Before too long we stood outside a warehouse, which Kurama confirmed with a small howl was the one I was looking for.
Knocking on the door Raisa had walked through yesterday, there was no reply… Reaching for the doorknob I turned and it opened.
[So it wasn't locked, is it alright for me to just waltz right in?]
Deciding I could always apologize if I was in the wrong, I opened the door and stepped inside, making my way to the section I had dropped off the bandit goods, but where yesterday a mountain of loot had resided now the space was empty once again.
"Did she already sort and sell all of it? Oh well guess I should go to the back since I can't find anybody here so far"
Joined by my faithful Kobold I made my way down the various paths following the scent of iron building in my nose until I reached the heavy wooden doors, pressing hard on the door it swung open.
Inside the view had not changed much, the walls were still lined with bodies, being drained of blood, on the racks rolled up hides were draining, and in the middle of the room on a large wooden table stood Viktor dutifully performing what looked like an autopsy on an unidentifiable piece of meat.
"Yo Viktor hope you don't mind me dropping by"
Jumping a little at my voice before looking up.
"Oh back so soon Satou, most can't wait to stay away from this place once they leave"
"haha well I can understand that, but I had two reason to return"
"Two? I did mention yesterday about how your hides would be sold once they were ready so, you're hear for the Orc's, and those Rams of yours then?"
"Well yes that's part of it, I was going to collect whatever there was from the lizards and hopefully break down some more if you're willing, but the second reason was I forgot to get Mrs Raisa's home location from you, since she was going to sell other goods for me, and asked me to stop by so she could give me my cut once she'd finished"
"Ah yes I recall the young miss mentioning that, well I'm just about finished with your final lizard here, but in the meantime you're welcome to collect the rest that's already been processed. But the hides again will take time before their ready."
Allowing Viktor to return to his work, I collected the materials he harvested from the 6 bodies
Collected:[[ 5 Stone Lizard Claws, 18 Iron Ore, 27 Copper Ore]]
Slipping the materials into my inventory.
"So those lizards are made up of stone, and ore interesting, but that also just means that normal attacks from blades wouldn't work on them, I'm guess the big guys'll handle them?"
Posing my question to the kobold at my side.
'nod'
Receiving confirmation but soon after the kobold dropped his head.
"Hey no reason to get sad or anything, there are plenty of creatures I can't attack either, besides it's just further proof that we needed those two to protect us, after all you didn't want anything to happen to Raisa or me right?"
'nod nod'
"Alright kid, I'm all done here there's still light left in the day, do you want to continue with the harvest? Or are you going to head over to meet up with Mrs. Raisa?"
"Hmm I think it's best if we finish all of this work here first, I don't want to be a bother having to drop by a half dozen times to drop off more and more items to sell when I could just make the one trip."
"Hmm can't say the lady'll see it like that but that's up to you"
[huh, oh well I guess she is a merchant so she probably wouldn't care to much so long as she has something to sell]
"In any case bring on out the next round and I'll show you what we need to do"
Following his prompt, I pulled the 13 Orc bodies out of my inventory, working with Viktor we hauled 2 of them up onto the tables within the room.
"Alright with Orc's it's quite a bit different, since the there's only 4 parts of them worth harvesting. First off are the ears, and fangs."
Next turning towards his tools table he picked up a gelding knife next up you want to collect the medicinal ingredient, quickly working his way between the orc's legs, before returning almost no time later with a leather pouch drawn to the floor from the weight of its contents.
'URP'
Placing a hand over my mouth in an attempt not to get sick.
"Hahaha don't worry kiddo that's the reaction everyone has at first, if you don't think you're up for it, you could always just leave this particular part for me, and your kobold there."
[Huh why Kurama]
As Viktor started carving into the Orc corpse in front of him, removing thick piece of meat one after another from the Legs, arms, and torso, glancing down I saw Kurama was standing by watching Viktors moves while wielding a knife itself, not looking for an opening to attack but studying his moves.
When the time came and the first orc was done, he gave us a look and declared it was our turn.
I joined in on the body in front of me removing all I could skillfully.
[Seems the skinning skill also applies to general butchery as my knife seems to just know where it's supposed to go, even though my meat cuts aren't as clean or precise as Viktors]
As I worked to process the orc, Viktor started on his next, while Kurama went around to all the remaining orc's, removing their "parts" along with ears and fangs before returning, and placing them into bags provided to us by the butcher.
Time passed and with it the number of bodies creating a graveyard in my storage began to dwindle one by one as the three of us worked our blades, carving and moving flesh within the disection room.