Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 309 - : Arriving at Dakler City and Storming the Baron’s House (4)

Chapter 309 -309: Arriving at Dakler City and Storming the Baron’s House (4)

She returned to the dining room on the first floor, which, besides the essential furniture like tables and chairs, had been cleared of all other silverware, even the decorative plates had been taken.

Fortunately, although everything had been moved, the environment was still clean and not at all in disarray.

Ye Nai chose a seat with a view of the entrance and took out the reserves from her “Space,” setting a table with braised Mutant Beast Meat and cold Translation Mushroom salad, along with various stir-fries ordered from outside and a large bowl of steaming rice.

As she started to eat, the servants walked back and forth outside the dining room doors.

They’d never seen the food she was eating; they didn’t recognize those stir-fries, but they could smell that the braised meat was made of mutant beast meat, which was more fragrant than the meat of local livestock, and there was a strange yet enticing aroma wafting out of the dining room—alien but pleasant.

No one dared to enter and disturb the Great Witch during her meal. The servants gathered in the kitchen, eating their simple dinner, mourning their sudden job loss, worrying about how long the money they received would last, and speculating on what this revenge-claiming Great Witch was eating.

“Did you guys smell the meat she was eating? It’s definitely mutant beast meat, but the fragrance is so weird. Do you think the nobles started a war with her country just to get their hands on spices?”

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“I think so. You know, in my hometown, two nobles could start a war over a wild beehive for three months, so fighting over expensive spices wouldn’t be surprising if the king ordered a war.”

The kitchen maid came over with a cup of water.

“I agree, I went and smelled it too, that meat was really fragrant, not a hint of gamey smell. The Great Witch must be using top-notch spices. Those spices would tempt not just the greedy nobles of our country, but any noble from any nation.”

“With the Great Witch being so powerful, do you think we are going to lose this war?”

“Definitely losing.”

The head steward sat down with a piece of bread and a cup of hot water, dipped a small piece of the bread into the hot water, and took a forceful bite.

“The Great Witch has already made her way inside, her route must be heading to the Royal Capital. Either someone stops her, or she storms into the Great Palace.”

The surrounding maids and manservants all inhaled sharply.

“She can storm into the Great Palace? I heard that the most powerful nobles in the country live in the Royal Capital, and they protect it like an iron barrel. Can the Great Witch really break into the Great Palace? She can’t even get through the city gates, can she?”

“Why not? Haven’t you seen where the entire Baron’s family has gone? This Great Witch’s abilities must be related to Space power. Stop guessing how far she can go. She has entered into enemy territory, we are all her enemies, yet she only captured the Baron’s family, didn’t kill us, and didn’t slaughter the city, which is merciful.”

The steward’s words silenced all the surrounding maids and manservants.

“Indeed, thank the Great Witch for her mercy.”

“By the way, have the soldiers collapsed in the streets woken up yet?”

“Not yet.”

“When will they wake up? Do we need to distribute money to them too?”

The table fell silent again; the servants had already distributed all the leftover supplies in the house to themselves, leaving none for the soldiers. When they lined up in the streets to block the Great Witch, they were all knocked out with a single move. The male servants later dragged them back to the front garden, where they remain unconscious to this point.

The four knights in the house were in the same situation, lying in the garden alongside the soldiers.

“There’s no need to leave anything behind, the soldiers have weapons and combat capabilities. They can control the city and the countryside. With the baron gone, the knights will take over everything. The soldiers won’t be out of work, but without money, we won’t last until we find a new master’s house.”

“Right, don’t leave anything.”

“Don’t leave anything.”

The people at the table unanimously agreed. The two housekeepers, a man and a woman, didn’t say anything further. Not having to share the money was a relief for them too, especially for the male housekeeper who was the oldest among the servants. He had served the old baron, sent the current one off to war, and watched the next heir grow up. Now unemployed overnight, he was the one who needed money the most.

After Ye Nai finished her meal and cleaned up the trash, she stepped out of the dining room only to see servants bustling about, trying to pry valuable decorations off the walls of the mansion with small knives.

Watching their actions, if it wasn’t for the lack of proper tools, they’d probably dismantle the wooden floors and staircases to sell for money.

Seeing this, Ye Nai felt she shouldn’t waste either. The dining room’s solid wood table was a fine item, made from a single tree trunk, smooth and flat with ornately carved edges.

So, she promptly turned around and collected the dining table and chairs into her Space.

Next, she called the male housekeeper over for a talk. This time, she easily obtained the directions to the Marabene Military Fortress, along with a lot more ancillary intelligence, like the basic prices, the villages belonging to the lord’s territory she would pass on the way to the fortress, and the possibility of swinging by the manor to take away more supplies.

With the baron’s household gone, the housekeeper naturally didn’t need to adhere to any rules anymore, and answered whatever was asked. After the interrogation, he even received three gold coins as a tip.

In this nation named Selsa United Kingdom, the common currency exchange rate between gold, silver, and copper coins is 1:10:1000. Shopkeepers and ordinary citizens mainly use silver and copper coins. However, the lower-class civilians spend every copper coin they earn just to make ends meet, leaving them little to save.

The gold coins Ye Nai gave were enough for the housekeeper to maintain a stable life for a while after losing his job, even if the local social upheaval caused by the loss of the lord’s family led to skyrocketing prices, it wouldn’t devalue the gold coins.

Back in the attic, Ye Nai took out her computer and stationery to comb through the intelligence she had gathered. She organized it in a numbered list, writing down each point one by one.

She also sorted out the timeline, like the specific rotation and revolution of this Otherworld planet, something that would have to be left for scientists to measure and calculate in detail later.

Anyway, from what she could see on her watch, the day currently started at six in the morning and ended at six in the evening, with day and night almost evenly split. Whether the days would get shorter and the nights longer as the weather turned colder was something she’d have to observe further.

Based on her intuition, the rotation period of the two worlds should be similar. The Secret Realm that opens on Blue Star has a time difference of exactly 12 hours from Blue Star, and there are no noticeable differences in gravity or other aspects. Seasonal changes are also the same.

Ye Nai felt that two planets, separated by the cosmic sea, could collide and merge together only if they had certain commonalities. Otherwise, the two would be unable to coexist peacefully; at least one would be torn apart, if not both destroyed.

She recorded all her thoughts to ensure she wouldn’t forget them after sleep.

Lastly, she connected the sports camera to the computer and transferred the footage to a brand-new external hard drive, labeled it with a piece of paper marked “Otherworld Scenery Record”, and planned to slowly edit the videos when she returned to Blue Star—this was her ticket to becoming the world’s wealthiest person.

After finishing the work on the computer, Ye Nai spread the books she collected from the two noble’s houses all over the floor. After sifting through a bunch of books on art and poetry, she finally found some on history and popular novels.