"..."
"What a strange smell..."
He sniffed the scent wafting from the black bread in his hand.
For a while, Fredos could not tell whether it was fragrant or foul.
Having lived in damp environments since childhood and grown up eating all manner of corpses,
his sense of taste and smell had long grown accustomed to the rotten stench and putrid flesh ordinary people could not endure.
Bread?
Compared to rotten meat, ordinary people might find the smell of this stuff more pleasant.
But to Fredos,
the scent produced by this thing instead made him somewhat uncomfortable.
Furthermore, it was something he had never seen or even heard of before.
At the thought of putting this thing into his stomach,
hesitation appeared on Fredos's face. Like the first person to eat a crab, he had no idea what would happen after he swallowed it.
Only after quite a while, after repeatedly comparing it against the information in his mind,
did he finally muster his courage. Bolstered by faith, he gritted his teeth and began stuffing it into his mouth in huge bites!
At that moment,
when his teeth came into contact with the bread's hard outer crust,
an extremely crisp sound rang out at once.
It was the sound of Fredos's teeth nearly being chipped off!
Fortunately,
years of training had given him a fine set of teeth.
Otherwise,
he truly would not have been able to bite through this bread in that exchange just now...
Then, as the thing entered his mouth,
the feeling of chewing wood powder immediately rose within him!
Both its texture and taste were entirely unlike any meat he had eaten before!
Without exaggeration,
it was a bizarre and wondrous sensation he had never imagined.
It nearly made him spit out the bread in his