Reincarnated as the fourth son of a noble and tamed an SS-rank dragon-Chapter 42: Hunting for Lunch

The sky was clear, it was clearer than usual at this time, Darius was watching the sky while resting under a tree, he was waiting for class to start.

He stayed there for a while, some students passed by and looked at him, including some girls, he thought these people hated him, but that wasn’t it. The girls were interested in him, he had his own store and was very rich, and he would be the perfect husband. Some boys did hate him, but because they thought he was arrogant and others didn’t hate him, they just admired his performance in the tests.

Class began, he would learn archery, he didn’t like it. In his past life he had been part of a club, but he had only joined because he had nothing better to do and found the group easier to maintain, and indeed it was. But because of his talent.

The teacher, Serah, was wearing a green outfit with a few pieces of leather to support her quiver, which was full of arrows. Serah spent several minutes explaining the fundamentals. Darius already knew them all, but he didn’t want to intrude, he just stood quietly watching the teacher.

He noticed that her fingers were all calloused, her eyesight was good enough to see even the small details on her nails, which were gnawed.

But these calluses looked new, at least he didn’t remember them from the day he took the test.

He tried to keep paying attention in class, but he was already bored, so he took advantage of the moment when everyone was looking at the targets in the center and used clone magic.

He left the clone in class and then teleported to his room and changed his clothes.

Nyme noticed, she thought about doing the same, but gave up.

He left to go to the Adventurers’ Guild, there he talked to Clara and paid the advertisement fee, as it would be for all Guilds, the amount was high enough for him to think about giving up paying. The 3,000 gold coins were paid; in all, there were more than 400 Guilds across the continent. As the advertisement would be in all of them and would stay for a few days, the amount was correct.

He was writing down on a piece of paper all the money he was spending. He hoped to somehow recover this amount, but he didn’t know how yet.

He had already rented the Capital’s arena and just charging for tickets might not pay for the whole expense, so he thought of setting up his store there, any item sold would count as a ticket, in addition to the store he thought of setting up the Guild to sell potions.

Maybe he could recoup some of it.

Another form of profit was food, he thought of food from the ancient world, he had never been to a game, but he always saw the stadiums full and some people drinking and eating, so he thought of trying to reproduce some food.

The first idea was to reproduce nuggets, even though there were chickens in this world, it would be expensive to buy several to slaughter, so he thought of hunting basilisks, which were monsters that looked like giant chickens, the problem was the tail, which was a snake. This part wasn’t eaten, which was a bit strange, as it was common for snake-type monsters to be eaten, but this part was only seen as garbage.

He thought of the most famous food in stadiums, the hot dog. For the sausage he thought of orc meat, he would simply grind the meat and use spices. To keep the shape, he would use the guts of the orcs, it would have to be stretched and the process would be similar to making sausage.

Bread was the easiest item to obtain, but the sauce was still missing. In this world, there was no tomato, but a plant similar to it could be found. Testing it would cost nothing, if it went wrong he could just create the tomatoes himself.

To drink, he thought of soda, but he didn’t know how to produce it. He thought about it and remembered a video where he saw a machine that added carbon dioxide to drinks, so maybe it would be possible to produce orange soda.

In addition, it would be possible to create grape molasses with sugar and then try to make it similar to grape soda. It would be possible, but he needed to test it.

In addition to these foods, he thought about making hamburgers, which would be the easiest - he would only need meat, bread, sauce, and lettuce. He wouldn’t use onions or tomatoes, it would be a flavor that some people might not like, especially onions.

There was a plant that looked like a turnip, but the taste was a bit reminiscent of onion, it was used rarely, people hated the smell, so it would be better to avoid using onion.

Now what he needed to do was hunt, which was relatively easy, basilisks were always near caves, all he had to do was look for one and he’d probably find one or two.

He kept walking through the forest and came across a group of four orcs, he used ice magic on them, managed to shoot down two, one stood still and another ran towards him. The one who stood still threw his wooden staff at him, the blow was too fast and Darius ended up being hit, but he wasn’t hurt, his stamina was higher, but he was still thrown backwards by the force of the impact.

He quickly got up and hit the orcs again with the arrows, he managed to shoot down the other two.

Darius put the orcs in his bag of items, it was almost full. But it could still fit at least three basilisks. He wanted an item bag like the one Kaly used, it had an absurd capacity.

He wondered how many sausages he could make, each orc weighed approximately 546 imperial units, which would be equivalent to 420 kilos. But with a maximum of 300 kilos of usable meat, because some parts aren’t eaten, such as entrails and bones, and excluding some of the fat, there might be 250 kilos left over per orc. That would still be a lot of sausages, as each one would be about 65 grams.

So he should hunt some more, because he wanted there to be plenty rather than a shortage of food.

Orcs were the quickest way to make money, as their meat sold for a considerable price, up to 5 gold coins for each body. This value varied according to the weight of the meat used and the number of blows, because depending on the blows, much of the meat was lost. There were also various parts that weren’t consumed.

For the sausages he already had the meat and would use some of it in the burger, for the rest he would use cattle meat since they were relatively easy to find and the meat wasn’t that expensive. Each imperial unit of orc cost an average of 1 silver coin, but cattle meat cost 2 silver coins.

He kept walking until he came across a basilisk, just one. Looking at it, Darius calculated its weight, maybe he could get 100 kilos of meat or less. But it was enough to at least test.

This monster was a lot of work to kill, it moved very fast and used its tail to attack, the blows were fast and strong, Darius was thrown several times and he broke a rib when he hit the cave wall.

But he was able to use healing magic and such blows weren’t too much of a problem.

But when he used ice magic he noticed that the problem was with the monster’s defense, its skin was too tough, so he had to use more attack power. Now all he had to do was ask the Guild to cut up the monsters.

At the Guild, he realized how expensive it would be for him to pay two gold coins per monster. It would still be cheaper than buying the meat, as he would pay at least five or six times that amount.

He explained how he wanted it and the butcher stared at him when he heard the request for the clean guts. She just accepted and started cutting, while he went to another butcher’s to look for beef. On the way he came across a store owned by someone in the village. There he bought some spices, and while he was buying, the woman kept thanking him for his help. He was the one who had come up with the idea of selling spices.

Darius couldn’t remember the woman’s name, but he took the opportunity to place a large order of spices.

He walked around the city and looked for many different things. When he had finished all the shopping, he returned to the Guild and took some of the meat.

At his mansion, he went to the garden and made a small orange tree grow, he picked some oranges and then he made a vine grow on the orange tree, he picked some grapes and went to the kitchen, he still sometimes used the second kitchen, it was small compared to the main kitchen, but it still had a lot of space.

It was getting dark, so he decided to continue the next day.

The clone went to the kitchen and then was absorbed by Darius, everything the clone did was passed on to him.

As he thought, the class was boring enough that he didn’t feel guilty about not taking part.