After storing the wolf corpse in item storage, I checked my body condition, which seemed to heal itself after the mission finished, and my stamina and fatigue were also restored.
Which increased my survival chance by a lot compared to my injured state.
While it's a bit of a shame, I do want to check the status window and others' rewards right now.
But with unknown danger looming around, it's not exactly a good idea to stare into blank space, letting our guard down.
I checked that Chunni and the idol girl looked well enough to move around.
“We need to move now; you guys recovered enough due to mission reward, right?”
I look toward the sky and try to check the position of the sun; I have no clue about how exactly to read time through that, but based on the position alone, it will be nighttime soon.
“Right now, We don't even know what time it currently is; secure temporary base should be our priority before night comes.”
I got up, walked toward them grabbed both their arm, lift them up for them to stand.
“You guys are coming right? After all, none of us can survive alone in this dangerous place, so if we fail, all of us will die either due to monster or human let alone penalty”
Chunni girl Rudmilia shook her head a bit before looking at me with a slightly tremblingly and somewhat confident smile.
“Of course, how can I, fall here in this forsaken land! Only the greatest and most magnificent battlefield can be my resting place!!”
The idol girl, I don't know her name yet, seems to struggle with fear; at this rate, she won't be able to last for long. Even then, she still shut her eyes and grabbed my hand harder despite her apparent fear.
“I-I have a reason I must survive! T-that why..please…Please let me continue to go with you! I can't die here!”
I looked toward them with cold eyes, not sure how long our collaboration would last, but I hoped it would last till we reached a safe place.
With a final check of our equipment in our hands.
We started heading toward the direction of the monolith.
I would like it if Rudmilia took the front since I already gave the knife back to her, but if she rush out again like before, the situation might become more complicated, so I end up having to take the lead here, followed by Rudmilia and Idol girl.
The direction we head to looks like an unexplored forest full of weird plants and leaves blocking the way. There is no point in recklessly running there like when we ran away from wolves.
Especially when there is no visible clear path like before.
A lot of leaves get in the way, and with my dagger spear broken, I can only take out the wolf fang we got from the corpse as a replacement to slowly cut our way out, and we don't even know if they are poisonous upon contract or not.
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All I can do is hope they are not poisonous; otherwise, we really will die today.
So far, It's fortunate that we only occasionally hear animals growling from far away without meeting any other monsters or humans.
After moving through dense forest for a while, the light shines through, and the tree leaves start to slowly dim.
‘We need to set up camp soon huh?’
I checked the surroundings and found a somewhat good resting spot nearby with a small clearing suitable for camping if I just got rid of some excess plants around it.
I gesture to the other 2 to stop.
“We will set up our camp there for today, If you guys have any complaints with my decision say it now”
They both shook their head, seem like there won't be any issues for now.
“Wait for a bit, then; while you are waiting, can you guys check the reward from the first mission? The basic survival kit one. If it's a survival kit, I know it should have some gear for camping and a tent.”
I took some time to cut off the somewhat normal-looking plant that had grown in excess around the clearing, finally creating enough space suitable for camp.
Feeling a bit tired from work; I turned back to see if they were done with the simple task of just checking items from inventory.
“So, did you find any?”
“Hmm hmm hmm! It's a bit of pity that this lady can't find anything else other than this piece of fabric."
“Uh-uh, we found some tools, but we can't find anything like a tent at all…”
In Rudmillia's hand, she holds the grey fabrics to show off toward me.
‘That's…a tent fabric, isn't it? Don't tell me these two can't tell the difference between them and normal clothes?’
Feel a bit flabbergasted by these two.
“Do you guys see any stake, hammer, or nails amongst the kit?”
“Y-yes, there plenty of them in kit!”
I sigh at their zero survival knowledge; they won't be any help in setting up camp.
I opened inventory and took out my survival kit; the backpack stuffed to the brim popped out in the air; I opened the bag and searched for a tent and tools.
“Give me those tools, I will set it up myself, you guys just look out for surroundings if you notice anything inform others right away"
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By the time I finished setting up the tent, there was barely any orange sunlight shining through the leaves anymore.
‘Hah…just in time before it got dark, I think I saw a lighter in my backpack, I should be able to start the fire easily with dry branches.'
Since the tent set itself is just large fabric with some stake and rope to tie them together, I just sewed the 3 tents together to create a larger space to sleep inside.
‘Didn't expect their sewing kit and even thread among the tools; how did it even count as part of the survival kit?’
I gathered the nearby twigs on the ground and some leaves, cleared the space in the center of the campsite, and then lit it up with a lighter.
Finished setting up the camp, I looked up to see that 2 of them were nearby, looking at me with curiosity.
“Did you have experience with camping before?”
“Sort of, So? You guys didn't slack off while I'm not looking right?”
“Hmm! How dare you sprout out such a word from your mouth! You think this lady can't even do such a simple job!?”
“Yeah-yeah, So Idol girl, you said you can cook, right? Ever cooked dog or wolf meat before?”
“I-I don't think so…but I can give it a try!”
“Yeah figured, we didn't find any clean water source on our way, So we won't be able to clean the wolf meat, please at least make it palatable.”
“I will try my best!”
I took a seat near the campfire, it's time to organize things which I couldn't do due situation I found myself in.
‘Now then, first of all, it gotta be status window isn't'