that high intelligence.

That was the huge difference between goblins and oaks, and it was difficult to continuously purchase oak meat.

Goblins would go out on the same behavior without any concern for their people being killed, but in the case of orcs it would also be normal to withdraw from the spot if they thought something was suspicious.

The servant nods with a convincing look at the explanation heard from Ray's mouth.

"Well, it's not that easy, is it?"

"Oak meat is delicious beyond rank, and if you can continuously buy oak, it's definitely delicious for us,"

Both Maryo and Oak meat have been eaten many times before.

The taste is certainly not comparable to that of goblin meat, and it could be eaten deliciously without any problems with proper seasoning.

(If it's oak meat, there are quite a few guys who have attacked the Dark Elf settlement about the World Tree... that meat isn't for sale, it's for me and Seto to eat)

A bunch of oak bodies pass behind Ray's brain.

The reminder of the Dark Elf settlement also reminds me of the giant cicada in chain...... with a slightly bitter look on his face.

Sometimes giant cicadas are completely unknown monsters and are deposited in the Alliance without stripping them at the request of the Alliance.

Of course it was a non-enforceable request and would have been fulfilled if Ray had forcibly claimed ownership of the giant cicada and made the stripping.

But if Marina told me that a giant cicada might solve such an unusual evolutionary mystery due to Ray's magic and the world tree, there was no word for Ray to reject it.

It's already been found that I don't monster just because I poured a ton of my magic into it.

Ray's prediction was that it probably had something to do with the sap of the world tree, and that it wouldn't be that clear a monster if the world tree didn't absorb the sap and magic to the point where it was weak until it was on the verge of death, but I can get a good look into that area in this survey.

"What's going on?

Maryo asks strangely to Ray, who was thinking about the giant cicada.

"No, I was hoping to have some oak skewers."

"Well, that's good"

"... you just ate a goblin skewer and you still eat it?

Although Maryo agrees with Ray's words, the servant shrugs like he doesn't want any more meat.

"It's getting hot, and you should eat a little and save your strength,"

So grunting Ray is not feeling the heat at all in his dragon robe.

Maryo was sweating from all over her face during cooking, and she drank cold fruit water from the refrigerated magic items that were here.

"Right. Some people lose their appetite in the summer."

"... Master Maryo doesn't have that, so I envy you"

"Ho ho ho. I always have an appetite all year."

It was a somewhat sarcastic servant's word, but Maryo slaps his big, swollen belly whether he felt praised or not.

To such a servant's appearance, Ray turns his gaze to Goblin's meat again without saying anything in particular.

"You can't even use spices, you can't cook them normally...... why don't you ask another cook?

Goblin meat dishes prepared besides dried meat were prepared by the cook at the Percy Tools store.

Normal tool stores don't have the luxury of being cooks, but here they also sell preserved meats, starting with dried meat, for adventurers, and were hired for that reason. … but it also has to do with Marcy's cousin being a cook.

"I don't really want to get this information out there if I can. If our research works and the taste of goblin meat improves, it will be of great benefit to our store."

"As far as I'm concerned, normally if I can eat goblin meat and spread it out, that's enough."

That said, it was this Percy Tool Store that was referred to the Marina because it was originally the right place to discuss the matter.

I also understand that we must make more profit to Percy Tools Store than we have been introduced and thus collaborated in the research.

"Meat... meat? The very taste of meat... yeah?

Instead of eating goblin meat the way it is cooked, it improves the taste of the meat itself.

That's what I was thinking, and there was something past Ray's brain.

That's a show I saw on TV when I was in Japan.

It was a method of increasing the flavour itself by aging rather than rotting the meat.

"Mr. Ray, what's wrong? Did you come up with something?

Ray reaches out to Maryo, who had finished drinking fruit water and was then taking out the cold fruit and skinning it.

"... one, isn't it?

Put a fruit slightly smaller than a fist on Ray's hand, and then give one fruit to the servant as well.

The three of us take a short break, eating cold fruit.

Especially the servant, the taste of goblin meat left in his mouth overwritten with fruit... no, he was tasting it with happiness to be purified.

"So, did you come up with something?

Ray nods and opens his mouth to Maryo, who asks while eating fruit.

"Aged meat is a method."

"... mature meat?

"Oh. I just really don't know much about this either. Because I just saw a little bit in the book when I lived with my master before."

Maryo turns an intriguing gaze to Ray, who tells him as he recalls his usual settings.

Before Ray came to the Guild, he was supposed to live with an amazing wizard - a magician - because Ray didn't hide anything in particular to take advantage of the setting, so it spread in a way that anyone who knew.

If you're a wizard master using powerful magic like Ray, maybe you know something about eating meat you don't know about? Ray explains to Maryo, who thinks

"Indeed, if you leave the meat in somewhat lower temperatures for a few days, the flavour of the meat increases.... Simply put, I think it was like that."

"... don't you rot?

"No, temperatures to an extent that doesn't rot. I think that was about midwinter."

There are many other steps needed to make mature meat to be exact, but that's about all Ray remembered watching TV.

Maryo also manages to get more information from Ray about aged meat... Ray only has that much knowledge from the source in the first place, and there is little else he can give out.

Still, Maryo will be researching… in a few years, but will be completing the method of making aged meat.