Way of the Knights

Chapter 683 - Harvest

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It was originally a surprising discovery that Little Tiger found a sealed True Dragon's Blood Essence within his body. 

He originally thought that this is just a mere lucky coincidence but the more he observed the tribe, the more he grew suspicious. 

To his shock and surprise, he discovered that 8 out of 10 people within the tribe had the similar case with him. These people also has a sealed True Dragon's Blood Essence. The blood is sealed in the spot between their collarbones similar to where he found his. 

This situation was far too common that it can't be a mere coincidence anymore. This caused Little Tiger's interest about the Tribe's origins to increase. Nevertheless, he isn't a hurry since there's no time limit in the Trial anyway. 

It's been a couple of hours since the once intimidating intruders ran away in an embarrassing state. It was rather shameful since Little Tiger and his friends stripped them down their underwear, confiscating everything they owned. 

The Elder was the most pitiful amongst them all. This is because Fatty took a liking to the underwear that the elder was wearing so he confiscated that one as well, the Elder literally has nothing. Fatty and Rosa almost fainted in laughter when they saw how the Elder fumed as he covered his wrinkled private areas with leaves and vowed to be back in vengeance. 

It was almost certain that what happened today will be remembered by many people in the tribe. However this was of no concern to the three since so long as they continued to remain within the formation, no harm will come to them. 

"Wow! Look at all of this!!" Rosa's eyes were sparkling as she looked at all the materials they collected. 

Sets of armors, clothes, underwear, even footwear could be seen here. To Fatty and Rosa who had barely anything to wear, these supplies were already considered as treasures. 

"Strange..." Fatty frowned, in his hand a brown pouch could be seen. He had been trying to open these things for a while now but the knot was surprisingly tight. In fact, it wasn't budging at all. "What's this? Why isn't it opening? What's inside? Rocks?"

A solid and heavy hand patted his shoulders, Little Tiger took the pouch on his hand and said: "This, my friend, is called a Storage Pouch."

"Storage Pouch?" Fatty and Rosa tilted their head in confusion. 

"Yep." Little Tiger nodded, "It's a unique trinket which Berserker uses to store things that are important to them. In order to open these things, you need to be a cultivator to do so." 

Saying this, Little Tiger's hand glowed with a faint yellow light and under the shocked gazes of Fatty and Rosa, the knot on the Storage Pouch loosened-up on it's own. 

"These things are really nifty you see." Little Tiger explained with a calm expression. "Don't be fooled by it's small size, each of these pouches can store as much as items as that of a warehouse"

Little Tiger then dumped everything hiding within the storage pouch and under the dumbfounded gazes of Fatty and Rosa, several items cascaded down from the tiny opening of the pouch. 

From nearly arranged stack of clothes, to spare underwear, weapons, sparkling stones, books, food, water, and other tools could be seen, forming a small hill of items in front of them. 

"Holy crap! That is so useful!!" Fatty exclaimed with his eyes sparkling in greed. 

"Indeed." Rosa replied in a fascinated tone as well. 

"Help me categorize the items by their types. Clothes will be here, weapons will be there..." Little Tiger then give them instructions on where to place what. "We'll open then one by one. If you want to, you can eat some of the meat in there, they're not Demonic Beast Meat but it should be plenty enough to satiate your hunger. There's also plenty of clean water in there, go help yourselves."

After saying this, Fatty and Rosa immediately pounced on the hill of items and grabbed the ready made food with much ardor and started feasting. Intoxicated expression filled their faces as they chewed on to the soft and scrumptious food in front of them. Their spirits were refreshed with every gulp of water they consumed. They were in heaven. 

This was the first time that they ate food this good. In reality, these food were just the most common food of the nobles, in fact those people are sick of this stuff but to them, it tasted heavenly. There's the water as well. This is the first time that they drank clean water, all the water they consumed before had murky textures but these are clear and crisp. It was so refreshing...

Just from their expressions, one could tell that their pitiful backgrounds. Eating the most common food for the nobles was already making them cry tears of joy. This shows just how much disparity there is within the tribe and almost convinced them that Little Tiger's hatred for the nobles were genuine.

Little Tiger noticed their expression but he didn't pay it too much attention. He's busy unloading the stuff inside the Storage Pouches he stole from those buffoons. There's at least 20 of them, well 21 including the Elder's pouch but he saved that one for last. 

While the two were enjoying their meal, the amount of stacked items increased. There were mounds of them and it would take time before they were able to finish them all at once. 

Little Tiger used his True Essence to categorize everything. He started with the weapons since they were too dangerous, then he moved on with the stones. Even with the held of true essence strings, it was still taking too much time. 

Fatty and Rosa were already done eating, they gaped at Little Tiger's display for a bit before deciding to help. Little Tiger told them to start with the clothes first. 

Hours passed and all of them slumped on the ground, exhausted with all of the work. After categorizing each items, they placed everything back in storage pouches and Little Tiger handed them a few sets of everything for now. 

After eating a feast, Little Tiger taught them how to use soaps in order to clean themselves. Thankfully, Little Tiger dug a well nearby where they could take a bath. He also made three comfort rooms and taught them how to use it. 

By the end of the day, Fatty and Rosa felt so light and refreshed. They never felt so clean and fresh in their entire lives. Rosa seemingly fell in love with the soap, she loved the feeling of lathering her body with it and the scent. 

After taking care of their hygiene, Little Tiger set-up tents for them. Inside the tents there were several clean pillows, a soft mattress, and a comfy duvet. As soon as Little Tiger described how they work and how to use them, the two went inside and embrace what probably the most comfortable sleep they will have in their entire lives. It didn't take long before Little Tiger heard them snoring...

Little Tiger will teach them how to build their own houses in the future, for now this should suffice. 

As the two fell asleep, the hideout became silent. Little Tiger was back on his hut, he didn't feel tired nor sleepy. He sat down in front of a table, facing stacks of books. He decided to sacrifice sleep just to understand the written language of the tribe. 

The task wasn't as daunting as he initially thought. He was prepared for this to take a couple of days to master but it was surprisingly easy. With his superior intellect, he managed to learn everything by midnight and now he was reading through the history of the tribe. 

"The tribe has been around for a more than a thousand years? Wow..." Raven was impressed by what he read. 

The books he was reading mainly came from the storage pouch of the Tribe Elder. It wasn't like Little Tiger was overly interested, he's mostly just curious. He didn't fully trust everything that's written in these books since it might very well be just random fabrications of those clowns. Nevertheless, even if these turns out to be fabrications, they should have some basis. 

Aside from reading the history of the tribe, he also looked at the other books. There he found several cultivation manuals dedicated to the path of Berserkers, he also saw some Battle Arts as well as some books that contained information about demonic beasts. 

Some of them were helpful but most of them are just outright ridiculous, especially those Berserker cultivation manuals and Battle Arts. If he were summarize everything he discovered using one word, it would be: Suicidal. 

"No wonder the population of the tribe remained so small. Forget about being eaten by demonic beasts, these cultivation manuals are the ones that's really killing them." 

Little Tiger was disappointed, nevertheless he didn't care so much. Since this berserker arts are just utter ridiculous, he might as well not use them. If Fatty and Rosa asked him to teach them a way to become stronger, which is very likely to happen, he'd just teach them the orthodox Knighthood Path. 

"...that being said, I could also do something else entirely. Hmm...."